How To get Ants To Move Mountains

There is a call for greater to those who have not only accepted Christ as Lord and Savior, but also willingly choose to walk in His righteousness. As a result this “call” resonates among God’s people drawing them together as one body to honor and glorify the Lord, as well as, perform His good works. Good things happen when individuals answer God’s call…performing “good” works for the glory of God’s Kingdom. But no man or woman alone encompasses all that is required for the workload; rather, “great” things happen when individuals come together to honor, glorify the Lord, and perform His good works. Seems to be the simplest of equations 1 + 1 = 2…hence “greater”, yet this is where the Church has always stumbled - forsaking “self” in order to take on Christ and integrate into a larger body. While our natural inclination is to charge through life single handily, God recognizes that His people have needs…first and foremost Him and then others. His desire from the beginning with Adam and Eve to the Disciples and forward is that we never have to walk this Earth alone…yet now more than ever the Church’s “parts” seem to be running in disparate directions vice the unified approach God’s call requires. A daunting task to unify much less direct a body so filled with talent and gifts it’s no wonder the Church body continues to stumble and bumble. However, consider the ant and his/her plight: small in stature but capable of incredible feats alone, yet recognizes the need to integrate into a larger body in order to maximize efforts and is convinced this will allow the collective to move mountains (comparably speaking) So the question today is how to get ants (God’s people…small in stature) to move mountains (perform the accompanying works associated with those who believe [Mark 16:17-18] in unison as one body? The unequivocal answer is through God. We believe in one (1) God through the trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit…one unified body equipping, empowering, and encouraging the people to stand throughout the good, the bad, and the ugly. Through our acceptance of Jesus we receive His Spirit, resulting in access to the love of the Father. It is this relationship that allows us to become sons/daughters who “abide” in the will of the Father as exemplified first by Jesus. The inward manifestation of God’s Spirit and Word compels every Christian to abide in God’s “call” for greater…leaving behind the “good” of individual efforts in order to integrate into a larger body to maximize efforts…all the while allowing the collective to move spiritual mountains for the glory of God’s Kingdom. Understand that our individual physical bodies operate efficiently and effectively when every part works together…so it is with God’s body. A house divided cannot stand, nor can a divided body. It’s time for God’s people to move the world’s mountains (lack, sin, affliction, addiction, hate, depression, oppression, etc.) by focusing on His call and not the world’s

1 Corinthians 12:12-14 (NKJV): For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For in fact the body is not one member but many.

Ephesians 4:4:1-6 (NKJV): I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Philippians 4:13 (NKJV): I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

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