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Our 2nd Blog Mini-Series, each Weekday in JULY!
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continue this JOURNEY...
digging in to the 2nd - 3rd CHAPTERS of Keith's book,
“Keep the FAITH…Keep Your VISION”!
If you will read this book in its entirety, then you will be equipped to begin walking with the confidence and authority that Jesus Christ came and died to provide for us, in order that we may work *with* Him, be *fulfilled* in our work, lead a *successful life*, and...
Days #17 and #18 of 20-day Blog mini-series #2
Chapter THREE, "Rightly Dividing The Word of Truth"
"Rightly Dividing The Word of Truth"
Have you received the gift of The Holy Spirit of truth? Now, please do not confuse the gift of The Holy Spirit with the diversities of spiritual gifts The Holy Spirit brings, such as, word of wisdom, word of knowledge, prophecy, speaking in tongues, and so on (see 1 Corinthians 12). These are manifestations of The Person of The Holy Spirit. The gift of The Holy Ghost precedes all of those. But we must ask The Heavenly Father to give us the gift of The Holy Spirit, "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your Heavenly Father give The Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?" (Luke 11:13)
Moreover, if you have not asked for the gift, then you have not received Him; and if that is the case, then you cannot "know the things that are freely given to us of God" because your natural mind "receives not the things of The Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." Unless we learn the things that are freely given to us of God through The Spirit, we cannot fulfill the purpose for which God created us.
Question to ponder:
Is it possible to be fulfilled in life without The Person of The Holy Spirit being involved? _________________________________________
Is it possible to be fulfilled in life without The Person of The Holy Spirit being involved? _________________________________________
Keith's "Comments from the Author":
"This I have learned: In order to walk in fulfillment, we have to understand that God is The Consummate Family Man. The reason that you are here, and the reason that I am here, is to walk with God, and to work with Him, to fulfill His plan and purpose for all of His Creation. To take what God has given us, when the Scriptures say, ‘God created us for His good pleasure,’ what does that mean? In short, it means that God created us to work with Him 24 hours/day, 7 days/week. He created us to not only work *with* Him but, just as importantly if not more importantly, to rest and trust *in* Him and to *dwell* in Him continually. Without The Person of The Holy Spirit, this cannot happen.
Think about that for a moment. The ‘good pleasure’ that God receives from us is not in our fulfilling things f-o-r Him; it’s to be *with* Him constantly – God IN us and us IN Him. I struggled to understand this, early on in my Christian walk. I wondered, ‘How is it that God actually receives pleasure and joy from *spending time* with me?’ This is exactly the point God wants to get across to each of us. And He wants us to understand it so much that He sent His One and Only Son to fulfill His desire and passion to be able to be *with* us continually, *in oneness* with Him. This means that, even though we live on earth, we can, simultaneously, live *in God*, and it is Christ Jesus Who has made it possible for us to be in this world, yet have a dwelling place in God at the same time. Equally as important is the part that The Holy Spirit plays in making the way for us to partake of *all* that Christ has done for us.
Fulfillment is when we use the gifts and the talents that we enjoy the most in our lives, and we use them, together, *with* God. To relay to those around us who don’t know that reality, that GOD IS WAITING with open arms to lead them, too, into fulfillment, is fulfillment as well. When I accomplished things in my business career, using the skills and talents God had wired in me, satisfaction was always temporary and sometimes even painfully so. Where I was channeling my abilities is what needed adjusting, by God. When I asked Him for and received His adjusting, that is when fulfillment came, and it was a lasting feeling like I had never imagined, and continues still, without end. I consulted Him as ‘Chief Operator’ in my life, as well as ‘Manufacturer’ of me and my life. And He continually fills me up, to full and overflowing. What are you waiting for? There's no better time than n-o-w. Selah."
And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, Who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit;[a] for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. (2 Corinthians 3:4-9)
*See you tomorrow, and please make sure to invite your friends who are lost or who just need encouragement too! God bless you!*
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