1.Desire 

• God’s desire is for us to become like Him

• Whoever wants to follow Christ must follow by the way of the cross

• God is inviting us to be disciples of Jesus so that we can live out our calling to be a blessing to the world

• Our desire for God should come not out of obligation but out of love

• Do we have the desire to be like Christ?

2.Sacrifice

• Desiring to follow God requires sacrifice

• If we are determined to follow God, all our actions have to align to it

• The cost of following God is to leave some things behind

• It calls for us to dare to dream and to submit that dream to God

3.Determination

• In pursuing God, we will face difficulties and disappointments.

• We have to put our trust in God that He will never forsake us even though it is hard to see the end result.

• We need to have a determination in our heart to trust that God is doing His work

• This determination is not of our own will but it comes when we exchange our weakness for His strength

• It is the grace of God that sustains us and helps us to take the next step

4.Fulfillment

• It is God that fulfills the calling in our lives

• We have to let go of our lives for His sake

• Only when we submit our lives to Him, that we will find it in Him

• We will be fulfilled by God only if we seek Him with all our heart.

• We will never be lacking or lost

• It is in the letting go of our lives and receiving His calling for us that we come to a place of finding rest in God

• Reward of following Jesus Christ is joy