God speaks today Tuesday | October 3, 2023
I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
(Galatians 2:20) God wants from us an attitude of total performance
The fundamental attitude of a servant of God should be one of total surrender to the Lord, living to serve Him and advance His Kingdom. The apostle Paul considered himself a slave of Jesus Christ, and his life was entirely given to the will of God. James also calls for Christians to consider themselves at God's disposal and consult Him in all decisions. Any attitude of independence or arrogance is offensive to God. When we have an attitude of total surrender, God delights to give us what we desire and exalts us in His Kingdom.
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Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
(Romans 6:4)And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
(Galatians 5:24)Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
(2 Corinthians 4:10)And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
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