Acts 2:1-41

 God has been challenging me with this scripture, generally up till this point i’ve thought that when God changes things in me and when I see him doing things around me, that it is just for me, that has been the end purpose in my view.  But God has been challenging me on this point and causing a shift in my heart in relation to this.

in verses 1-4 God radically changed the lives of the disciples forever, they would never be the same from this point on, this is sometimes the point that i get to, but this is so often where i stop.  Verses 5-41 however go on to say what happened when the disciples didnt just stop contented in their encounter with the holy spirit but they went out onto the street with it, thats when the real power was shown.

What God has been showing me is that it isn’t all about me, when he changes something or does something in my life, more often than not it is for me but ultimately for his glory.  The challenge is to not stop short and go home when i see a change, but to press in to find the full purpose of god and to seek him to change things in me so that i can be used by him to affect the world around me.  If the disciples had stopped in the upper room then 3000 people wouldnt have found Jesus as their saviour, but because they didn’t the kingdom of god was greatly extended that day.  So this is the challenge to my heart, to seek Gods purposes an not just my own.

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 Acts 2:1-41

 God has been challenging me with this scripture, generally up till this point i’ve thought that when God changes things in me and when I see him doing things around me, that it is just for me, that has been the end purpose in my view.  But God has been challenging me on this point and causing a shift in my heart in relation to this.

in verses 1-4 God radically changed the lives of the disciples forever, they would never be the same from this point on, this is sometimes the point that i get to, but this is so often where i stop.  Verses 5-41 however go on to say what happened when the disciples didnt just stop contented in their encounter with the holy spirit but they went out onto the street with it, thats when the real power was shown.

What God has been showing me is that it isn’t all about me, when he changes something or does something in my life, more often than not it is for me but ultimately for his glory.  The challenge is to not stop short and go home when i see a change, but to press in to find the full purpose of god and to seek him to change things in me so that i can be used by him to affect the world around me.  If the disciples had stopped in the upper room then 3000 people wouldnt have found Jesus as their saviour, but because they didn’t the kingdom of god was greatly extended that day.  So this is the challenge to my heart, to seek Gods purposes an not just my own.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 26th, 2007 at 9:21 am and is filed under Fire-School. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.