sanctified

Just listened to a message by Pastor Creflo Dollar, on Sanctification.

It was all about being separate. About separating ourselves unto God.

As Christians, we get too caught up in the world’s way of thinking about things. God wants us to turn FROM that, and turn TO Him. That is what Sanctification is; turning away from something that is against God, and turning to God.

Christ is returning soon, and most Christians in the western world are busy trying to be like the world around us – we are too wrapped up in the music, the movie stars, the ski trips, the fashions, the cars, the toys, the television programs, the clothes – whatever the world puts in front of our eyes, we grab for it. Our neighbours are going to hell, and we are busy trying to be like them!

We get so caught up in this world, and wanting to be a part of it, that we forget that we are called to be in this world, but not of it. We NEED to be different! If we look and act and live the same as the lost, then the lost will never think to come to us and ask us how they can be like us, because they already are (or seem to be). We need to turn away from the world’s system of thinking about things, and believe what God says. We need to live sanctified lives.

It is a timely message for me.

Also timely, was that Pastor Dollar’s special gift this week, yours for any donation to his ministry, is a book and message on how to pick your mate the Godly way.

Again, I choose to believe that I am meant to have that gift, so I made a small donation. These two things, sanctification (living pure lives, and the holiness of God’s Word and God’s laws), and making sure my next mate is the right one for me, these are the exact two things that God has been working in me the last few weeks. Isn’t God good? Isn’t He amazing?

Yes…yes, He is.