Ron
Can you be a servant without a revelation of Jesus Christ? If you don't have a foundation of a revelation of Jesus Christ, and that's who you're serving, you can give your body to be burned we know the Scripture.
Debbie
Without that relationship with the Lord, Who are you serving?
Ron
What would you guys tell a person that is considering opening their heart to salvation? Opening their heart for the first time to Jesus Christ? What would you, what would you tell them?
Debbie
Just open up and receive the Lord; start talking to him, start relating to him.
Ron
The reason I'm bringing that question up is because of just what we talked about. Do they have a revelation of who they're serving? Yeah. This new Christian, you know; he accepts the Lord. And then let's say, the pastor or deacons or whatever say, “well why don't you get in here and find a place it for to serve the body serve the church.” And he opens his heart and he goes, “Okay; I'll sweep the floor after every service”; and He does it by faith. How far does that go?
Debbie
I gave myself to pastors, I gave myself two different ones. And I gave myself to serve them. I did it as unto the Lord. And if you do it as unto the Lord; the Lord is going to honor that. And He's going to enable you to come in deeper; provide the open doors to show you. You will know.
Ed
When I was a kid, before I even came to know anything about the Lord Jesus Christ; I had a revelation of God in nature. And I mean, just the awesomeness of God. That put me on a road to where, finally put a name to it, of Jesus Christ. But to start with, if you go in there, and you're determined; “alright, I'm going to serve this guy. I don't know why; I just feel like I need to serve this person.” And you serve them; even if you don't have a revelation of Christ at the time; God will give you one. He will be faithful in that. That being a servant brings a person into. Or can bring a person into; it if they're doing it with their whole heart. I mean, because there are many people out there that still haven't even heard of the Lord Jesus Christ. But yet, they're doing everything. They're feeding the people, they're going and helping them in there when they're sick. It's just like something's driving them. They know the Lord. They just don't have a name for Him. I believe that God honors that.
Dale
What we're talking about is why are you here? The whole thing that you're talking about, as a bondservant. That's a worshiper. That's the heart of a person who worships the Lord. It seems like that heart that God establishes, in you in Me in us all. He calls us sons. The greatest thing that we can become is a bondservant. And what does the bondservant do? That bondservant has set His Spirit to be before the Lord in worship and prayer, exaltation, and all these things 24/7. No matter what you do, you're serving. If I want to be a servant, I'm going to go find all the things that I can do. Cleaning the church, polish the brass, be available, go to people, what can I do to help you? But that see that servant doesn't forget the hours of intercession, the hours in tears over these people. I know people spent that time in tears over me. That's a bondservant. That's a son. That's what a worshiper is. It all comes when you give yourself to serve, God opens the door to some of the most wonderful experiences. Where you might stand at the back of the church and somebody you've been praying for a long time maybe, all of a sudden just lights up. Makes that change. Sometimes it's just salvation. Other times they open their mouth and outcomes, things that you didn't know existed in them. But they did because you prayed for him to be there. How do you minister to a servant? You say to him, you have no restrictions, Brother, you are free to serve. One of the things a servant faces is restrictions because he's chosen that path to be a servant. Not only should a servant be free in his thinking, but we should be free in our thinking about a servant. That's where the second commandment comes in. That we love one another. I have a tendency to go to more specifics. Instead of saying, I love you, I would say I set you free in my thinking, and in my expectations, because I'm not going to limit the God coming forth within you.
Debbie
You know what another aspect of being a servant is not letting others go. Refusing to let go of someone because of who they are, you know what they're going through or what they've been in. A heart of a servant loves them and ministers to them; wherever they're at, and whatever they're going through, and whatever their need is. A servant is so many things and has so many aspects. Love is a key one but there's also brokenness it comes upon a servant. Brokenness said Set in intercession, that's a cry our hearts for one another, to minister to one another; to see that healing come, emotionally, mentally, physically, on every level. Lord that's what a servant is. And that's when I choose to be.
