1 Corinthians 12:27 Amplified Bible “Now you [collectively] are Christ’s body, and individually [you are] members of it [each with his own special purpose and function].”
Each of us is unique and has divine purpose on this planet! This purpose lays out our destiny and the size of our mansion in Heaven. You can slide through the pearly gates into your small house in Heaven or into a mansion. We have been given keys to and from the Kingdom of God for doors that are locked on this planet and heaven awaits our responses to that purpose. Heaven’s goal is not just to alert you to fresh vision, but for you to occupy the vision, without compromise. God does not anoint you with a second Vision. So why allow yourself to accept second best in life (more to come below). People respond to vision, not to complaining, aches, pains and talking about news but to vision. Fresh Ideas! This is how fruit is born! You plant an idea, then vision and fruit comes forth.
Proverb 19:21 “Many plans are in a man’s mind, But it is the Lord’s purpose for him that will stand (be carried out).”
Politicians have ideas they share in their home city as they encourage people to vote and trust their ideas. Then they go to Washington and cross over the Potomac River (They call this Potomac fever), then the Political Action Committee (PAC’s), special interest groups and the lobbyist give them new ideas. Ha! A new politician in Washing is called a freshman. The senior career politicians explain to them “You need to get along before going along” and then Oh how the mighty fall, becoming deceived, they abandon their ideas – their vision – that their voting base backed them and trusted them on.
Psalm 57:2 says, “I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.”
Divine purpose routs out deceit. Crying out to God in good times keeps us on the straight and narrow. Deceit must bow the knee when faced with humility. Lies are deceitfulness. Lies start off small. We compromise in a small ways and drift. Then the lie builds. Morality in the world shifts with public opinion. The fight for Supreme Court Justices that interrupt the Constitution “Literally” would seem to be simple. But the world has their immoral cry and influence. The cry of the Righteous must be heard. Christians must rise up and see that they have a Biblical duty to engage and keep politics pure and “In check”. This is why the forefathers built into the Constitution the Protection of Church to be Autonomous and a Voice. You see, it’s not Government that is to be protected from the Church, but the Church that the Constitution protects against suppression.
“Where there is no counsel, purposes are frustrated, but with many counselors they are accomplished”. Proverbs 15:22 AMP
There are many hidden layers of “Laws of deceit”. Here’s a few:
The Johnson Amendment is a provision in the U.S. tax code, since 1954, that prohibits all 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations from endorsing or opposing political candidates. Section 501(c)(3) organizations are the most common type of nonprofit organization in the United States, ranging from charitable foundations to universities and churches. The amendment is named for then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, who introduced it in a preliminary draft of the law in July 1954.
In the early 21st century, some politicians, including President Donald Trump, have sought to repeal the provision, arguing that it restricts the free speech rights of churches and other religious groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Amendment
People need to repent before, during and after getting into power. Have you ever heard that perfect power corrupts? Once they get into power or promotion they should subject themselves to the Fear of the Lord as a Litmus test on a regular basis.
Population control act of 1961 and rev 1966. Until the mid-1960s, American population control programs, both at home and abroad, were largely funded and implemented by private organizations such as the Population Council and Planned Parenthood — groups with deep roots in the eugenics movement. While disposing of millions of dollars provided to them by the Rockefeller, Ford, and Milbank Foundations, among others, the resources available to support their work were meager in comparison with their vast ambitions. This situation changed radically in the mid-1960s, when the U.S. Congress, responding to the agitation of overpopulation ideologues, finally appropriated federal funds to underwrite first domestic and then foreign population control programs. Suddenly, instead of mere millions, there were hundreds of millions and eventually billions of dollars available to fund global campaigns of mass abortion and forced sterilization. The result would be human catastrophe on a worldwide scale. We think that only 70 Million babies have been aborted due to USA policies. Try multiplying that by 25! Johnston Administration coupled US Aid monies as a policy manipulating world sterilization and population control of maybe a billion people or more to date. This policy to date is buried in our National Budget every year.
Among the first to be targeted were America’s own Third World population at home — the native American Indians. Starting in 1966, Secretary of the Interior Stuart Udall began to make use of newly available Medicaid money to set up sterilization programs at federally funded Indian Health Services (IHS) hospitals.
2 Corinthians 7:1 Amplified Bible “Therefore, since we have these [great and wonderful] promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, completing holiness [living a consecrated life—a life set apart for God’s purpose] in the fear of God”
This is a good place to expose how Christians get bought out by the devil or allow second best. We settle for second best all the time. The devil will even send us invitations, success, prosperity in a specific direction to derail or keep us from the perfect will of God. Teamwork, unity, building a vision that unites folks requires sacrifice, discipline and patience. I assure you, if you endeavor to build a prayer meeting, an organization, a cause or something beyond your capabilities, that will last, then the devil will try to buy you off. If he can’t buy you, then he will offer you something or a opportunity in the form of appealing to your ego, pride or fame.
Luke 4:1-2 KJV “And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.”
Now on a higher level, Paul deep into his Ministry, uncovered the power of knowing Jesus more deeply as a purpose, compass and motivation.
Philippians 3:10 AMPC “[For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power out flowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope]”
In Paul’s search for truth or The Truth which is “Christ in you the Hope of Glory” he kept falling in love with Jesus. He managed to keep his first love, which was Jesus, not power, nor the allure of favoritism in and through ministry. It never cease to amaze me how people settle for less. God has so much more. Waves of more. Visitations on a regular basis. But we get a twitch, small inkling, or touch and build a tent, and park ourselves on a revelation rather than the Revelator.
Eph 3:18 “be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints (God’s people) the width and length and height and depth of His love [fully experiencing that amazing, endless love];
Love comes flowing when we find purpose, thru vessels of Purpose”
Recently we were at a Watch party for presidential debate, we did not get back to our ranch till after 11pm, our flock of sheep were not in their pen. So my wife start calling then in, as I shone the head lights. All but 1 came in. We were tired, so went to bed. Next morning doing chores, I discovered that that sheep had been attacked by a predator. Tiredness justified us not spending few more minutes. A week later we were driving in from a prayer meeting, behind in other duties. It was drizzling, a mother sheep was making noises away from the flock, it was strange, but it being daylight and raining, we went to the house and to get caught up with other duties. We soon discover her little fellow shivering and sick. Had we engaged in the rain, we could have caught this problem in time. Helping others is not always convenient. Shepherding the flock is not always easy nor is it the lofty thing to do. Shepherding the flock is the get down and dirty work, the low road. People problems don’t work with our schedule sometimes. Let’s read:
The Lost Sheep, Luke 15 “Now all the tax collectors and sinners [including non-observant Jews] were coming near Jesus to listen to Him. 2 Both the Pharisees and the scribes began muttering and complaining, saying, “This man accepts and welcomes sinners and eats with them. 3 So He told them this parable: 4 “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one which is lost, [searching] until he finds it? 5 And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 And when he gets home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’ 7 I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.”
The Gospel is a Gospel of today. The Gospel is a Gospel of no delaying. Your shoulders are designed to carry sheep. Who are your sheep (ministry) or what is your divine vision (purpose)? What’s your load of purpose that your shoulders needs to carry today? Heb 3:8, 4:7.
1 Corinthians 2:9 Amplified Bible “but just as it is written [in Scripture], “Things which the eye has not seen and the ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, who obey Him, and who gratefully recognize the benefits that He has bestowed].”
After many accomplishments in the natural, after Paul’s conversation and many powerful events, Paul reveals his heart in 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 Amplified Bible “For the love of Christ controls and compels us, because we have concluded this, that One died for all, therefore all died; 15 and He died for all, so that all those who live would no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and was raised for their sake.”
So let’s allow the power of significance and the unity of significance to set us apart today. Allow your prayer time and life to help propel you to the next level. After birthing, travailing, praying and decreeing God’s Word and Holy oracles into the earth, wait for favor and then in the natural don’t just tell a leader, politician or your neighbor but actually do something that helps bring good and change into the world, for others.
Proverbs 25:11-13 AMPC “A word fitly spoken and in due season is like apples of gold in settings of silver. [Prov. 15:23; Isa. 50:4.] Like an earring or nose ring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is a wise reprover to an ear that listens and obeys. Like the cold of snow [brought from the mountains] in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the life of his masters.”
Finally what do you want your epitaph to read like? Lets read David’s in Act’s 13: 36 “Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed.