Three Essentials in Advancing God's Kingdom

I have addressed a number of posts to the unbelievers who might read this blog. In this post, I will change my emphasis and turn to my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. My church is in the middle of missions conference, so most of my points come from one of our speaker's challenges to us. Today we will be looking at John 14, a chapter in God's word full of some great truths. This chapter tells us about heaven, how to get there, and what it will be like. It holds great support for the belief in the Trinity. I will begin in verse 12.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. (John 14:12-15)

• Dream Great Dreams (verse 12)

We often sing "To God be the Glory," a hymn that extols the greatness of God. There is one line I want to focus on in that song: great things He hath done. God does great things, Amen? At the beginning of the book of John, Jesus tells Nathanael, one of his followers, that He saw him under a fig tree. Nathanael marvels at this, and Jesus tells him "You will see greater things than these." God has promised that to all of us. We will see great things in our lifetime, if we only ask God to show them to us.

• Pray Great Prayers (verse 13 and 14)
  

Jesus promised that whatever we asked of Him in His name, He would do it. At missions conference, you often hear stories of people whose hearts seemed to be as hard as stone coming to know Christ. Well let me tell you something. God doesn't just save people who missionaries talk to. God has the power to save whoever, whenever, whatever. Our God is awesome, and mighty in working!

• Give Him Great Obedience

Whoever loves God will keep His commandments. God has called us all to evangelism, He promises to bless us for doing it, He will show us His greatness if we do it, He will heed our prayers regarding it, and we treat him like this. (I tried to get that picture in the post and it deleted the first typed paragraph I had!!) Let's make sure we give God our all when it comes to evangelism!

~Nella