What is a prepared life and how do we live it? This is a question we all should ask ourselves.
This question has intrinsic value to our natural ability to have a hope of success and a hope of a succession life!
A life that continues and has successive stages as from glory to glory, or growth to growth would lead us to a preparedness that is sustaining and unending. Amen!
The value we place on different aspects of life will cause us to follow after our hoped-for inheritance.
Those with a natural value will always be thinking of how to please their elders while looking at the possibility of inheriting their goods.
Spiritual people on the other hand are all the time looking to Godly elders for wisdom and an inheritance of goodness on how to live a prepared life.
What or who we subject ourselves to will define our succession process as we move from season to season in our lives, I’m not talking about spring, summer, fall, and winter, but about a span of time characterized by certain circumstances.
As we subdue our own will and gladly become subjected to God’s will, these seasons will cause us to grow from spiritual harvest to spiritual harvest.
1 Corinthians 15:28 in the AMPC Bible says, ” However, when everything is subjected to God, then the Son Himself will also subject Himself to the Father, Who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all ( be everything to everyone, supreme, the indwelling and controlling factor of life”). Amen!
As we are preparing and readying ourselves for the coming seasons, a refreshing will come from God and will subject us to right standing with Him.
As we live a prepared life, one focused on the inheritance of eternal life, and move our focus off of temporal things, we grow in righteousness (which is right standing with God).
Righteousness becomes the main avenue a prepared life travels down; we keep our eyes on the road to avoid the ditches, which are located on both sides of the road. You see being extreme is not a new concept, it is veering off the center of a given point, I would say, “hardening your heart”.
Have you ever been on a temporary road or seen the sign that says, “road ends”, following on would lead to a ditch or possibly a drop-off? Staying at the center of our being keeps us grounded. Amen!
Ephesians 3:16-17 says it best, “I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith”.
Staying on God’s path and walking in righteousness was prepared for us before the foundation of the world, and is time tested and true to lead us to a well-prepared and ready life.
Being well-prepared is pleasing to God because without faith we can’t please Him, but with our faith and preparation, we can be well-pleasing to Him now.
“Now faith is”, the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!
As we live our lives and go through the seasons willingly accepting the changes that God brings to us we are being prepared for His use, “by faith”.
Being a vessel fit for the Master’s use is to be sought after more than gold or houses or anything this world has to offer. Amen!
Our usefulness to God will be highlighted by our spiritual accomplishments, not by our worldly possessions. God needs people reaching people!!!
As we ready ourselves for the Master’s use, spiritually fit, mentally strong, and powerful in faith, we will accept the things we cannot change while all the while keying on the thing we can change, “ourselves”.
As we change, others around us notice, and as long as we continue like an edifice higher and higher we are completing the call of Jesus Christ which is to, believe in Him and make disciples of those we can reach.
Jude 20-22 in the Message says, “But you, dear friends carefully build yourselves up in this most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit, staying right in the center of God’s love, keeping your arms open and outstretched, ready for the mercy of our Master Jesus Christ. This is the unending life, the real life. Go easy on those who hesitate in the faith. Go after those who take a wrong way. Be tender with sinners, but not soft on sin. The sin itself stinks to high heaven”.
As we hold fast to the Word of God, it has the power to ready us for the unending peaceful life.
Ready means to be fully prepared, I was in a church service one morning and a little lady looking to be about 80 years old stood up and belted out, “you don’t have time to get ready, you need to be ready”.
She was talking about preparing our entire life for that one moment when, either Jesus comes back for us, or we go to Him. Amen!
Living a life of preparation will have us ready and joyfully shouting, “I’m ready”!
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Scriptures of encouragement and content: 1 John 2:17, 1John 2:29, 1 Peter 5:5, 2 Timothy 2:21, John 1:1-5, Romans 8:4-6, and Luke 21:25-28 TPT, “Expect to witness amazing and perplexing signs throughout the universe with the sun, the moon, and the stars. The raging of the sea will bring desperation and turmoil to many nations. Earthquakes will bring panic and disaster. What men see coming to the earth will cause the fear of doom to grip their hearts, for they will even see the powers of the heavenly realm shaken! And at last, when you see how the Son of Man comes–surrounded with a cloud, with great power and miracles, in the radiance of His splendor, and with great glory and praises—it will make you jump for joy! For the day of your full transformation has arrived.” Amen! So be it with me!