Jesus-alone---
A verse that I have tried to align my life and ministry around is John 12:32: “As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all men to myself.” I deeply believe and have full confidence in the ability of Jesus to draw people to himself. He doesn’t need my help, but it pleases him to allow me to be a part of the plan. I get to be on the team and I get to show up with all my mess, all my baggage, as well as my weaknesses and brokenness. And I lay my courage and confidence not on what I can do, but what Jesus can do though me.
1When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] 2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. 4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, 5so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power. (1 Cor. 2:1-5)
9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Cor. 12:9-10)
As I try each day to align myself closer to the things that Jesus taught, I try to focus myself on Jesus.
A verse that I have tried to align my life and ministry around is John 12:32: “As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all men to myself.” I deeply believe and have full confidence in the ability of Jesus to draw people to himself. He doesn’t need my help, but it pleases him to allow me to be a part of the plan. I get to be on the team and I get to show up with all my mess, all my baggage, as well as my weaknesses and brokenness. And I lay my courage and confidence not on what I can do, but what Jesus can do though me.
1When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] 2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. 4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, 5so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power. (1 Cor. 2:1-5)
9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Cor. 12:9-10)
As I try each day to align myself closer to the things that Jesus taught, I try to focus myself on Jesus.
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