Monday, April 15, 2013

Allowing ourselves to live life

Hello again it seems that life is beginning to calm down for me. It is amazing to see the wonderful journey I have been on in the last few months. I have been travelling extensively and growing in such freedom. Life has changed from pursuing prayer as a way to get an answer to things rather than walking out of being a much loved child. Let me tell it the difference is like day and night. I work 5 days out of 10 often my weeks and days are melted into one big 10 day shift. God has been showing me how normal people are in the Bible. Abraham was a family man who raised up servants to defeat kings. David was an outcast by his family and given the job off alone on the hillsides. Enoch was someone who raised a family and yet was taken to heaven not facing death. Normal people with probably worst resumes then each of us. Murderers, Adulterers, but still able to be used by God. They saw supernatural things in there daily lives while just doing "life". As a Christian when the spirit comes into us we are spiritual beings. We are made in the image of a God who is a King, a Judge, a Restorer, a Redeemer, a Reconciler, and so many other titles. All of these we have access to by learning in relationship. Even those who are not believers have titles and spiritual authority. Rulers, Government officials, Prime Ministers, Presidents, and all of these areas in are earth have authority. They are targeted by the enemy and hopefully not your mouths. These people are placed there by God who has given them the wisdom, education and drive to be in those places. They are not there by accident or by some other plan or design. We need to support these people with prayers, hope and love. They are fighting a battle many don't even realize. The devil wants to influence these areas by using manipulation, money, sex whatever he can to get us to throw arrows of curses out of our mouths.
God has put a few things on my heart within all of this. I want to teach people how to do life well. I want revival but I want to know how to do life well. This takes times and wisdom but with so many great teachers and spiritual insight, prophetic teaching and pastoral ministry we have often forgotten about the daily lives of each one of us. We come together for corporate worship with our church family and draw away back to our homes. We often blame the  church for the things going on in our world when it was Family in the beginning that was to raise up there children in the thoughts and ways of God. Revival will come but how long will we be able to hold onto it. What happens if one of the leader is found committing adultery? Does there works exclude them from the work of the Kingdom when there works wasn't what got them into the kingdom? Within all of this there is a great message that we still need to learn how to do life well and how to know who we are. I believe that one thing we have done is separated life from "spiritual things" such as church, , Prophetic Conferences when yes this is all spiritually uplifting but it has come at the cost that we need to attend these things to feel redeemed or honored by God. Our lives are spiritual, everything we do is spiritual. It is just as spiritual as eating a meal with your family than it is being in prayer. God is apart of you wherever you go. He is not with you only when you seek him in prayer, he is always apart of you. He has attached himself to you in union that you can't do anything without him. The moment you purchase something at the grocery store he is seeing how you provide for your family, your integrity of a Father a Mother. Every moment his spirit is residing in you. The thoughts of God are going through your mind because as 1 Corinthians says you have the mind of Christ. 
 Did not God reconcile the world to himself? (Romans 5:20, 2 Cor 5:18) He has given us the same ministry it is even stated. The earth, everything in it is brought close now to God for his benefit and for ours through him. Now if that is the case how far off is that "sinner" or "back slider". Jesus came to be with those people who were yet far off and he loved them for who they were. Sin was not the issue it was the value that he saw not living to the conformed image he has intended for them. We are set apart from sin the moment we were baptized with him. Romans 6:7 For anyone who has died has been set free from sin.