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| Apostle Joseph Jackson |
Be Broken!
(Psalms
51:17) The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite
heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
The
word contrite in Hebrew is 'dakah' which means one that is crushed to pieces.
Paul wrote of being a 'living sacrifice' holy and acceptable to God. Being a
living sacrifice means we often can walk off the altar. To be a continual
living sacrifice we need to renew our minds day to day! Let your mind be
renewed -- off the things which are worldly and onto those things which are
Godly. When our minds are focused on those things above, on His holiness, His
righteousness, His grace, and His mercy -- we realize that we can always be
closer to Him! We understand what Isaiah meant when he said, "our righteousness
is nothing but filthy rags before the Lord."
When
God provided for Himself the perfect sacrifice, His Son, 2000 years ago -- His
heart bursted! His heart was cut through -- cut for you! God desires you to be
a living sacrifice and a necessary ingredient is a heart that has been cut
through by God's sharp knife. When you allow your heart to be continually cut
through by God's Spirit, then your life will be a living sacrifice, holy and
acceptable before Him!
Beloved,
it's wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, especially when we give Him
all the pieces!
It's Time To Volunteer!
(2
Corinthians 9:7) Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him
give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
A wise
man once said, "There's nothing more powerful than the heart of a
volunteer". Webster describes a volunteer this way -- one who renders a
service or receives a conveyance or transfer of property without giving
valuable consideration.
It's
so easy to get into the mindset that serving God is a chore, it's our job, our
duty -- we give valuable consideration to our giving. The fact of the matter is
that God loves a cheerful giver. He loves a volunteer. When I think of that
verse, the first thing that comes to my mind is monetary giving, but God wants
us to cheerfully volunteer every good thing He has so mercifully allowed us to
have –- things we often take for granted -- our time, our energy, our abilities,
our talents, our homes, our cars, our families –- all that we have – all that
He has cheerfully given to us!
Beloved,
let's make a point to volunteer some of these things to the Lord this week.
Let’s begin to bless the Lord and those around us!
Come Let Us Go To The Mountain Of The Lord!
(Matthew
14:23) And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain
apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
There
were times that Yeshua (Jesus) separated himself from the multitudes -- and
there are times when we need to separate ourselves from our lives and ministry,
and spend some time with our Lord.
I love
how Yeshua climbed a mountain. It made me think of an interesting analogy.
Picture the shape of a mountain. It starts out wide at the bottom -- the higher
we climb, the narrower it becomes -- and the more we must stay close to the
center. As we go even higher yet, there's less room to move to the left or the
right -- and there's less and less ground that can be compromised -- the more
focused we need to be and the less we can afford to be distracted. The higher
we go, the less room we have to fool around!
Whatever
you may be dealing with, you may just need to separate yourself and climb up to
spend time with the Lord -- get centered on Him and focused on what He's
calling you to.
Beloved,
God wants us to learn to climb to the top and focus all of our lives on His
will! Let's take out sometime this weekend to try it!
Apostle Joseph A. Jackson,
Apostolic Order Network, 0244719698.
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