This passage has plagued so many believers… they are out trying to “DO” the Word… yet, they find themselves failing, falling into doubt and unbelief towards God because what they are doing isn’t working, they get burned out in doing things for the Lord, and then they get confused if God is even there. Sound familiar? I think at times we have all come to this point in our lives.
But the answer is in this passage… these six words not only tell you what to do but how to do it!
It’s found in that first word…. BE…. Let me read it here again… BE (know who you are in Christ, trust God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength, know yourself through and through, understand you are the Child of the Most High God, walk in love, peace and joy) THEN you will become a doer of the Word.
See, we are out trying to do a bunch of stuff without first BEING… being who God created us to be. Believing Him. Receiving His love, because it’s only when we truly “receive” His love, His peace, His compassion, His understanding and His Joy and Truth, that we have what we need to go out and “do” it.
So today, if you find yourself in a slump, stuck, feeling abandoned by God, fearful, worried, burned out in ministry, tired of everything, wanting to crawl under a rock until the trumpet blows, have doubt about God wanting to heal you or use you… then it could be you are missing the “being” part!
The Bible says this about God, “We must BE lieve that He is….” before we can get anything from Him. And if you’ll notice, that same word “be” is in there too. We must BE and Live… That is what believe means!! THEN we can truly know that God exists!
I remember some years ago when I was being healed, that one of my issues was not truly believing God was there for me in EVERYTHING. That there were things I had to do for myself. And of course, you know how those things turned out. But in EVERYTHING He is there… and that’s what I had to start to learn to believe. And the only way I was able to truly believe that was when I RECIEVED for myself, His unconditional love personally… no strings attached kind of love, no performance kind of love, no driveneness to success kind of love… just receiving. And once I started learning how to receive, everything changed! That is when this ministry I have started taking off!! I had what I needed to succeed… and it was God’s love IN me…
So that when I have an idea to serve the Lord, since I know how much He loves me, my doing follows. If I didn’t do something perfectly, or perhaps it really wasn’t something God wanted me to do… I have a savior…!!! Praise God… we can stay in God’s perfect love 24/7 because of what Jesus did for us… isn’t that awesome?????
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