Tuesday's Bible Study Message, May 11, 2021 - Where is our Work?

 Hello Family of God,  

Tuesday's message emphatically walks us through the practicality of using faith to work out salvation, in love, and sacrificially, so that others may see Christ and desire a relationship with Him.  

God Bless!

Scripture References & Highlights

Prayer for 2021:  This year will be a year of Light; that Light will shine and darkness will not dispel it. 

In Jesus' Name

Message Scriptures

• Mark 16:15
• go into all the world and teach
• Matthew 28:19
• go into all the world and make disciples
• Zechariah 4:10
• do not despise small beginnings for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin
• Genesis 1:1
• the earth was without form, simple before God spoke everything into existence
• Genesis 2:18
• it's no\t good for man to be alone
• submitting to God first
• submitting to one another
• Matthew 18:21-35
• debt forgiven
• Acts 4:13, 20
• Peter and John both were compared to have been learned men who have been with Jesus
• both declaired that nothing will keep them from sharing the Gospel

 Nuggets for the Week

• work without boundaries
• we're not confined to any particular place, not without God
• there is a way to release encouragement without getting caught up in the negativity
• don't hold back in the now to share waiting for the next big thing
• Nehemiah served in the capacity as a cupbearer before going off to the build the wall
• David, anointed king as a boy and the journey to serving as King, he gave honor to God out in the field (built up his character)
• Adam, placed in the garden to govern rightly in relationship with God, was a seed form to having dominion.  He didn't daydream looking out over the garden at what could be in the future
• Disciples struggled in the area of comparison
• sitting at the right hand of the Father
• separating of mission journies (Paul and John Mark)
• How we come together matters.  Covering one another to get something done.
• How we work together matters
• How we look at one another
• How we think about one another
• How we speak to and speak about one another matters
• The hardwork we pay today is for generations to come; it's worth it

Reflections

• What are we willing to go thru for Love, Unity??
• Are we willing to be wrong on another's behalf?
• Are we willing to do more work on another's behalf?
• Because we encourage them to be their best in their part and then trust and let go and submit.  Humbly...
• Are we willing to absorb costs on another's behalf?
• Are we willing to embrace imperfection of another's behalf?
• Are we willing to endure hurt, on another's behalf?
• Are we willing to be inconvenienced on another's behalf?
• Are we willing to be exhausted on another's behalf?
• Are we willing to endure more than once or twice or a few times, or 70x7 times; feeling insulted, wronged, rejected, overlooked, dismissed, unloved (by our own expectations of love), on another's behalf?  Or even by God's expectation, demonstration, and requirements or Love?
• Are we willing to extend, consistently, that which we do not feel is rightly reciprocated, on another's behalf?

 Key Takeaway for the Body

• Our work is...
1. where we are sent by God and led by His Spirit
• Paul sent to Rome and visited various places along the way
• Paul's submission and obedience to God's plan despite His own plans
• all about knowing God, made in His image and reflecting our relationship for others to see Him and leading others into that relationship with God
• seeing God rightly
2. where we have an opportunity to work
• Paul visiting various plances
• Peter sent to minister to the Gentiles
• Phillip in Samaria
• Jesus, in Galilee, wasn't able to do many miracles but still went there anyway
• start where you are
• workplace, demonstration of serving
• doesn't mean we are perfect but our heart remaining open, to grow and honor Him, keeping Christ in view so that when disappointments come we're able to display/reflect love
3. Examining what you have to work with
• lovingly examine God's plan
• feeding 5000, what was made available to feed and care for them
• work with what you have - the simplicity of a thing
4. As we are working where we're at, not get caught up in comparison with one another, fighting to be seen and or heard from an orphan spirit; fight to yield to one another' fight to come close to God; fight to stay in a place of humility
• Jesus is the one thing that held the disciples together.  he is the one thing that will hold us together

Prayer Time

In your times of prayer this week (9am,12noon, and 6pm) we encourage you to include the following scriptures located below and in the article 7 Verses and 7 Prayers for your Pastor/

Ephesians 1:17-19, 3:16-17

Philippians 1:9-11

Colossians 1:10-12

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