I was blown away today as I listened to this video teaching from Newsong Church. Dave Gibbons is the pastor. He is the author of “The Monkey and the Fish”. The guest speaker is a man named Charles Jenkins. But, Dave’s comments at the end are equally as powerful and “on fire” as the blazing message from Charles. Please, Please listen… Click here… Defining Moments. I pray that you will be challenged and encouraged.
Enjoy!
Www.kbm.org has posted six realities of a kingdom laborer that I love. I make it a habit to ask God to work these realities into my life and the lives of my friends. So, I decided to post some action steps you can take to grow as a Jesus follower. Hope you catch on fire!!! Click here to watch my video post Kingdom Laborer Reality #1
A kingdom laborer is:
1. Kingdom-Living
Kingdom Laborers seek to glorify God by doing things His Way. The most important way to live out the Kingdom of God is to Love God and Love Others. Everything else flows from these two engagements (Matthew 22:40).
“Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[c] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[d] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matt 22:37-40
“Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.” I John 2:6
“I have made you[a] known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.” John 17:26
Prayer: “Father, please do a work of the Holy Spirit in my heart so that I will love Jesus with
the same love you have for Him. – Amen”
I took a few minutes this morning to share my heart and a few thoughts on why I chose “Wasted Treasure” as a name for my blogsite. Click here to watch
Imagine what would happen if we started pouring out our treasure on loving Jesus.
I’ve had enough! Have you? I am getting so desperate to see people young and old activated and on fire to live out their personalized God designed world changing mission.
Knowing that every Jesus follower is called to be a “living stone” in God’s spiritual house and that living stones aren’t factory made, brings me to another issue. They aren’t produced in mass either. There is no bulk store where you can buy mature Jesus’ followers. As I was driving to meet with a buddy of mine today I recorded a few thoughts on this. Click here to watch the quick video.
What are your thoughts about this? Are you seeing signs that people are waking up to the reality that they are God’s plan? Friends who are waking up to a life of ministry in the middle of their everyday life?
I’l love to hear about it 🙂
One of the powerful images in the Bible that God uses to help us understand His plan for restoring everything is a picture of a house that He himself is building. He wants to use us as partners in this project. Click here to here what is on my heart about us as living stones… Living Stones Aren’t Factory Made
God was blowing my mind today with such expansive thoughts about all of us who claim to be Christians. I saw us living lives “worthy of the calling we have received” in the words of the Apostle Paul in Eph. 4:1. Click here to watch my video posting,
Had an awesome time at the youth prayer night in my city of Saint John, NB Canada. Click here to watch my new video blog SJ Youth Prayer Night – We need a fresh vision of Jesus
I am trying something new today… a video blog post 🙂 Let me know what you think.
Inspired by a new book by Seth Godin, “We Are All Weird”, I wonder “How many ways can we wash feet”? Click here to view Servants Own The Future
A while ago and friend of mine showed me an intriguing video of Peter Rollins called I Deny the Resurrection. You should check it out!
But, tonight I am thinking about the way we deny our calling to live as the light of the world. Jesus has sent us to burn with the light of His kingdom. But, we forget so quickly. Our families and our communities not to mention our churches would vibrate with life and the power of God’s love if we allowed Him to own our hearts.
We can choose to be different. We can decide to actually do what the Holy Spirit says to us through His word. Let’s face it, we are addicted to epic ideas about what the future holds and what the next great move of God might be like. But hearing or reading about what “might be” is not enough!
To God, the only thing that matters is faith expressing itself through love. James exposed the lunacy of hearing but not acting on the word of God.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like. But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life!—even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action.
James 1:22-25 TM
God help us break out of the prison of denial and embrace courage to act on what we hear!
What did Jesus really want? If you knew that you could make Jesus shout for joy today, would you be up for it?
You will never find more strength than when you are living to make Jesus smile!
Today you can live like that (We Could Change the World by Matt Redman)
A few days ago a friend suggested that I listen to a talk by Corey Russell called Show Me Your Glory . It blew me away! Please take the time to go there and listen to what he has to say.
God lights John 17:26 on fire through his teaching and I don’t want you to miss it.
I have made you[a] known to them, and will continue to
make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them
and that I myself may be in them.” – John 17:26
Jesus prayed this prayer for us. Your life and mine can be a living, breathing answer to the cry of Jesus heart! Are you up for it?
