Delusional

The Word of the Lord came to me saying, You have been chosen for such a time as this. We must continue on the path to righteousness. 

Chosen to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh on us. Chosen Do Not Be Unequally Yoked

16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” 17“Therefore come outfrom among them and be separate, saysthe Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and Iwill receive you.” 18And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

You are chosen to believe in God the Father Chosen to obey the course. Chosen to love thy neighbor chosen to forgive your  enemies. Chosen to have a personal relationship with God,chosen to be directed by God the Holy Spirit.

Chosen to bounce back in the arms of God, chosen to get up when you fall. And that brings us to the second thing to see in this passage about the life of a Christian.  First there’s the reality of persecution, then secondly the purpose of trials

Jude 24-25 King Now unto him, that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

Chosen to love on those who treat you badly. Chosen to have joy. Chosen to walk uprightly. Chosen to wait on the Lord. Chosen to Speach Peace to your situation. 

Chosen to heal the sick. Chosen to cause blind eyes to see, chosen to cause the lame to walk. Chosen to lay hands on the sick. Chosen to walk the path of righteousness. 

Chosen to bounce back in the arms of God. Chosen to have a relationship with God, we are born to be relational people. 

We have a longing desire to be connected with our father. We must learn how to walk by faith and not by sight. 

God is leading us in His everlasting arms of himself, The only heavy-duty equipment we need to carry is Gods Word in our hearts only then will be able to take the kingdom down, only then we can tare down strongholds, resist the devil and he will flee. 

Speak a thing and it shall come to past. Only then will be able to save broken marriages. Only by showing whose we are and carrying the anointing of God. We are the anointed vessels of God.

Through God’s love, we learn to fight the good fight of faith, No matter what the weapon is you already have the victory and blessings of God. No weapon for against us shall prosper.

We must separate and detached ourselves from this world and ignore Devices the enemy. 

Satan has no right to enter into our minds when we renew our mind applying the Word of God. For God is the love we have no time to play mind games. His job is to separate distracting us from our destiny and the high calling of God. 

The devil comes to steal kill and destroy your joy. He knows that our joy comes from the Lord our strength come from the Lord. Renewing our minds through Christ Jesus. 

The enemy comes in like a flood to Kill steal and destroy your vision more than one vision is division.

He comes in like a good to killing marriages destroying churches and the love of God in our hearts. 

Instead of coming against the devil we fight against our brothers and sisters they are not the issue. 

The devil comes to confuse misuse miss treat trying his best to destroy the joy in our hearts. 

We must be strap in the Word of God putting on our armor. He is delusional if the intents of our thoughts. Tell your neighbor it’s not what it looks like.

O Lord, You have the words of eternal life.  To whom else can we turn but to You?  Would You give us ears now to hear what the Spirit says to His church, to the comfort and encouragement of every believing heart, to the alarm of all who do not know Jesus, and to their drawing from sin and self to the only Savior of sinners?  Come and work by Your Spirit for Your glory, in Jesus’ name.  Amen.

Zechariah chapter 13 reading from verse 7.  This is what Word of Almighty God:

“’ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me,’ declares the LORD of hosts.

Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.  In the whole land, declares the LORD, two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive.  And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested.  They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’”

Amen, and thanks be to God for His holy and inerrant Word.

Well, do keep your Bibles open at Zechariah 13 verses 7 to 9.  If you can think back a few weeks since last we were in Zechariah you will recall that we had begun to deal with the concluding oracle of Zechariah’s prophecy running from the beginning of chapter 12 to the end of his book.  

And we saw the focus of the prophet rests on the way that God will deal with His people when His servant, the one who we know as the Lord Jesus, is pierced for the sin of His people.  In the wake of the coming of Jesus, here’s how God will deal with His church 

He will, we saw, preserve His people in He will convert His people in And He will cleanse His people. 

And as we consider now the last verses of the thirteenth chapter we’re going to see how Zechariah comes back to that same message, this time in a slightly different way, in what is a short, self-contained poem that very dramatically illustrates what we ought to expect in the normal Christian life; what we ought to except in the normal Christian life.

One of the things that I was not at all prepared for when I first began in ministry about twelve years or so ago in London was the sheer volume of crisis marriage counseling I had to do.  Almost without fail, maybe there was a month or two in five years when I was not engaged in counseling couples that were in crisis.  And there were various issues that caused those crises but often, almost invariably, beneath them all were unmet and unrealistic expectations.  

Their expectations were all wrong and so they found themselves eventually in crisis.  And I think the same can be said for many of us, actually, in the Christian life.  We may have faulty expectations about what it will look like to live the life of a disciple.  And Zechariah 13:6-9 aims to help us adjust our expectations so that we can be ready for the realities of Christian life in both its trials and its wonderful blessings.

Dri. Prophet Christina Theresa Maxwell