Manifest Devotional
What are You Willing to Pay?
Evangelist Shari Cuesta
John 12:25 - Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
It never ceases to amaze me when we come to our altar experience and we’ve been forgiven our sins, God cleans us up and we commence our quest of servitude and kingdom labor. We start out sooooo great as we have it in our mind that we will serve God all our days without reservation and saving nothing. But then slowly the process begins—the further away we get from our altar experience, we tend to become less on-fire, more weighed down and more focused on the trials of life than the fruits of the labor. Our servitude begins to pale at best and becomes a stereotypical routine rather than an aggressive move on strongholds and dark forces. I believe the reason is that we don’t consider the cost of our salvation experience.
It costs a lot when you just get home from a mentally exhaustive experience at work and you’re so tired you can barely cook dinner, when you should be witnessing or planning an event to evangelize. It costs a lot when your money is so low and you see a need in someone’s life and you’re more worried about your bills than how God can be glorified in the situation. It costs a lot to trust in God when you can’t see the outcome of a situation and it seems hopeless. IT COSTS TO SERVE!
Considering the cost is your reasonable service in kingdom servitude. Jesus paid the highest cost of all and though He could have brought the entire situation to an end based on His problems, He chose to go through with what was before Him.
Question: When faced with trial after trial and mountain after mountain, do you consider the cost of kingdom servitude? If your service to God hasn’t cost you time, effort, money and other personal resources and sacrifices…you’re not in the true flow of worship and servitude. Service must cost you something!
Lord God, on this day we offer a prayer of sacrifice and servitude. Give us revelation on the price we are to pay to offer up true worship and servitude unto you. Our true desire is to please you and seek your favor. Let not our servitude be comfortable for us, but to those we are serving and let it be at the expense of the cost of the cross. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Evangelist Shari Cuesta
John 12:25 - Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
It never ceases to amaze me when we come to our altar experience and we’ve been forgiven our sins, God cleans us up and we commence our quest of servitude and kingdom labor. We start out sooooo great as we have it in our mind that we will serve God all our days without reservation and saving nothing. But then slowly the process begins—the further away we get from our altar experience, we tend to become less on-fire, more weighed down and more focused on the trials of life than the fruits of the labor. Our servitude begins to pale at best and becomes a stereotypical routine rather than an aggressive move on strongholds and dark forces. I believe the reason is that we don’t consider the cost of our salvation experience.
It costs a lot when you just get home from a mentally exhaustive experience at work and you’re so tired you can barely cook dinner, when you should be witnessing or planning an event to evangelize. It costs a lot when your money is so low and you see a need in someone’s life and you’re more worried about your bills than how God can be glorified in the situation. It costs a lot to trust in God when you can’t see the outcome of a situation and it seems hopeless. IT COSTS TO SERVE!
Considering the cost is your reasonable service in kingdom servitude. Jesus paid the highest cost of all and though He could have brought the entire situation to an end based on His problems, He chose to go through with what was before Him.
Question: When faced with trial after trial and mountain after mountain, do you consider the cost of kingdom servitude? If your service to God hasn’t cost you time, effort, money and other personal resources and sacrifices…you’re not in the true flow of worship and servitude. Service must cost you something!
Lord God, on this day we offer a prayer of sacrifice and servitude. Give us revelation on the price we are to pay to offer up true worship and servitude unto you. Our true desire is to please you and seek your favor. Let not our servitude be comfortable for us, but to those we are serving and let it be at the expense of the cost of the cross. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
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