Battle of Character – Valour Bone
August 4, 2019
Know When to Be Silent
August 5, 2019
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Purpose and the will of God comes upon you when you are born-again. It becomes as if you live in another place meanwhile you are on earth. God lets you think that your life belongs to you knowing very well that He authored and orchestrated everything concerning it. As you live, you tend to think you are the one making decisions on what to do and where to go, whilst everything was planned before. An idea of a life of a man is nothing compared to how God observes it. You are under complete control and subjection of God, your life is above you. You are under the authority of God who is far above you. The problem is that you limit yourself to yourself. Your life is not your deeds, your decisions and what you can think about, but it is under the authority of the Father. The moment you realize that you do not live under your own authority but that of the Father, your life becomes limitless.
The Father is all knowing, all powerful. Research states that a normal person uses 20% of his brain to do everything but if a human could use 100% of his brain, he could tap into unimaginable possibilities which are not available to him while he uses only 20%. What more when you do not have to use your own brain but depend on God who is not limited to your thinking capacity, just imagine the power that you would carry. It is either you do not believe in the power you carry or you do not know your Father.
A child does not know what he or she is going to eat but knows that they are going to eat at the end of the day. God wants us to be like little children. Children do not live within themselves and their own environment, they live in what God provides, they are taught and do whatever they are instructed. When you limit yourself and look down on yourself, know that you are looking down on God. I am taken back to Friday’s teaching ‘We are the wife of Christ – A woman must learn and enquire.’ [1 Timothy 2:11-12], “Let a woman learn in silence in all submission.” This verse gives us what a woman must do, how she must do it and where it should be done. If a woman is not silent in her learning then her learning cannot be regarded as submission. Dear woman (Church) always enquire from the Lord.
God cannot reveal to you all things to you when you reason like a child. If you can go the whole day without learning anything from the Lord, who is feeding you? You might be learning from your colleagues, classmates and neighbors; as women are teachable beings. If the Father is not teaching you, someone else is teaching you. When the serpent approached Eve in the Garden of Eden, Adam had not taught her hence someone else (serpent) taught her. As a woman you forever learn.
What is all submission? It is to disregard and lay down your talents and abilities because as a woman, you can never be above man. Submission is a position, it is not what you do. Submission is where you are situated. You can decide to submit in silence because you love or be like a prisoner who is held against his will and mumble. Verse (12), “I do not allow woman to teach…” As long as you have not conformed to what you are taught, you cannot teach. You can receive a teaching and be able to convey it to the next person exactly as you received it without the teaching producing a fruit in you. Therefore, it is not about having the teachings and knowledge. It does not matter what a woman is taught, what she knows does not matter, she can only teach when she has become Christ.
Children usually learn revelations and teachings in church and want to repeat them to their parents at home without becoming the very teachings they heard. They are not completely wrong in having zeal to teach their parents but their wrong is in the method they use; they want to speak the teachings to their parents while they should be demonstrating them through action. They ought to display the Word they are taught, as the saying goes ‘Action speaks louder than words.’ Teaching comes with power to change a person. It is an error to teach your parents who are not born-again what you have not become.
Let the Word of God be conceived in you to such an extent that Christ becomes fully formed in you. What does it mean for Christ to be fully formed? It means purpose. When Christ is fully formed in you purpose is able to drive and lead you in all your ways. Once He is fully formed, you become as He is and mirror Him in all your actions. When you give birth to Christ, He does not appear somewhere else, He manifest within you.
[Habakkuk 2:2], “Write the vision and make it plain on tablets…” The vision or the purpose cannot be hidden, it is written down, they both have power to influence people outside. If I carry both and make them known to the next person, it is possible to make the next person run with it. A vision is not limited only to you, whoever has knowledge of it can run with it, it can impregnate the next person and spread abroad.
Think about it, Jesus was prophesied long ago, so how come the purpose upon His life never faded? Though the prophets who prophesied about Him passed on, He came and manifestation into being, in absence of the prophesied because His purpose was bigger than them. This shows that whoever came into contact with the vision was impregnated with it and ran with it. “The vision is for an appointed time” – vision is not influenced by your knowledge and resources. Meaning there is nothing that you can do that can make the vision come alive but the appointed time. For the vision to manifest, all rests on time because the vision is for an appointed time of the Father.
Vision will speak, not you, at the end it will speak, when the fullness of time comes. “Though it delays, wait for it, it will surely come” When you read this statement it seems like God is confused, He says thought it delays it will not delay. The problem is which time are you in, when you carry vision you do not live in the days of the calendar, but your life is scheduled according to the appointed time of the Father.
[Galatians 4:1-4] NKJV “…an heir as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave though he is a master of all but is under guardian and stewards until the time appointed by the father” As long as you are a woman and not Christ you are still a child, you cannot teach! “But when the fullness of time had come God sent his son, born of a woman” God would not do anything until the appointed time arrived. As much as He wanted the vision to manifest, no matter how powerful the purpose was since it was not the appointed time, it could not happen.
If you live in another time other than that of the Father you will feel like the vision is delaying but if you live in the time of the Father the vision will not tarry because it is the appointed time of God. When the fullness of time has come the vision speaks, when you have carried the Christ and it is the appointed time, you give birth to Christ, whether you speak or do an action, the Christ teaches.
There are Christians who are busy speaking without being the authority of Christ and what they speak does not happen, they do not understand that you cannot get the results of what you have not become. You can declare and command but if you are not Christ but still a woman, what you speak cannot manifest. Become Christ so that you can have the authority to command and teach. Teaching goes with authority. Have you seen a teacher in a classroom, they have authority and don’t despise themselves. Because you are a woman and you have knowledge, you feel you could be equal to the teacher and you think it gives you a right to teach, this is what causes Christians to pray desperate prayers which leave them feeling like God is not answering them. If you have become the Christ you will understand that the vision is above you and that it also waits for an appointed time.
Vision does not need you. When you are pregnant, the child will never ask you about the time of his birth, he/she will just come because they are above you. The progress and accomplishments in life might lead you to think it is your works, yet it is the vision which is above you. I want to set free people who made mistakes and think they are doomed and that they do not have a way out thinking that it is over with them. Vision is bigger than you! Do you know that a pregnant woman can die yet the child she is carrying lives? it is the same with vision, it is above you.
The purpose of God in your life is above you, there is no one whom God placed on earth without a purpose. Even people who murder are born with a purpose. You can create a purpose for yourself influenced by an environment but God will always take you back to what you are called for. In other words, all the other things you do which are not aligned with your purpose are just passing time, God will always take you back to your purpose.
I believe 90% of the things you come to counseling to cry about, you would not come if you knew your purpose! Did you hear Joseph complaining when he was arrested? No, he knew what he was supposed to do from the very beginning. When a child grows they will give you signs that lead to purpose but because parents want their kids in superior professions they miss it but if you can trace back to when the child was not contaminated by the systems of the world, you will see that purpose was there from an early age. Purpose is there even before you are formed in your mother’s womb, you are born into it and it carries you wherever you go.
Jesus knew from the word go what He came to do on earth, no matter how severely He was beaten, He never complained because He knew His purpose. Purpose is bigger than your own life, it carries you. If you do not know your purpose, I am here to tell it to you. If you do not know what you are called for and if you need alignment, God is aligning you today. Confusion is a thief which steals when you do not know your purpose, it steals your money, time, strength, joy because you go everywhere searching for answers. When you do not know your purpose, you will not know the appointed time of the Father.
I was asking God why he classifies ‘leaven’ as sin. When I googled the definition it said “leaven is a raising agent, such as yeast”. Leaven is anything that makes bread to rise, God views yeast as anything or anyone that makes you rise up like yeast. Do not rise because of yeast but rise because of the appointed time. Jesus is the unleavened bread, leaven comes into flour before it becomes bread to contaminate it – It makes the bread rise before time!
When your friends and your fellow servants complement you, whilst it is not yet time; things like pride and jealousy can creep in. Think about it, how many times did the followers of Jesus want to make Him King, yet He ran away? People who have vision are not moved by anything, they do not need to be reminded what they are called for. Do not allow man (flesh) to teach you, let them leave you pure as you are in mind, spirit and body. Remain as flour, when put in the oven you will rise on your own. Allow water and fire to raise you.
When the oven is sealed the bread does not need anything to raise it. God is aligning people today, God is reminding people of their purpose. You think you do not know your purpose but you knew it from when you were born but life happened, you grew up and got confused but worry not, God is taking you back to your purpose.
Living a purposeless life is a waste. Do not waste your life living a purposeless life, otherwise your life will become futile. Vision wants you even after you have made bad decisions in life. You might have chosen the wrong course but purpose is above you. A perfect example; Abraham and Sarah were old yet God said “by this time next year, you will have a child”. The one who was not promised laughed, when God came on that day He was just reminding Abraham, He had already promised him to be a father of nations – meaning all along he had been carrying purpose. The Father was confirming the appointed time that Abraham was already waiting for. Since Sarah did not know purpose she laughed.
Make it known who you are, when purpose reveals who you are never keep quiet, vision does to keep quiet, when He manifests, He speaks. Your family might not know what your is purpose, but as vision reveals the pieces of the puzzle: voice it out, never keep quiet. Just like when you are a woman, you learn and when you are the Christ you teach. When you know what your purpose is; speak and make it known to everyone. The more people laugh at how ridiculous, unbelievable and impossible what God wants to do in your life, just know that it is the one.
Abraham had a purpose; he was promised a child but when Isaac was born that did no instantly make him the father of nations. This might seem like fulfilment of the promise but this was just the inception of the manifestation. Only when God told Abraham to sacrifice the very same purpose that he was promised did fulfilment materialize. It was not yet the appointed time of the Father for Abraham to be called the father of nations. Abraham because of knowing his purpose was not scared to sacrifice his son.
The moment you know your purpose, grab it and hold on to it but never be scared to let it go and give it back to God. Never be too desperate for it to happen, it will happen by itself. The brothers of Joseph threw him in the pit and forgot about him yet there was purpose upon his life and brought him back into the spot light. Let God take the purpose away from you. If God wants to kill it, let Him. Let purpose die to the point where you yourself think that it is null and void. Purpose is above all of us, our image, what we think and where we come from. “When the fullness of time has come” Do not be impatient with God, even time itself has to mature for Him to carry out what He has planned with your life.
To others God does not reveal their purpose because they might use their own strength to do things prematurely and tamper with the plans of God. If God has not revealed your purpose, remain at His feet, continue worshipping and loving Him and serving Him with all that you are and He will surely reveal. And if He chooses to fulfil without informing you His plan, still do not be offended; we do not love God because He tells us our purpose, we love Him because He is God.
Become Christ and let purpose overshadow you. I declare you purpose driven, just sit and relax, watch and see – it is in you. God’s purpose with your life is handled like the Word, God watches over His Word to perform it, find confidence in this, if God is faithful to carry out His Word, so shall He carry out His purpose upon your life!
YESHUA, A CITY ON A HILL; THE LIGHT THAT CANNOT BE HIDDEN
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