Well, this is definitely in direct contrast to one of my last post but this one means everything to me.
The amount of bad witness and testimony that I have seen come from this is far-reaching. This is about a lot more than good work ethic’s. This is about understanding who we were always called to be.

Somehow or another, and definitely not by biblical design, the Church has divided people up and given them different levels of service. We’ve even use the term “secular“ (I have been guilty of this in the past) but, it is not a term that you will find in the Bible.  When you observe a Jewish person‘s life they worked six days out of the week and they worked with excellence. If you get an opportunity, do some research on how much Jewish people have contributed to the world, research inventions and so many other things.

We as believers should be the standard by which everyone else is measured! But I don’t think that’s always how it is. The sad fact is -how we do life, especially how we work is a direct reflection of how people view Christianity.  It doesn’t matter if you have spent an hour in the Bible & praying and then walk into work with absolutely no regard as to who you are and how you are reflecting God-Then I wonder are you actually reading it as a checklist or are you allowing it to transform you from the inside out?

It should not even be possible that we live like hell during the week. We should stand out in integrity. We should be set apart by the words we speak. Our employers should want 100 of us or even thousands. Go read the book of Daniel and see how they are set apart from a nation that they lived in by force. They could have been lazy. They could have not cared about what they did but they didn’t. They stood out and not just once but a lot. They were willing to sacrifice their lives and not compromise God.

Would you do the same thing?
Are you willing to step in the fire?
Are you willing to not indulge?

I get very passionate about this topic. It is why one of my mission statements that’s on my website is “life is ministry“.  I mean this with the deepest level of love-Stop separating your life!

There are at least two incredibly dangerous and false theologies out there regarding Satan.
One says that the enemy is symbolic, that the devil isn’t real. The other, though they believe that he exist, have a false understanding of, “if I don’t talk about him, if I don’t say his name, then he’s going to leave me alone” and all I’m gonna say to that is GET REAL.

I’m not saying that he should be giving too much credit, But I’m also not saying to ignore. The Bible is riddled with warnings and if he wasn’t real, if the danger wasn’t valid —then why in the world would God put it in His Word so consistently? He did because he is real.

I wonder, do Believers think that he actually takes a day off? That somehow we get a vacation? No. But I also wonder how many people are walking around unarmed, unprepared, and completely oblivious?
The most effective warfare that I believe the enemy has brought to the church is the theology of extremes. Extremes of many things found in the Bible have caused believers & non-believers to either shy away from or completely disregard important aspects of our walk.

In those extremes, Satan has quite effectively made us ineffective.

The most prominent of all of these extremes has been centered around the third person of who God is — The Holy Spirit.  We need a Church that knows who He is, that knows why Jesus sent Him and what it means to be led & live in and through Him & until we do, we will remain weak and ineffective.  Are you ready for revelation? Are you ready to ask the question, “what do I know & not know about Him? Are my beliefs biblical? Does it line up with the first church? What might I believe that isn’t Truth and in that error, am I missing something?”  

The truth is, you can & will find anything outside of the Bible that will tell you what you are comfortable hearing if that’s the route you choose to get answers.  But if Jesus said that the Holy Spirit is our Teacher and that He was all I needed to actually understand— then my question is, are you willing to go to Him to get your answers? Do you actually want to know TRUTH? My prayer is that you do. My prayer is that you recognize something is missing. My prayer is that you will seek and search until you find.
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