Thursday, November 20, 2008

Do you want it fixed or not?

In these times we must be perfectly honest with each other! These are the
end times. ALL of us are being distracted "in the flesh". This is where to
enemy gets us every time without hardly breaking a sweat. What a sad
commentary that is for the human race. BUT...as Christians, true
Christians, who have chosen our walk with the Lord as more that a visit to
the local church of our choice once or twice a week, or for some,
occasionally, we must remember that we are called to a higher purpose!!
When we allow the enemy to distract us with "human needs" we are looking at
the problems and forget to look to the ultimate solution, Jesus Christ.
Some are striving with broken marriages. Some are striving with addictions,
for many it is financial, but all struggles require our dealing with them in
the flesh. Or do they? WE DON'T HAVE TO THROUGH HELL TO RECEIVE VICTORY.
There is nothing in HELL that will give us a solution to our troubles. If
we give into anger. If we curse the person or the circumstance. If we pray
in anger and resentment. We actions are dancing to the fleshly tunes of the
very enemy that has caused this strife in our lives and our prayers never
reach heaven. The Word of God tells us to Psalm 100:4 "Enter into his gates
with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him,
and bless his name." Once we have entered into His gates, and thanked Him
in advance for the result we want (as long as it lines up with the Word of
God) and we have praised Him for his allowing us into His court through the
blood of Jesus, and we have thanked Him for that honor, we have to leave
that realm and return to the higher purpose that Christ has called us to.
If we hang on to the very circumstance that we have supposedly just turned
over to the Father, then we have not truly turned it over to Him. We,
through our actions, are in reality saying that we don't really think that
God can handle this without our help. What happens then is we return to the
"fleshly" ways of man and end up cursing the person or situation we have
just told God He should handle for us, and the gates of Heaven close on us.
Then we stand there, with mouths full of cursing, and hearts full of hate
and wrath and bitterness and bang at the gates of Heaven and cry out..."God,
are you in there, didn't you hear my prayer, what it taking you so long,
where is my results?!" Listen, you may be able to yell through a gate on
earth and have the person on the other side hear you, but your voice can
never penetrate the gates of Heaven if there is malice in your heart! The
best thing you can do is to OBEY the wisdom in Psalm 100:4 and then first
shut your own mouth, and second, shut off the murmurings of the devil by
doing NOTHING but PRAISE THE LORD for what HE is doing. Then we must return
to our HIGHER purpose and that is, especially in these end times, bringing
in the harvest!!!!! When we are about God's business, we leave little time
to think about what we have turned over to God. Even in the flesh we humans
say, "The best way to get your mind off the situation is don't just sit
there, go and do something!" It boils down to either we trust God and HIS
timing, or we will continue to meddle in the work of God! Have you ever had
someone hand you something and ask you to look at it and fix it and then
they keep talking and pointing and taking it back to look it over again
themselves and then they hand it back to you. Finally you say out of
frustration, "Do you want me to fix this or not!!!??? Leave me alone and I
will work on it!" If you give it to God, leave it with God and stay out of
His business. You can NEVER know the mind of God so quit trying to impose
your solutions and ideas on Him. Enter the gates, state your business and
then leave! And make sure to leave the problem there too. Close the gate
behind you and get about the work that God has given you to do. Trust
me....I have learned this the hard way....If you are not about God's
business, He will NOT be about yours!...Patti