SERVING GOD BY HIS PURPOSE AND GRACE

 

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“He has saved you and called you to a holy calling, not because of your works but because of his own purpose and grace. Grace is God’s doing.”

2 Timothy 1:9
God, who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began

David Livingstone was a famous missionary who helped open up Africa to the gospel of Jesus. He was a trained and talented doctor with great prospects of a very successful career, before entering the mission field. His brother was also a doctor. When David informed his brother that he was giving up medicine to follow God’s holy calling into missions, his brother ridiculed him saying, “I don’t want that kind of life. I want to make a name for myself.” Today David Livingstone’s brother is mentioned in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He has one line stating that he is the brother of David Livingstone while David has 16 paragraphs describing his life and work.

As Christian believers, you and I are saved by God’s grace, through faith. Jesus, God’s eternal and holy Son, came from the Father to earth to bear the consequences of our sins upon the cross. When he rose from the dead, he opened the way for you and me to have our sins removed and to boldly approach God’s throne, in faith. Therefore, we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works.

Like David Livingstone, your Lord has many, many good things lined up for you. He has saved you and called you to a holy calling, not because of your good works but because of his own purpose and grace. Grace is God’s doing. God did it when he saved you through the blood of Jesus and God will do it through you as he has called you to serve him, by his grace.

So, hold onto the promise of God’s purpose to use you wherever you are. Remember, he knows the plans he has for you, plans for wellbeing and success, with a hopeful future. And when the devil comes against you to thwart God’s plans for your life, stand strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

God-tracking is serving God by his purpose and grace

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Ephesians 2:8-10
Hebrews 10:22
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Ephesians 6:10-18

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DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

I offer my life to you today, to serve you as you call me to serve

“O Lord, I praise and thank you for your grace. Your grace has saved me and your grace equips me to serve you. I offer my life to you today, to serve you as you call me to serve. Help me not to depend on my own skills or my own efforts to achieve the great things you have in store for me. Help me, O Lord, to simply follow your supreme directions for my life. And use me, Lord. I submit myself to your hand. Use me in my family, use me in my church and use me for your glory in my workplace. Guide me according to the plans you know you have for me. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.”

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GOD-TRACKING IS NOT BY GOOD WORKS, BUT BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH

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“All your good works will never be good enough to qualify you for heaven. Therefore, Jesus died in your place… Only his good works are good enough for a good God.”

Ephesians 2:8

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God

A man arrives at the pearly gates. Peter says, "Here's how it works. You need 100 points to make it into heaven. You tell me all the good things you've done, and I’ll give you a certain number of points for each item, depending on how good it was. When you reach 100 points, you’re in."

"Okay," says the man optimistically, eyeing the rack of designer halos on the other side of the gate. "First off, I attended church every single Sunday."

"That's good,” says St. Peter, "that's worth two points."

"Two points?" says the man. "Well… er… I… I always gave 10% of all my earnings to the church. Does that count?"

"Hmm, let's see," answers Peter. "That's worth another 2 points. Anything else?"

"Two points!? Well, how about this: I started a soup kitchen in my city and worked in a shelter for the homeless."

"Fantastic,” said the gatekeeper, “that's certainly worth another point,".

The man ponders for a moment and then adds, "And I was married to the same woman for 50 years and never cheated on her, not even in my heart." Peter replied, "That's wonderful. Well done. Let’s see now, that’s worth another… three points!"

"Only three points!!" the man cries out. "At this rate the only way I’ll ever get into heaven is by the grace of God!"

"Ah, at last!” replied the heavenly gatekeeper. “Come on in, friend!"

You may smile, but it’s funny how we often think we can earn brownie points with God through good works. We do all the right things, give to disaster funds, help our neighbours and even attend a few church meetings or Bible studies. So, we think we’ll be okay on D-Day, when the final trumpet sounds and we face our God. After all, we were born into a good Christian home, believed in God and called Jesus Lord.

“Not everyone who says to me, `Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven,” said Jesus. “Why do you call me, `Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?” You see, dear God-tracker, it’s not how many credits we earn by good works and sweet talk that makes us right with God, it’s by doing what Jesus commanded. For instance, Jesus said things like: “Come to me and I will give you rest,” and “No one comes to the Father except through me,” and “Unless you are born again you cannot see the kingdom of God.”

All your good works will never be good enough to qualify you for heaven. Therefore, Jesus died in your place. Jesus is the only sinless and good person who has ever walked this planet – he is God in the flesh. Only his good works are good enough for a good God. When he died he took your punishment for sin, for the wages of sin is death. But Christ did not stay dead, he rose again. And that’s how I know Jesus was sinless, because death could not keep him down. And that’s the demonstration of God’s grace.

Only by repenting of sin, by believing in Jesus and calling him Lord can you ever be good enough to make it to heaven. Only in Christ, are you and I made righteous. The only way you’ll ever get into heaven is by the grace of God.

God-tracking is not by works, but by grace through faith.

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Matthew 7:21

Luke 6:46-49

Matthew 11:28-30

John 14:6

John 3:1-8

Romans 6:23

Luke 24:1-12

2 Corinthians 5:21

DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

As I have faith in you and come to you by your grace, I am made righteous before God

“Oh God, I confess that I have been trying to earn good points to be right with you. I’m very sorry and I admit that I was wrong. There is nothing that I can do that will be good enough to gain access to heaven, except to humble myself and come to you through Jesus. This I now do, O Lord. I lay down my good works and admit to my sin. I repent of all that I have done that has grieved you. I am weary of good works and come to you, just as I am, to find rest from my own efforts. Thank you for your grace. Thank you for dying in my place and taking my sin so that, as I have faith in you and come to you by your grace, I can am righteous before God. I rest in your grace, O Lord. Amen.”

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trACker number402 To Stop Doing What You are Called to Do, Because You Feel Unworthy is to Insult God’s Grace

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15 June 2012 

  

Dear God Tracker

To Stop Doing What You are Called to Do, Because You Feel Unworthy is to Insult God’s Grace

I was once in the middle of leading worship in my church 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 rebelliousness. I was very critical of other Christians and was looking for loop-holes in the Bible to qualify my unfounded desires. At one particular point in the worship the congregation seemed to move into higher level of the experience of God. 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 you are unworthy.”

“There you go,” I said indignantly in my heart, “I’m going to quit this and hang up my guitar!” Again the instant though occurred to me by the voice of the Holy Spirit, “You are unworthy to lead these people in worship… but I’m not!” A hard lesson in the truth of grace.

In this experience, I discovered that no matter how “bad” I was feeling, if God has called me to do a job for him then it’s him in me doing it; not me! This is why Paul says that Jesus once told him, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." You see, grace is God at work, not you. Grace is God’s doing the job in and through you. The grace of God is twofold: it saves us from sin through the cross of Jesus and it empowers us to do good works through Christ in us, the hope of glory. Therefore, to stop doing what you are called to do because you feel unworthy is to insult God’s grace.

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

Blessings

Dudley

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GodTracker and trACker owe their origins to an international Christian radio programme produced by Dudley Anderson called, OnTrack. Although OnTrack went off-air in 2005, trACker has continued to help people to track God's plans and purposes for their lives since July 2003.

You can now hear Dudley Anderson on UCB UK

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Verse of the Week

John 1:16

From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.

Quote of the Week

A Sample of Dudley’s Fave Quotes.

“We are absolutely nothing.  We have nothing to be proud of.  We have no abilities and nothing to offer God.  The fact that he chooses to use is only due to his grace.  It has nothing to do with us.” -- Brother Yun

 

Don’t Give-up, Look-up!

Look-up and Fix Your Eyes On Jesus!

I Will Do the Good Works You Created Me to Do

Ephesians 2:10

For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Pray

“Lord, I don’t have what it takes to be successful in my life’s calling. In fact, I’m probably not worthy of this job you have given me to do. However, I realise now that, as a believer in your power and grace, for me to refuse to carry on would be to insult the grace you have given me to do the job. I believe that it’s not me doing it, it’s you in me doing it. Please forgive me for my pride and insolence. I hand my activities, my relationships and my work over to you. Lord. I feel weak in my own abilities but I believe that this is a good thing, because when I am weak in me I am strong in you. Because I am your workmanship, by your grace, I will do the good works you created me to do. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”

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trACker number376 Righteousness Is Credited Only By Faith In The Heart

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30 September 2011 

  

Dear God Tracker

Righteousness Is Credited Only By Faith In The Heart

One of my favourite heroes of the faith is the great ancient king of Israel, King David. I love David because he was an average guy with average problems who discovered the secret of faithfully keeping his heart pure before God, by God’s grace.

David was the youngest son of an average Hebrew guy called, Jesse and a shepherd of his father’s sheep.  Being a shepherd in the Middle East was a very humble job. Nevertheless, we read how David did his job to the best of his ability, even risking his own life for the sheep. However, David was soon to shepherd his people as the greatest king his people would ever know but not before singlehandedly defeating Israel’s enemy with one swipe.

Yet, as we read David’s story we notice that he was less than a perfect guy. Becoming a great warrior-king meant that he was responsible for the deaths of many people through the act of war. Also, on one occasion we read that David fell in love with another man’s wife and married her, after sending her husband to his death on the front line. David committed adultery and murder! But yet, we also read in 1 Samuel 13:14 and Acts 13:22 that David was called, “A man after God’s own heart.” In fact, it is from David that we received the Messiah and saviour of the world.

As a God Tracker, I believe that God looks at the heart and not the hands. In other words, I believe that salvation is realised in the heart before it plays out through the hands. Faith and grace are qualities experienced in the heart when we believe that Jesus died and rose again to free us from sin. Even so, Jesus said that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth will speak. Consequently, because grace and faith in the heart have made us right with God, the hands (or mouth, as the case may be) will reveal this salvation through actions of faith. But these actions of faith do not justify or qualify us before God. We are not saved by our works but by faith in Christ’s actions. Yet as we live out our salvation by what we do, we discover that there is always something more that can be done. That is to say, we can never, never do enough to earn credit for righteousness by the work of our hands; righteousness is credited only by faith in the heart.

David was a true God-tracker. David lived in grace. David walked by faith. David was not a perfect guy but David’s heart was right and he knew the power of repentance. David knew that he was nothing, had nothing and meant nothing but for the grace of God. David was made righteous by faith in God’s forgiveness and walked in the integrity of the hope of his salvation. He knew that purity of heart precedes purity of hand.

God-tracking is firstly getting your heart right with God.

Blessings

Dudley

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Our hope is that, by sharing experiences in tracking the will of God, we will draw closer to him and discover the awesome value of walking with God. Let us know what you think by e-mailing dudley@godtracker.co.uk God knows the plans he has for you. So go ahead and track them!

GodTracker now on Facebook 

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What is trACker?

GodTracker and trACker owe their origins to an international Christian radio programme produced by Dudley Anderson called, OnTrack. Although OnTrack went off-air in 2005, trACker has continued to help people to track God's plans and purposes for their lives since July 2003.

You can now hear Dudley Anderson on UCB UK

Saturdays from 00:00 to 05:00 GMT and Sundays from 06:00 to 12:00 GMT

Listen to UCB UK on DAB, Sky channel 0125 or online at http://ucbmedia.co.uk

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Verse of the Week

Ecclesiastes 7:20

There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.

Quote of the Week

A Sample of Dudley’s Fave Quotes.

“Faith is catching the heart of God, then anything is possible” --- Andy Hawthorn

 

Don’t Give-up, Look-up!

Look-up and Fix Your Eyes On Jesus!

Today I Say, My Hope is in You.

Psalm 25:21

May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you.

Pray

“O God, forgive me for trying to earn good points with you. I realise now that you look at my heart before you see the things I do with my hands. Help me to live out my salvation with a pure heart. Help me to be sure that I’m not doing good works to be seen by others or to somehow, earn righteousness. May my good works come from you working through me. Like King David, O Lord, I choose to walk in integrity and uprightness of heart before you and pray for opportunities to put my faith into practice. Today I say my hope is in you. Amen.”

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