+DEV+ Specific Tasks From The King

Date: February 25, 2013 9:02 PM
Topic: +DEV+  Specific Tasks From The King

Specific Tasks From The King

"And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God." (Colossians 1:10)
Scripture Focus: Ephesians 2:1-10

Our passage makes it clear that although we are saved by faith alone, the faith that saves is not alone. It issues in works that God has had in mind for us from before time began. Ask Him what specific work He has planned for you.

Evan Roberts, the leader of the Welsh revival of 1905, wrote, "All workers, in view of the Lord's coming, should eagerly ask God to enable them to finish their own work ...
They should pray against
1) all spurious work which God has not given them to do;
2) all work which they should have left alone long ago;
3) all work which is of the flesh and not of the Spirit;
4) all work which suppresses the Spirit or draws the worker out of the Spirit;
5) all waste work, which may be good yet keeps the worker from some higher service."

When we establish what work the Lord wants us to undertake, the Holy Spirit will give us the gifts necessary to fulfill it. Furthermore, we will go into it not on our own strength but in the "power of his glorious might" (vs. 11).

Insight: Remember that the need is not necessarily the call. Don't feel guilty about saying no to works which God has not called you to do.




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