For God to use you, you need to gain confidence. To possess your possession, you need to possess the land because your land holds your possession.
You also need to resolve key issues of life if you truly want God to use you. Irrespective of Moses' shortcomings, God still used him. Are you ready to be used by God? You also have a part to play. There must be a willingness from your part. Hebrews 11:23-27 captures everything and says a lot about Moses' willingness.
A lot of people struggle with their identity. Who are you? Who are you pretending to be? Moses was raised by Pharaoh's slaughter but choose not to be identified as that. He chose the path of the Hebrew and ignored the comfort of the Palace. We were told Moses refused...which states it was a choice he took back then. The question is, who are you? Who are you pretending to be? Who are you when no one else is looking at you? You have to know who you are first if you want God to use you the way He would like to.
There are certain situations that are outside your control when it comes to life but there are still certain situations that are within your control. When a defining moment comes, define the moment or else the moment defines you.
Most people want to live their lives on the approval of others. That's when you mount up stress because you are trying to be who you are not. A lot of people want to meet up with the expectations of others.
For God to use you, you must accept responsibility. To err is human and to blame another person is even more human. We see problems with everything else except ourselves. We make excuses for ourselves but drag others down for the same. We see ourselves as victims all the time rather than take responsibilities for our reality. We all have the gift of choice...we have to take responsibility. We cannot feature in a future that we cannot pictures...so everything starts with us. We have a part to play in the grand scheme of things. Speed is useless when you are heading in the wrong direction. When you take responsibility for your actions, then you are taking initiative for your actions.
Determine your priorities if God wants to use you. What are you values? What code are you living by? What are those things that are important to you? In Economics, there is something we call "Scale of Preference" and it explains listing of human wants in order of priorities. What are those things that matter to you? They explains who you are and where your heart is. Where you treasure is, that's where you heart would be. God searches the heart of every man and knows the intentions thereof.
God's purpose is more valuable than popularity. Moses chose purpose over popularity especially seeing how powerful Egypt was at that time.
God's people are also more valuable than pleasures and this is what Moses lived by. He left the comfort of the Palace to suffer with God's people.
Having a vision gives you direction and it takes away distractions for you. Who is in charge of your life would determine who you give most of your time to... God? Devil? Yourself?
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We need to deny self. We need to work on ourselves. We need to know who we are, only then can we be found. God is looking for those who already know who they are like you have rightly said. This message is clear and beautiful. Thank you for this Sunday dose.
I am glad. You touched every angle and you hit home the point in simple, concise and impressionable manner. Thank you so much for that.
These days I have been asking certain questions to myself. Among these queations there is an echo of an answer TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY. That's what I hear amidst the ambiguity.
We are the product of our actions made by our choices. At times choices are easier to make because we have clear priorities and vision. At other times, choices aren't that easy. There is ambiguity. There are doubts. There are fears and there are dilemmas.
We should we do when we have the opportunity to make choice but we are at a loss which choice to make?? That's the hardest situation one may encounter in our lives
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This is very true and practical. I love how you weighed both angles and you are absolutely right. Sometimes choices are easy to make and often times, more difficult. We need to take actions...take responsibilities because lack of a choice is still a choice because one way or the other, we still make a choice...action or inaction.
Thank you so much for your incredible support. It means a lot to me. Bless your heart.
Food for thought!!
We actually need this kind of posts this year. Something to clear our minds of the Earthly jargons that have been deeply rooted in our hearts; something that would make us reflect on our lives and draw our senses back to reality.
Let's learn to accept responsibilities and play our roles effectively while living in submission to the king.
Beautiful write up❤️
Thank you very much and I am glad you enjoyed this. I am more excited to see it's a different narrative as it challenges us to take responsibilities and be better. Deeply grateful for your thoughts on this.
You're welcome sir! Your posts are always engaging and also revolve around concealed truths.
Keep up the wonderful work 💯✨
Thank you very much. I am encouraged and I am grateful as well for your kind words. I hope to share as many more too. Gracias, amigo.
All of us should believe in God in the same way and leave our decisions to God and then wait for the result, then we will definitely get a good result because we do not know all the things that are ours. God knows and as Muslims it is our faith that the problems and difficulties that arise or arise for some time and after time all things are resolved if a person meets his test.
Yes, life is a test sometimes and we have to take responsibilities. Our faith will be tested and when we are tested, only then can it be obvious what or who we believe in.
Yeah I totally agree with you.
It is true that we have been sent into the world and given wisdom, but still there are some situations in our lives that we cannot decide on our own, so we leave all these decisions to our God. and after the passage of time we also realize that the decision that was made was very good for our life. If there were more problems, then it is better that when you do not understand something, in the same way, you should leave all your decisions to God.
Yes, there are some things we cannot decide on our own. That's why I love the popular words/phrase that says, "Do all you can and also allow God do all you can't." It means there are certain things which ONLY God can help us with.
Yeah you are right brother.
This is loaded and honestly there is a lot to be learned.
God is not human and he sees what we fail to see, we humans see with ordinary eyes but he sees through us and knows who we are.
We can't hide from him or deceive him. For him to use us, we must be true to ourselves which is very simple to do but we choose the other way.
Submitting ourselves to him attracts lots of greatness and only those who have done that can testify.
We can't deceive God..at all. He fashioned us...He made us...He knows us. Even when Adam and Eve failed Him, He knew and asked where are you. God wants to find us how we are but we need to know who we are and come to Him as we are...
Hmmm, this is actually true. He sees us and just wants us to willingly make up our mind about coming to him as we are.
Very true. God won't force our will or make our decisions for us. He wants our willingness and obedience. I often wondered why he placed that tree at the center of the garden rather than hide it so Adam and Eve won't be tempted...but he wants us to obey even in spite of temptations. He wants us to deliberately choose Him.
Indeed, most of us tend to live the life of others while ignoring ours—we are simply decieving ourselves.
Honesty to ourselves is more fulfilling than living in the reflections of people that will never value us.
We don't have to live in reflection of others, absolutely. You are right. We need to live for the audience of ONE and that's God. He is all that matters.
I agree with you on that because it's truly pointless living to please people when God is waiting for us to discover ourselves and be the true person he wants us to be.
It is true that if we want God to use us, we need to resolve key issues of life and be willing to take responsibility for our actions. Speaking of Moses, he was quite the character, wasn't he? I mean, he was raised by Pharaoh's daughter but chose to identify as a Hebrew. He knew who he was and what he stood for, and that's what mattered.
Exactly. He knew who he was. Knew his purpose...he followed it to the letters. He stood up for his people and led them to safety. Knowing who we are gives birth to purpose. Thanks a lot for this.
Yes, these are the people chosen by the God to serve him, we call them prophets, they are the lucky one and they submitted all their life to preach the massage of God to different people/nations in different times.
We all have a role to play in God's grande scheme of things. When we know who we are, we know how we fit into God's agenda and learn how to walk the walk.
Beautiful post something, ha and we have to surrender to God always because he has a purpose with all of us, but how well you say we have to self-discover ourselves and know who we really are so that HE starts to act on us,,, and of course he knows all our true intentions that's why we must be sincere at all times so we can be used for his true purpose in us, thanks for this friend and very nice picture with your daughter, greetings and happy week ♥
Thank you so much, my friend and always a pleasure to read from you. Your support means a lot.
Yes, God has a purpose for us. Most of the times we chase our own desires and forget the real reason why God has created us. When we find God, we find purpose.
It is certainly so friend, we always want everything our way and everything has to be God's way not ours, only then we will find our true purpose in this earthly life that he has given us, great post friend I hope you are well ♥.
God's way...that's the way to go. We will find our purpose while going God's way. It's a win win because we are obeying God and everything we need we will also get while following His ways.
Thank you very much.
The greatest mistake anybody will be making is to make the mistake of living your life to actually please others and not to please God. God truly want to use you but at the same time, we must be ready to be used. There is a lot God want to actually bring out from us if only we can see this and work towards it. The mistake many of us always make is we always run away from God thinking that we are not worthy to be used by God whereas that is not true. God loves us and that's why he picked up. No matter the pressure of the society, we should not live our life to impress others but to impress others
God's opinion matters a lot. We sometimes see ourselves the way we think humans will see us as you have rightly pointed out. Only when we see things through God's lens can we ignore the opinions of others which will also help us on fulfilling our life's purpose.
Thanks a lot for this.
Perfectly true. We need to be cautious of that always that God opinion always matter and in fact that is the basis we should live our life on. We should not live it on the opinions of people or even ourselves but of God. We should stick to what God believes concerning us and making sure we stick to it anytime. We need to continually see things from the lens of God and not from humans. You are accurately correct
Wow!!!, what a powerful message you just passed to the world. We should believe and have confidence in God, that he would take care of all our problems.
God knows how to handle us better, take care of us better and care for us. No one can love us as deeply as God. Only when we rest in Him can we find the peace, joy and fulfilment we crave.
I know Nigerians do not want to gree for anybody this year but we can at least gree for God
Nice write up!
🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂 we can't do without God. Jonah no wan gree and see what happened to him. Pharaoh sef no wan gree...baba was humbled. We should gree for God o...
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If only we can give ourselves to the Trainings of God, there is always much that God want to make out of our life but we always restrict God either through our thoughts or actions and I strongly believe it is high time we begin to work towards making ourselves available for God to use. It might be convenient and it might not. But we just need to keep going
That's the word...give ourselves. It's a choice we have to make. We are either doing God's will or outside of His will. There is no in-between...and it's a deliberate act to give ourselves to Him. Thank you for this.
That's it. We can't actually stay on the fence. It is either you are for God will or you are for the devil will. The best thing we can ever do is to always be in the will of the father no matter come may it may be. It should always be a deliberate act that we need to give ourselves to God. Just as the apostles did
When I realized that God wants to use me, I began to long for him more, I became hungry for his words, I started training myself and working towards the lord. I began to love the lord and understand his teachings. I opened myself to possibilities and great things, because I know the lord is a God of possibilities.
There’s one thing I do tell myself ‘I won’t stop myself from making God’s will come to pass in my life’ and with that I make sure my purpose in everything I do in life, I always make sure it leads to the kingdom advancement of God. I figured out that doing the will of God can be the greatest achievement on earth and I found joy in it too. It’s the one thing I know that gives me the certainty that am on the right track.
My favorite Bible verse is Mt 6:33 which says ‘ seek ye first the kingdom of God and he’s righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you’ it has been my favorite verse since I became a believer. I know just by seeking the lord, i don’t have to worry about anything on earth because he’s in control and he knows what’s best for me and the best is exact what he’ll do in my life.
Just by seeking the Lord we don't have to worry about anything. God's Word is comforting, refreshing and enlightening. When we find God, we have found everything we need.
This comment is deep and I am glad it's coming from a place of personal experience too. God help you even more. May your hunger for Him and the things of God never wane. Super proud of you.
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