Going to church, reading the bible, listening to Christian music will not advance your spiritual life. These activities may give you more understanding but until you are ready to lay down your life and take up your cross this leads nowhere.
What I am talking about is the sacrifice of self to advance the cause of Jesus Christ in the world. There is a destiny that God had for each of us that only we can personally discover. We can discover it only by detaching from the world and making ourselves available for the Holy Spirit. By detaching from the world--now you have time--the commodity that most Christians are not willing to give.
Jesus said, "Self-help is not help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, to finding yourself, your true self. (Matthew 16:25)
"God has planted eternity in the human heart." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
"Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work I plan for him is not fit for the Kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62)
"The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me." (Acts 20:24)
"We have been sent to speak for Christ." (2 Corinthians 5:20)
"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10)
Albert Finch
www.thekeys2kingdom.com
What I am talking about is the sacrifice of self to advance the cause of Jesus Christ in the world. There is a destiny that God had for each of us that only we can personally discover. We can discover it only by detaching from the world and making ourselves available for the Holy Spirit. By detaching from the world--now you have time--the commodity that most Christians are not willing to give.
Jesus said, "Self-help is not help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, to finding yourself, your true self. (Matthew 16:25)
"God has planted eternity in the human heart." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
"Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work I plan for him is not fit for the Kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62)
"The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me." (Acts 20:24)
"We have been sent to speak for Christ." (2 Corinthians 5:20)
"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10)
Albert Finch
www.thekeys2kingdom.com
September 30, 2023 - Exhortation
Posted 09-29-2023 at 10:27 PM by Albert Finch
2 Kings 3:15-26 - :"…While the harp was being played, the power of the LORD came upon Elisha, and he said, 'This is what the LORD says: This DRY VALLEY will be FILLED with pools of water! You will see NEITHER WIND NOR RAIN, says the LORD, but this valley will be filled with water…"
On an individual level, that DRY VALLEY you've been facing is about to become your very place of refreshing. Just like the Valley of Dry Bones (Ezekiel 37:1-14), nothing is too hard for the Lord. Instead of withdrawing from those hard places, Soak in those places. Worship in those places! Where there was once no living water, there will be pools of soaking in His presence.
In this passage, the Lord specifically said that He would fill these places with "neither wind nor rain." In other words, the source won't make sense. You also won't see or feel it coming It won't be by your effort. What's more, it won't even come by "storm." He merely does it in a way that is not natural, usual, loud, strenuous, or predictable.
Your dry places—those places that have been footholds in the past for the enemy—will now become your weapon against him as they become saturated by the Lord. Just as the blood in this Old Testament passage was prophetic of what Jesus would one day do, the areas of soaking are now going to become prophetic areas. They will become both a testimony of what the Lord has done and a prophecy of what He will do again.
There are places where the Lord is redirecting you—not to cut you off, but to stone up places where good water is "leaking off" and watering what God isn't growing in your life. Placing stones in the "soil" of the enemy has a way of preventing him from growing things too. Stones (testimonies), biblically, are monuments to what God has done. Any time the enemy tries to plant a lie, put a testimony stone there. It stunts the growth instantly.
Now comes a last-ditch effort from the enemy to derail you. It's often loud, exaggerated, out of nowhere, and very stressful. But if you rise above it in peace and see it for what it is, then it will come to nothing. It will fail. Don't pay any attention to it. Instead, enjoy the abundance that the Lord is creating in the places where you least expect it. Shift your focus to expectation and watch what He will do.
ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY
On an individual level, that DRY VALLEY you've been facing is about to become your very place of refreshing. Just like the Valley of Dry Bones (Ezekiel 37:1-14), nothing is too hard for the Lord. Instead of withdrawing from those hard places, Soak in those places. Worship in those places! Where there was once no living water, there will be pools of soaking in His presence.
In this passage, the Lord specifically said that He would fill these places with "neither wind nor rain." In other words, the source won't make sense. You also won't see or feel it coming It won't be by your effort. What's more, it won't even come by "storm." He merely does it in a way that is not natural, usual, loud, strenuous, or predictable.
Your dry places—those places that have been footholds in the past for the enemy—will now become your weapon against him as they become saturated by the Lord. Just as the blood in this Old Testament passage was prophetic of what Jesus would one day do, the areas of soaking are now going to become prophetic areas. They will become both a testimony of what the Lord has done and a prophecy of what He will do again.
There are places where the Lord is redirecting you—not to cut you off, but to stone up places where good water is "leaking off" and watering what God isn't growing in your life. Placing stones in the "soil" of the enemy has a way of preventing him from growing things too. Stones (testimonies), biblically, are monuments to what God has done. Any time the enemy tries to plant a lie, put a testimony stone there. It stunts the growth instantly.
Now comes a last-ditch effort from the enemy to derail you. It's often loud, exaggerated, out of nowhere, and very stressful. But if you rise above it in peace and see it for what it is, then it will come to nothing. It will fail. Don't pay any attention to it. Instead, enjoy the abundance that the Lord is creating in the places where you least expect it. Shift your focus to expectation and watch what He will do.
ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY
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