God speaks today Monday | October 7, 2024
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
(Jeremiah 2:2)Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
(James 4:4) God calls you to a deep sanctification process
The story of miraculous fishing and Peter's call to ministry teaches us about three spiritual positions in our relationship with God and the world. Firstly, we must separate ourselves from the world and seek times of retreat to deepen our relationship with God. Secondly, we must go deeper and surrender completely to God, allowing Him to sanctify us through a process of brokenness and exposure to the cross. Finally, we must go out to sea with God, reaching a level of complete surrender and submission to His will, where we can see His glory in a more powerful way. This process of growth and service requires a willingness to give everything to God and to be used by Him in miraculous ways.
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Cross Reference
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
(John 15:19)Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
(1 John 2:15)Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
(Romans 8:7)No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
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