It amazes me over and over how some Christians are so casual about the commands of Jesus. They will openly say “I will do A, B, C for God, but not D”. Their attendance at church is erratic, and pretty much anything can stop them going to church (“it’s raining”, “a friend came over”, “I was tired” – and all of those are from last weekend!). They want to be on the preaching course and learn how to preach, but aren’t in the Bible study course and learning how to study the Word! They don’t tithe if you don’t preach what they want or invite a guest speaker they don’t feel is anointed! How are these things so? Why are so many Christians so casual about the things of God?
Part of it is the way we preach the good news. We teach people to receive Jesus as Saviour, and of course, the new birth is easy to receive, all the hard work was done by Jesus. However, Paul is clear – we receive salvation by declaring with our mouth that Jesus is Lord. Jesus is Lord, and there is nothing we can do to change that, but have we submitted to His Lordship? Do we live and speak like Jesus is Lord? He is not the Saviour Jesus Christ, He is the LORD JESUS CHRIST!
The Greek word for Lord is kurios, and it originally meant a slave owner. Slavery image is not politically correct in the modern world, but I care more about God’s Word than being politically correct, and the truth is that as Christians we are slaves to Jesus. If Jesus says go here or there, you should go here or there. Our mandate, our obligation, our duty is to find out what God wants us to do and go and do it with all of our heart. Obviously, that means being in church, being a disciple, listening to the Word, prayer, and giving generously to the kingdom. Obviously that means serving and loving.
We are supposed to be slaves to God. If we read an instruction in the Word, we should jump to it. We should have no regard for our desires or opinions, we should be dedicated to doing God’s will!
But there’s more to it than that – we should also be in health and prosper. That is God’s will for us. If you are sick, you should be listening to healing sermons every day, reading (good!) books on healing every day. You should be working hard to get into the will of God. Recently, on social media, I saw a post from someone who is a minister asking why such and such a disease was such a good friend to them, as it kept visiting their house. It is a friend because you allowed it to be a friend… you should have resisted it with every word you say, every thought you have, you should be doubling down on praying in tongues and meditating on healing Scriptures, until you are back in the will of God – the will of God is you being healthy.
It is not the will of God for you to live month to month barely making it. If you are living like that, you need to swallow your arrogance, start listening to the Word, turn off the TV, meditate on God’s Word and what God says about prosperity until it starts to manifest and appear in your life. You need to treat poverty like an enemy.
It’s amazing how many Christians tolerate satan’s will for their life and never ever submit to God’s will for their life. They seem to care very little about what God has called them to do!
Jesus Christ died a horrific death to set you free from sin and from every single result of sin, but unless you decide to put the effort in to both find out what it means and learn the knowledge to walk in the reality of that, you are making His death in vain!
If Jesus is your Lord, you do not have the option of refusing prosperity and healing. You are under obligation to defeat satan, live an abundant life and go around doing the works Jesus did. It’s that simple! But if you neglect to do what Jesus is telling you to do, you are ignoring how big He is, and not living like He is bigger than you. You are living like you are bigger than him – and that takes more faith than I have. Let’s start submitting to Jesus and getting Jesus level results, rather than continuing to submit to our flesh and getting more and more fleshy results. Selah!
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