John 15:16-17 NLT “You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using My name.
17 This is MY command: Love each other.”
In order to receive whatever we ask from the Father, you must be able to produce lasting fruit. Produce lasting fruit in the areas you are assigned and appointed, whether that is in your marriages, cell groups, at work, with church people, or wherever and whomever. You must be a professional peacemaker. If you cannot produce the lasting fruit of Love, you can continue to ask like a broken record and go endlessly round and round.
Now, ask yourself, have you been loving like God? Then why are you in the penalty box, stuck, or going around in a circle, feeling unsatisfied? Why are you not a leader or an effective leader in this ministry after years of attendance?
If you are offended, you cannot produce love that lasts. If you have not forgiven, you cannot produce love that lasts. If you have not let go, you cannot produce love that lasts. The mind is full of demons, and you need to renew the way it thinks and receives thoughts, or else you will continue to be led by your flesh. The flesh is all about yourself and your selfish needs and survival. The soul is trying to decide whether to put your selfish needs first or to put God first and others. The spirit is about God first and others.
Many in our church are assuming salvation will be assured as long as you hold onto this ministry through attendance and with minimal obedience. It is the modern-day cliche, “We are Abraham’s descendants!”
You must be constantly moving forward, finishing your personal race from glory to glory and not from stuck to stagnation.
Additional Comments:
The other plaguing problem is fear. If you continue to live in fear, you are stuck.
Senior Pastor Steve Kim