Showing posts with label Respect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Respect. Show all posts

Saturday, July 7, 2012

An Outpouring

“Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, Than great treasure with trouble.” (Proverbs 15:16 NKJV)


Beloved, I write to you plainly as I speak to the Lord. I am not filtering my conversation with the Lord to you (as I wish not to confuse but bring much clarity to all in the ways of God). Yet I would be remiss if I didn’t include you in this, as I want you to enter into the mind of a man who has experienced His God a great multitude of times and the way such a conversation between a redeemed man and His God goes. Amen.


Beloved, I thoroughly enjoy asking such tough questions. First and foremost to myself and towards my life as God is my witness, then to present it to you with a humble heart filled with much wisdom and understanding from my God through patiently waiting upon the Lord. Amen.


Here's the question I present to us: Who amongst us can say boldly and
confidently, ‘even if I have little I will remain greatly respecting the Lord?’

I ask such a question, that my soul may be complete in God lacking nothing, that I may have a faith to remain greatly respecting and honoring the Lord even if I were to have little and remain with little. For I have come to be thoroughly convinced in Christ, that whether I have little or much, may it be to the glory and praise of God. Amen. Such a spirit of thanksgiving regardless of the quantity of such things in life, is a spirit of contentment that surely is unshakeable in all things. Amen.


Over the last few days God greatly spoke to me and showed me a many great things. I was showed that life is truly but a mist, that is here one moment and gone the next. That we truly came from ashes and ashes we will return (bodily speaking according to the flesh that is). And that no amount of hurt and pain can shake the hardness of a heart no matter what, unless a choice is made first! To surrender and desire newness to enter into what was once separated and unwilling to forgive. That healing would occur, allowing in, the experience for the first time of true joy, love, and contentment. Amen.

I experienced that love covers a multitude of sins, and that unless you are of honor, you certainly will not honor others.

I say to my God, ‘what’s the difference between respect and honor?’ He responds “In this world, respect only comes by what title you hold, what you’ve done and what you accomplished, but honor according to My grace is not based on respect, for no one has accomplished anything worth respect for all have fallen short of the glory of God, but according to my everlasting mercy and grace I bestow honor to all creation in that I Am a faithful God and cannot deny Myself.” To which I say amen and praise my God that He would honor us by what He created and has sustained regardless of any of us being undeserving of it. For in our insatiable need to be selfish we fail, but according to God’s purpose seen in and fulfilled through Christ Jesus, we come to gain. Amen Lord Jesus!


Beloved, the mind reels at the ways of God, but this is a trustworthy saying, that we can all take comfort in, “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are God’s ways higher than our ways, and God’s thoughts than our thoughts.” Amen.

For what man has created anything and devised such a plan to sustain all of life, but rather himself and possibly a short few? No one! Yet God in His infinite wisdom and perpetual loving grace created and sustains all life, and designed the plan of Salvation in and through the man Jesus. Amen.

Therefore what can be said of such things? If God is for us than who dare be against us? But here is the revelation in this writing to you beloved. If you haven't received this plan of Salvation and trust that God has created and sustains all life, here's a bold invitation not for the faint of heart. Ask that God Himself! Would reveal Himself to you and as you ask Him such a bold and daring question, seek to truly know Him by investing yourself in having such an encounter with God, that the door of opportunity might be presented to you that you may knock on it and God will answer. Amen! In that beloved, you would have discovered the greatest treasure of all... the Truth!


Beloved, it’s my faithful prayer that you may come to the fullness of God in Christ Jesus, that your life may be content in knowing how truly you are treasured and unconditionally and sacrificially loved by God. Amen.

As always... YOU ARE LOVED.




Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Love & Respect: The staple of wealth




Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. (Malachi 3:10 NIV)

This morning as I prayed, read, prayed some more, and read some more of God's Word, I came to a road block in my thoughts. The road block came in the form of the verse in scripture above that I and so many others stumble all over in our daily lives, weekly agendas, bi-weekly decisions and monthly outcome. What am I getting at? Money. Money, is what makes a person's heart beat faster and eyes gleam more. Money, can make it all go away, or bring on some horrific pain. 

Today, I will share with you some of my money experiences. I will be open and honest with how terrible I have been with money, and some wonderful things I have been a part of through respecting money. 

From as far as I can remember money and I have not gotten along well. Money would come into my hand one moment to leave quickly the next. Sounds familiar? I have misspent money on everything from candy to cars with a lack of responsibility and wisdom. I have bought in great abundance what wasn't greatly needed. I have spent frivolously on so many things, that eventually I grew numb to the things I bought. It wasn't about the material things I had acquired, but simply the act of buying things. You'll get a kick out of this. I actually spent about $200 on an outfit just to go out on a date with a girl. That is NUTS! What was the result of that lack of love and respect? I barely had any money for the date, and afterwards I was broke until I got paid again, which was a painful 2 weeks. Although money and I seemingly have been enemies it's not on the account of money but my general lack of love and respect. 

I have experienced great things with money. I have given cheerfully to my church (Potential Church), and ministries that spoke life into me, and in that I have exemplified the joy of obedience. God's Word says two important aspects of living a loving and respectful life in such areas, Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. (2 Corinthians 9:7) and again here, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” “The worker deserves his wages.” (1 Timothy 5:18). I love how the writer of 1 Timothy brings across the picture words with ox and worker. Both are used to describe those who speak, teach, and live the Word of God out. That being Pastors, teaches of the Word of God alike. But, I desire to continue giving freely and cheerfully. Why!? It's because I desire a life completely consumed with joy. 

I'm sure you're wondering why I wrote 'lack of love and respect.' I wrote this intentionally to get your attention, that is, if you're paying attention. If I had love for God I wouldn't have disrespected the money He gave me. He gave you, you ask!? Yes. God is the giver of wealth. This is what His Word says on the subject, 'But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth..' (Deuteronomy 8:18). Of course you're thinking this right now, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” (Deuteronomy 8:17). If that is your thinking as it was my thinking before you would be wrong! Now, I understand how hard it is to just "giveaway," your hard earned money, but it wasn't yours in the first place. Now how's that!? You ask. Well, let us revisit what the Creator God says about wealth once again, ‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the LORD Almighty. (Haggai 2:8). So, what can be gathered alone from the words in this paragraph? Not only does God own all the wealth on this land, but also gives the ability to produce it. 

We can start out with something very necessary for our ability to produce wealth...oxygen. We don't produce oxygen, but we certainly use up as much as we possibly can every second we get! You may be asking, now what does money have to do with oxygen and me breathing!? Well, once again, God gave you the ability to produce wealth as it states above, and breathing is production, and oxygen is a wealth to our lively hood, but I won't try to prove my point but let the Word of God stand alone in truth, as is written, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. 6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day. 9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day. (Genesis 1: 1-13).

You know what I find amazing which God made clear to me this very moment!? In the first 3 days of creation, God created almost all the wealth for the entire earth (and I say almost all of it, as I didn't include the animals He created but it's all there and you can read the truth in Genesis for yourselves), and the staple for our ability to produce wealth starts with our very lives, and without oxygen in which is created by the sun, water and vegetation working together in perfect harmony we would cease to live. And it just so happens that God created all those things in order for oxygen to be possible. That is absolutely amazing! Praise God!

Now you may wonder what does all this have to do with me!? I wondered that myself. This all came about as I was praying and truly crying out to God to guide my steps, my thoughts and my actions then my pursuits in life aren't aimless. Why? Because, I desire to have the great wealth God speaks of in Malachi 3:10, in order that I simply can have a beautiful relationship with God in which there's an exchange of Love & Respect between the Creator of Wealth and the one receiving the wealth that I may be able to give this wealth to many others as well as provide for my family. Amen.

I don't know about you, but it's my heart's desire that all of us will stand before God, and His response to the lives we lived and what we accomplished with the wealth He gave us; being our bodies, our minds, our hearts, and every other portion of His wealth be, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ (Matthew 25:21).

Amen. God, thank you for the honor to share Your Word with many, knowing it will never return void, as Your Word speaks such an encouragement to me in that You say, "so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." (Isaiah 55:11 NIV). Amen!

Beloved, as always...YOU ARE LOVED.