A disciple is a committed student or follower of another. After we are born into God’s family by faith in Jesus Christ, He wants our relationship with Him to grow deeper and stronger as we continue through life. There are many ways we can cultivate our relationship with Him, such as spending time with Him in His Word and in prayer, and by spending time with other believers in fellowship, worship, Bible study, and service to others.
We grow as we offer Him all that we are in response to all that He is. He wants us to be thankful for all He has done FOR us. He wants us to yield to what He is continually doing IN us. And He wants us to say yes to all He wants to do THROUGH us to reach others with His love. Our daily attitude should be: “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20)
In the Bible, the Apostle Paul traveled to many places and told people about Jesus. Many responded to his message and became believers. When he wrote letters to them later, he told them what he was praying for them. This is what God desires for us, too.
“For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:14-19)
“For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.” (Colossians 1:9-12)
Once we have responded to the good news ourselves, God wants us to share the good news with others!
“Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.” (2 Corinthians 5:18-20)
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