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Your Servant

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The greatest among you will be your servant. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. Matthew 23:11-12 (NIV)

Serving 

Have you humbled yourself? Have your set aside your privileges and expectations. Have you let go of your rights? Have you given up on your demands? How do you regard yourself? Have you thought of yourself as being better and more important than others? Have you exalted yourself and all your wants and needs and desires above anyone, above all else? Those are tough questions. Why is that? I cannot give myself a passing grade on any of your questions. I have been filled with pride. I have carried my rights, privileges, expectations and demands around with me like a set of well-worn luggage. That’s a heavy load to carry. Yes, it is. Worse than that, I have thought of myself as being better and more important than others. I have wanted all my wants and needs and desires to be met while I have barely thought of the wants and needs and desires of those around me. That’s not good. It is more than not good, it is pathetic. Yes, it is. 

What has happened to you as a result of your pride? That’s a good question. A prideful, self-centered, self-exalting, self-indulgent life is not sustainable. A prideful life coming to a humbling crash is as predictable as gravity bringing a heavy object back down to earth. You have been humbled? You have been brought back down to earth? Yes, I have experienced the error of my ways. I have suffered for my sinful pride. I have been brought far lower than I have ever exalted myself. Are you sure? No, I’m not sure. That’s good. 

There is one thing of which I am sure. What’s that? I no longer want to live a prideful, self-centered, self-exalting, self-indulgent life. There is no joy in that. This is not the life that you have called me to live. No, it is not. You have given me an example to follow. You humbled yourself. You gave up all your rights and privileges, demands and expectations. Yes, I did. You considered others as better than yourself. You did not think about all your wants and needs and desires. No, I did not. You came into this world to give of yourself. You held nothing back. You kept nothing in reserve. You joyfully laid down your life to serve others. You fulfilled the purpose and plan that your Heavenly Father had for your life. Yes, I did. You never retreated from your call. You had no regrets for how you lived your life. No, I did not. That is what I want. I want to follow your example. I want to do what you did. I want to love like you loved, give like you gave and serve like you served. I will humble myself. I will listen for your call. I will humbly go and do all that you ask of me. I will live my serving others. That will be every good.

Lord, I have been proud. I have thought of myself as being more important than others. I have put myself first. I have exalted myself and all my wants, needs and desires. Forgive me. Help me to follow your example. I will humble myself so I can serve others. Amen

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Put On Love

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Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Colossians 3:12-14 (NIV)

Unity

This is exactly what I need. What’s that? I need new clothes. I need to put off the dirty, stinky clothes of my old life. I want to live the new life that you have given me to live. I want to put on the new clothes you have given me to wear. Such as? I want to put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. That’s good. I will tell you one thing. What’s that? None of these pieces of new clothes are in my current wardrobe. What do you mean by that? I am not naturally patient. I want not usually gentle. I wouldn’t say that humility is my strong suit. I never been known to be overly kind and compassionate. I say all this to you with great regret. It’s not too late. You can put off your old clothes and put on the new clothes that I have made for you to wear. I would like that. That’s good.

You do know that you will need my help to put on the new clothes that I have given you to wear? Of that, I am certain. Why is that? I need to know how to be patient and gentle when I am in a disagreement. I need to be humble enough to consider others thoughts and opinions as being just as valid as mine. I’m not always right. I don’t know it all. I can learn more from others by intently listening to them rather than strongly debating them. That’s true. How about kindness and compassion, how are you doing on those counts? Not well. In every way, I need your help. I don’t little a little help here and there. I need a major makeover. The old stinky clothes of my old life no longer suit me. I want you to fit me with the clothes of the new life I have in you. Is that your prayer? Yes, that is my prayer. That is my hope. That is my desire. Do your work in me. Make me new. Help me to live the new life that you are calling me to live. Why are you so fervent in your prayer? Why is your desire so strong? I know I will not be able to be a witness in the world if I do not put on the new clothes you have given me to wear.  I know that I will not be able to live in unity with others if I have not put on the new clothes you have given me to wear. That’s true. That’s right. I will hear and answer your prayer. Thank you, Lord.

Lord, I will take off the dirty and stinky clothes of my old life. I want to live the new and fresh and clean life You have called me to live. I will live as one of your chosen people. Help me to put on your love so I will be able to fully live in complete unity with others.  Amen.

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Called

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How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure. 1 John 3:1-3 (NIV)  

Like Him

You are my child. I sought you out. I chased you down. I have called you by name. I have lavished you with my love. I sent my Son to die on the cross so that you could be forgiven of all your sins and cleansed of all your unrighteous. Though your sins were like scarlet, you have been made new and fresh and clean, as white as snow. When I look at you I don’t see your sin. You are covered by my Son’s righteousness. The distance between us has been bridged. My Son has made it so you can live in a close and intimate relationship with me. My Son has broken the power of sin over your life. He has made it so you can throw off the dirty, stinky clothes of your old life. I am giving you new thoughts to think. You can come to me. You can know my will and walk in my ways. I am using my word to change your heart. Instead of allowing yourself to be conformed to this word, you are allowing my word to transform your mind. My Son has made it so you can now put on the clothes of your new life. I am leading you. I am teaching you. I am training you. You are the work of my hands. You are my masterpiece. Don’t become discouraged at your progress. Don’t grow weary. Never give up. Day-by-day, I will be molding and shaping your life. Day-by-day, I will be making you to be more like my Son. I will keep on working in and through your life until the day that you come to meet me face to face. I will make you able to accomplish my purposes and fulfill my plans. My hand will be on you. I will be blessing your life. Your life will bear an abundance of fruit for my kingdom. Your life will bring glory to my name. Your life will shine brightly for me in the darkness of this world.

How does all this sound to you? It is beyond what I could have hoped for or even imagined. You are my God and Father. You are my Savior and Lord. You are all that I will ever need. I am your child. You are holding on to me as I hold on to you. You are drawing near to me as I draw near to you. Yes, I am. Keep on loving, following and serving me. Yes, I will. 

Heavenly Father, thank you for lavishing your love on me and calling me to be your child. Thank you for making me to be more like your son, Jesus Christ. Keep on changing my heart, transforming my mind and guiding my life until I see you face to face. Amen

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Hearts On Pilgrimage

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Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. Psalm 84:5 (NIV)

My Heart

You have my heart. What do you mean by that? My loyalties are not divided. I don’t want one thing at one time and something just opposite at another. I don’t want to follow you one day and walk away from you another. My eyes are not one day fixed on heaven and the life you have called me to live and the next day fixed on the earth and all that it has to offer me. I’m not half-hearted. I’m all in. I love you with all my heart and mind and soul and strength. I want to live and walk in an intimate relationship with you. That is very good.

Are you saying that your heart is guiding your life? I would say that the love I have for you is guiding my life. My heart has set me on a pilgrimage of loving, following and serving you. Going wherever you guide me to do whatever you ask of me is no big sacrifice to me. Why is that? I want to do what is pleasing to you. I want to live my life with and for you. Instead of deciding if and when I will follow and obey you, I’m looking for ways to follow and serve you. I want to do what you will give me to do for you. That is very good.

Do you think you will be able to do all I ask you to do for me? Will you have all the strength you will need? Do you have the gifts and talents and abilities to accomplish my purposes and fulfill my plans? Those are good questions. On my own, with my strength and gifts and talents and abilities I will certainly not be able to go and do all that you ask of me. My own efforts will lead to certain failure. Relying on myself will lead to discouragement and disappointment. But, I will not be on my own. No you will not.  I will not be left to my own resources. You will be with me to help me. That’s right.  I will hold on to you as you hold on to me. You will lead and guide me. You will be the strength of my heart as it goes on a pilgrimage of loving, following and serving you. Yes, I will.

Lord, in your presence I have tasted of your goodness. You have drawn me into a pilgrimage of wanting to love, follow and serve you. My heart is set on you. I want to walk like you walked. I want to follow you to where you guide me to do all that you ask of me.  Amen

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Make A Name For Ourselves

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Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11:4 (NIV)

Make A Name

Is that what you want? What’s that? Do you want to make a name for yourself? Do you want to be honored and respected? Do you want to be envied? Do you want to be recognized and applauded? Do you want to be sought after? Do you want to be the center of attention? Do you want to receive praise and honor and adoration? Do you want to be held in high esteem? Is this what you want your life to be all about? Your questions are making me feel sick. Your questions are making me nauseated. Why is that? They are too close to home. You know that at one time I have wanted every one of these things. Oh, I might try to deny it. I might even fool myself. I could never fool you. I have been filled with pride. I have chased after all that the world could offer. I have wasted time and talents and resources chasing after making a name for myself. None of those efforts will amount to anything of eternal value. If by some measure, I had made a small name for myself, it would soon be forgotten. If by my efforts, I made some minor accomplishment, it would soon amount to nothing. Why is that? Without you, I can accomplish nothing of eternal value. That’s true.

What is it that you want? I want to glorify your name. I want you to be praised. I want to be able to point others to you. I want to be a witness for you in the world. I want people to be drawn to you, just as I have been drawn to you. I want others to love you, just as I love you. I want others to serve you, just as I serve you. I want others to receive you as their Savior and Lord, just as I have received you as my Savior and Lord. I don’t want anything for myself. I want to be used by you. I want what you want. I want your will to be accomplished in and through my life. I want to bear fruit for your kingdom and bring glory to your name. I can see that. I will use you. My hand will be on you. I will work in and through you. You will bear and abundance of fruit for my kingdom. You will bring glory to my name. Thank you, Lord.

Lord,  I have wasted a lot of time, talent and resources trying to make a name for myself. What a waste of effort that has been. That has not been your plan. Help me now to glorify you in all I think, say and do. Help me to live the life you have called me to live. Amen

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Compelled By The Spirit

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“And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me–the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace. Acts 20:22-24 (NIV)

Called And Compelled 

Are you listening? Can you hear me calling you? I have called you to come near to me. I have called you to listen to me. I want you to hear my guidance. I want you to follow my direction. I have a purpose and plan for your life. I have a race for your to run. I have a task for you to complete. I want you to live your life with and for me. I am listening. I have heard your call. Here I am right now. I have stopped running around. I have withdrawn from the noise and busyness of life. I am attentively listening to everything you want to say to me. I will listen to your guidance. I will follow your direction. I do want to live my life with and for you. I want to know and do your will. I want to fulfill your purposes and complete your plans. I will run the race that you have set before me. I will complete the tasks you have given to me. That is very good. 

There is something I want you to know. It may come as no surprise to you. What’s that? The road ahead will not be easy. You will face obstacles. You will need to overcome barriers. You’re right. That does not come as a big surprise to me. Why is that? The road to right here, where I am right now, has not been easy. In fact, I’m in the midst of difficulty right now. I’m weighed down. I’m burdened. I feel discouraged and depressed. Yes, I know. I will lift you up. I will encourage you. I will strengthen you. I will be your shelter in this storm. I will be your place of refuge in this trouble. Hold on to me. Yes Lord, I will. I will hold on to you. I know that to be true as well. How so? You have never let me go. You have never left me alone. You have always been with me to help me. So am I now. 

There is something else I want you to know. What’s that? I will compel you. I will put a fire in you. You will want to serve me with all your heart and mind and soul and strength. You will have passion burning within you to know me and do my will. You will be on fire to follow and serve me. You will shine brightly for me. I need that passion and fire in me right now. Yes, you do. 

There is one more thing I also want you to know. What’s that? You will have clarity. There will be no doubt in you about where you should go and what you should do. Why is that? I will clearly mark out the race I want you to run as you love, follow and serve me. Are you ready? Yes Lord, I am. That is very good.

Holy Spirit, I know I will face difficulty and obstacles as I go and do what the Lord has given me to do for Him. Help me to have the power and strength I will need to overcome both internal and external obstacles. Help me finish the race and complete the task. Amen

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Obey His Commands

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We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. The man who says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. 1 John 2:3-6 (NIV)

Walking With Me

How will you come to know me? What will give you the confidence and boldness to say that you do know me? How can you or anyone else make a certain determination that you do in fact know me? To some, those may sound like difficult, maybe even impossible, questions to answer. I would never have known how to answer those questions without you giving me the answers up front. But, you have given me the answers. You have told me how I can come to know you. You have given me a true and certain measurement on which I can gauge whether I am coming to know you or not. I would like to hear your answers to my questions.

If I am obeying your commands, I am coming to know you. I know why that is true. Why is that? For me to obey your commands I would first need to hear your commands. I would need to be listening to you. To be listening to you, I must have a relationship with you. That’s obvious. At one time, I had no interest in a relationship with you. I had no desire to hear from you. I thought I was doing quite well on my own without you. I was living for myself. I was living for comfort and pursuing pleasure. I did what I wanted when I wanted it. I certainly had no desire to follow and obey you. That all changed. How so? I began to know the brokenness and emptiness of my life. I was bruised and battered by my life of sin. I hungered for something more. I wanted something else. You wanted me? Yes, I did. Only you could give me a new life. Only you could forgive my sin and cleanse me of my unrighteousness. Only you could redeem and restore me into a new relationship with you. That’s right. So, I asked you to be my Savior and Lord. I told you that I wanted to live my life with and for you. I said that I would follow and obey you. Yes, you did.

Now, I am walking with you. I am following and obeying you. I am listening attentively to all that you are saying to me. I am putting into practice all that you are teaching me. Am I following and obeying you perfectly? No, I am not. Do I still need your forgiveness and cleansing? Yes, I do. But, is it my desire to love you with all my heart and mind and soul and strength? Yes, it is. Will I keep on following you? Will I keep on obeying you? Yes, I will. Am I trying to walk as Jesus walked? Yes, I am. Am I coming to know you? Yes, I am. Yes, you are coming to know me. Keep on walking with me, as Jesus walked with me, and you will keep on coming to know me.

Lord, you are my Savior and Lord. Thank you for making it possible for me to know and love God. Your word has changed my heart and mind and desire. I now want to obey all God’s commands and walk with Him just as you walked with Him. Amen

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Pure And Blameless

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And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. Philippians 1:9-11 (ESV)

Ready

Do you want to be able to know and do my will? Do you want to live the life that I have called you to live? Do you want to bear fruit for my kingdom and bring glory to my name? Do you want to be prepared to meet me face to face? Do you want to go and do what is pleasing to me?  Yes, of course I want all these things. It my earnest prayer that I will one day hear you say, “Well done, good and faithful servant” to me. I don’t want to miss the mark. I don’t want to wander around in the dark. I don’t want to stumble through life. I don’t want to come up short. I want to accomplish your purposes and fulfill your plans. I want to bear an abundance of fruit for your kingdom. I want to bring glory to your name. Nothing would please me more that to know that I am living a life that is pleasing to you. Yes, I want to be eager and ready for that day when I will meet you face to face. That is very good.

What must I do to know and do your will? What must I do to live the life that you have called me to live? How can I live a fruitful life that is pleasing to you? You must follow me. You must live in an intimate relationship with me. You must become like me. You must love like I love. You must give like I gave. You must serve like I served. You must live like I lived. Follow me. Follow my example. Ask me for help. Rely on me. Ask for my love, knowledge and discernment to fill you. Then you will be able to know and do my will. Then you will go where I guide you. Then you will do what I ask of you. Then you will be ready to meet me face to face. Then you will certainly hear me say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Then you will know with certainty that you have lived a life that was pleasing me. That is what I want. That is what I will do. I will follow you. I will listen to your voice, I will hear your instructions. I will follow your guidance. That will be very good.

Lord, I pray I will be filled with your love, knowledge, and discernment so I will know and do your will. Help me to live the life you are calling me to live. Help me to live a righteous and fruitful life that bears fruit for your kingdom and brings glory to your name. Amen

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Came Back Praising God

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One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him–and he was a Samaritan. Luke 17:15-16 (NIV)

Give Thanks

Is that what you will do? What’s that? Will you come back to me? Will you return to give me thanks and praise for all that I have done, am doing and will do in your life? You are not giving me a quick answer to my questions. There is some hesitation in you. Why is that? I need to ask for your forgiveness. For what do you need to ask for my forgiveness? I have not returned to give you thanks and praise for all your goodness to me. You have lavished me with your love. You have richly blessed my life. You have withheld no good thing from me. You have given me what I have not deserved. Like what? Where do I begin? Begin anywhere. You have forgiven my sins and cleansed my unrighteousness. You saved my soul. You healed my bruised and battered and broken life. You restored me into a relationship with you. You adopted me into your family. You have made me to be your own child. You have set me apart to love, follow and serve you. You are molding and shaping my life. You are giving me new thoughts to think, words to speak and deeds to do. Day by day you are making me to be more like you. One day I will come to live forever in heaven with you. Yes, you will. That’s a lot to be thankful for. Yes, it is. 

But, you want to make some changes? You want to live your life differently? Yes, I do. I want to acknowledge you every day in every way. I want to stop to consider all the good things you have done, are doing and will do in my life. I don’t want to live an ungrateful, unthankful and thoughtless life. I don’t want to miss an opportunity to give thanks and praise to you. That will be very good.

I have heard you say that you want your life to be filled with joy. That’s true. You said that as one of my followers there should be more joy coming out of your life. You stated that others ought to see joy overflowing your life and be drawn to me. Did I hear you correctly? Yes, you did. I agree with you. I want to see joy overflowing your life. Why is not more joy overflowing your life? What will cause you to live a more joyful life? I see where this is headed. That’s good. As I stop to give you thanks and praise for your goodness, My life will begin to overflow with joy. That’s right. One more thing. What’s that? You are forgiven. Thank you, Lord.

Heavenly Father, thank you for your goodness to me. You have done, are doing and will continue to do good things for me, of that I have no doubt. I am grateful. I am thankful. I will give you all my thanks and praise for the good things you have done for me. Amen

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