UNDERSTAND AND KNOW HOW TO SERVE GOD IN HIS OWN WAY
God’s goodness and mercy brought you this far, not your way of life.
God’s will is for all to exist for Him. (Revelation 4:11)
To exist for God calls for serving Him in His way.
No one can serve God in one’s own way and find Him.
Without understanding how to serve in His own way, one will not know Him or find Him.
To know God is not to live a life of waste.
A life of waste shall perish.
Hosea 6:4 informs us, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge…”
How are you serving God?
Are you serving God in His way or in your way?
Without excuse, no one fails to serve Him in His way; that will find Him.
A failure to serve Him results in a reduced (prevented) position.
A reduced position is not to live a life for the glory of God.
All are to live life for the glory of God.
Serve God, live by His way.
Through the pages of the Bible, many do not serve Him, do not walk in His way, become reduced, and do not live for His glory.
Jonah, a prophet of God, failed by not walking in God’s way and experienced pain in life.
Jonah 1:1-3 documents Jonah taking his own way, outside of the way of God, stating,“Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” 3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.”
Jonah was reduced by going his own way, which made him unwilling to become a tenant in the belly of a fish.
Jonah disobeyed God, taking his own way, not the way of God, which reduced him and kept him from living for God.
The wife of Lot walked in her own way, against the way of God, and experienced a sudden termination of life.
When Sodom and Gomorrah were set to be destroyed for sins, a way of escape was the plan of God for Lot and his family.
A condition for Lot and his wife to reach the escape place was not to look back on the way of escape.
Lot’s wife looked back against God’s way of escape.
Genesis 19:26 records, “But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.”
To walk away from the word (way) of God is to be reduced in life.
Lot’s wife did not escape the destruction that terminated her life.
One thing is clear: lying, deception, and manipulation are the character of living life outside of the way of God.
John 8:44 describes what a liar is: “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.”
Telling lies is a bane that prevents one from living for the glory of God.
Ananias and Sapphira lied to deceive and manipulate, resulting in their sudden death.
Peter identified the deception of Ananias and Sapphira, and said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? 4 While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.” 5 Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and breathed his last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things.” (Acts 5:3-5)
Carelessly opening oneself up, the devil will occupy the heart and lead the heart to be terminated.
Ananias and Sapphira could not survive telling lies to deceive and manipulate.
Telling lies to deceive reduced Ananias and Sapphira.
In this new season, live for God; walk in His way.
Unwanted forces can reduce or prevent one from serving or living for God.
The taskmaster placed on the Israelites was not what they wanted or what was ordered for their life, as it prevented them from serving God.
In your life, are you experiencing a taskmaster that is not of God?
This new season, any representative of taskmasters with plans to inflict burdens in your life will be terminated permanently.
The Israelites became the target of Pharaoh, who set taskmasters over them because of their potential.
Exodus 1:11 records, “Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens.”
Unleash preventative prayer against whoever or whatever represents the taskmaster with a plan to inflict or replace the purpose of God over your life.
Pray they be frustrated, exposed, and powerless.
Pray before God that whatever represents taskmasters inflicting physical, spiritual, or emotional pain shall be shattered.
God delivered the Israelites from taskmasters.
The same God who is not partial shall answer to visit you for permanent deliverance.
Remember and meditate that power belongs to God, and He will not fail to deliver you by His mercy.
Ask that in this new season you shall not be reduced from living for the glory of God, serving Him, walking in His way.
Ask God to show you His way.
His way is crucial to serving in His own way.
Moses, who served God greatly and with understanding, specifically asked God to show him His way.
Exodus 33:13 records the prayer of Moses, asking God for His way: “Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”
What stops one from asking God for His way?
Moses asked, and God answered him, saying, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
God answered with the promise of His presence and His rest to accompany Moses.
From this moment, make it your way to ask God for His way that enables you to serve Him and not be reduced by any force of the wicked world.
In the way of God (His word) is His presence, where you gain His rest.