A Living Sacrifice

God sorts things out totally revolutionary to your thinking. God wants us to link in with each other bearing in mind that the mindset he wants us to have, he will fulfil what he wants to do, in his time, in his way, for his gloronly want to be in what he has for us.

There came a time for Samuel, where he was organising and finding out who God was going to anoint.

1 Samuel 16:6-7

God looks at things possibly differently to how you do. God looks on the heart and his ways of thinking are often different to our own.

Romans 11:33-34

In other words, God knows exactly what he is doing and he is a God of love and a holy God. He knows exactly what he is doing in your life and in the church.

Isaiah 40:25-31

You see it’s totally the opposite with God. You might be at your wit’s end or exhausted, defending the truth. Something else comes along and you need to defend the truth again: “I know my God, and what he starts he’s going to complete.”

“Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.”

Let this weekend be a time for you to focus your attention on Him. My sole aim is this: to lift up the name of Jesus Christ; to glorify his name in our midst; to point you and me to him and the greatness of his might. Last weekend we looked at how God’s provision never fails and he is sorting everything out miraculously for you.

Romans 11:33-36

“For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever.”

Romans 12:1-2

You tonight, me tonight, setting our hearts, setting our minds to present our bodies a living sacrifice which means that there is no area of my life that I am keeping separate from God. He is involved with all of me: my thinking, my speaking, my doing.

Here as you present your bodies, set apart, acceptable to God I’m conscious each day that I want to orientate my thinking for that day. He works through me. That’s my reasonable service. Be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind...why?...that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. What does God want me to do in my life, for his will? What am I good at? It’s not building me up, it’s simply in thanks for what he has given me and constantly allowing his life to live through me. To live is Christ, to die is gain. Not for me to live is something which I hope works out; for me to live is Christ. Present your bodies a living sacrifice and the reason is that we might prove what is good, acceptable and perfect will of God.