This season calls for safe navigation through the dense milky gray fog ahead. It will not last. Now it may seem like you are in flight and looking out of the window of your aircraft into nothingness. Here's the instruction for this season: summon all your faith in exploiting your instrument (The very Word of God); listen to the directive Voice of the Air Traffic controller (The Holy Ghost) while maintaining a definite clear mental picture of the nature of your landing environmet (Your Next Season) and ultimately of your final destination. Many have lost this mental picture of their final destiny (destination) - the coming New Heaven and New Earth. For the short term, focus on the next season of your life - What mental picture do you have? What are you visioning? I believe that this Season is a set-up by our Father in Heaven for the fulfillment of our purposes here on Earth. Please read again Matthew 19:26 and vigorously continue to operate and work on Matthew 10:20.
Beloved, you can see YOUR NEXT SEASON and know it in the Spirit - exercise your faith. Remember that having the faith of God and seeing into the spirit realm are the KEYS to doing Kingdom exploits here on Earth and prevailing over all the diabolical forces of hell. Moreover, they are essential accessories to our eternal trip to the New Heaven and New Earth about to be soon manifested. Jesus Christ is on His way back to this Earth. But in this Season, begin to SPEAK prophetically into your current situations - no matter what they are - in line with the clear mental picture of your next season. Understanding and seeing your NEXT SEASON births in you a confident expectation of the Result and surely will bring about the soon manifestation of your desires in line with the Will of God. I am fired up about my next season no matter the fogginess of this present season because I believe that my next season depends on me - how I believe and not just what I believe. Remember Matthew 19:26 and Mathew 10:20. What about you - how do you believe?
Write me and let us dialogue. God richly bless you and Maranatha (He is coming soon).
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
From Today - See, Turn, and Hear Your Way out of Captivity and into the New
Today - Thursday February 18, 2010. Meditate on this write-up:
As I have been praying for you, Beloved, I am receiving a word that the ordeals of the past year are over. You just have to embrace the new season. When Isaiah heard the Lord make the statement and ask the question, Behold, I DO a NEW Thing! Can YOU not SEE or perceive what is new around you? (Isaiah 43:19), the people were in danger of not shifting their sight to SEE their way into their future. They were a people going into captivity, but He was promising them that He would show them their way out at the perfect time. However, they would have to SEE the opening and opportunity to change their identity for the future. This is where you are now. Beloved, In this season, we must see our way out of our past captivities.
We Are Shifting from Hearing to SEEING! In the past, we have heard a "word from behind us telling us which way to go," but now HE will manifest in a way that we have to notice Him, turn and look, and then hear His word telling us which way to go. We have a great example of the time to shift and the pattern for the season ahead when we look at Exodus 3:1-4:
Moses was shepherding the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the west end of the wilderness and came to the mountain of God, Horeb. The angel of GOD appeared to him in flames of fire blazing out of the middle of a bush. He looked. The bush was blazing away but it didn't burn up. Moses said, "What's going on here? I can't believe this! Amazing! Why doesn't the bush burn up?" GOD saw that he had stopped to look. God called to him from out of the bush, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Yes? I'm right here!" (from The Message).
Beloved, the heavens had changed because of your cry just like the cry of the people of Israel in their slavery had reached His throne room. He responded and remembered His covenant that He had made 400 years prior. His response came in the form of a new manifestation. Moses recognized the new manifestation. This caused him to stop his normal daily activities. He did not just see the manifestation. The word above says that "He stopped to look." He turned from his past and present to "see" his future. When Moses saw, he then heard his calling to advance.
The Key is LETTING GO of the old pains, old way you have dealt with issues, old duties, routines, thought patterns, emotions, relationships and ambitions. Be very careful with your plans for the future and even your plans for your life from here on. Beloved, you must begin to see what God is showing you. When we see, then turn (the same word for change), we will hear transition and be repositioned out of last season's captivities and into next season's freedom. Be willing to see and then say "Here I am."
Meditate on Exodus 2:24-end of the chapter. Read Exodus 3-6.
Friday February 19, 2010. Beloved meditate on this write-up: The Voice of God is Like a GPS Navigator
I used my new GPS to get to get around these days. I was struck by how much God is like this GPS system in my car. First of all, the GPS tells you what to do when you are a short distance from your shifting turn. The voice of the GPS then grows more urgent as you get closer to your needed turn. However, the voice does not give you too much information too far in advance. If you miss the turn to your destination, the GPS recalculates and gives you another way to the destination. Isn't that like God? He forewarns us of how to get to where we need to go. The Spirit then gets stronger when we get close to the perfect timing to shift. Then, even if we 'miss it', He is longsuffering and recalculates our path into victory."
May you see and hear every turn on your path as you press forward. If you miss a turn, may you find grace and find your way.
Memorize Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the [uncompromisingly] just and righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines more and more (brighter and clearer) until [it reaches its full strength and glory in] the perfect day [to be prepared]. (Amplified Bible)
Meditate on Psalm 16. Read 2 Samuel 23, Matthew 5.
Saturday February 20, 2010. Beloved meditate on this write-up: See, Say and Profit, and team up with my Pastoral eyes to reap the blessings of a Seer
When the Lord is doing a new thing, we have an opportunity to leave the old. We see our way from Destructive Workings and Old Cycles in our past and into the new! Our Emotional Instability breaks and we find our footing for the future. The Flesh Rule from the past has to let go as we move into a new Spirit realm in the future. We must leave one season of warfare in the past and move into a new war for the future. This gives us the strength for God to move each of us into the Building Plan for the Future.
You will begin to SEE in a new way but WHAT you SEE you MUST SAY! The Seer Sees and actively announces and pours forth the declarations of God. Ro'eh (the seer) and (c)hozeh (the vision), are used to designate the prophet, both meaning "one who sees," and sometimes rendered "seer." This is a season where the pastor will change drastically. The old way church has been run and the way the sheep have been communicated with will now change. The Pastor will become a seer and the sheep will receive fresh vision from Holy Spirit. The Pastor will be sharing what is being seen and developing key vision.
The Holy Spirit's voice will manifest to direct us in a new way. This will cause you to decree that Jesus is Lord! Holy Spirit will create many different ministries in days ahead. Holy Spirit will create diversities of activities. Holy Spirit will manifest the voice of God in us through prophecy, faith, word of knowledge, word of wisdom, healing, miracles, discerning of spirits, tongues and interpretation of tongues. This will cause poverty in us to break individually and corporately. This will cause us ALL to PROFIT in a new way. Pray that Holy Spirit has His way in your life and in our church gatherings.
Read I Samuel 3. Meditate on I Corinthians 12. Memorize Psalm 23.
Sunday February 21, 2010. Beloved meditate on this write-up: See Your Path and Cycle of Prosperity
As a child there were several Bible passages that many of us were taught. Psalm 23 was one which we memorized and was used for comfort in distress and affliction. However, most of us never realized that this Psalm really says, "I will lead you in your path of prosperity through paths of righteousness for MY name sake."
In Hebrew, the word Path is ‘agol, which means to "be round or a cycle." The Lord guides us in the cycles of righteousness. The enemy hates the thought of us staying on a path of righteousness because he knows that we will SEE the fullness of His plan for our lives. God already has our path of prosperity in place. This path or cycle is linked with the yearly return received from the Feasts of Yahweh. Chag, or festival, means to make a cycle. If we understand the feast, then we understand cycles. We can be led properly, begin to prosper, move into abundance and have no lack. "The Lord is My Shepherd, I shall not WANT because He leads me in the cycle of prosperity. I will see My blessings wherever I walk. Even through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I can celebrate Him and not get out of time, and See my blessings!"
Read, memorize and meditate on Psalm 23.
Monday February 22, 2010. Beloved meditate on this write-up: Be Lavish! Follow Hard and Gain Momentum! Celebrating First-fruits Keeps Us SEEKING!
By understanding, celebrating, and giving at Firstfruits each month, you gain momentum in the spirit and eventually God's blessings overtake you. This produces a Kingdom mentality in you. You learn to give your best each month. This is so different than tithing. This concept builds within you the call to SEEK HIS KINGDOM FIRST and then WATCH ALL ELSE BE ADDED.
When we quit seeking Him first, we lose momentum! This is a time to Gain Kingdom Strength and Momentum NOW! Matthew 11:12 says, And from the days of John the Baptist until NOW the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. This was the statement that the Lord made to John the Baptist's disciples. John, who had chosen not to move with Jesus in His three year ministry of revolution, was now imprisoned. During this time, he had begun to question the One whom he had paved the way for to produce the redemption of mankind. Jesus' ministry was gaining momentum and John's ministry was coming to a close.
JESUS had just finished His charge to His twelve disciples and left there to teach and to preach in their Galilean cities. Only Philip and Andrew had left John's wineskin and transferred to keep following the Lord and seeking the Kingdom.
When John heard about the activities of the Lord, he sends some of his remaining disciples to question Jesus by asking in Matthew 11:3-6, Are You the One who was to come, or should we keep on expecting a different one? And Jesus replied to them, Go and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed (by healing) and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up and the poor have good news (the Gospel) preached to them.] And blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) is he who takes no offense at Me and finds no cause for stumbling in or through Me and is not hindered from seeing the truth. In other words, believe and SEE what you prophesied in the past manifesting now. Follow hard. Do not get offended and stumble over something that I am doing differently.
The same is with us. This is the time that many prophesies from the past season are manifesting. We must not look away and quit following because they are coming about in ways we did not expect. We must not get offended by the changes coming into our methods, messages and worship structures. We must keep seeking first and not get shaken and lose momentum.
You are in a KINGDOM that cannot be shaken (Hebrews 12:27-28). Unspiritual and carnal MAN cannot understand or SEE this Kingdom. We become carnal when we lose the process of seeking Him first. Jesus taught and imparted an understanding of Kingdom. Kingdom manifestation has a perfect timing.
Read Matthew 11, Luke 11. Memorize Matthew 11:12. Meditate on Proverbs 3:5-12, Hebrews 12:27-28.
Tuesday February 23, 2010. Beloved meditate on this write-up:: Be Swift to Praise! Remove the Mask of Sadness and Turn to Laughter!
Be blessed and filled with the Spirit of God. May you have favor with the Lord and favor with all that are in your path. This is the Month of Adar. The Lord designed time with a built-in blessing for us to claim and walk in. I want to bless you as you enter into the last month of the Hebrew Year. Next month we will fully "Passover" into this season of AYIN. There is great power in blessing. If you will receive the blessing of God each month, the power of the blessing will begin to work in your life and develop your identity. You will eventually go "from blessing to blessing until blessings overtake you."
Be swift to praise! Every month is linked with an understanding of one of the twelve tribes. Each tribe has a redemptive blessing. We are grafted into the blessings of Abraham and his descendants. This is a month linked with the tribe of Naphtali, "a deer (hind) let loose." The blessing of Naphtali included the concept of being swift and the ability to harvest quickly. The crops of the allotted land for this tribe would ripen swiftly. During the war with Sisera under Deborah's leadership, the valiant warriors of Naphtali were nimble, quick and played a leading role in Israel's victory. Naphtali was filled with praise because of the abundance of produce from its tribe's crops. They were more quick and agile than any other tribe and their communication secured Jacob's inheritance. On Galilee's mountains, this troop "brought good tidings" of Jesus (Isaiah 52:7).
One of the best verses to shout out loud this month is, The Lord will make my feet like hinds' feet (Psalm 18:33). We should decree that we will skip and jump on the mountains of the circumstances in our lives. We should decree that our fortunes can increase and become strong. This is the month that joy must increase so we are propelled into a season of deliverance.
Remove the mask of sadness and turn to laughter! This is the month of the sense of laughter, abounding joy, the power of barrenness being broken, the advantage of light over darkness, and witnessing how light and revelation break the power of darkness around us. Decree any curse that has been spoken and set against you will be overturned. Declare the bitter will become sweet. Shout,- "My fear shall laugh!" This is a month to celebrate. Declare deliverance from any deep hidden grief. Ask the Lord for joy and laughter to arise in your emotions. Declare your emotions are healed and restored.
Firstfruits Celebration for Adar: MY FEAR SHALL LAUGH! The FUTURE calls! This is the month of endings and beginnings. One of the reasons I am asking you to fast with us is so we are properly prepared for Passover, which falls in the "first of months." This is also the month of Purim, when the Jews celebrate their deliverance from Haman. After Esther's fast, she gained favor with the king and eventually saw the plans of the enemy turned back upon himself!
Wednesday February 24, 2010. Beloved meditate on this write-up: Do Not FEAR: See Your Promise from God's Perspective!
When the people of Israel decided to move by sight and not faith, the Lord allowed their leaders to go over and view the Promised Land that He had made covenant to give to Abraham's descendants. They saw the abundance, they saw the richness, they saw the development, but they also saw the warfare. The vision of the warfare in the form of giants caused one generation to reject the promise and postpone the manifestation of the blessings that had been offered.
In this season DO NOT LET FEAR win the battle! Fear is a spirit that attaches to our emotion and clouds our thinking process. Fear causes us to withdraw into poverty and a mundane lifestyle. They saw the abundant crops that had been offered but rejected their moment of prosperity. One grapevine's yield was greater than an entire vineyard. DO NOT REJECT the YIELD and INCREASE.
The leaders' confession empowered by fear bred unbelief through the entire nation. They were convinced that the giants were more powerful than they. They saw them from their perspective rather than through the eyes of the One who was giving them the land they ruled. They revealed a fear in their heart. They actually believed God was capable, but they did not believe they were worthy of His miracles and thus rejected their new identity and longed to be slaves again. They preferred returning to captivity. They passed their own sentence (Numbers 14:2), that they would die in the wilderness. They slandered the promise that God had offered and were therefore cursed in the process. They longed for their last season and rejected the new season ahead. This set the course of their undoing. It was 40 years later before this window reopened for them to return (Numbers 14:34). They refused their return to the "Garden" that God had provided for them.
War for the Promise! He has your Garden of Restoration and abundance. Don't be afraid to leave the past season behind. Remove any root of abandonment in you and strengthen your faith to go up against an enemy that appears stronger than you.
Joshua and Caleb responded with a different spirit. Ask the Lord to break vexation from your spirit based upon wrong perception of the war ahead for your blessings.
Read Numbers 14; Deuteronomy 1, 2; Genesis 3. Meditate on 2 Corinthians 10.
As I have been praying for you, Beloved, I am receiving a word that the ordeals of the past year are over. You just have to embrace the new season. When Isaiah heard the Lord make the statement and ask the question, Behold, I DO a NEW Thing! Can YOU not SEE or perceive what is new around you? (Isaiah 43:19), the people were in danger of not shifting their sight to SEE their way into their future. They were a people going into captivity, but He was promising them that He would show them their way out at the perfect time. However, they would have to SEE the opening and opportunity to change their identity for the future. This is where you are now. Beloved, In this season, we must see our way out of our past captivities.
We Are Shifting from Hearing to SEEING! In the past, we have heard a "word from behind us telling us which way to go," but now HE will manifest in a way that we have to notice Him, turn and look, and then hear His word telling us which way to go. We have a great example of the time to shift and the pattern for the season ahead when we look at Exodus 3:1-4:
Moses was shepherding the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the west end of the wilderness and came to the mountain of God, Horeb. The angel of GOD appeared to him in flames of fire blazing out of the middle of a bush. He looked. The bush was blazing away but it didn't burn up. Moses said, "What's going on here? I can't believe this! Amazing! Why doesn't the bush burn up?" GOD saw that he had stopped to look. God called to him from out of the bush, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Yes? I'm right here!" (from The Message).
Beloved, the heavens had changed because of your cry just like the cry of the people of Israel in their slavery had reached His throne room. He responded and remembered His covenant that He had made 400 years prior. His response came in the form of a new manifestation. Moses recognized the new manifestation. This caused him to stop his normal daily activities. He did not just see the manifestation. The word above says that "He stopped to look." He turned from his past and present to "see" his future. When Moses saw, he then heard his calling to advance.
The Key is LETTING GO of the old pains, old way you have dealt with issues, old duties, routines, thought patterns, emotions, relationships and ambitions. Be very careful with your plans for the future and even your plans for your life from here on. Beloved, you must begin to see what God is showing you. When we see, then turn (the same word for change), we will hear transition and be repositioned out of last season's captivities and into next season's freedom. Be willing to see and then say "Here I am."
Meditate on Exodus 2:24-end of the chapter. Read Exodus 3-6.
Friday February 19, 2010. Beloved meditate on this write-up: The Voice of God is Like a GPS Navigator
I used my new GPS to get to get around these days. I was struck by how much God is like this GPS system in my car. First of all, the GPS tells you what to do when you are a short distance from your shifting turn. The voice of the GPS then grows more urgent as you get closer to your needed turn. However, the voice does not give you too much information too far in advance. If you miss the turn to your destination, the GPS recalculates and gives you another way to the destination. Isn't that like God? He forewarns us of how to get to where we need to go. The Spirit then gets stronger when we get close to the perfect timing to shift. Then, even if we 'miss it', He is longsuffering and recalculates our path into victory."
May you see and hear every turn on your path as you press forward. If you miss a turn, may you find grace and find your way.
Memorize Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the [uncompromisingly] just and righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines more and more (brighter and clearer) until [it reaches its full strength and glory in] the perfect day [to be prepared]. (Amplified Bible)
Meditate on Psalm 16. Read 2 Samuel 23, Matthew 5.
Saturday February 20, 2010. Beloved meditate on this write-up: See, Say and Profit, and team up with my Pastoral eyes to reap the blessings of a Seer
When the Lord is doing a new thing, we have an opportunity to leave the old. We see our way from Destructive Workings and Old Cycles in our past and into the new! Our Emotional Instability breaks and we find our footing for the future. The Flesh Rule from the past has to let go as we move into a new Spirit realm in the future. We must leave one season of warfare in the past and move into a new war for the future. This gives us the strength for God to move each of us into the Building Plan for the Future.
You will begin to SEE in a new way but WHAT you SEE you MUST SAY! The Seer Sees and actively announces and pours forth the declarations of God. Ro'eh (the seer) and (c)hozeh (the vision), are used to designate the prophet, both meaning "one who sees," and sometimes rendered "seer." This is a season where the pastor will change drastically. The old way church has been run and the way the sheep have been communicated with will now change. The Pastor will become a seer and the sheep will receive fresh vision from Holy Spirit. The Pastor will be sharing what is being seen and developing key vision.
The Holy Spirit's voice will manifest to direct us in a new way. This will cause you to decree that Jesus is Lord! Holy Spirit will create many different ministries in days ahead. Holy Spirit will create diversities of activities. Holy Spirit will manifest the voice of God in us through prophecy, faith, word of knowledge, word of wisdom, healing, miracles, discerning of spirits, tongues and interpretation of tongues. This will cause poverty in us to break individually and corporately. This will cause us ALL to PROFIT in a new way. Pray that Holy Spirit has His way in your life and in our church gatherings.
Read I Samuel 3. Meditate on I Corinthians 12. Memorize Psalm 23.
Sunday February 21, 2010. Beloved meditate on this write-up: See Your Path and Cycle of Prosperity
As a child there were several Bible passages that many of us were taught. Psalm 23 was one which we memorized and was used for comfort in distress and affliction. However, most of us never realized that this Psalm really says, "I will lead you in your path of prosperity through paths of righteousness for MY name sake."
In Hebrew, the word Path is ‘agol, which means to "be round or a cycle." The Lord guides us in the cycles of righteousness. The enemy hates the thought of us staying on a path of righteousness because he knows that we will SEE the fullness of His plan for our lives. God already has our path of prosperity in place. This path or cycle is linked with the yearly return received from the Feasts of Yahweh. Chag, or festival, means to make a cycle. If we understand the feast, then we understand cycles. We can be led properly, begin to prosper, move into abundance and have no lack. "The Lord is My Shepherd, I shall not WANT because He leads me in the cycle of prosperity. I will see My blessings wherever I walk. Even through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I can celebrate Him and not get out of time, and See my blessings!"
Read, memorize and meditate on Psalm 23.
Monday February 22, 2010. Beloved meditate on this write-up: Be Lavish! Follow Hard and Gain Momentum! Celebrating First-fruits Keeps Us SEEKING!
By understanding, celebrating, and giving at Firstfruits each month, you gain momentum in the spirit and eventually God's blessings overtake you. This produces a Kingdom mentality in you. You learn to give your best each month. This is so different than tithing. This concept builds within you the call to SEEK HIS KINGDOM FIRST and then WATCH ALL ELSE BE ADDED.
When we quit seeking Him first, we lose momentum! This is a time to Gain Kingdom Strength and Momentum NOW! Matthew 11:12 says, And from the days of John the Baptist until NOW the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. This was the statement that the Lord made to John the Baptist's disciples. John, who had chosen not to move with Jesus in His three year ministry of revolution, was now imprisoned. During this time, he had begun to question the One whom he had paved the way for to produce the redemption of mankind. Jesus' ministry was gaining momentum and John's ministry was coming to a close.
JESUS had just finished His charge to His twelve disciples and left there to teach and to preach in their Galilean cities. Only Philip and Andrew had left John's wineskin and transferred to keep following the Lord and seeking the Kingdom.
When John heard about the activities of the Lord, he sends some of his remaining disciples to question Jesus by asking in Matthew 11:3-6, Are You the One who was to come, or should we keep on expecting a different one? And Jesus replied to them, Go and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed (by healing) and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up and the poor have good news (the Gospel) preached to them.] And blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) is he who takes no offense at Me and finds no cause for stumbling in or through Me and is not hindered from seeing the truth. In other words, believe and SEE what you prophesied in the past manifesting now. Follow hard. Do not get offended and stumble over something that I am doing differently.
The same is with us. This is the time that many prophesies from the past season are manifesting. We must not look away and quit following because they are coming about in ways we did not expect. We must not get offended by the changes coming into our methods, messages and worship structures. We must keep seeking first and not get shaken and lose momentum.
You are in a KINGDOM that cannot be shaken (Hebrews 12:27-28). Unspiritual and carnal MAN cannot understand or SEE this Kingdom. We become carnal when we lose the process of seeking Him first. Jesus taught and imparted an understanding of Kingdom. Kingdom manifestation has a perfect timing.
Read Matthew 11, Luke 11. Memorize Matthew 11:12. Meditate on Proverbs 3:5-12, Hebrews 12:27-28.
Tuesday February 23, 2010. Beloved meditate on this write-up:: Be Swift to Praise! Remove the Mask of Sadness and Turn to Laughter!
Be blessed and filled with the Spirit of God. May you have favor with the Lord and favor with all that are in your path. This is the Month of Adar. The Lord designed time with a built-in blessing for us to claim and walk in. I want to bless you as you enter into the last month of the Hebrew Year. Next month we will fully "Passover" into this season of AYIN. There is great power in blessing. If you will receive the blessing of God each month, the power of the blessing will begin to work in your life and develop your identity. You will eventually go "from blessing to blessing until blessings overtake you."
Be swift to praise! Every month is linked with an understanding of one of the twelve tribes. Each tribe has a redemptive blessing. We are grafted into the blessings of Abraham and his descendants. This is a month linked with the tribe of Naphtali, "a deer (hind) let loose." The blessing of Naphtali included the concept of being swift and the ability to harvest quickly. The crops of the allotted land for this tribe would ripen swiftly. During the war with Sisera under Deborah's leadership, the valiant warriors of Naphtali were nimble, quick and played a leading role in Israel's victory. Naphtali was filled with praise because of the abundance of produce from its tribe's crops. They were more quick and agile than any other tribe and their communication secured Jacob's inheritance. On Galilee's mountains, this troop "brought good tidings" of Jesus (Isaiah 52:7).
One of the best verses to shout out loud this month is, The Lord will make my feet like hinds' feet (Psalm 18:33). We should decree that we will skip and jump on the mountains of the circumstances in our lives. We should decree that our fortunes can increase and become strong. This is the month that joy must increase so we are propelled into a season of deliverance.
Remove the mask of sadness and turn to laughter! This is the month of the sense of laughter, abounding joy, the power of barrenness being broken, the advantage of light over darkness, and witnessing how light and revelation break the power of darkness around us. Decree any curse that has been spoken and set against you will be overturned. Declare the bitter will become sweet. Shout,- "My fear shall laugh!" This is a month to celebrate. Declare deliverance from any deep hidden grief. Ask the Lord for joy and laughter to arise in your emotions. Declare your emotions are healed and restored.
Firstfruits Celebration for Adar: MY FEAR SHALL LAUGH! The FUTURE calls! This is the month of endings and beginnings. One of the reasons I am asking you to fast with us is so we are properly prepared for Passover, which falls in the "first of months." This is also the month of Purim, when the Jews celebrate their deliverance from Haman. After Esther's fast, she gained favor with the king and eventually saw the plans of the enemy turned back upon himself!
Wednesday February 24, 2010. Beloved meditate on this write-up: Do Not FEAR: See Your Promise from God's Perspective!
When the people of Israel decided to move by sight and not faith, the Lord allowed their leaders to go over and view the Promised Land that He had made covenant to give to Abraham's descendants. They saw the abundance, they saw the richness, they saw the development, but they also saw the warfare. The vision of the warfare in the form of giants caused one generation to reject the promise and postpone the manifestation of the blessings that had been offered.
In this season DO NOT LET FEAR win the battle! Fear is a spirit that attaches to our emotion and clouds our thinking process. Fear causes us to withdraw into poverty and a mundane lifestyle. They saw the abundant crops that had been offered but rejected their moment of prosperity. One grapevine's yield was greater than an entire vineyard. DO NOT REJECT the YIELD and INCREASE.
The leaders' confession empowered by fear bred unbelief through the entire nation. They were convinced that the giants were more powerful than they. They saw them from their perspective rather than through the eyes of the One who was giving them the land they ruled. They revealed a fear in their heart. They actually believed God was capable, but they did not believe they were worthy of His miracles and thus rejected their new identity and longed to be slaves again. They preferred returning to captivity. They passed their own sentence (Numbers 14:2), that they would die in the wilderness. They slandered the promise that God had offered and were therefore cursed in the process. They longed for their last season and rejected the new season ahead. This set the course of their undoing. It was 40 years later before this window reopened for them to return (Numbers 14:34). They refused their return to the "Garden" that God had provided for them.
War for the Promise! He has your Garden of Restoration and abundance. Don't be afraid to leave the past season behind. Remove any root of abandonment in you and strengthen your faith to go up against an enemy that appears stronger than you.
Joshua and Caleb responded with a different spirit. Ask the Lord to break vexation from your spirit based upon wrong perception of the war ahead for your blessings.
Read Numbers 14; Deuteronomy 1, 2; Genesis 3. Meditate on 2 Corinthians 10.
Friday, January 29, 2010
ACTIVATING THE TEN BLESSINGS OF GOD IN A TEN DAY FAST
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IS RATHER THE TEN BLESSINGS !!!!
The Exodus 20 Ten Commandments contain all that is necessary, and no more than is necessary, both as to their number and their order, while the Lord's prayer is complete in ten clauses - better interpreting the Ten Commandments as Activating the Ten Blessings of God.
The Lord's Prayer - The Spoken Out 10 Commanded Blessings of God in ten clauses !!!
These clauses have the significance of their respective numbers as in the Original 10 Commandments:—
The first, God's sovereignty - Our God rules over all creation even unseen.
The second, Jehovah's manifested Name - We will use you Name to invoke Your Power.
The third, the realization of God's kingdom - Our Right is to Rule & Reign on Earth.
The fourth first mentions the earth - Our Power to ENFORCE God's Rule on Earth.
The fifth, the gift of grace supplies all our need as we give away the same grace.
The sixth treats of sin - Adultery from God not necessarily sex sin only.
The seventh pleads for spiritual guidance - Which is Guaranteed.
The eighth pleads for deliverance from all evil - The Blood of Jesus - The Answer.
The ninth sums up the divine glory: The Power, Kingdom and Glory - Our Daily Weapons
The tenth completes the eternal cycles - Eternal life is our Portion & Destiny.
The Tithes - Given to Remind us of these 10 Commanded Blessings
The tithes represent the whole of what was due from man to God, as marking and recognizing God's claim on the whole.
The Redemption Money
The redemption money was ten gerahs, and thus was acknowledged both what God claimed, and what man was responsible to give. Now ten gerahs was half a shekel (Exodus 30:12-16; Numbers 3:47). Every male that was numbered, over 20 years of age, must pay this sum and meet God's claim. *
* When David numbered the people (2Samuel 24 and 1Chronicles 21), this payment was not made and God's claim was not met. Hence the judgment which followed.
But the first-born were to pay ten times as much; for when God took the Levites instead of the first-born of Israel, there were found 22,273 first-born males, but only 22,000 Levites. So that 273 had to pay the ransom money, which amounted to ten times ten gerahs. Thus, though the five shekels looked like a variation, the significance of ten is sustained, for the five shekels were ten times the "half shekel." (See Numbers 3:12,13,40-51).
The Ten Plagues on Egypt was The Ten Wonders to Israel
The ten plagues were representative of the complete circle of God's judgments on Egypt. Exodus 9:14, "I will . . . send all my plagues."
PART B
The TEN I AM'S OF JESUS CHRIST THAT WE WILL PROVE IN THE TEN DAY FAST
"I am the Bread of Life" (6:35) - POWER OVER UNTIMELY DEATH.
"I am the Bread of Life which came down from heaven" (6:41) - REVELATION.
"I am the Living Bread" (6:51) - DIVINE HEALTH AND LIFE OF MIRACLES .
"I am the Light of the world" (8:12) - DEMOLITION OF POWERS OF DARKNESS.
"I am One that bear witness of Myself" (8:18) - JESUS IS ALL YOU NEED.
"I am the Door of the sheep" (10:7,9) - BREAKTHROUGH IS ASSURED.
"I am the Good Shepherd" (10:14) - YOU DESTINY ON EARTH FULFILLED.
"I am the Resurrection and the Life" (14:6) - NOTHING DYING IN YOUR HAND.
"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life" (14:6) - NO DEFEAT BY SIN OR EVIL.
"I am the True Vine" (15:1,5) - CAN'T GO UNDER FOR GOING OVER WITH HIM.
SOMETHING I RECIEVED GOD WILL DO AT THE END OF THESE 10 DAYS:
God moved back the shadow on the sundial of Ahaz of ten degrees as a sign that He was going to deliver Hezekiah from his mortal sickness and the city where he was. (Is 38,1-8).
God is about to produce a miraculous sign and wonder for someone after these 10 Days of waiting that would bring about a real blessing and a God orchestrated and prospered legacy.
The Exodus 20 Ten Commandments contain all that is necessary, and no more than is necessary, both as to their number and their order, while the Lord's prayer is complete in ten clauses - better interpreting the Ten Commandments as Activating the Ten Blessings of God.
The Lord's Prayer - The Spoken Out 10 Commanded Blessings of God in ten clauses !!!
These clauses have the significance of their respective numbers as in the Original 10 Commandments:—
The first, God's sovereignty - Our God rules over all creation even unseen.
The second, Jehovah's manifested Name - We will use you Name to invoke Your Power.
The third, the realization of God's kingdom - Our Right is to Rule & Reign on Earth.
The fourth first mentions the earth - Our Power to ENFORCE God's Rule on Earth.
The fifth, the gift of grace supplies all our need as we give away the same grace.
The sixth treats of sin - Adultery from God not necessarily sex sin only.
The seventh pleads for spiritual guidance - Which is Guaranteed.
The eighth pleads for deliverance from all evil - The Blood of Jesus - The Answer.
The ninth sums up the divine glory: The Power, Kingdom and Glory - Our Daily Weapons
The tenth completes the eternal cycles - Eternal life is our Portion & Destiny.
The Tithes - Given to Remind us of these 10 Commanded Blessings
The tithes represent the whole of what was due from man to God, as marking and recognizing God's claim on the whole.
The Redemption Money
The redemption money was ten gerahs, and thus was acknowledged both what God claimed, and what man was responsible to give. Now ten gerahs was half a shekel (Exodus 30:12-16; Numbers 3:47). Every male that was numbered, over 20 years of age, must pay this sum and meet God's claim. *
* When David numbered the people (2Samuel 24 and 1Chronicles 21), this payment was not made and God's claim was not met. Hence the judgment which followed.
But the first-born were to pay ten times as much; for when God took the Levites instead of the first-born of Israel, there were found 22,273 first-born males, but only 22,000 Levites. So that 273 had to pay the ransom money, which amounted to ten times ten gerahs. Thus, though the five shekels looked like a variation, the significance of ten is sustained, for the five shekels were ten times the "half shekel." (See Numbers 3:12,13,40-51).
The Ten Plagues on Egypt was The Ten Wonders to Israel
The ten plagues were representative of the complete circle of God's judgments on Egypt. Exodus 9:14, "I will . . . send all my plagues."
PART B
The TEN I AM'S OF JESUS CHRIST THAT WE WILL PROVE IN THE TEN DAY FAST
"I am the Bread of Life" (6:35) - POWER OVER UNTIMELY DEATH.
"I am the Bread of Life which came down from heaven" (6:41) - REVELATION.
"I am the Living Bread" (6:51) - DIVINE HEALTH AND LIFE OF MIRACLES .
"I am the Light of the world" (8:12) - DEMOLITION OF POWERS OF DARKNESS.
"I am One that bear witness of Myself" (8:18) - JESUS IS ALL YOU NEED.
"I am the Door of the sheep" (10:7,9) - BREAKTHROUGH IS ASSURED.
"I am the Good Shepherd" (10:14) - YOU DESTINY ON EARTH FULFILLED.
"I am the Resurrection and the Life" (14:6) - NOTHING DYING IN YOUR HAND.
"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life" (14:6) - NO DEFEAT BY SIN OR EVIL.
"I am the True Vine" (15:1,5) - CAN'T GO UNDER FOR GOING OVER WITH HIM.
SOMETHING I RECIEVED GOD WILL DO AT THE END OF THESE 10 DAYS:
God moved back the shadow on the sundial of Ahaz of ten degrees as a sign that He was going to deliver Hezekiah from his mortal sickness and the city where he was. (Is 38,1-8).
God is about to produce a miraculous sign and wonder for someone after these 10 Days of waiting that would bring about a real blessing and a God orchestrated and prospered legacy.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Year 2010 is a Year of 10:20
2010 is a Year that Matt. 10:20 will be the very foundation and operating system for our everyday life. From January to December the Very Word of our Mouth - backed with follow-through Acts becomes our Destiny Propeller.
Our Words in particular in this Year will make This 2010 a Year of "Digging New Wells," " A Year of Double Digits for Double Blessing and Restoration," "A Year of Release," and " A Year for breaking forth and Breaking Out." The last year was A Year of preparation - to break forth on every side and ride upon our high places in Jesus name. This Year is a Year of Words based on Matt. 10:20.
Therefore Year 2010 is also a Year of Salivation and Judgement based on our Words and Follow-Up Acts.
We should not be surprised to see Words and Acts of Violence and Peacemaking in Year 2010. We should not be surprised in this Year 2010 to see Words and Acts of Violence and Non-Violence being allowed by God to bring about judgement and salvation of people and nations beginning at the grass-root levels of our local communities.
1. In this Year 2010, we must come to terms that the God of the Bible is a God of both salvation and judgment. We must then be careful with our Words and Acts.
2. But in Year 2010 we must be assured that salvation and judgment are not equal with God. His Salvation forever outweighs His judgment - they are not parallel expressions of His nature. For Scripture called judgment His 'strange work' and called 'salvation' His characteristic work in which He delights.
3. In Jesus we found both salvation and judgment as still uneven by His Words and Acts because of our Words and Acts. That will still be His nature in Year 2010. He reacted to wilful perversity with anger, uttered scathing denunciations upon hypocrites, drove the moneychangers out of the temple and overturned their tables. But He also endured the humiliation and barbarities of flogging and crucifixion without resistance. His Salvation extravagantly and immeasurably outweighs His judgement then and will in 2010.
4. So then, just as we see in the ministry of the same Jesus both violence and non-violence, we still see Him in this Year 2010 operating on both ends to bring about His salvation and judgment.
5. As resorting to violence of word, and deed was occasional, alien, uncharacteristic then to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, it will still be so in Year 2010; As His characteristic was non-violence then, we will experience His non-violence power and peacemaking grace keeping us safe throughout this Year 2010 both as individuals and a nation.
In Sum - Never Forget that the symbol of The Ministry of Jesus is not the Whip but the Cross. As long as we are IN Him, we have escaped judgement and entered salvation. Thus, we are able to dig new wells this year that will make us breakout and break-forth in every direction. Praise the Lord.
Our Words in particular in this Year will make This 2010 a Year of "Digging New Wells," " A Year of Double Digits for Double Blessing and Restoration," "A Year of Release," and " A Year for breaking forth and Breaking Out." The last year was A Year of preparation - to break forth on every side and ride upon our high places in Jesus name. This Year is a Year of Words based on Matt. 10:20.
Therefore Year 2010 is also a Year of Salivation and Judgement based on our Words and Follow-Up Acts.
We should not be surprised to see Words and Acts of Violence and Peacemaking in Year 2010. We should not be surprised in this Year 2010 to see Words and Acts of Violence and Non-Violence being allowed by God to bring about judgement and salvation of people and nations beginning at the grass-root levels of our local communities.
1. In this Year 2010, we must come to terms that the God of the Bible is a God of both salvation and judgment. We must then be careful with our Words and Acts.
2. But in Year 2010 we must be assured that salvation and judgment are not equal with God. His Salvation forever outweighs His judgment - they are not parallel expressions of His nature. For Scripture called judgment His 'strange work' and called 'salvation' His characteristic work in which He delights.
3. In Jesus we found both salvation and judgment as still uneven by His Words and Acts because of our Words and Acts. That will still be His nature in Year 2010. He reacted to wilful perversity with anger, uttered scathing denunciations upon hypocrites, drove the moneychangers out of the temple and overturned their tables. But He also endured the humiliation and barbarities of flogging and crucifixion without resistance. His Salvation extravagantly and immeasurably outweighs His judgement then and will in 2010.
4. So then, just as we see in the ministry of the same Jesus both violence and non-violence, we still see Him in this Year 2010 operating on both ends to bring about His salvation and judgment.
5. As resorting to violence of word, and deed was occasional, alien, uncharacteristic then to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, it will still be so in Year 2010; As His characteristic was non-violence then, we will experience His non-violence power and peacemaking grace keeping us safe throughout this Year 2010 both as individuals and a nation.
In Sum - Never Forget that the symbol of The Ministry of Jesus is not the Whip but the Cross. As long as we are IN Him, we have escaped judgement and entered salvation. Thus, we are able to dig new wells this year that will make us breakout and break-forth in every direction. Praise the Lord.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
AS YOU CROSS OVER INTO YEAR 2010 - TRUTH TO LIVE BY AND TO PRACTICE
LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF ZACHARIAS
LUKE 1: 5-25
1. USE SHAMGAR PRINICPLE TO DEAL WITH THE IMPOSSIBLE AND EVER REFUSE TO LET THE IMPOSSIBLE INTIMIDATE YOU.
REMEMBER SHAMGAR PRINCIPLE (LAW) - "DO WHAT YOU CAN WITH WHAT YOU HAVE WHERE YOU ARE." - JUDGES 3:31.
ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND - JER. 32:27 & MAL. 3:6 AND REMEMBER THE BALANCE MATT. 19:26 AND LUKE 19:26.
2. YOUR FAITH DOES NOT MOVE ANY MOUNTAIN - IT IS RATHER YOUR FAITH IN WHAT YOU SPEAK OR SAY THAT CAUSES THE VERY WORD OF GOD TO MOVE ANY MOUNTAIN.
THEREFORE, KEEP SPEAKING WORDS THAT ALIGN WITH HIS WILL - GOD IS PLANNING AND DOING SOMETHING BEYOND YOUR FAITH - JER. 29:11.
3. GOD DOES NOT NEED YOUR FAITH TO MOVE - HE IS ABSOLUTELY AND ALTOGETHER SOVEREIGN. YOU ONLY NEED TO ANCHOR YOUR FAITH IN HIS WORD (BELIEVE HIM AND BELIEVE HIS PROPHET) TO MOVE HIM TO ACTION.
HENCE, EVEN WHEN YOUR FAITH STOPS WORKING, GOD WILL USE THE ELEMENT CALLED 'TIME' AS LONG AS IN FAITH YOU ARE WAITING ON HIM. (HAB. 2:3)
4. STOP LOOKING BACK AND AROUND. LEARN TO FACE YOUR TOMORROW WITHOUT THE FEARS OF YESTERDAY - MATT. 6: 25-34.
5. MAN MUST COOPERATE WITH GOD BY OBEYING A DIVINE INSTRUCTION TO RECIEVE A MIRACLE. MAGIC ACTS WITHOUT MAN'S WILL OR COOPERATION BUT NOT MIRACLE.
REMEMBER GOD DID NOT BLESS THE LIKES OF ABRAHAM AND ZACHARIAS VIA THEIR REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS BUT BY HIS RESSURECTION POWER WHEN THEY OBEYED AND PERFORMED THE INSTRUCTION ON FRUITFULNESS GIVEN TO THEM.
6. NOTHING CAN STOP YOUR MIRACLE WHEN IT IS DUE. DUE MIRACLE IS SO POWERFUL SUCH THAT YOU MUST REAP YOUR HARVEST IN DUE TIME AND NOTHING CAN CHANGE IT.
7. WHEN ALL APPEAR TO BE TOO LATE - REMEMBER:
A) NEVER FORGET THAT THINGS CAN STILL CHANGE IN A DAY IF YOU DON'T GIVE UP.
B) YOUR DELAY HAS TO DO WITH DIVINE APPOINTMENT IF YOU ARE TRUELY HIS CHILD.
C) YOUR DELAY OFTEN IS THE PATH GOD IS USING TO TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY.
HENCE, THERE IS AN APPOINTED TIME FOR YOU TO BE HEALED, DELIVERED, RECOVERED, GIVEN AN OPEN DOOR, GET A MASSIVE CATCH ON YOUR NET - AS LONG AS YOU SURRENDER IN BY FAITH IN HOPE.
LUKE 1: 5-25
1. USE SHAMGAR PRINICPLE TO DEAL WITH THE IMPOSSIBLE AND EVER REFUSE TO LET THE IMPOSSIBLE INTIMIDATE YOU.
REMEMBER SHAMGAR PRINCIPLE (LAW) - "DO WHAT YOU CAN WITH WHAT YOU HAVE WHERE YOU ARE." - JUDGES 3:31.
ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND - JER. 32:27 & MAL. 3:6 AND REMEMBER THE BALANCE MATT. 19:26 AND LUKE 19:26.
2. YOUR FAITH DOES NOT MOVE ANY MOUNTAIN - IT IS RATHER YOUR FAITH IN WHAT YOU SPEAK OR SAY THAT CAUSES THE VERY WORD OF GOD TO MOVE ANY MOUNTAIN.
THEREFORE, KEEP SPEAKING WORDS THAT ALIGN WITH HIS WILL - GOD IS PLANNING AND DOING SOMETHING BEYOND YOUR FAITH - JER. 29:11.
3. GOD DOES NOT NEED YOUR FAITH TO MOVE - HE IS ABSOLUTELY AND ALTOGETHER SOVEREIGN. YOU ONLY NEED TO ANCHOR YOUR FAITH IN HIS WORD (BELIEVE HIM AND BELIEVE HIS PROPHET) TO MOVE HIM TO ACTION.
HENCE, EVEN WHEN YOUR FAITH STOPS WORKING, GOD WILL USE THE ELEMENT CALLED 'TIME' AS LONG AS IN FAITH YOU ARE WAITING ON HIM. (HAB. 2:3)
4. STOP LOOKING BACK AND AROUND. LEARN TO FACE YOUR TOMORROW WITHOUT THE FEARS OF YESTERDAY - MATT. 6: 25-34.
5. MAN MUST COOPERATE WITH GOD BY OBEYING A DIVINE INSTRUCTION TO RECIEVE A MIRACLE. MAGIC ACTS WITHOUT MAN'S WILL OR COOPERATION BUT NOT MIRACLE.
REMEMBER GOD DID NOT BLESS THE LIKES OF ABRAHAM AND ZACHARIAS VIA THEIR REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS BUT BY HIS RESSURECTION POWER WHEN THEY OBEYED AND PERFORMED THE INSTRUCTION ON FRUITFULNESS GIVEN TO THEM.
6. NOTHING CAN STOP YOUR MIRACLE WHEN IT IS DUE. DUE MIRACLE IS SO POWERFUL SUCH THAT YOU MUST REAP YOUR HARVEST IN DUE TIME AND NOTHING CAN CHANGE IT.
7. WHEN ALL APPEAR TO BE TOO LATE - REMEMBER:
A) NEVER FORGET THAT THINGS CAN STILL CHANGE IN A DAY IF YOU DON'T GIVE UP.
B) YOUR DELAY HAS TO DO WITH DIVINE APPOINTMENT IF YOU ARE TRUELY HIS CHILD.
C) YOUR DELAY OFTEN IS THE PATH GOD IS USING TO TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY.
HENCE, THERE IS AN APPOINTED TIME FOR YOU TO BE HEALED, DELIVERED, RECOVERED, GIVEN AN OPEN DOOR, GET A MASSIVE CATCH ON YOUR NET - AS LONG AS YOU SURRENDER IN BY FAITH IN HOPE.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
REJOINDER TO THE LESSONS OF TIGER WOOD'S PAINS
1. Whatever happened to Tiger Wood happened in the past and it is going to happen again in the future. Everyone knows the difference between right and wrong and we know that there are consequences for our actions and inactions. The essence of my last encyclical and this present one is for us to look for possible good that might come out of his tragedy and see a glimmer of light. Perhaps, by reading this encyclicals, others might avoid the same pitfalls and other may gain some hope in forgiveness from God even when folks may never forgive or forget. Like King David of Israel, whose human failure was made open to all, his rebound would be the greatest legacy from this greatest golfer that ever lived.
2. However, we must learn that all sins are equal before God and that we must never judge other people too harshly because we are not without sin. We do not know what we would have done if given the same sets of circumstances as Tiger Wood. The truth is that the spectators are usually the best players. We need to focus on ourselves and on whom we have become. We must move from surviving to thriving as well as move from fault finding to fault bearing. Like King David again, neither Tiger Wood, nor anyone, can fall beyond the reach of God's love and forgiveness. The is the most important lesson of all.
3. It is true that some people take joy in other people's pain and want to feel better than others or better about themselves especially when reading or witnessing such scandals as Tiger's. The truth is that none of us is better than Tiger. Every one of us must do his or her own repenting and equally go through his or her own stages of repentance - the constant replays, the gnawing guilt, the shame and finally the hope a new beginning that springs from true repentance.
4. The fact that God did not exposed our sins or our nakedness to the whole world does not mean that we ought to act as if we are without sin. Sometimes, it is a good thing for God to expose our sins and have us go through the fire as to come forth out of it as tried gold. But all said and done, Tiger Wood by God's mercies will be born again as he accepts the present pains with humility and contrition.
5. We must never forget Bill Clinton and all the attempts to scandalize him. We must never forget that the people who were his loudest critics have all fallen flat on their faces with exactly the same sin and in some cases worse that President Clinton. Some of them have been caught in men's bathroom soliciting men for sex, some on mountain trails with their "soul mate" outside of their marriages, some caught with other peoples' wives, and the list goes on and on.
6. We should focus on getting God to forgive us of our transgressions instead of focusing on someone else's. This is the essence of this encyclical. We must learn to look beyond the pains and failures of others. Rather, we must learn to look for the glory that follows every suffering and the change that follows when any individual have gone through painful processes.
7. We must learn to give room for folks like Tiger Wood to heal and to find restoration with his wife and family. The less attention we give to this incidence, the better the family can deal with their problems and heal from their pain. For Tiger, this too shall pass as he reclaims his place in history and in the heart of humanity.
2. However, we must learn that all sins are equal before God and that we must never judge other people too harshly because we are not without sin. We do not know what we would have done if given the same sets of circumstances as Tiger Wood. The truth is that the spectators are usually the best players. We need to focus on ourselves and on whom we have become. We must move from surviving to thriving as well as move from fault finding to fault bearing. Like King David again, neither Tiger Wood, nor anyone, can fall beyond the reach of God's love and forgiveness. The is the most important lesson of all.
3. It is true that some people take joy in other people's pain and want to feel better than others or better about themselves especially when reading or witnessing such scandals as Tiger's. The truth is that none of us is better than Tiger. Every one of us must do his or her own repenting and equally go through his or her own stages of repentance - the constant replays, the gnawing guilt, the shame and finally the hope a new beginning that springs from true repentance.
4. The fact that God did not exposed our sins or our nakedness to the whole world does not mean that we ought to act as if we are without sin. Sometimes, it is a good thing for God to expose our sins and have us go through the fire as to come forth out of it as tried gold. But all said and done, Tiger Wood by God's mercies will be born again as he accepts the present pains with humility and contrition.
5. We must never forget Bill Clinton and all the attempts to scandalize him. We must never forget that the people who were his loudest critics have all fallen flat on their faces with exactly the same sin and in some cases worse that President Clinton. Some of them have been caught in men's bathroom soliciting men for sex, some on mountain trails with their "soul mate" outside of their marriages, some caught with other peoples' wives, and the list goes on and on.
6. We should focus on getting God to forgive us of our transgressions instead of focusing on someone else's. This is the essence of this encyclical. We must learn to look beyond the pains and failures of others. Rather, we must learn to look for the glory that follows every suffering and the change that follows when any individual have gone through painful processes.
7. We must learn to give room for folks like Tiger Wood to heal and to find restoration with his wife and family. The less attention we give to this incidence, the better the family can deal with their problems and heal from their pain. For Tiger, this too shall pass as he reclaims his place in history and in the heart of humanity.
LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM THE PAINS OF MR. TIGER WOOD
1. Marriage, family and career are put at risk by two powerful forces of Nature -Infidelity and Greed. Usually these risks are carried out in particularly dumb fashions. Hence, they are usually baffling both to the perpetrators and to the observers. Yet, as baffling as they are, they are conquerable in the battle fields of the mind and no where else. If you can change the way you think, see things and speak about them (inwardly and outwardly), you will change your life and destiny. (Write me on how you can bring about this change on how you think and speak)
2. E-mails? Text messages? Voice mail? Anything digital these days is the modern equivalent of a billboard on Times Square. These are no go paths in modern communication that can bring down any leader and must be used with words that are clear to meaning and godly.
3. You must never do the dirty and more so with women and men for whom, it appears, discretion is not a key part of their value set. The other's value set examination is a test every leader must pass even if it is just the basic appearance test on value set. As a leader or role-model, you must never allow the basic lower self or instinct to override your value judgement of the other person's values.
4. You must realize that you will never be able to get away without scandal and shame if you do the dirty with women or men that have no proven key value system set that includes self-respect, self-decency and integrity over money. The lust for money just like the lust for power can turn any human being into an ugly beast. Men and women can say or do anything for self-enrichment and survival even in the Church - not to talk about in society and in politics.
5. No man or woman should ever fool himself or herself by thinking that they would never get caught in infidelity or greed. Only foolish men and women think they would never be caught with greed or infidelity. Both greed and infidelity are governed by the power of the same lower self or basic instinct and must be resisted with all the grace that God alone can give.
6. Every man or woman must realize that the brain system evolved millions of years ago to drive us to do some of the most important things we do in our lives especially in the realms love and sex. God, in the beginning of Creation said, "be fruitful and multiply" and the brain do find a way to carry out this command.
7. It is equally important to realize that the drive to sow as many seeds as possible, for some men, overrides the front-brain systems that calculate risk and benefit. It is equally important too to realize that once anyone indulges in greed acts or infidelity once, and does not get caught, that makes the risk look smaller and kills the rational fear of getting caught. This is an important lesson.
8. Another very big important lesson for leadership and for life is that once One has gotten used to acts of greed or infidelity, those brain parts get shut down and often get shut down for good. This shut down of the brain begets the internal bravado feeling or hidden celebration that they have been winning (not getting caught) for years. After a lot of winning, they figure they will keep winning. Don't forget how profound the sex drive is. Once in this frame of mind or mentality, sex drive like greed knows no limits and fears no risks.
9. It is not just biblical but the truth: People in lust after the opposite sex are irrational just like people pursuing greed. Both persons are governed by the same power of lust. They believe:
a) This woman or man is special and that they are special too.
b) They are different and smarter.
c) They have a love-trust relationship with the opposite sex.
d) They feel this sense of false security and invincibility.
e) They assume that they know better than any counsel from spouse or friends.
f) They assume that they are not in love/passion and therefore can think clearly.
g) They falsely assume that can think clearly in the cold light of day if they get exposed or caught in the very acts -- but by then, its too late.
10. Many flawed people have come to believe that the risk of getting nabbed either in infidelity or greed really isn't as large as one might think probably because they know other men and women who manage to keep their affairs out of the public eye. So they think that they are in the company of men and women who do get away with it. If this is your mentality, BE AWARE that you will ultimately become blind to the risks of infidelity and greed - thinking that it is never ever going to touch you and that the guy who got caught was just stupid. This is a great hidden DANGER once you open these DOORS.
CONCLUSION: As your Internet Pastor and Counselor, Hear me - I trust this above piece and the experiences of Mr. Tiger Wood would surely put the fear of discovery, if not God, into YOU not just for the next 10 days or so. It is my prayers that everyone reading this piece would never go back to business as usual. Seek counsel or contact our ministry if you are addicted to sex, greed, any deviant behavior or just want to talk to someone. God richly pour out His grace on You. Amen.
2. E-mails? Text messages? Voice mail? Anything digital these days is the modern equivalent of a billboard on Times Square. These are no go paths in modern communication that can bring down any leader and must be used with words that are clear to meaning and godly.
3. You must never do the dirty and more so with women and men for whom, it appears, discretion is not a key part of their value set. The other's value set examination is a test every leader must pass even if it is just the basic appearance test on value set. As a leader or role-model, you must never allow the basic lower self or instinct to override your value judgement of the other person's values.
4. You must realize that you will never be able to get away without scandal and shame if you do the dirty with women or men that have no proven key value system set that includes self-respect, self-decency and integrity over money. The lust for money just like the lust for power can turn any human being into an ugly beast. Men and women can say or do anything for self-enrichment and survival even in the Church - not to talk about in society and in politics.
5. No man or woman should ever fool himself or herself by thinking that they would never get caught in infidelity or greed. Only foolish men and women think they would never be caught with greed or infidelity. Both greed and infidelity are governed by the power of the same lower self or basic instinct and must be resisted with all the grace that God alone can give.
6. Every man or woman must realize that the brain system evolved millions of years ago to drive us to do some of the most important things we do in our lives especially in the realms love and sex. God, in the beginning of Creation said, "be fruitful and multiply" and the brain do find a way to carry out this command.
7. It is equally important to realize that the drive to sow as many seeds as possible, for some men, overrides the front-brain systems that calculate risk and benefit. It is equally important too to realize that once anyone indulges in greed acts or infidelity once, and does not get caught, that makes the risk look smaller and kills the rational fear of getting caught. This is an important lesson.
8. Another very big important lesson for leadership and for life is that once One has gotten used to acts of greed or infidelity, those brain parts get shut down and often get shut down for good. This shut down of the brain begets the internal bravado feeling or hidden celebration that they have been winning (not getting caught) for years. After a lot of winning, they figure they will keep winning. Don't forget how profound the sex drive is. Once in this frame of mind or mentality, sex drive like greed knows no limits and fears no risks.
9. It is not just biblical but the truth: People in lust after the opposite sex are irrational just like people pursuing greed. Both persons are governed by the same power of lust. They believe:
a) This woman or man is special and that they are special too.
b) They are different and smarter.
c) They have a love-trust relationship with the opposite sex.
d) They feel this sense of false security and invincibility.
e) They assume that they know better than any counsel from spouse or friends.
f) They assume that they are not in love/passion and therefore can think clearly.
g) They falsely assume that can think clearly in the cold light of day if they get exposed or caught in the very acts -- but by then, its too late.
10. Many flawed people have come to believe that the risk of getting nabbed either in infidelity or greed really isn't as large as one might think probably because they know other men and women who manage to keep their affairs out of the public eye. So they think that they are in the company of men and women who do get away with it. If this is your mentality, BE AWARE that you will ultimately become blind to the risks of infidelity and greed - thinking that it is never ever going to touch you and that the guy who got caught was just stupid. This is a great hidden DANGER once you open these DOORS.
CONCLUSION: As your Internet Pastor and Counselor, Hear me - I trust this above piece and the experiences of Mr. Tiger Wood would surely put the fear of discovery, if not God, into YOU not just for the next 10 days or so. It is my prayers that everyone reading this piece would never go back to business as usual. Seek counsel or contact our ministry if you are addicted to sex, greed, any deviant behavior or just want to talk to someone. God richly pour out His grace on You. Amen.
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