Monday, March 26, 2007
GOD'S WILL AND THE CHURCH
Sister Wanping sharing...
- God is always at work in and around a church.
- God pursues a continuting love relationship with His church that is real and personal.
- God invites a church to become involved in His work.
- When a church sees where God is at work, that is their invitation to join Him in what He is doing.
- God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church.
- A church will face a crisis of belief when God invites them to become involved in a work only He can accomplish. Faith and action will be required.
- A church will have to make major adjustments in order to join God in His work.
- A church is totally dependent on God for accomplishing tasks of Kingdom value.
- Apart from God a church can do nothing of Kingdom value.
- As a church obeys God, they will come to know Him by experience as He does wonderful things through them.
- We are in the race to become more like Jesus.
- We as brothers and sisters in Christ, need to encourage one another.
- It's tough to be a Christian so we need support by one another.
- You cannot find your purpose in the church unless you find the purpose in God.
1 Corinthians 12:7
- Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
1 Corinthians 12:18
- But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.
1 Corinthians 12:4-11 (The Message Bible)
- God's various gifts are handed out everywhere; but they all originate in God's Spirit. God's various ministries are carried out everywhere; but they all originate in God's Spirit. God's various expressions of power are in action everywhere; but God himself is behind it all. Each person is given something to do that shows who God is: Everyone gets in on it, everyone benefits. All kinds of things are handed out by the Spirit, and to all kinds of people! The variety is wonderful:
- wise counsel
- clear understanding
- simple trust
- healing the sick
- miraculous acts
- proclamation
- distinguishing between spirits
- tongues
- interpretation of tongues.
All these gifts have a common origin, but are handed out one by one by the one Spirit of God. He decides who gets what, and when.
- There is a purpose for us in the church.
1 Corinthians 12:25-26 (The Message Bible)
- The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church: every part dependent on every other part, the parts we mention and the parts we don't, the parts we see and the parts we don't. If one part hurts, every other part is involved in the hurt, and in the healing. If one part flourishes, every other part enters into the exuberance.
- When one person hurts, the rest suffers. That's how the church should function.
- We need to love the church.
- Sometimes we run out of love coz of disappointment. That's not God's love, it's human's love, like limited.
- If we tell the truths to one another, they will also learn the truth.
Hebrews 10:24-25
- And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
- This meeting is about we gather together to fellowship n talks about God.
- We cannot use the wrong thing to fulfill the assignment.
- God will look at your relationship to fulfill His assignment.
- Sometimes when we says we are fine, but actualli we are not.
~Yvonne~
Scribbled by: Child of God @1:33 am
