Is your alarm set to wake up and get busy for God? A few days away, that mode of as soon as I get through with this or that? If it is, then your alarm needs adjustment, that day will never come, as you will only find more things to keep the alarm from ever sounding until it is too late.
Is your alarm set for months or years away, such as when the kids are grown or other responsibilities no longer require you. This also will never happen and you are only fooling yourself. The enemy of the Cross has you where they want you, always put off the work of God…
Is your alarm set to go off when someone else comes by and helps it sound? That is, you are waiting for others to come along and stir a fire in your soul? What are you waiting for then, Jesus has already came along and stirred you, now it is time to wake up!
What will it take for you to push the cares of this world to the back burner and actually take the time to seek God’s face and have His Holy Spirit flow through you? Do you really need to have yourself or a loved one experience a life-death situation before you wake up? Perhaps it will take the loss of everything that is important to you?
At what point will you wake up and help build the Body of the Christ as is your Reasonable Service?
Remember, you are bought with a price and are no longer your own. You have been purchased, it is time to wake up and take your place in the Body of the Christ. It is not my words, it is:
1Co 6:19-20 ~ What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Rom 12:1-2 ~ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Rom 6:19 ~ I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Luk 17:7-10 ~ But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink? Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not. So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
2Co 6:16-18 ~ And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Bothers and Sisters in the Christ, it is time that we walk in newness of life and no longer looking, acting or partaking of things as the world does. We are set for better things than the temporal form of this world, we are called to set our affections on the things that are above as in Colossians chapter 3.
Do you not realize that God dwells IN YOU and He has available to you the entire power of creation to do His work? His power is in you and ready to be used:
Eph 3:20-21 ~ Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by the Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
If you do not already know it, you are called to higher things than the mere entanglements of this life. You, not just some others, but You are important to the Body of the Christ and You are to grow until the full stature of Christ:
Eph 4:11-16 ~ And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
How would you like to heal the sick by anointing them with oil and praying over them? This is what believers are supposed to do:
Mar 16:17-18 ~ And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
This is no different than when Jesus sent out the disciples and then the seventy, He told them:
Luk 10:19 ~ Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Mat 10:7-8 ~ And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
This is not just for the top ministers or a select few, this is for all believers. Remember, God dwells IN YOU. Also remember, healing is just one of the Gifts of the Spirit. It is time to wake up and use your supernatural Gifts of the Spirit.
Maybe it is time to spend a few days in a burn center or a child cancer center. That should wake you up and look at the things of this world as being dimmed and of no importance as you earnestly seek a move of God through your life.
Whatever it takes, just wake up. It is no longer time to sleep, it is time for work, while we have the chance. The Lord could return at any time and the time for work will be over. Even if the Lord should tarry a little while more, tragedy could come into your life tomorrow, are you prepared, walking with the Master to know you will be able to receive of His power in that time of need?
WAKE UP!