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Many of us believe that God can do stuff, but we let limitations come in regarding how He can use us. If we put #limits on what God can do through us, then in turn we're limiting what God can do in us, which means we're limiting how He can #CHANGE us. This is a major problem, because that's the difference between Christianity and other religions, the fact that Christ's death and #resurrection changes us. It's not just this #impossible thing He did for us or just to change how God sees us, but it produces this otherwise impossible change IN us. That's where our #testimony comes from, which is the strongest tool we have to #evangelize to the world. But we also have signs and wonders, which again, are things God often wants to do through you. Impossibility through you. Impossibility IN you. If we can't believe God for that, than we don't believe God. Judges 6:14‭-‬16 The Lord looked at him and said, "Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?" He said to Him, "O Lord, how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father's house." But the Lord said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat Midian as one man." #Jesus #Christ #Christians #Christianity #advancethekingdom #advancetheking

Imagine you're in the middle of the ocean. Not just swimming at the top, but deep down under. You are completely surrounded by water and, depending on what you're wearing, every inch of your skin is soaked it in...but you're holding your breath. Jesus is living water, and by His Holy Spirit we can have experiences where we're absolutely soaked in Him. Whether through awesome times of #worship, or #Spirit filled #preaching, we can be immersed in the waters of God, we can feel the current crashing against us...and still have none of it inside of us. This is why some dramatic, at-the-altar-sobbing, life changing Sunday experience might only actually effect us for two days, until we "dry off". We don't inhale, for the same reason we don't inhale in the ocean...we don't want to die. No, we really just wanna go scuba diving in Jesus. We want to experience the Joy of His crystal clear waters and see His Graceful fish, His Miraculous coral, but take our oxygen tank of sin. We want to hold on to the pride, or greed, or desires that makes us who we are, that keep us alive. But this isn't how a relationship with Christ works. We don't need to go swimming in Him, we don't even need to soak in Him, we need to drown in Him. We need to breathe His nature, His #holiness, into our lungs until it kills us. Only then can we experience His #fullness. Only then can we truly live. Ephesians 3:17‭-‬19 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. John 14:21 He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him." #Jesus #Christ #Christianity #Christians #Advancethekingdom #advancetheking

Numbers 20:11‭-‬12 Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation and their beasts drank. But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you have not believed Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them." Even in his disobedience, water still flowed. But he didn't make it into the promised land. God is #merciful to the just and the unjust, but His #goodness towards us does not necessarily correlate to His #plan for us. There is a difference between "A" blessing, and "THE" blessing. Even in #disobedience we can experience A #blessing from the Lord. But we will not enjoy all of THE #blessings that He set aside for us from the beginning of the time unless we submit to His #authority in all things. #Jesus #Christ #Christians #Christianity #advancethekingdom #advancetheking #scripture

Matthew 13:44-46 "The #kingdom of heaven is like a #treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.45“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls, 46and upon finding one #pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it." The Kingdom is worth #everything. And we will not obtain it for a lower cost. But unfortunately this thought process is not often taught. Instead of giving up everything for the Kingdom, we keep trying to use the Kingdom to get everything. #Jesus #Christ #Christians #Christianity #advancethekingdom #advancetheking #scripture #worthitall

I was reminded to focus less on #position and more on #reflection. As I dedicate myself to serving the Lord and being a reflection of His #heart and His #holiness, then He will put me in the positions where He can use me the most for that #purpose. And this should be my first and foremost objective. #Jesus #Christ #Christians #Christianity #advancethekingdom #advancetheking

We all have no problem praying for the Lord to take us out of the #wilderness. But how many have the #courage to pray "Lord, keep me in the wilderness until I'm ready for the Promised Land". Deuteronomy 8:11‭-‬14 "Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today; otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them, and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery." Deuteronomy 29:24‭-‬26 "All the nations will say, 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?' Then men will say, 'Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord , the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted to them." #Jesus #Christ #Christians #Christianity #advancethekingdom #advancetheking #scripture #pray #prayer #preperation #obedience

Ephesians 5:7-10 "Therefore do not be partakers with them; for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord." (Inspired by last night's Bible study) When our concern is no longer just "what's okay", or for many of us, "how much can I get away with and still be a Christian", and it shifts to "does this #please the Lord", I believe the #gray areas we speak of begin to disappear. God is not indifferent to any part of our lives. All we think, say, or do either pleases Him, or it doesn't. If His #pleasure becomes the standard by which we measure, then the #standards by which we live must increase. #black #white #grey #Jesus #Christ #Christians #Christianity #advancethekingdom #advancetheking #scripture

Ephesians 4:1 Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to #walk in a manner #worthy of the calling with which you have been #called, 1 Thessalonians 2:12 so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own #kingdom and #glory. Colossians 1:10 so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing #fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; Revelation 3:4 But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments; and they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. #Jesus #Christ #Christians #Christianity #advancethekingdom #advancetheking #scripture