Pursuing God's Kingdom Purposes
Pursuing God's Kingdom Purposes
by Bruce Witt
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by Bruce Witt
If … you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. – DEUTERONOMY 4:29
“I can’t stand Sundays!” Maria wrote to us angrily. She shared that on Sundays she often felt lonely and empty because many of her friends were busy with their families and churches.
‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.’ – JEREMIAH 29:11
Who am I that I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? – EXODUS 3:11
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. – EPHESIANS 5:21
Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel. – ACTS 9:15
To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable:
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”
He had to be made like them, fully human in every way ... — Hebrews 2:17
In the Christmas song “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing” we might recognize the words “veiled in flesh the Godhead see; hail the incarnate Deity.” And if we’re in a thoughtful mood, we might wonder at the mystery of the Word becoming flesh, of God becoming one of us.
But as for me and my household, we will serve (avodah) the Lord. – JOSHUA 24:15
Avodah. One Hebrew word. Three simultaneous meanings.
The concept of “Avodah” means work, worship and service. Whatever it is – our work, our worship, or our service if led by the Holy Spirit, is honoring to God.