GOD Has Something More for You!

Have you ever stopped to consider GOD’s plan for you? Have you ever contemplated the idea that just maybe GOD has something more for you than you have discovered? So many people are sitting in pews across America convinced that this is it. They’ve gotten saved, baptized, name on the membership roll and now—somehow they’ve become another number. GOD has something more for you!

Do you ever feel that way? Do you ever feel like the church may have let you down? In your heart, you know there should be so much more to this Christian life. Yet, you get the feeling from those around you that now we just sit back and wait for the rapture to happen. Show up on Sunday morning. Go through the ritual. Head back home and wait to do it all over again next week. GOD has something more for you!

The church in America is in a rapid demise because so many have gotten “off-mission.” Too many churches have cast aside the marching orders handed down from Jesus. He said: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations…” (Matthew 28:19 HCSB). The command was to “everyone in the church” not just the paid staff.

The command is for every believer to be involved in winning the lost and making disciples. However, many churches have chosen to add paid staff to fill gaps and voids which effectively robs its people of the fulfillment and joy found in ministry work.

Too many churches have become a place where people sit around and listen to entertainers sing to them about the gold streets and the big mansions, while people all around are lost and headed to a burning hell. Jesus told the church to go but they’ve become places where people sit around in comfort waiting for the next show.

You have a choice to make. You can choose the church of entertainment with all its superstars, light shows and loud music or you can choose the church of Jesus Christ that is reaching out and impacting the lives of others. GOD has something more for you!

GOD has a mission for you. He has a purpose for you. Sitting around being entertained is not it. Being comfortable in a padded pew while millions are slipping off into hell is not it. Listening to a half-hearted, ill-prepared message by a man whose heart isn’t really in being a preacher is not it.

Serving GOD by sharing Jesus is what it’s all about. It’s time for the people of GOD to get on fire for the mission of GOD. Jesus told His Church: “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8 HCSB). It’s time to get the fire back in the church and get the church on-mission!

Change will come to the church as the people as the people of GOD within the church determine to carry out the mission of the church! Discover GOD has something more for you!

Scripture Reading: “But you, dear friends, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, expecting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life. Have mercy on some who doubt; save others by snatching [them] from the fire; on others have mercy in fear, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh. Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless and with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time, now, and forever. Amen” (Jude 1:20-25 HCSB).

Prayer: Father in heaven, I pray You would help me to recognize there is so much more to being a Christian than what I have discovered. Help me to recognize and follow through on Your command to share Jesus everywhere I go. I pray for my church; I pray for my pastor; I pray for my leaders—that they will lead us to become a church on-mission. Forgive me for my past failures and help me to fulfill the purpose and plan You have for me…in Jesus’ name…AMEN!