Showing posts with label obedience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obedience. Show all posts

Monday, May 17, 2010

God won't be Boxed! Part 2



Just because a person doesn't go to a 4 walled church doesn't mean they are not under a God ordained Pastor or in communion with teachers He sends etc.  That's the key though, whom HE sends.  God ordains position, not man. Somehow Jesus went all over with His disciples and He had them doing 'church' together, as opposed to being bound by the temple which had corrupted leadership, fleshly teaching and money as the focus.  (Funny, not much different today...)

God will not be boxed, nor those that trust in Him.

In John 10:9 Jesus says, "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture."  Let me elaborate...  first we go through the door of Jesus unto salvation...but then it says "...shall go IN and OUT, and find pasture."   See that freedom there?

Be open to whom God would send you...

In my early spirit-filled days the Lord would always put the oddest people in my life that held the anointing.  I remember the first one... he stuttered, was blunt & teased too much & seemed like a lack of mental physical development was in his bloodline.   But I'd go to prayer meeting and in him I'd see this light switch turn on & it's like he wasn't there...it was God sitting there speaking to me.  I honored this man as a vessel of God-- I knew he was plugged into God & it was amazing--- he'd always reiterate, "Look who God can use!"   But having drug my dad along with me to those meetings...we'd go home & I'd have to listen to my dad & then other members of the family make fun of this man of God & not 'get it'...all they remembered was when the light switch was off.  

Then another was an obese woman-- again... that light switch... it was HIM...it was so wonderful....I served her in any capacity-- just excited for the next time HE showed up thru her.  

My point is to view everything in the spirit, NOT under the heavy hand of the flesh.  The age thing, the look or any of that physical stuff... degrees, diplomas mean nothing to me.  Poor quality video or audio means nothing to me.... obedience is everything and His mark on a person's life is what I listen to.  I've prayed over people  that were ordained pastors, but that's not whom God said that person was. It kind of hurt to pray for them because they were shoving themselves in their own box.

Can my words smack you around a little bit?  Really?  How often are we even entertaining angels unawares?  Wake up spirit-man and pay attention with this ((heart)).  Delay this ((mouth)).

Let me get back to John 10:9 "...shall go in and out and find pasture."  How many times have you heard that God will save those from their sin and then one day they return to be a light in that darkness they once partook in?  In whatever degree that would be... your testimony of salvation needs to be out there people!  So let me encourage you, YOU need to be testifying...

(Revelation 12:11 "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.")

And now I want to get to expounding upon freedom...

Romans 8:28 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."

Did you hear that... ALL THINGS.  In and out of pasture.  This is only going to become unbalanced and not work if you quit earnestly seeking God with a repentant heart.   Why are some things sin to one but not to another?  Because one is like flint in the world and another a sponge.  Know yourself... talk to Him.... if you have to baton down the hatches in areas do so, but do not hinder others by preaching a box mentality.  Part of that is fear, there is fear attached to that mentality.

True... things can have an evil spirit behind it....it's blatantly obvious that 'Highway to hell' isn't a wholesome bit.  But, have you looked at all the grey area out there in the world?   Are we missing out on what the one true God is saying or ways to reach unbelievers because of being programmed with religious lies that have a root in an evil religious spirit-- the same one that killed Jesus?  Where is the ministry of "meet them where they are at"?

I've had a song playing in my head the past two days that isn't a christian song.... in fact, I really didn't know the lyrics or the title to the song and I really didn't even know the words LOL, so I had to research until I could find it.  When I did I got a little choked up because I then realized He was singing me a love song.  He was telling me the little things He has me do is making a difference to change the world and He was telling me that His home is in my heart & with every beat we're closer.  Oh, God, did I need to hear that?  Of course I did... how easily I could've missed that by dismissing it?  We really have to tune in to God because He’s speaking to us EvErYwHeRe.

God uses everything to convey His messages, who are we to decide his plan and purposes?  Why should we care if he pays those hired in the eleventh hour the same as those hired the first?  Whose to say that God will not use the wicked to bring about His purposes.... what old testament battle should I bring up as an example here?  The thing you need to hear is that God-will-not-be-boxed!
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obedience



You don't want to be a needless casualty of war....but you look around and things keep getting worse & worse.  "God is bigger than this"...you say....  And He replies..."Obedience".

I'd like to shed some light on a growing trend of confusion within the church.  This confusion is caused by fear, the tendency to run to and fro and being led by man, not, the spirit of God.

I'd first like to talk about placement within the body.   Yes, it's true that within the body we each serve a different purpose, thus, making the body a complete church.   Because of God's hand of ordination for each into his proper place....some have jobs with more spiritual authority than others, because they are found faithful in the little things & thus the anointing grows.  It is true that it would be foolish to compare ourselves with others of higher callings and get in over our heads over something the Holy spirit never invited us to take on.  It is foolish to do anything apart from what the Holy spirit is churning within our hearts.

But something disturbing i'm beginning to see is a very stubborn apathy in the church that is counter to the bible's command.  The bible clearly states that the Gates of Hell will not prevail against the church.  It doesn't say....the gates of hell will not prevail against this particular man of God.  It's the Church in it's entirety--no matter the level of anointing, no matter the call of the individual. 

It is very clear now what a gate of hell is....it is a passageway for entrance of the demonic into the earth.  Some are created in a hidden manner & God calls upon hidden intercessors to stand in the gap that it indeed shall not prevail.  But others like the tibetan buddhist rituals - the mandalas that openly usher in the demonic - are done in light for all the world to see. 

So 2 things need to be separated....God's intercessory call to each of us individually vs. Gods command for all of us as a church.   They are absolutely 2 different things.   They need looked at in 2 different ways.   Contending with principalities and powers is in a defensive nature---those demons have been welcomed in and must be contended with and placed at His footstool.  That involves God forming a unique weapon through an obedient servant.    Conversely....when you look at the job of a gatekeeper in regards to the gates of hell it is an offensive nature....it is a standard....it needs to be the standard of the entire church.  It is not dependent on a feeling or a special call from God, it cannot be compared to a 'burden' God's placed for intercession on one individual--it is clearly spelled out in the bible. 

God gave me a parable....
There's this girl named Barbie.  She is the campaign manager for Trixie who is running for president on a small campus.   You see Barbie out there passing out buttons, registering students to vote, she's on the phone, she's making banners & flyers....you'd say she's Trixie's best friend.  Now it's voting day, and there's been a change of location....and Trixie's the one that approved the change that was requested upon by her opponent.  The voting location is at a campus bar at a dark end of town.  Barbie is aghast at this change....her whole world is turned upside down by this change...all she can focus on is what others will think if she is seen at this bar...after all there will be publicity.   So Barbie cowers in some shrubbery watching everyone else go in & she begins to get frightened in seeing all the 'roughfiens' going in.  Finally 9pm rolls around and Trixie leaves the bar notably shaken up.  Barbie comes over & taps on her car window as she gets ready to leave.
Trixie exclaims..."Oh where were you all night?  I needed you."
"Did you win?" Barbie asked.
"Yes."
Barbie jumps in excitement but Trixie is not happy.
Barbie says..."I knew all that hard work would pay off."
"But you didn't vote!", Trixie exclaims.
"So what....we won...we won!"
"No, WE didn't win....it was a tie....a coin was flipped and it landed in my favor....if YOU would have voted....WE would have won."

So picture a very disheartened & sad Trixie driving away and correlate this to the bible.  Barbie did everything but actually go into the darkness and physically tip the scales (getting a visual from the temple of Dagon??).  We know in the end He wins.  You can blow your horn all you want and educate the masses....but when it comes down to it....God asks for obedience....he needs your physical temple with His holy spirit inside to be that ark of the covenant.  There is absolutely no excuse for the church body to sit in apathy and expect that 'somebody else will do the job', or say 'Jesus already did the job'---and ignore the fruit of the times.  Jesus was, Is, and Is to come Through YOU.
Remember that we are to be seated in heavenly places ruling & reigning with our Lord.

What is does the sign over this path read?  "OBEDIENCE"   If you want to go onward in the anointing you must first be a doer of the word, so throw out the excuses and the fear and I'll see you in the Gates!
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