Our faith hasn't really grown into much more than believing we'll go to heaven when we die. How many Christians truly believe that our God can still do mighty exploits here on earth? When asked that question, do we answer, "Well, maybe" or emphatically answer, "Yes!" Sometimes, we miss His exploits or dismiss them, because we failed to see God in them. We were willing to accept what the news media says, rather than a divine intervention in things. We must become aware of our God at work on behalf of mankind and not the destruction of mankind.
It's astounding how we've confused the things of God with the things of the enemy who came to "steal, kill and destroy." Sickness, disease, hard times and poverty have now become the normal for God's people. Tongues, healing, miracles and prosperity have somehow, now become the work of the devil. It's so alarming to hear this message preached in the congregations of God's Own family. The Word says that, "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God." Faith in anything comes by hearing. It's a spiritual law and principle. There's an old saying about this that says, "They have told that lie so long, they have come to believe it." It's time to come back from the compromised message and believe the truth of God's Word again.
There is an awakening to God's Presence and the truth of God's Word happening, not only in our Land, but throughout the earth. The unsaved are become awake to God's Presence and the Church is undergoing revival. The word "revival" means to "revive the Church from its slumber and sleep and awaken from tradition to truth."
God said in 2Chronicles 7:14 (Amplified) that, "If My people would awake and pray and come back to Me, then I will hear their prayers and heal our land." If we cannot see the sickness that has crept into our land, then we are blind and will not see. America has become sick because of not observing God's Word and by allowing things to occur that we (the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ) should never have tolerated. We've allowed this sickness to permeate our whole land, either from our not knowing or not seeing or not recognizing it.
We must put our denomination differences aside and realize that we are one body. If one part of the body doesn't function properly, then the whole body is dysfunctional. Standing together in faith isn't that hard, if we'll all return to faith in God's Word. We've used His Word for individual strength, but now we must come together for corporate strength. The Church are the ones Jesus gave the authority to. We need to use that authority over the principalities and powers controlling our nation. We need to lift up the Name of Jesus over it all, once again.
Jesus gave His authority to the believer and without its being used like He instructed, nothing changes. There are currently laws concerning the making and selling of illegal drugs established in our country, but even though the law forbids it, if the law isn't enforced, then the illegal distribution continues. There are certain things occurring on earth that are against the laws of Heaven, but if the Church doesn't enforce these laws, then the enemy continues destroying those Jesus came to save.
The Church has become subject to laws that are unGodly, because we refuse to stand united in faith and prayer, to stop satan's maneuvering in our lives. Jesus gave us some guidelines on how to use the authority He gave us, in Matthew 18:19 (Amplified) saying, "Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth must be what is already forbidden in Heaven; and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth must be what is already permitted in Heaven."
This was given for the future time, when the new creation people would be given this authority to hold as His representatives on earth. Jesus told us what things Heaven would and wouldn't permit to be just and acceptable on earth. There shouldn't be a great debate about some of the things that we have allowed to happen here. Can you imagine things being run and happening in Heaven, like they're being done here? I hear Christians say, "Whatever is being done, is God's will." Jesus, though, taught us to pray that, "God's will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven." Do we truly believe that what's currently transpiring on earth are the things occurring in Heaven? Who, then, is responsible for "Doing His will here on earth?" Jesus said that, "He came not to do his will, but the will of the Father." The way to have God's will done on earth like it is in Heaven, is to have somebody to His will here. Jesus said in John 6:38 (Amplified), "For I have come down from Heaven not to do My Own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me."
Jesus also said in John 14:12-13 (Amplified), "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and He will do even greater things than these because I go to the Father. And I will do (I Myself will grant) whatever you ask in My Name (as presenting all that I Am), so that the Father may be glorified and extolled in (through) the Son."
When we take Jesus at His Word and do the very things He did, then the Father is glorified ion the Son, through us. This isn't some work of the flesh to lift up man, but is the work of the Spirit to lift up Jesus. The "greater work" Jesus spoke about, is getting people born-again, through His resurrection. Jesus couldn't get anyone born-again until His death and resurrection. This was a privilege left for the Church, by the Holy Spirit.
No father worth his salt, brings children into this life without providing for them and raising and teaching them into adulthood (and sometimes beyond that). I've discovered that you never stop being a father. My kids are middle-aged adults, but I'm still their father. They still look to me for help and advice from time to time. I didn't orphan my children or leave them as babies. I raised them into adulthood, and enables them with the tools to remain at liberty.
Our Heavenly Father never intended for His children to remain babies for the remainder of their time here on earth. As sons of God, we're expected to "train up" His children and bring them into maturity and into His Kingdom. This goes beyond teaching them to walk in the natural, but also in the super-natural. I enjoy my life here on earth with the things my Father has created and provided for me. I live in a rural area that is both peaceful and quiet, where I raise horses and beef cattle. I love what my Heavenly Father created for us here. I simultaneously, can walk in the Spirit with Him and do the things that please Him.
The Word admonishes us to, "Not love the things of the world," not the things of the earth. The world or the world system, is run by darkness, while "the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." I can enjoy what God crated for me and change the things the enemy has perverted, at the same time. When I observe the earth's beauty (even under the curse), I can see the heart of a loving Father Who created this whole world for the enjoyment of His children. I partook of the blessing that has come on me through Christ Jesus and broke the curse from off the land God has given me. God has blessed me with enough hay to keep the horses and cattle well fed. The things that were cursed through Adam's fall, have been blessed by the power of the new creation, in Christ Jesus. Where there was only proof of the curse, there is now a Garden of Eden.
I was once told that because I'm in the ministry, I shouldn't have horses and cattle anymore. What a shame someone would think that way. My most precious times with my Heavenly Father are spent when I'm in the tractor, cutting and bailing the hay. The quiet and beauty of that time spent with Him, in the restored beauty of His creation, is prayer and worship that some never achieve. The balance of enjoying what God has given me here and the inheritance I received into His new creation, is a balance that Jesus and Adam shared. They both walked with God in the Spirit, while still having a natural body.
This is a great things about this new creation. I can have the glory of both worlds, living in both placed simultaneously, while walking naturally super-natural.
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