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What Moves You?

“At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures.”

Titus 3:3

Each day, we are moved by one thing or another to get up each day and be in pursuit. We are all after something, chasing after something, longing for something, reaching for something.

For some, it’s a good job, a good marriage, a great project, a love for school, an exciting career, or even motherhood.

Friend, what moves you?

What gets you riled up? what lights up the fire under your feet to get moving an keep moving towards it?

If it is not a passion to pursue God’s purpose, I’m afraid you and I have a lot of repentance to do. A change is coming and it is nearer than we think.

If you are not moved by a passion for your Father’s business, that which HE purposed you for, then what are you passionate about? What have you been chasing relentlessly after and can’t stop?

I received a great word recently that proclaimed the necessity to put passion in its place.

During the sermon, the preacher emphasized greatly on the dangers of having the right passion in the wrong place. I wonder today about the many wrong places that  you and I have attempted to harbor our passion.

I lift my hands in humble adoration to God for giving me a burning passion to serve HIM with my life!

I am here to remind you that there is a limitation to the things of this world. So anything outside the word of God that currently serves as a passion, moving you aimlessly without purpose, will eventually die.

Or do you not remember that ONLY the WORD of God shall never die?

So why then is your passion without purpose? How then can your passion live forever if it is harbored on sinking sand? How will the fire burning inside of you for that thing, withstand its power if it is not invested in the all-powerful word of God?!!!

Will a flame ignited by the things of this world not perish in due time?

It is God who lives forever. It is the word of God that lives forever as it is written in Genesis,

FOR IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND THE WORD WAS GOD.

If you are more passionate about adding fame that faith to your name, or about profit than purpose,  the placement of your passion is why you are enduring the trials that you are currently facing in the season of revival. 

It is my prayer for you and I, that our heavenly Father grant us a heart of repentance today. May we be enabled by the Spirit of God to change our minds about the passion of our hearts. May me surrender our passion today and seek God for re-direction, and may we be renewed with the right Spirit today to passionately heed the call to God’s glory in Jesus name. Amen.

The Climb Is Not In The Ladder, It’s In You

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“Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.”

Deuteronomy 33:25

“Moving up the ladder,” is a well-known phrase in today’s world of strive and determination. But as a child of God, would you believe me if I told you that the climb is not in the ladder, but in you?

We were not all created to start our own businesses and be our own bosses, but every single one of God’s children has greatness coursing through their blood. God has given both you and I our own individual greatness in which we are to shine through to the world for the glory of our Father in heaven.

So how come the only way we often see to make it to the highest heights (that God has promised), is by climbing on an invisible man-made ladder, rank, or level?

Don’t you know that the greatness is not in the ladder but in you? What have you sacrificed to climb man’s ladder?

I mean what happens if the ladder breaks or malfunctions? what makes you so sure that the ladder can ever hold the weight of all that you are called to be?!

In other words, man’s promises and strategies have no stand against the certainty of God’s will. The saying in this context might only refer to a ladder, but as many of us know, there are many other ways that man will try to convince you to reach the height of success. The temptations are indeed many. Yet it is God who promises in Job chpt 8 vs 7 that,

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.”

The Spirit says God is with you wherever you are, and wherever you go and He who put a great work in you shall surely fulfill it! God does not need anyone’s help for HE is God alone and HE alone is God!

So, is your trust in man and the ladder that man has built? Or is your trust in the Most High God who has given you the gift or talent in the first place?

I wonder how many of us are waiting in line to climb up a ladder to get to where we are going, not realizing that the climb is not in the ladder but in us.

If it is God’s will for you to walk to your great height of destiny, do you really need that ladder after all? And if God gives you the wings to soar to your great height of purpose, what is the use of that ladder?

Man cannot determine how far you will go and when you will get there. That power and glory belongs to the One God who created you for great things!

I pray for you and I that we may be encouraged by grace to trust in only One Master who has our destiny in the palm of his hands. May God grant us the patience, humility, understanding, and obedience to wait for HIS time and His way to get us to where we are going in Jesus name. Amen.