I heard a voice that kept repeating over and over that “CHRISTIANS ARE MOTIVATORS AND POSSIBLE RISK TAKERS!” My question is then does that mean if a Christian doesn’t appear to be a motivator and a risk taker he’s not a Christian? Not at all! Once enrolled in battle, a Christian is as a military combatant, always learning in the boot camp of life. We are Warriors in the making for a greater cause and purpose that even we often fail to recognize! I slightly disagree with the way the statement above was phrased being in the flesh. I feel it should’ve said Christians OUGHT to be motivators and possible risk takers or it could have said MOST Christians are motivators and possible risk takers but mind you, the human me sees it this way so as to include or make room for and inspiring others. He whom the phrase came from, on the other hand is Just and sees us for who we are in Him! He sees our completed self, not the lacking, struggling, incapable, inferiority complexed, susceptible, self-distorted and disheveled self we battle daily!
God is the greatest motivator and from Him comes the flow of words to reach, nourish, encourage, and liven every soul! Inspiration frozen on paper is limited in the written words but not in the possibility of expanding the mind’s and heart’s horizon. Going further in depth after having read a post, blog, poem, essay, any inspiration is or should indeed be the purpose or desire of the reader. I mean seriously, what good is a seed to its owner if it’s not planted to go through the process of dying then reborn again to sprout, bud, grow and bear fruit for the cycle to continue in phase? Although the seed is admired, admiration spurts with purpose accomplishments. That brings my spirit to the parable of the talents where one buried his talent to have returned it to the Master unused! (Matthew 25:14-30) When Jesus found you and I we might’ve been as that worker with stifled talent but must not remain thus. Even in the smallest deeds your talent/gift ought to be put to good use for the glory of God who created you to shine! Notice I didn’t say for men although men ought to see God’s great work in you, it’s understood. Many people feel it cumbersome to shine before men but forget it’s for God’s glory, that’s where the focus ought to be! People easily lose themselves in others, in watching others, in focusing on other’s reactions of something they might have done and thought they achieved in. Based on the judgment, compliment, reaction received they either bash or pat themselves. What is God’s report on your case, should be your sole concern rather than being mislead by human contradictions!
(Christians are spoken healers, motivational makers)! I heard that too! I added world shakers, history reformers in the making!
To be spoken healers require a level of faith that surpasses the present. It was Jesus’ state of being one hundred percent God and one hundred percent man that said to the lame man get up, pick up your mat and walk. (John 5:8) We are not one hundred percent God, we’re mere humans with hidden potentials to become a spoken healer like Jesus to say to anyone get up, drop the crutches and walk; because He did promise that we would do far greater than Him! (John 14:12) He also said to the disciples that such spirits must be handled by fasting and prayer. (Matthew 17:21) So to approach a case and just lay hands without having been given the permission, the go ahead, no preparation or the gift/anointing to do so is murder to one’s spiritual being, I think!
We are or we become motivational movers through active Faith. I said active Faith because God’s word said faith without works is dead. (James 2: 26) To keep faith activated is to be consistent in believing God for each and every aspects in life. It’s not enough to say I believe God for this or that but it’s important to prove one’s belief by taking leaps of faith in action.
I believe we become world shakers be it in our family, school, work, country, nation, whatever environment that we’ve been so blessed as to be positioned whether it’s a passing position or stable/permanent. (Acts 4:1-31) We become the shakers of that environment providing we’re upholding Jesus the light, boldness, and Holy Spirit equipped within and share the great commission incessantly. (1Peter2:9), (Matthew 28:18-20)
Although history reformers go hand in hand with motivational movers through faith and its works, it differs in that it imposes on you a deeper understanding so that the believer doesn’t rely on works to save. It’s not the works you do that will save you but living by faith! (Romans 1-17) Your very life ought to be a living sacrifice onto God (1Peter 2:5) like living and leaving a legacy. As in (2Timothy 3:16) we must strive to be complete and equipped for every good work onto God else the legacy is naught.
The finished work then becomes indeed a motivator and a possible risk taker for the glory of God! Make God proud!
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