From the Pastor

Pastor Mike Burns
Victory Church
903.567.2072 (Ext. 3002)
MBurns@wordofvictory.org
Service: Finding God's Will...Will Fit You
Some people think: What if God wants me to do something I don’t
want to do? What if doing God’s will means I have to give up my hopes and
dreams? What if God want me to do something I’m not good at? People who
think this way will usually never discover their purpose in serving and how
they are to serve in His kingdom because they are afraid of what God might ask
them to do.
But, this is not the manner in
which God operates in our lives. One of the ways you can know what God wants
from you is by asking yourself the following questions: Where do I fit? What do I enjoy? What brings me delight and
satisfaction?
Some people teach that God’s will
is always difficult and requires great sacrifice (i.e. going to some country
you don’t like and eating the food you don’t like or working at some position
in your church such as a greeter. By the way…not only do you not like being the
greeter, everyone who comes in your door KNOWS you don’t like your job! Lol).
However, through my years in ministry this is what I have discovered: “The
most effective people in any ministry or occupation, or just life in general,
are not the ones forcing themselves to do some dreadful task because they feel
it is God’s will. Rather it is the ones who are doing something they enjoy so
much that they feel guilty taking a salary for it.”
When you find something that
challenges and thrills you, when you find something that you sense you were
made to do, chances are you are getting close to discovering God’s will for
your life. This is true in your professional life as well as the ministry you
do in your local church and community. The two are not separated.
When God calls you to do
something, He will always supply the perfect measure of grace you will need to
operate in your gift. But when you try to operate outside your gift, you will
find it difficult, burdensome and miserable because there will be no grace for
it (Eph. 4:7)
Now, this does not mean that
obedience, death to self and sacrifice are never required or necessary. But
when a person is doing what he or she was created, gifted and shaped to do,
there is a taste of sweetness in the sacrifice, a sense of fulfillment in the
obedience and an enduring hope in the suffering.
God’s Will …Will Fit You!
Published on Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 6:18 AM CDT
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