October 9, 2022 | Pastor Charles “Chuck” Cook
1 Kings 19:19-21 New American Standard Bible 1995
19 So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. And Elijah passed over to him and threw his mantle on him. 20 He left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?” 21 So he returned from following him, and took the pair of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their flesh with the implements of the oxen, and gave it to the people and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah and ministered to him.
God will come to you in the
everyday.
Following Him will have a
.
Luke 14:26 New American Standard Bible 1995
26 “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters,
yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.
Philippians 3:7-8 New American Standard Bible 1995
7 But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,
The
will be far greater than the cost.
When God calls, you
act.
John 21:22 New American Standard Bible 1995
22 Jesus said to him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!”
John 10:9-10 New American Standard Bible 1995
9 I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.