find your fit
- Author
- Pastor Gary Toney
- Published
- Sun 06 Sep 2020
- Episode Link
- https://victory-life-church-ky.simplecast.com/episodes/find-your-fit-renlWIIp
- Matthew 10:39, ...He who loses his life for My sake will find it.
- Have you ever entertained the thought of allowing Jesus to disrupt your life for the advancement of His church?
- Offering you life to Him as a living sacrifice.
- Make no mistake, God’s plan from the beginning was to bring His kids together for the advancement of the Kingdom on the planet.
- Jesus said, I will build My church.
- Never underestimate the significance of God orchestrating personalities, giftings and talents in making a local church unique.
- Listen to how Paul describes it, Jesus fits His whole body together perfectly. And as each part does it’s own special work, it cause the whole body to grow.
- The moment we give our lives to Christ, we become part of His body, and we each have a role to play.
- 1 Corinthians 12:27,MSG- You are Christ’s body—that’s who you are! You must never forget this. Only as you accept your part of that body does your “part” mean anything.
- God continually calls believers together to love one another, pray for each other, and serve along side each other reaching our community for Christ.
- It’s import to realize that in this process, at the same time God’s revealing, He’s preparing.
- Finding Your Fit is a life long journey of surrender.
- Ultimately, Christianity isn’t just believing, it’s belonging.
- For example , being a part of Victory simply means that you’re taking the next step in your commitment to being part of His body.
- Ultimately we’re all one body of believers. But God graces each of His churches with a personality, much like He does individuals.
- Romans 12:4-5,NLT- Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.
- Finding Your Fit is personally accepting the responsibility of advancing our purpose as part of His body in the earth.
- Which is, Helping people discover and develop a life in Christ.
- I love how God describes His church in Ephesians, “I’m building a home, using all of you, irrespective of how you got here.”
- This is why we’re always encouraging you to get involved, because serving in your church is the most effective way you’re going to discover the gifts God has already graced you with.
- And regardless of where you are in your faith journey, don’t ever entertain the thoughts that you don’t have anything to offer.
- Matthew 14, We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish, they answered. “Bring them here to Me. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
- As we continue growing as disciples we find ourselves growing past just coming to church, and like the 12, we simply bring Jesus what we have and watch him us it.
- Jesus says, give me your upbringing, your failures, your lack of experience, your fears and insecurities, give me you ideas and creativity, your time and effort and watch what I can do through you.
- This is why we're continually trying to get as many as possible involved in serving in their church.
- It’s one of our greatest acts of worship. It’s where we discover Jesus at new levels.
- This is why being part of a local church has to be about more than just showing up to hear something.
- Hebrews 10:24-25,MSG- Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching.
- There's something about encouraging and helping out that's a big part of worship.
- Romans 12, So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. It’s one of our greatest acts of worship.
- I promise you, when we make those around us better, it automatically makes us better.
- As a matter of fact, something significant happens in the lives of new believers when someone more mature, another disciple for example, looks out for them, helps them become part of our process called church.
- Remember, we’re all one body, with one Spirit, called to the same glorious future.
- So never underestimate the significance of God orchestrating personalities, giftings and talents in making a local church unique.
- You ever wonder why Jesus set up His church the way He did?
- Think about it, we are these frail, fickle, flawed people. But because He created us to be like Him and left the decision entirely up to us, His grace allows us the privilege of discovering who we can be when we come together.
- This is what happens when we let Jesus disrupt our lives and we embrace His call.
- Ephesians 4, We are all one body, with one Spirit, called to the same glorious future.
- It goes on to say, Jesus fits His whole body together perfectly. And as each part does it’s own special work, it cause the whole body to grow healthy and full of love.
- God continually calls believers together to love one another, pray for each other, and serve along side each other for Christ.
- Ultimately, Christianity isn’t just believing, it’s belonging.
- Finding your fit is you simply taking the next step in your commitment to the body of Christ. Helping advance the vision God has given us as a local church.
- Remember what the Holy Spirit said in Ephesians, “I’m building a home, using all of you, irrespective of how you got here.”
- This is why we’re always encouraging you to get involved, because serving in your church is the most effective way you’re going to discover the gifts God has already graced you with.
- You finding your fit will be one of your greatest acts of worship. It’s where we discover Jesus at new levels.
- Matthew 10:39, ...He who loses his life for My sake will find it.
