Acts 16:10
When HE had seen this vision, WE would immediately leave for Macedonia, because WE like US on makeup that God had called on the people that preach the gospel.
Discipleship in the biblical “Acts way” is always fruitful. You can't lie to an echo.
He always repeats the truth.
Habakkuk 2:11
For the stone cries out from the wall, and the beam answers it from the timbers.
You must receive God's vision as His echo.
In Acts we see Jesus' echo carry over to His disciples and the church. In 2 Kings 4:25-37 we saw that same echo ring. Elisa had a perfect teacher/pastor with Elijah. Gehazi had the same teacher/pastor in Elisha. Maybe a lot more powerful because of that double part. Gehazi was always close to Elisha to pick up that anointing, but didn't. Gehazi did not have such a strong desire to possess and pass on Elisha's anointing. The problem of the people of Israel was that the process of discipleship and the process of transfer stopped at Gehazi. Elisha had taken up the mantle of his predecessor Elijah. Elisa wanted the best and highest possible from God. That's why he doubles gave Elijah Sat lving, spirit and vision.
That's one of the reasons Jesus came to plant a church. That His church Are vision of discipleship and pass around.
The purpose of Discipleship is to transmit and maintain God's vision.
An echo always brings something super clear about it. You shout something and you get the same answer back. The only problem with echo is that it fades away slowly. If we as Christians want to produce a spiritually fruitful echo, we must first make noise or noise, in other words send a message. In addition, we have need something capable to reflect our sound. In other words: what is capable to pick up our sound.
Two main things are involved to produce an echo.
1. THE TRANSMITTER
2. THE RECEIVER
The transmitter must make noise, do something, give message, otherwise it will never work. The clearer the message is delivered, the clearer the echo will be. Which means: the clearer the direction and guidance of God's vision is conveyed, the more clearly disciples and the church will be able to convey it to the next generation of Christians around the world.
Isaiah 18:3
All the inhabitants of the world and inhabitants of the earth, when they lift up the banner on the mountains, you will see it, and when the trumpet is blown, you will hear it.
Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud, do not hold back, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and make known to my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Jesus gave -still gives- clear messages and His signals worked -still work- like a wave.
His messages, commands and wave signals have already influenced, touched, saved, baptized, filled, fulfilled, discipled, recovered, challenged and healed.
Matthew 28:19-20
Go therefore, make disciples of all nations, and baptize them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and teach them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
Jesus was the channel and Are disciples the receivers and that echo can we still hear today, see and experience.
2 Timothy 2:2
and what thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, commit it to trusted men, who shall be able to instruct others also.
Now it's our turn. God is able to reach and save all of Ede and its surroundings. God is even able to give you and to use me for that. We, Jesus' followers, must become the same kind of transmitters, to carry out exactly the same calling. This is how the Gospel should be spread. Repeating that call -of that echo- is vital. Two essential elements are needed to produce a “spiritual echo”: the sender and the receiver.
The sender is someone who brings a clear message. The receiver is someone who grasps that vision and transmits in the same way. God's message must be repeated turn into; every time again. It must be sent and received become, because otherwise God's echo dies out. That is why God has made men and need women, couples and disciples who have great value have for God's Vision: To see souls saved everywhere we go.
serve God and to come into God's plan for you life is: to advance God's Echo.
God's happiness in marriage
22.05.2020
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
In an English translation you will find the words: Leave - Cleave - weave.
In this text God shows 3 things that will bring “True Happiness” in a marriage.
1. Leave behind: a man will leave his father and his mother...
2. Adhere / Adhere: and adhere to his wife...
3. Entangle: they shall be one flesh.
Leaving it behind
A man will leave his father and his mother...
This text in Genesis is spoken by God's Spirit in the Old Testament, and repeated by Jesus Christ himself in the New Testament in Matthew. 19:5, and also emphasized by Paul in Ephesians 5:31. This verse is the Foundation Text in a marriage. From this text we can learn that marriage was designed by God!
If every man and woman these three Applying fundamental priorities in marriage in their lives will make any marriage with God a success.
at first institution would the man's financial dependence and physical dependence on his father and mother to leave when he gets married. The principle of what God means by this kind of letting go is: that NOTHING on earth is more important and NOTHING on earth is more valuable to a man; then are marital relationship with his wife. Because that's the first fundamental priority of marriage: to be each other's best friend to be.
the sticking
...adhere to his wife...
The word 'stick' means to hold on to something, to stay close to something and stay connected to it. The King James Translation (KJV) puts it this way: 'he shall cleave unto his wife' . The same word is used in the Bible, including in 2 Kings 5:27, to describe leprosy that clings to the body. In Job 19:20 it describes skin clinging to bones. In Ezekiel 29:4 it describes scales growing on a fish. They are all, as it were, merged as one.
The meaning of the English word 'cleave' is clearer how God uses it in the Old Testament as 'cleave to'. The Hebrew word for "cleave" is "dabaq". Deuteronomy chapter 10 and 11 speaks of: “hanging to God”.
Deuteronomy 10:20
You shall fear the Lord your God, you shall serve Him, cleave to Him, and swear by His name.
Deuteronomy 11:22
For if you diligently keep all this commandment which I command you today, you will love the Lord your God, and go in all his ways, and cleave to him.
Which means to have a sincere devotion - with all your heart - to God and your marriage.
the entanglement
…they shall be one flesh…
In other words, they weave themselves into each other's lives, into everything. And that is a process and not a one-time event. 'one meat' doesn't happen because the preacher says, "I now pronounce you husband and wife." ' One flesh' does not happen because the legal documents signed to be. ' One flesh' also doesn't happen somewhere in a hotel room; no, it's a lifelong process. So God's plan for marriage is for Two to become one. That is much more than sharing the same house, money, food or bed. It is two people who give themselves to each other and weave their lives together.
Do not love but sweet to give
There are four sayings that hold any marriage together:
4. I was wrong.
3. I'm sorry.
2. Forgive me.
1. I love you.
Getting a successful marriage is not about finding the right partner, but being the right one yourself.
Happiness in marriage always works if you stay close to the Maker of marriage: God.