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- The One you can count on is God. Never will He leave you, and never will He forsake you (Hebrews 13:5). When we are let down, hurt, or in need of help, we can always count on God. He is never too busy, nor does He grow tired of us. He loves everything about us and desires to lead, guide, and instruct us in the way we should go.
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Jan 4, 2022 · Although the gift of eternal life is free to anyone who asks (John 3:16), the asking requires a transfer of ownership (Luke 9:23; Galatians 5:24). “Counting the cost” means recognizing and agreeing to some terms first. In following Christ, we cannot simply follow our own inclinations.
“But don’t begin until you count the cost. For who would begin construction of a building without first calculating the cost to see if there is enough money to finish it? Otherwise, you might complete ...
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Jesus is calling people to follow him in discipleship, and then he’s reminding them that it’s like building a tower that you don’t want to leave half-finished because you don’t have enough commitment or enough resources to finish it. It’s like going to war and realizing you don’t have enough soldiers to win the battle and defeat the enemy. So, he s...
Let’s back up now. Here’s verses 26–27, just before the unit she cites. He says this: “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life” — notice the word was hate— “he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my...
Now, let’s go to the other side of the text and jump forward three verses. Jesus ends the paragraph like this: “So, therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:33). Now, there are two absolutes in that sentence. One is found in the phrase any one. This applies to every disciple, not just a select ...
Disciples are all in, or they’re not in. That’s what the text is saying. But let’s make sure that Sally and the rest of us get this in right perspective, because just a few paragraphs earlier — in this same chapter — Jesus said, after he laid down some pretty high costs, “You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just” (Luke 14:14). In other wo...
What does it mean to count the cost? In Luke 14:28, Jesus said to count the cost when He talked to the crowd about a man, who was building a tower and a king who was going to war. But what did Jesus mean by counting the cost?
Feb 25, 2022 · The question is, can God count on you? This question does not speak primarily to your willingness to get involved in Kingdom work. Rather, it speaks to your commitment to faithfulness and integrity in serving the Lord.
Jan 18, 2024 · To count the cost means we acknowledge Christ as Lord of our lives. In Luke 6:46 Jesus asks, “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?” Part of surrendering our will to God’s will is joyfully obeying Christ’s commands for our lives.
When you hear the phrase “count the cost,” what does that mean to you personally for the future plans you are currently praying about? It would be good for you to count the total cost — financial, physical, emotional — needed to complete the project you are planning to start.
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