The secret of Serving God

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THE SECRETS OF SERVING GOD
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"Let us therefore come boldly to the
throne of grace, that we may obtain
mercy and find grace to help in time
of need." Hebrews 4:16
The truth is that, you either serve
God or you serve the devil; you can
not serve both together. To many,
serving God seems difficult, while to
others, it is like impossible or
unattainable task. But when we do it
right and realize the secrets, it
becomes easy and successful.
THE RIGHT START!
The only acceptable way to serve God
is through Jesus Christ, you need to
experience genuine salvation through
Jesus Christ. Many are having it hard
in their Christian lives because they
have it wrong or they are taking it
wrong way. Christian life without
genuine salvation makes it terribly
difficult and impossible. If you want
to serve God acceptably and
successfully, you need to start well.
Genuine salvation starts with
repentance; many are starting their
Christian lives with confession, and
they find it hard to overcome sin and
Satan, they keep confessing and
committing sins. Repentance is the
solid base, it is realizing your sins
and ready to forsake them. After your
genuine readiness to forsake sins,
then you go ahead and confess, ask
God to forgive and cleanse you
through the Blood of Jesus Christ; ask
Him to save you, then you are saved.
RUNNING THE RACE: 2 ISSUES
(1) The point is that your salvation
helps you to forsake sins, but you
can't forget everything about sin;
after you surrender your life to Jesus,
the formal thoughts of sin will still
come, the tendencies and temptation
will come. Some time you will feel
weak and vulnerable, and suggestion
may come to your mind to give in to
sin by the pressures within and
without. Sometimes, this pressure will
be so pressing as if you can't but
give in to it; people outside may be
pressing you to yield to sin again.
The memory of the past sin may flood
your mind as if you have not be
saved, and Satan will try to confuse
you that you are not a child of God.
Another common issue is after you
have resisted a particular sinful habit
and you think that is the end, you
may be surprised that the tendency
will re-surge after some months or
years. You may be disturbed and
wonder why that again? The reason is
because Satan is not dead yet and he
is desperate about your dear life. You
resist him, he goes and then look for
another opportunity to come, as he
did to Jesus. "Now when the devil
had ended every temptation, he
departed from Him until an
opportune time." Luke 4:13.
(2) After you rededicated or re-
devoted your life to Jesus, you want
to serve God, you want to please God,
you want to pray more, you want to
read God’s Word more; you want to
preach God’s Word. But then you feel
empty. When you want to pray, before
you pray for 5 minutes you are empty,
before you read few verses of Bible
you feel sleepy, your heart is
wondering about. It is like your
prayer can’t be answered, as if you
are not meant to be strong
spiritually, as if you can’t be strong
in prayer, as if God hates you or you
are not a child of God. Has it
happened to you before? What next
came to your mind? "STOP!" That you
should, “stop the prayer, the reading
Bible, the new life in Jesus. You will
always fumble, you are not meant for
such life. You are naturally week and
God is not really looking for such
people like you.” The secret is that
such a thought is not just ordinary; it
is from the devil to discourage you
from moving forward.
SO WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?
(1) DON'T GIVE IN. Do not give in or
yield to sinful thoughts, tendencies or
temptations. We cannot pray that
temptation should not come but we
can pray unto God to deliver us from
temptation, by His grace and
strength. Keep resisting the devil as
many times he comes with
temptations, keep standing, don't
relent, keep praying and watching
every moment. Many Christians
successfully resisted the devil at the
first hand, but later they felt relaxed
and fell afterward. A Christian who
comes out of past nature of lust,
immorality, masturbation or anger, he
may stand to resist after his salvation
but he needs to keep standing and
resisting, because the tendencies may
still come over again. The secret is
that you keep resisting through
prayer and Satan will keep fleeing
from you.
(2) DON'T STOP. You are praying and
you feel empty and wondering about?
Don’t stop, continue the prayer, God
understand your weakness. The secret
is keep on the prayer, you will be
filled by the Spirit of God before you
finish the prayer. The secret is that
the first few minutes of prayer,
praising God in Spirit or reading Bible
are likely to be distracted and
discouraged; but if you don’t stop
you will be filled, full and stronger.
The same thing is applicable in your
new life in Jesus, in your re-devotion,
re-dedication and consecration to
God. It will first be un-natural,
boring, discouraging, and
cumbersome as if you can’t stay long,
as if you can’t survive or sustain to
the end, as if you can’t understand
everything or be holy. Do you
remember when you got your first
phone and going through the
manual? It was as if you would not
get the functioning right, but now
you are almost an expert, why
because you didn’t stop using and
practicing the phone. So also if you
don’t stop in your new devotion to
Jesus, you will get better and
stronger. It is applicable to everyone,
both the people in the past and
present; all who have ever come to
Jesus went through such striving, only
they didn’t give up and many are
passing though similar things. But
Satan will want to personalize it to
you as if you are the worst. The devil
is a LIAR!
CO N C L U S I O N !
When the people, pressure,
persuasion or feeling to commit sin
comes again, DON’T YIELD! It is then
you will discover the strength and
grace of God as your weakness is
turned to strength. When the feeling
of being empty, of wondering of
thoughts, of weakness, of
discouragement and despair comes to
stop you from your decision and move
to serve God, DON’T STOP! If you
don’t stop you will be strong. Take
your weakness to God in prayer and
get strength and grace everyday.
1 Peter 5:8. “Be sober, be vigilant;
because your adversary the devil
walks about like a roaring lion,
seeking whom he may devour. 9
Resist him, steadfast in the faith,
knowing that the same sufferings are
experienced by your brotherhood in
the world.”