Whirlwind of Wills

Romans 8: 14 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Most of us will be familiar with this saying, "The heart wants what the heart wants" one of its variants. The key message of this statement is that sometimes you cannot control what your heart (emotions) wants especially when your heart wants it badly. This statement is true in many ways, but it gives one side of a picture in which there are so many sides.





Your heart wants what it wants, your spirit wants what it wants, your mind wants what it wants and your body wants what it wants. Life is good when all these facets of your person want the same thing. e.g Your decide you want to loose weight (mind), you are excitedly looking forward to the slimmer you (heart), your body cooperates by loosing all appetite for yummy food. Wait, opps! does that ever happen? You body will probably protest each step of the way. Each of the wants that your body, spirit, soul, or heart wants creates a certain amount of WILL and in every case where there is a conflict, the WILL you give into determines your actions.

So we know from previous posts that YOU-Spirit (when connected to God) will ALWAYS want to do God's will. We also know that the mind is fed by knowledge and information and YOU(mind) will always want to do what makes sense to you. At the same time, YOU (body) will want things that bring comfort and enjoyment, while YOU (HEART) will want things that make you feel wonderful,great,happiness,peace and strongest of all love. This is by no means an exhaustive list, many other thing will try to exert their WILL on you (society, friends, family e.t.c)

Let us consider this in light of these Verses in Ephesians 4

¹⁷ This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, ¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; ¹⁹ who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

²⁰ But you have not so learned Christ, ²¹ if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: ²² that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, ²³ and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Here it says that as new creatures we should no longer walk IN THE FUTILITY OF OUR MINDS like those whose spirits are still dead (separated from God). i.e even as a new creature, born of God, your mind is not infallible (it can think wrong thoughts),  your heart is not the guiding line for your life, it can be deceived (guard it with all diligence for out of it flows the issues of life). Your spirit (in communion with the Holy spirit)  is the sure source of direction at all times. I am sure we agree with this, but the real question is this, is it possible to follow you your spirit when your heart, body and mind are putting so much pressure on you to do otherwise?

The you, you have is as a result of the you, you feed. The truth is that no matter how your much your body wants that chocolate, it cannot have it until you give your hand permission to pick it up and your mouth permission to open and chew. No matter how much your heart wants a certain forbidden someone, your hand cannot pickup the telephone to call that person unless you give in to your heart's WILL and give your hand permission. Take conscious control to do what your spirit wants and feed your spirit with God's word so that the WILL of your spirit will also be able to push\lead you in the right direction. Gods direction. Renew your mind with God's word so your mind will cooperate with your spirit and make it easier for you to do what is right. When all fails and all your mind, body and heart want to go against what your spirit knows is right, it will feel like a whirlwind pulling you towards something you want and don't want at the same time. PRAY for strength and consciously tell yourself NO.

You are the owner of yourself, yourself is not the owner of you. 

Romans 8: 14 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

God Bless

PRAYER FOR TODAY

Father in heaven, I thank you for your love for me. I thank you because you know me inside and out and made a provision for all my needs in Christ Jesus. Help me Lord, Please give me the strength and give me grace to stand firm on your precepts even when my emotions and desires are like a whirlwind tossing me to and flow. I say Peace be Still in my life and rest in the knowledge that you will lead me in the path of righteousness and bring me to fulfillment of purpose. Thank you for your grace and mercy. I commit my family unto your hands make each and everyone of us a blessing in Jesus Name

AMEN

Letter From Heaven1

This is a letter pouring out God's heart to his people. Read the letter and digest the words beneath.

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Soldiers,

This is a battle, its part of a war

You need to decide

On whose side you fight

To say you love me,

Is to say you’ll be true.

To say that you don’t means

I need to get to you.

But now as I look there is a third group

I see traitors and henchmen belonging to me.

I’ve saved them, I’ve washed them

Even called them mine.

But when I see their actions it grieves me inside.

Propagating the affairs of my enemy

They go about,

All around doing injustice to me.

Who do you love?!

Who do you serve?!

Stop doing this to me

Go home, Go back just leave the battle field.

Decide right away, on whose side do you fight

Go away, don’t call my name

Because you still betray me.

The End

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When Gideon was going to fight the Midianities, God asked those unsure, scared and unprepared or unaware of the gravity to go home. God does not need numbers to win a war. He wants devotion.

See that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil

Ephesians 5:15&16

The life we live (if we say we are God’s own) should propagate His Kingdom and Expand and Enforce His dominion. Its expected. 

We are soldiers, the battle is for souls and our lifestyle must ‘use every opportunity’ to further the cause of our God. 

When we compromise or even go along with a plan that propagates sin, we are fighting on the wrong team. When we fall back and or hide our faith, we are like those who went back home. But when the world already knows you as a Christian and you follow friends, trends and fads to erode God’s dominion over lives, places and situations you are fighting on the wrong team. When our words agree and encourage sin what is to be said of us?

God has called you friend, don’t call yourself a traitor.

Once again be wise in the way you walk

Your conversation should be ALWAYS be full of grace

And seasoned with salt, so that,

You may know how to answer everyone.

Colossians 4:5-6

God wants ALL MEN to be saved (1 Tim 2:4) and come to the knowledge of truth, as His soldiers all our actions are supposed to make that happen.

1 Tim 4:12

Instead be an example, be salt, show example of a believer in word, conversation, charity, spirit, faith, purity.

We need to be examples that people can SEE.

Jesus said in John 14:

The devil is coming after me but even though he has no power over me, I will willingly handover myself SO THAT the world will know  that I love my father and I WILL OBEY whatsoever he asks Me to do. Jesus died to be an Example. To SHOW the world that he loves God. 

Halleluyah! Are you willing to SHOW?

1 Tim 5:22b & 25 - “Neither be partakers of other men’s sin. Keep thyself pure”.

2 Tim 4:2 - “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine”.

Prayer:

Lord, help me not to give up territory to the devil, help me to show the world what a Christian looks like, what loving You looks like. Make me an example to show that it is possible to love and truly serve You. Help me not to encourage people into sin, help me never to be ashamed of being your King and Priest on this earth. Guide me by Your Spirit, give me strength.

Functionality Maximized

Ecclesiastes 10:7 - I have seen servants on horses, While princes walk on the ground like servants.

Animated For Purpose and Functionality Revealed were posts that gave us a revelation into the fact that based on our design, we discover who we are through our relationship with God and we discover how to function in all our roles by experiencing how God (trinity) functions as a counselor, bridegroom, friend, teacher, master, creator e.t.c 

This has brought us to the realization that in order to maximize our capabilities and potential, we need to function in our relationship with God. What is this capability? Revelations 1:5-7 explains: 


Revelation 1:5-7

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, ⁶ and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

On this earth, we are kings and priests. A king has dominion, A king has power, the words that come out of a King's mouth become law and cannot be overturned. The one who has dominion over the Universe has made us Kings and Priests on earth. 

Look around you, we all need to pause and think about this. Is there anything that is resisting your 'Kingship'? Then you need to Maximize your functionality. Are your relationships, finances, job circumstances, health circumstances obeying your pronouncements and decrees? You need to maximize your functionality. Most of all, is your life, and are your actions enforcing and propagating the dominion of the King of Kings in your domain which he has given you? You need to maximize your functionality. We all do. 

Do you feel like a King?

If you have read Try to Imagine it, then you can picture some of the wonderful things that would be happening if all God's Children would Maximize their functionality as kings in their domains.

Genesis 1:26-27 gives us a clear picture of the level in which we were designed to operate:

Genesis 1:26-27

New King James Version (NKJV)

²⁶ Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; 1 . let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, 
2. over the birds of the air, and over the cattle,
3. over all^[a] the earth 
4. and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

²⁷ So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Inherent in our design was all this ability. Creation was not meant to order itself, man was meant to. God put things in order when he made the earth but inherent in its design, he made it such that creation had to obey man and in obeying man it would be obeying God. No wonder! no wonder Romans 8:19-22 tells of how creation groans, waiting earnestly for the sons of God to come and take charge.

We were put on earth to Maximize the earth's functionality and if we do it with God's leading and guidance then we would know enough about how to maximize it without awful side effects and methods. Many people through out history have discovered, invented and developed things because they maximized their functionality as scientists and researchers by asking God for guidance. Have you ever wondered who many of the great scientists we have ever heard of were children of God (Isaac Newton, Micheal Faraday, Blaise Paschal, Galileo Galilei)?


God have us the power to take charge of earth, to take the raw materials and make things out of it, use the plants and animals for food, clothing and shelter, use the sun and water for light and power e.t.c Inherent in the functionality of 'the earth' when God gave it to man was electricity, medicine, Computers, ipads, cards AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE! In what ways would the earth be maximized if all God's children would maximize their functionality?

In order for Genesis 1:26 and Revelations 1:6 to become a reality in our lives we need to go back to the basics, back to our design to see how this 'God-Us' relationship was meant to work and how it tanslates to Animation and Functionality. Halleluyah! 

What I'm about to share with you transformed my life, and is still transforming it daily.

'MAN WAS  NOT CREATED TO BE SELF-SUFFICIENT'

Only God is self-sufficient and the power that sustains the whole universe flows out of him. The original design for this flow of power is:

GOD->MAN->EARTH

When any part of this link is broken, ability is lost, wisdom is missing, guidance is disconnected, everything is left to chance and loss begins to take place. No matter how fast or strong you are, your success is based on chance unless this link is replaced, unless the connection is repaired. No wonder the bible calls separation from God death.

We are Kings and priests and we are living like mere men, creation is supposed to be in our care, its supposed to serve us, but we serve it, we are supposed to tell it what to do but it tells us what to do (rain, storms, hurricanes, earthquakes). This is not the life we were meant to live! No way!

When Jesus came to restore our connection to God, he did it so that we can have access to that part of our design that gives us dominion. He came so that we can re-link ourselves to our source of animation and dominion. The life he lived on earth was to show us exactly who we are meant to be.

Mark 16:18

New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁸ they^[a] will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

We are KINGS, we cannot keep walking on foot instead of riding on the donkey. I pray that the Holyspirit makes these words explode in your heart so that you know who you are. You are more than conquerors. You are a Child of the Most High God and you have no enablement of your own. Outside God we are truly dead. When ever we do something 'great' we need to imagine how much greater it would have been if we were operating at our MAXIMUM.

Halleluyah!

In Genesis 2:19 God was right there but ADAM was the one who named the animals, God wants to enable you to do so so so so so MUCH. Are you ready to rekindle that relationship with him? Maximum cannot be achieved outside God.

PRAYER FOR TODAY

Lord God Almighty. Ancient of Days you are perfect in all your ways. What can I say but thank you. Who is man that you are mindful of him? We are nothing without you? Help me take my place, enable me to bring Glory to you by fulfilling my calling. Down at your feet is the most high place because my potential is maximized by your power. I am nothing without you.

Glory to your name Jesus. Halleluyah!

Genesis 2:19
¹⁹ Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. ²⁰ So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.