The Power of Understanding and DOING Things God’s Way!
Once again, FAM members have been blessed to witness the miracle of another marriage restoration, and it too was a definite “suddenly!” And it powerfully reinforced and confirmed so many conversations and discussions over the past week or so about the deadly danger and destructive nature and power of pride. I hope to share a lot more about that later today or tomorrow, and do appreciate everyone’s patience while we’re making the transition to our new websites. I hope to be back on a better schedule for getting out the Seeds Of Faith post shortly, as the Lord has put so much in my heart to share, but time is an ever increasing precious commodity.
MNO (member name omitted) was faced with a situation that would have sent most of us into a tail spin, because the husband of a woman her husband works with called to tell her that they were “seeing” each other. But what the devil obviously intended for harm; God intended for good and it was the resulting conversation with her husband that made him decide to come home after being away for almost a year, even though they were in the process of getting a divorce!. But she didn’t freak out and make all sorts of accusations or pitch a fit, and since she reacted in love and with respect, without losing her peace and confidence in the Lord, which was TOTALLY different from the old MNO; it was pretty difficult for her husband to continue questioning that the changes he had seen in her were real and lasting! So when I read Lorraine’s Coffee Break devotional this morning, I couldn’t believe how well it speaks to exactly what we’ve seen playing out in the ministry over the past few weeks; and the results speak for themselves! So read the following message, take it to heart, and you will be blessed and encouraged; particularly if you put it into practice!
“…Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the
throne.” Revelation 4:1b,2
God is calling His people to come up to a higher place- a place in the Spirit. It is imperative (and I stress “imperative” because if we don’t it can be dangerous to our spiritual and physical well being). It is imperative that we do this (get in the Spirit) in light of the days in which we are living.
Because we contact this world through our physical senses it is easy to judge what we see and what we hear according to the natural scheme of things. It is so easy to allow what we see and hear in the natural to dictate and govern our emotions, our choices, our way of thinking. If we look at the events that are happening around us from a worldly, natural perspective instead of from a higher perspective- God’s perspective, a kingdom perspective- we will make decisions and live our lives based on fear instead of faith, personal preference instead of Godly conviction, and fleshly desires instead of Godly values.
John had to go up to a different “level” (a spiritual level) in order to see things as they really are and will be. God could not show him what he needed to see as long as he was still on the “earthly” level because the things He showed him were “spiritual” and could not be received or understood by the physical.
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Cor. 2:14)
If we are living on an “earthly” level- judging after appearance, dictated by fear, walking after the lusts and desires of the flesh, living by sight instead of by faith, putting our hope and confidence in man instead of in God, believing the reports of the world instead of God’s word, not decreasing and allowing God to increase and take control of our mind, will, emotions, spirit, soul, heart and body– then we are carnally minded instead of spiritually minded.
Are you living on a spiritual level- allowing God’s Holy Spirit to govern your entire life, or are you still living on a carnal level- allowing your flesh (your own desires) to rule? One gives life, the other brings death. If we are carnally minded, then it’s time to repent and “come up hither” to a spiritual level–“For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” (Romans 8:6)
Have a great day. You just cannot see clearly on a carnal level… you have to come up to a spiritual level where you can see and understand things from God’s perspective.
Coffee Break is a morning devotional written by Lorraine Ezell, and available online and sent by email free of charge for the asking from About the Master’s Business Ministry, Inc.
So please feel free to call Lorraine at (601) 833-5278 or E-mail her at mastersbusiness@bellsouth.net
And you can visit her on the web at MastersBusiness.org.