“The devil don’t care how much theology and facts you know,
until you introduce him to the ONE that you know – Jesus Christ.”
The name at which every knee will bow and tongue will confess is Lord!
So drugs and alcohol rule the hearts of so many!
Confusion and self-destruction are rampantly escalating suicidal tendencies!
Fatherless homes and motherless children are sealing the fate of future generations!
Anger and bitterness are driving the emotions and actions of the hurting!
Demonic spirits are stealing, killing and destroying the destinies of the tormented!
Witchcraft and the New Age are cesspools of deceit and devastation!
Violence is being lived out within our schools, churches, playgrounds and homes!
Even the earth is struggling with the weight of sinfulness as described in scripture!
Earthquakes, pestilence, wars, rumors of wars, volcanic activity, weird weather patterns, acceptance of perverse behaviors and lifestyles and so much more!
Did you ever think that the spirit chaos of man’s evil desires in driving the physical realm around us? You might want to ponder that as a choice!
Yet, the more our culture dives into these schemes of the enemy and confusion about the chaos that is saturating our surroundings, the more darkness it causes, and the faster people run to it! People want a fix and look everywhere to find it, except to the Truth that would set them free from it! Most really don’t want an answer that will change their life. What they want is a ‘fix’ to make the pain to go away, and be able to continue to lust after the sinfulness of this world! People just want to identity with their pain, blame others for it, make it who they are, live for it, rally around it, develop a posse of others who are as broken as they are, make it the cause, want peace but seek chaos – ALL rather than finding the ANSWER JESUS Christ who will remove it, heal them, restore them, empower them and give them His identity one of love, power and a sound mind.
So where does the Truth lie?
This is the problem I see in the churches that falls upon the churches, especially the leadership and pastors. They know God but are limited in their intimacy with Him. We see it the military, nothing forms a deeper connection then when people fight alongside one another and learn to trust. Our churches and leadership are ill equipped to carry out the spiritual “violence” that the Gospel releases in the spiritual realm. The leadership has not equipped the churches with power of the Gospel that pulls down every stronghold and carries out Christ’s defeat of the enemy. Our leaders and pastors lack personal experience of the knowledge and vision of the Lord. Therefore they are perishing and being destroyed.
I truly believe God is raising a new standard of equippers that have the experience to equip church leaders and their people for victory. They have the battle experience with the Lord fighting at their side. They know Him and his ways. They are the spiritual David’s that will return the true lifestyle worship back into the hearts of the Church. The will equip church leaders with the fruit and gifts of the Spirit to be effective in the Gospel, and prosperous in the gaining of spiritual ground. They won’t just talk about their Commander, they will intimately know Him. They will have the signs and wonders entailed in their testimony to overcome the enemy alone with the blood of Jesus Christ saturating their life.
For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 1 Corinthians 4:20
You want to evangelize or save souls than you must learn how to battle for them against the gates of Hades and the gates won’t prevail. We must prepare His warriors to wield the weapons He has given us. Get people enlisted. Get them in spiritual Boot Camp” where they learn obedience and relationship. Get them intimate with our “Commander-in-Chief” and His battle plan. Shed light upon the tactics of the enemy. Equip them with the usage of the weapons we’ve been given. Then get them into the battle one step at a time.
It’s time to restore the fullness of God’s ordained calling back into the heart of the churches by restoring the fullness of God’s military agenda and positions of equipping back into the church also: The apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, pastor and teaching ministries to the Church. Until then we will have fear and defeat running our churches. Pastors and teachers will coward within the confines of the walls of the church waving the ‘white flag” of surrender. Our churches will systematically whither from within, and finally collapse from a lack of ‘pressure’ (forcefulness and power) of the Gospel thus causing it to cave to the pressures of the world. The Gospel brings conviction, repentance and offense to the fleshiness of mankind. The powerless gospel settles for contentment, rebellion and oppression within the church and its people.
The churches have made believing become more of a resort vacation or buddhist retreat center that focus on a carnality “love” that “centers” around us, than a Kingdom ruling Love! The churches love the world and its desires more than God’s Kingdom and righteousness. Jesus was the ultimate warrior. He was 100% obedient to His Father’s will and tactics, as an example of our calling. The world will know true believers by our love for Him. As Jesus loved His Father and thus His supernatural works were performed as a Love offering unto people from the Father. So shall the same Spirit reveal the Father’s love not necessary through the abilities of man, but through the supernatural, Kingdom principles that only He can do!
God builds faith, the churches seem to redirect people’s faith back to education and man’s ways. It’s time for the churches to restore the supernatural and Supranatural God back into the focus of our love and commitment! until then evil will continue to manipulate our people and make the impact of our ministries “sterilized” in the ability for us to reproduce Christ in our lives and in others. We follow business models that use data, psychology and collegiate education to grow modern day churches only to find a shallow and self-centered gospel that forms a new Jesus made in man’s image, and denies the real Jesus.
It is almost like we like people dependent upon ‘us’ so we keep giving them the milk of the word mixed with some educational philosophy rooted in languages and call it the ‘meat’. But in reality the ‘meat’ of the word is the hard to do stuff. The ‘crucify your flesh and its desires, pick up your cross and follow Jesus.” We aren’t much better than the Pharisees who could memorize whole books of scripture, follow the letter of word because they lived that language but missed the whole spirit of the Word and law. Jesus promised that the fresh covenant would allow the Word/law to be written upon our hearts. Wow, look how far we HAVEN’T come!
Walking in the Spirit takes time, commitment, relationship, denial of the flesh, obedience to Truth, honesty, submission, 24/7 dedication, study, fruit/gifts of the Spirit, rooting into a local body of believers, and much more. Keep your spiritual ‘radio station’ set to God’s frequency 24/7. Seek Him with all that you are, and you WILL find Him! Fight the good fight, and finish well!
Don’t be an unneeded casualty of this spiritual war. God has equipped the Apostolic and Prophetic callings to equip the Church through His Holy Ghost for spiritual warfare. Don’t walk in fear. Walk in Holiness and Righteousness! Walk in power and authority! Learn to walk in the footsteps of Jesus Christ’s ministry that He (the Head of the Body) has ordained the rest of the Body to carry out as His extension to the world. Than we will truly know what He meant when He said,
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” John 14:12
Are you one of these ‘believers’ He is speaking about? Where is your faith? What signs and symptoms of being a true follower of Jesus Christ has followed you? Do they reflect upon you or your God?
He was talking about supernatural works through the same Spirit that came upon Him.
Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” John 10:32
These were NOT man’s ‘good works’ that He did in the fleshly ability! Then add to it these scriptures:
If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me. But if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works so that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him. John 10:37-38
Then,
At that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
John 14:20
Isn’t time we don’t just tell people about Jesus but reveal Him through His love and supernatural Kingdom realities that ruins nice religion and paganistic rituals. Jesus’s ways of bypassing the mind and reach into the heart of mankind and change him from the inside out through the Spirit.
Don’t you know there is so much more to our walk with God than to just have “fire insurance?” If you don’t know this than you really don’t know your God, nor His Kingdom, nor His precepts like you should. His word says that:
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Hosea 4:6
and
Where there is no vision, the people perish; but he who keeps the law, he is blessed.
Proverbs 29:18
Knowledge of the Word and Vision of His revelation are key to Kingdom prosperity, Church strength and evangelistic potential. But destruction and perish will happily fill any void left when spiritual and supernatural knowledge and vision are rejected. There is NO such thing in this world as a spiritual void! Either God’s presence is there, or an evil presence. We are to be filled with the Spirit leaving no room for the enemy to steal kill and destroy. But, what does that men? The same Spirit that was on Jesus and the early Church that demons to cry out, to leave, sicknesses to be healed, dead to be raised, hearing and sight to be restored, … should be living inside of us with the same power. Enlist and be equipped for spiritual warfare. Our fight is NOT against flesh and blood.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world’s rulers, of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:12
The devil loves it when the churches become content in their own abilities and fleshly desires. He gloats in his abilities to distract and cause fear to rule within the walls of people’s hearts. He mocks the churches that walk in the flesh and not in the Spirit.
“The devil don’t care how much theology and facts you know,
until you introduce him to the ONE that you know – Jesus Christ.”
He is the UNDEFEATED ‘HEAVYWEIGHT’ CHAMPION of the UNIVERSE and beyond!
We hope to see you at church this weekend where we will discuss the ultimate power victory in history that was won so that we can be free, and help others to become free also! See you there!
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