I AM AVAILABLE TO YOU LORD!!

Nov. 5, 2013

I AM AVAILABLE TO YOU LORD!!

I AM AVAILABLE TO YOU LORD!! Six words that says it all because once you tell the Master that you ARE AVAILABLE TO HIM, Then it is at that moment you have decided to…..“lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares you, (so that you may) run with endurance the race that is set before you, Heb 12:1

Running with ankle weights to improve A long distance runners ability to run faster and longer at one time was considered A benefit, until further study showed running with ankle weights is detrimental to everything that allows perfect movement in one’s hip, thigh and ankle ligaments.

Also the same with the WEIGHT AND THE SIN of this world that takes us down A path that is detrimental to our relationship with God, the free gift of Salvation , and Eternal Life.  Did you notice in the text that WEIGHT AND SIN are used as two different adjectives.

I believe in this particular text, WEIGHT in its context, would be referring to A common attitude by most individuals even in the Christian community that I need more things in my life even when it has nothing to do with giving God all the Glory, honor, and praise.

And it all has to do with Sin and Satan’s desire that we all lose sight of Christ saving grace, while forgetting “that we only have but a short period of probation, from birth to death in which to prepare for God’s pure and holy kingdom.”

We have allowed Satan to convince us that we have to have everything this world tells us we need, instead of what Christ needs. But as Children of God, before we make any decisions about what we do in life, or obtain, we need to first fall on our knees, and say “I AM AVAILABLE TO YOU LORD.

I see hearts that have been broken, so many people to be free. Now I’m giving back to you, all the tools you gave to me. My hands, my money, my ears, my voice, my eyes, so you can use them as You please. I have emptied out my cup, so that You can fill it up.

Now I’m free, I just want to show someone the way and enable me to say. My storage is empty and I AM AVAILABLE TO YOU LORD.”(Milton Brunson) I HAVE EMPTIED OUT MY CUP, SO YOU CAN FILL IT UP.

My friends that says it all because once you have Died to self and emptied it of everything of this world that has nothing to do with Jesus Christ and Him Crucified Then God’s Spirit Can take control and use you to God’s Glory and Honor, and the finishing up His work here on earth.

Because of the increase of wickedness today, “the love of most has grown cold,” with the world’s only concern is materialism, consumerism, individualism, and apostasy. And as Christians if we have not emptied self  and made OURSELVES  AVAILABLE TO THE LORD we will fall into that same category.

The purpose of the letter to Laodicea church was to tell His Children that, “He knows our works, that you are neither cold nor hot.  Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’ and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.

But my friends the letter also ends with a glorious, and victorious note. It says, to him that OVERCOMETH will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in His throne. Rev 3:15-17

My friends the key word is OVERCOMETH “for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. “they OVERCAME him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” Rev. 12:10-11

Satan is a defeated foe my friends that is what Calvary was all about. And now we must remove EVERY WEIGHT AND THE SIN that Satan puts before us to ensnare us into following Him to perdition. For “THE GREATEST TRAGEDY WILL BE”! If you never realize that all you owned can not compare to ETERNAL LIFE”

So my friends empty your life of self AND MAKE IT AVAILABLE TO THE LORD “for God has sent you to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn, To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.” Isaiah 61:1-3

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY