Post by JCD on Oct 16, 2018 6:48:05 GMT -8
I have seen an open letter to Pastors filled with complaints about churches and how they are derelict in their duties to God, others complain about the country......Who IS Responsible for the 'ills' we face all around us every day?
I heard something a long time ago that has always stuck with me. After hearing a trouble, tribulation, or complaint....what ever word you would like to use..........the listener asked a question.
What would you have Jesus do about it?
He is the Only Power with God the Father thru the Holy Spirit that can change a heart. And it usually ends up being our own. Let me explain....
If my people,.......the ones responsible for sharing Jesus Christ, the ones who are a light set on a hill
which are called by my name,..........those who are His Ambassadors, His representatives of Christ on earth
shall humble themselves, .............take stock of who and what influences us every day and repent for those things that looked right to our own eyes and were not
and pray..........talk to the One True Living God that can change the hearts of men, giving them a New Mind IN Christ
and seek my face,...........desire to see our Father in all His Holiness and see the world around us and the people in it as He does. Diligently searching for Him and His Will in every situation, or conundrum we find ourselves in
and turn from their wicked ways;..........REPENT means to turn in the opposite direction and He is asking us to repent twice in this verse...there must, simply MUST be things, thoughts, and attitudes we walk in that the Lord is insisting we turn from
then will I hear from heaven,........then and only then, after we have truly considered our ways, thoughts, actions and repented, being washed clean.....THEN will He hear from Heaven
and will forgive their sin,...........THEN He will Forgive our sin......OUR SIN....not the worlds sin, not the lukewarm who have done none of the above, but the ones who have followed HIS prescribed method for the desired outcome
and will heal their land. ..........THEN He will Heal our land. Isn't that really where our frustration with Pastors, Teachers, Prophets, and Leaders really lies.....they do Christian-lite? They only preach a gospel of peace and love without repentance or consequences of actions in the Body? Isn't that what is REALLY needed? is our land to be Healed?
So who's responsibility is it? The Pastor, the Teacher, the Prophet, the Leader.........ours...........They too are only a PART of the Body, a Part of HIS people......God has told us what is to be done and He addresses it to individuals, not the people they are 'under' for guidance. We have to remember WE are each responsible for our walk with Jesus Christ. WE are responsible to test the spirits of people we are CHOOSING to sit under........when we shift the lack of preparedness to a person we are choosing to sit under, we are failing to realize we have taken Jesus and the Holy Spirit off the Throne.............and isn't that realization EXACTLY one of the things God just told us to turn from in the Scripture above? isn't that a 'wicked way'? We need to keep looking deep and keep looking up, God is in control.
God Bless you all <3
I heard something a long time ago that has always stuck with me. After hearing a trouble, tribulation, or complaint....what ever word you would like to use..........the listener asked a question.
What would you have Jesus do about it?
He is the Only Power with God the Father thru the Holy Spirit that can change a heart. And it usually ends up being our own. Let me explain....
If my people,.......the ones responsible for sharing Jesus Christ, the ones who are a light set on a hill
which are called by my name,..........those who are His Ambassadors, His representatives of Christ on earth
shall humble themselves, .............take stock of who and what influences us every day and repent for those things that looked right to our own eyes and were not
and pray..........talk to the One True Living God that can change the hearts of men, giving them a New Mind IN Christ
and seek my face,...........desire to see our Father in all His Holiness and see the world around us and the people in it as He does. Diligently searching for Him and His Will in every situation, or conundrum we find ourselves in
and turn from their wicked ways;..........REPENT means to turn in the opposite direction and He is asking us to repent twice in this verse...there must, simply MUST be things, thoughts, and attitudes we walk in that the Lord is insisting we turn from
then will I hear from heaven,........then and only then, after we have truly considered our ways, thoughts, actions and repented, being washed clean.....THEN will He hear from Heaven
and will forgive their sin,...........THEN He will Forgive our sin......OUR SIN....not the worlds sin, not the lukewarm who have done none of the above, but the ones who have followed HIS prescribed method for the desired outcome
and will heal their land. ..........THEN He will Heal our land. Isn't that really where our frustration with Pastors, Teachers, Prophets, and Leaders really lies.....they do Christian-lite? They only preach a gospel of peace and love without repentance or consequences of actions in the Body? Isn't that what is REALLY needed? is our land to be Healed?
So who's responsibility is it? The Pastor, the Teacher, the Prophet, the Leader.........ours...........They too are only a PART of the Body, a Part of HIS people......God has told us what is to be done and He addresses it to individuals, not the people they are 'under' for guidance. We have to remember WE are each responsible for our walk with Jesus Christ. WE are responsible to test the spirits of people we are CHOOSING to sit under........when we shift the lack of preparedness to a person we are choosing to sit under, we are failing to realize we have taken Jesus and the Holy Spirit off the Throne.............and isn't that realization EXACTLY one of the things God just told us to turn from in the Scripture above? isn't that a 'wicked way'? We need to keep looking deep and keep looking up, God is in control.
God Bless you all <3