God doesn't need your help...

Happy Sunday!

God doesn't need your help, he needs your obedience!  

After King Saul disobeyed and sinned against the Lord, the prophet Samuel rebuked him and said, "Obedience is far better than sacrifice. He is much more interested in your listening to him than in your offering the fat of rams to him."(1 Samuel 15:22, Living Bible).   Religion wants you to believe that it is more important to just attend a weekly church service.  But religion is a form of carnality.  In 2 Timothy 3:5, the Apostle Paul warned him about religious people.  It says, "Don’t be naive. There are difficult times ahead. As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse, dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical, treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God. They’ll make a show of RELIGION, but behind the scenes they’re animals. Stay clear of these people."(Message).  Romans 8:6 says, "A mind focused on the flesh is doomed to death, but a mind focused on the Spirit will find full life and complete peace."(Voice).  Did you see that? Full life and complete peace!  Sounds good to me!  That's what I want!  How can I get that?

Dr. Bill Winston continued the series, "Receiving Your Inheritance" with the subtitle, "Living Large".   Carnal Knowledge is knowledge that came through the senses and it is the opposite of Spiritual Knowledge that comes through the Spirit of God.  Jesus said, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."(John 4:24, KJV).  How can we worship in spirit and in truth?  Great question!  I'm so glad you asked!  You are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a physical body.  When Adam sinned his spirit died.  Eventually his physical body died as well.  We are descendants of Adam so we were born with the sin nature.  But Jesus is called the second Adam, when we accept Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior our dead human spirit is recreated.  2 Corinthians 5:17 says, "When someone becomes a Christian, he becomes a brand new person INSIDE. He is not the same anymore. A new life has begun!"(Living Bible).  When our spirit is born-again the Holy Spirit of God comes to live within us.  

Sounds pretty easy, right?  NOT! Your recreated spirit has to get the agreement of your soul and your body to make changes in your life!  Have you ever seen a born-again person living like the devil?  Sure you have!  Were they really saved?  Yes, but they never allowed their spirit to lead their bodies and their lives.  If they die, will they go to heaven? Of course, but they may get to heaven faster than they or Jesus would have wanted.  Many times these people do more damage than good!  People see them living recklessly, and then are turned away from the things of God because of it!  Don't be that person!  Don't be that person!  Don't be that person!  Pastor Duane Sheriff describes it like this, "2/3 of you is going to rule your life! Your spirit is fixed by God Almighty, born-again, and in union with Christ himself. Your flesh is decaying it ain't any good, and never will get any better. There's one guy that gets the final vote! If this guy votes with the spirit, the soul and the spirit, (the heart) override the body. But if this guy votes with the body, the body and the soul will override the spirit."  In Romans 12:2, the Apostle Paul tells us how to avoid these pitfalls, "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind(Soul), that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."(KJV).  When your mind, your will, and your emotions are renewed by the Word of God there will be evidence and there will be change!

God wants you to Live Large!  This World System operates on scarcity.  The enemy tries to convince you that God is unrighteous!  The enemy wants to deceive you into thinking there is not enough!  Not enough money, not enough food,  not enough water, not enough jobs, not enough men and women, and not enough for you!  Don't believe his lies!  There is more than enough, and the only reason he wants you to believe that there is not enough is because when you understand that there is more than enough, and it already belongs to you, you will take it from his coffers!  Jesus paid to get our inheritance back from the devil!  The only stipulation is we have to fight the Good Fight of Faith to get our stuff!  Dr. Winston said, "What you SEE, you believe!  What you SEE is what God delivers!"  You have to see yourself healed, you have to see yourself prosperous, and you have to see yourself happily married!  The world has picked up on this with Vision Boards, but God was making vision boards thousands of years ago!  Habakkuk 2:2 says, "Write down this vision.  Write it clearly on tablets, so that anyone who reads it may run."(Voice).  

Living Large!  Love and prayers, Cynthia