God’s Doing

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1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Funny how some people work hard at trying to be good enough to make their way into heaven. True hope for eternal life only comes when we realise that our good works gain us nothing. Only by God’s grace can we enter God’s rest. Only by repentance of sin and faith in Christ can we experience God’s grace. And grace is God’s doing!

 Funny how we think that by striving to be good, we can somehow attain a greater measure of God’s grace? But, and here’s the paradox, grace is effortless! Grace is God’s doing. It’s only by grace that we are saved through Christ. And it’s only by grace that God empowers us to serve him. As Jesus said to Apostle Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” Paul responds by saying, “For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

 God-tracking is resting in the effect of God’s grace.

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Ephesians 2:8-10
Romans 5:2
2 Corinthians 12:9-10

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Keep Moving

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“If you find yourself at a standstill today then join me in taking the next exit from that backed-up highway you find yourself on and put your foot down to keep moving on your life’s journey.”

Luke 9:62
Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plough and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."

Some time back Karen and I decided to take a short break. We made plans to spend four days in a national park a short distance from our home. We set out early so that we could stop off at places of interest along the way but no sooner had we encountered the motorway than we found ourselves in bumper-to-bumper traffic! The M6 motorway in the British West Midlands can be like a car park at the best of times, and this day was no exception. In fact at one time, we stopped for so long that the drivers around me turned off their car’s engines. We’d come to a total standstill.  You see, in order to make our journey on holiday, we needed to keep moving.

You know, so many of us set off on the road to God’s purposes with gusto but soon run out of steam and end up marooned along life’s highway. Take the young woman who surrendered her life to Jesus at the Billy Graham campaign, for example. She’d heard the gospel and put her faith in Jesus under the passion of the moment in the big top, but as soon as she hit the streets of the big city she drifted to a total spiritual standstill. And what about the middle-aged man who had heard the prompting of the Holy Spirit to lay his career down in order go into the pastorate. Sadly, he had wasted so much time thinking  about it that he’d come to total a dead stop in his faith-walk. You see, in order to make your journey along God’s life track you need to keep moving.

 Perhaps you find yourself at a spiritual standstill today. It could be that you were once passionate about serving Christ but the flame of zeal that set you ablaze has flickered and all but died out. Maybe you heard the call of God on your life several years back but the weeds of doubt and fear have grown up and are now choking the life out of God’s promises to you. Or it could be that, like so many of us, you have simply become complacent in your faith walk and found that you’re gaining no new ground. If you find yourself at a standstill today then join me in taking the next exit from that backed-up highway you find yourself on and put your foot down to keep moving on your life’s journey.

 God-tracking is to keep moving with God on your journey of life.

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Matthew 13:1-23
Jeremiah 20:9
Luke 9:57-62

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DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

“I want to get going and keep moving on this journey you have set before me.”

“Dear God, I realise today that I have been procrastinating in my Christian walk. I know I’ve heard your call on my life but I’ve wasted too much time thinking about it instead of stepping out in faith to keep moving on the journey you have set before me. I’m sorry Lord. Today I re-commit my life to you and passionately seek to take your route for my future. I praise you for your love and your grace; grace that saves me and grace that equips me. I want to get going and keep moving on this journey you have set before me. I love you Lord. Amen.”

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Great Exploits with a Servant Heart

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 “These servants of the Lord did not sit on their laurels and become rotting relics. These early disciples followed their Lord’s command and did great exploits for their King as servants of all.”

Daniel 11:32
…but the people who know their God shall be strong and carry out great exploits.

The great violinist, Nicolo Paganini, willed his marvellous violin to Genoa –  the city of his birth – but only on condition that the instrument never be played again. It was an unfortunate condition, for it is a peculiarity of wood that if it is used and handled, it shows little wear. As soon as it is discarded, it can become infested and begin to decay. The exquisite violin became worm-eaten in its beautiful case, valueless except as a relic. The rotting instrument is a reminder that a life withdrawn from all service to others loses its meaning.

Jesus reminds us that if we desire to be great in the kingdom of God, we need to be prepared to be servants. A servant is someone who expresses submission and duty to serve another person, to his credit and wellbeing. Jesus is our Lord and we are his servants. In Christ, we serve one another as a duty of our service of him. As much as we love our Lord, we love those whom he places on our track of life, to serve.

When we examine the lives of those to whom Jesus gave the instruction to be servants, we note that they all progressed to become great people of influence whose lives and service still impact our lives today. In their humble service, they carried out great exploits. Jesus did say, “He who is greatest among you shall be your servant.” These servants of the Lord did not sit on their laurels and become rotting relics. These early disciples followed their Lord’s command and did great exploits for their King as servants of all.

God-tracking is performing great exploits with a servant heart.

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Mark 9:33-37
Matthew 23:11-12
Matthew 20:28

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DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

“I know, in you, I will do great exploits for my King with heart of a servant.”

“Dear Lord Jesus, thank you that you came to be a servant of God and give your life for me. Dear Lord, forgive me for any pride or arrogance in my heart. I choose now to humble myself before you and my fellow man, to be a servant of all. I know, in you, I will do great exploits for my King with heart of a servant. Amen.”

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Cast Your Bread Upon the Water

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“Serve the Lord at work, at home and in church. He is your exceeding great reward. Cast your bread upon the waters in faith that you will find it again after many days.”

Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.

Do you ever feel like you’re slogging away at life with seemingly no return? Get up in the morning, eat breakfast, go to work, come home, eat dinner, go to bed, get up in the morning… It’s like you’re casting your bread upon the water never to see it again. Or will you?

That expression comes from the Bible. We read it in the book of Ecclesiastes, which is a book about the seeming futility of life. It was penned by King Solomon, the son of King David. Solomon asked God for wisdom and was blessed to become the wealthiest king in Israel’s history. Yet he wrote, “Vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?” However, Solomon also wrote, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.” To finish quoting that expression above, the scripture says, “Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.”

God has not called you to be more than you are, he has called you to be all that you are. And we are all called to all the world. Whatever you do in life – at work, in your relationships, in your pastimes – do it with all your might, as unto Jesus. We are told that all we do in life needs to be done in the name of Jesus. In the Lord, our labour is never in vain.

So go for it! Give it your all, even when it feels like you’re slogging away the old sausage machine, churning out sausage after sausage with no return. Do it for Jesus, at work, at home and in church. He is your exceeding great reward. Cast your bread upon the waters in faith that you will find it again after many days.

God-tracking is working for Jesus.

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Ecclesiastes 1:1-3
Ecclesiastes 11
Matthew 28:19-20
Colossians 3:17
1 Corinthians 15:58
Genesis 15:1 (KJV)

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DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

“Help me to see a return for my toil but even if I don’t, help me to do it with all my might.”

“My God, I get so fatigued doing the same old after the same old, every day. Sometimes I feel like I’m making no ground; like I’m slogging away without return. But I know now that all I do in life – especially my work – is to be done for you and in the name of Jesus. So, I change my thinking and choose to dedicate my work and my relationships to you. I do it for you, Lord. I know in you my labour is never in vain. Help me to see a return for my toil but even if I don’t, help me to do it with all my might. Amen.”

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Grace is God’s Doing

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“The grace of God is twofold: grace saves us from sin through the cross of Jesus and grace empowers us to serve God through the Holy Spirit .”

1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

I was leading worship in my church one Sunday morning when God taught me a very valuable lesson on grace. I was not in a good place in my life at the time. Although I was studying for the ministry and active in church, I was going through a period of dark rebellion. I was very critical and looked for loopholes in Scripture to qualify my unfounded motives. As I played my guitar and led the worship that day, the congregation moved to a higher level of the experience of the Spirit. I was dumbfounded. “How can this be, Lord?” I said in my head as I sang. “These people are in deep worship and yet I - their worship leader - am in a bad place. I feel so unworthy.”

In an instant, I sensed God’s answer, “Yes, Dudley, you are unworthy.”

“There you go,” I grunted indignantly in my heart, “I’m going to quit and hang up my guitar!” Again, the unmistakable still small voice spoke: “You are unworthy to lead these people in worship,” he said, “but I’m not!” Instantly I realised that it was, indeed, not I who was leading the worship that day, it was the Holy Spirit in me drawing those people into the throne room of God. It was God’s doing not mine. A harsh lesson in the truth of grace. Grace is God’s doing, not mine.

I discovered that no matter how bad I was feeling, if God had called me to do a job for him then it’s him in me doing it; not me. This is why Paul writes that Jesus once told him, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." God’s grace is God doing the job through you even when you’re feeling weak.

The grace of God is twofold: grace saves us from sin through the cross of Jesus and grace empowers us to serve God through the Holy Spirit. By the Holy Spirit Paul writes, “I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” We labour by God’s powers and not our prowess. And that’s grace.

John Newton said, “I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am.” Grace is God’s doing. Therefore, to stop doing what you are called to do because you feel unworthy is to insult the grace of God.

God-tracking is just doing it, by God’s grace.

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2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Ephesians 2:8-10

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Don’t Give Up, Look Up & Pray

“If grace is God’s doing then do it in me to your glory.”

“O Lord, forgive me for my arrogance in thinking that it’s my skills and abilities that qualify me to serve you. I realise now that it’s only by your grace that I am what I am. Your grace has saved me and your grace empowers me to serve you. Forgive me for sin and rebellion, dear Father, and help me to serve you in humility, by your grace. If grace is God’s doing then do it in me to your glory. Amen.”

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Qualified by Grace

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“Bring your talents and giftings to the altar of his grace. Offer yourself as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. The altar sanctifies the sacrifice.”

Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

Grace is God’s doing. God did it when he sent Jesus to mediate between himself and us on the cross. By grace, through faith, we are saved. God’s grace saved us but God’s grace also equips us to serve him. We are qualified by grace.

Our calling is empowered by the holy grace of God which makes our calling holy. We are all called to all the world to share the love of God. Therefore, we are called to be the best we can be in life and living; to do all that our hands find to do with all our might. So, let’s be dedicated to serving our God. Let’s eliminate the unessential and superfluous time-wasting business in life to give our all to serve him. God has not called you to be more than you are but he has called you to be all that you are.

God’s free Grace qualifies you to serve him so seek his directions and opportunities rather than depending on your own education, planning and qualifications. Bring your talents and giftings to the holy altar of his grace. Offer yourself as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. The altar sanctifies the sacrifice.

There are no accidents or coincidences in the Kingdom of God. God knows the plans he has for you, plans for a blessed and successful future.

God-tracking is reasonably serving God by his grace.

IT’S ALL IN THE BIBLE. READ ALL ABOUT IT. (NKJV)
Get into the word of God and get the word of God into you!
Ephesians 2:8-10
1 Corinthians 15:10
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
Ephesians 5:15-17 (NIV)

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SO, DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

“Help me to be willing to be manipulated and formed by your workmanship for good works.”

“O Father God, thank you for your unearned grace. Only by your grace – your doing – am I saved. And only by your grace – your doing – can I serve you every day of my life. I submit all my talents and skills to your grace. Anoint me to serve you with excellence, O Lord. Help me to make the most of every opportunity in life to share the message of your love, because the days we live in are evil. For your glory. Amen.

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Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.