Living sacrificially is an incredible challenge.

In the podcast this week we talk about the fact that our culture today doesn't value or promote anything but fulfilling our dreams.

So the idea that I have to come to missions openhanded is a strange one. What does that mean? Well, it means that when you get to your place of ministry, you have to be ready for what God will ask you to do. It might be exactly as you pictured it . . . but take it from me, it usually isn't.

Instead you need to be ready to sacrifice your preconcieved ideas of what your ministry impact will be and allow God to guide you and direct you.

That doesn't mean you don't plan or follow through on what you have said you are going to do. But it does mean that you always need to run your plans and your aims through a spiritual filter and confirm what God might want you to be doing for HIS KINGDOM.

How have you sacrificed for God's Kingdom?