{"id":3752,"date":"2008-12-17T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/os-chambers\/fellowship-in-the-gospel"},"modified":"2008-12-17T00:00:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T05:00:30","slug":"fellowship-in-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/12\/17\/fellowship-in-the-gospel\/","title":{"rendered":"FELLOWSHIP IN THE GOSPEL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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     Fellow labourer in the gospel of Christ. <\/p>\n

     — 1 Thessalonians 3:2<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After sanctification it is difficult to state what your aim in life
is, because God has taken you up into His purpose by the Holy Ghost;
He is using you now for His purposes throughout the world as He used
His Son for the purpose of our salvation. If you seek great things
for yourself – God has called me for this and that; you are putting a
barrier to God’s use of you. As long as you have a personal interest
in your own character, or any set ambition, you cannot get through
into identification with God’s interests. You can only get there by
losing for ever any idea of yourself and by letting God take you
right out into His purpose for the world, and because your goings are
of the Lord, you can never understand your ways. <\/p>\n

I have to learn that the aim in life is God’s, not mine. God is using
me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that
I trust Him, and never say – Lord, this gives me such heart-ache. To
talk in that way makes me a clog. When I stop telling God what I
want, He can catch me up for what He wants without let or hindrance.
He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do any thing He chooses. He
simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.
Self pity is of the devil, if I go off on that line I cannot be used
by God for His purpose in the world. I have “a world within the
world” in which I live, and God will never be able to get me outside
it because I am afraid of being frost-bitten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

     Fellow labourer in the gospel of Christ.      — 1 Thessalonians 3:2 After sanctification it is difficult to state what your aim in lifeis, because God has taken you up into His purpose by the Holy Ghost;He is using you now for His purposes throughout the world as He usedHis Son for the purpose…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}