The Gospel WILL
Separate: seen as a division among family members! Lines are drawn where those
committed to God’s kingdom require truth!
Commitment to Jesus and the kingdom
will separate. Jesus told those who followed Him that those with Him were His
mother, brothers and sisters: Matthew 12:47-50 NKJV 47
Then one said to Him, “Look, Your mother and Your brothers are standing
outside, seeking to speak with You.” 48 But he answered and said to the one who
told Him, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” 49 And he
stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, “Here are My mother and
My brothers!” 50 for whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother
and sister and mother.”
1.
The
“faithful”, those who are God’s family are those who operate spiritually in the
kingdom.
2.
Jesus
valued His spiritual relationship with His disciples above His physical
relationship with His own family.
3. Jesus went the way of the cross and each of us must lay down our lives and take up His and live for that which is one as that “king and priest” where authority rule of that kingdom is seen and heard through us! Following Jesus is being a servant-follower. It will take a personal qualification to lead in authentic ministry that reveals truth always.
The apostles were
instructed to wait for the power from on high. (Luke 24:49
1.
It was both Peter and Paul who emphasized
the Holy Spirit baptism in Acts 8:19.
2.
You
and I must experience that same baptism of power in our lives! For the Lord is
a consuming fire. The true presence of God is felt or actually seen through
manifestations. And the reactions vary from excitement to a believer, a
questioning attitude to one seeking God and His presence, and to another can
appear as a total resistance to him with an unbelieving spirit.
Our Culture will not have a holy fire in it nor was there a holy fire in the culture where the apostles gave the Gospel. What has been given is that of Jesus Christ. God will use His word to encourage our hearts. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11 God has purpose for all those created in His image. He sent His Son to save them, but only those who confess Him are saved, only those who believe in His saving grace will see God! God is about encouraging those who walk with the Lord.
Christ
is Intolerant to the things of the world! Jesus told the religious group that He was
God and they crucified Him! Luke 22:66 As soon as it was day, the elders of the
people, both chief priests and scribes, came together and led Him into their
council, saying, 67 “If You are the Christ, tell us.” But He said to them, “If
I tell you, you will by no means believe. 68 And if I also ask you, you will by
no means answer me or let Me go. 69 Hereafter the Son of Man will sit on the right
hand of the power of God.” 70 Then they all said, “Are You then
the Son of God?” So He said to them, “you rightly say that I am.” 71 And they
said, “What further testimony do we need? For we have heard it ourselves from
His own mouth.
What was seen here, is a group of men whose feelings were hurt when Jesus spoke that He was God. You give voice to what God gives voice to being wrong and outside of His kingdom, and you will hear of such things as racism and the such against God and His truth! But truly God came to give truth to man so that they would know of the enemy's deceit and how he is going about destroying people's identities. The enemy is deceiving with lies to say that men can be women and women can be men. No, what these people need is someone who really loves them to tell them, God is for them as the man or woman He created them to be. So we pray for those being given the false doctrine of many genders when there is only two from the garden of Eden. Only two genders ( male and female) with such wonderful DNA together could create a small baby in the womb of loving parents. Such an identity planned by God to give identification to the truth of God in our lives. Yet there are those who truly take hold of the enemies lies to give to youth today and tell them this is okay! But for truth and sanity, it is wrong for anyone to take another person's identity and knowingly doing that is bringing hell closer to their own door.
Jesus voiced an affirmation to His being the “Son of God”! This title expressed His exclusive oneness with God the Father! Jesus came to separate the holy of God from the profane of sinful man. He gave an affirming word of God: Luke 23:3 then Pilate asked Him, saying, “Are You the King of the Jews?” he answered him and said, “It is as you say."
Jesus lived by the Spirit of God! It was by Holy fire that causes chaff to burn. We are to abide in the Spiritual of the Holy Spirit and His power and never adopt the world’s way of thinking nor doing as in the things of transgender. Truly each young child is a gift to our future. Each is truly what God planned. We should readily keep a relationship with God, choosing to stay within the boundary of His Word, to keep our ears open to hear the Holy Spirit speak and keep looking for restoration in our lives and to speak it over those young people and children in our community and this region of the Northwest! May each young child and youth know that they are purposed for good in God. That God created them in beauty where His image is seen.
WE see God Who shows no partiality. He wants all ethnic groups to hear the Gospel, and believe in His Son Christ Jesus. There is only one human race and it has one blood in Jesus Christ. As the believers on the day of Pentecost received the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues….we too as believers have been given the Holy Spirit.
The process continues, God is not finished. We have seen truth and seen false evidence. And that will continue in any culture, but we have been given power from on high just like Jesus had been given. A further worship to the Father is evident in us who believe. We spend time in this communion to make our boast in the Lord. We praise Him for His walk within our hearts. May the miraculous appear where those who are weary, who are the depressed and down-trodden.
Let's encourage others to walk in the ways of the Lord. This battlefield has no park benches! It is a place where your courage is tested, and truth should prevail. For truth without love is brutality. And love without truth is a lie! Be the "brave" to give God's love and the truth in this moment! Defend the word of God and teach it!
We are assured in this walk of truth: Jesus told us this in John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, fora servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. We are friends with Jesus. That is relationship that is safe and secure. The Lord is here and in our faith we speak His purpose, we pray His plan, we expect His moves among those who are the “poor” and believe He will return to take us home soon!
We choose not to tear others down but lift them by the word of God. We will not seek the praise of men nor will we inject our own opinions into situations. For those can turn out to be “”bullies”. Humility is the greatest example we saw in Jesus, a precious gift! He was the sinless sacrifice and by His blood we are the redeemed. Within that we learn from mistakes made, always quick to recognize our faults and to grow into better people because of that sacrifice made for us! Philippians 3:13 reminds of us of this: Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead.
We thank Him that we are not the fearful, nor are we broken, but we rise in this hour to slay the giant of culture and worldly ways where the me, myself and I are served. Holy Spirit have your way in our lives this day, this month and this year. Have Your way that is power in us to slay those giants the spiritual narcissist.
We allow You, Holy Spirit, to surge through us as we pray. We allow You, the Holy Spirit room that we see that fire burn brightly for the Lord’s glory and to His praise. We will stand in this hour to give His truth, to keep that light burning, so that we may boldly proclaim the authority that has been given to us to expel false lies and to remind others of His soon return.
New teaching at: Voice of Prayer
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