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Mat. 10:8
“Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who
have leprosy, drive out demons.
Freely you have received; freely give.”
Knowing the reason why God has called you, you will be amazed when you
realize the grace and the ministry that He has given you, the grace and
ministry that can be passed on to others, - it's a cycle - a grace cycle.
Ministry, at its core, is the ongoing exchange of the gift of grace. Grace has
freely given, freely received. Maybe you've never thought about it, but your
work is a gift -not just to for the people in our church, but for you as well
being trusted by no less than God Himself to be an extension of His love for
others.
I think there is also good thing happens in an accident when I
accidentally stumble on this image and start exploring it by trying to put my
own word study for each stage – thing that I love doing. Though I borrowed the
image and its corresponding names from the net, I just want to share it with
all of you the stages of a successful cycle of Grace. Remember, whatever a man
sows, he will reap in return, this is the basic law of life.
1. Acceptance – this is the starting point of it all. You know who you are and
understand the Grace of God to you through our Lord Jesus Christ. Accepting
your call and the ministry that He entrusted you. For you are His workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus to do good works that He prepared in advance for you to
do. You have to accept the truth that you are a minister of God.
2. Sustenance - simply means growing in the
call that God has prepared you. You have to discover your ministry and nourish
it and us it for God’s kingdom. 2 Peter
3:18 (ESV) But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
3. Significance - believing that you have a
great part of the Kingdom building. You are important and you are part of the
great puzzle of God’s movement. You may think that your role is small and
insignificant, but the truth is you are important.
4. Fruitfulness – this is the end result of it all, to reproduce a life that will
also do the same process that you started in their lives. The Lord Jesus called
us to produce fruit that will last so that the cycle will continue until the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Being called and equipped to minister His grace is a blessing from the
One who gives every good gift. Without a doubt, your work as a minister is an
extension of God's grace to others.
As 2 Cor. 1:3-4
"3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our
troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we
ourselves receive from God."
I encourage you to go deeper in your study and application of the Word
of God. Be more hungry and thirsty for more of God so that you can give more
because Grace naturally multiplies. We receive grace, so we are given grace.
Others receive it and, in turn, give it to others. Grace freely received,
freely given. Just remember that His Life South is not just a base for us to go
and do church, but a place for us to go and do the ministry of God, a ministry
of healing, restoring broken lives, cleansing person's sins and reconciling
them to God in grace, letting people experience the love and the grace of God,
and pray that they themselves will be able to pass it on to others.
Don’t miss this great opportunity to extend grace to others,
for in due time you will reap the harvest of what you have planted. The cycle
of Grace is always at work if you start from the principle of Freely you have received;
freely give
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