Community, ....encourage one another

Don't travel life's journey alone, if you can help it.  Be available to encourage each other as you talk about Jesus, ....read your Bibles together.  PRAY together.  Stuff like that.  ....I'm in a men's Bible study group, and its great to be following Jesus together, ....encouraging each other.  

Find a good church and travel life's road together with other Believers, sharing Jesus.  .......Hmm?, ....yes, looks like I keep saying "together". SMILE....

Be an encourager.  Be a mentor.  Be a friend.

Which brings to mind THE "Discipleship" question....

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What is your assignment from Jesus?

I ask, ....because we've traveled together through several — perhaps all — of these Know Your Worldview pages.  ....And here we are in this last chapter, because you have a passion for more of God in your life.  ....Which leads me to ask if you know what God's plans are for you?  Because....‍

As Jesus' Disciple,

....what SKILLS and TALENTS do you have, ....what STUFF YOU ENJOY DOING FOR OTHERS, ....that JESUS WANTS TO USE in proclaiming HIS LOVE to people who need a Savior, Lord, and Friend?  What Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) ....HAVE YOU BEEN GIVEN by the Holy Spirit ....TO SHARE WITH OTHERS?

....Be encouraged to listen for His voice calling you, because....  

GOD HAS GIVEN EACH OF YOU A GIFT from his great variety of spiritual gifts. USE THEM WELL TO SERVE ONE ANOTHER. Do you have the gift of speaking?  Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you.  Do you have the gift of helping others?  DO IT WITH ALL THE STRENGTH AND ENERGY THAT GOD SUPPLIES.  Then everything you do will BRING GLORY TO GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.  All glory and power to him forever and ever!  Amen.
    — 1 Peter 4:10-11 NLT

As an example, how did....

....this website get launched for our Quest to know God more?  
I don't have a "gift of speaking", ....but I have written online training websites.

Perhaps you can relate to my story....

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God did not leave me guessing....

Let me tell you about the "God-Moment" ....confirming my website assignment....

Here's the story about launching this website. We'll start with "my" problem.  I'm 80-ish, retired, and don't have funds to hire website programmers. Years ago, I wrote online training content, but writing techie web code was and still is beyond me.  ....So, how am "I" going to launch this website?  

Well, ....remember back in 1982, when God said He was already "there" in my future "now" moments? See our sand dunes conversation in chapter 14.

In this "now" moment, God did not leave me guessing about COMPLETING His assignment to create this KnowYourWorldview.org website.  ....and....

This is how God did it....

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Started with God giving me a "heart-thing" for my Grandchildren, that took shape in writing some emails about "Know Your Biblical Worldview".  I finished and sent those emails to them in early December 2023.

....the following week....

Maggie and I had a breathtaking God-Moment on December 14, 2023, when God drove our car around an oncoming semi-truck ....saving us from certain death.  ....See Chapter 15.

....then....

A few days later, God and I were talking, when He suggested rewriting those emails into a website.  ....So, I started thinking about it.  Went through a "what's this going to look like" phase, asking God about direction.  ....Then I ....JUST ....STARTED ....WRITING in mid-January 2024.

I "began knowing" God's direction, as I STEPPED OUT IN FAITH ....and just started writing.  The more I wrote, THE MORE I UNDERSTOOD where God wanted to go in creating this website ....to know Him more.

....then the "God-Moment" confirming writing this online Book assignment.

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A FEW WEEKS LATER in early February 2024, I received a surprise email offer from GoDaddy.com name-brokers ....to purchase Arkeo.com.  Someone wanted to buy my Arkeo.com name.  ....A 5-letter ".com" name had $ value.

Arkeo.com was my media company's website address since late 1990s, ....and I kept the name for good memories sake after retiring in 2009 (name is Strongs G714).

‍For the PAST 15 YEARS, Arkeo.com domain name was PARKED UNUSED, ....until God sent someone to purchase the name ....and fund web programming for KnowYourWorldview.org.  SMILE, ....interesting timing, ....obvious God was assuring/encouraging me to build this website!

Shortly after, God led me to two great programmers, Nic and Marc.  God's got this!

....SMILE, how many ways can you spell "God wants this website done!"

So, here we are.  This website is done.  ....And we are nearing the end of our Quest journey together....  So, what's next for you?

In my website launch story, you see how our amazing Lord God Almighty does not leave us guessing, ....when HE GIVES US an assignment.  God is ALWAYS THERE to make it happen ....AS WE STEP OUT IN FAITH!  

‍Did I expect to write an INTERACTIVE BOOK with 25+ chapters, ....that He turned into an online DISCIPLESHIP STUDY about "Living God's Word Every Day"? ....SMILE, "No".  I'm just FOLLOWING my Lord and WORKING on His assignment AS HE LEADS.  Hard to put into words my joy in writing this website with Jesus!

....and perhaps YOUR QUEST journey to know God more ....is the reason this website was created.  
....God does stuff like that!  

And that looks like Acts 1:8, ....whoever you are, ....wherever you are....

So, back to THE DISCIPLE QUESTION....

What's your assignment from Jesus?

....How do you relate to Jesus telling "The Parable of the Sower"?

The farmer plants seed by taking God's word to others.  ....And the seed fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God's word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!"  
    — Mark 4:14; 20 NLT

Can you see yourself as this "farmer"?  ....PLANTING God's Word in peoples lives by TELLING your personal testimony of JESUS LIVING IN YOU.  ....And SOWING your SKILLS and TALENTS (1 Peter 4:10-11) ....that JESUS WANTS TO USE in declaring HIS LOVE to people who need a Savior, Lord, and Friend.

So, what assignment from God would help you to plant such seeds? .......Think deeply about this, BECAUSE....

Whether your assignment from God is big or small (could be as simple as telling someone that "Jesus loves them"), ....perhaps today is a confirmation or....

....a starting point for your assignment working with Jesus.

Do you know what God is asking you to do?  Are there any challenges or "problems" that you think are too difficult to proceed?  Got questions, doubts?  ....SMILE, ....by now you already know the verse that comes to mind....

My heart has heard you say, “Come and talk with me.”
And my heart responds, “LORD, I am coming.”
    — Psalm 27:8 NLT

.......I'll stay here awhile with you.  ....Continue when you are ready....

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Well, ....there it is, ....nearly everything you need to know about knowing your Biblical worldview.  ....For the rest of the details personal to you, ....ask Jesus, ....He knows everything!

Okay, ....that's enough, ....I'm retired you know.  SMILE....  Its been a great Quest!  Really enjoyed traveling with you.  .......If you ever want to talk more about Jesus, ....come find us out on the dock.  There is no better way to travel through life ....than with Jesus.  SMILE, ....and you can quote me on that!

Before you go on, let me pray for you....

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Since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.
    — Hebrews 12:1 NLT

Amen.  Maranatha!

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