Joining Him

“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me – and I in him – bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing."

John 15:5 (NET)

God has given all of us abilities, talents, skills, etc, to accomplish His will through us. The key here is He will accomplish these things THROUGH us. We think that "well I have these skills, I went to college, I took piano lessons for 12 years, I don't need anyone, I can do this on my own" and then when we start running into that brick wall where nothing is happening we wonder "why God, why isn't this happening." If we think for one minute that we can do anything on our own, we are deceiving ourselves, we will continue to run into a brick wall and we will continue to get frustrated.  For example, God told my wife and I that we were to start a home church. For someone like me, I immediately start thinking about how we were going to do this, who was going to join us and help us in this, what days we were going to meet, where were we going to meet, blah blah blah...and all this time, Jesus was still way back there saying "uh, hey folks, did you forget something...like Me?" That's right, we left Jesus in the dust while we started running with what He told us to do, totally forgetting to include Him. What we needed to do, and what we eventually did, was ask Jesus, "okay, we hear You telling us You want us to start a home church, how can we join You in this?" When God tells us He wants us to do something, He is asking us to join Him, not the other way around where we think it is us asking Him to join us. We need to include Him in everything we do, we need to start asking Him "how can I we join you in this?"

Worship Song of the Week...

It is Well by Bethel