Partaking In Christ's Sufferings (LTGD)

Some think there is nothing to suffer when you believe in Jesus Christ risen...

On the contrary. There seems nothing to suffer when christ is died in vain to you and dead from your life

Partaking In Christ's Sufferings

2 Corinthians 1:7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are *partakers of the sufferings,* so shall ye be also of the consolation.  

1 Peter 4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch *as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings;* that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

1 Peter 5:1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

Romans 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

These verses show that in order for the glory of God to be revealed in your life, you have to partake in Christ's sufferings.

Suffering for Christ's  sake is often a topic overlooked by people who are fans of the "hyper grace" message or crooked into believing "the prosperity gospel".

The fact that Jesus asked us to take up our cross and follow Him and to LOSE OUR LIVES THAT WE MAY FIND THEM IN HIM means that we are destined for a continuously selfless life and one that bears the marks and sufferings of Christ.

When most people are introduced into the idea of suffering anything, they are seldom presented any GLORY or CONSOLATION(as the verses put it) for that very suffering that they are told to or supposedly to endure through.

The Gospel of Christ has PROMISE pf GREATER RICHES than any PRESENT suffering we might endure can entail.

When we give our bread to the hungry and deprive ourselves to any degree, God is even MOVED toward His Outpouring of more resources for us to continue in that SELFLESS PATH OF LIFESTYLE.

This is why the devil tries to get us captivated in a transact lifestyle where we do not do anything for anyone unless int benefits us, and for person fittings sake, our giving is dwindled even unto NOTHING AT ALL in regards to finding RECEIVING to be better than giving when THE OPPOSITE is true with God.

(Acts 20:35) *** *Giving is more blessed than receving* because AS EVERYONE GIVES, ALL RECEIVE EVEN TENFOLD.

This will always bring one to realise this portion of the wisdom in the knowledge of how God has ORDAINED life as we know it.

2 Corinthians  8:14  But by an equality, that now at this time *your abundance may be a supply for their want*, that *their abundance also may be a supply for your want:* that there may be equality:

We should strive to be like the widow of the two mites versus those rich frivolous tithers of thousands as we learn this vital lesson in life and what Jesus said about her giving.

Mark  12:43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That *this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:* 

12:44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; *but she of her want* did cast in all that she had, even all her living.

-TeQ

Faith in Action (Letting The Game Down)

*Faith in action*

SERVICE OF LIFE)

Mat 6:24 No man can serve *two masters:* for *either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.* Ye cannot serve God and mammon. _(Serving WAYS of living)_

(STRAIGHT TO THE POINT)

Mat 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, *Take no thought for your life, _what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on._* _Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?_

(YOU ARE BELOVED AND CHERISHED BY GOD MORE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE)

Mat 6:26 Behold *the fowls of the air:*(your FOOD) for *they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.* _Are ye not much better than they?_

(WHEN ADDRESSED WITH WORRY-SOME ISSUES OF LIFE AND LIVING)

Mat 6:27 *Which of you by _>>taking thought<<_ can add one cubit unto his stature?*

Mat 6:28 *And _>>why take ye thought<<_ for raiment?* Consider *the lilies of the field*, how they grow; *they toil not, neither do they spin:*

Mat 6:29 And *yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.*

ADDRESSING YOUR DAILY WORRIES)

Mat 6:30 Wherefore, *if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, [shall he] not much more [clothe] you,* _O ye of little faith?_

(ADVICE ON HOW TO THOUGHTFULLY AND ACTIVELY APROACH ALL ISSUES OF DAILY LIVING)

Mat 6:31 *Therefore _take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?_*

(*ASSURANCE* OF GODS *SUFFICIENCY* IN *HIS WILL*)

Mat 6:32 *(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.*

Mat 6:33 But *seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.*

(Daily Reminder of FAITH BUILDING)

Mat 6:34 *Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. _Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof._*

(Foundational Points of Living of Gods kingdom that can be found EVERYWHERE we are)

Mat 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

Mat 25:32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth [his] sheep from the goats:

Mat 25:33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Mat 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

(Points of Gods Kingdom in life)

Mathew 25 (Sheeps vs Goats)

Mat 25:35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Mat 25:36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Remember there are also experiential hungers that have to do with the LIBERTY of the FULLNESS OF LIFE that is cast amongst us in STEWARDSHIP. There are thirsts for inspiration and other creative directives of lifes experience IN GLORY AND HONOUR OF GOD.

1-The HUNGRY/THIRSTY/NAKED/HOMELESS STRANGER

2-The SICK/IMPRISONED STRANGER

KNOWING that life on earth is riddled with different manifests of the spiritual warfare that life itself is, we know that ALL sickness is caused by spiritual encounter even from within a person.

There are also obvious and not so obvious sorts of imprisonments i.e. jail is an obvious imprisonment and usualy by most the only kind considered. HOWEVER, there are also financial imprisonments caused by the worlds system i.e. job scarcities, areas of poverty related to social positionings like family and current occupational/organizational restrictions.

ABOUT THE "STRANGER"

This person(s) is literaly in the meaning of the word "Neighbour" which means "the next person" or more bluntly *"anyone else besides yourself"*

From family to friends and acquaintances, even perfect strangers or even enemies, these consist of the category of people when Jesus sum's up the portion of Mat25 that adresses the sheep and the goats saying "if you have done this to the LEAST OF THESE".

Mat 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the *least of these* my brethren, ye have done [it] unto me.

*_NB about the stranger._*

The portion i reffer to about your enemy's being the stranger as well comes from the below verse.

Rom 12:20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Rom 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but *overcome evil with good.*

STEWARDSHIP OF THINGS AND GOODS

There are many things that we have been given in life by God even in terms of physical things, what the world calls goods and services only for their sakes of monetary profit.

Gods word has in it THE EVER PRESENT ETERNAL REALITY that the worlds mind is SCARCE FROM.

It speaks of the literal arangement of things amongst ALL PEOPLE.

2Co 8:14 But by an equality, [that] now at this time your abundance [may be a supply] for their want, that their abundance also may be [a supply] for your want: that there may be equality:
2Co 8:15 As it is written, He that [had gathered] much had nothing over; and he that [had gathered] little had no lack.

This is telling us that literaly, we are created amongst one another for STEWARDSHIP purposes and reasons that are tied intp our walk of faith.

For more refference about this. One can look at Isaiah 58 entitled "TRUE FASTING TO GOD".

This truw fasting spoken of is infact also what i have just broken down about seeking the kingdom and IS AS WELL the truth about SABBATH keeping.

Isaiah quotes God by giving us the same instruction that Jesus did when he spoke of the resultant of seeking his kingdom. He encourages us to SHARE OUR BREAD with the hungry. Stating that the RELIGIOUS FAST of continualy depriving oneself(afflicting oneself) is not what GOF HIMSELF has set as a standard of fasting.

This renders many popular prosperity teachings of no value as they keep people caught up in self orieted loops of religious activity but with little to no fruits of Gods kingdom, instead settling for worldly monetary wages to be their reward.

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Stay BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING!!!

-TeQ