Have you said yes to God? Was it out of the heat of your emotions? Was it on condition that God would do something for you…to help you out of trouble, to save you financially, to heal your body?  Now that He has done all what you have ask Him to do, have you kept your part of the bargain? It cost Abraham to obey God.  He was required to leave his family and country and leave by pure faith. He did not know what was going to happen; yet by faith he obeyed God and trusted Him with his life and that of his family. Abraham had to walk in faith. There were failures. There were mistakes but Abraham let nothing, not even the life of his son come between him and obeying God. There is a cost.

There are people today who will tell you that you can’t live holy for God in the midst of all this sin in the world. Yes you can, if you want to. When you think about the fact that you are chosen by God and the life of God flows through you by faith and that God will be your strength, power, help…all you need to live for Him, how can they say it’s impossible? God in you will do the work, if you let Him. He will be in you what you need Him to be so that His perfect will can be done in your life. Through Him you wait. Through Him you serve. Through Him you are the generation that looks for His return. God has chosen the weak. He has chosen the poor. He has chosen the nobody.  He has chosen the lowly. He has chosen the rejected. He has chosen the fearful. And has put His life in them, set them aside, consecrated them, sanctified them, filled them with His Holy Spirit and power, preparing them — proving them, getting them ready to do the work He has called the church to do in these last days. These are the royal priest. These are they who will be established as a holy nation. These are God’s peculiar people.

Can God have a people, a generation that will work with Him in these last days? Are you the generation that will help usher in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ? Will you faithfully serve God until Jesus comes? Peter reveals in I Peter 2:9a “ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people…”  Beloved you have been chosen by God. You are a chosen generation. When you are chosen, you can not live the way you want to live.  When you are chosen, you can not be dibbing and dabbing in and out of sin. When God has set you aside for a special purpose, for a special call, you can not just live any way. God requires of the chosen: faithfulness. God requires of the chosen: walking uprightly before Him. He requires of the chosen: blamelessness. In other words, do not have anything in you that the Devil can take ground on. Whatever habit you have; whatever pet sin you have; whatever weakness you have, give it to Jesus and you walk righteous before God. Why? Because you have been chosen to make up the generation that will usher in the coming of Jesus Christ.

Waiting is a virtue. The scripture reads: James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. Isaiah 40:31 … they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Psalms 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: Hebrews 6:15 And so, after he [Abraham] had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. This is the generation that God is looking for, a generation that will wait on Him.

To move into the Spirit and stay there, you must stay in fellowship with God and His word. You must obey God in all things and walk in love showing the fruit of the Spirit. This leads to power in God, in the Spirit, to do the will, the work of God in the earth. Now you must humble yourself. God uses you not you use God. One thing that you may fail to realize and that is this, Jesus is real and alive. He is real inside us, His body the Church. Therefore, there is fellowship, communion, communication, love, relationship, and oh so much more. To succeed you must give yourself to be an expression of Christ in the earth.

God knows you. He understands you. When no one else understands, God knows and understands what you are going through. Please don’t confuse this with God going alone with your sinning. He hates sin, and the soul that sins will die. But he knows and understand all about you and he cares about what you are going through. In fact he cared so much for you, knowing what you would experience in this world that he allowed his only begotten son to experience the sufferings of the world so that he can better help you in the times of trouble. When I say that Jesus understand what we go through, he does.  It is because he has gone through them before us.