Chapter 11
Kingdom Stability
As a youth I remember being so moved by what others thought of me. If my hair wasn't right or I had a new pimple I would sometimes not go to school. Still today sometimes I think to much of other's opinions rather than just being at peace in whom God has made me to be. True godly strength is when one is not moved by anyone but God. To be able to hear about all the chaos in the world yet have no fear. We are of a kingdom that is not of this world. This world does not have to effect us, we are above it's problems and now through God we are it's answers. So many Christians get moved by current circumstances, talking and complaining just as the world does.
Hebrews 11:23 It was by faith that Moses’ parents hid him for three months when he was born. They saw that God had given them an unusual child, and they were not afraid to disobey the king’s command.24 It was by faith that Moses, when he grew up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. 25 He chose to share the oppression of God’s people instead of enjoying the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He thought it was better to suffer for the sake of Christ than to own the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his great reward. 27 It was by faith that Moses left the land of Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger. He kept right on going because he kept his eyes on the one who is invisible.28 It was by faith that Moses commanded the people of Israel to keep the Passover and to sprinkle blood on the doorposts so that the angel of death would not kill their firstborn sons. 29 It was by faith that the people of Israel went right through the Red Sea as though they were on dry ground. But when the Egyptians tried to follow, they were all drowned.30 It was by faith that the people of Israel marched around Jericho for seven days, and the walls came crashing down.
Faith is not moved by what one sees in the natural but only what they see in the spirit. Faith chooses to trust God no matter what opposes them, for the kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent take it by force. As long as we are in step with God our enemies are under our feet. Like Moses as long as we keep our eyes on the one who is invisible we will always stay in the safest place we can be. We see the nation of Israel under the leadership of Moses and Joshua only advanced through Faith, when their decisions were based on fear they retreated. If we are not going forward in life it is because of fear. Every year we should be able to see that we have grown from the previous one.
To be able does not mean we are stable. Meaning advancing on the path of God will never be easy. His plans for us are much bigger than ourselves. The children of Israel always wanted to return to Egypt when they were challenged. They would rather be slaves than be free. It is easier to settle for mediocrity than greatness. What it comes down to is the fear of failure. This comes from a lack of Faith in God. As long as we base our decisions on what we can achieve we will always be bound to the world system. When we base our path on what only God can achieve we break free from the world's limitations and begin to enjoy the unlimited potential we have in Christ. It will take risk meaning believing God even when it is beyond our comprehension. To be stable means being in a position where one has adequate protection and provision in place. This is when you have arrived and you can now embrace comfort, the American dream. Many have reached this place and then their whole world fell apart because of natural disasters, personal loss, etc. To truly find stability one must live opposite, they must live by faith, embrace challenges, take risks in order to stay on God's path and enjoy the protection and provision of Heaven.
Challenge: Let's repent for our fear's, insecurities, and settling for a comfortable easy life, let's embrace the life of courageous faith and begin making decisions based on God's will and not our own.
The great commission instructs us to go into all the world and make disciples, teaching them to observe what we have been taught ourselves. Through the advancement of technology we can now disciple nations through media forms such as this. I pray this be a tool in helping draw others closer to Christ.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Kingdom Nation
Chapter 10
Kingdom Nation
We have all started things we never finish. I am known to do that quite often. As a visionary what I see is not always clear, for I only know in part, and sometimes I just miss it, and I start something and make promises that I don't always keep. It can be real frustrating to the people around me especially my wife. What happens is people lose interest in what I am feeling led to do so there is a lack of support. Thank God wisdom usually comes with age and broken promises are becoming less and less frequent in my life.
God promises in His word that He is faithful to complete everything He has started. The difficulty for us is God is multi-generational, many of His promises will never fully come to pass in our lifetime. Can we be obedient to something that we may never fully enjoy. Can we go in a direction and yet never reach the destination. All of us have experienced trying to accomplish something and not being able to complete it, having to just give up and how frustrating that can be. We love to achieve things. We love to be rewarded for our hard work. There is such a joy when we finally finish something that was so difficult. In Christ though it is no longer about us, it is about Him, His purposes, His timing and His ways. We will be rewarded for our obedience, what we set out to do will be achieved but again much of it not in our lifetime. The key to true success in this lifetime is an eternal perspective, a kingdom mindset.
Hebrews 11:11 It was by faith that even Sarah was able to have a child, though she was barren and was too old. She believed that God would keep his promise. 12 And so a whole nation came from this one man who was as good as dead—a nation with so many people that, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, there is no way to count them. 13 All these people died still believing what God had promised them. They did not receive what was promised, but they saw it all from a distance and welcomed it. They agreed that they were foreigners and nomads here on earth. 14 Obviously people who say such things are looking forward to a country they can call their own. 15 If they had longed for the country they came from, they could have gone back. 16 But they were looking for a better place, a heavenly homeland. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. 17 It was by faith that Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice when God was testing him. Abraham, who had received God’s promises, was ready to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, 18 even though God had told him, “Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted.” 19 Abraham reasoned that if Isaac died, God was able to bring him back to life again. And in a sense, Abraham did receive his son back from the dead.
Abraham advanced towards the fulfillment of God's promises through tests. As each test was passed he moved closer to the goal. Each test that fails we must take over again causing delay. Satan's plan is to delay God's promises, to keep back the day of final judgment. We must understand that as we advance to greater levels we will face greater devils. Satan will increase his attacks as we increase in spiritual growth. We should not run though from the tests or try to find a way to cheat the tests, like I would try to do in school especially with Algebra. We must make up our mind that we want to advance as far as possible in Christ in our lifetime leaving a great legacy for the generations to come.
Each level brings harder tests. When we are victorious it becomes natural to want to hold on to the moment to idolize the achievement and stunt our growth. God wants nothing to come ahead of Him, He wants all the glory, and everything we gain in Him, He wants it used for His glory. Abraham had passed many difficult tests before the promise of Isaac was miraculously birthed forth. It would have been easy for Abraham to divert all his attention now from God to Isaac. So Abraham had to be tested would he sacrifice his dream, would he surrender his most prized promise. Abraham passed the test and therefore passed on great inheritance to Issac who continued the path of prophetic fulfillment to Jacob later called Israel who established the promised nation. We are now His chosen ambassadors on earth to establish His reign as it is in Heaven. That the kingdoms of this world would become the Kingdom of our God. Each test we pass brings us closer in the progression of the fulfillment of this promise.
Challenge: Let's examine the difficulties we are currently facing and ask ourselves is this a repeat of a failed test, if so, let's repent for our disobedience and delaying God's will from being done. Let's make up our mind to learn from our difficulties and use them as stepping stones to advance to the next level in Christ.
Kingdom Nation
We have all started things we never finish. I am known to do that quite often. As a visionary what I see is not always clear, for I only know in part, and sometimes I just miss it, and I start something and make promises that I don't always keep. It can be real frustrating to the people around me especially my wife. What happens is people lose interest in what I am feeling led to do so there is a lack of support. Thank God wisdom usually comes with age and broken promises are becoming less and less frequent in my life.
God promises in His word that He is faithful to complete everything He has started. The difficulty for us is God is multi-generational, many of His promises will never fully come to pass in our lifetime. Can we be obedient to something that we may never fully enjoy. Can we go in a direction and yet never reach the destination. All of us have experienced trying to accomplish something and not being able to complete it, having to just give up and how frustrating that can be. We love to achieve things. We love to be rewarded for our hard work. There is such a joy when we finally finish something that was so difficult. In Christ though it is no longer about us, it is about Him, His purposes, His timing and His ways. We will be rewarded for our obedience, what we set out to do will be achieved but again much of it not in our lifetime. The key to true success in this lifetime is an eternal perspective, a kingdom mindset.
Hebrews 11:11 It was by faith that even Sarah was able to have a child, though she was barren and was too old. She believed that God would keep his promise. 12 And so a whole nation came from this one man who was as good as dead—a nation with so many people that, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, there is no way to count them. 13 All these people died still believing what God had promised them. They did not receive what was promised, but they saw it all from a distance and welcomed it. They agreed that they were foreigners and nomads here on earth. 14 Obviously people who say such things are looking forward to a country they can call their own. 15 If they had longed for the country they came from, they could have gone back. 16 But they were looking for a better place, a heavenly homeland. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. 17 It was by faith that Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice when God was testing him. Abraham, who had received God’s promises, was ready to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, 18 even though God had told him, “Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted.” 19 Abraham reasoned that if Isaac died, God was able to bring him back to life again. And in a sense, Abraham did receive his son back from the dead.
Abraham advanced towards the fulfillment of God's promises through tests. As each test was passed he moved closer to the goal. Each test that fails we must take over again causing delay. Satan's plan is to delay God's promises, to keep back the day of final judgment. We must understand that as we advance to greater levels we will face greater devils. Satan will increase his attacks as we increase in spiritual growth. We should not run though from the tests or try to find a way to cheat the tests, like I would try to do in school especially with Algebra. We must make up our mind that we want to advance as far as possible in Christ in our lifetime leaving a great legacy for the generations to come.
Each level brings harder tests. When we are victorious it becomes natural to want to hold on to the moment to idolize the achievement and stunt our growth. God wants nothing to come ahead of Him, He wants all the glory, and everything we gain in Him, He wants it used for His glory. Abraham had passed many difficult tests before the promise of Isaac was miraculously birthed forth. It would have been easy for Abraham to divert all his attention now from God to Isaac. So Abraham had to be tested would he sacrifice his dream, would he surrender his most prized promise. Abraham passed the test and therefore passed on great inheritance to Issac who continued the path of prophetic fulfillment to Jacob later called Israel who established the promised nation. We are now His chosen ambassadors on earth to establish His reign as it is in Heaven. That the kingdoms of this world would become the Kingdom of our God. Each test we pass brings us closer in the progression of the fulfillment of this promise.
Challenge: Let's examine the difficulties we are currently facing and ask ourselves is this a repeat of a failed test, if so, let's repent for our disobedience and delaying God's will from being done. Let's make up our mind to learn from our difficulties and use them as stepping stones to advance to the next level in Christ.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Kingdom Movement
Kingdom Movement
We live in a nation that celebrates comfort. How successful you are is determined by how comfortable you live. The thing with being comfortable is you get lazy. Life is no longer challenging. We settle, for we have arrived, advancement is no longer necessary. Many in America reach this stage young, many even grow up this way. Growth comes from being challenged. So one ceases to grow when they are too comfortable. I have found as I walk with God that when things begin to come easy, God sends me elsewhere, or brings something new my way. I have moved more times than I have fingers. I have gone from the Northwest to the Caribbean to now the Northeast moving many times in each location. Each setting has had it's own unique challenges. God has allowed me to see different extremes to help me find proper balance.
Hebrews 11: 8 It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went without knowing where he was going.9 And even when he reached the land God promised him, he lived there by faith—for he was like a foreigner, living in tents. And so did Isaac and Jacob, who inherited the same promise.10 Abraham was confidently looking forward to a city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God.
We will never achieve in our lifetime what God lays on our heart. His vision for us goes beyond our generation to the generations to come. We will never fully receive our inheritance in this lifetime. If we are walking with God we will always be on the move, going forward, constantly changing, always growing. God will not allow us to stay in our comfort zones. It seems like mission trips are when we see our limitations broken for we are put in situations that we have to rely on God. This is where myself and the people I have been connected with grow together the most. It is when people deal with challenges together that they form a deep bond. Relationships can only go as far as one trusts the other. When people face challenges together and they have to rely on each other trust is built. The kingdom only advances through the unity of Christ body. So short-term mission trips can be a great tool to develop teamwork in the lives of believers.
We all want to have everything figured out, we don't like to be not sure of tomorrow. Yet walking by faith is like that. God only reveals to us what is necessary for today. He doesn't want us to get ahead or be frightened of what is coming. I often spend time trying to figure out the future. This is when I get anxious, I lose focus, I get restless, and end up waisting my day, not satisfied in my daily responsibilities, consumed with thinking about what's to come. My faithfulness to what God puts before me today will determine what happens tomorrow. God reveals only what I need to know to be ready for tomorrow. It is usually vague, not too detailed, just enough to keep me in the right path.
Matthew 6:34 “So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
We must be confident like Abraham looking forward to what is to come but being faithful over today's responsibilities at the same time. Abraham had been given a command to leave home and was shown a vague vision of future greatness, he believed and it was accounted to him as righteousness. He moved even though he had such little detail. See God's plans for us are way bigger than ourselves, we can not fathom the details. We must just trust Him. Not an easy thing especially for those who are analytical, who try to figure everything out, think everything through. Trust me, we will never fully figure out God, our minds are not able to fully conceive Him. He is too big, just think for a minute, these question, where did God come from, how did He begin, and how can things just never end, and how can the universe have no end? These questions are way beyond our comprehension, it hurts our heads to even think about it. So some questions just cannot be answered. Life is an adventure and God made it that way, we have no idea how things may change tomorrow. It is good to be analytical, visionaries like me, need people who think things through, and help fill in the blanks, putting the details together, but everything will never be figured out.
Faith is ever-patient it believes no matter how long it must wait to see promises fulfilled. Abraham didn't begin to see the reality of his vision until his latter years. He even stepped ahead of God and tried to create God's fulfilled promise on his own, causing much difficult and pain. This is the root behind the conflict in the middle east. So much of our own personal difficulty and pain is the choices we have made ahead of God's time. God has placed great desires inside of us and it is good to desire to see them fulfilled, but so much must take place for us to be able to handle the changes in our life when prophecy is fulfilled. Is our character ready? Are all the people who are part of this place ready? God's timing is perfect so we must simply trust Him, bottom line!
Challenge: Let's repent of our Ishmael's the things we have created on our own in our own timing, then let's recommit to follow God's timing alone. Let's repent for not being faithful over today's responsibilities and being so anxious for tomorrow and recommit to being faithful today.
We live in a nation that celebrates comfort. How successful you are is determined by how comfortable you live. The thing with being comfortable is you get lazy. Life is no longer challenging. We settle, for we have arrived, advancement is no longer necessary. Many in America reach this stage young, many even grow up this way. Growth comes from being challenged. So one ceases to grow when they are too comfortable. I have found as I walk with God that when things begin to come easy, God sends me elsewhere, or brings something new my way. I have moved more times than I have fingers. I have gone from the Northwest to the Caribbean to now the Northeast moving many times in each location. Each setting has had it's own unique challenges. God has allowed me to see different extremes to help me find proper balance.
Hebrews 11: 8 It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went without knowing where he was going.9 And even when he reached the land God promised him, he lived there by faith—for he was like a foreigner, living in tents. And so did Isaac and Jacob, who inherited the same promise.10 Abraham was confidently looking forward to a city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God.
We will never achieve in our lifetime what God lays on our heart. His vision for us goes beyond our generation to the generations to come. We will never fully receive our inheritance in this lifetime. If we are walking with God we will always be on the move, going forward, constantly changing, always growing. God will not allow us to stay in our comfort zones. It seems like mission trips are when we see our limitations broken for we are put in situations that we have to rely on God. This is where myself and the people I have been connected with grow together the most. It is when people deal with challenges together that they form a deep bond. Relationships can only go as far as one trusts the other. When people face challenges together and they have to rely on each other trust is built. The kingdom only advances through the unity of Christ body. So short-term mission trips can be a great tool to develop teamwork in the lives of believers.
We all want to have everything figured out, we don't like to be not sure of tomorrow. Yet walking by faith is like that. God only reveals to us what is necessary for today. He doesn't want us to get ahead or be frightened of what is coming. I often spend time trying to figure out the future. This is when I get anxious, I lose focus, I get restless, and end up waisting my day, not satisfied in my daily responsibilities, consumed with thinking about what's to come. My faithfulness to what God puts before me today will determine what happens tomorrow. God reveals only what I need to know to be ready for tomorrow. It is usually vague, not too detailed, just enough to keep me in the right path.
Matthew 6:34 “So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
We must be confident like Abraham looking forward to what is to come but being faithful over today's responsibilities at the same time. Abraham had been given a command to leave home and was shown a vague vision of future greatness, he believed and it was accounted to him as righteousness. He moved even though he had such little detail. See God's plans for us are way bigger than ourselves, we can not fathom the details. We must just trust Him. Not an easy thing especially for those who are analytical, who try to figure everything out, think everything through. Trust me, we will never fully figure out God, our minds are not able to fully conceive Him. He is too big, just think for a minute, these question, where did God come from, how did He begin, and how can things just never end, and how can the universe have no end? These questions are way beyond our comprehension, it hurts our heads to even think about it. So some questions just cannot be answered. Life is an adventure and God made it that way, we have no idea how things may change tomorrow. It is good to be analytical, visionaries like me, need people who think things through, and help fill in the blanks, putting the details together, but everything will never be figured out.
Faith is ever-patient it believes no matter how long it must wait to see promises fulfilled. Abraham didn't begin to see the reality of his vision until his latter years. He even stepped ahead of God and tried to create God's fulfilled promise on his own, causing much difficult and pain. This is the root behind the conflict in the middle east. So much of our own personal difficulty and pain is the choices we have made ahead of God's time. God has placed great desires inside of us and it is good to desire to see them fulfilled, but so much must take place for us to be able to handle the changes in our life when prophecy is fulfilled. Is our character ready? Are all the people who are part of this place ready? God's timing is perfect so we must simply trust Him, bottom line!
Challenge: Let's repent of our Ishmael's the things we have created on our own in our own timing, then let's recommit to follow God's timing alone. Let's repent for not being faithful over today's responsibilities and being so anxious for tomorrow and recommit to being faithful today.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Kingdom Righteousness
KINGDOM RIGHTEOUSNESS
Hebrews 11:7 "It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before. By his faith Noah condemned the rest of the world, and he received the righteousness that comes by faith."
None of us like to be wrong. I really thought in the world I was a good person, I didn't behave as bad as most. I inspired to do good, for I wanted to make the world a "better place." When I was found to be wrong I pointed fingers at somebody or something to be blamed, rather than myself. See we want to convince ourselves and others that we are righteous. So we compare ourselves with them and justify the wrong we do. The bible says none are righteous no not one, it says that our righteousness is as filthy rags (Rom. 3:10, Is. 64:6). Until my life began falling apart, and humiliation followed, could God draw me to Him. I finally realized I needed Him and when I began seeking He was found. Now that I have learned His holiness I look back at my life and cannot believe how deceived I was of my own righteousness.
What makes us righteous is simply believing God at His word. Now God's ways are far above our ways, so it is not always easy to believe. It takes faith and faith comes from God. He draws us to Him and gives us a desire to know His ways, as we continually hear we start to believe. Anything spoken long enough will be believed that is why businesses pay a lot of money to advertise, in time when something is seen and heard enough people accept it. Many things that are now accepted in society were not at all just a few decades ago, a marketing strategy was developed, and again with time, acceptance followed. God's word though is the most powerful force in the universe, so if we can hear His Word over and over, it will cause us to believe in what we once thought as impossible.
It is our faith that plants seeds of faith in others. Our lives are living testimonies. That is why God does not want us to live apart from the world in our own little Christian bubbles, but in the world, just not of it. We either draw people to repentance by our acts of faith, or condemn them by their rejection. Noah's act of faith was rejected by all but his family. This is the big point, can we handle other's rejection. How far will we believe God? What can He reveal to us? Maybe why many of us are not being used to do great courageous acts of Faith is because we simply could not handle the rejection that would follow. Many people no matter what they see will reject God and therefore his messengers. To advance God's kingdom we must live not to please man but to please God.
In the Western world we don't face near the persecution than the rest of the world. Is it because we are Christian nation, or is it because of believers lack of true faith? I would argue with the latter. The Western world is no longer predominantly Christian for our culture speaks differently. Therefore, persecution doesn't arise because believers faith wavers. We compromise with the truth. We make God into our own comfortable idol. Our churches are just social gathering places not equipping centers.
Noah stood against the unrighteousness of his day against all odds, he stood firm in obedience to God's word, and through it was saved and his household. The bible says many are called but few are chosen (Matt. 22:14), it also says that many will try to enter in by the wide gate but narrow is the way that leads to everlasting life (Matt. 7:13). Many will say they did this and did that but God will say depart from me you workers of iniquity for I do not know you (Lk. 13:27), for only those who do the will of God will enter in. By the numbers the United States seems to be a Christian Nation, but the bible says we shall know them by their fruit (Matt. 7:20). We better watch out for even the elect will be deceived in the latter days (Mk. 13:22).
What God leads us to do is always bigger than ourselves and does not make sense to the natural mind. We cannot expect the world to be in favor by the so called senseless acts of faith that follow our lives. The Chaos the world is currently in with all it's national conflicts and natural disasters gives us opportunities to display the greatness of God. So let's stir each other on to Kingdom greatness by displaying His righteousness through our acts of faith.
Challenge: Let's repent this week for our fear of rejection, for choosing to please man more than God, and now seek the Lord for the great supernatural acts of Faith He wants to do through us like Noah.
Hebrews 11:7 "It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before. By his faith Noah condemned the rest of the world, and he received the righteousness that comes by faith."
None of us like to be wrong. I really thought in the world I was a good person, I didn't behave as bad as most. I inspired to do good, for I wanted to make the world a "better place." When I was found to be wrong I pointed fingers at somebody or something to be blamed, rather than myself. See we want to convince ourselves and others that we are righteous. So we compare ourselves with them and justify the wrong we do. The bible says none are righteous no not one, it says that our righteousness is as filthy rags (Rom. 3:10, Is. 64:6). Until my life began falling apart, and humiliation followed, could God draw me to Him. I finally realized I needed Him and when I began seeking He was found. Now that I have learned His holiness I look back at my life and cannot believe how deceived I was of my own righteousness.
What makes us righteous is simply believing God at His word. Now God's ways are far above our ways, so it is not always easy to believe. It takes faith and faith comes from God. He draws us to Him and gives us a desire to know His ways, as we continually hear we start to believe. Anything spoken long enough will be believed that is why businesses pay a lot of money to advertise, in time when something is seen and heard enough people accept it. Many things that are now accepted in society were not at all just a few decades ago, a marketing strategy was developed, and again with time, acceptance followed. God's word though is the most powerful force in the universe, so if we can hear His Word over and over, it will cause us to believe in what we once thought as impossible.
It is our faith that plants seeds of faith in others. Our lives are living testimonies. That is why God does not want us to live apart from the world in our own little Christian bubbles, but in the world, just not of it. We either draw people to repentance by our acts of faith, or condemn them by their rejection. Noah's act of faith was rejected by all but his family. This is the big point, can we handle other's rejection. How far will we believe God? What can He reveal to us? Maybe why many of us are not being used to do great courageous acts of Faith is because we simply could not handle the rejection that would follow. Many people no matter what they see will reject God and therefore his messengers. To advance God's kingdom we must live not to please man but to please God.
In the Western world we don't face near the persecution than the rest of the world. Is it because we are Christian nation, or is it because of believers lack of true faith? I would argue with the latter. The Western world is no longer predominantly Christian for our culture speaks differently. Therefore, persecution doesn't arise because believers faith wavers. We compromise with the truth. We make God into our own comfortable idol. Our churches are just social gathering places not equipping centers.
Noah stood against the unrighteousness of his day against all odds, he stood firm in obedience to God's word, and through it was saved and his household. The bible says many are called but few are chosen (Matt. 22:14), it also says that many will try to enter in by the wide gate but narrow is the way that leads to everlasting life (Matt. 7:13). Many will say they did this and did that but God will say depart from me you workers of iniquity for I do not know you (Lk. 13:27), for only those who do the will of God will enter in. By the numbers the United States seems to be a Christian Nation, but the bible says we shall know them by their fruit (Matt. 7:20). We better watch out for even the elect will be deceived in the latter days (Mk. 13:22).
What God leads us to do is always bigger than ourselves and does not make sense to the natural mind. We cannot expect the world to be in favor by the so called senseless acts of faith that follow our lives. The Chaos the world is currently in with all it's national conflicts and natural disasters gives us opportunities to display the greatness of God. So let's stir each other on to Kingdom greatness by displaying His righteousness through our acts of faith.
Challenge: Let's repent this week for our fear of rejection, for choosing to please man more than God, and now seek the Lord for the great supernatural acts of Faith He wants to do through us like Noah.
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