Doubting Your Significance in Christ - August 16th, 2011

Point of View:
You can be used by Christ! Did you know that? It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from or what you’ve did… God can use you! That’s awesome, isn’t it? Now I’m sure that you’ve all heard something similar to that before, but what did you do about it once you heard that? Did you just simply agree and think; “oh, that’s great” and then not work towards being an effective tool for Christ? Or do you pray, asking God to reveal where he wants you, educate yourself, and then take the steps it takes to get there? It seems like allot of the time we just want to hear that we can be used by Christ, but doubt that it is possible for it to actually happen. So…

The Challenge:
I want to challenge you to be in prayer. We need to take action and be what we where meant to be, glorifying vessels. So, without stalling, lets take some time to spend some real time with God.

Prayer Points:
• Thank God for using us, sinners, to glorify His name. May we be submissive to His will, and not let anything hold us back from God and His plans.
• Ask that He would revile where He wants you to be, and what He wants you to do. Spend some time just pouring out your heart to Him, asking how you can be useful. If you’re willing, you will be used.
• Pray that God would expose any area that He is not being glorified, and ask that you would have the strength, accountability and bravery to conquer your present struggles, and give God the glory.

The Word:

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
- 2 Corinthians 5:17

He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, - 2 Timothy 1:9

For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty. – 1 Corinthians 1 26:27