BECOMING GOD’S VESSEL FOR HONOUR

"Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be, sanctified [set apart] and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work."
2 Timothy 2:21 (NKJV)

• If God placed His call on someone for a particular assignment, the person in question is not ready yet for the assignment (Acts 13:1-2).

• God does not put novices to work (1 Timothy 3:6).
• God will work on the person, train him or her, in preparation for the assignment: "But let these also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons, being found blameless" (1 Timothy 3:10).

• God will prepare the vessel He chooses by taking him or her through tests—challenges of life.

1. "My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
2. knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience [endurance or perseverance].
3. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete lacking nothing."
   James 1:2-4 (NKJV)

• God will prove the heart of the person He wanted to use (2 Corinthians 4:7-11).
• The test mainly is to build godly character in the chosen vessel (Romans 5:3,4).
  ~ God will teach him or her how to be patience and how to rely on Him [God] for everything (Proverbs 3:5,6; John 15:4,5).
  ~ He can only trust someone whom He has tested and approved; with power, wealth, fame and what have you (Genesis 22:1,2,15-18).

• God has the habit of testing the people He wanted to bless, promote, use for a particular assignment or the other.

• How you fare in God's test determines how fast you move on the ladder of leadership.
• Test for promotion occurs at every stage or phase before God moves you from one level to another on the ladder of leadership—you have to pass His tests.

• God is not partial, He wants to put to work those whom He has prepared and equipped for the assignment at hand (1 Timothy 3:10).

• The process of testing and promotion is also called brokenness. God will not promote you, put you to work, if you are not thoroughly broken.
• The level of your brokenness determines the measure of the anointing placed on your life.
• It also determines the magnitude of the work committed into your hand.

• The process will produce submission in you (Hebrews 12:10,11).

• God can only use a vessel that is submissive to Him.
• Your level of submissiveness determines your height in God's kingdom—God's vineyard.
• God will deal with every manifestation of flesh. He will break your ego.
• He will not use someone who is full of himself or herself, a self-opinionated.
• God wants to put to work, anoint, elevate, the person who will ascribe the glory of his or her success to Him—God (1 Corinthians 2:26-29).
• God wants to put to work, someone whom He will command, instruct, to do something and will obey promptly (Genesis 22:3,9-12).

• God does not promote arbitrarily, He tests before He promotes; and you have to pass His test before He lifts you up (Genesis 22:1,2,11,12,15-18).

• God is a disciplinarian, He wants His Word obeyed to the letter. And obedience is learned through suffering!

1. "though He was a Son, YET HE LEARNED OBEDIENCE BY THE THINGS WHICH HE SUFFERED.
2. And having been perfected, HE BECAME THE AUTHOR OF ETERNAL SALVATION to all who obey Him."
   Hebrews 5:8,9 (NKJV)

• You will not fail in Jesus' name.
Peace!