A Dedicated Life - Personal Discipline (notes)

A Dedicated Life - Personal Discipline

This Is

• A new year, a new season and God will give us new opportunities to serve Him, to help the hurting around us and to proclaim the Love of Jesus Christ to our city.

What Will It Take?

• Dedicated believers who will understand the power of the anointing of the Holy Spirit to reach out to the hurting of our community.

Not Everyone Whom

• God dedicated to serve Him were dedicated to God through a life of personal discipline.

Romans 11:29

God doesn’t take back the gifts He has given or forget about the people he has chosen.

(contemporary English Version Bible)

Truths To Look At Today

When God calls and gives someone a gift it does not mean that person will move into the fullness of God for their life.

Matthew 25:14-30

• This parable talks about this concept.
• It isn’t the amount of talent we have but what we do with what we have.

What Does It Take To Live A Dedicated Life?

Personal communion with God through:

1. A regular diet of the Word of God
2. Obedience to that Word
3. Prayer
4. Walking in the Spirit every day

A Great Lesson

Why people failed to accomplish their destiny:

1. They took their gifts for granted

2. They did not walk in the anointing

3. They thought they could indulge the flesh and still walk in the anointing

4. They were deceived by their success and by the adversary.

Jesus calls us a kingdom of priests. A priest presents people to God and God to people. A priest has to cleanse himself before he can do this.

Importance of Cleansing, who & what needed cleansing?

1. Levites
2. The House of the Lord
3. The furniture in God’s House
4. The nation of Israel
5. The chambers in God’s House
6. Sin
7. Their hearts
8. Young men and their way

What Cleanses Us:

The Blood of Jesus - I John 1:7

Confession - I John 1:9

The Word of God - Eph. 5:26

We Must live a life worthy of the calling we have received by being completely humble and gentle; patient and bearing with one another in love. Eph. 4:1-2

Can We Live

• A dedicated Life?
• With God all things are possible if we just put some effort into living a disciplined life.

Start

• By making a new commitment to The Word of God this year.
• Read through the Word this year.
• Start today in the Book of Genesis.

Conclusion

• We can live a Dedicated Life by asking God for help in being more disciplined to His Word, to thinking about Him and to obeying Him.