Devo 10/12

Articulate Your Call

Acts 20:24 CSB

But I consider my life of no value to myself; my purpose is to finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.

Can you articulate your call to ministry?

Who are you hoping to be shaped into in your time at Ozark? Where do you see this already happening?

What might God have to strip away in order for you to complete your call?

How’s your endurance?

Not Your Life Not Your Ministry

I count my life nothing

Ministry I received.

It is easy at Ozark to be cynical and prideful. I am more spiritual, wise. I am more of a leader a better communicator. This isn’t Paul’s way and it isn’t Jesus’ way. If at any point you think you’re the guy you need to step back. If you think you’re owed a spot or an opportunity you need to take a step back. Its about him and its about people. Not our posture, positions, or prestige.

Your ability to persevere here and in ministry with a soft heart is contingent on your knowing were you stand before God. Its all about Jesus. Point to him and never to yourself.

Philippians 2:1–11 CSB

If, then, there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, make my joy complete by thinking the same way, having the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves. Everyone should look not to his own interests, but rather to the interests of others. Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited. Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death— even to death on a cross. For this reason God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow— in heaven and on earth and under the earth— and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.