Monday, May 5, 2014

YOU WERE MADE FOR MORE

God wants to take ordinary lives and make them extraordinary.  We weren’t made to live boring lives where it’s the “same old same old.”  There’s more to life than living and dying.  We were made to live an exciting adventure.  Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”  Many people live dull and mundane stressful lives, and they have no sense of lasting motivation or joy or enthusiasm.  God never intended for us to live depressed, worried, fearful, powerless, and mundane lives.  That’s not the kind of life God wants us to live.  But for many that’s their “normal” way of life.  God wants to take your ordinary way of living life and transform it into a life that is extraordinary.  You were made for more than you think.  The Bible says in Ephesians 3:20 (NLT)  Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.

How is your life changed from ordinary living to extraordinary living?

1. Value your future resurrection to be better than your life now.
They placed their hope in a better life after the resurrection. Hebrews 11:35 (NLT)

2. Submit to the leadership of the Holy Spirit.
Make it a daily practice.  Make it an on-going practice throughout each day.  Take action based on what you learn from God’s Word.  It’s called obedience.

3. Live loved and forgiven.
Do not let the grace that you received from God be for nothing.  2 Corinthians 6:1 (NCV)

4. Keep company with Jesus.
They realized then that they had been companions of Jesus. Acts 4:13 (GNT)
  • Read and study God’s Word, the Bible
  • Pray persistently
  • Fellowship regularly with other believers
  • Tell others about Jesus, because they notice something extraordinary about you
  • Serve people for the sake of Christ
  • Worship God privately alone and publically with the church
As we learn to follow Jesus, our lives begin to change because He changes us.  God wants to take your ordinary way of living life and transform it into a life that is extraordinary.

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