Being an Example of His Message

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“Preach the word!” (2 Timothy 4:2).

One of my beloved cousins yesterday expressed three things she'd like to do in hopes to be used as a ministry through witnessing.  What ever her or your aspirations are, we are not saved only to be instruments for God, but to be His sons and daughters.
He does not turn us into spiritual agents but into spiritual messengers, and the message must be a part of us and in us, in our witness to the world.

The Son of God was His own message—“The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63).   As His chosen disciples, our lives must be a living holy example of the reality of His message.

Even the heart of the unsaved will serve if called upon to do so, but it takes a heart broken by conviction of sin, baptized by the Holy Spirit, and surrendered into submission to God’s purpose to make a person’s life a holy example of God’s message.
Friends, there is a difference between giving a testimony and preaching.  A preacher is someone who has received the call of God and is determined to use all his energy to proclaim God’s truth.  God's abundant provisions will provide the way.

God takes us beyond our own aspirations and ideas for our lives, and molds and shapes us as clay for His purpose, just as He worked in the disciples’ lives after Pentecost.
The purpose of Pentecost was not to teach the disciples something, but to make them the incarnation of what they preached so that they would literally become God’s message through witnessing in the flesh. “ you shall be witnesses to Me ” (Acts 1:8).

Allow God to have complete control in your life when you speak.  Before God’s message can liberate other people, His liberation must first be real in you.  Allow Him to speak through you in His Spirit.  Jesus says..." Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit,... that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you."  (John 15:16)

So friends, His provisions are there for the asking.  Gather your resources prayerfully and carefully, and then allow God to “set your heart on fire” so you can..“Preach the word!” for His glory.


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