Have you ever seen or maybe even played a game where you have to defeat an enemy to advance to the next level?
Last night in a dream the Lord used that scenario and showed me that we as His children, His body, and His Kingdom should not see other believers as the enemy that we have to destroy to advance in the work He has called us too. We need to recognize that all of His body is called into unity and His body and Kingdom has one enemy and that enemy is not one another!
That does sound like something that we should already know, right? And I would have thought I already knew this, however, sometimes I meet people that bring out the very fleshly, human side of me and I need to be reminded again!
Reminder to self, even though someone may rub us the wrong way they are not our enemy(repeat, they are not our enemy!), try to let yourself see that they are an opportunity for your own growth(even if you think they are the ones that need to grow!), this is a lesson in letting go of more of yourself.
To freely give space to someone that may be irritating to you is to free yourself of things that limit you from being who you are to be! Let go of pride and competition, do not seek your own way. Seek unity.
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; Philippians 2:3
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Honor Your Roots! Honor Your Heavenly Father!
(This is preaching to the choir!)
This morning I was reading in Haggai and I read some words that seemed to fit some of our thoughts in this new season, and I was cautioned to be aware that we need to always “Consider your ways!", why? because God told us too! The whole verse is "Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Consider your ways!". And it even has an exclamation point!
How does this apply to this new season? Well, the whole set of verses is about not neglecting God's house. This is a season of people developing their confidence in what God wants them to do and in walking in the power of the Holy Spirit. Yes, we are the Temple of God, but God still has a "house" that has been dedicated and consecrated to Him.
People have spent years gathering together to worship, teach and pray, focusing on our Heavenly Father, we cannot now begin to forget that because we are moving into our own more powerful walk that we can not maintain the gathering of the church body or the building.
If we desire God's blessing on our walk and our ministry, we need to be careful to always heed His voice, to always work to bring glory to His name and His Kingdom. We cannot neglect anything that carries His name to pursue a "new thing". We cannot neglect the body or the building that is His face and representative to the world. Do walk the new path, but don't forget to honor our roots, go to your community church, contribute your energy and finances to maintain the home body while you reach out to the future in your new path.
“Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies desolate?” Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, “Consider your ways! You have sown much, but harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a purse with holes.”
Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Consider your ways! Go up to the mountains, bring wood and rebuild the temple, that I may be pleased with it and be glorified,” says the Lord. “You look for much, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of hosts, “Because of My house which lies desolate, while each of you runs to his own house. Therefore, because of you the sky has withheld its dew and the earth has withheld its produce.I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of your hands.”
This morning I was reading in Haggai and I read some words that seemed to fit some of our thoughts in this new season, and I was cautioned to be aware that we need to always “Consider your ways!", why? because God told us too! The whole verse is "Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Consider your ways!". And it even has an exclamation point!
How does this apply to this new season? Well, the whole set of verses is about not neglecting God's house. This is a season of people developing their confidence in what God wants them to do and in walking in the power of the Holy Spirit. Yes, we are the Temple of God, but God still has a "house" that has been dedicated and consecrated to Him.
People have spent years gathering together to worship, teach and pray, focusing on our Heavenly Father, we cannot now begin to forget that because we are moving into our own more powerful walk that we can not maintain the gathering of the church body or the building.
If we desire God's blessing on our walk and our ministry, we need to be careful to always heed His voice, to always work to bring glory to His name and His Kingdom. We cannot neglect anything that carries His name to pursue a "new thing". We cannot neglect the body or the building that is His face and representative to the world. Do walk the new path, but don't forget to honor our roots, go to your community church, contribute your energy and finances to maintain the home body while you reach out to the future in your new path.
Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Consider your ways! Go up to the mountains, bring wood and rebuild the temple, that I may be pleased with it and be glorified,” says the Lord. “You look for much, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of hosts, “Because of My house which lies desolate, while each of you runs to his own house. Therefore, because of you the sky has withheld its dew and the earth has withheld its produce.I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of your hands.”
Haggai 1:4-11New American Standard Bible (NASB)
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