What Is at Stake in the Way You Are Living. Before Christ became a reality to John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, he had a momma named Susanna who raised him to live by transparency and truthfulness. That upbringing allowed him to keep a journal where he eventually admitted that he practiced religion but his life had no substance. When he encountered real Christians in a dangerous storm at sea, those Moravian Christians caused him to admit inwardly that he had been speaking vain words. He was convicted and changed by meeting Jesus in a real way and eventually changed the world.
What is at stake by the way you live your life? Are you a real Christian? Do you believe? Do you practice consecration and live by knowing Jesus and being empowered every day by the Holy Spirit?
Susannah Wesley believed that yieldedness affects your place in eternity. She did not know that two of her sons would become world changers whose influence for Jesus Christ is still being multiplied today, 350 years after her death. But she understood the fear of God and taught her children to yield to him. John Wesley wrote 5,000 sermons. Charles Wesley wrote 6,500 hymns including “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.”
A modern example of self-humility is Barry Sanders who played football for the Detroit Lions but never tried to exalt himself.
Use this consecration time to practice the spiritual disciplines that will make you clean before God. Disciple others to understand the significance of managing your self-will. You will never be blamed by God or rejected by people when practicing humiliation, brokenness, contriteness of heart, and serving.
You are called to live a consecrated life. God will empower you. Luke 11:13 (NLT) says, “So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him.”
Leviticus 25. Matthew 7:7. Luke 11:13. Romans 1 and 2.
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