When we reflect back over 2010 many people have already set new resolutions for 2011. Well I have a question.
Will you build a house for the Lord to dwell in this year?
When we are done setting goals for businesses, losing weight, getting married, reading the bible from Genesis to Revelation, etc. The Lord is asking “will you build a house that I can dwell in this year”?
Is 66:1 “This is what the Lord says: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be?” God is looking for a people that will build a resting place for Him to dwell him.
The house, the resting place he is looking for is YOU. 1 Pet 2:4 “As you come to him, a living stone-rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him- you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” Will you prepare yourself as workman approved by the Lord this year? When we get finished making all these selfish declarations and resolutions will the Lord be more glorified or will we waste this year building ourselves up? (Philippians 2: 3)
God is looking for prepared vessels to use. We are in the last days and we are already seeing the beginnings of many falling away from the word of God. We are about to enter a time of Great Falling away. (2 Thessalonians 2: 1-4). The question you need to be asking is Am I willing to waste my life for a higher calling than earthly gain. What profits a man to gain the entire world yet loose his soul?
Let’s build a house (a vessel) that the Lord may dwell in. What house is the Lord looking for? Read Matt 5-7, the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus says “therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and put them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the ROCK.”
So I ask again, where is the house that you will build for the Lord?
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