Musing: Give your all, give your best

Hey church we are in need of your best. God gave his best in giving us his son shouldn’t we do likewise. 

• Colossians 3:23 (TPT) “Put your heart and soul into every activity you do, as though you are doing it for the Lord himself and not merely for others.”

If you have been following some of my recent posts you would have seen this concept of being faithful to the gifts and talents we have. I am convinced that God’s trying to position the church for a mighty outpouring. 

Will your church be ready? If we don’t have the inter-structure for increase how can God entrust to us more? When the Lord assigns us a task or we have volunteered for a task how well do we perform that task? If you notice I didn’t say the pastor or the head of a ministry  assign the task but in actuality it is the Lord who commits to use tasks that need to be done.

A church is much like a home where in most families there are shared responsibilities. Often we will ask our children to fulfill a task. How do we feel when our children come up with excuses as to why they didn’t do the task in a timely manor or in the manor we wanted it done. 

It is vital that each of us carry a centurion sprit. You might recall that Roman centurion came to Jesus to ask him to heal his servant. He tells Jesus he doesn’t have to go to him but Jesus just needs to speak the word and his servant will be healed

• Matthew 8:9-10.  “For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” 10 When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!” 

Over my many years in ministry I have seen great people with great potential never receive what was ordained for them to have because they never discovered and implemented the principle of being faithful in little things.

• Luke 16:10 “He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much.”
• ”I’ll end with Paul’s speaking about the growth of the church.

 

• Ephesians 4:16 (AMP) “From Him the whole body [the church, in all its various parts], joined and knitted firmly together by what every joint supplies, when each part is working properly, causes the body to grow and mature, building itself up in [unselfish] love.”

Give your all, give your best…