Grace is Christ living in you!

Appetite, ambitions and actions align to the Grace received?

Do you know your position and do you realize the possession and hence do you realize the power in you?

Samson story - not to take God's grace for granted!

Difference between slave and son - slave fears master's whip, son fears the father's displeasure. Those who fear the punishment of the sin, are most likely not saved. Those who are genuinely saved, weep because, they have realized they have transgressed the Father's will.

You are still God's darling child, no matter how far, how long you go away from Him.

Are you drifting? What is making you drift?

Lot story - monetary vs missionary mindset

Saltiness and its flavor

Sheep that ran off the cliff - Wasted

Unsubscribe /unfollow the influences / influencers in your life.

Recognize false preaching and doctrines

Mother leaving the baby in the bus

Missionary in china - compares others jobs small in comparison to what God has called him to do

Demas - loved the world and went to Thessalonica

vs. Nehemiah - not distracted not once, not twice...

Abraham had to leave the world (with all he knew) to step into what God had for him.

God's Unchanging Love

If our prayer life is inconsistent, our actions will be consistently inconsistent., both words, deeds as well.

Peter's inconsistency

Hannah - childless

Hezekiah - sickness

Elijah - provision for rain

Jesus - beyond suffering

Understanding leads us see who they are, where they are and where they are.

Remember God was patient with us. He does not deal with us, the same we deal with us.

Have you reflected and received God's patience?

Patience deeply received results in patience freely offered.

If we love, we have to understand and hence be patient with others.

God's presence snaps out discouragement

Garbage truck

Examples to follow - David, Joseph, Paul Silas

Bumble bee

Fan into flame

Explosive enthusiasm

Missionary or an imposter

Delivery boy

If you have been with Jesus, then you will be committed to Jesus!

Let God work in us first ; before He works through us