The Elijah/Elisha-Father/Son principle
God, above all things is a Father; and many people at this point in history, are basically fatherless. A spiritual father is more than a mentor and more than a teacher. He is a covering of protection for our soul (psuche) and he is not only a protector but also a corrector; if we will allow it.
The reason Malachi wrote what he did, by the Holy Ghost in (Mal. 4:5&6), was because in these last days, the curse we see in the earth is a lack of true fathers who are in deep relationship with true sons and daughters.
As Elijah passed on a spiritual inheritance to Elisha, and as the apostle Paul passed on a spiritual inheritance to Timothy, so we have a great need for men of God who are equipped to pass on a spiritual inheritance to those God has assigned to them as sons and daughters in the faith.
A true father will help bring us up into God THE Father, so that we can become all that God has intended for us to be.
A fatherless society is a weak and wounded society, and a fatherless church is no different.
Perspective
The new decade is upon us. We have entered a new block of time that will not necessarily mirror the decade we have just departed from. How we approach this new time period will, to a great degree, determine how the next ten years affects our individual lives. Of course there are always external circumstances that none of us can control; but we are the only ones who have control over our own perspectives and attitudes. If we decide that the future has no hope for us, or if we decide that we have no influence on the future, as it affects us, then we can be certain that the ‘thing we fear most will come upon us’.
The Holy Spirit through the Apostle Paul said it perfectly in (Philippians 4:8): “Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything that is praiseworthy---think (dwell, meditate, focus) on these things”.
Change
There has been a theme that has been running through my heart over the past several weeks that I cannot escape; that theme is “Change”.
Of all the activities and experiences of life, there is only one constant and that constant is change. When change ceases, life ceases. This is true in the natural world and also true in the realm of the spirit. When we are no longer willing to discover, accept, and embrace Godly change, we are as good as dead. The human condition is such that we tend to hold on to the familiar with all of our might, fearing that the unknown might somehow damage us, or at least derail us from the path that God has for us, when in fact God is a moving thing. He is always proceeding for our benefit; calling us up higher into Himself so that we may at last become the true reflection of His Christ in the earth.
Change requires a great deal of us, because we must leave the old to enter into the new. That doesn’t mean that the old was wrong; it was new at some point, but new wine won’t do well in an old wineskin. We must therefore be willing to be adjusted if we ever hope to move on with God as He systematically brings His Divine change into our lives.
B.L.O.G.
I have never blogged in my life. In fact, I am not sure what ‘blog’ means. So to try and come to some kind of personal understanding, I will begin with this thought:
B. Becoming
L. Loving
O. Oracles of
G. God
(1 Peter 4:11) declares: “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
It is interesting that the very next verse in 1st Peter speaks of the ‘fiery trial’ as not being a ‘strange’ thing.
Oracle: (Logion): comes from words meaning-‘a fluent utterance of God’.
The longer I live the more I realize, and am exposed to, the arrogance that can be found in all of us. We humans, by and large, seem to think of ourselves more highly than we ought to think and to justify that thinking by comparing ourselves among ourselves; which the Apostle Paul says “is not wise”. Somehow we have learned to desperately try to expose the splinter in our brother’s eye in the futile hope that the log in our eye will not become so apparent.
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