To Live Life Right

Through the years a person collects golden nuggets from life that helps you to make right decisions and to live life right. One of the strong convictions I have is the importance of tutoring people to live life right.

That is what wisdom is all about. The true meaning of wisdom is to “live life right”. The challenge is to make the right decisions at the right time and to have a godly attitude towards any given situation. Linked to Wisdom is the word responsibility. Responsibility is the ability to respond correctly towards my environment and what life throws at me through circumstances. 

I will never forget the early morning a few years ago when I was in a prayer with dairy farmers in the Free State when, while praying, the impression came to me “Stay long enough so that emotions can turn into strategies!’ I realized at that moment that it is so easy to get captured in one’s emotions and that the release of emotions might seem to be the answer. The fact is that we need to stay long enough to receive the answers from God that will release the strategies.

I also realized through this incident at this early prayer meeting with the farmers that “promise” and “presumptuousness” are two very strong aspects that can change the course of life. I have listened to many farmers and business people and realized how many times we function on presumption and even strategies on feelings and mysticisms (mystic).

Genesis 26 tells us the story of God interacting with Isaac telling Isaac to stay in the land and not to go to Egypt “Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you.” Now that is a promise! Genesis 26 verse 12 tells us about Isaacs responds: “Isaac planted crops in that land and in the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him. The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy”

Faith always follows the promise because my faith is in the person that makes the promise. (PROMISE - In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act.)

Luk 1:37 For no promise from God will be impossible of fulfillment.”

Rom 4:20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God) Romans 4:21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform. Titus 1:2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;

Maybe we need to understand, reading the above, the incredible infallible integrity of our God.

The opposite to receiving a word or promise is to presume. Presumption is dangerous and can lead us to much pain and disappointment.

Presumption - the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof. (That which is presumed or assumed; that which is supposed or believed to be real or true, on evidence that is probable but not conclusive. The act of venturing beyond due beyond due bounds; an overstepping of the bounds of reverence, respect, or courtesy; forward, overconfident, or arrogant opinion or conduct; presumptuousness; arrogance; effrontery.)

Daniel 5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him;

Revelation 3:17
Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

Until next time….

Infallible integrity of God

I wonder if you have been thinking lately on the infallible integrity of God. Through the years I have learned to do word studies to be able to understand what I believe.  It is important to understand that our faith is in a Person, and what we believe about this Person will have a tremendous influence on our Christian walk. We listen to preachers and they tell us what we must believe and what they believe but we ourselves are inactive in studying the Word of God to speak out a verdict about God. Allow me to tell you about the infallible integrity of God.

In the first place the word infallible means: ‘absolutely trustworthy or sure,’ ‘unfailing in effectiveness or operation’.  It is no wonder that God’s integrity becomes the fuel of our faith. God has proved Himself faithful in the death and resurrection of Christ, by bringing man back to success and glory in Christ Jesus.

The New Covenant or Testament was not made between God and man but between the Father and the Son. Christ Himself fulfilled all the conditions of the new covenant for all - it was His obedience and not man’s obedience. It is by His obedience that we were able to receive Him as our Lord and Savior and that millions of people are still making decisions every week.

The scripture in Hebrews 4:2 (For also we have had the gospel preached, as well as them. But the Word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.), helps us to understand that the visible often has more influence on us than the Word of God, because our faith has never been activated by our understanding of God’s infallible integrity. It is a fact that our experiences of life forms our belief systems and then testifies against the integrity of God. Let me put the scripture in Hebrews differently so that we will understand the importance of faith.

·      They did not allow their hearts to be persuaded by God’s Word or promises, but rather preferred to give more credit to their circumstances.

·      Where the Word of God did not find the response of faith and of integrity in the heart of man, it failed to benefit that individual.

·      The Word was not cemented with that ingredient of Spirit Appreciation necessary to release the fullness of God’s attention in that Word.

My dear friend, God wants you and me to draw from our faith, He wants us to draw from the inexhaustible resource, the infallibility of His Word within us. I thought to ad these Scriptures to encourage you when you read them.

Phi 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthen me.

Luke 1:37 For no promise from God will be impossible of fulfillment.”

Rom 4:20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Until next time.

Discovering our Spiritual Inheritance

            I have often said that we as Christians do not understand that we are unplugged from a world system and are plugged into an unseen world that cannot be perceived by the mind of this world. This is what makes Christianity different from other religions, because most religions are built on principles and religious acts. The foundations of Christianity is built on rebirth that brings us into a relationship which repositions us with God the Father. In this relationship, life principles are restored because of the configuration of a man's heart. God builds His Kingdom on the condition of the human heart. For that to happen, spiritual interaction is imperative.  
            I listen to fellow Christians and realize that a lack of intimacy between God and man eventuates in a belief to please God. Our lives then become entrapped in guilt that ends in self-condemnation. 

            However, spiritual inheritance is that which is received for free, at the cost of the price paid by another. As Christians we received a life that is connected to an unseen world. Jesus in His model prayer prayed "your Kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven". If we as Christians are rightly positioned, then that which is in the unseen world must manifest in the world that we are living in. The reality of heaven must invade this earth through the sons of God! That reality, flowing from a renewed mind will change the world. 


            

Mindsets

I often think about life and the world that we are living in. Many times in the past,  I have said that it is not how much we pray, but rather the quality time we spend thinking with God. It is in these thinking processes that one's heart is configured to God's heart and that right actions can come from one's inner man.
I realized that not all of us are thinkers but I do believe that we need to spend time thinking and allow ourselves in these thought sessions to be very honest with ourselves. It is the truth that sets us free and truth can only correctly be perceived if our perspectives of this world and ourselves are accurate. It is normal to shy away from one's self and the process of configuration because of the effort and conflict that is released within.
You will agree with me that self leadership is of utmost importance in the world that we are living in and to be prophetical accurate, we need to broaden our perspectives to be able to lead and to influence. I am reminded of the scripture in Joshua 3 when the Israelites needed to cross the Jordan to enter the promise land. It is important to understand that it was a whole new season for them, being led out from slavery into their desert experience. It was a process of mind change. They were under oppression and had the mindsets of slaves. In their desert experience, God became the Miracle Working God that provided for them but it was still just a process of mindsets being changed in the journey of liberation to the Promised Land.  The process of change and the interaction between God and man is clear in this story.
A whole generation was wiped out in their desert experience because of their inability to perceive God's purposes for them. They were so caught up in their previous state that they could not reach out to their destiny!
I want to emphasize again how important the configuration of the heart is in our endeavors with God. It is important to understand that in the third chapter of Joshua, God leads the people into a brand new environment of positioning, in the desert environment God performs miracles for them to sustain them but now they have come to the crossing point in their journey, where they need to position themselves so that God can do miracles through them.
If our perceptions are incorrect, the church will not be in the position to manifest the Kingdom of God and we will perish in our old mindsets, incapable  to live as sons of the most high God! It is time to cross over into a new dispensation of sonship, manifesting the love of God!