I am sitting outside under a shaded tree, allowing the sun to warm my feet and the wind to blow on me, on this beautiful Wednesday afternoon, while watching the people walk by as my music of sweet whispers of God's symphony plays in the background. Yes, the perfect day! Beautiful moments captured today; yes today this beautiful Wednesday. The hills are green and the clouds are like thick white cotton in the clear blue skies. The grass blades applaud the vast splendor of God's creativity today on this beautiful Wednesday.
For three years God has been challenging me to fulfill what He calls " the love mandate". Hoo... yes, love is a command not optional as we like to assimulate. When we make love optional, we diminish its intensity and it's ability to transform lives from the inside out. The Word of God, what we refer to as the Bible, is God's love letter not only to the church but to the whole world.
FOR GOD THE FATHER SO LOVED THE WHOLE WORLD THE HE GAVE HIS WHOLE SON (SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY), THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT PERISH {DIE ETERNALLY}, BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE (JOHN 3:16).
Wow! Isn't that good? That's divine revelation revealed now. God the Father gave His whole Son. Jesus sacrificed all of Himself for us. He held nothing back.
I personally believe that was His agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. God the Father was requiring Him to give all for us who were stricken with death and defeat, sickness and disease, sin and weakness. Cash in; all in; give all. Jesus gave all and because He gave all, we can be free in every area of our spirits, souls and bodies.
Our humanity doesn't have to get the best of us. We can win the war both internally and around us. We can love God, ourselves and others. Isn't that a blessing?! I believe so!
We can love God, ourselves and people from a whole place and not from a broken or bitter place. I have a saying, "Hurt people hurt people, but healed people heal people." Healing requires wholeness. BE THOU MADE WHOLE IN YOUR SOUL.
A whole soul can feel God's love entirely, because a whole soul walks in the Spirit and not the flesh. Moreover, not only that, a whole soul can distribute the love of Jesus thoroughly. Meaning, when people experience the love of Jesus through us, it should impact them in their total man. Their whole man should be impacted by the divine encounter of God's love.
We, the body of Christ, become the hands and feet of Jesus. We are His mouth piece; His ministry (living epistles) to the world. Our job is to reconcile the world around us to Jesus through the vehicle of love and the gospel (2Corinthians 5:18-21). WE ARE HIS AMBASSADORS OF LOVE. We must REFLECT WHO GOD IS! People, GOD IS LOVE (1John 4:8).
I thought three years ago that I was loving people because I was sweet and was approachable, for the most part. However, God knew me better than I knew myself. He knew I could and needed to love on a deeper level, to be rooted and grounded in love in my inner most man (my spirit; core) not just my soul or on the surface. Often times, what we define as a deep love, is really shallow to God.😯 I know... right? If we had to take the love test, many of us would fail miserably.
1Corinthians 13:4-8 is love amplified and our unwillingness to be selfless and forgiving toward one another blocks the free flow of God's love through us. God desires for us to be conduits by which His love can flow through freely. Do me a favor and repeat after me, say, "Lord, make me a conduit by which Your divine, agape love flows through for all man kind." Amen.
Now breathe... in and exhale out. How do you feel? Did something leave? Yes, of course it did! The demonic force that blocks God's love from flowing from our hearts is dispelled and the blood of Jesus expels it from coming back, while the love of Jesus acts as a repellant to keep the daily pestilence of offense away.
I was taught that there will always be a opportunity to be offended, but we don't have to become a housesitter of offense. No, we will not baby sit offense. We love forward by allowing God to heal us from yesterday's stresses, pains and blows. There's no more time to sit and mope. Our season of mourning has passed and God is counting on us to rise up and love people back to life.
We are commanded to LOVE ONE ANOTHER for real, even the people that get on our last nerves. I believe in healthy boundaries, because people will try to take advantage of you loving them. But I do believe we have to love freely, cheerfully and diligently. That's how Jesus loved us. HE was intentional.
The love of Jesus was preventional and attentive to our needs as a broken human race. Jesus was on a mission to love a broken world back to life by giving His very own life. Through Him, we are not a disjointed human race; WE ARE ONE BODY UNITED IN CHRIST through grace. We are commissioned to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and to spread His love to a dying and impaired world EVERYDAY without partiality but wholly and holy. Lol.. love it!
WE ARE THE REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH. WE ARE THE INGITORS OF REVIVAL AND DEFENDERS OF THE GOSPEL. WE ARE THE AGENTS OF CHANGE. THE WORLD WILL KNOW US BY THE LOVE WE SHOW ONE TO ANOTHER (JOHN 13:34-35). Why would they be a part of a body that is maimed? No! We are to be ONE body, knittly jointed together in Christ, in unity, in God's love through the ministry work of the Holy Spirit.
How are we doing saints? Is God's love manifested in our day to day actions and words and thoughts? If God had to assess us individually, what would our secrets, minds and hearts reveal??? Would He approve??? It's not our job to judge one another. The Word of God says, "Let a man examine their own heart, mind and motives (2Corinthians 13:5)."
If God took out His measuring stick, would we miss the mark? No one is without sin, no not one. BUT guess what, LOVE COVERS A MULTITUDE OF SINS (James 5:20). That's the power and magnitude of God's love amplified. We did not qualify, but LOVE qualified us. Isn't that good? My goodness! That's a heart full.😄 Whoo! Running...👣👣.
LOVE mandates us to be daily Samaritans; stranger's while on our journey who stop and bandage the wounded, those who cannot tend to their own wounds because of the severity of their condition (LUKE 10:25-37). Life is a journey right? Well, I love the fact that for a moment, the Samaritan was willing to share his resources, his space, his time and invite a wounded man into his journey; the colliding of journey's. Wow!!! That is good Holy Spirit!
Who will your journey bring you across?Who will you collide with, to heal, encourage, raise up, and empower? Yes, your ability to love other's, is EMPOWERING! What if God challenged you to bandage your enemy? Could you do it, freely from your heart?
When people cross our path, they should walk away feeling invigorated and not drained; liberated and not oppressed. When people encountered JESUS this is exactly how they felt. Jesus, while on the cross passionately loved those who crucified Him, saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do (LUKE 23:34)."
Jesus ministry of love, hope and forgiveness was revolutionary! It was the sign of the times! That's why the people kept coming around Him. Even the children loved Jesus. That's pretty special y'all.😢
I know I want my children to love Jesus and serve Him cheerfully and freely for the rest of their lives. I pray that more than my sins committed, fears and failures of yesterday, they see JESUS and the love of JESUS in my today gushing forth like a fountain from my heart. I pray they observe Him in my faith and future purpose and destiny in Christ, and even in my voice and my response and my embrace and everyday lifestyle. I pray they model the Christ they see and not just hear about.
Oh Lord, this is the mandate of love, that we love without regret. I pray that when our work is done and we see JESUS that He is smiling big, saying, "Well done thy good and faithful servant; enter into My eternal rest. You have done well! LOVE awaits to welcome us home with an eternal reward, because we were productive loving people back to life.
Isn't that Good News? Yes, it is dear hearts.
I love you with God's love, and there ain't nothing you can do about it.🤗 Go and change the world with God's love!😢 AMAZING! GOD'S LOVE IS OVERWHELMING!
Watch "Commissioned - Love Is the Way" on YouTube
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-KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED -
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
UNLOCKING SUPERNATURAL FAVOR FOR A LIFETIME
Sunday at Starbuck's
Well, sitting at my favorite coffee shop in the world. Yes! You guessed it, STARBUCK'S. Taking in the BIG bucks.😂
Any hoo... It's a beautiful day outside, and I am still pondering my thoughts on Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah and their unwillingness to compromise their convictions over commands (Daniel 1). Mm... that's good, Holy Spirit. Yeah... I cannot shake the thought.
It's fitting though. So often we compromise our deep-seated beliefs because of external pressures. Man... call me a rebel, but forget what people think! I have been a prisoner of people's opinions of me for far too long. I am learning that the only opinion that really matters is God's opinion, because He's the only one that will jugde my life's story. What will it reveal? I hope it reveals my hearts affection toward Him and how I was willing to daily lay my life down for His will.
These four outstanding young men, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah had amazing character, I must say so myself. The kind of character I admire and mirror in my own walk with God these days. It speaks volumes about their willingness to rise up against pressures and to put their convictions on the line. Their actions reveal their deep-seated love and respect for God and the things of God.
They chose principle over preference. Which means more to you? Decisions are a tell tell sign of what holds significance in our lives. Decisions reveal the war or composure within. THE HEART IS THE SEAT OF DECISION. And our core beliefs or the effects of external pressures affect our hearts decisions.
External pressures overriding what we know is right in our hearts will cause us to miss out on God's best for us just as much as the harboring of internal fears. Both are dangerous to our ability to unlock the supernatural favor of God. We cannot emphasize one above the other. They are both enemies to God's will for our lives.
Our Plans vs. God's Will
Sometimes what we think is best, God knows isn't. Actually what God knows is best makes us uncomfortable, because it requires stretching pass our pre-existing capacity and going beyond our normal to obtain it. But what we define as normal in our pre-Christ days is really abnormal to God and a sense of mediocrity. The Bible says, "We go from faith to faith (Romans 1:17), from glory to glory (2Corinthians 3:18)." Divine dimensions and new realms of opportunity and mastery are open to us, through us, for us and over us. Isn't that good? That's good, y'all!
God has no problem challenging our faith level, because He knows, sometimes, that is the only way we will move into the new thing pre-destined to save us and bring us into his divine favor and out of the old systems, methodologies, and demographic configurations designed to oppress us and eventually destroy us. The Bible says, "The thief (Satan, the devil) comes only to steal, to kill and to destroy, but God... somebody say, but God, has come into the world to give us through His mercy and grace, life and life overflowing with supernatural, uncommon, tangible, matchless FAVOR (John 10:10)! Whoo... running!👣👣👣👣
We would think Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah going into Babylonian captivity was a horrific life event, but it wasn't. It was God's plan all along to spare a remnant and to preserve His name in the earth through them through the means of captivity (Jeremiah 24:1-7). God can use a horrible situation and turn it 180° for our good. All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28). Say, God is working it out. And He is; in your favor! Just trust Him. Amen.
I Will Not
I will not was at the core of these four young men's existence. Although they stood as a unit, that was a personal conviction of precept over human preference. It looks good, smells good and it might even taste good, but I prefer these leeks and kale cooked in some chicken broth...😂😂😂. Right?!
It really was a matter of biblical principle which required absolute obedience vs. pagan rituals that involved lowering one's standards to eat and drink. It wasn't the food or the drink persay, because we need food and water (not wine😂) to survive. It was the act and beliefs that proceeded it. These things were apart of paganistic rituals that honored many false gods and not the true and living God, and as the people of God, Jews were commanded according to Jewish law to abstain from immoral behaviors that would jeopardize their Abrahamic heritage and inheritance as God's chosen people (Deuteronomy 6:10-25; 7:1-11).
Can you look back over your walk with God and see where you've compromised biblical principles for the sake of human opinion? Doing what carnal or unchurched people prefer may feel good at the moment, but in the end, it draws us further and further away from God. And we don't want that, because then we can miss out, not only on opportunities to prosper God's way, but we can miss out on New Jerusalem and our eternal rest. Lord, give us deep seated biblical convictions in our day and for generations to come that will lead others to be persuaded that Your way is best, after they compare our appearances and lifestyle to those of the world, in Jesus name. Amen.
Warning: DON'T ALLOW CARNALITY TO CHOKE OUT YOUR CHRISTIANITY. Un...high-five🖑, Holy Spirit... that's real good!
We can still enjoy life and not bend with the trends. Like Daniel taught us, upright character unlocks supernatural favor. These four young men surpassed their pupils in all kinds of literature and wisdom ten times as much, and Daniel was endowed with the ability to understand and interpret dreams and visions given to rulers in power. I like to think, God gave him extra skill and gifts because He was the first to purpose it in his heart not to defile his temple, and not only did he purpose it in his heart, but he was willing to speak up for not only himself but others.
Send me. Lord, I will go for you.👐
God is looking to promote people who are not ambitious for self gain or worldly acclaim but those who are selfless and who will remain selfless and will serve God and look out for other's no matter how much wealth, wisdom, opportunities or prestige is unlocked to and for them. You see, it was never about the promotion. IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT PURPOSE AND PRINCIPLE. Isn't that GOOD NEWS? Oh... in my book it is! Hallelujah! Glory to God!
WHATEVER YOU DO FROM THIS DAY FORWARD, DO IT ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD, and blessings for a lifetime, beyond your imagination, will be unleashed to you without delay, question, reason or hindrance, in Jesus name. Amen.
-KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED-
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Sometimes what we think is best, God knows isn't. Actually what God knows is best makes us uncomfortable, because it requires stretching pass our pre-existing capacity and going beyond our normal to obtain it. But what we define as normal in our pre-Christ days is really abnormal to God and a sense of mediocrity. The Bible says, "We go from faith to faith (Romans 1:17), from glory to glory (2Corinthians 3:18)." Divine dimensions and new realms of opportunity and mastery are open to us, through us, for us and over us. Isn't that good? That's good, y'all!
God has no problem challenging our faith level, because He knows, sometimes, that is the only way we will move into the new thing pre-destined to save us and bring us into his divine favor and out of the old systems, methodologies, and demographic configurations designed to oppress us and eventually destroy us. The Bible says, "The thief (Satan, the devil) comes only to steal, to kill and to destroy, but God... somebody say, but God, has come into the world to give us through His mercy and grace, life and life overflowing with supernatural, uncommon, tangible, matchless FAVOR (John 10:10)! Whoo... running!👣👣👣👣
We would think Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah going into Babylonian captivity was a horrific life event, but it wasn't. It was God's plan all along to spare a remnant and to preserve His name in the earth through them through the means of captivity (Jeremiah 24:1-7). God can use a horrible situation and turn it 180° for our good. All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28). Say, God is working it out. And He is; in your favor! Just trust Him. Amen.
I Will Not
I will not was at the core of these four young men's existence. Although they stood as a unit, that was a personal conviction of precept over human preference. It looks good, smells good and it might even taste good, but I prefer these leeks and kale cooked in some chicken broth...😂😂😂. Right?!
It really was a matter of biblical principle which required absolute obedience vs. pagan rituals that involved lowering one's standards to eat and drink. It wasn't the food or the drink persay, because we need food and water (not wine😂) to survive. It was the act and beliefs that proceeded it. These things were apart of paganistic rituals that honored many false gods and not the true and living God, and as the people of God, Jews were commanded according to Jewish law to abstain from immoral behaviors that would jeopardize their Abrahamic heritage and inheritance as God's chosen people (Deuteronomy 6:10-25; 7:1-11).
Can you look back over your walk with God and see where you've compromised biblical principles for the sake of human opinion? Doing what carnal or unchurched people prefer may feel good at the moment, but in the end, it draws us further and further away from God. And we don't want that, because then we can miss out, not only on opportunities to prosper God's way, but we can miss out on New Jerusalem and our eternal rest. Lord, give us deep seated biblical convictions in our day and for generations to come that will lead others to be persuaded that Your way is best, after they compare our appearances and lifestyle to those of the world, in Jesus name. Amen.
Warning: DON'T ALLOW CARNALITY TO CHOKE OUT YOUR CHRISTIANITY. Un...high-five🖑, Holy Spirit... that's real good!
We can still enjoy life and not bend with the trends. Like Daniel taught us, upright character unlocks supernatural favor. These four young men surpassed their pupils in all kinds of literature and wisdom ten times as much, and Daniel was endowed with the ability to understand and interpret dreams and visions given to rulers in power. I like to think, God gave him extra skill and gifts because He was the first to purpose it in his heart not to defile his temple, and not only did he purpose it in his heart, but he was willing to speak up for not only himself but others.
Send me. Lord, I will go for you.👐
God is looking to promote people who are not ambitious for self gain or worldly acclaim but those who are selfless and who will remain selfless and will serve God and look out for other's no matter how much wealth, wisdom, opportunities or prestige is unlocked to and for them. You see, it was never about the promotion. IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT PURPOSE AND PRINCIPLE. Isn't that GOOD NEWS? Oh... in my book it is! Hallelujah! Glory to God!
WHATEVER YOU DO FROM THIS DAY FORWARD, DO IT ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD, and blessings for a lifetime, beyond your imagination, will be unleashed to you without delay, question, reason or hindrance, in Jesus name. Amen.
-KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED-
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Saturday, July 22, 2017
A Heart for Souls
Israel Houghton once said, "Break my heart with the things that break YOUR heart." I know that GOD is absolutely passionate about souls. HE LOVES PEOPLE. Souls and the condition of their hearts matter to GOD. HE doesn't take it lightly, and neither should we. Amen.
I tell you, my heart groans within me to see the lost, the broken, the orphan, the widow, and the outcast come to Jesus. (With tears in my eyes) I just want to love them back to health and life with the love of Jesus🤗. LIVE!!! There are soooo many broken people. I can identify them, because I, too, was a broken vessel mended by the Father's love and grace. I know what it means to be picked up and held and resuscitated after a few almost moments of grave pain and despair throughout your life. Whoo... running👣👣👣!
God's love will come get you and refuse to let you go, even when you are feeling hopeless and helpless and even gasping for air. God's love will love you and enable you to give into the remedy of love which is Christ (John 3:16). You see, I know all too well the effects of pain and brokenness, but I also know the beauty of the Father's love; Abba Father, Daddy God. HIS LOVE NEVER FAILS. It is constant.
For days now my heart has had a continuous aching for the lost. I believe it's the Father's love maturing and growing within me. I want to see the oppressed go free! I have two totes full of journals, messages, and devotionals from my 7 years of being a senior pastor and 3 years of my own personal journey to healing, health and wholeness, compiled with truth, writings, inserts, precepts upon precepts on how God feels about His people, broken people and lost people coping with the aftermath of amputated dreams and hopes. Wow!!! (Again tears...😭.) I hear you Holy Spirit. The Father's heart throbes tonight for his people. Mm... wow!
2Peter Amplified version says, "The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people's conception of slowness, but HE is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance. You see, God wants you to live and He has prepared a banquet just for you at His table in the kingdom of God. And Jesus spoke to them in parables (comparisons, stories used to illustrate and explain), saying, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son and sent his servants to summon those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared (made ready) my banquet; my bullocks and my fatty calves are killed, and everything is prepared; come to the wedding feast. But they were not concerned and paid no attention [they ignored and made light of the summons, treating it with contempt] and they went away-- one to his farm, another to his business, while the other seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and put them to death. [Hearing this] the king was infuriated; and he sent his soliders and put those muderers to death and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, The wedding [feast] is prepared, but those invited were not worthy. So go to the highways where they leave the city [where the main roads and those from the country end] and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find (seek out, look for, stumble upon, come across in eyes view or able to get one's attention by calling). And those servants went out on the crossroads and got together as many as they found, both bad and good, so [the room in which] the wedding feast [was held] was filled with guests.
Deuteronomy 10:17; 2Chronicles 19:7; and Romans 2:11, teaches us that God is not partial; He is not a respector of persons. God is fair and is not indifferent in favor. He loves all people of all races, nationalities, genders, status, (married, single, separated or divorced), rich or poor. HE loves us so much that not only did He send His Son Jesus to die for us, but God the Father got in on the action. 2Corinthians 5:19 Amplified Version says, "It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration of favor).
That's right! God the Father was personally involved in our redemption on the cross. It was like GOD the Father, tirelessly hung there Himself and bore our sins. Wow!!! I must say, that right there is pretty awesome!!!
God finds us, identifies us through justification, cleanses and robes us through sanctification and equips us and then sends us out to win the lost, heal the sick and mend the hearts of the broken, when HE knows we are ready.
There is a prodigal in every family, the one bent on having their own way, until disaster strikes. Dum... dum... dum... dum. DUM!!! The one who frivolously spends on things that don't matter, on people who don't care and in places that will close their door when they find out they are broke or bankrupt.
We don't know how long the prodigal son was out there doing his thing in the world, but we do know that he was out there long enough to plunder His life's savings. He looked up and his friends were gone, the money was gone. He was jobless and homeless.
But at his lowest state of existence, he realized as great of a fall from grace he had, HE WAS NOT BEYOND REDEMPTION. Now you should shout right there. God's love redeems the fallen and gives hope to the worst of sinners. In the eyes of the Father, no one is beyond hope, not a Ruth, a Rahab, or ten brothers who would voluntarily betray their younger brother or a man named Matthew (Levi) who the Jews hated; a tax collector, given over to unjust weights. NO ONE!
God wants and loves all people and shows no difference between them. We who have been called to fulfill the great commission are instructed by Christ to go and do the same, without showing any kind of variance.
THE BIBLE SAYS, HOW BEAUTIFUL UPON THE MOUNTAINS ARE THE FEET OF HIM THAT BRINGETH GOOD TIDINGS, WHO PUBLISHES PEACE, WHO BRINGS GOOD TIDINGS OF GOOD, WHO PUBLISHES SALVATION, WHO SAYS TO ZION, YOUR GOD REIGNS (Isaiah 52:7 Amplified Version).
We are commissioned to be the hands and feet of Jesus. May our hearts burn passionately with His message, the same message that drove Jesus to the cross at calvary and brought Him back to life. That's WHO we preach and teach about. JESUS CHRIST FOREVER! OH HAIL, KING JESUS THE SAVIOR OF THE LOST.
Isn't that Good News? Yes, absolutley!
-Kingdom Building United-
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
I tell you, my heart groans within me to see the lost, the broken, the orphan, the widow, and the outcast come to Jesus. (With tears in my eyes) I just want to love them back to health and life with the love of Jesus🤗. LIVE!!! There are soooo many broken people. I can identify them, because I, too, was a broken vessel mended by the Father's love and grace. I know what it means to be picked up and held and resuscitated after a few almost moments of grave pain and despair throughout your life. Whoo... running👣👣👣!
God's love will come get you and refuse to let you go, even when you are feeling hopeless and helpless and even gasping for air. God's love will love you and enable you to give into the remedy of love which is Christ (John 3:16). You see, I know all too well the effects of pain and brokenness, but I also know the beauty of the Father's love; Abba Father, Daddy God. HIS LOVE NEVER FAILS. It is constant.
For days now my heart has had a continuous aching for the lost. I believe it's the Father's love maturing and growing within me. I want to see the oppressed go free! I have two totes full of journals, messages, and devotionals from my 7 years of being a senior pastor and 3 years of my own personal journey to healing, health and wholeness, compiled with truth, writings, inserts, precepts upon precepts on how God feels about His people, broken people and lost people coping with the aftermath of amputated dreams and hopes. Wow!!! (Again tears...😭.) I hear you Holy Spirit. The Father's heart throbes tonight for his people. Mm... wow!
2Peter Amplified version says, "The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people's conception of slowness, but HE is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance. You see, God wants you to live and He has prepared a banquet just for you at His table in the kingdom of God. And Jesus spoke to them in parables (comparisons, stories used to illustrate and explain), saying, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son and sent his servants to summon those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared (made ready) my banquet; my bullocks and my fatty calves are killed, and everything is prepared; come to the wedding feast. But they were not concerned and paid no attention [they ignored and made light of the summons, treating it with contempt] and they went away-- one to his farm, another to his business, while the other seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and put them to death. [Hearing this] the king was infuriated; and he sent his soliders and put those muderers to death and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, The wedding [feast] is prepared, but those invited were not worthy. So go to the highways where they leave the city [where the main roads and those from the country end] and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find (seek out, look for, stumble upon, come across in eyes view or able to get one's attention by calling). And those servants went out on the crossroads and got together as many as they found, both bad and good, so [the room in which] the wedding feast [was held] was filled with guests.
Deuteronomy 10:17; 2Chronicles 19:7; and Romans 2:11, teaches us that God is not partial; He is not a respector of persons. God is fair and is not indifferent in favor. He loves all people of all races, nationalities, genders, status, (married, single, separated or divorced), rich or poor. HE loves us so much that not only did He send His Son Jesus to die for us, but God the Father got in on the action. 2Corinthians 5:19 Amplified Version says, "It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration of favor).
That's right! God the Father was personally involved in our redemption on the cross. It was like GOD the Father, tirelessly hung there Himself and bore our sins. Wow!!! I must say, that right there is pretty awesome!!!
God finds us, identifies us through justification, cleanses and robes us through sanctification and equips us and then sends us out to win the lost, heal the sick and mend the hearts of the broken, when HE knows we are ready.
There is a prodigal in every family, the one bent on having their own way, until disaster strikes. Dum... dum... dum... dum. DUM!!! The one who frivolously spends on things that don't matter, on people who don't care and in places that will close their door when they find out they are broke or bankrupt.
We don't know how long the prodigal son was out there doing his thing in the world, but we do know that he was out there long enough to plunder His life's savings. He looked up and his friends were gone, the money was gone. He was jobless and homeless.
But at his lowest state of existence, he realized as great of a fall from grace he had, HE WAS NOT BEYOND REDEMPTION. Now you should shout right there. God's love redeems the fallen and gives hope to the worst of sinners. In the eyes of the Father, no one is beyond hope, not a Ruth, a Rahab, or ten brothers who would voluntarily betray their younger brother or a man named Matthew (Levi) who the Jews hated; a tax collector, given over to unjust weights. NO ONE!
God wants and loves all people and shows no difference between them. We who have been called to fulfill the great commission are instructed by Christ to go and do the same, without showing any kind of variance.
THE BIBLE SAYS, HOW BEAUTIFUL UPON THE MOUNTAINS ARE THE FEET OF HIM THAT BRINGETH GOOD TIDINGS, WHO PUBLISHES PEACE, WHO BRINGS GOOD TIDINGS OF GOOD, WHO PUBLISHES SALVATION, WHO SAYS TO ZION, YOUR GOD REIGNS (Isaiah 52:7 Amplified Version).
We are commissioned to be the hands and feet of Jesus. May our hearts burn passionately with His message, the same message that drove Jesus to the cross at calvary and brought Him back to life. That's WHO we preach and teach about. JESUS CHRIST FOREVER! OH HAIL, KING JESUS THE SAVIOR OF THE LOST.
Isn't that Good News? Yes, absolutley!
-Kingdom Building United-
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Thursday, July 13, 2017
PIETISM
This morning, while I was asleep, I was suddenly awakened by the Holy Spirit whispering this word to me, "pietistic". The root word is pietism. Pietism was a 17th century religious movement originating in Germany in reaction to formation and intellectualism and stressing Bible study and personal devotional experience and practices; affection of devotion (Merriam-Webster>Dictionary). I have never heard this term in my 35.5 years of existence until today. I think God is so amazing on how He speaks to us!
"Pietism from the root word piety was an influential movement within Lutheranism that combined Luthern emphasis on Biblical doctrine with the Reformed emphasis on individual piety and living a vigorous Christian life."
"Pietistic frugality, humility, restraint, sense of duty and order has been strong culturally and religiously in Scandinavia. Pietism has had a tremendous impact worldwide, especially in North America and Europe." I believe American's in the Western church are still impacted by the properties of the Pietistic movement of Luthernaism. I know I am, when I think about it. I see it in my own life.
Martin Luther was a church activist who believed, as the Scriptures state, "Study and be eager and do your utmost to present yourself to God approved (tested by trial), a workman who has no cause to be ashamed (remorseful, shame-faced, himiliated, guilty), correctly analyzing and accurately dividing [rightly handling and skillfully teaching the Word of Truth (2Timothy2:15/ Amplified Version).
Biblical Lesson #1- God'sWord is truth.
Biblical Lesson #2- Personal biblical devotion is necessary and encouraged.
Pietism originated with the work of Philipp Spener a Lutheran theologian whose emphasis on personal transformation through spiritual rebirth and renewal, individual devotion and piety laid the foundations for the movement. Now as I continue reading this article on Pietism I discover that God raised up certain people from various parts of Europe, male and female, to spread "the pietism movement" throughout various parts of Europe. I hear the Spirit of God saying to me that, "In this hour God is raising up individuals from different parts of North America and the earth to spearhead their culture in pietism (2Timothy 2:15)." As a result of knowing God's Word for ourselves we can and will have a greater impact on the culture, as ambassadors of God and His co-laborers in the fulfillment of the great commission (Matthew 28:18-20; 1Corinthians 3:9; 2Corinthians 5:20; Ephesians 6:20).
Biblical Lesson #3: Pietism is responsible for the ministry work of the Evangelist (Acts 2:40-47, 8:14-17, 25, 26-40).
Now, in order for you to hear God in your time of personal devotion of the Scriptures, it is imperative that you cultivate an atmosphere to hear God and receive His truth. Many who are dull in their hearing, who are thick and impenetrable in their hearts can not receive the things of God, because they are spiritually degenerate and unregenerated. In order to effectively receive and grow in the things of God so that we can go we must purposefully put off the old nature of sin and be re-trained, re-programmed in our minds with biblical principles and put on a regenerate nature made in the image of God in true righteousness and holiness (Ephesians 4:22-24; Jeremiah 4:3-4; 6:10; Matthew 13:15; Hebrews 5:11-12/ Amplified Version). GOD will urge us to study, but HE will not force us to study the Bible. He will, though, aid us in our time of devotion, relieving us of limitations and distractions to study, but WE must first put forth an effort. As I learned, You do it! Amen.
Bible Lesson #4- A regenerate nature is the nature of God.
Please Note: When we lack the consistency to study the Scriptures, we are conveying to God that we are disinterested in what He has to say. And saints, in God's book that's a BIG no, no! We must desire the sincere milk of God's Word and as we grow eat meat. As milk is for the bones (the bodies protection) and meat is for the muscles (producing free flowing movement and strength) so it is true concerning our spiritual growth. The milk of God's Word protects our movement in the Spirit as we grow up into Christ (Ephesians 4:15-16).
Jesus called twelve disciples to himself to separate them for the work of the ministry. Although they were called at the same time, together, their growth in the Scriptures and for the equipping of ministry was an individual calling. They all grew, but they grew on different levels, in different streams of ministry depending on their individual assignment. They had to possess a personal pietism for God and His Word.
Those who have deep pietism will have a greater impact when reaching the lost and teaching and equipping the saints in their Christianity. Why? They will possess greater impact, because the Word of God in their hearts permeates the soul, resulting in fortification in the total man (spirit, soul, and body). When trials and temptation come, because they are rooted in their devotion unto the Lord, they will be unmoved, disspelling the kingdom of darkness and illuminating and advancing the agenda of the kingdom of light.
JESUS, throughout the New Testament gospels would speak in parables. But why? HE did so to separate the seekers from the swindlers. I, also, believe that Jesus spoke in parables to spark in the seeker a seek for personal peitism.
Jesus spoke to the multitudes, but not all of the multitudes grasped the message of Jesus Christ. He who had ears to hear what the Spirit of Truth was communicating to the church bore fruit of that messsge. Just because you go to church and hear the gospel doesn't necessarily mean it is being applied. Our lives will bear witness of our seek. We can only go as far as our grow. Amen.
Biblical Lesson#5: Study! Study! Study! Study the Scriptures and fall head over heels in love with JESUS.
I encourage you to put your circumcised ear to the heart of God and allow Him to unlock historical accounts regarding the Bible with ONE WORD. For me it was pietistic. What is HE speaking to you? I learned pietism dated back all the way to 17th century. Wow!!! Remarkable! That's 4 centuries back y'all! Smh...
ONE WORD from God can unlock and release the movement of God over our days for generations to come. I believe now that is what GOD was conveying to me. He's unlocking pietism in our day. He is raising up a generation throughout the earth that will devote themselves to studying the Scritures; a generation willing to go deeper nonetheless into the matchless, presence of GOD.
Isn't that Good News? Good News to all pietisticals in pursuit of God on a mission to impact nations across the globe! Globetrotters addision.
KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED
(Promotingthe Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
"Pietism from the root word piety was an influential movement within Lutheranism that combined Luthern emphasis on Biblical doctrine with the Reformed emphasis on individual piety and living a vigorous Christian life."
"Pietistic frugality, humility, restraint, sense of duty and order has been strong culturally and religiously in Scandinavia. Pietism has had a tremendous impact worldwide, especially in North America and Europe." I believe American's in the Western church are still impacted by the properties of the Pietistic movement of Luthernaism. I know I am, when I think about it. I see it in my own life.
Martin Luther was a church activist who believed, as the Scriptures state, "Study and be eager and do your utmost to present yourself to God approved (tested by trial), a workman who has no cause to be ashamed (remorseful, shame-faced, himiliated, guilty), correctly analyzing and accurately dividing [rightly handling and skillfully teaching the Word of Truth (2Timothy2:15/ Amplified Version).
Biblical Lesson #1- God'sWord is truth.
Biblical Lesson #2- Personal biblical devotion is necessary and encouraged.
Pietism originated with the work of Philipp Spener a Lutheran theologian whose emphasis on personal transformation through spiritual rebirth and renewal, individual devotion and piety laid the foundations for the movement. Now as I continue reading this article on Pietism I discover that God raised up certain people from various parts of Europe, male and female, to spread "the pietism movement" throughout various parts of Europe. I hear the Spirit of God saying to me that, "In this hour God is raising up individuals from different parts of North America and the earth to spearhead their culture in pietism (2Timothy 2:15)." As a result of knowing God's Word for ourselves we can and will have a greater impact on the culture, as ambassadors of God and His co-laborers in the fulfillment of the great commission (Matthew 28:18-20; 1Corinthians 3:9; 2Corinthians 5:20; Ephesians 6:20).
Biblical Lesson #3: Pietism is responsible for the ministry work of the Evangelist (Acts 2:40-47, 8:14-17, 25, 26-40).
Now, in order for you to hear God in your time of personal devotion of the Scriptures, it is imperative that you cultivate an atmosphere to hear God and receive His truth. Many who are dull in their hearing, who are thick and impenetrable in their hearts can not receive the things of God, because they are spiritually degenerate and unregenerated. In order to effectively receive and grow in the things of God so that we can go we must purposefully put off the old nature of sin and be re-trained, re-programmed in our minds with biblical principles and put on a regenerate nature made in the image of God in true righteousness and holiness (Ephesians 4:22-24; Jeremiah 4:3-4; 6:10; Matthew 13:15; Hebrews 5:11-12/ Amplified Version). GOD will urge us to study, but HE will not force us to study the Bible. He will, though, aid us in our time of devotion, relieving us of limitations and distractions to study, but WE must first put forth an effort. As I learned, You do it! Amen.
Bible Lesson #4- A regenerate nature is the nature of God.
Please Note: When we lack the consistency to study the Scriptures, we are conveying to God that we are disinterested in what He has to say. And saints, in God's book that's a BIG no, no! We must desire the sincere milk of God's Word and as we grow eat meat. As milk is for the bones (the bodies protection) and meat is for the muscles (producing free flowing movement and strength) so it is true concerning our spiritual growth. The milk of God's Word protects our movement in the Spirit as we grow up into Christ (Ephesians 4:15-16).
Jesus called twelve disciples to himself to separate them for the work of the ministry. Although they were called at the same time, together, their growth in the Scriptures and for the equipping of ministry was an individual calling. They all grew, but they grew on different levels, in different streams of ministry depending on their individual assignment. They had to possess a personal pietism for God and His Word.
Those who have deep pietism will have a greater impact when reaching the lost and teaching and equipping the saints in their Christianity. Why? They will possess greater impact, because the Word of God in their hearts permeates the soul, resulting in fortification in the total man (spirit, soul, and body). When trials and temptation come, because they are rooted in their devotion unto the Lord, they will be unmoved, disspelling the kingdom of darkness and illuminating and advancing the agenda of the kingdom of light.
JESUS, throughout the New Testament gospels would speak in parables. But why? HE did so to separate the seekers from the swindlers. I, also, believe that Jesus spoke in parables to spark in the seeker a seek for personal peitism.
Jesus spoke to the multitudes, but not all of the multitudes grasped the message of Jesus Christ. He who had ears to hear what the Spirit of Truth was communicating to the church bore fruit of that messsge. Just because you go to church and hear the gospel doesn't necessarily mean it is being applied. Our lives will bear witness of our seek. We can only go as far as our grow. Amen.
Biblical Lesson#5: Study! Study! Study! Study the Scriptures and fall head over heels in love with JESUS.
I encourage you to put your circumcised ear to the heart of God and allow Him to unlock historical accounts regarding the Bible with ONE WORD. For me it was pietistic. What is HE speaking to you? I learned pietism dated back all the way to 17th century. Wow!!! Remarkable! That's 4 centuries back y'all! Smh...
ONE WORD from God can unlock and release the movement of God over our days for generations to come. I believe now that is what GOD was conveying to me. He's unlocking pietism in our day. He is raising up a generation throughout the earth that will devote themselves to studying the Scritures; a generation willing to go deeper nonetheless into the matchless, presence of GOD.
Isn't that Good News? Good News to all pietisticals in pursuit of God on a mission to impact nations across the globe! Globetrotters addision.
KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED
(Promotingthe Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
The Power of Intercession
Esther 8---Decree a thing and it shall be for all to see. The KING (our GOD) has declared it!
Decree a Thing, oh KING
This right here made possible will bless generations to come. Hallelujah! Whole nations depend on this tangible decree of a reversed decision. Our generations will walk in victory, when they have the KINGS decree signed, sealed and delivered to pass on from generation to generation. Wouldn't you agree? It is this decree that not only saved Israel as a nation but blessed them as well. It will create a peace of mind and liberation from persecution, death, oppression and limitation! God can do anything but fail. Do you believe that?
Trust God to fight for you in your health, money, purpose, relationships, society, government, etc.
Think about it. Our world system is ran on paperwork. When the doctor admits or releases you, or a job or even a school, what do they give you? That's right admittance or release papers. You can't go free or leave a place or state of being until you receive papers showing your release. Right? Well, in the kingdom of God it is the same way. We see this in Hebrews 10:9 and also in Esther 8. Satan, backs up when we speak, but the reason Satan fled from Jesus is because JESUS had written records, stating "IT IS WRITTEN (Matthew 4:1-11)."
Relentless Intercession
When Esther and her people were between a rock and a hard place, she petitioned God through prayer and fasting to turn a hard thing and because she believed God in resilence and courage and moved in obedience to Mordecai and her Jewish convictions to believe God, God turned a difficult sitation around that would have annihilated an entire nation of people (God's people), and the king sent out a written decree securing their lives, homes, families, money, and security. When you are in the hot seat, just run to God and allow him to equip you to be a intercessor for your people. WOW!!! I never thought about that, Esther was an intecessor. Hmm...
The Bible says, Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in the time of need (Hebrews 4:16 KJV). And that is exactly what Esther did on behalf of herself and her people. SHE WAS AN INTECESSOR. She was one who knew how to weep between the altar and the porch. I believe she was diligent and focused while praying, willing to cut off distractions. The Bible says, she prayed and fasted for 3 days and 3 nights (Esther 4:16-17, 5:1).
In this hour God is raising up queens and women of power and authority who love God and God's people and will intercede on their behalf. Esther was selfless proclaiming, "If I perish, I perish!" (Esther 4:16.) Selfless and bold in the face of danger is the character of a true queen which she was and a woman of God.
Yes, she was a believer but she was a woman of governmental power and she wasn't impulsive. She relied on God to give her direction and was willing to tarry and travail in the presence of God before approaching her husband, the king of Persia. Esther was a fair and beautiful woman the Bible says in Esther 2:7, but I don't think that alone is what turned the heart of the king. I believe it was because she put GOD first by praying and fasting and also Israel, her people.
She overcame her fear noted in Esther 4:10-11. It's not that we, like Esther, don't confront fear, because we do, but there is a driving force called the Holy Spirit that gives us power throughout our lives to experience victory over our adversaries. The Bible teaches us not to avenge ourselves, but rather walk in love and allow Him the space to repay (Romans 12:9-21). We are also encouraged not to devour one another. If we do that, we are as the heathens.
No! We are not barbaric. We are royalty. We are priest. We are intecessors.
One "Anointed Decision"
Esther wore the crown on her head to move in authority and power, but she wore the heart and cry of her people in her heart. And out of the abundance of her heart her mouth spoke forth intercession. When we put other's well being before our own, God in turn will reward us on a job, in our relationships, finances, health, etc. God will turn it, if you dare to believe and audaciously confront the powers of the enemy in the strength and the wisdom of God. Trust God in everything you face and HE will turn it around for the good of all those impacted by one decision. Trust the anointed decision of the KING. Oh hail, to the KING!!!
Our nation, homes, schools, financial and educational institution's, the church and even we, individually are under attack, but GOD WILL, IS AND HAS TURNED our lives around all because of an anointed, godly decision to stand for truth, justice and a people that were important to her and God.
Isn't that Good News? Yes, Good News indeed!
KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Decree a Thing, oh KING
This right here made possible will bless generations to come. Hallelujah! Whole nations depend on this tangible decree of a reversed decision. Our generations will walk in victory, when they have the KINGS decree signed, sealed and delivered to pass on from generation to generation. Wouldn't you agree? It is this decree that not only saved Israel as a nation but blessed them as well. It will create a peace of mind and liberation from persecution, death, oppression and limitation! God can do anything but fail. Do you believe that?
Trust God to fight for you in your health, money, purpose, relationships, society, government, etc.
Think about it. Our world system is ran on paperwork. When the doctor admits or releases you, or a job or even a school, what do they give you? That's right admittance or release papers. You can't go free or leave a place or state of being until you receive papers showing your release. Right? Well, in the kingdom of God it is the same way. We see this in Hebrews 10:9 and also in Esther 8. Satan, backs up when we speak, but the reason Satan fled from Jesus is because JESUS had written records, stating "IT IS WRITTEN (Matthew 4:1-11)."
Relentless Intercession
When Esther and her people were between a rock and a hard place, she petitioned God through prayer and fasting to turn a hard thing and because she believed God in resilence and courage and moved in obedience to Mordecai and her Jewish convictions to believe God, God turned a difficult sitation around that would have annihilated an entire nation of people (God's people), and the king sent out a written decree securing their lives, homes, families, money, and security. When you are in the hot seat, just run to God and allow him to equip you to be a intercessor for your people. WOW!!! I never thought about that, Esther was an intecessor. Hmm...
The Bible says, Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in the time of need (Hebrews 4:16 KJV). And that is exactly what Esther did on behalf of herself and her people. SHE WAS AN INTECESSOR. She was one who knew how to weep between the altar and the porch. I believe she was diligent and focused while praying, willing to cut off distractions. The Bible says, she prayed and fasted for 3 days and 3 nights (Esther 4:16-17, 5:1).
In this hour God is raising up queens and women of power and authority who love God and God's people and will intercede on their behalf. Esther was selfless proclaiming, "If I perish, I perish!" (Esther 4:16.) Selfless and bold in the face of danger is the character of a true queen which she was and a woman of God.
Yes, she was a believer but she was a woman of governmental power and she wasn't impulsive. She relied on God to give her direction and was willing to tarry and travail in the presence of God before approaching her husband, the king of Persia. Esther was a fair and beautiful woman the Bible says in Esther 2:7, but I don't think that alone is what turned the heart of the king. I believe it was because she put GOD first by praying and fasting and also Israel, her people.
She overcame her fear noted in Esther 4:10-11. It's not that we, like Esther, don't confront fear, because we do, but there is a driving force called the Holy Spirit that gives us power throughout our lives to experience victory over our adversaries. The Bible teaches us not to avenge ourselves, but rather walk in love and allow Him the space to repay (Romans 12:9-21). We are also encouraged not to devour one another. If we do that, we are as the heathens.
No! We are not barbaric. We are royalty. We are priest. We are intecessors.
One "Anointed Decision"
Esther wore the crown on her head to move in authority and power, but she wore the heart and cry of her people in her heart. And out of the abundance of her heart her mouth spoke forth intercession. When we put other's well being before our own, God in turn will reward us on a job, in our relationships, finances, health, etc. God will turn it, if you dare to believe and audaciously confront the powers of the enemy in the strength and the wisdom of God. Trust God in everything you face and HE will turn it around for the good of all those impacted by one decision. Trust the anointed decision of the KING. Oh hail, to the KING!!!
Our nation, homes, schools, financial and educational institution's, the church and even we, individually are under attack, but GOD WILL, IS AND HAS TURNED our lives around all because of an anointed, godly decision to stand for truth, justice and a people that were important to her and God.
Isn't that Good News? Yes, Good News indeed!
KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Friday, June 30, 2017
I RISE!!!
Fear is one of the weapons and tatics the devil uses to keep us down, feeble, slumped over in battle and afraid to progress in purpose and our destiny. When fear grips your mind and your heart, it can paralyze you. It can leave you paranoid; paranoid to do anything God requires you to do, because of the constant attacks and advances of the enemy against you. But today, I decree and declare that WE WILL NOT LIVE IN FEAR OF OUR ENEMIES, in Jesus name! GOD HAS GIVEN US POWER, LOVE AND A SOUND MIND (2Timothy 1:7/Amplified Version). And so today, I prophesy, I RISE!
Do you feel that? Do you feel an "I RISE" in your spirit? You should, because today is the day, YOU RISE IN AND TO POWER, IN VICTORY AND YOUR DESTINY! Amen.
Now, as I have experienced throughout my own journey to greatness, you will experience hardship, opponents and barriers of opposition that will work profusely to intimidate you and hinder you from ever believing God has called you to greatness and has placed HIS DREAM and HIS THOUGHTS of you in your heart. We all have a built-in program in our hearts that partners with our core intelligence (mind) and our psyche that communicates the will of God for our lives. This built-in program from God is called what Romans 8:29-30 calls, pre-destined (to destine from the beginning; foreordain). Psalm 139:13-17 says, "For YOU did form my inward parts; YOU did knit me together in my mother's womb. I will confess and praise YOU for YOU are fearful and wonderful and for the awful wonder of my birth! Wonderful are YOUR works, and that my inner self knows right well. My frame was not hidden from YOU when I was being formed in secret [and] intricately and curiously wrought [as if embroided with various colors] in the depths of the earth [a region of darkness and mystery]. YOUR eyes saw my unformed substance, and in YOUR book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them. How precious and weighty also are YOUR thoughts to me, O GOD! How vast is the sum of them.
So, before anyone ever predicted how your novel would begin and end, God already established to give you a hope and a wonderful future in Him. Now, we are at constant war with which one will have mastery over us, prophesy or prediction? Nevertheless, I believe with all my heart that we who refuse to believe the lies of the devil and surrender to his devices will indeed enjoy God's best for our lives! Amen.
Now, I sense the lioness from the tribe of Judah rising, laying passively no longer. A warrior with dignity, beauty and strength! SHE HAS RISEN AND NOW SHE ROARS OVER HER KINGDOM WITH STRENGTH AND COURAGE. She is NO LONGER paralyzed by the lies and demeanor of her enemies. She sheds her fears, tears, inadequacies and insecurities. SHE IS CROWNED WITH HONOR AND LONG-LIFE. She's not worried about what she doesn't have, because what she does have is enough to bring her into her destiny. AND SO TODAY, I RISE!
She isn't pompous by any means. She walks with confidence and governs with finesse. She isn't overbearing, and her presence is always welcomed in the room. She watches out for the well being of her young and nurtures them with tenderness (Judges 4-5; Psalm 144:12-15; Proverbs 14:1-2, 15:1,2 &7, 16:24,32, 31:10-31).
She welcomes her beloved KING. She is utterly dependant upon HIM. She isn't intimidated by HIS expectations or HIS history, but brings healing, clarity and stability to it without stipulations across the globe (Isaiah 6:1-8). ROLL YOUR WORK UPON THE LORD [COMMIT AND TRUST THEM WHOLLY TO HIM; HE WILL CAUSE YOUR THOUGHTS TO BECOME AGREEABLE TO HIS WILL, AND] SO SHALL YOUR PLANS BE ESTABLISHED AND SUCCEED. THE LORD HAS MADE EVERYTHING [TO ACCOMMODATE ITSELF AND CONTRIBUTE] TO ITS OWN END AND HIS OWN PURPOSE--EVEN THE WICKED [ARE FITTED FOR THEIR ROLE] FOR THE DAY OF CALAMITY AND EVIL (Proverbs 16:3-4).
She rises with this song in her heart, cause me to hear THY lovingkindness in the morning; for in THEE do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto THEE. Teach me to do THY will; for THOU art my GOD: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness (Psalm 143:8,10).
A lioness isn't impulsive, but discerning. She reserves her strength for important matters and for war. Her LORD is her ROCK, her keen and firm STRENGTH, WHO teaches her hands to war (stratgically, instinctively) and her fingers to fight --My steadfast LOVE and my FORTRESS, my HIGHTOWER and my DELIVERER, my SHIELD and HE in WHOM I (confidently) trust and take (absolute) refuge, WHO subdues my people (Israel) under me (Psalm 144:1-2).
A lioness rises in strength and confidence. Her assurance rest on this one thing, BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOM YOU DISCIPLINE AND INSTRUCT, O LORD, AND TEACH OUT OF YOUR LAW, THAT YOU MAY GIVE HIM POWER TO KEEP HIMSELF CALM IN THE DAYS OF ADVERSITY, UNTIL THE [INEVITABLE] PIT OF CORRUPTION IS DUG FOR THE WICKED. FOR THE LORD WILL NOT CAST OFF NOR SPURN HIS PEOPLE, NEITHER WILL HE ABANDON HIS HERITAGE. FOR JUSTICE WILL RETURN TO THE UNCOMPROMISINGLY] RIGHTEOUS, AND ALL THE UPRIGHT IN HEART WILL FOLLOW IT. Isn't that GOOD NEWS, love ones? EXCEPTIONAL NEWS I must say so myself!!! Lol... Yeah! And so, I rise in the strength, and the power and the authority of my GOD and my KING! ROAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
-KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED-
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Do you feel that? Do you feel an "I RISE" in your spirit? You should, because today is the day, YOU RISE IN AND TO POWER, IN VICTORY AND YOUR DESTINY! Amen.
Now, as I have experienced throughout my own journey to greatness, you will experience hardship, opponents and barriers of opposition that will work profusely to intimidate you and hinder you from ever believing God has called you to greatness and has placed HIS DREAM and HIS THOUGHTS of you in your heart. We all have a built-in program in our hearts that partners with our core intelligence (mind) and our psyche that communicates the will of God for our lives. This built-in program from God is called what Romans 8:29-30 calls, pre-destined (to destine from the beginning; foreordain). Psalm 139:13-17 says, "For YOU did form my inward parts; YOU did knit me together in my mother's womb. I will confess and praise YOU for YOU are fearful and wonderful and for the awful wonder of my birth! Wonderful are YOUR works, and that my inner self knows right well. My frame was not hidden from YOU when I was being formed in secret [and] intricately and curiously wrought [as if embroided with various colors] in the depths of the earth [a region of darkness and mystery]. YOUR eyes saw my unformed substance, and in YOUR book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them. How precious and weighty also are YOUR thoughts to me, O GOD! How vast is the sum of them.
So, before anyone ever predicted how your novel would begin and end, God already established to give you a hope and a wonderful future in Him. Now, we are at constant war with which one will have mastery over us, prophesy or prediction? Nevertheless, I believe with all my heart that we who refuse to believe the lies of the devil and surrender to his devices will indeed enjoy God's best for our lives! Amen.
Now, I sense the lioness from the tribe of Judah rising, laying passively no longer. A warrior with dignity, beauty and strength! SHE HAS RISEN AND NOW SHE ROARS OVER HER KINGDOM WITH STRENGTH AND COURAGE. She is NO LONGER paralyzed by the lies and demeanor of her enemies. She sheds her fears, tears, inadequacies and insecurities. SHE IS CROWNED WITH HONOR AND LONG-LIFE. She's not worried about what she doesn't have, because what she does have is enough to bring her into her destiny. AND SO TODAY, I RISE!
She isn't pompous by any means. She walks with confidence and governs with finesse. She isn't overbearing, and her presence is always welcomed in the room. She watches out for the well being of her young and nurtures them with tenderness (Judges 4-5; Psalm 144:12-15; Proverbs 14:1-2, 15:1,2 &7, 16:24,32, 31:10-31).
She welcomes her beloved KING. She is utterly dependant upon HIM. She isn't intimidated by HIS expectations or HIS history, but brings healing, clarity and stability to it without stipulations across the globe (Isaiah 6:1-8). ROLL YOUR WORK UPON THE LORD [COMMIT AND TRUST THEM WHOLLY TO HIM; HE WILL CAUSE YOUR THOUGHTS TO BECOME AGREEABLE TO HIS WILL, AND] SO SHALL YOUR PLANS BE ESTABLISHED AND SUCCEED. THE LORD HAS MADE EVERYTHING [TO ACCOMMODATE ITSELF AND CONTRIBUTE] TO ITS OWN END AND HIS OWN PURPOSE--EVEN THE WICKED [ARE FITTED FOR THEIR ROLE] FOR THE DAY OF CALAMITY AND EVIL (Proverbs 16:3-4).
She rises with this song in her heart, cause me to hear THY lovingkindness in the morning; for in THEE do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto THEE. Teach me to do THY will; for THOU art my GOD: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness (Psalm 143:8,10).
A lioness isn't impulsive, but discerning. She reserves her strength for important matters and for war. Her LORD is her ROCK, her keen and firm STRENGTH, WHO teaches her hands to war (stratgically, instinctively) and her fingers to fight --My steadfast LOVE and my FORTRESS, my HIGHTOWER and my DELIVERER, my SHIELD and HE in WHOM I (confidently) trust and take (absolute) refuge, WHO subdues my people (Israel) under me (Psalm 144:1-2).
A lioness rises in strength and confidence. Her assurance rest on this one thing, BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOM YOU DISCIPLINE AND INSTRUCT, O LORD, AND TEACH OUT OF YOUR LAW, THAT YOU MAY GIVE HIM POWER TO KEEP HIMSELF CALM IN THE DAYS OF ADVERSITY, UNTIL THE [INEVITABLE] PIT OF CORRUPTION IS DUG FOR THE WICKED. FOR THE LORD WILL NOT CAST OFF NOR SPURN HIS PEOPLE, NEITHER WILL HE ABANDON HIS HERITAGE. FOR JUSTICE WILL RETURN TO THE UNCOMPROMISINGLY] RIGHTEOUS, AND ALL THE UPRIGHT IN HEART WILL FOLLOW IT. Isn't that GOOD NEWS, love ones? EXCEPTIONAL NEWS I must say so myself!!! Lol... Yeah! And so, I rise in the strength, and the power and the authority of my GOD and my KING! ROAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
-KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED-
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Saturday, June 10, 2017
DESIRING TO PLEASE GOD
Sitting at the park in the car spending time with God and the voice of God says to me, "God requires all." (Eyes filled with tears.) All means everything; not partial, a snipet or a fraction, but all. God requires my wholeheart devotion (Deuternomy6:5). When we quote that Scripture we say it passively. However, this Scripture demands loyalty from all parts of you, even parts of your life you counted as minute or insignificant. Yeap! He's coming for those areas too.
MERCY LORD.👐
To love God; to be a true disciple of Jesus Christ will require a decision that will alter the direction of your life FOREVER. Decisions are sometimes DIFFICILT, but its usually the difficult decisions that lead you to destiny and a brighter future. Luke 14:25-28, 33 Amplified version says, Now huge crowds were going along with [Jesus], and He turned and said to them, If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his [own] father and mother [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them on comparison with his attitude toward God] and [likewise] his wife and children and brothers and sisters-- [yes] and even his own life also-- he cannot be My disciple. ...So then, any of you who does not forsake (renounce, surrender claim to, give up, say good-bye to) all that he (or she) has cannot be My disciple. (Tears but no regret).
However, God never ask anything of us that He doesn't have in His power or strength or plan to restore. God is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams] (Ephesians 3:20), but you have to fully rely on and trust Him. Sometimes the people, places and things God ask us to give up are not compatible or sound for where God is taking us. We may not grasp that right away and find ourselves fighting for the very thing God is asking us to surrender and give up. But thank God for those in your circle that can see it and be your eyes and help steer your heart in the way of God's purpose for your life.
Moreover, we have to trust that God is not a man that He should (ever) tell or act a lie, neither the son of man, that He should feel repentance or compunction [for what He has promised]. Has He said and shall He not do it? Or has He spoken and shall He not make it good? Tell yourself, God's going to do it again and this time around, God's going to make it ALL good. Whoo! Glory to God!
The Test of Loyalty
Sometimes, God ask for people, places and things that we have prized above Him, and He will ask us like He did Peter, "Do you love Me more than these (John 21:15-17). The test of loyalty will call to the red carpet your attitudes, your heart, your motives and even your failures, and command you to reflect, confess and totally surrender. God cannot send us out if we are overwhelmed with doubt, defeat, despair and disdain.
Yeap? That's right. Peter was internally battling all of this, and Jesus knew it. Jesus whole angle of conversation with Peter was not to publicly shame him in front of his peers and brothers, but to let him know that after a public fall and shame you can be publicly restored back to the call of leadership by one on one discipleship with the One who called you.
My God! Wow! I am full. 😭 TODAY GOD SAYS, YOU ARE WORTHY EVEN AFTER A FALL.
Sometimes our fall from the call is a result of our own doing and sometimes it's the result of another's wrong doing, but whatever the circumstance maybe GOD IS ABLE TO RESTORE YOU. Amen.
Desires
Peter had to be restored on account of his desires to defend himself. But if we want to be used of God, we have to die to even the desire to defend ourselves. That's why Jesus told him to pray. He knows the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Whatever you do, do not retaliate.
Everyone's desires are different, but whatever it is, we have to be willing to tarry in prayer and practice discipline over the desire until it is subject to the Spirit of God and the Word of God. Desires aren't wrong, because the Bible would not have said that God will give us the desires of our heart. It's more on what we desire and how we desire it and why we desire it.
Desire is STRONG! But God is STRONGER! There are certain desires that make your heart race and everything within you stand at attention, but in that moment that's when we have to be quick to run to God or be overtaken by desire.
It's not that I myself don't have desires, because I do! Lord have mercy! But that which I desire, has to be brought to me God's way, and as tempting as it is to yield to desire, I am willing to wait, because I want desire to be a lifetime and not just a fleeting moment. When my desire is to please God first then desire becomes my destiny. Whoo... I am shouting right there!👣👣👣
When we love someone or something, they have our loyalty, and all our heart, we don't want to be the cause of them losing momentum in their purpose and destiny.
So we wait and remain loyal to God and to his timing, even if it means being uncomfortable for a season, rather it be a job, promotion, health venture, relationship or friendship, or a call to ministry.
We all desire to be desired, honored, loved, wealthy, used by God, etc., but it has to be God's way. And when it is God's way, He will bless you through people, places and things that you never even thought considered you, or even were worth their attention and time. And you ask yourself, why me, when there are so many other people, places and things to choose from? WOW!!! God works in mysterious ways. 🤗 IT TRULY IS SUPERNATURAL and GOOD NEWS!!!
-KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED-
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
MERCY LORD.👐
To love God; to be a true disciple of Jesus Christ will require a decision that will alter the direction of your life FOREVER. Decisions are sometimes DIFFICILT, but its usually the difficult decisions that lead you to destiny and a brighter future. Luke 14:25-28, 33 Amplified version says, Now huge crowds were going along with [Jesus], and He turned and said to them, If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his [own] father and mother [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them on comparison with his attitude toward God] and [likewise] his wife and children and brothers and sisters-- [yes] and even his own life also-- he cannot be My disciple. ...So then, any of you who does not forsake (renounce, surrender claim to, give up, say good-bye to) all that he (or she) has cannot be My disciple. (Tears but no regret).
However, God never ask anything of us that He doesn't have in His power or strength or plan to restore. God is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams] (Ephesians 3:20), but you have to fully rely on and trust Him. Sometimes the people, places and things God ask us to give up are not compatible or sound for where God is taking us. We may not grasp that right away and find ourselves fighting for the very thing God is asking us to surrender and give up. But thank God for those in your circle that can see it and be your eyes and help steer your heart in the way of God's purpose for your life.
Moreover, we have to trust that God is not a man that He should (ever) tell or act a lie, neither the son of man, that He should feel repentance or compunction [for what He has promised]. Has He said and shall He not do it? Or has He spoken and shall He not make it good? Tell yourself, God's going to do it again and this time around, God's going to make it ALL good. Whoo! Glory to God!
The Test of Loyalty
Sometimes, God ask for people, places and things that we have prized above Him, and He will ask us like He did Peter, "Do you love Me more than these (John 21:15-17). The test of loyalty will call to the red carpet your attitudes, your heart, your motives and even your failures, and command you to reflect, confess and totally surrender. God cannot send us out if we are overwhelmed with doubt, defeat, despair and disdain.
Yeap? That's right. Peter was internally battling all of this, and Jesus knew it. Jesus whole angle of conversation with Peter was not to publicly shame him in front of his peers and brothers, but to let him know that after a public fall and shame you can be publicly restored back to the call of leadership by one on one discipleship with the One who called you.
My God! Wow! I am full. 😭 TODAY GOD SAYS, YOU ARE WORTHY EVEN AFTER A FALL.
Sometimes our fall from the call is a result of our own doing and sometimes it's the result of another's wrong doing, but whatever the circumstance maybe GOD IS ABLE TO RESTORE YOU. Amen.
Desires
Peter had to be restored on account of his desires to defend himself. But if we want to be used of God, we have to die to even the desire to defend ourselves. That's why Jesus told him to pray. He knows the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Whatever you do, do not retaliate.
Everyone's desires are different, but whatever it is, we have to be willing to tarry in prayer and practice discipline over the desire until it is subject to the Spirit of God and the Word of God. Desires aren't wrong, because the Bible would not have said that God will give us the desires of our heart. It's more on what we desire and how we desire it and why we desire it.
Desire is STRONG! But God is STRONGER! There are certain desires that make your heart race and everything within you stand at attention, but in that moment that's when we have to be quick to run to God or be overtaken by desire.
It's not that I myself don't have desires, because I do! Lord have mercy! But that which I desire, has to be brought to me God's way, and as tempting as it is to yield to desire, I am willing to wait, because I want desire to be a lifetime and not just a fleeting moment. When my desire is to please God first then desire becomes my destiny. Whoo... I am shouting right there!👣👣👣
When we love someone or something, they have our loyalty, and all our heart, we don't want to be the cause of them losing momentum in their purpose and destiny.
So we wait and remain loyal to God and to his timing, even if it means being uncomfortable for a season, rather it be a job, promotion, health venture, relationship or friendship, or a call to ministry.
-KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED-
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
THE VALUE OF GODLY WISDOM
Theory vs. Truth
After some in depth reflection and meditation on this thought "Pulling down theory into reality", with the help of the Holy Spirit, I gather this revelation on this statement and the subject theory versus truth. I must ask which is true? Well, which ever one you believe in will become your truth or reality. So your truth can still be foundated on an accumulation of lies and falsehood. The antidote for this is found in Romans 12:1-2; 2Corinthians 10:3-6; Ephesians 4:22-24. You have to submit your body to God and submerge your mind in the Word of God, then pull down these demonic strongholds that are an enemy to the truth. Amen.
Both theory and truth are formulations and functions of the mind. Truth is divine proceeding from the eternal God and theory is humanism stemming from the human intellect produced by reasoning and logical explaination. Both can become a stronghold of the mind. Truth leads to answers, while theory leads to never ending wondering and exploring but never really leading one to what is and how someone or something truly has come to exist.
Truth is based on revelation (John 14:17, 16:13), while theory is the result of a hardened heart (Romans 1:18-22/Amplified version). The Bible instructs us to, "Let not mercy and kindness [shutting out all hatred and selfishness] and truth [shutting out all deliberate hypocrisy or falsehood] forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them upon the tablet of your heart. So shall you find favor, good understanding, and high esteem in the sight [or judgment] of God and man. Lean not, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In ALL your ways {thoughts, actions, speech} know, recognize, and acknowledge HIM (God), and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths {journey}. BE NOT WISE IN YOUR OWN EYES; REVERENTLY FEAR AND WORSHIP THE LORD AND TURN [ENTIRELY] AWAY FROM EVIL. It shall be health to your nerves and sinews, and marrow and moistening to your bones (Proverbs 3:3-8/Amplified Version)." Amen.
Now truth leads to God and theory leads to hell and destruction. Truth leads to what is true and WHO is truth. While theory is the accumulation of data and researched material such as artifacts and information that support a hypothetical guess that isn't necessarily true. Hmm...🙄
Theory is also a system of manmade opinions passed down from generation to generation but changes every so many years because a glitch is in the system, the structures and the standard. Both can be studied, but only truth is revealed. Truth is undistupted. It's absolute and unchanging. I believe that we must become resolute in the absolutes (the Word of God).
If in any way we attempt to change divine law and redefine in anyway what God has set as the standard and structure for living, everything truth holds up and keeps together becomes makeshift and eventually will collapse, because humanism cannot anchor and hold up the weight of the eternal. It just cannot. It doesn't have the capacity to do so.
So, at the end of the day, truth trumps theory. (Good stuff, Holy Spirit!) So, which would you rather build your life upon, the infallible foundation of truth or the fallible foundation of theory? The choice is yours, love one. You have the free will to choose, but I must warn you, choose wisely. Amen.
Now let's continue our study. TRUTH IS LAW. It is made up of divine structures and systems and standards proceeding out of the heart of God and the mouth of God. These infallible truths hold the frame of the world and the universe in its set place (Hebrews 11:3; 2Peter 3:5). Truth is eternal; unchanging; it just is because God commanded it to be so. Truth can be trusted. It is accurate, correct, valid, authentic, certain, real, actual, law, principle. So if you get truth you will inherit, upon request, godly wisdom (James 1:5-7).
The Bible says that, Jesus is the WISDOM of God revealed to mankind in human flesh (John 1:14; 1Corinthians 1:24). The WISDOM of God is from everlasting to everlasting. Jesus, the WISDOM of God by the Father, was inaugurated and ordained from the beginning. WISDOM was there when God the Father prepared the heavens and drew a circle (the earth) upon the deep (the waters and the seas) and stretched the firmanent (the sky; the upper atmosphere) over it (creating scenery and boundaries). WISDOM was beside the Father as a MASTER and DIRECTOR of the work; and daily was the delight of the Father, rejoicing before Him always, rejoicing in His inhabited earth (all of Earth's creation/ Genesis 1-2) and delighting in the sons of men (Proverbs 8:22-31).
Godly WISDOM is beneficial! WISDOM speaks. WISDOM brings clarity. WISDOM communicates truth and righteousness. WISDOM leads to more wisdom of the same kind.
WISDOM gives sound counsel and knowledge. WISDOM is mighty and powerful. By WISDOM kings reign and rulers decree justice. By WISDOM princes nobles, all judges and govenors of the earth rule.
WISDOM has a love language. Riches and honor are with WISDOM, enduring wealth and righteousness (which is the fruit of holiness). WISDOM will bring you into wealth, prosperity and good success. WISDOM will fill your bank accounts and bring abundance into your investing (Proverbs 8). Let me stop and ask you, WHAT ARE YOU INVESTING IN? Godly WISDOM or Humanism?
My God! Glory to God! Whoo...! That right there deserves a praise break.👣👣👣👣
Invest in GODLY WISDOM, the absolute, infallible truths of God. Amen. You will go long and remain fortified, if this is your goal of seek and discipline. My God! JESUS!!!👐
CONDEMN NO ONE
The Bible admonishes us to condemn no one. Do not make any hasty or premature judgments before the time when the Lord comes [again], for He will both bring to light the secret things that are [now hidden] in darkness and disclose and expose the [secret] aims (motives and purposes) of hearts. Then every man will receive his {or her} [due] commendation from God (1Corinthians 4:5/Amplified Version). So in other words, hold each other accountable, but don't jump the gun and get ahead of God and say who is condemned and who isn't, unless HE, through revelation or a word of knowledge instructs you to. And He will sometimes do just that to warn someone they are on the brink of going to hell. In that case, it is not the messenger that passed judgment but the God who reveals and rightly judges all things on the basis of His Word (John 12:47-48).
I do want to say this that the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of Wisdom or the Spirit of Truth sent from God the Father. Furthermore, He is God. He's not an agent of God or a force. HE IS GOD! So when we lie to the Holy Ghost, we are actually lying to God Himself, because in God there is a three part triune being (trinity; 3 equal parts in one, unified in deity, semetry and standard). In Acts 5:1-11 Anaias and his wife Sapphira lied about their business affairs. Peter, using godly wisdom and insight into a matter, seeing through the disguise of falsehood and uncovering the truth, confronted the head first, like God did Adam when he fell into willful sin as the head, saying, "Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to and attempt to deceive the Holy Spirit?" Going further, Peter informs Ananias that he has lied not to man but to God. 😮. And the Bible says, in hearing from God, he fell dead. And so did his wife because she consented to this lust for gain which led to their death and destruction (James 1:13-15; 1John 2:15-17).
Sound judgmemt from the Holy Ghost will hold us accountable for our dealings. And as we see in this passage, like in Genesis 3, God will hold each party responsible for there part in sin. Wow! Peter did reveal that when something is in our possession we have every right to decide how we are going to go about using it (in a healthy way), but once we make our decision and give it to God in our hearts, it is sin to change our minds (Ecclesiastes 5:1-6).
I must admit, I have been guilty of doing this very thing in times pass. I'll say what I am going to give to God and withhold the very thing I said I would give. And wonder why I haven't seen the manifestation of a thing. BUT HOW CAN I SEE THE MANIFESTATION OF A THING IF IT'S STILL IN MY POSSESSION? Smh...😩
If we desire to see the manifestation of God's promises, we must give Him what we owe Him from our hearts and release it out of our hands into His. We must give all. Total surrender. Whoo!
Now let me say this, because I can truly relate to this. If you have partnered with one in covenant, rather in business, ministry, marriage, friendship, etc. and you both agreed on keeping the agreement in your heart and one party decided to break what was committed to God repeatively and refuses to be truthful in their inward parts and dealings before God and the one they are in covenant with, God will in fact judge the guilty party rightfully according to the Word and release the other based upon the Scriptures. BUT IT IS NOT THAT PARTIES JOB WHO IS INNOCENT TO VINDICATE THEMSELVES OR PREMATURELY JUMP THE GUN. As power belongs to God, so does judgment, and God will judge the violator in His own timing and release the other from the broken covenant.
It is the job of the innocent to trust the timing of God and remain focused on loving God and the violator using discretion and listening for the voice of God as God commanded while pursuing God's will His way. Amen.
DON'T EVER ATTEMPT TO VINDICATE YOURSELF IN ANY MATTER. IT ONLY BRINGS MORE PERIL. WAIT ON GOD. VENGEANCE BELONGS TO GOD NOT YOU.
God's vindication cannot be contested.
The day of your release surely, I said surely shall come to pass. It has already been set for a set time for a set season. So remain set and wait for God's release and way out. HE WILL MAKE A WAY FOR YOUR ESCAPE AND LEAD YOU TO SAFETY, UNTOUCHED, UNHARMED, ALIVE AND WELL without any affects of your past!!!
RUNNING...👣👣👣👣
USE DISCRETION
Please, please, please use discretion in all matters and in every decision. Human wisdom only leads to confusion and destruction on all levels. GOD'S WISDOM will teach you to be strategic in your dealings and thinking, even with your words. Godly wisdom leads to the shalom peace of God; nothing lacking, missing or broken.
Wise people don't dialogue ALL THE TIME, unless it is their calling, but even in that they are still wise with their words or at least should be. Right? 🤓.
Godly wisdom will always reveal the concealed. We see this throughout the Scriptures. It may be years down the road, but just know, godly wisdom will uncover a lie and the one concealing the truth. Strategy always accompanies godly wisdom (1Kings 3:26). By WISDOM kings decree justice (Proverbs 8:15).
Godly WISDOM (JESUS) is your source to freedom, purity, favor, and faith. WISDOM is your source of and to abundance. WISDOM will lead you out of what foolishness abandoned you in. WISDOM is not only God Himself, but WISDOM also leads you to God Himself. My God!
Godly WISDOM bears us up and hides us until God is ready to act on our behalf. Godly WISDOM shows us how to be focused, set, productive and proactive while we wait on God. Godly WISDOM will keep us in the karios timing of God while the power of the Elohim God is in full operation in the heavenlies.
My God! Lord...! I'm trying not to cry. I don't know if I should shout, run, cry or just fall to my knees right now and worship the Almighty God, because He is infinite in WISDOM AND POWER! Just know the Omniscient ONE is in full swing.
There's glory after this! You hear me? Listen for the cry of WISDOM. Listen for the sound of the suddenly and whatever you do don't retaliate when your enemies oppose you (AMLSIII). WISDOM is on the move. So stay set until HE acts.
Whoo... isn't that Good News? Yes, my Lord! That's that capital GOOD GOD NEWS!!!
Running....👣👣👣👣. Whoo! I encouraged myself today! I feel this run. 😂
KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED
(Prompting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
After some in depth reflection and meditation on this thought "Pulling down theory into reality", with the help of the Holy Spirit, I gather this revelation on this statement and the subject theory versus truth. I must ask which is true? Well, which ever one you believe in will become your truth or reality. So your truth can still be foundated on an accumulation of lies and falsehood. The antidote for this is found in Romans 12:1-2; 2Corinthians 10:3-6; Ephesians 4:22-24. You have to submit your body to God and submerge your mind in the Word of God, then pull down these demonic strongholds that are an enemy to the truth. Amen.
Both theory and truth are formulations and functions of the mind. Truth is divine proceeding from the eternal God and theory is humanism stemming from the human intellect produced by reasoning and logical explaination. Both can become a stronghold of the mind. Truth leads to answers, while theory leads to never ending wondering and exploring but never really leading one to what is and how someone or something truly has come to exist.
Truth is based on revelation (John 14:17, 16:13), while theory is the result of a hardened heart (Romans 1:18-22/Amplified version). The Bible instructs us to, "Let not mercy and kindness [shutting out all hatred and selfishness] and truth [shutting out all deliberate hypocrisy or falsehood] forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them upon the tablet of your heart. So shall you find favor, good understanding, and high esteem in the sight [or judgment] of God and man. Lean not, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In ALL your ways {thoughts, actions, speech} know, recognize, and acknowledge HIM (God), and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths {journey}. BE NOT WISE IN YOUR OWN EYES; REVERENTLY FEAR AND WORSHIP THE LORD AND TURN [ENTIRELY] AWAY FROM EVIL. It shall be health to your nerves and sinews, and marrow and moistening to your bones (Proverbs 3:3-8/Amplified Version)." Amen.
Now truth leads to God and theory leads to hell and destruction. Truth leads to what is true and WHO is truth. While theory is the accumulation of data and researched material such as artifacts and information that support a hypothetical guess that isn't necessarily true. Hmm...🙄
Theory is also a system of manmade opinions passed down from generation to generation but changes every so many years because a glitch is in the system, the structures and the standard. Both can be studied, but only truth is revealed. Truth is undistupted. It's absolute and unchanging. I believe that we must become resolute in the absolutes (the Word of God).
If in any way we attempt to change divine law and redefine in anyway what God has set as the standard and structure for living, everything truth holds up and keeps together becomes makeshift and eventually will collapse, because humanism cannot anchor and hold up the weight of the eternal. It just cannot. It doesn't have the capacity to do so.
So, at the end of the day, truth trumps theory. (Good stuff, Holy Spirit!) So, which would you rather build your life upon, the infallible foundation of truth or the fallible foundation of theory? The choice is yours, love one. You have the free will to choose, but I must warn you, choose wisely. Amen.
Now let's continue our study. TRUTH IS LAW. It is made up of divine structures and systems and standards proceeding out of the heart of God and the mouth of God. These infallible truths hold the frame of the world and the universe in its set place (Hebrews 11:3; 2Peter 3:5). Truth is eternal; unchanging; it just is because God commanded it to be so. Truth can be trusted. It is accurate, correct, valid, authentic, certain, real, actual, law, principle. So if you get truth you will inherit, upon request, godly wisdom (James 1:5-7).
The Bible says that, Jesus is the WISDOM of God revealed to mankind in human flesh (John 1:14; 1Corinthians 1:24). The WISDOM of God is from everlasting to everlasting. Jesus, the WISDOM of God by the Father, was inaugurated and ordained from the beginning. WISDOM was there when God the Father prepared the heavens and drew a circle (the earth) upon the deep (the waters and the seas) and stretched the firmanent (the sky; the upper atmosphere) over it (creating scenery and boundaries). WISDOM was beside the Father as a MASTER and DIRECTOR of the work; and daily was the delight of the Father, rejoicing before Him always, rejoicing in His inhabited earth (all of Earth's creation/ Genesis 1-2) and delighting in the sons of men (Proverbs 8:22-31).
Godly WISDOM is beneficial! WISDOM speaks. WISDOM brings clarity. WISDOM communicates truth and righteousness. WISDOM leads to more wisdom of the same kind.
WISDOM gives sound counsel and knowledge. WISDOM is mighty and powerful. By WISDOM kings reign and rulers decree justice. By WISDOM princes nobles, all judges and govenors of the earth rule.
WISDOM has a love language. Riches and honor are with WISDOM, enduring wealth and righteousness (which is the fruit of holiness). WISDOM will bring you into wealth, prosperity and good success. WISDOM will fill your bank accounts and bring abundance into your investing (Proverbs 8). Let me stop and ask you, WHAT ARE YOU INVESTING IN? Godly WISDOM or Humanism?
My God! Glory to God! Whoo...! That right there deserves a praise break.👣👣👣👣
Invest in GODLY WISDOM, the absolute, infallible truths of God. Amen. You will go long and remain fortified, if this is your goal of seek and discipline. My God! JESUS!!!👐
CONDEMN NO ONE
The Bible admonishes us to condemn no one. Do not make any hasty or premature judgments before the time when the Lord comes [again], for He will both bring to light the secret things that are [now hidden] in darkness and disclose and expose the [secret] aims (motives and purposes) of hearts. Then every man will receive his {or her} [due] commendation from God (1Corinthians 4:5/Amplified Version). So in other words, hold each other accountable, but don't jump the gun and get ahead of God and say who is condemned and who isn't, unless HE, through revelation or a word of knowledge instructs you to. And He will sometimes do just that to warn someone they are on the brink of going to hell. In that case, it is not the messenger that passed judgment but the God who reveals and rightly judges all things on the basis of His Word (John 12:47-48).
I do want to say this that the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of Wisdom or the Spirit of Truth sent from God the Father. Furthermore, He is God. He's not an agent of God or a force. HE IS GOD! So when we lie to the Holy Ghost, we are actually lying to God Himself, because in God there is a three part triune being (trinity; 3 equal parts in one, unified in deity, semetry and standard). In Acts 5:1-11 Anaias and his wife Sapphira lied about their business affairs. Peter, using godly wisdom and insight into a matter, seeing through the disguise of falsehood and uncovering the truth, confronted the head first, like God did Adam when he fell into willful sin as the head, saying, "Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to and attempt to deceive the Holy Spirit?" Going further, Peter informs Ananias that he has lied not to man but to God. 😮. And the Bible says, in hearing from God, he fell dead. And so did his wife because she consented to this lust for gain which led to their death and destruction (James 1:13-15; 1John 2:15-17).
Sound judgmemt from the Holy Ghost will hold us accountable for our dealings. And as we see in this passage, like in Genesis 3, God will hold each party responsible for there part in sin. Wow! Peter did reveal that when something is in our possession we have every right to decide how we are going to go about using it (in a healthy way), but once we make our decision and give it to God in our hearts, it is sin to change our minds (Ecclesiastes 5:1-6).
I must admit, I have been guilty of doing this very thing in times pass. I'll say what I am going to give to God and withhold the very thing I said I would give. And wonder why I haven't seen the manifestation of a thing. BUT HOW CAN I SEE THE MANIFESTATION OF A THING IF IT'S STILL IN MY POSSESSION? Smh...😩
If we desire to see the manifestation of God's promises, we must give Him what we owe Him from our hearts and release it out of our hands into His. We must give all. Total surrender. Whoo!
Now let me say this, because I can truly relate to this. If you have partnered with one in covenant, rather in business, ministry, marriage, friendship, etc. and you both agreed on keeping the agreement in your heart and one party decided to break what was committed to God repeatively and refuses to be truthful in their inward parts and dealings before God and the one they are in covenant with, God will in fact judge the guilty party rightfully according to the Word and release the other based upon the Scriptures. BUT IT IS NOT THAT PARTIES JOB WHO IS INNOCENT TO VINDICATE THEMSELVES OR PREMATURELY JUMP THE GUN. As power belongs to God, so does judgment, and God will judge the violator in His own timing and release the other from the broken covenant.
It is the job of the innocent to trust the timing of God and remain focused on loving God and the violator using discretion and listening for the voice of God as God commanded while pursuing God's will His way. Amen.
DON'T EVER ATTEMPT TO VINDICATE YOURSELF IN ANY MATTER. IT ONLY BRINGS MORE PERIL. WAIT ON GOD. VENGEANCE BELONGS TO GOD NOT YOU.
God's vindication cannot be contested.
The day of your release surely, I said surely shall come to pass. It has already been set for a set time for a set season. So remain set and wait for God's release and way out. HE WILL MAKE A WAY FOR YOUR ESCAPE AND LEAD YOU TO SAFETY, UNTOUCHED, UNHARMED, ALIVE AND WELL without any affects of your past!!!
RUNNING...👣👣👣👣
USE DISCRETION
Please, please, please use discretion in all matters and in every decision. Human wisdom only leads to confusion and destruction on all levels. GOD'S WISDOM will teach you to be strategic in your dealings and thinking, even with your words. Godly wisdom leads to the shalom peace of God; nothing lacking, missing or broken.
Wise people don't dialogue ALL THE TIME, unless it is their calling, but even in that they are still wise with their words or at least should be. Right? 🤓.
Godly wisdom will always reveal the concealed. We see this throughout the Scriptures. It may be years down the road, but just know, godly wisdom will uncover a lie and the one concealing the truth. Strategy always accompanies godly wisdom (1Kings 3:26). By WISDOM kings decree justice (Proverbs 8:15).
Godly WISDOM (JESUS) is your source to freedom, purity, favor, and faith. WISDOM is your source of and to abundance. WISDOM will lead you out of what foolishness abandoned you in. WISDOM is not only God Himself, but WISDOM also leads you to God Himself. My God!
Godly WISDOM bears us up and hides us until God is ready to act on our behalf. Godly WISDOM shows us how to be focused, set, productive and proactive while we wait on God. Godly WISDOM will keep us in the karios timing of God while the power of the Elohim God is in full operation in the heavenlies.
My God! Lord...! I'm trying not to cry. I don't know if I should shout, run, cry or just fall to my knees right now and worship the Almighty God, because He is infinite in WISDOM AND POWER! Just know the Omniscient ONE is in full swing.
There's glory after this! You hear me? Listen for the cry of WISDOM. Listen for the sound of the suddenly and whatever you do don't retaliate when your enemies oppose you (AMLSIII). WISDOM is on the move. So stay set until HE acts.
Whoo... isn't that Good News? Yes, my Lord! That's that capital GOOD GOD NEWS!!!
Running....👣👣👣👣. Whoo! I encouraged myself today! I feel this run. 😂
KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED
(Prompting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
The Pursuit of Purpose
In the Morning
On Friday May 19th, I awakened to the voice of the Holy Spirit revealing to me that "A lack of vision is the direct result of a lack of prayer (divine communication with God)," and without vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish, but he [or she] who keeps the law [the Word of God] blessed is he [or she] (Proverbs 29:18-Amplified Version).
Prayer is the access point into the presence of God the Father. When Jesus entered into the dimension of prayer, the dimension of purpose was unlocked, and because He was resolute in the Father's command, He was then able to decipher between the persuasion of man versus the purpose of God (Mark 1:35-39).
Prayer is a dimension, but so is purpose. As I was studying the subject of purpose, the Holy Spirit showed me a staircase representing divine dimensions leading to destiny. At the base was the dimension of prayer (prayer is your foundation). The next was the dimension of purpose. Then, there is the dimension of execution. At the top of the staircase is the dimension of destiny. However, nothing happens until you pray.
Each dimension correlates with the other, releasing grace to unlock the others resources, potential and power. When you hit your knees showing dependency upon God, God's heart is moved on your behalf. Your purpose is revealed through heavenly insight (involving the release of divine information that communicates the Father's heart and will for your life).
Purpose then unlocks the ability to execute the purposes of God thoroughly with precision. Vision and focus are the companions of purpose leading you ultimately to your God-given destiny. So take a knee and journey up the staircase of destiny. Amen.
Covet Not Your Neighbors Opportunities
So purpose presents multiple opportunities (Ephesians 5:15-17), and no opportunity is the same. In order to seize every God ordained opportunity, we must live purposefully, firmly grasping (mentally and spiritually) what the will of God is for our lives. Opportunities, also, house favor. We can miss the favor of God and the opportunity to be favored, if we are not intuned with God through prayer.
We do not have to covet anyone else opportunities or call. However, many do. Why? Covetousness is the result of the lack of vision for one's life, and a lack of vision is the result of a lack of prayer. No prayer, no vision. No vision, no provision. Whoa...😮
When we covet the gifts, talents and accumulated wealth and achievements of others, we are communicating to God that He's short on funds and on genius to give us the ability to get wealth and have good success. Those terms aren't in His DNA or resume. How can the God that has a limitless supply of "gifts and surprises" be short on anything good?!?! I'm just saying, people.🙄
We encounter the lack of for several reasons. One reason being, we are praying our will and not GOD'S WILL. Go back. Check your last conversation with God. Make sure you did not alter or override what he said for what you wanted.
Let me tell you the downfall of covetousness. Coveting others goods shuts off our ability to internally receive the Father's heart, because our hearts are full of want, greed, gotta have, ungodly expectations, hypocrisies, idolatry and jealousy; clutter. Covetousness cuts off our ability to commune and communicate with God effectively, because we are too distracted with things and the lust for things. The lust for things build a wedge between us and God.
Covetousness also disconnects us from the ONE that grounds us and centers us spiritually, mentally and emotionally to hear His instructions in the place of intimacy through the channel of prayer.
When we shut down the prayer line, we disconnect from the God that gives us answers, purpose and a reason for not just existing but being. Whoo... okay. That's deep.
Beware of Satan's Tatics
Prayer is an excellent source of communication with God the Father. Moreover, so is the Word of God. God's Word communicates God's thoughts and heart toward us. Proverbs 29:18 declares a blessing on all those that obey the Word. God's Word has the power to reveal and communicate God's purposes.
Satan's goal is to make us too tired to read the Word or pray by bombarding us with the to-do's throughout the day. If we're too tired to pray and/or read the Word then we won't know God's will and how to execute it.
Are You Ready
God asked me a real question. He said, "You've been asking me for purpose, but ARE YOU PREPARED?" Many Christian's fail to go forth in their God ordained purpose, because they are not ready. We dont know when God is going to call us forward. So, PREPARE, or be prepared to sit on the shelf of potential another season.
You have to prepare for your purpose. Invest, invest, invest. Invest in prayer, personal and corporate study time (incorporating notes). Buy and thoroughly read books. Go to conferences and free meetings. You will be surprised how many free seminars are available, if you're willing to seek for them. Invest your time and effort. Be willing to be coached by godly seasoned leaders, mentors, entrepreneurs, etc. Don't make excuses. Make strategic moves towards God's will for your life.
You cannot, I repeat, you cannot pursue purpose and be effective without God. So, question... Are you in purpose, if you're out of God's will? No, you're not, at least not God's. Our ability to effectively pursue purpose is tied to our ability to effectively pursue God, moment by moment.
None of us are here by accident. If you don't know God's will, then seek Him until He reveals it. When God gives a mandate, He always reveals the purpose behind it. Always.
The reason why many of us don't know our purpose or the reason behind it is the result of our failure to seek God in prayer, or if we are praying, we are not waiting for the answer. Please, do not pursue your God ordained purpose outside of God's instructions. Failed purpose is the result of a lack of prayer or getting ahead of God. If you want to prosper, pray and wait.
Faith in Action
Faith without works is dead (James 2:17 & 26). Purpose requires faith. Faith pleases God. So if you want God to move on your behalf, work your faith. Our level of action reveals our level of faith.
Faith in action is the preping ground for purpose. Every action taken in faith is migrating us to the fulfillment of purpose. Faith moves you to do what God has said but you do not see. Noah demonstrated that kind of faith. He acted upon what God said but did not see, yet.
Mm...👣 That's good!
The Bible says, "By faith Noah being fore-warned by God concerning events of which as yet, there was no visible sign, took heed and diligently and reverently constructed and prepared an ark for the deliverence of him and his family. By this [his faith which relied on God] he passed judgment and sentence on the world's unbelief and became an heir and possessor of righteousness (that relation of being right into which God puts the person who has faith] (Hebrews 11:7 - Amplified Version).
Faith in action not only unlocks our purpose but also the resources to fund it. God will liberally supply our every need according to His riches and glory (Philippians 4:19). Noah had everything he needed to build that ark. And if you have faith in God and move in obedience to His instructions, you will too.
Live to Glorify God
Our goal from the time we wake up to the time we close our eyes and go to sleep must be to glorify God. Even in our sleep, we should be dreaming of strategies, answers, solutions, etc. Jesus life-long goal was to glorify the Father. When God was glorified, the Son also received glory from the Father.
God is glorified when we fully rely on Him and not ourselves or the strength of another. When we fully rely on God, He will send in the help needed to fully engage in and fulfill the mandate. Depending on God the Father is a lifestyle. If we invest in God's will, He will invest in our future provision (Matthew 6:33).
So what is the meaning of purpose biblically? Biblical purpose is always the saving of souls, from Abraham to Joseph, from Moses to Esther, from Jeremiah to Jesus. My God! This blog is blessing me!
When we pursue purpose we are all assigned to a specific vocation (John 4:35 & 38). So, what is your assignment and who are you assigned to? Do you know? If so, get to work winning souls. The Bible says, "He [or she] that wins souls is wise."
The Requirements for Purose
.COURAGE (Joshua 1:6,7&9; Judges 6-7; Philippians 4:13).
.STRATEGY (Genesis 31:1-13; 37-50; Judges 4; Matthew 1; Luke 1,2 &23; John 1).
.A STRIPPING away from one to give to another (1Samuel 15-16; Matthew 28:18; John 12:31&32; 16:11; 1Corinthians 15:55-57).
.HUMILITY (Numbers 12:3; Matthew 5:5; James 4:10).
.FAITHFULNESS (Numbers 12:7; the book of Ruth; the book of Job).
.PURITY (Isaiah 6:1-9; Zechariah 3; Matthew 5:6).
.RIGHT MOTIVES (James 4:1-3).
.DILIGENCE (Proverbs 10:4; 12:11 &24; 13:4; 14:23; Hebrews 6:10).
.PRESERVERENCE (Matthew 7:7-11; Philippians 3:12-14).
.GOD'S WILL (Proverbs 19:21).
.GODLY WISE COUNSEL (Proverbs 15:22).
100% Authentic
At the end of the day be yourself. Your purpose will fit your personality, so be original. Be the you you were created to be. You were made for this. You can do this!
Isnt that Good News? Fabtabulous news!!!
-KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED-
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
On Friday May 19th, I awakened to the voice of the Holy Spirit revealing to me that "A lack of vision is the direct result of a lack of prayer (divine communication with God)," and without vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish, but he [or she] who keeps the law [the Word of God] blessed is he [or she] (Proverbs 29:18-Amplified Version).
Prayer is the access point into the presence of God the Father. When Jesus entered into the dimension of prayer, the dimension of purpose was unlocked, and because He was resolute in the Father's command, He was then able to decipher between the persuasion of man versus the purpose of God (Mark 1:35-39).
Prayer is a dimension, but so is purpose. As I was studying the subject of purpose, the Holy Spirit showed me a staircase representing divine dimensions leading to destiny. At the base was the dimension of prayer (prayer is your foundation). The next was the dimension of purpose. Then, there is the dimension of execution. At the top of the staircase is the dimension of destiny. However, nothing happens until you pray.
Each dimension correlates with the other, releasing grace to unlock the others resources, potential and power. When you hit your knees showing dependency upon God, God's heart is moved on your behalf. Your purpose is revealed through heavenly insight (involving the release of divine information that communicates the Father's heart and will for your life).
Purpose then unlocks the ability to execute the purposes of God thoroughly with precision. Vision and focus are the companions of purpose leading you ultimately to your God-given destiny. So take a knee and journey up the staircase of destiny. Amen.
Covet Not Your Neighbors Opportunities
So purpose presents multiple opportunities (Ephesians 5:15-17), and no opportunity is the same. In order to seize every God ordained opportunity, we must live purposefully, firmly grasping (mentally and spiritually) what the will of God is for our lives. Opportunities, also, house favor. We can miss the favor of God and the opportunity to be favored, if we are not intuned with God through prayer.
We do not have to covet anyone else opportunities or call. However, many do. Why? Covetousness is the result of the lack of vision for one's life, and a lack of vision is the result of a lack of prayer. No prayer, no vision. No vision, no provision. Whoa...😮
When we covet the gifts, talents and accumulated wealth and achievements of others, we are communicating to God that He's short on funds and on genius to give us the ability to get wealth and have good success. Those terms aren't in His DNA or resume. How can the God that has a limitless supply of "gifts and surprises" be short on anything good?!?! I'm just saying, people.🙄
We encounter the lack of for several reasons. One reason being, we are praying our will and not GOD'S WILL. Go back. Check your last conversation with God. Make sure you did not alter or override what he said for what you wanted.
Let me tell you the downfall of covetousness. Coveting others goods shuts off our ability to internally receive the Father's heart, because our hearts are full of want, greed, gotta have, ungodly expectations, hypocrisies, idolatry and jealousy; clutter. Covetousness cuts off our ability to commune and communicate with God effectively, because we are too distracted with things and the lust for things. The lust for things build a wedge between us and God.
Covetousness also disconnects us from the ONE that grounds us and centers us spiritually, mentally and emotionally to hear His instructions in the place of intimacy through the channel of prayer.
When we shut down the prayer line, we disconnect from the God that gives us answers, purpose and a reason for not just existing but being. Whoo... okay. That's deep.
Beware of Satan's Tatics
Prayer is an excellent source of communication with God the Father. Moreover, so is the Word of God. God's Word communicates God's thoughts and heart toward us. Proverbs 29:18 declares a blessing on all those that obey the Word. God's Word has the power to reveal and communicate God's purposes.
Satan's goal is to make us too tired to read the Word or pray by bombarding us with the to-do's throughout the day. If we're too tired to pray and/or read the Word then we won't know God's will and how to execute it.
Are You Ready
God asked me a real question. He said, "You've been asking me for purpose, but ARE YOU PREPARED?" Many Christian's fail to go forth in their God ordained purpose, because they are not ready. We dont know when God is going to call us forward. So, PREPARE, or be prepared to sit on the shelf of potential another season.
You have to prepare for your purpose. Invest, invest, invest. Invest in prayer, personal and corporate study time (incorporating notes). Buy and thoroughly read books. Go to conferences and free meetings. You will be surprised how many free seminars are available, if you're willing to seek for them. Invest your time and effort. Be willing to be coached by godly seasoned leaders, mentors, entrepreneurs, etc. Don't make excuses. Make strategic moves towards God's will for your life.
You cannot, I repeat, you cannot pursue purpose and be effective without God. So, question... Are you in purpose, if you're out of God's will? No, you're not, at least not God's. Our ability to effectively pursue purpose is tied to our ability to effectively pursue God, moment by moment.
None of us are here by accident. If you don't know God's will, then seek Him until He reveals it. When God gives a mandate, He always reveals the purpose behind it. Always.
The reason why many of us don't know our purpose or the reason behind it is the result of our failure to seek God in prayer, or if we are praying, we are not waiting for the answer. Please, do not pursue your God ordained purpose outside of God's instructions. Failed purpose is the result of a lack of prayer or getting ahead of God. If you want to prosper, pray and wait.
Faith in Action
Faith without works is dead (James 2:17 & 26). Purpose requires faith. Faith pleases God. So if you want God to move on your behalf, work your faith. Our level of action reveals our level of faith.
Faith in action is the preping ground for purpose. Every action taken in faith is migrating us to the fulfillment of purpose. Faith moves you to do what God has said but you do not see. Noah demonstrated that kind of faith. He acted upon what God said but did not see, yet.
Mm...👣 That's good!
The Bible says, "By faith Noah being fore-warned by God concerning events of which as yet, there was no visible sign, took heed and diligently and reverently constructed and prepared an ark for the deliverence of him and his family. By this [his faith which relied on God] he passed judgment and sentence on the world's unbelief and became an heir and possessor of righteousness (that relation of being right into which God puts the person who has faith] (Hebrews 11:7 - Amplified Version).
Faith in action not only unlocks our purpose but also the resources to fund it. God will liberally supply our every need according to His riches and glory (Philippians 4:19). Noah had everything he needed to build that ark. And if you have faith in God and move in obedience to His instructions, you will too.
Live to Glorify God
Our goal from the time we wake up to the time we close our eyes and go to sleep must be to glorify God. Even in our sleep, we should be dreaming of strategies, answers, solutions, etc. Jesus life-long goal was to glorify the Father. When God was glorified, the Son also received glory from the Father.
God is glorified when we fully rely on Him and not ourselves or the strength of another. When we fully rely on God, He will send in the help needed to fully engage in and fulfill the mandate. Depending on God the Father is a lifestyle. If we invest in God's will, He will invest in our future provision (Matthew 6:33).
So what is the meaning of purpose biblically? Biblical purpose is always the saving of souls, from Abraham to Joseph, from Moses to Esther, from Jeremiah to Jesus. My God! This blog is blessing me!
When we pursue purpose we are all assigned to a specific vocation (John 4:35 & 38). So, what is your assignment and who are you assigned to? Do you know? If so, get to work winning souls. The Bible says, "He [or she] that wins souls is wise."
The Requirements for Purose
.COURAGE (Joshua 1:6,7&9; Judges 6-7; Philippians 4:13).
.STRATEGY (Genesis 31:1-13; 37-50; Judges 4; Matthew 1; Luke 1,2 &23; John 1).
.A STRIPPING away from one to give to another (1Samuel 15-16; Matthew 28:18; John 12:31&32; 16:11; 1Corinthians 15:55-57).
.HUMILITY (Numbers 12:3; Matthew 5:5; James 4:10).
.FAITHFULNESS (Numbers 12:7; the book of Ruth; the book of Job).
.PURITY (Isaiah 6:1-9; Zechariah 3; Matthew 5:6).
.RIGHT MOTIVES (James 4:1-3).
.DILIGENCE (Proverbs 10:4; 12:11 &24; 13:4; 14:23; Hebrews 6:10).
.PRESERVERENCE (Matthew 7:7-11; Philippians 3:12-14).
.GOD'S WILL (Proverbs 19:21).
.GODLY WISE COUNSEL (Proverbs 15:22).
100% Authentic
At the end of the day be yourself. Your purpose will fit your personality, so be original. Be the you you were created to be. You were made for this. You can do this!
Isnt that Good News? Fabtabulous news!!!
-KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED-
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Friday, May 12, 2017
BE A DOER OF THE WORD OF GOD
For Ezra had prepared and set his heart to seek the Law (the Word) of the Lord [to inquire for it and of it, to require and yearn for it], and to do It, and to teach in Israel Its statutes and Its ordinances (Ezra 7:10 --Amplified Version).
We must set our hearts to seek to do the Word of God on a daily basis, throughout the day. The Bible clearly instructs us to be an active participant of the Word, not just a hearer of it (in one ear and out the other), (mentally and emotionally) deceiving only ourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth] (James 1:22). The Bible is full of Scriptures that encourage us to seek out God's Word and His will. There are no exceptions in our seek or in our application of God's Word. We, who have been born of the water and of the Spirit of God must be fully invested in the Word of God.
The Holy Spirit instructs us to hide the Word in our hearts, that we may avoid actively engaging in sin both in our hearts and in our actions (Psalm 119:11/ paraphrased). There's a divine blessing in doing the Word of God and being mindful of it. What is the blessing? The Word of God empowers us to live like God in nature, thought and expectation.
Yes, our expectations change when we fully engage with the Word. We expect to be holy. We expect to have joy and God's peace. We expect to prosper! We expect to live in accordance to the will of God and to please Him everyday, wholeheartedly.
Why do we live in expectation? We live in expection, because we have the mind of Christ. Moreover, the mind of Christ enables us to comprehend the Word of God and God's will for our lives through the ministry work of the Holy Spirit (1Corinthians 2:9-16; Ephesians 3:5/ Amplified Version).
Knowing the Voice of God
It is imperative that we know God's Word. God's Word reveals God's voice. The voice of God is holiness without compromise found in the Word. On May 10, me and my sister in the Lord, Dominique Harris, were discussing the importance of distinguishing God's voice from that of a stranger; the Familiar voice vs. the foreign voice.
Jesus said, "My sheep know My voice and another they will not listen to (John 10:14 & 16)." God's voice will never, I repeat, will never lead you away from the Word of God or scatter you. Jesus, showed great sorrow as He viewed the state of His sheep (the church; the body of Christ). We can definitely count on the Word of God holding us together in those moments we feel scattered or discombobulated. Moreover, God's Word will never lead us away from the voice of God. God's voice will ALWAYS lead us to the Word not the world or its views.
1John 2:15 warns us not to cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him or her. ...As the Word remains, so are those who keep it (Isaiah 40:8; Matthew 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33; 1Peter 1:25; 1John 2:17; Revelation 22:14).
If we regularly take the time to hide God's Word in our hearts and keep it, we will ALWAYS have the voice of God near us, to lead us and to guide us out of trouble in this world, into the perfect will of God.
The DNA of God
God's Word also reveals the personal DNA and nature of God. God is holy, and He hates sin, because sin draws us away from God. However, God's Word teaches us how to come out of darkness, into the marvelous light of Jesus Christ and who God is. As we obey the Word of God and listen to the voice of God, we find strength and refuge in who God is. He is a present help in the time of trouble. It is the nature of God to protect His sheep. How do we know that this is His nature? Because it's found in His Word.
David, king and shepherd of Israel (Psalm 78:70-72), dedicated a whole entire chapter on the importance of knowing God's Word. Psalm 119 is actually the longest chapter in the entire Bible. This chapter not only reveals the importance of knowing God's Word, but, also, the impact it should leave on our lives personally and our personal DNA. David understood, as king and shepherd to God's people, it would be impossible to affectively lead them without learning, knowing and obeying the Word of God and knowing who God is.
So, I encourage you today, like David, to get in the Word of God. Become a diligent student of the Word, studying to show yourself approved unto God, a workman who has no reason or cause to be ashamed, correctly analyzing and accurately dividing [rightly handling and skillfully [teaching] the Word of Truth (1Timothy 2:15).
Through the Word of God you can live holy and teach other's to do the same. Isn't that Good News? Absolutely!
KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
We must set our hearts to seek to do the Word of God on a daily basis, throughout the day. The Bible clearly instructs us to be an active participant of the Word, not just a hearer of it (in one ear and out the other), (mentally and emotionally) deceiving only ourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth] (James 1:22). The Bible is full of Scriptures that encourage us to seek out God's Word and His will. There are no exceptions in our seek or in our application of God's Word. We, who have been born of the water and of the Spirit of God must be fully invested in the Word of God.
The Holy Spirit instructs us to hide the Word in our hearts, that we may avoid actively engaging in sin both in our hearts and in our actions (Psalm 119:11/ paraphrased). There's a divine blessing in doing the Word of God and being mindful of it. What is the blessing? The Word of God empowers us to live like God in nature, thought and expectation.
Yes, our expectations change when we fully engage with the Word. We expect to be holy. We expect to have joy and God's peace. We expect to prosper! We expect to live in accordance to the will of God and to please Him everyday, wholeheartedly.
Why do we live in expectation? We live in expection, because we have the mind of Christ. Moreover, the mind of Christ enables us to comprehend the Word of God and God's will for our lives through the ministry work of the Holy Spirit (1Corinthians 2:9-16; Ephesians 3:5/ Amplified Version).
Knowing the Voice of God
It is imperative that we know God's Word. God's Word reveals God's voice. The voice of God is holiness without compromise found in the Word. On May 10, me and my sister in the Lord, Dominique Harris, were discussing the importance of distinguishing God's voice from that of a stranger; the Familiar voice vs. the foreign voice.
Jesus said, "My sheep know My voice and another they will not listen to (John 10:14 & 16)." God's voice will never, I repeat, will never lead you away from the Word of God or scatter you. Jesus, showed great sorrow as He viewed the state of His sheep (the church; the body of Christ). We can definitely count on the Word of God holding us together in those moments we feel scattered or discombobulated. Moreover, God's Word will never lead us away from the voice of God. God's voice will ALWAYS lead us to the Word not the world or its views.
1John 2:15 warns us not to cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him or her. ...As the Word remains, so are those who keep it (Isaiah 40:8; Matthew 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33; 1Peter 1:25; 1John 2:17; Revelation 22:14).
If we regularly take the time to hide God's Word in our hearts and keep it, we will ALWAYS have the voice of God near us, to lead us and to guide us out of trouble in this world, into the perfect will of God.
The DNA of God
God's Word also reveals the personal DNA and nature of God. God is holy, and He hates sin, because sin draws us away from God. However, God's Word teaches us how to come out of darkness, into the marvelous light of Jesus Christ and who God is. As we obey the Word of God and listen to the voice of God, we find strength and refuge in who God is. He is a present help in the time of trouble. It is the nature of God to protect His sheep. How do we know that this is His nature? Because it's found in His Word.
David, king and shepherd of Israel (Psalm 78:70-72), dedicated a whole entire chapter on the importance of knowing God's Word. Psalm 119 is actually the longest chapter in the entire Bible. This chapter not only reveals the importance of knowing God's Word, but, also, the impact it should leave on our lives personally and our personal DNA. David understood, as king and shepherd to God's people, it would be impossible to affectively lead them without learning, knowing and obeying the Word of God and knowing who God is.
So, I encourage you today, like David, to get in the Word of God. Become a diligent student of the Word, studying to show yourself approved unto God, a workman who has no reason or cause to be ashamed, correctly analyzing and accurately dividing [rightly handling and skillfully [teaching] the Word of Truth (1Timothy 2:15).
Through the Word of God you can live holy and teach other's to do the same. Isn't that Good News? Absolutely!
KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Dare to Be Brave
The life you've been commanded to live and the purpose you've been called to fulfill will take absolute faith and resolved assurance to execute thoroughly and accurately. You cannot waddle in yesterday's tragedy and expect to obtain future victories. You have to leave your past and cleave to your future. Why did I mention this?
Well, in Joshua 1:1-2, Joshua was yet grieving over the death of Moses His leader and mentor. The Bible says, Israel wept for Moses thirty days in the plains of Moab; then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses had ended (Deuteronomy 34:8). It doesn't bother God that we show healthy emotions of grief and sorrow when those we love pass away. However, it does grieve God when our pain turns into depression.
I believe Joshua was feeling depressed and God was getting a tad bit irritated, not about him mourning Moses death, but how long it was taking. Joshua's pain was getting in the way of not only God's purpose for his life, but God's intended purpose for His people. Joshua was chosen to lead the children of Israel into the promised land, but he was too distracted with his grief. You know it's a problem when God tells you to get up and get on with the mission.
THE MISSION
Was Joshua mentally and emotionally prepared to lead the nation into conquest and the obtaining of a generational promise dating back to his forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? No, not at that moment. Sure he was strong. Joshua was a warrior.
Joshua was combat ready physically, but he was lacking the necessary faith, will, mental focus and emotional stamina to lead the children of Israel out the wilderness, over the Jordan and into the promise land. All five of these components are important if we desire to obtain the promises of God:
.Faith
.Physical strength
.Will
.Mental Focus
.Emotional Stamina
WHEN GOD SPEAKS
Moses death was taking a toll. Have you ever felt like that? Has the loss of someone or something you loved and admired ever taken a toll on your confidence and leadership abilities? I am sure you have and it has.
I know there are times in my life where the pain was speaking louder than the promises of God for my life. Oh...but when God speaks, and He does, a paradigm shift takes place. Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord spake and said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, Moses My servant is dead. So now arise [take his place], go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, the Israelites (Joshua 1:1-2).
Have you ever felt like God asked you to occupy a seat or fill a position that was greater than your skill level, gifting or experience? Take the place of Moses? Take the place of a man who the Lord knew face to face, who worked great signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to do in Egypt, who moved in mighty power and great deeds in the sight of all Israel (Deuteronomy 34:10-12)?
God wasn't asking Joshua to be Moses or even to be like Moses. God wasn't comparing the skill levels or relational competence of these two men. God was commanding Joshua to do and fulfill his call.
Please note: YOU CANNOT EXECUTE WHAT ONE HAS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED.
That's the problem we have in the church and in our society. We've lost our creative edge. People are recycling mandates, because they don't know their purpose and they don't know God. So, instead of authentic individuals making a difference in the world, we have a earth full of clones in line to be the next repeat.
BORING. Take the boring out of your story and dare to be brave. Dare to step out and step into your purpose.
Now I am not saying that we don't need great leaders to show us the way, because we need great man like Moses who can demonstrate the power and force of the kingdom of God. But, my love one, when they are gone, we cannot die with them. We must do their legacy justice and not allow their pouring into us to be in vain. Amen.
CROSS OVER
GET UP AND GO FORTH! My God! Be strong and of good courage. Remember the Word of God, observe it and do it (Joshua 1:7-8).
The only way to fulfill your purpose is to do it. Just do it! Stop mourning, and rise up. Moses is dead, but you're not.
You have people to lead, places to conquer and a promise to apprehend. Dare to be brave and seize the opportunity to leave your mark in the earth. Yeah, Moses had a great testimony, but so did Joshua. He annihilated kings and nations, commanded the sun to stand still, parted the Jordan and walked over with all of Israel, and conquered the land of Jericho by marching around it and releasing a great shout. Furthermore, he obtained the promise land which Moses could only see from a far off.
Come on get excited about your purpose. Get excited about what God has promised you. Take courage and believe that you can excel in life and in Christ. I decree that the weapons of depression and discouragement will not rob you or I of our future, in Jesus name. What is before us is greater than what has been.
God encouraged Joshua three times to be strong and courageous. We cannot be lukewarm in our beliefs in what God has said. We must be resolute. If God said it, then I believe it. This must be our mindset and heart set at all times.
Well, Joshua was resolute after his conversation with God. I prophesy, we, too, will have visitations and conversations with God that will put an end to our makeshift faith and engagement with purpose. God is calling us out of mourning into our purpose and destiny.
We don't have anymore time to waste. People are waiting on us to lead them into their promise. GET UP AND LEAD IN FAITH, POWER, WITH FOCUS, HEART, AND STAMINA. Your obedience is not up for negotiation. You will obey and you will be a force to be reckon with.
Isn't that Good News? That's amazing news!!!
KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Well, in Joshua 1:1-2, Joshua was yet grieving over the death of Moses His leader and mentor. The Bible says, Israel wept for Moses thirty days in the plains of Moab; then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses had ended (Deuteronomy 34:8). It doesn't bother God that we show healthy emotions of grief and sorrow when those we love pass away. However, it does grieve God when our pain turns into depression.
I believe Joshua was feeling depressed and God was getting a tad bit irritated, not about him mourning Moses death, but how long it was taking. Joshua's pain was getting in the way of not only God's purpose for his life, but God's intended purpose for His people. Joshua was chosen to lead the children of Israel into the promised land, but he was too distracted with his grief. You know it's a problem when God tells you to get up and get on with the mission.
THE MISSION
Was Joshua mentally and emotionally prepared to lead the nation into conquest and the obtaining of a generational promise dating back to his forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? No, not at that moment. Sure he was strong. Joshua was a warrior.
Joshua was combat ready physically, but he was lacking the necessary faith, will, mental focus and emotional stamina to lead the children of Israel out the wilderness, over the Jordan and into the promise land. All five of these components are important if we desire to obtain the promises of God:
.Faith
.Physical strength
.Will
.Mental Focus
.Emotional Stamina
WHEN GOD SPEAKS
Moses death was taking a toll. Have you ever felt like that? Has the loss of someone or something you loved and admired ever taken a toll on your confidence and leadership abilities? I am sure you have and it has.
I know there are times in my life where the pain was speaking louder than the promises of God for my life. Oh...but when God speaks, and He does, a paradigm shift takes place. Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord spake and said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, Moses My servant is dead. So now arise [take his place], go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, the Israelites (Joshua 1:1-2).
Have you ever felt like God asked you to occupy a seat or fill a position that was greater than your skill level, gifting or experience? Take the place of Moses? Take the place of a man who the Lord knew face to face, who worked great signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to do in Egypt, who moved in mighty power and great deeds in the sight of all Israel (Deuteronomy 34:10-12)?
God wasn't asking Joshua to be Moses or even to be like Moses. God wasn't comparing the skill levels or relational competence of these two men. God was commanding Joshua to do and fulfill his call.
Please note: YOU CANNOT EXECUTE WHAT ONE HAS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED.
That's the problem we have in the church and in our society. We've lost our creative edge. People are recycling mandates, because they don't know their purpose and they don't know God. So, instead of authentic individuals making a difference in the world, we have a earth full of clones in line to be the next repeat.
BORING. Take the boring out of your story and dare to be brave. Dare to step out and step into your purpose.
Now I am not saying that we don't need great leaders to show us the way, because we need great man like Moses who can demonstrate the power and force of the kingdom of God. But, my love one, when they are gone, we cannot die with them. We must do their legacy justice and not allow their pouring into us to be in vain. Amen.
CROSS OVER
GET UP AND GO FORTH! My God! Be strong and of good courage. Remember the Word of God, observe it and do it (Joshua 1:7-8).
The only way to fulfill your purpose is to do it. Just do it! Stop mourning, and rise up. Moses is dead, but you're not.
You have people to lead, places to conquer and a promise to apprehend. Dare to be brave and seize the opportunity to leave your mark in the earth. Yeah, Moses had a great testimony, but so did Joshua. He annihilated kings and nations, commanded the sun to stand still, parted the Jordan and walked over with all of Israel, and conquered the land of Jericho by marching around it and releasing a great shout. Furthermore, he obtained the promise land which Moses could only see from a far off.
Come on get excited about your purpose. Get excited about what God has promised you. Take courage and believe that you can excel in life and in Christ. I decree that the weapons of depression and discouragement will not rob you or I of our future, in Jesus name. What is before us is greater than what has been.
God encouraged Joshua three times to be strong and courageous. We cannot be lukewarm in our beliefs in what God has said. We must be resolute. If God said it, then I believe it. This must be our mindset and heart set at all times.
Well, Joshua was resolute after his conversation with God. I prophesy, we, too, will have visitations and conversations with God that will put an end to our makeshift faith and engagement with purpose. God is calling us out of mourning into our purpose and destiny.
We don't have anymore time to waste. People are waiting on us to lead them into their promise. GET UP AND LEAD IN FAITH, POWER, WITH FOCUS, HEART, AND STAMINA. Your obedience is not up for negotiation. You will obey and you will be a force to be reckon with.
Isn't that Good News? That's amazing news!!!
KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Saturday, April 29, 2017
DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GOING?
This is the question that was presented to me today while I moved around the house to complete today's chores. Many of us casually move about in our day meeting the demands of life, conquering daily challenges and conflicts, and pondering tomorrow's conquest, without carefully considering our present state of life and the weight of today. If God said, "This is it. These are your final moments here on earth." Would you be ready?
Take a minute and really think about that, because the truth is everyone isn't going to heaven. Moreover, everyone won't walk those streets paved with gold. The Bible says, "Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar heresies), envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who practice such things SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD (Galatians 5:19-21--Amplified Version).
Now I know this isn't a popular message or a politically correct interpretation of what is allowed in today's culture, but it is truth! And God's truth always trumps philosophical and world views and the next law up for debate. God's Word also says that, "As for cowards and the ignoble and the contemptible and the cravenly lacking in courage and the cowardly submissive, and as for the unbelieving and faithless, and as for the depraved and defiled with abominations, and as for murderers and the lewd and adulterous and the practicers of magic arts and the idolaters (those who give supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God) and all liars (those who knowingly convey untruth by word or deed)- [all of these shall have] their part in the lake of fire and brimstone. This is the second death." Nothing that defiles or profanes or is unwashed shall ever enter it, nor anyone who commits abominations (unclean, detestable, morally repugnant things) or practices falsehood, but only those who are recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life (Revelation 21:8 & 27).
Those that practice lawlessness, who never received Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior through repentance, and those who have but refuse to opt out of sinful practices all the way, are in danger of the coming wrath of God. (Isaiah 30:33; Matthew 5:22, 7:13-14 & 21-23, 12:33-37, 13:24-42, 24:44-51, 25:1-46, John 3:16-21; Romans 1:18-32, 2:1-11, 8:1-13, Hebrews 10:26-31.) The Word of God admonishes us to, "kill (deaden, deprive of [all] power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God). It is on account of these [very sins] that the [holy] anger of God is ever coming upon the sons [and daughters] of disobedience (those who obstinately are opposed to the divine will [of God]), among whom you also once walked, when you were living in and addicted to [such practices]. But now put away and rid yourselves [completely] of all these: anger, rage, bad feeling toward others, curses and slander, and foulmouthed abuse and shameful utterances from your lips! Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old (unregenerate) self with its evil practices, and have clothed yourselves with the new [spiritual self], which is [ever in the process of being] renewed and remodeled into [fuller and more perfect knowledge upon] knowledge after the image (the likeness) of Him Who created it. ...Clothe yourselves therefore, as God's own chosen ones (His own (hand) picked representatives), [who are purified and holy and well-beloved (by God Himself), by putting on behavior marked by] tenderhearted pity and mercy, kind feeling, a lowly opinion of yourselves, gentle ways [and] patience [which is tireless and long-suffering, and has the power to endure whatever comes with a good temper]. (Colossians 3:1-10 & 12.)
As you can see in Scripture, God has a standard for how we ought to live as Christian's, whether it is in our private time or in public. Every square inch of our lives must be infused with the implanted Word of God. If we want to be with Jesus, in the company of our heavenly Father and the angels, we must comply with His Word and obey His will. We must do so not out of religious duty but out of love and consideration for the One who paid a debt we ourselves were never fit to pay.
No Gray
Today's world and church cultures teach and believe we can live our lives in the gray and still gain eternal life. This belief and teaching is INCORRECT. Those who live in the gray will be spewed (expelled rapidly and forcibly) out of the mouth of God (Revelation 3:14-15). God wills that all people make a decision. Choose you this day whom you will serve, either God or Baal (the devil). (Joshua 24:15; 1Kings 18:21.)
So you see, there is no such place called purgatory or a state of limbo for the dead. There's no reincarnation or dying and that's just it. There is life after death and for many death after death. The Bible says in 2Corinthians 5:10-Amplified Version that, "We must all appear and be revealed as we are before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive [his pay] according to what he (or she) has done in the body, whether good or evil [considering what his purpose and motives have been, and what he (or she) has achieved, been busy with, and given himself (or herself) and his (or her) attention to accomplishing.
Unfortunately, we have veered away from teaching and preaching on the judgment of God after death, and to the misfortune of many, they are not ready to meet Jesus. Even worst, many don't know these dimensions even exist. Are we guilty of moving the ancient landmarks? Have we put more emphasis on this world than the life to come?
I am all for prosperity and good success. I believe these are eternal principles and benefits of the kingdom that should be taught regularly. However, I, also, believe one knowing their eternal fate is as equally as important, and there options should be communicated and the scales weighed.
Don't Die but Live
It is God's will that no man perish, but that all should turn to repentance (2Peter 3:9). I strongly encourage you to read 2Peter 3:1-10 slowly and have a Selah moment of meditation and reflection, asking God to unveil the seriousness of eternal life and eternal destruction and your state of life at the moment. One must choose life over death for his or herself. When you choose life, you choose to reflect Jesus Christ in your everyday life. As He was dead to sin, you, too, must willingly choose to die to sin and destructive habits daily.
God's Just Judgment
Now, I have heard many question the soverignty of God and His judgments. Expressing their frustrations they say things like, "How could a loving God who is good punish people by sending them to hell and eternal fire? Yes, God is all powerful, and as a righteous judge who judges on the basis of His Word, He has every right to punish the wicked. But the truth is God allows eternal destruction to befall those who refuse to repent, believe in Jesus Christ and/or resist the Word of God and the Holy Spirit who reveals it (John 3:16-19, 12:56-48, Hebrews 10:26-31). The truth is, we seal our own fate, rather good or bad. God just makes sure it is carried out.
You might feel a heavy conviction right now. That conviction is apt to turn your heart in the direction of Jesus and out of the way of sin leading to death and tornment. Look, it is not my job nor my conviction to judge you, but it is my conviction to warn you to flee the coming wrath of God and compel you to receive Jesus into your heart. Because when you do, and you decide to truly trust and obey Him, you will have eternal life.
Isn't that Good News? I do believe it is!
-KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED-
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Take a minute and really think about that, because the truth is everyone isn't going to heaven. Moreover, everyone won't walk those streets paved with gold. The Bible says, "Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar heresies), envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who practice such things SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD (Galatians 5:19-21--Amplified Version).
Now I know this isn't a popular message or a politically correct interpretation of what is allowed in today's culture, but it is truth! And God's truth always trumps philosophical and world views and the next law up for debate. God's Word also says that, "As for cowards and the ignoble and the contemptible and the cravenly lacking in courage and the cowardly submissive, and as for the unbelieving and faithless, and as for the depraved and defiled with abominations, and as for murderers and the lewd and adulterous and the practicers of magic arts and the idolaters (those who give supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God) and all liars (those who knowingly convey untruth by word or deed)- [all of these shall have] their part in the lake of fire and brimstone. This is the second death." Nothing that defiles or profanes or is unwashed shall ever enter it, nor anyone who commits abominations (unclean, detestable, morally repugnant things) or practices falsehood, but only those who are recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life (Revelation 21:8 & 27).
Those that practice lawlessness, who never received Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior through repentance, and those who have but refuse to opt out of sinful practices all the way, are in danger of the coming wrath of God. (Isaiah 30:33; Matthew 5:22, 7:13-14 & 21-23, 12:33-37, 13:24-42, 24:44-51, 25:1-46, John 3:16-21; Romans 1:18-32, 2:1-11, 8:1-13, Hebrews 10:26-31.) The Word of God admonishes us to, "kill (deaden, deprive of [all] power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God). It is on account of these [very sins] that the [holy] anger of God is ever coming upon the sons [and daughters] of disobedience (those who obstinately are opposed to the divine will [of God]), among whom you also once walked, when you were living in and addicted to [such practices]. But now put away and rid yourselves [completely] of all these: anger, rage, bad feeling toward others, curses and slander, and foulmouthed abuse and shameful utterances from your lips! Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old (unregenerate) self with its evil practices, and have clothed yourselves with the new [spiritual self], which is [ever in the process of being] renewed and remodeled into [fuller and more perfect knowledge upon] knowledge after the image (the likeness) of Him Who created it. ...Clothe yourselves therefore, as God's own chosen ones (His own (hand) picked representatives), [who are purified and holy and well-beloved (by God Himself), by putting on behavior marked by] tenderhearted pity and mercy, kind feeling, a lowly opinion of yourselves, gentle ways [and] patience [which is tireless and long-suffering, and has the power to endure whatever comes with a good temper]. (Colossians 3:1-10 & 12.)
As you can see in Scripture, God has a standard for how we ought to live as Christian's, whether it is in our private time or in public. Every square inch of our lives must be infused with the implanted Word of God. If we want to be with Jesus, in the company of our heavenly Father and the angels, we must comply with His Word and obey His will. We must do so not out of religious duty but out of love and consideration for the One who paid a debt we ourselves were never fit to pay.
No Gray
Today's world and church cultures teach and believe we can live our lives in the gray and still gain eternal life. This belief and teaching is INCORRECT. Those who live in the gray will be spewed (expelled rapidly and forcibly) out of the mouth of God (Revelation 3:14-15). God wills that all people make a decision. Choose you this day whom you will serve, either God or Baal (the devil). (Joshua 24:15; 1Kings 18:21.)
So you see, there is no such place called purgatory or a state of limbo for the dead. There's no reincarnation or dying and that's just it. There is life after death and for many death after death. The Bible says in 2Corinthians 5:10-Amplified Version that, "We must all appear and be revealed as we are before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive [his pay] according to what he (or she) has done in the body, whether good or evil [considering what his purpose and motives have been, and what he (or she) has achieved, been busy with, and given himself (or herself) and his (or her) attention to accomplishing.
Unfortunately, we have veered away from teaching and preaching on the judgment of God after death, and to the misfortune of many, they are not ready to meet Jesus. Even worst, many don't know these dimensions even exist. Are we guilty of moving the ancient landmarks? Have we put more emphasis on this world than the life to come?
I am all for prosperity and good success. I believe these are eternal principles and benefits of the kingdom that should be taught regularly. However, I, also, believe one knowing their eternal fate is as equally as important, and there options should be communicated and the scales weighed.
Don't Die but Live
It is God's will that no man perish, but that all should turn to repentance (2Peter 3:9). I strongly encourage you to read 2Peter 3:1-10 slowly and have a Selah moment of meditation and reflection, asking God to unveil the seriousness of eternal life and eternal destruction and your state of life at the moment. One must choose life over death for his or herself. When you choose life, you choose to reflect Jesus Christ in your everyday life. As He was dead to sin, you, too, must willingly choose to die to sin and destructive habits daily.
God's Just Judgment
Now, I have heard many question the soverignty of God and His judgments. Expressing their frustrations they say things like, "How could a loving God who is good punish people by sending them to hell and eternal fire? Yes, God is all powerful, and as a righteous judge who judges on the basis of His Word, He has every right to punish the wicked. But the truth is God allows eternal destruction to befall those who refuse to repent, believe in Jesus Christ and/or resist the Word of God and the Holy Spirit who reveals it (John 3:16-19, 12:56-48, Hebrews 10:26-31). The truth is, we seal our own fate, rather good or bad. God just makes sure it is carried out.
You might feel a heavy conviction right now. That conviction is apt to turn your heart in the direction of Jesus and out of the way of sin leading to death and tornment. Look, it is not my job nor my conviction to judge you, but it is my conviction to warn you to flee the coming wrath of God and compel you to receive Jesus into your heart. Because when you do, and you decide to truly trust and obey Him, you will have eternal life.
Isn't that Good News? I do believe it is!
-KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED-
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
Friday, April 21, 2017
APPROACHING SEXUAL INTIMACY GOD'S WAY
After being married almost seventeen years in May, with God's help, I am convinced that God has a right way to approach marriage and sexual intimacy with our spouse. I have been a student of marriage God's way for some time now, and the Holy Spirit gripped my heart about sexual intimacy between a husband and wife (a man and woman married to each other) today in my evening devotion. According to Hebrews 13:4 KJV, marriage is honorable and the bed is [to be and remain] undefiled (uncontaminated; unperverted; morally clean mentally, phyically, emotionally, spiritually, sexually and in one's heart; free from obscene and obscure tendencies, behavior and thoughts; pure; holy; acts deemed pleasing to God).
However, Hebrews 13:4 has been misinterpreted to mean when you are married, you and your spouse can do, say and think whatever you want as long as there is a mutual consent. And that interpretation of this Scripture is WRONG and offends God. We cannot do, say and think whatever we want, when we want to and how we want to do it AND not think God won't allow consequences for our misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the Scriptures. As a result of improper teaching, assumptions, insight, and proclamation of Hebrews 13:4 many marriages, families and relationships suffer, and husbands and wives fail to embrace their sexuality and one another the way God intended from the beginning (Genesis 1:26-28, 2:18-25, 4:1& 25; Malachi 2:15-16).
When we read Hebrews 13:4 Amplified version, what God purposed for marriage and sexual intimacy between a man and a woman is obvious. It reads, LET MARRIAGE BE HELD IN HONOR (esteemed worthy, precious, of great price, and especially dear) IN ALL THINGS. AND THUS LET THE MARRIAGE BED BE UNDEFILED (kept undishonored); FOR GOD WILL JUDGE AND PUNISH THE UNCHASTE [all guilty of sexual vice] AND ADULTEROUS.
I am telling you the truth. A lot of the things we okay in the bedroom is grieving the Holy Spirit and infuriating the one true God that made sexual intimacy between a husband and a wife. God did not create sexual intimacy between a husbad and wife for gratification alone, but for preserving sanctification of a holy covenant in marriage and the reproducing of godly children in the earth. Many of the acts we have performed or perform on or with our spouse, unfortunately, have been influenced by our past sexual encounters with others, society, today's culture, family members, friends and peers. We have engrafted and have practiced or are practicing immoral, paganistic, and unchaste acts in our marriages.
Many of us are guilty and have been guilty of bringing others into our bedrooms through:
.Pornographic images of people, places and things.
.Lust filled conversations, body language and impressions on the mind and heart.
.Memories of past relationships with other people.
.Temptation.
.Undealt with mindsets and practices.
.The lust of the eye and the lust of the flesh.
.Sexual sins committed, but not yet repented of.
Look! I am not here to condemn anyone, because I, too, have been guilty of this sin. However, what I must do is shine the light on the obscurity hiding out and destroying our marriages, families, finances, relationships, God's vision for marriage and the family, our sexuality and purpose. God has a right way to approach our sexuality, our spouse and sexual intimacy in marriage and it isn't through the world's eye or through a politically correct view. Amen.
As Christian's, especially as Christian's, we are to approach marriage from God's perspective, through His Word and the inner conviction of the Holy Spirit. (We know when what we are doing or thinking or even saying isn't right, because our conscience tells us, but many ignore the right thing to do in order to fulfill the lust within them.) The key to healthy, godly sex is to ask and seek God for godly ways to approach sexual imtimacy in the bedroom with our spouse. He will show us and teach us indestructible ways to enjoy our spouse and sexual intimacy with them.
Intimacy in the bedroom is a time to connect hearts and spirits not just body parts. As you do, something supernatural happens that connects your lives, your hearts; locking you both into God's plan for your marriage.
I myself have been delivered from sexual sins in the bedroom. So, I am not telling you what I don't know to be true. Once you are delivered from these demonic sexual vices, keep the Word of God in sight and fill your heart and sexual organs with it through your personal prayer and devotional time with the Holy Spirit (Psalm 119:11). Cut people, places and things off that have opened up the door of your life to these promiscuous acts of infedelity and immorality (2Corinthians 6:14-18).
Pray and fast often (Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 6:12 and chapters 21:36, 22:45-46). Submit to God. Resist the devil and then he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you (James 4:7-8).
Put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh (Romans 13:12-14). Apply the Word of God daily to every area of your life (Joshua 1:8). Confess your sins and be forgiven and be healed (Psalm 51; James 5:16; 1John 1:9). Claim your eyes only for your spouse (Job 31:1). Acknowledge and claim your body for the Lord's use not sins use ( Romans 6; 1Corinthians 6:12-20).
For those married and desiring to be married, ask God to bring your marriage under the divine jurisdiction of justification and sanctification. Yes, we must ask God to sanctify and beautify our marriages by His saving grace. This closes the door to Satan and demonic spirits of perversion from having access to our sexuality, marriages, children, or generations through people, places and things. Don't half step with your marriage. Love and truly like and honor your spouse and the covenant you made with them.
Being married isn't always easy, but IT IS SO WORTH IT!!! It takes mutual respect, humility, patience, prayer for one another and yourself to work out the kinks and through the glitches. I am a witness that you can enjoy your marriage, your spouse and the journey God's way and be fulfilled. Why? Because at the end of the day, GOD is at the core.
Isn't that Good News? Absolutely!
-KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED-
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
However, Hebrews 13:4 has been misinterpreted to mean when you are married, you and your spouse can do, say and think whatever you want as long as there is a mutual consent. And that interpretation of this Scripture is WRONG and offends God. We cannot do, say and think whatever we want, when we want to and how we want to do it AND not think God won't allow consequences for our misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the Scriptures. As a result of improper teaching, assumptions, insight, and proclamation of Hebrews 13:4 many marriages, families and relationships suffer, and husbands and wives fail to embrace their sexuality and one another the way God intended from the beginning (Genesis 1:26-28, 2:18-25, 4:1& 25; Malachi 2:15-16).
When we read Hebrews 13:4 Amplified version, what God purposed for marriage and sexual intimacy between a man and a woman is obvious. It reads, LET MARRIAGE BE HELD IN HONOR (esteemed worthy, precious, of great price, and especially dear) IN ALL THINGS. AND THUS LET THE MARRIAGE BED BE UNDEFILED (kept undishonored); FOR GOD WILL JUDGE AND PUNISH THE UNCHASTE [all guilty of sexual vice] AND ADULTEROUS.
I am telling you the truth. A lot of the things we okay in the bedroom is grieving the Holy Spirit and infuriating the one true God that made sexual intimacy between a husband and a wife. God did not create sexual intimacy between a husbad and wife for gratification alone, but for preserving sanctification of a holy covenant in marriage and the reproducing of godly children in the earth. Many of the acts we have performed or perform on or with our spouse, unfortunately, have been influenced by our past sexual encounters with others, society, today's culture, family members, friends and peers. We have engrafted and have practiced or are practicing immoral, paganistic, and unchaste acts in our marriages.
Many of us are guilty and have been guilty of bringing others into our bedrooms through:
.Pornographic images of people, places and things.
.Lust filled conversations, body language and impressions on the mind and heart.
.Memories of past relationships with other people.
.Temptation.
.Undealt with mindsets and practices.
.The lust of the eye and the lust of the flesh.
.Sexual sins committed, but not yet repented of.
Look! I am not here to condemn anyone, because I, too, have been guilty of this sin. However, what I must do is shine the light on the obscurity hiding out and destroying our marriages, families, finances, relationships, God's vision for marriage and the family, our sexuality and purpose. God has a right way to approach our sexuality, our spouse and sexual intimacy in marriage and it isn't through the world's eye or through a politically correct view. Amen.
As Christian's, especially as Christian's, we are to approach marriage from God's perspective, through His Word and the inner conviction of the Holy Spirit. (We know when what we are doing or thinking or even saying isn't right, because our conscience tells us, but many ignore the right thing to do in order to fulfill the lust within them.) The key to healthy, godly sex is to ask and seek God for godly ways to approach sexual imtimacy in the bedroom with our spouse. He will show us and teach us indestructible ways to enjoy our spouse and sexual intimacy with them.
Intimacy in the bedroom is a time to connect hearts and spirits not just body parts. As you do, something supernatural happens that connects your lives, your hearts; locking you both into God's plan for your marriage.
I myself have been delivered from sexual sins in the bedroom. So, I am not telling you what I don't know to be true. Once you are delivered from these demonic sexual vices, keep the Word of God in sight and fill your heart and sexual organs with it through your personal prayer and devotional time with the Holy Spirit (Psalm 119:11). Cut people, places and things off that have opened up the door of your life to these promiscuous acts of infedelity and immorality (2Corinthians 6:14-18).
Pray and fast often (Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 6:12 and chapters 21:36, 22:45-46). Submit to God. Resist the devil and then he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you (James 4:7-8).
Put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh (Romans 13:12-14). Apply the Word of God daily to every area of your life (Joshua 1:8). Confess your sins and be forgiven and be healed (Psalm 51; James 5:16; 1John 1:9). Claim your eyes only for your spouse (Job 31:1). Acknowledge and claim your body for the Lord's use not sins use ( Romans 6; 1Corinthians 6:12-20).
For those married and desiring to be married, ask God to bring your marriage under the divine jurisdiction of justification and sanctification. Yes, we must ask God to sanctify and beautify our marriages by His saving grace. This closes the door to Satan and demonic spirits of perversion from having access to our sexuality, marriages, children, or generations through people, places and things. Don't half step with your marriage. Love and truly like and honor your spouse and the covenant you made with them.
Being married isn't always easy, but IT IS SO WORTH IT!!! It takes mutual respect, humility, patience, prayer for one another and yourself to work out the kinks and through the glitches. I am a witness that you can enjoy your marriage, your spouse and the journey God's way and be fulfilled. Why? Because at the end of the day, GOD is at the core.
Isn't that Good News? Absolutely!
-KINGDOM BUILDING UNITED-
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
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