I REALLY THINK WE ARE ALOT LIKE THE people of the bible,wether it be disciples, religious leaders or what have you! We want the blessings of God with out the training and discipline it takes live a life that can be blessed, because we are so confused to what real blessing is. In the bible you see this notion that if things were going your way and your family was properous, God was pleased with you. But if trial or tragedy came you were a wicked sinner who was worthy of God's wrath. So this mentality has remained and evolved in todays Christian culuture and manifested itself into a whole wacked out theology..called The Prosperity Gospel. People actually believe if you can call things out in faith,you can make it happen....bending Gods will and desires to match your own...so you will never be sick..hungry and yes....... you can have that new lexus!! NOW THATS WHAT WE CALL BLESSING....BUT IS THAT WHAT GOD CALLS IT? ITS SO FUNNY THAT THIS TYPE OF THINKING EXISTS...REALLY..THE GUY YOU CLAIM TO FOLLOW....Jesus was a homeless guy who owned nothing but the clothes on his back and the things he did get from his FATHER HE ALWAYS GAVE AWAY. HE did not put alot of value on material things and saw sickness as a chance to Give THE FATHER GLORY! TO JESUS PEOPLE WERE VALUABLE....THATS WHY HE CAME.... FOR US....EVEN the twisted people who wanted to make him king because they saw his amazing power...I mean if this prosperity thing was real why did Jesus always say stuff that was backwards and upside down..in direct opposition to prosperity??????? if you want to be first ..then be last...if someone asks for your shirt give him your coat too...who ever wants to be great will serve everybody...its more blessed to give that recieve, if you want to save your life ..then lose it..... I mean come on this hardly sounds like the way to run a fourtune 500 company!! Gods kingdom is internal- HE LEFT HIS THRONE IN HEAVEN TO ESTABLISH A NEW THRONE ON EARTH..THE THRONE OF THE HUMAN HEART. THE GREATEST KINGDOMS TO BE CONQUORED WERE SATAN'S AND MINE. HE RULES ON THE FIRST BUT THE SECOND????? SEE TRUE BLESSING IS.......Jam 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving
yourselves. IS WHEN I START LIVING GODS WORD OUT,ACTING UPON IT..IN FAITH EVEN WHEN WHAT IT TELLS ME MAKES NO SENSE..... Jam 1:23
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is
like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a
mirror.Jam 1:24
For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets
what he was like. WE BEGIN TO TAKE GODS GRACE FOR AND PROVISION FOR GRANTED...FORGETTING WE too ARE SINNERS AND THE ONLY THING THAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT US IS HIS LOVE AND FORGIVENESS...AND WE ONLY HAVE TODAY...GRACE FOR TODAY....PROVISIONS FOR TODAY...CAUSE TOMMORROW IS JUST NOT PROMISED.Jam 1:25
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of
liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he
will be blessed in his doing. I GET THE BLESSINGS OF GOD AS I OBEY HIS WORD....THAT IN ITSELF IS LIFE...THE WORD COMING OFF THE PAGE AND INTO MY HEART AND INTO MY LIFE. THAT IS BLESSING. LOVING GOD ENOUGH TO OBEY HIM. EVEN WHEN ITS HARD,NOT POPULAR AND SEEMINGLY UNPROFITABLE IN A TANGIBLE SENSE. JESUS DID NOT GIVE HIS LIFE TO MAKE ME RICH ON EARTH,BUT RICH IN ....HIM! RICH IN HIS LOVE..RICH IN HIS GRACE....RICH IN HIS MERCY..that is BLESSING...TRUE BLESSING......AND MAN DO I NEED THAT.....WHAT ABOUT YOU????? Jam 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who
are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has
promised to those who love him? PEACE
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving
yourselves. IS WHEN I START LIVING GODS WORD OUT,ACTING UPON IT..IN FAITH EVEN WHEN WHAT IT TELLS ME MAKES NO SENSE..... Jam 1:23
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is
like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a
mirror.Jam 1:24
For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets
what he was like. WE BEGIN TO TAKE GODS GRACE FOR AND PROVISION FOR GRANTED...FORGETTING WE too ARE SINNERS AND THE ONLY THING THAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT US IS HIS LOVE AND FORGIVENESS...AND WE ONLY HAVE TODAY...GRACE FOR TODAY....PROVISIONS FOR TODAY...CAUSE TOMMORROW IS JUST NOT PROMISED.Jam 1:25
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of
liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he
will be blessed in his doing. I GET THE BLESSINGS OF GOD AS I OBEY HIS WORD....THAT IN ITSELF IS LIFE...THE WORD COMING OFF THE PAGE AND INTO MY HEART AND INTO MY LIFE. THAT IS BLESSING. LOVING GOD ENOUGH TO OBEY HIM. EVEN WHEN ITS HARD,NOT POPULAR AND SEEMINGLY UNPROFITABLE IN A TANGIBLE SENSE. JESUS DID NOT GIVE HIS LIFE TO MAKE ME RICH ON EARTH,BUT RICH IN ....HIM! RICH IN HIS LOVE..RICH IN HIS GRACE....RICH IN HIS MERCY..that is BLESSING...TRUE BLESSING......AND MAN DO I NEED THAT.....WHAT ABOUT YOU????? Jam 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who
are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has
promised to those who love him? PEACE