Discerning Our Path: The Race Reveals the Course!

Acts 20:24

But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.

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Faith, in relationship to lifestyle, community, and the marketplace are one in the same.  Faith that builds one’s lifestyle will also create a course that progressively deepens in Kingdom truths.  Not only our own, but a course designed to be an influence to others in their own course of faith and life.   

In this course (or race), do we only acknowledge Christ in others where his gifts are being reproduced?  Are we able to see the full course of the race that other’s run from beginning to end?  Kingdom dwellers and Gatekeepers know the next step because they have made the trip themselves.  Seeing the beginning from the end, those who have kept the course are true stewards of the Kingdom.  Such are able to speak into the destiny of others to bring light to unseen paths.  

Divine order follows the glory and glory follows the course.  Those who release the glory also take part in passing the batons when next generations rise to further the Kingdom.  Regarding courses that further the Kingdom, God only pours a measure into one generation.  The fullness of times is only seen where there is a convergence of two or more generations.   While each has a part, none can obtain the whole within themselves.  

The race reveals the course!

Each course reveals a landscape that the Kingdom must be birthed through in respect to lifestyle.  Each course will also have warning signs to heed.  If not careful, people in transition can produce broken paths that lack discernment of God's timing in relationship to the paths of others.  

Guard against the need to pull people into your own race.  Impart the Kingdom when appropriate and release people to complete their own course.     

1 Corinthians 9:  

²⁴ Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.²⁵ Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. ²⁶ Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; ²⁷ but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.