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All this week, John North is focusing on becoming strong in the Lord, and shares from the apostle Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus:
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
Transcript
Good morning. I’m John North. I’m here to help you start your day the best way, walking with Jesus Christ, listening to Him, getting involved in your relationship with Him in a way that is life changing.
Have you learned the secret of spending daily time with God? It changes your life. It changes the way you think about life. It changes the way you respond to life. It changes the way you are able to respond to difficult circumstances, even to tragedies that come your way. It changes the way you think about your conversations with people. Everything about life changes when you’re walking with God.
We’re looking this week at the theme of becoming strong in the Lord.
That’s what God wants for you.
- We’ve seen that the foundation of that is God’s word, learning to spend time in God’s word, to build your life around what God’s word says.
- And secondly, to learn to obey God when you know what God wants for your life. To have already come to the conclusion, God, whatever you want from me is what I want for me too, even if it’s hard, I know it’s the best.
- And then to realise that God has a goal in your life. He is working in your life to make you more and more and more like Jesus Christ, in the way that you live, in the way that you choose. In the way that you respond to various situations, in the way that you relate to other people. That’s his goal. And when that becomes your goal too, it gives you a spiritual motivation that gives strength to your spiritual life.
Today I want to look at another key to becoming strong in the Lord. Found in Psalm 119, starting in verse 15. The psalmist says:
I will meditate on your precepts. And regard your ways. I will delight in your statutes. I will not forget your word. Deal bountifully with your servant that I may live and keep your word. Open my eyes that I may behold wonderful things from your law.
Yesterday we looked at becoming like Jesus. Well, if you want to become like Jesus, if you want to develop in you what the Bible calls the mind of Christ, you need to know His Word. That’s how he reveals to you what is on his heart and mind. You gain strength by personally searching the scriptures and then applying it to your daily life.
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I will meditate on your precepts and regard your ways, the psalmist says. I will not forget your word.
Have you learned to put into practise a prayerful, practical outworking of the Word of God in your life? Have you learned to just stop and think for a while about what you’ve just read that really spoke to you and allow God to turn it over in your mind and bring into clarity what it means for you? Have you learned to then respond to God in prayer about what He’s saying to you and showing you?
Learn to love time with God and to meditate and think and work out what you’re reading in your life. Other people will begin to see it and be attracted to what God is doing in you.
I’m John North.
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