Have you ever considered Jesus to be a demonstration of all that God expects us to be? I woke up one morning with a prayer on my heart, I am sure you have these kinds of hot off the press, appeals to Heaven.
Short but sweet conversations with God, like this one, "MAKE ME, LIKE YOU LORD." I will never forget the day, when to my surprise, God spoke to me about an issue in my life. I was asking God to remove a recurring circumstance I was having to deal with. It was disturbing and demanded forgiveness, on my part, more often than I felt was necessary. So that being the case, I begin to pray a begging prayer, for God to do what it took to dismiss it. His answer to my prayer was not what I expected. He simply said, "YOU ASKED FOR IT." There was no argument on my part, for I had asked for it, "I had asked God, to make me what He wanted me to be. Have you ever asked God to make you what He wants you to become? Yes, I am sure you have, like millions of others. We even sing about it; "Lord I am willing, do what You must do, to make me like You Lord, make me like You." It is then the Lord says, "Come on son. Let's go down to the Potter's House," in response to your willingness and abandonment to His process of forming you into a vessel fit for the Master's service."
It is when we yield to Him, getting our will out of the way, that He can do what He must do to answer a prayer like this. So, in reply to His response to my prayer, I asked the Lord, "When did I ask for it?" His reply was, "When you asked me to Make you like Jesus." It was then I used circumstances and people to be the instruments necessary to fashion you into my image. In fact, I was asking God to remove the very things He had chosen to make me like Him. I have found it almost laughable when we might think of the instruments of His choosing to be destructive, when they are tools of development instead.
God knows what it takes to bring out the best in us. When I was growing up, my older cousins would say, "Cleddie, you are asking for it." Today, I am asking for it and all I ask is to be like Him, all through life's journey from earth to glory, all I ask is to be like him.
HE IS RISEN INDEED
I believe in you,
Pastor Cleddie Keith
Short but sweet conversations with God, like this one, "MAKE ME, LIKE YOU LORD." I will never forget the day, when to my surprise, God spoke to me about an issue in my life. I was asking God to remove a recurring circumstance I was having to deal with. It was disturbing and demanded forgiveness, on my part, more often than I felt was necessary. So that being the case, I begin to pray a begging prayer, for God to do what it took to dismiss it. His answer to my prayer was not what I expected. He simply said, "YOU ASKED FOR IT." There was no argument on my part, for I had asked for it, "I had asked God, to make me what He wanted me to be. Have you ever asked God to make you what He wants you to become? Yes, I am sure you have, like millions of others. We even sing about it; "Lord I am willing, do what You must do, to make me like You Lord, make me like You." It is then the Lord says, "Come on son. Let's go down to the Potter's House," in response to your willingness and abandonment to His process of forming you into a vessel fit for the Master's service."
It is when we yield to Him, getting our will out of the way, that He can do what He must do to answer a prayer like this. So, in reply to His response to my prayer, I asked the Lord, "When did I ask for it?" His reply was, "When you asked me to Make you like Jesus." It was then I used circumstances and people to be the instruments necessary to fashion you into my image. In fact, I was asking God to remove the very things He had chosen to make me like Him. I have found it almost laughable when we might think of the instruments of His choosing to be destructive, when they are tools of development instead.
God knows what it takes to bring out the best in us. When I was growing up, my older cousins would say, "Cleddie, you are asking for it." Today, I am asking for it and all I ask is to be like Him, all through life's journey from earth to glory, all I ask is to be like him.
HE IS RISEN INDEED
I believe in you,
Pastor Cleddie Keith