Partnership with God

God desires that we receive and experience His blessings. What do we have to do on our part to receive it ?

1.Follow him wholeheartedly 
God desires us to give our heart fully into his hands.
Mark 10: 29-30
²⁹ Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel ³⁰ will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life

In this part Jesus emphasizes that anyone who leaves his brother, sister, father, mother, children, land and homes will get the blessings hundredfold in this world and promises an eternal life. This also includes sufferings and persecutions which we have to go through for the gospel. When we sacrifice our life for Jesus while we live on earth we will receive eternal life too. When we do the natural part in the human capacity, we will get the blessings in the supernatural way.

“When we do what we can, God will do what we cannot do.”
In John 6. 5-13, when the boy gave what he had, Jesus multiplied it in a supernatural way. In our practical life too, God can do mighty and supernatural things with what we are willing to give into his hands.  

2.Partner with God
We can become partners with God. God is doing a big thing in this world: “His Kingdom is getting established in this world.” God wants us to be partners with Him to do this great project.

Philippians 4:15-19
Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you only;¹⁶ for even when I was in Thessalonica,you sent me aid more than once when I was in need.¹⁷ Not that I desire your gifts; what I desire is that more be credited to your account.¹⁸ I have received full payment and have more than enough. I am amply supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. ¹⁹ And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus

Here Paul is thanking the group of  people in Philippia. They helped him in the missions in the area; he accepted their giving not because he needed it but so that more blessings will be credited to them. They would receive a hundredfold return for what they had invested. The result of giving a pleasing, acceptable offering unto God was that God would meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus

Today, the Lord expects His children to partner with Him and give to the gospel that it would reach the needs of the earth. This can be done by supporting the media ministry and anything that promotes the work of the gospel.

The two things we need to do to receive God’s blessings as Abraham received is to follow Him wholeheartedly and to partner with Him in His mission works. When Abraham gave his own promised child Issac unto God as an act of obedience, God said to him; “ We are friends” and credited His righteousness to him and blessed his generations. These blessings will cover us as a blanket when we do the same.

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