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Being victorious

 

Lauren Daigle – You Say

 

There is a pull back to God’s word and being skilled in it that makes a difference in the life of a disciple. What a witness to be seen as someone who has a trained tongue and a trained ear, possessing words of wisdom because they were taught and instructed by the Lord. Their words reflect a message to others from Him. Those words bring comfort and sustain those who are broken and tired. My ideal role as a disciple is to listen to the Lord. Every morning to listen to God. More than anything I would love to be a support for those who are weary and that only comes through God’s word, not mine. It is a must, as a disciple, to listen to the words of God every day.

I remind myself that a “taught” disciple is a person who has an intimate association with a master having learned what he knows and in my case, that association is with Jesus.

The Lord God has given me
    the tongue of those who are taught,
that I may know how to sustain with a word
    him who is weary.
Morning by morning he awakens;
    he awakens my ear
    to hear as those who are taught. – Isaiah 50:4  ESV

I love the way that intimacy is shared in this verse – He awakens my ear; He does not awaken me. There is a difference.

Isaiah chapter 50 uses the word limmud – disciple – more than the word “servant” which is used in all of the other songs that Isaiah wrote. I am encouraged to be a listener and a teacher. My teacher is not a person, but rather I am a disciple of God, being obedient to Him. It is my unwavering following that gives me this position of bringing healing with His word.

To be victorious in this role of discipleship, I have God as my helper. He sustains me by talking to me through His word and He gives me the Holy Spirit to preserve my commitment to follow Him. 

Who among you fears the Lord
and obeys the voice of his servant?
Let him who walks in darkness
and has no light
trust in the name of the Lord
and rely on his God. – Isaiah 50:10  ESV

To be victorious is to walk my walk each day and to help others by walking with them.

 

 

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Voices

 

Lauren Daigle – You Say

 

How crazy are the voices that surround you?  It is okay if these voices are those you have come to understand and know, your ability to weed out the weird and accept the love has a proven track record. But what if you started a new job, started attending a new church, or even moved into a new neighbourhood, how would you handle those voices?

 “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?” – 2 Samuel 10:3  ESV

The Ammonites had a new leader and the voices around him did something that wreaked havoc into his life and at the end of the day, his life was destroyed. It matters that I know the voices around me and it matters that I am listening to the right voice.

However, I get it that sometimes there is a voice that somehow takes control, supersedes God’s voice. How can that happen when He is your rock, your truth, and your life. I think there is a need that comes up and somehow that voice meets that need – in a very human way. Maybe it doesn’t meet your need, you just need it and want it, and you hope it meets your needs eventually. We actually exchange the real for the counterfeit.

Lately, I have discovered that I have been listening to a voice at work and I have been believing that the voice of approval with what I do is more important than God’s voice. At least I seek it more and listen more and want it more than God’s voice. It would seem that I know already from Him that I am special, loved, unique, called and gifted by Him. I now want to hear it from people. Not a good place to be because in order to get it, I have to lose some of me and what God has purposed me to be.

I pray today that my discernment of the motivations of what I hear will stay true to who I am in Christ and that I do not allow the new voices around me to be more important or a higher priority in my life as a disciple of Jesus.

 

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It is not enough just to believe

 

Lauren Daigle – You Say (Official Music Video)

 

Here I am reading all about blood in Leviticus and all I can think of is communion. What do I take from that as a disciple?  If all I have is my belief on Christ for the forgiveness of sin, I am missing out on the constant, daily spiritual strength and nourishment that God offers through His word.

When I do not, could I fall into the same misstep where the people were found worshipping goat demons? This in the midst of everyone believing in the true worship of God and being discipled in that by Moses. How could they worship anything else – how could I – but we do, I do – especially if my relationship with God is not everyday.

Holiness is not a private business for just one compartment of my life. Every aspect of my life I want claimed by God. A weird thought – if I believe that Jesus is returning one day, how do I not see the harm in storing up treasure here on earth?

That brings me right back to Paul. He has this amazing experience with Jesus and asks one question – what would you have me do? It is good news for me today because it reveals the power of prayer – humbled sinner type of prayer for salvation. Moved from saying my prayers to praying them. Grace does that. I would like to think that you might as well find a person living without breath as a living follower of Jesus who does not pray. I am not trying to be too holy here – and I love Ananias for being such a great example, for even he staggered at the commands that were given to him. So I see that I live this way not because of who I am but because of who the Holy Spirit is – He takes away my scales of ignorance and pride and the sinner becomes a new person.

Hello Tabitha – what a great testimony of a life who came to serve. She did some amazing things for people, especially for the poor, an expression of active compassion and mercy. She did not organize events or activities, she personally performed these charitable expressions of deeds. I am challenged again today that believing is not enough. A changed life looks and seeks to be Jesus in their world, as I need to be in my world.
 

 

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