STARTING SOMETHING NEW BY DIGGING

THE IMPORTANCE OF ALL BEGINNINGS: How we begin our day will probably determine the quality of our day. How we begin our marriages will have a lot to do with the quality of our marriages. How we begin our jobs, ministries, or any other venture, will determine their foundations.How something is started is often the primary factor in the quality of what is finished.

Projects begun on an impulse are just as quickly and easily abandoned. For any significant project that is accomplished, great care must be taken while laying the foundation.   Excert from book: Fifty Days for a Firm Foundation- by Rick Joyner.

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SO before I can lay a foundation, I must dig!!!    The foundation I dig will be what is used every day. If what dig out collapses, then the rest of what I am building will collapse too.

1 Corinthians 3:11, “For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

 

So if knowing Jesus and abiding in Him is the foundation of my spiritual life---- what am I digging into? What am I digging for? How deep do I go?  

I must dig until I hit the ROCK [Jesus]

How does one dig? 
Dig into the Scriptures
Dig for meaning
Dig for treasures
Dig for revelation
Dig deep so you have something solid to lay your foundation on.

■Luke 6.46-49 NIV


The Wise and Foolish Builders


46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? 47 I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice. 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. 49 But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.”

So I had to ask myself; Am going to dig out a foundation before I build? ..  or am I going to just start building? I can only build 'up' in relation to how far I have dug down.  The foundation must support the building if it doesn't, when the storms come that building will topple.  There is nothing to hold it.   Digging is really about laying a foundation for the LORD to build on.   Digging is described as a] coming to Jesus; being with Him; intimacy and communication. b] Hearing and listening to His voice to what He has to tell you  c] and then acting on it. Faith in action . Do what he told you to do.  That deepens your walk.

Why do we say we honour God but we don't obey what He says.  That is called 'lip service'. Why do we mingle dark with light? That is called being on the fence and we know we can't serve two gods. Idols in our hearts are the things we don't want to let go of; even if we know it is wrong- because we like it, it entertains us, amuses us and falsely fulfills us.

So we say we have build our lives on Jesus and His word but really we dont' have a foundation in it at all; a foundation living in His word, not as headknowledge but as instructions as He tells us how to live each day.

Some think they are entering into heaven on the wide road; where they merge the worldly things they like with many things of God, and funny enough, they say they are serving the Lord, but really they are not acknowledging Him as Lord by actually letting him remove things from their lives that don't belong. Digging will lead to change.  Digging will transform you.

Jesus, adjust my life and remove everything that does not give you honour.  I want you to be first in my life.  Show me the movies, books, activites, talk, thoughts everything that prevent me from going deeper in you.  Cause me to go deeper with you Lord, start today.  I want nothing of the world or the world's ways. I wan't you to walk close to me. I want to press in and go deeper and get lost in you.  In Jesus name - amen!