Louise speaks to the subjects of work and commitment, more specifically how to be faithful to your work.
How to study for many oaccupations, like the ministry, a profession, etc.
First thing you need to do is to establish a relationship with God. Knowledge, understanding and wisdom are the keys to growing up spiritually.
Lots of problems exist in today’s world. Do you know that is God’s will? What does he expect of you in all work and study. Constancy, consistency, thinking of the long term, rathern than the immediate.
Feed your mind, not your flesh. Feed your Spirit man.
Louise likes the Book of Romans because it is about being in a right relationship with God, or righteousness.
God is challenging you with new things all the time. You will be learning and growing for all eternity.
So, you’ve been saved. Now begins a new relationship with God.
Where are we going with this? We have a personal responsibility to learn and grow, more and more. Read some good works, like by authors like E. W. Kenyon, Kenneth Hagin, Bob Yandian. Look them up or go to their links below.
“What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace. Slaves to Righteousness 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. 19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. 20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[b] Christ Jesus our Lord. Ephesians 4: 24- Instructions for Christian Living 20 That, however, is not the way of life you learned 21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. 25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body. 26 “In your anger do not sin”[d]: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 and do not give the devil a foothold. 28 Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need. 29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.”
Louise tell us we are always looking for an easy way out, living in fact a defeated life.
As a Christian, you want to live with a spirit like God wishes for you. Hard to do.
God wants you to put on new fresh clothes every day, speaking metaphorically.
You need to wash in the word of God every day. We need to see ourselves how God sees us, and desires us to be.
Some elements to consider on how to grow and live as a Christian.
1. A mature Christian is always able to teach others.
2. Developing depth of understanding
3. Practice, practice, practice all the time.
4. Self-evaluation. You need to evaluate yourself against what God’s word tells us.
Today we are living in hard times. All around us circumstances are driving us away from God. The story of Ahab and Jezebel read by Louise, as evil individuals, like so many today, committed to themselves rather than God, unlike the prophet Elijah who told their story.
So, the question as we contemplate our world is: who are you committed to?
Ahab lost all moral compass when Jezebel was concerned, who was a spirit driven demonic woman. Nobody wanted to challenge her until Elijah stepped up.
Where we going with this? Today we have people leading us who do not serve God. But just like many in Israel, many thousands, on the other hand, have their eyes on God.
We do it through prayer. We need to focus on God and his ability and what he can and will do for us. As Christians, we need to stand up, quit being cowed. Where is your confidence?
You can’t win the whole world, but you can reach those who need to hear the truth which will set them free.
You will be asked, what have you done for God and Christianity today?
We have a job to do. Christianity is going about the Lord’s business.
Bible Study With Louise Clayton 