Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning, you guys. Good morning, indeed. We're

picking back up a new morning mercies, and we want to first of all just say thanks for

all the love on the new Bible study that we're adding to the devotional from the

Courage for Life Fibles. So we're going to be intermittently working those in, which is

exciting, but we're going back to old trusty new morning mercies. Let's do it. Today's

devotional says this, if your God's child, you have been called to forsake your my life

mentality and daily live with a moment by moment ministry mentality. What do you want for

your life? What are you really living for? If you could have the quote unquote good life,

what would it look like? If you were to say, if only I had fill in the blank, then my

life would be fill in the blank. How would you fill in those blanks? Could it be that

even though you are God's child, you still think of your life as belonging to you? When

you think of your life this way, ministry is about stepping out of your life, giving

God a little bit of your time, energy, and money, and then stepping back into your life.

In this way of thinking ministry is something separate from your daily life. It tends

to be structured and scheduled by the leaders of your church, and you support it for a while

with your own efforts. But behind this view of ministry is the thought that your life

still belongs to you, and you give moments of it to the Lord for his work. This view of

ministry and the New Testament is radically different. The New Testament is quite clear

and it's called to us to understand that our lives no longer belong to us. We don't

own our physicality. We don't own our emotionality. We don't own our spirituality. We don't

own our mentality. We don't own our psychology. We don't own our communicative abilities. We

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