The Reproductive System

If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

23Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;24Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Mathew 5:2315Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. Matthew 18:15

The Word of the Lord came to me this morning so clearly. I have been praying and seeking God asking Him to expose. There are times when we get to a place and we are tired of being tired and sick of being sick. I started asking God to expose because I'm ready to move forward. This is what He spoke to me based upon the three scriptures above.

God said our focus has too long been on production instead of reproduction. As Christians God blesses us with gifts, spiritual gifts, talents and skills needed to build His Kingdom. However, like the Master that gave out the talents, God wants us to use our gifts to reproduce something new. More specifically, what I'm explaining is that God wants others to be discipled and saved.

Before I began attending my church, I hadn't ever really been interested in graphic arts or desktop publishing. A need was exposed and God gifted me to be able to produce needed art communication for the ministry. But I'm hearing from God now that it is necessary and imperative for me to reproduce someone else who can do the job. Here's where it gets interesting and I'll get to the scriptures above in a moment.

What frequently happens is that when we experience some success in something we become comfortable and it's hard to let it go. Not only that but we begin to convince ourselves that we are the only ones who really know how to do the job, but in fact the job can be done by anyone whom God chooses, which is how you got it in the first place. We cannot be afraid to let something go. I can attest to this personally. To be transparent in my example, my fear has been that the job won't be done like I do it. God has shone me that it is good that it won't be done the way that I did it and so what. What matters is that the job gets done for the GLORY of the Lord.

So God told me this morning that there is a formula for being reproductive. It is found in 2 Chronicles 7:14. Here is how the formula is broken down:

1. Recognize who and whose you are. If my people, which are called by my name (We belong to God as we have been bought and paid for with the ultimate price);

2. Be broken. Would humble themselves. To be humble here calls back to the scripture that says we need to have a broken and a contrite spirit because to be broken before the Lord is to be open. Some of us see broken as a bad place, but God sees broken as the perfect place for Him to work in our lives. He can come into a broken place and work. He can fill the brokenness with His spirit. He can remove the broken pieces and replace them with joy.

3. Pray. This one is where God told me to stop and to take a look at the other scriptures. God wants us to enter in beyond the veil, but the fact is that many of us cannot pray. We cannot pray to God because we have unresolved issues with each other. Matthew 5:23 says if you remember--many of us straight out KNOW that there's an issue hanging in the air that is not resolved, but we keep trying to bring an offering to the alter and guess what? God keeps saying leave it here and go get right with your brother. God keeps saying, I can't hear you. You need to get right with your brother. But rather than get right with our brother we have perfected the art of looking like we gave our offering anyhow. We make a big production at the alter to cover up for our cowardice and disobedience. It takes a real man or a real woman of God to resolve, reconcile, repent, restore and revive when we've fallen into a place of disrepair with our brother or our sister. We have replaced prayer with play. Since God isn't hearing our prayer--since we have a form of godliness, but we're denying the power, since we refuse to obey the Word of God, then all we can do is play the game of church. All we can do is pretend with religion. God told me this morning that religion is not reproductive. It is self gratification and self satisfaction. It takes a relationship to reproduce!

4. Seek His Face. When you are dating you want face time with your boo. Talking on the phone is cool, sending love letters and text messages is fine, but you're not satisfied until you get in the presence of that other person. God is a jealous god and He wants your face time. He wants you to lay prostrate before Him. He wants your worship. He wants you to chase after Him. He wants to spend time with you. He wants you to want to be with Him. He wants you on bended knee. In order to develop a relationship with God we must seek His face.

5. Operate in God's PERFECT will. My Bishop often says, sometimes we read the Word so fast that we miss something. I have quoted read and reread this scripture time and time again and I didn't understand what God meant by turn from their wicked ways. I was laboring under the misunderstanding that perhaps we were doing something specific--you know the Pentecostal 3 (the 3 biggest sins are smoking, drinking and fornicating). And we begin to think that as long as I'm staying away from what I believe to be wickedness then He's not talking to me. But hold up. God didn't call out any specific person or sin in this scripture. He said MY PEOPLE and their wicked ways. God revealed to me that what the scripture is saying is that as a body we are operating outside of His perfect will for our lives and anything outside of God's perfect will is our wickedness. He wants us to turn from our own agendas and our desires and our own ways and our own whatever and turn to His perfect will. He wants us to stop observing and start discerning.

God has been very specific with the information that He has placed on my heart today. I hope that whoever reads this will take in that God wants us to move forward. We've spent a great deal of time preparing to do His will. Now He wants us to advance His will for His GLORY! We are not babies in the Word any longer. God is looking for someone to prophesy not to speak from our cognitive powers of deductive reasoning. God's not about coulda woulda shoulda. When He speaks His Word does not return void. The Word is certain and it is sure. The prophetic Word is not about predicting some one's future. God's not into that. The prophetic Word comes to encourage, to admonish, to correct or to provide information that we need from the Lord. It isn't meant to make folks feel any particular way. It is meant to engender reproduction. There is something in us that God wants to marry and impregnate so that His will can be born out of us as a whole body.

Be encouraged today knowing that God is interested in your reproductive potential as much as He is interested in your productive ability. He gave you your gifts. Now ask Him why? What good would it be for a man to gain the whole word and to lose His own soul? What good would it be for us to have all of the ability to sing, dance, prophesy, encourage, preach, teach, reach and never use those giftings to take back the Kingdom by force! God has set up a divine appointment for healing, but we must adopt the reproductive system in order for that healing to take place. God wants to heal the land, but we are standing in the way. We are hindering our own healing. Know who you are, become broken, go beyond the veil, get into His presence, prefer His perfect will and He will hear us and heal the land.

You "Should" Feel Used

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. St. John 9:4.

I was talking with someone a few days ago and I found myself thinking that there are situations where people don't mind "using" you. Only the using carries a negative connotation because inside we may feel like that person doesn't care for us yet at the same time they don't mind exploiting us for their own benefit or purposes. We'll leave church folks out of this discussion!

After pondering this for a while, God spoke to me and asked me How much of your life have you really given to me? Seriously. We complain about being used because we don't want to feel like we've been taken advantage of or we don't want someone to get us to do something when we don't like them or we think that they don't like us, but in fact only what we do for Christ will last.

This gave me a totally different perspective. As a matter of fact it reminded me of a vision I had when I was seven years old. At that young age, I imagined God having a tool belt and that I was in it. I imagined that He would take me out and use me and that became my life's prayer and purpose. People may believe that they are using, misusing or abusing you, but change your perspective. When you move or remove your will and align with God's will you will change your whole paradigm. We get caught up in the mistaken belief that how someone feels or doesn't feel about us for that matter will affect our ability to enter heaven and avoid hell.

People's attitudes, ill will toward you, hateration, or whatever you want to call it or think about it should never even enter your mind when it comes to doing the will of God. From my new vantage point, it doesn't matter what or how a person says what they say--sometimes we feel that Christianity gives us a license to be rude instead of careful to treat God's people with grace and finesse and just how we want to be treated--that's another blog. From my new vantage point, my goal is to be used up for the rest of my life and to be found doing God's will; to be found being about my Father's business.

Be encouraged today knowing that God is using you. If you think of it that way, you won't mind being used at all. Do what you do the way you do it for Christ for the remainder of your life so that you will have an eternal reward with our heavenly Father.