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Greetings,
What is the purpose of God’s promises in our lives. We know that God blesses us with good things simply because He loves us but is there something more that He desires to do. As leaders we lead people into knowing who they are in Christ. We lead them to know that they are sons and daughters of God. What does a son or daughter of God look like. A son or daughter reveals the brightness of the Father’s glory and becomes an expression of His image in their world. This was the testimony of Jesus as the Son of Man/Son of God in our world.
Jesus was the firstborn of a race of newly created people in Christ. As new creations we reveal the giving nature of our heavenly Father and His Son Jesus. We do this by the life-giving power of Holy Spirit in our lives. By the presence of God in us, we give life to our world.
John 7:37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
God’s nature is one of giving. He desires to give life to the world. For this reason, God sent His only begotten Son Jesus to redeem us in our purpose and destiny in our world. God wants us to be partakers of His divine nature. His divine nature is to give life to the world. God is a giver and not a taker. He doesn’t exist to have His needs met. Who He is meets the needs of the world. As sons and daughters of God this is to be our growing testimony. We are to be givers of life to our world and change our world by God’s powerful love working in and through our lives.
2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
We used to be takers, but in Christ we are growing in becoming like our Father in heaven. We are growing in becoming givers of life to our world. If the great and precious promises of God are given that we might grow in our Father’s divine nature, we must also know that the greater value of any promise from God in our lives is that we might grow in becoming like Him. It is through knowing God that we are changed by His glory and virtue. God’s glory is to give life to the world and knowing Him empowers us to grow in giving life to our world.
Let the life of Holy Spirit flow in and through you today and be a giver of God’s life to your world. Let a new song be in your heart and mind. Let a fresh experience with God manifest in and through you. Let God’s grace and peace be multiplied in you through your knowing Him today. Lead others in knowing that God’s promises in our lives are not merely about the things that He gives. They are about us becoming like Him in our character, nature, way, power, and authority in our world. We are gives of life our world as He is a giver of life to all the world.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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