Set The Table
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Set The Table defining our role.
Set The Table defining our role.
When we know what our role is we find a peace and rest in life.
We are to have a partnership with Jesus and each to do our part.
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
Bible Partnerships:
Water into wine.
We provide the vessels and filled them with water. Jesus brings the miracle and commands. People showed up and drank.
The flood
Noah provided the boat and the invite. God brought the rain and miracle of receding water. People showed up and helped and got on the boat.
Holy Spirit
People provided and upper room and the invite. God poured out His spirit to those who stayed. People showed up and stayed.
Jesus
Jesus lived as love, and invited people to join Him. God raised Him from the dead. The disciples followed and did what Jesus showed them.
In our lives with Holy Spirit.
We pray and look for those to pray for. God shows up in the supernatural and people receive it or not.
We pray for a baptism of Holy Spirit, invite, we open our mouth in faith and begin to make sounds or lay hands on others....
Holy Spirit shows up. We invite other to want the same.
This is a partnership with 3 roles. You the initiator, Jesus the healer and a person or persons the receiver.
You set the table and send the invite to Jesus and people.
Jesus brings the meal.
People come to the table or not.
This works in relationships too.
You become a good person,
Invite Jesus to come and make you like Him.
Invite others to be part or your journey.
What motivates us is key.
If we are results motivated we only have a surface level partnership.
When love motivates us, we dont need Jesus to feed or people to come.
Love does not have those conditions.
17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
Closing:
Our role is to set the table and send the invite. Jesus brings the meal, and people bring their selves and appetites.
This Weeks Challenge:
Where do you want me to set the table?
Who do I invite?
Let Holy Spirit highlight an area in your life that you need to define the roles more clearly.
Other Resources:
United Pursuit offers themselves as living sacrifices (Romans 6:13, Romans 6:19, Romans 12:1, and 1 Peter 2:5) to be filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 6:5, Romans 8:9-11, 1 Corinthians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 6:16-19, Galatians 4:6, Ephesians 5:18, and 2 Timothy 1:14). He helps them become more like Jesus and less like themselves (John 3:30).
13 Now when Jesus heard about John, He withdrew from there in a boat to a secluded place by Himself; and when the people heard of this, they followed Him on foot from the cities. 14 When He went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and felt compassion for them and healed their sick. 15 When it was evening, the disciples came to Him and said, “This place is desolate and the hour is already late; so send the crowds away, that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” 16 But Jesus said to them, “They do not need to go away; you give them something to eat!” 17 They said to Him, “We have here only five loaves and two fish.” 18 And He said, “Bring them here to Me.” 19 Ordering the people to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food, and breaking the loaves He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds, 20 and they all ate and were satisfied. They picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve full baskets. 21 There were about five thousand men who ate, besides women and children.