How's Your Spiritual Maintenance?
The cares and anxieties of the world, and distractions of the age, and the pleasure and delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches, and the craving and passionate desire for other things creep in and choke and suffocate the Word, and it becomes fruitless. - Mark 4:19
Did you know that the seemingly innocent things in your everyday life can suffocate your spiritual life if you allow it?
A friend of mine said the Lord told her in prayer one day that this nation had become a nation of maintenance men. "You have so many things to maintain," He told her. "You maintain your house. You maintain your car, your yard, your machines, your hair...."
It's true. You can become a maintainer of so many natural things that you don't have any time left to maintain your own spirit!
When you find yourself in that situation, it's time to simplify your life. I've had to learn that myself. Now when I'm considering something I think I need, I don't just count the cost in dollars and cents. I think about how much time it will take to maintain it. I check to see if I can spiritually afford it.
Second Timothy 2:4 says, "Don't get entangled in the affairs of this life." One thing I've learned over the last 25 years: Nothing is as important as spending time in prayer and in the Word with the Father. Absolutely nothing in my life is as vital as that.
The cares and anxieties of the world, and distractions of the age, and the pleasure and delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches, and the craving and passionate desire for other things creep in and choke and suffocate the Word, and it becomes fruitless. - Mark 4:19
Did you know that the seemingly innocent things in your everyday life can suffocate your spiritual life if you allow it?
A friend of mine said the Lord told her in prayer one day that this nation had become a nation of maintenance men. "You have so many things to maintain," He told her. "You maintain your house. You maintain your car, your yard, your machines, your hair...."
It's true. You can become a maintainer of so many natural things that you don't have any time left to maintain your own spirit!
When you find yourself in that situation, it's time to simplify your life. I've had to learn that myself. Now when I'm considering something I think I need, I don't just count the cost in dollars and cents. I think about how much time it will take to maintain it. I check to see if I can spiritually afford it.
Second Timothy 2:4 says, "Don't get entangled in the affairs of this life." One thing I've learned over the last 25 years: Nothing is as important as spending time in prayer and in the Word with the Father. Absolutely nothing in my life is as vital as that.
You Are Complete In Christ
and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. Colossians 2:10
When you look at yourself, what do you see? Do you see someone who is imperfect and lacking in many areas, or someone who is whole and complete in Christ?
There are believers who see themselves as incomplete. This is because they are conscious of their lack and imperfections. They say, “There are so many things imperfect about me! How can I be complete if there are so many things I am lacking in?” They see their weaknesses, condemn themselves and feel inferior to others.
The good news is that God does not see the way man sees. Man sees the flesh. God sees the spirit. He sees us already complete in Christ. In spite of our imperfections, He sees us as new creations, partakers of His divine nature and more than conquerors over our faults. And He wants us to see ourselves the way He sees us.
What we think we need or are lacking in, whether it is godly character traits or physical health, we already have in Christ.
I used to think that I had to ask God to make me more patient, until I realized one day that Jesus is my patience. Since then, I no longer ask God to make me wiser either, because Jesus is my wisdom. (1 Corinthians 1:30) I am not waiting to receive more healing because Jesus is my complete healing at this moment. And I am not yearning for peace and rest one day because Jesus is my peace and rest today. Right now, I have everything because I stand complete in Christ!
My friend, you are not going to be complete in Christ some day — you are already complete in Christ! And what remains for you to do is to walk daily in that completeness by believing that it is true and confessing that what you need right now, Jesus is to you. He is your complete forgiveness, complete righteousness, complete favor and complete protection.
So don’t focus on the lack you see in your life. Focus instead on how in Christ, you are complete in everything at this moment. And instead of weaknesses, lack and defects, you will see His strength, wholeness, soundness and completeness manifesting in you!
Thought For The Day
Don’t focus on the lack in your life. Focus on how in Christ, you are complete in everything at this moment!
and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. Colossians 2:10
When you look at yourself, what do you see? Do you see someone who is imperfect and lacking in many areas, or someone who is whole and complete in Christ?
There are believers who see themselves as incomplete. This is because they are conscious of their lack and imperfections. They say, “There are so many things imperfect about me! How can I be complete if there are so many things I am lacking in?” They see their weaknesses, condemn themselves and feel inferior to others.
The good news is that God does not see the way man sees. Man sees the flesh. God sees the spirit. He sees us already complete in Christ. In spite of our imperfections, He sees us as new creations, partakers of His divine nature and more than conquerors over our faults. And He wants us to see ourselves the way He sees us.
What we think we need or are lacking in, whether it is godly character traits or physical health, we already have in Christ.
I used to think that I had to ask God to make me more patient, until I realized one day that Jesus is my patience. Since then, I no longer ask God to make me wiser either, because Jesus is my wisdom. (1 Corinthians 1:30) I am not waiting to receive more healing because Jesus is my complete healing at this moment. And I am not yearning for peace and rest one day because Jesus is my peace and rest today. Right now, I have everything because I stand complete in Christ!
My friend, you are not going to be complete in Christ some day — you are already complete in Christ! And what remains for you to do is to walk daily in that completeness by believing that it is true and confessing that what you need right now, Jesus is to you. He is your complete forgiveness, complete righteousness, complete favor and complete protection.
So don’t focus on the lack you see in your life. Focus instead on how in Christ, you are complete in everything at this moment. And instead of weaknesses, lack and defects, you will see His strength, wholeness, soundness and completeness manifesting in you!
Thought For The Day
Don’t focus on the lack in your life. Focus on how in Christ, you are complete in everything at this moment!
CHRIST YOUR
WISDOM GIVES YOU GOOD SUCCESS :
1
CORINTHIANS 1:30 - But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom
from God…
It is
believed that there has never been a wealthier king than King Solomon. God gave
him wisdom that not only made him wise in matters of justice, but also brought
him gold and silver. (1 Kings3:12–13)
According
to a report by the Illinois Society of Architects in 1925, the cost of
Solomon’s temple in terms of existing values would have been about US$87
billion! The priests wore garments costing more than US$10 million! These
amounts only cover what Solomon spent on the temple and not his personal
assets.
We can
go on talking about the riches of King Solomon, but the Bible tells us that
there is one greater than Solomon. (Matthew12:42) His name is Jesus, and He is
the most prosperous Man who ever lived and who will ever live.
If
there was a need to feed the hungry, He simply multiplied whatever food was
placed in His hands. On one occasion, He multiplied five loaves and two fish to
feed 5,000 men, not counting women and children. And incredibly, there were 12
baskets full of leftovers. (Matthew 14:15–21)
If any
of His own faced lack, it was not long before abundant provision flowed to
them. Once, when His disciples caught nothing after a whole night of fishing,
He merely spoke a word of command and schools of fish obeyed, swimming toward
His disciples’ boat so that they received a net-breaking, boat-sinking load of
fish. (Luke 5:1–7) In another incident, He provided the money for the temple
tax, even if it took a fish to bring it to them! (Matthew 17:24–27)
My
friend, this same Jesus has become for you wisdom from God. If you are a
businessman, with Christ in you, you have wisdom that is greater than the
wisdom of all the world’s business gurus put together. And if you are a
student, Christ in you will manifest wisdom that is greater than all the wisdom
of the brilliant minds in the academic world.
Beloved,
believe that because Jesus, God’s wisdom, is in you, there is no reason you
cannot prosper today, and astound the world in the same way Solomon did!
NOTHING
SHALL BY ANY MEANS HURT YOU!
Behold,
I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the
power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. - Luke 10:19
Years
ago, while traveling on a domestic flight in the United States, I was seated
next to a woman whose whole body was tense with fear.
Concerned,
I asked if I could help her in any way. Between sobs, she told me about her
fear of flying. I told her, “Don’t worry. I am on board. Nothing will happen to
the plane.” I did not say it with pride. I said it knowing that the Lord was on
board the plane with me and that I would have a safe journey because He has
promised that “nothing shall by any means hurt you”.
Once,
when Jesus was in the boat with his disciples, He told them, “Let us cross over
to the other side.” (Mark 4:35) Believing that they would cross over to the
other side, He fell asleep in the stern. A great storm arose, but it could not
rouse Him from His sleep, only the cries of His terrified disciples did. They
had forgotten what Jesus had said about them crossing over to the other side.
They had also forgotten that with Jesus in the boat with them, there was no
possibility of them going down. Nothing could by any means hurt them because
Jesus was with them.
Even
being thrown into a fiery furnace could not hurt three young Hebrew men because
they believed that God would deliver them. They had proclaimed to the heathen
King Nebuchadnezzar, “… our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the
burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king.” (Daniel
3:17) And in the midst of their fiery trial, their deliverer not only walked
with them in the fire, He also delivered them from all harm. King
Nebuchadnezzar even said, “Look! I see four men loose, walking in the midst of
the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of
God.” (Daniel 3:25).
Beloved,
in the midst of your storm or fiery trial, because Jesus is with you, nothing
shall by any means hurt you!
Thought
For The Day :
Nothing
shall by any means hurt you because Jesus is with you!
WALTER KAMBULOW
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