Growth!
Mark 4: 31 It is like a mustard seed, which whenever it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth;
32 but whenever it is sown, it comes up and becomes greater than all the garden vegetables, and produces great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to nest under its shade.”
The key word is when or whenever it is sown. Obedience will bring great results in the kingdom. The problem is when will we obey? Most of us go around different mountains of disobedience for many years. Yet God is saying, when you finally obey, you will see great things.
I also hear Him saying, “But when will you obey?”
Mark 4:28 For the earth produces fruit of itself: first a shoot, then a head of grain, then full wheat in the head of grain.
“Itself”, is the word automatically.
Do we have faith to believe in the ‘automatic pilot’ portion of God’s kingdom when we are sowing by His voice?
Mark 4:26 And He said, “Thus is the kingdom of God as if a man should cast the seed on the ground,
27 and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and should grow, he does not know how.
From the seed grows a plant. The potency of the seed will decide the growth. God gives the growth. The potency however is at least partly in our hands. Our expectancy level to receive, in part measures the potency of the results. The type of soil and fertilizer is another.
How is the soil of your heart?
What fertilizer are you using?
Mark 4:25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
You would think that God gives to the one who does not have, but He ends up giving to the one who has.
Of course God gives to the one who doesn’t have, but it all starts with having faith and having in our spirits, then the manifestation occurs. The poverty mind set, the one who does not have in his heart, will stay in poverty. The more you can receive in your heart, the more will be manifested. God is not a pauper.
As the great singer, Gino Vannelli said, don’t be a pauper in paradise.
The key to the kingdom is having. The key to the devil is not having.
Mark 4: 8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
Yield: Is to give. When someone is giving, you receive. God is always giving or yielding to us. We hinder the process by not receiving, but becoming locked in the box of our mind.
Sprang up and increased should read shooting upwards and continuing to grow or increase. Both are participles. Shooting up and increasing. Both continual. This is how God is giving. This is how God moves for you when you are in His Spirit.
Are we surrendered to the point where we can enter into this flow, or is holding to our ways short circuiting it?
The Church In The Cloud
The church must modify some of the ways that she does things to be attractive to the rapidly changing technological and social map.
As the web is now found “in the cloud”, the church must become “the church in the cloud.’
The church’s logo should read, “To provide virtual on line solutions for the body of Christ.”
Several things that the church has attempted to change have been disastrous because they are none negotiable in the kingdom of Jesus Christ.
1. Never change the relevancy of Jesus Christ.
Never be ashamed of the Name of Jesus Christ.
He is, and will continue to be, the most appealing and significant Person on earth, regardless of generation or social makeup.
Humanity has always considered Him as its central figure and always will.
2. Never water down, sweeten up or compromise the Bible, which is the Word of God to be relevant to society or to be politically correct. This a massive mistake.
The Bible is God’s road map for humanity. If the map is tarnished in any way, humanity will be lost.
Five things that can be changed.
The web, technology, and social trends, changes from day to day and society changes in accordance to them.
Whether I like it or not, people are opting out from learning a lot, to watch You Tube videos, read Facebook statuses and not learn through massive training courses.
People are looking for “how to methods with efficient and rapid solutions.”
People are not interested in much head knowledge.
Today’s cry is, “teach me things that will work for me now!”
The church must adapt to this change
1 My Bible seminars are now more, “How To” teachings.
How to Become Free in Christ?
How to Hear the Voice of God?
How to Obey God?
How to Get the Breakthrough?
How to Minister in the Holy Spirit?
Secondly, the church is woefully ignorant and deficient on who she is in Christ and and her sole identity as that which Christ possesses.
One of the world’s biggest problems is that of unsatisfied identities.
People do now know that the only identity which functions is that which God possesses as revealed in Christ Jesus.
I am heavy into teaching on who Christians are in Christ and transformation into His identity.
I am heavy on teachings on “how to” solutions for the church.
2 The church freaks out in the market place. She has become so entrenched within her walls, where Christians minister exclusively to Christians, that she is becoming “ghettoized.”
There is a disconnect with her unchurched market place neighbors.
She does not know how to relate to it.
Its demons and strange philosophies freak her out.
It should not be like that. Jesus was a good friend to the unchurched.
Right now, God is more active in the market place than in the church.
It’s more boring inside the church than outside.
The church must get out into the market place and become acclimated to it while at all times lifting up the Person of Jesus Christ in love and purity.
3 Assistant pastors should delegate a lot of the things that the senior pastors do so that they in turn can focus on mentoring the “on fire” Christians who show hunger and potential, who the Hand of God is upon, and who are destined to be upcoming Christian leaders.
Part of our ministry is to recognize those who God has His hand on and pour ourselves into.
God can do more through one great leader who moves in the Spirit than a hundred who do not.
4 People should not have to go through extensive training and waiting periods to be given a chance to minister.
Almost every Christian whom I’ve met has a hunger to learn how to minister and be given an opportunity to operate in the power of God.
To make people wait and receive extensive training before their being released is part of the dinosaur system that plagues the church causing people not to want to give up their Sundays to come to a service.
I allow hungry Christians who are not part of the ministry team to come up and shadow me during a ministry situation.
I am not going to put them on the ministry team, but what about giving them a chance to know what it is to minister in the power of God?
5 Finally The Church Must Become a Super Connector.
Read my article.
My Favorite Soaking Music Artists
My two favorite artists in soaking music are Grace Williams and Alberto and Kimberly Rivera.
Alberto and Kimberly Rivera
Grace Williams
Soaking in the presence of Jesus through worship music has transformed my life in the last year.
I highly recommend it.
These two are impeccable and professional in their music.
Out Of The Box Things That Have Shaped My Life 