{"id":2796,"date":"2014-01-01T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T23:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2013-10-29T13:46:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T12:46:55","slug":"what-is-your-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2014\/01\/01\/what-is-your-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Your Goal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>\u2018I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!\u2019 <a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"http:\/\/bible.com\/116\/php.3.10-11.nlt\" target=\"_blank\">Phil.3:10-1<\/a>1<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What are those things that you considered valuable before you met Christ? After you met Him are they still that valuable? \u2018<i>For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ<\/i>\u2019<a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"http:\/\/bible.com\/116\/php.3.8.nlt\" target=\"_blank\"> Phil.3:8<\/a>. What must you count as garbage today? No one in his\/her right senses wants to keep garbage consistently in the house. As soon as you identify it as garbage, the next instinct is to throw it out. We have come to the beginning of another year and while we must not take our focus off being thankful to <!--more-->God for\u00a0all He has done. Another way of expressing gratitude would be to clear out all the garbage \u2013detoxify! What are the things that God has been leading you to let go of but you are still holding unto? It is time to detox so that He can take you into the fullness of those plans He made for you even before you were conceived. Empty the vessel in preparation for new wine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Salvation and life change are solely the work of grace through faith. However it is that overwhelming feeling of discontent that makes the grace available. You cannot be saved until you feel discontent about the state of your life, your direction, and your limitations. Similarly you cannot grow spiritually if you are comfortable with how you are. So if you remain in that comfort zone you cannot grow in God. It is the hunger in the sponge that makes it soak water. What are you hungry for? A full stomach has no need for food! One sure way of expressing your gratitude to God is to change, change daily into the image of Christ Jesus. And bring change to others through the change they see in you. \u2018<i>I don\u2019t say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me\u2019 <\/i><a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"http:\/\/bible.com\/116\/php.3.12.nlt\" target=\"_blank\">Phil.3:12<\/a>. A changed life is an uncontestable witness. Like Paul, let your hunger for Jesus drive you in your pursuit of Him, letting Him change you, and using you to change others. There is no greater testimony than changed lives. God is able to wipe away the memory of the past.<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Prayer<\/b>: Thank You Father for where You have taken me from. Thank You Lord for where I am. Father, I hunger for where You are taking me to and I thank You in advance for it. Rid me of the garbage that is slowing me down, in Jesus Name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!\u2019 Phil.3:10-11 &nbsp; What are those things that you considered valuable before you met Christ? 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