"Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is."
ROMANS 12:2
God wants to enlarge His work on this earth. He wants to use us in His service, but many times we are limited by unresolved issues of the past. Too many unhealed wounds, as well as present worries, cause us to live in a state of crisis, controlled by emotional hurts.
God wants to put His vision and dreams inside us, but He can't do it because there are obstacles in our way of thinking. We have two options regarding the way we think:
(1) We can accept the thoughts of God and believe what He says in His Word: "For just as the heavens are higher the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thought higher than your thoughts,"
(2) We can refuse God's thoughts and continue living with our way of thinking, which leads to doubt and unbelief. If we want to carry out God's vision, however, there really is no choice. We will choise to accept His thoughts and ways and will let Him renew our mind according to His Word.
No one can carry out the vision of God unless he first believes in what God can do through him. In others words, to be effective in vision, first we must conquer ourselves. As those who are at the forefront of the vision, we must deal with those areas in our lives that are limiting God's use of us. We should be teachable, sensitive to the Holy Spirit, and quick to repent, ptoviding an example fir those under us.
The sins of those in leadership are probably not the obvious ones, such as fornication, drug addiction, or alcoholism, but they are usually hidden sins, such as doubts, fear, envy, condemnation, competition, complaining, and gossiping. (keep in mind that not only he who speaks gossip but also he who listens to gossip is guilty of sin.) These "little foxes" are easily hidden in a leader heart. Nevertheless, these things are still sin, and that's why we need repentance and healing.
Although it is especially important for those in leadership ti repent of hidden sin, pride often stops us. When offended we become bitter and even use Bible verse to justify ourselves. As we continue on this path. we lose sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. At this point, we start to do everything mechanically, having lost our joy. We find ourselves thinking, "There is no one to help me. No one can counsel me." This causes us to pretend, to lie, and to live cautiously so that no one will know our sins and secret. We think that if we ask for help we will lose our image or our anointing. But the real truth is that if we don't recognize the need for someone to help us, we will remain alone, captive in our sin.
Taking care of our souls us the greatest profession on earth, and it is the professional of all of the leaders. However, we can give to others only what we have. We cannot give that which we have not received. In just isn't possible, and we have to allow God to work in our hearts to make us into able leader. Abraham, Moses, David, Gideon, and a host of others all of them let God have His way in their hearts and were transformed into men of gentle humility. That is what must happen in our hearts, too.
God wants to enlarge His work on this earth. He wants to use us in His service, but many times we are limited by unresolved issues of the past. Too many unhealed wounds, as well as present worries, cause us to live in a state of crisis, controlled by emotional hurts.
God wants to put His vision and dreams inside us, but He can't do it because there are obstacles in our way of thinking. We have two options regarding the way we think:
(1) We can accept the thoughts of God and believe what He says in His Word: "For just as the heavens are higher the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thought higher than your thoughts,"
(2) We can refuse God's thoughts and continue living with our way of thinking, which leads to doubt and unbelief. If we want to carry out God's vision, however, there really is no choice. We will choise to accept His thoughts and ways and will let Him renew our mind according to His Word.
No one can carry out the vision of God unless he first believes in what God can do through him. In others words, to be effective in vision, first we must conquer ourselves. As those who are at the forefront of the vision, we must deal with those areas in our lives that are limiting God's use of us. We should be teachable, sensitive to the Holy Spirit, and quick to repent, ptoviding an example fir those under us.
The sins of those in leadership are probably not the obvious ones, such as fornication, drug addiction, or alcoholism, but they are usually hidden sins, such as doubts, fear, envy, condemnation, competition, complaining, and gossiping. (keep in mind that not only he who speaks gossip but also he who listens to gossip is guilty of sin.) These "little foxes" are easily hidden in a leader heart. Nevertheless, these things are still sin, and that's why we need repentance and healing.
Although it is especially important for those in leadership ti repent of hidden sin, pride often stops us. When offended we become bitter and even use Bible verse to justify ourselves. As we continue on this path. we lose sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. At this point, we start to do everything mechanically, having lost our joy. We find ourselves thinking, "There is no one to help me. No one can counsel me." This causes us to pretend, to lie, and to live cautiously so that no one will know our sins and secret. We think that if we ask for help we will lose our image or our anointing. But the real truth is that if we don't recognize the need for someone to help us, we will remain alone, captive in our sin.
Taking care of our souls us the greatest profession on earth, and it is the professional of all of the leaders. However, we can give to others only what we have. We cannot give that which we have not received. In just isn't possible, and we have to allow God to work in our hearts to make us into able leader. Abraham, Moses, David, Gideon, and a host of others all of them let God have His way in their hearts and were transformed into men of gentle humility. That is what must happen in our hearts, too.
The problem isn't on the outside of us, but rather on the inside. it is deep within where we find the past that gets in the way of our present and our future. That past builds internal barriers that destroy all that we desire to do for the kingdom of God. To this problem there is but one solution and it is the "healing of the hearts" The alternative is to simply continue hiding the wounds in our heart and, as a result, continue experience failure in all that we undertake.
Right now, if you want your heart to be healed, honest, open up your heart to God, and reveals the wounds that are there. Remember: He came to heal the brokenhearted.
Right now, if you want your heart to be healed, honest, open up your heart to God, and reveals the wounds that are there. Remember: He came to heal the brokenhearted.
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