INSPIRATION
Here is a word for us all today
In prayer I listened as Jesus explained accountability. One of the key components of accountability is sacrifice. When a church member is going through we get religious instead of getting involved. James 2:16, If a member is sick we say I will pray for you brother or sister and we tell them to keep the faith. The Proverbs say that LAUGHTER IS LIKE A MEDICINE TO YOUR BONES, so how can a person laugh when we have left them all ALONE? We need to get involved. Then another church member says, Oh I cant pay my rent, we say sowe a seed into the Kingdom of God, pay your tithes and God will bless you, but the bible says in {Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall "MEN" give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.} The Key Word There Is "MEN". Jesus didn't say in this scripture that you will receive a miracle that was unexplainable, no this was simple, Men will give into your bosom.
So what has happen is that the Men that God has blessed exceedingly abundantly above all they can think or ask have built bigger Barnes, bought more stuff, built bigger houses moved out farther away from the people God is trying to bless. When God gives you more than what you need, than here is a news flash "It might not be all for you" I said it might not be all for you. In a home where there is a mother and father with 4 siblings, 3 sisters and one brother. God expects the parents to care and provide for each child equally. One child may excel in knowledge, wisdom and obedience. That could place that child, which could be the eldest, in authority over the other siblings. If the parents sent the children to school and gave the one child that has proven to be responsible 25 dollars and commanded that child to give the other 3 siblings $5 dollars each for their lunch. If that one child kept the entire $25 dollars and did not share with the other 3 siblings, then the first and normal response from the other children would be hunger or a lack of their needs being met, which can take their attention away from the task at hand which is school work. So one sibling goes to the worldly folk at school because they share lunch with anybody, but lunch is not all they share. They share std's, they share bad habits, they share incorrect knowledge of God, they share all manors of evil. Now we call that sibling DISOBEDIENT because they were hungry and sought out deliverance.
The next sibling leaves school and goes to work so that they wont have to depend on no-one else again, they get a job and make a lot of money, we call that PROSPERITY
The last sibling stays at school and despite of not eating lunch, they stay the course, they complete their studies and school work with excellence. The day ends and they have finished the course. We call that DISCIPLINE this is not the discipline we were called to.
So now it is the end of the day and the parents expect a report of the day. The parents ask the disobedient sibling about their day at school and they confess their involvement with the worldly folk, knowing that it forbidden, and for their disobedience they are punished.
Next the parents inquired of the working sibling who quit school and went to work, and they explained how their needs were not met so they did what was right in their own eyes. That sibling was shocked to find out that they did not please the parents and they to were being punished for disobedience.
The sibling that was placed in authority over the other siblings, you know the one who had the money. They knew they had disobeyed but they explained that they were introduced to a business opportunity and they had in fact invested that money and received a return of 100% and they gave the parents all of the money. The parents told that child, what you have done was wicked, you have invested money to get what we already have, as a result of your actions one child left the church and went into the world for love, another child took their hand off of my plow to plow a field that they will never own. For this you will be punished even the more than the other two that have sinned.
The last sibling who stayed the course was honored, restored and placed in authority over the other siblings because they feared or reverence their parents commands. The parents explained, now that you are in authority you must go to your sister who has chosen the world and love her once again and share with her the blessings that we have given you. Then you must go to your brother who has put his hand to the wrong plow and convince him through Love and Patience that you will be faithful to the task and that you will not neglect his needs as the last sibling did.
Thirdly now that your sister who was in authority is being severely punish, I want you to walk with her, Love her and care for her needs, do all the things for her she did not do for you. And in all of this you will show that you Love us and fear our commandments.
