Giving

2 Kings 4:42-44

1. A man from another place came before and gave his first fruit to the man of God.

a. People who don't follow God yet know that God can and should only have the best and of the best quality.

2. Elisha the man of God thinks of the people and what the word of God can do. He gives what the people really need and is beneficial.

a. In the eye of the man of God or any pastor, is giving the best whatever there is to feed his people. In Elisha's eyes is the people must eat. He repeat it to his servant thrice.
It's when the people begin to eat that they would have the sustaining power for their journey. It's in receiving his words and instructions that we would find that we would move from strength to strength.
The man of God is to feed but the people must also respond and eat it then they would find strength out of it on their own. Because You are more than enough for us.

The people who ministered(his servant) with Elisha don't share the man of God's heart desire as they look to whether the people would have enough.

3. People who know God and are with us only wants to receive what they want and be there to give.
The people who are with us they cant see that the important issue or could not anticipate what in the man of God's heart. Sometimes the very people who are with us, they are content in receiving. Even in receiving, it must meet to their requirement or standard.

But as leaders especially need to rise up and be beside the pastor to begin to give unto the people. Whatever portion that we have received from the pastor, we must be faithfully in redistributing it out to the people .

Elisha knew the people needed this now as this is what God had said.
Sometimes we could be so close yet we missed the very heartbeat that's in the man of God.

Before we can received anything we are there to ask how would all these benefit people, what if it does not help them and etc. But that should not be our concern as we are there to just give the people what they need. It's when they begin to receive what they needed that they would be able to sustain themselves and make more with the little they have so that their supply is never ending. Because it's He that supplies it!!

Church, pastors and leader are not here to meet people' s needs but to give them the training they need to meet their own need so that they can make more and learn to sustain on their own.

Marriage (Part 3)

continuation from previous post....

A husband must love his wife just as Christ loved and cared for His bride. How? Just like how Christ loves himself. How did Christ love himself? He did it by living to fulfill the Father God's purpose. When He live to fulfill the very purpose of God in His life then all will fall in it's place just like in Eph 4:16

When he receives direction(Your very purpose) and I partner with him to do what is required then it helps the us (whole body) grow and be full of love.

Did Christ love Himself? Yes!, because He carried what the Father carried. He was and is part of the Trinity. He is the exact representation of the Father. The church is His body, part of Him. He can never hate it because it should reflect Him in His image and likeness.

As an individual: Christ in me means it's only Him. Carrying and living His very life. Can I hate myself? No! because it's no longer me that live but Him. I'm His exact image and likeness!
As a couple we should be finding and we are able to find the Christ that's in each other as individually we have carried on the truth in love that's why we can grow to be more and more like Him. This is how the two becomes one just as He is in You. Such ONENESS!!
No wonder the church and Him is one. He's the head and we are the body! The bride partners with Christ to fulfill the very purpose of God(direction).

Your bride manifest Your very heartbeat and pulse in her that it can be seen. Likewise he's carrying You in his life. When we unite then I'm also to reflect what's in his heart and desire because it's of Yours!I'm there to partner with him to finish the very purpose that You've given to him. Oneness in it, that it reflects You in every area of our lives.

Just like the church(body) is needed to carry and be the message. Marriage is needed to reflect that the above can be done and happen in the church. As marriage is the entity that involves the 2 of us. It's the very first model of Your love and manifestation of Your purpose.

You're so detailed and thorough in Your planning! You're truly a strategist! You leave me in awe!
You have so much love for us, Your church Your body.

Can we ever reject our partner? No because our partner is Your representation and part of Your body. Rejecting him would mean I'm rejecting You! Now I understand that to choose to marry someone in destiny is of a higher standard and calling than to simply choose anyone. Because it reflects that we both are committed to bear Your very standard in our lives!! As that is the standard You bore for Your church.

All those times of talking about bearing Your standard has led me to all these. Now I know what You mean when You talk about standard ;p

Marriage (Part 2)

Thoughts based on Ephesian 4 & 5:21-31

1. Find the Christ in each other.
Ephesians 4:15
"but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,"
Ephesians 5:21
"and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ."
The more we are like Christ then we will submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
See Christ in him, then I see Christ therefore when I submit to him, I'm submitting to Christ.

2. Husband the head, like Christ the head of the body.
Ephesian 4:15-16
"but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. "
Ephesians 5:23
"For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. "

Husband which is the head, it's under his direction, the whole body is perfectly fitted together just like Christ. The husband too must first be more and more like Christ by holding to the truth in love. Submission and honor comes first then direction can be given by him. This is how we become in oneness.

Husband is to give his life to be the savior to her by helping or saving her from making wrong decisions and in her weakness, helping her to rise, set her free and empower her. Which is why "submission" is so critical here.

Just like how Christ loved His bride. i must look at him with such honor because it's in him I find strength, love, grace, mercy and etc. It's in him, I find such direction because we are one and moving in the same destiny and only in one path. I will only rise when I began to see who I am in him and submit.

Life can never be detached because of the oneness in life that we share. There is such oneness and unity and it's in it that life and power would be released out in us. In Your eyes, we are ONE!! to be continued....

Marriage (Part 1)

What is this? I really have no idea!! hahahahaha
But I remember this conversation we had about this, so here's our thoughts on it:-

1. Marriage will be very different for those on the prophetic and apostolic journey.
2. Parenting will take on a very different approach from what the world is teaching. Parents would walk with such an assurance that their children won't go bad because their lives are build accurately.
3. Couples need to find the Christ in each other. The more we train our eyes to find the Christ in each other, then we will be more like You. Then when we come to You, You sees us as one. It's in us, You will see Yourself as we are made in Your image and likeness.
You see Your word, You see Your image and Your likeness!!

As we find Christ in each other, we are drawn to love and appreciate each other more and indirectly we are drawn to You and love You more because we are in You and You're in us. Submission and honor will be easy because as we are doing it to each other therefore we are submitting and honoring You. That way our marriage will have You because it just draws You because it's a reflection of You!

4. Prophetic people in marriage.
This one, I would need to come back to You and discuss about it :p

A Prophetic Generation (Part 2)

Psalm 102:18 “This will be written for the generation to come, that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.”

We are the very EPICENTER for all these things to happen on the earth!!! This is so exciting!!! I’m the very EPICENTER where all things in heaven must breakout in and through me first before it can reach others.

Before anything can take place here on this earth, it must first be birth and breakout within us first. We are the very channels where all these things can be release through. This is what the Finishing Generation carries within them.

We being the very EPICENTER meaning the first to carry this breakout within us and release it therefore it's not surprising that one of our characteristic as a breakthrough believer is "Moving ahead to pioneer a new move of God."

As the very EPICENTER, we are the FIRST therefore naturally we are MOVING AHEAD as PIONEERS. That is why there's is nothing that can stop us because we become totally unstoppable and untoppable. As that is how You have made and fashioned us to be, as YOU are UNSTOPPABLE and UNTOPPABLE. It's just YOU NATURALLY!!!
We are no superheroes but we are just like YOU NATURALLY!! All these things would just become part of our lives so naturally. In You, all things are possible, we too are possible because Your very DNA is in us :D

We are the Prophetic Generation! We are Pioneers! The Finishing Generation!

Have not watch cartoon a long time but she is still one of my favorites:- "Kim Possible."
Here the lyrics and song video from her cartoon entitled "It's just you" which i feel is suited with this post, just change and put your name in the song.....hahaha!!



Lyrics | LMNT - It’s Just You lyrics

ARISE! GET UP!

1 Kings 19:5-8 "Then he lay down under the tree and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, "Get up and eat". He looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then he lay down again.The angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, "Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you". So he got up and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. There he went into the cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him: "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

As a sons of God, we must :-

1. Be determined to rise.
Nobody can push us to rise, only we can push ourselves. The choice to rise is within our hands. We have to learn to push without anyone telling us! We must be determined to want to rise up from within us first.

In life, we must make a decision to "Get up and not give up!"The first words that the angel spoke to Elijah was "Get up". Elijah was extremely tired as he had to run for his life so much so he felt it was not worth going on anymore. He was willing to let go off his life. He felt very tired/exhausted! Just rejoicing over a success and now he's in such a situation where he was in a worse state. Till he felt it was not worth living or no point in moving forward anymore.

Just like us, we at times encounter such a frustration/trial/challenge that it just cause us to be so overwhelmed by it. It makes us weary because it seems like it would never end. We came in prepared and believed in His word and declared it but yet nothing happens. Our situation doesn't seem to get any better neither is it improving. It was still as frustrating and tiring as before that we just threw our arms in frustration and give up!

But yet, the angel spoke , he said, "GET UP AND EAT." It's irony cause the angel must have not been listening well as Elijah had in verse 4 said, "I have had enough". Seriously, I don't think food is in his mind now. But this statement by Elijah sounds so familiar because that's what we usually would say.....

No matter how challenging it may be, we must first make a decision to be 'DETERMINED TO RISE". WE MUST WANT TO RISE. The angel did not offer his hands to Elijah but he told him to arise. Elijah still had to get up on his own. He still must be determined to push himself and do what he needs to rise/get up! The angle was there beside him as he spoke to Elijah but still Elijah had to get up on his own. God is always beside us but He can't make or push us to rise. This determination must come from within us. If we choose not to continue on and walk, He can't drag us along. YOUR ever strong hands are there for us to hold us the moment we determine to get up. YOU would hold our hands and walk the journey together with us.

Never give up! because we carry the future in us. The moment we stop, there's no more future for ourselves and others too. That is why, you and I need to rise not just once but again and again!!
BE DETERMINED TO RISE!

2. Keep hearing, believing and declaring His words
God speak the word and things happen. God speak the word and all of creation came into existence. Things do happen when we speak the His words. If on the first time we have declared and nothing happen, we must not give up! We must keep on hearing, believing and declaring His words.

"EAT"- It's when Elijah begin to arise, he had to eat the bread and drink the water. Bread and water itself keeps sustaining us. Therefore it is important that we keep feeding ourselves with the proceeding word of God and praying in the spirit. When we begin to keep hearing, believing and declaring His proceeding word and pushing in the spirit that we begin to be strengthened from within us.

Jesus said, "I am the living bread which came down from heaven, if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever." He also said that "He that believe in Him as the scripture said,out of of his belly shall flow rivers of living water."

It's vital that we keep hearing, believing and declaring His proceeding word because we are building our spirit to be strong. His proceeding word is able to break every of the inaccurate pattern of thinking within us and build in the accurate thinking pattern of God.

Without an accurate thinking pattern us we won't be able to see every of our situation from God's perspective. As we are clouded by our own negative and inaccurate thinking pattern and it would just cloud our vision as well. The more we hear, believe and declare His proceeding word, the spirit of our mind is being changed and the MIND OF THE SPIRIT CAN TEACH US TO OBEY. The moment we are realigned in our mind then our vision/sight is realigned to see our situation as how God sees it.

Elijah was strengthened by that food, that is why he could keep advancing and moving forward. Many times we just see our present situation but fail to see further ahead. We must remember that the journey ahead is still far and long that's why we need need His proceeding word to strengthened us so that we can keep advancing and moving forward.

3. God would speak to us.
His proceeding word would cause to keep drawing closer to Him and begin to aligned our hearts to Him speak to us with regards to our situation. It is interesting that God asked Elijah, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" It looks like Elijah is in the wrong place.

Many times when we draw close to God is because we just want Him to help us to get out/run away from our situation. We tend to give ourselves many excuses just to avoid confronting our situation. Here, God speaks to Elijah and later you would find that He sends Elijah back from the very place he ran away. (1 Kings 19: 10-15)

We must realize that we are not meant to run away from problems. God Himself has put within us this seed "the ability to prevail" within us. A seed is small but its powerful as it can grow into a strong tree/plant that would yield fruits that are bigger than the seed. Such power or ability does a small seed carries within it but yet for it to release its ability it must fall to the ground.

John 12:24 "I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a sing seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds."

This seed that's within us, must come into contact with trials/challenges, problems and etc in order for it to unleash its power to break out/rise/prevail above it all. All this begins within us. God wants us to begin to realize that all that we need to prevail, He has already put within us. That is why He knows we can prevail and break every limitation and boundaries.

We need to see that our in our original we are meant to prevail against limitation and boundaries. We are not designed to resign in defeat nor are we to run away from problems. We are meant to face every problems/challenges with great courage, knowing that we carry the very seed "ability to prevail" within us and success and victory is for us.

Noticed how this time when Elijah was sent back, his attitude and mindset was entirely different from how he began. Just like Elijah, God speaks to us as He wants us to confront and conquer our situation. As now our mindset, heart and vision is realigned according to His proceeding word, our attitude and approach towards our situation would be entirely different.

We can confront our situation with much confidence and rest in our hearts and mind knowing that victory is in our hands already. We are going in with the power and in the name of the Lord. Noticed how courageous Elijah became. It was because of this ONE man that become the very vessel that God used to raise others that courage to confront and to slain the enemies.

It was because of that ONE small seed that fall to the ground that yielded many fruits so that many lives can enjoy the fruits.We must realize that God wants us to confront and learn how to conquer our problems/challenges so that through our lives, we can also help teach and show others how to overcome and conquer their problems and challenges. So that many more lives can be set free and not overwhelmed/succumbed by their problems or challenges. Our lives carry the very future and hope for many more lives out there.

We are the future. We are ahead is so that we can be a true leader that would set many captives free and lead them into the path of life and liberty in HIM!