6 Steps for Getting to the Top

Happy Sunday!

Dr. Bill Winston continued the series "Receiving Your Inheritance" with the subtitle, "Moving to the Top". Romans 10:17 says, "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."(KJV).  This scripture says faith comes to us by hearing, not by having heard!  It's the continual hearing of God's Word that changes us, strengthens us, and empowers us to receive all that Jesus paid for us to have.  We have been cheated by the enemy, by unscrupulous people, and by our own ignorance.  Hosea 4:6 says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:"(KJV).

Dr. Winston gave us 6 Steps for Getting to the Top...

1.  Don't try to adjust the Word to fit your lifestyle.  -  As a jet fighter pilot, Dr. Winston had to learn to do everything by the rules governing flight.  His instructors encouraged him, when all else fails go back to the book!  The Bible is the manufacturers handbook for humanity.  If you have a question or concern, there is a scripture for that!  For our smartphones, there is always an app for anything you may want to do.  In the same way there is a scripture for anything you may encounter.  So your neighbor installed their fence on your property? There's a scripture for that!  So the boss looked over you again for that position?  There's a scripture for that!

2.  From this point forward, your opinion does NOT matter!  -  Colossians 1:13 says, "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:"(KJV).  We are part of the Kingdom of God.  It's a theocracy, not a democracy!  What God says is law.  Sure, you can do whatever you want!  But like gravity if you violate it you will suffer the consequences.  In our saturated social society, everyone has an opinion about everything.  When your view conflicts with God's view, you are walking in darkness.  The Apostle Paul wrote to the Philippians, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:"(KJV).  To get to the top, you will have to adjust your thinking!

3.  Find out where you are supposed to be and get in that place!  -  You are unique!  There is not another person in the universe exactly like you!  There is a place and purpose made especially for you.  This world needs you and your authentic gifts!  The King of Babylon besieged the city of Jerusalem!  He commanded his assistants to look for the best and the brightest Israelites!  Daniel 1:4 says, Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skillful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans."(KJV).   The world system is still looking to draw you away from your true purpose.  I used to commute through Chicago Union Station.  In the mornings, I would watch the masses leaving their trains and heading to their jobs in the city!  For the most part, they looked like slaves being forced from their beds and out into the fields to pick cotton!  No life, no joy, and barely a word to anyone else!  This is not the way God wants you to live!  Stay out of debt so that you will not be forced to stay in a job just to pay bills, when your true purpose is calling you!

4.  Big things start with small steps!  - Don't let fear stop you!  Fear connects to death!  Job 8:7 says, "From your modest beginnings, the future will be bright before you."(Voice).

5.  Fix your mind on the Promise not the problem. -  The Promise will drive out the problem, but we have to trust in the Promise!  Number 23:19 says, "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?"(KJV).  In order to fix our minds on the Promise we have to resolve in our minds that God is trustworthy!  He will never lie!  He can be trusted and His Word is everlasting.

6.  Don't mistake your condition for your portion!  -  Things may look dreary!  But the Word says, "For we walk by faith, not by sight:"(KJV).  One of my favorite poems is entitled, "Don't Quit".  One stanza says, "Often the struggler has given up,  When he might have the victor's cup.  And he learned too late, when the night slipped down, How close he was to the golden crown,"  Victory is closer than you think!  Your wallet may be empty, your body may be racked with pain, your loved one may be gone to Heaven sooner than you imagined, but don't accept this current situation as final!  As the little red-headed prophet once said, "The sun will come out tomorrow!  Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there will be sun!"  You are the Seed of Abraham because of your connection to Jesus the Christ, and all of those Blessings belong to you!

Love and prayers, Cynthia