Are You A Viable Key?

Have you ever checked your key ring just to find keys that you do not use or can't remember what they go to? Or maybe you have a junk drawer at home with random keys in it and they just hang out in there, being of no use to you? Well, keys were made with a purpose, to lock and/or unlock. Just like keys, we were created for a purpose, God created us for a purpose. Holy Spirit gave me a revelation as I was studying a message about Jesus giving us the Keys to the Kingdom in Matthew 16:19. As I was meditating on the keys Jesus gave us as a result of his death and burial and resurrection as children of God, Holy Spirit said, "you are a key, you are Gods' key!" I was taken back for a moment and then the Holy Spirit gave me an understanding that God gave Jesus so that he could pay the price to get his creation of mankind back from Satan. God desires to use us in the earth to carry out his will. So, that's why God set in the church the gifts of the Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher to train us in kingdom knowledge bringing heaven here to earth. Remember, Jesus in teaching the disciples to pray, he said "Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven." Jesus would obviously know what God's will is, so since God created us for this earth, it is up to us to do his will here. That is the revelation of us being God's Key! So, I ask again, are you a viable key for God to use? Or are you one of those keys that is just hanging on a key ring or laying in a drawer and it's heaven's report that you are not being used by God because you have chosen not to be available for his use? How do we make ourselves unavailable for God's use? By continuing in sin, by not acknowledging God as supreme in our lives. By living like the unsaved whom we are sent to deliver, by allowing the enemy to steal, kill and destroy our lives through sickness, poverty and the lies he shoots at us. Each and every time we surrender to this world system and take what they tell us or accept what they dish out, we are unusable keys. God can only use keys who are strong in the Lord and in the Power of His Might, more than conqueror keys, count it all joy keys, keys who know who they are in Christ Jesus! Those are the viable keys of God ready, willing and able to carry out his will in earth as it is in heaven. God used people in the past that no one would think of using. What about Moses(murderer), Noah(alcoholic), Joseph(sold into slavery), Gideon(the least in his household), Esther(female), David(sheep herder), Solomon(conceived in sin), and we could go on talking about others in scripture whom God used as keys to carry out his will who were no different than we are...people! Come on now and let's stop using our past or our shortcomings to cause us to be dropped off in the "non use" key drawer in heaven. Stand up in who you are through Christ Jesus and accept your assignment to lock (bind) and unlock (loose) heavens power here on earth. This is God's will for us to operate on earth as he does in heaven. In the beginning God created us in his image and after his likeness to subdue, dominate and replenish. Read the beginning of the bible so you can understand why you are here, and what your assignment is by asking God to show you how he can use you right now. For we are ambassadors for Christ. 2 Corinthians 2:20