A Different Perspective Official Podcast - Sacrificial Faith // By Faith, Part 6

Sometimes God calls us to make sacrifices – real sacrifices – on our journey in following Jesus. Sacrifices hurt. Sacrifices can be scary – and that’s why they take faith, and help grow our faith.

Christians talk a lot about faith, our faith walk, faith this, faith that but faith isn't something we just talk about, faith is something you live and living it as anyone who's tried it will tell you, often times is a whole bunch more difficult than talking about it.

Today, we're going to take a look at the faith that it takes to give up something that we really love, something that we really want. People want to call Jesus Lord, right? You hear them praying, dear Lord, thank you Lord. Lord is a term too that we bandy around but to call someone lord is an act of submission.

Back in the days when the Bible was written someone called lord often had the power of life and death over you. "Lord" means that we accept that we have to do things his way and not ours and sometimes, not surprisingly, the priorities of our lord are quite different to our own.

And when we really, really, really want the thing that we want which is the thing that Jesus is asking us, apparently to give up in order to be about doing His will and living out His priorities for our life, then you know something, that is going to take some faith.

That's the sort of faith we're going to be looking at today on the program because for anyone who's heart is set on following Jesus this clash of priorities between what we want and what He wants for our lives is anything but a theory lesson.

The more we set our hearts on following Jesus the more this clash of priorities is going to confront us and not just a clash between the bad things we want to do and the good things that Jesus wants us to do but in fact very often it can be a clash between the good things we want to do and the good things but different things that Jesus wants us to do.

I want to tell you about a man today whom I know quite well. He is the head of a ministry organisation and whilst for many years he led that organisation and performed his work with great skill there came a time when it was obvious to everyone and sundry that God had taken His anointing off the man.

God was ready to appoint a new leader and it was time for this faithful servant to move on. The world had moved on, he hadn't changed with the environment and so his ministry was no longer being effective. That's not a criticism; it's just the way it happens sometimes.

Sometimes the Lord will have us in a place doing marvellous things for Him but it's only for a time and when that time is over, when God is ready to move us on for His plans and His purposes, you know it doesn't matter how much of a blessing that time has been, it doesn't matter how much fruit there was out of that person in that time, when God is finished with it He's finished with it.

Now the man didn't move on, he cl