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Devotional
Wednesday 10th of March 2010
Psalm 51:17 (NIV)
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
You know it is like my Dad use to say to me when he use to break in horses. He would jump on his back and say, "We are going to become friends for a little while, then he is going to be sorry, but through love, I will break him, however if you break him the wrong way, no child will ever be able to ride him".
It is wonderful to have a broken heart to God. That means where your will is broken to His will but it is a terrible thing to have a broken spirit to negativity, to have your spirit crushed in the negative. Correction can never be rejection. It is not being hard on somebody by pushing them to bring out the best in them. God will ride us hard and put us away wet. But He will let us know He loves us while He is doing it. It is not for abuse sake. It is to see the person come to the fulfilment, to reach down and to cut away the dead branches.
I do not care too much about outward problems I care a lot about inward ones. Not just toward each other but towards God. People that know how to apply the weapon of repentance are cleaning their springs, so that good people, it does not matter where they are situated in the natural, can come drinking and their spiritual position changes to be seated with Christ in heavenly places and their natural circumstances change.
Wednesday 10th of March 2010
Proverbs 15:32 (NIV)
He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains
understanding.
I want to touch on submission, development, things that rebellious people don't
like to hear. Submission is not submission unto the devil but unto God and unto the
principles of righteousness. Nothing is going to change in your life until you decide to
change it by becoming aggressive with the word of God. Your wife isn't going to change
or your husband isn't going to change and your kids are not going to change without the
principles of righteousness being put into place. "Oh he is such a good kid I'm
praying for him everyday". He doesn't need you praying for him he needs the strap in
love and he needs to be grounded; he needs discipline because someone's going to marry
that kid some day.
The bible says that a child left to himself will bring his mother to shame. You
won't change them by nagging, but by being confrontational in love. I've never won
an argument but I have won many fights by bringing in a closure and saying, "This is
where it's going down." said in a gentle way yet authoritive. To change you have to
admit your wrong. The moment that you admit your wrong then you can start to pray for
God's strength to walk out of what ever it is but until you admit you are wrong you
can't change, you are just hard headed and the word of God has to become a hammer.
Have you ever met people that are nice people but they're just stubborn
emotionally and they are constantly living in defeat because of their hard headedness and no
matter how many times you confront them they just revert back into what they believe and
they want to drag you down into that with them cause that is where they want to live. These
people come to me all the time and say, "I want to be a leader; God has called me to be
a leader." And the first thing that I ask them is, "What would you teach them? How
to be a failure? How to be in debt? How to struggle day to day? How to spend the rest of
your life battling depression?