Title: Expand Your Spiritual Boundaries!
Content Thu: Expand your spiritual horizons!
Main text: Audience 4:10
1. This is the realm of worship. This means that our entire life becomes worship, and we must become a participant in all the worship services required by the church. Don't be satisfied with just one weekly worship service, but worship, worship, Wednesday, Friday, district, every morning, and home worship. When that worship is grafted into the field of your life, the spiritual realm expands. In the Old Testament, God met through sacrifice, but in the New Testament, it is worship. God is pleased with spiritual worship that offers the body of worshipers (Romans 12:1), and He is looking for those who worship in spirit and truth (John 4:23-24). In his epistle, Peter said that worship with the word of truth should be.
2. This is the realm of prayer. Prayer is an important element that cannot be left out among the means of having spiritual fellowship with God. As mentioned earlier, Jabez's prayer was not selfish, so the prayer of greed could not be answered because it was wrong (James 4:30. Samuel considered it a sin to stop praying (1 Samuel:12:23), and the purpose of prayer is God's In order to accomplish the will, we must pray like Jesus (Matthew 26:39), and the textbook on prayer is the prayer the Lord taught us (Matthew 9:6-13).Praying is commanded by both God and Jesus, and we who pray We must pray all the time, we must believe and ask for the power of God (Mark 9:23), and at this time the Lord will raise the sick (James 5:15).
3. It is the border of dedication. The hallmark of devotion will be loyalty. This loyalty requires the sacrifice of your life (Rev 2:10), but it cannot be called loyalty if you do not give material or time. In order to be faithful, we must first pray (1 Corinthians 4:2), start with the small things, not the grand ones (Matthew 25:21.23). We must hide ourselves without revealing ourselves, so that God accepts and acknowledges us (Matthew 6:3-4). It is said that woe to you when you try to be praised by people (Luke 6:26). Church institutions should not be satisfied with just one dedication service. “Exodus 32:28-29” It is said that the descendants of Levi were “dedicated” to killing 3,000 of their people according to the command of Moses, which means to look at the priesthood.
4. This is the realm of missionary work. Mission evangelism is the Lord's great command, and it is a natural duty of the saints. Paul preached the gospel while being cast out and being beaten, so we also preach the gospel regardless of time, place, and person (2 Timothy 4:2, Luke 14:21-23), expanding the scope of evangelism and missionary work. On Friday and the third Sunday of the official evangelism time, evangelism education and training, fervent prayer, and evangelism and missions should be conducted. We should spread the realm of the Lord Christ by delivering it directly to our neighbors and providing material support to distant and foreign countries. Let's face the fact that evangelism and missions, that is, believers and churches who do not preach the gospel, will not receive any blessings (1 Corinthians 9:16), so that everyone can focus on spreading the gospel.
(Conclusion) “Jabez” earnestly cried out to God and received an answer. So, just as the name suggests, hard work (verse 9), tribulation, and anxiety have been removed and the boundaries have expanded, so we must continue to expand our spiritual boundaries. In order to attend all the worship services that God is pleased with, and to fulfill God's will, we do not stop praying and give our lives to become a hidden devotee. As God welcomes and blesses those who live by expanding their spiritual boundaries, it will be a prosperous life and a new year that will be loved and respected by neighbors.