Crosslines

The past sets the standard for the future. God sets a standard through history for the next generation to build upon. We live in times where everything in the world is trying to tear down past precedents instead of building upon them. Precedence is what we are judged by, but it is also a ladder that takes us to the next level. It makes you responsible to past miracles that God wants and wills to do through your life today. We must mix faith with precedence to pull down the reality that with God all things are possible. 

It takes true wisdom to work around people who are only about themselves, people who are in the flesh. Abigail chose to act even though by the definition of the roles she should have "submitted."  In today's world what we call submission is our excuse for doing nothing; God is calling us to act. Abigail acted and even prophesied to David before he was king to keep things from ending badly. True submission has strength and courage to it. It is not weakness masquerading as a virtue. 

Are people who care about you having to work around your flesh? Are you having to work around other people's flesh? Nabal, Abigail's husband is the definition of a flesh workaround. Abigail understood Godly submission is to God and HIs Will first, and then to the leadership over us. If someone in leadership makes disastrous mistakes and we do nothing because we are "submitting," we are in trouble because we see the problem and do nothing. 

When we take what the enemy is doing and put God's name on it, that is suffering teaching. There is a type of suffering that is biblical and there is a type of suffering that is non-biblical. When we intentionally suffer to further the gospel or die to our flesh to get a breakthrough in prayer, that is Godly suffering. But suffering from the enemy: stealing, killing, and destroying is not of God. God is always working to protect us and save us. He never works to harm us.

Prophecy opens you up to see what you are not seeing—especially what you don't want to see. God's correction is a deep form of love. It is truly a sign God is your Father. But we must sustain the change God is doing in our hearts. Only dead things refuse to grow. The Word of God is living and active and meant to change us into a different man.

A testimony is not how much we can suffer in life. A testimony is when you overcome the test by the Blood of the Lamb. It's when God comes in, takes your story, and gives meaning to it. Your testimony is evidence to the world that a living God exists. 

You can still choose to believe God even if things haven't gone down right in the past. A lot of times things that we view as "out of reach" we deem as sour and undesirable not truly knowing what God has for us on the other side. It is more difficult to face the truth after the fact but if you keep loving the truth it will always set you free. 

A lot of Christians have never been taught what to do about a curse. There was a curse put on the presidents of the United States back in the 1840s. From then forward every twenty years or so a president would die. President Reagan was the first to miraculously escape with his life. The praying Church was able to pull down the curse. We also must be able to pull down the occult curses spoken over our lives. God has given us the power to break any type of curse and keep it from coming to pass. 

When the Word is sown Satan, the enemy, immediately comes to steal the Word. As soon as God shows you something new in the Bible it will come under attack. Don't be ignorant, be prepared. Even though the attack will come the Word says we can extinguish all the arrows from the enemy. 

Crying out, does it work if you don't do it?  When things go down, and your house starts falling apart, we look for someone to blame. We often blame God or blame the teaching. But in Matthew 7, what does Jesus say is the real reason people's houses fall?