*EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️
Tue/07th/June/2022
*Francis Reign* (Ap & Coach)
_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_
*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST (102)*
_"Freely you have received, freely give."_ (Matthew 10:8b). The miraculous abilities mentioned in the first part of the verse were not for show, but for service. Jesus imparted to His apostles these miraculous abilities. So, having given them such authority over the natural and even the supernatural realm, He then commissioned them to go out and serve the people with these newly acquired miraculous capabilities. And they were to do so following the principle of giving and receiving that He articulates for them. Jesus reminds the apostles that what they have _"received"_ has been given _"without cost"_ to them, the meaning underlying the word "freely." He then instructs them to give just as freely, in keeping with the fact that they are ministering according to His gift, and not their own native abilities.
More than anything else, our key verse us a statement of principle. Jesus had given His disciples a task to perform. He equipped them for that task. He made their purpose clear, and He gave them clear instructions as to how to perform their duties. And then He instructed them to not make provisions for their own needs while they were fulfilling this limited commission, but to trust that others would be raised up for that purpose. And that's what it came down to for the apostles: _Trust._ They had to trust that the One who was commissioning them on this occasion was going to provide for their needs as they fulfilled this commission.
In applying this principle to our lives, we find that we are no different than the twelve apostles. What was good for them in the first century is good for us in the twenty-first. We are called to minister from out of the grace gifts that Christ has given to us. He has equipped us, called us, made our purpose clear, and given us instructions as to how He wants us to perform our duties: freely you have received, freely give.
*EXCELLENCE KEY*🗝️
_More than anything else, "Freely you have received, freely give," is a statement of principle._
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*Excellence is within you. Bring it out >>*
#1477 ELK.
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