God has great plans for you! No matter how tough things look, or how hard life is for you, God has a way of making it all worthwhile. I’m not promoting a theology of suffering, and I’m not wanting to focus on the negative, but I believe that sometimes in order for more of God’s life to be released in us and through us sometimes we need to be willing go through something.
When speaking of his purpose in coming into the world, Jesus said “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.” (John 12:24-26)
Jesus was speaking of the cross. He allowed himself to be mocked, spat upon, ridiculed, beaten whipped, and crucified. He willingly suffered and died in order to release the power of the resurrection and the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2. He was a seed, but in order for the seed to germinate and bring forth life, it had to be willing to die.
And there are times we go through things, we wonder ‘God what are you doing?’ I believe we are at a time when God is asking many of us, ‘all of Me for all of you, do you want to trade?’ In order for us to have all God wants to give us, we need to be willing to die to all we are. The great Evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman would stop in the middle of her messages many times and say:
“Before I came out here tonight, I died 1,000 deaths. Kathryn Kuhlman died 1,000 deaths, before I could even come out here tonight to tell you about Jesus I died 1,000 deaths, so that you would not hear the words of Kathryn Kuhlman, but rather hear the words of God.”
I believe Kathryn Kuhlman understood the secret of being useful to God and allowing God to move powerfully in and through her life. She was willing to die to all she was in order for the power of God to be released in her and through her. Sometimes we have to be willing to die to all we are to have a move of God. Today I am believing God will move powerfully in your life as you determine to die to all you are and trade all you are for all God is. I am believing for a great heavenly exchange in your life!
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