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Kingdom Fellowship CLC will have their first Spring Revival April 26 - April 28. I.P.Y.P.U. President ELDER CHRIS COLLIER will be coming back to bless us Sunday Morning at 11:30am worship service, also Monday and Tuesday Night at 7pm. Share an evening with Kingdom Fellowships very own Fellowship Choir Sunday in a Live Concert at 6pm.This is something you won't want to miss, so make sure you come out and bring a friend!
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)
This is without question a very significant and equally arresting scripture that many Christians have become very familiar with. People of God across the world have heard this particular passage time and time again. We know it and love it, we teach it and preach it, and we have placed it in our arsenal of readily accessible biblical ammunition. We have exegetically extracted many doctrinal basics that have enriched the body of Christ throughout the span of time. But for many, the issue has been translating that initial belief into a practicing relationship with our father.
It has been increasingly evident that in this age we live in, Christians have become satisfied with a “noninvasive” religious experience. There is an overwhelming contentment with a religion that doesn’t require much of a change in living. As long as you acknowledge there is a God, attend church, occasionally get emotional in the church service, while living a morally good life (for the most part), then everything is fine. It’s sort of a convenient way of telling God, you have a place in my life definitely, just not the head or top spot. A convenient religion that is convenient to institute at the appropriate times.
The problem here is that God is not a pair of shoes that you put on and take off whenever you feel the urge. He’s not a light switch that you turn on and off whenever you want light (or personal revelation). Once you take that first step which is believing, it doesn’t end there. That is the mere beginning of a life long journey to grow deeper, move closer, and experience more of Jesus Christ! There is a requirement from every person who is a part of the collective body of Christ. That requirement is to pursue the things of God with a tenacious and relentless appetite.
We must be mindful to cultivate our relationship with Christ. You can observe people who seem to be stuck in the routine of “churchy-ness”. We must be watchful of giving way to the trivialization of God, or attempting to confine God to our own selfish desires. Jan McMurray writes in her book, Return to Worship, “Most people know God today for what He does for them rather than for who He is. If we are going to be genuine people of God, we must become so by understanding His ways and by loving Him for who He is, not just for what He does for us.”
The only way to move to know God in this capacity is to move out of mere religion. To grow past mere religion is to change the way we think. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God (Roman 12:2). The issue for so many people is they have become psychologically stuck in religious activity rather than thriving in kingdom minded actions. Going to church is not enough. Memorizing a few scripture’s is not enough. There must be a mind renewal that places you in the pathway for encountering Jesus Christ.
Moving from religion to relationship is the necessary step in the process of becoming what God would have us to be. Yes you took the mental step in faith, but God never said stop walking! It’s not always a popular walk, and quite honestly it can sometimes be a difficult road, but rest assured your never alone. God will not only be with you on the journey, but he will bless you while you’re walking!
One of the most damaging positions one can find themselves in mentally, is a place where you allow the negatives of your past to dictate your course of action concerning your future. You’re in a dangerous place spiritually when you allow the past mistakes of your life to deter you from claiming all that God has for you. It is a critical position to be in when a person finds him or herself allowing their past to lower their expectation!
This mindset is especially precarious because God has placed a divine purpose within all of us, but your faith that it will happen, regardless of your past failures, is a key element to that process. What you have been thru, and what you are going thru, does not have to dictate your future.
What has happened is we have allowed many of those negatives to shape our outlook on present and consequently future places with God. You won’t look to the future with a positive perspective because you keep looking back at what happened in the past. You must understand that the only way to defeat the negatives of your past that now have come into your present is for God to give you vision.
I have to have vision of my future in spite of the negatives of my past! It is essential to understand this because often times we do not project our future because of our constant view of our past. And many times we are brought to remember the things of our past as a reason why our future will be negative. But I have found out that God will overcome my situation with revelation.
God has to show me being delivered while I’m still in the middle of a hell-ish situation. I have to see myself weathering the storm while the storm yet rages in my life. These very revelations that God plants into my psyche while I’m going thru, help me to see my already expected outcome. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. (Jeremiah 29:11)
Sometimes God has to point out to us that he is the one who orchestrates and moves within the situation, so that our everyday will be a day of expectation. This is the reason why when I come into the worship service, I come expecting to hear a word from heaven. I don’t attend church just to sit with my arms folded like I’m looking to be stimulated before I “decide” to give God his praise.
I can’t just come in and sit like I’m half dead, I need God too much, and I’m expecting God to deliver something to me that he has already previously promised. I’m expecting God to show up right in the middle of my situation. I don’t have time nor can I afford to be distracted by anything or anybody. I’m in such a state of expectation, I’m so focused on the presence of God, I cannot allow you to get my attention off of God because I’m catching to much hell to come to church only to play church.
I can’t be involved in a bunch of mess when I come into his house. I can’t be preoccupied with a bunch of nonsense, because my expectation has me so focused on what God is getting ready to do in the house; I’m literally sitting on the edge of my seat anticipating the next move of God.
This is the mindset of the man or woman who is expecting and living in a state of expectation!
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