We live in a nation of comfort and security like no nation the world has ever known. We are set apart geographically so that no other nation is necessarily looking down our throat while pounding at the door. Under such conditions we have become very comfortable soaking in all the wonderful things around us but especially material things and fleshly comforts. If you have ever wondered why the spiritual gifts of God and healings do not manifest themselves so widely in America you need not look any farther than the degree to which we are anchored in our flesh.
We in all truth are not maximizing our spiritual freedom. We have choices and we are not making the right choices and I'm refering to true Christians and the choices that should be made. In all truth the kingdom of God that is in America should be an evangelizing machine. Christian America should be sending armies of missionaries around the world not just groups here and there. The reason we have lost our spirituality or the power of it is because we are not doing what we should be doing choosing rather to live lives like the rest of the secular nation, coveting 2 or 3 cars, 500,000 dollar homes with ultra nice lawns and various accoutrements.
They say we use only 10% of our brain but we surely use much less of our spiritual connection to God only because we have allowed the flesh to take up the rest. The miracles, healings and spiritual gifts that follow Christians are not following Christians in America and it is not because of some immutable destiny for ourselves that we can not avoid it, it is because we have not chosen the life that yields the fruit of real spirituality.
Denominations have arisen bordering on religious cults that have in the name of "life in America" neutered the power of God in our lives for the sake of a more comfortable fleshly peace without real spiritual commitment. What we are left with is spiritually dry lives.
The truth is this: If you are living a life given over to the comforts and fleshly concerns of this world you will not be spiritually fit to manifest the true spiritual power of God and no representative or representatives of God should be lowering the standard of God or what God offers us because they themselves have chosen a religious lifestyle leaving themselves out of shape to live up to it. Churches that promote this very surrender encompass and permeate this land from coast to coast. We are wrapped in a web of encouragment toward spiritual underperformance and our land is reaping the consequences in our secular decent. It is at the core a spiritual war.
In the end you get WHAT YOU GAVE AWAY. That truth is not truly alive in us. It is not in our hearts but is in dire danger of being lost from our conscience and we should be very fearful that it already has been lost enmasse. None of this is comfortable to hear but it is what we need to hear. Each of us who are Christians have known this within our spirits at one time or another and I believe we have a certain lack of the peace we should have because of it and it is not a peace of inaction but the deepest peace you receive when you fully know before God that you are doing what you should be doing.
The Christian leadership of America is not doing in totality what it should be doing. It is soaking up the great life of America, preaching at every turn that you have a right to enjoy it all. In short the prosperity doctrine should be replaced with the missionary doctrine. The goal of your life as a Christian should be to get as many people saved as possible working one on one or in groups. This is why I do not have the deeper peace that I should have in my life and I know it. I have seen myself caught up in the thorns of life and I know so many others are caught up in the acquisition of property and material things with debt keeping you desperately "concerned" with the things of this life. Christians need not and should have not been encouraged in this direction. The prosperity doctrine has led so many into the mentality that binds them into this trap.
My great hope is in the freedom we still have to do the right thing. America should be an evangelizing machine. Becoming a Christian should be like commiting your life to military service but instead commiting your life to an evangelizing endeavor that is vibrant and active in sending Christians out and abroad. Being a Christian should be an activist experience and we will not know the true peace of God until we are in this experience.
It is really odd. You would think it would be like this. The word of God conveys this kind of urgency. Sometimes I just wonder how it is everybody got settled in to the way it is now. We have been a part of bringing about the largest secular society the world has ever seen with the largest dispersion of decadent materials the world has ever seen and literally sees daily.
Do you think we as Christians have done everything the right way?
Do you think we are even close?
We in all truth are not maximizing our spiritual freedom. We have choices and we are not making the right choices and I'm refering to true Christians and the choices that should be made. In all truth the kingdom of God that is in America should be an evangelizing machine. Christian America should be sending armies of missionaries around the world not just groups here and there. The reason we have lost our spirituality or the power of it is because we are not doing what we should be doing choosing rather to live lives like the rest of the secular nation, coveting 2 or 3 cars, 500,000 dollar homes with ultra nice lawns and various accoutrements.
They say we use only 10% of our brain but we surely use much less of our spiritual connection to God only because we have allowed the flesh to take up the rest. The miracles, healings and spiritual gifts that follow Christians are not following Christians in America and it is not because of some immutable destiny for ourselves that we can not avoid it, it is because we have not chosen the life that yields the fruit of real spirituality.
Denominations have arisen bordering on religious cults that have in the name of "life in America" neutered the power of God in our lives for the sake of a more comfortable fleshly peace without real spiritual commitment. What we are left with is spiritually dry lives.
The truth is this: If you are living a life given over to the comforts and fleshly concerns of this world you will not be spiritually fit to manifest the true spiritual power of God and no representative or representatives of God should be lowering the standard of God or what God offers us because they themselves have chosen a religious lifestyle leaving themselves out of shape to live up to it. Churches that promote this very surrender encompass and permeate this land from coast to coast. We are wrapped in a web of encouragment toward spiritual underperformance and our land is reaping the consequences in our secular decent. It is at the core a spiritual war.
In the end you get WHAT YOU GAVE AWAY. That truth is not truly alive in us. It is not in our hearts but is in dire danger of being lost from our conscience and we should be very fearful that it already has been lost enmasse. None of this is comfortable to hear but it is what we need to hear. Each of us who are Christians have known this within our spirits at one time or another and I believe we have a certain lack of the peace we should have because of it and it is not a peace of inaction but the deepest peace you receive when you fully know before God that you are doing what you should be doing.
The Christian leadership of America is not doing in totality what it should be doing. It is soaking up the great life of America, preaching at every turn that you have a right to enjoy it all. In short the prosperity doctrine should be replaced with the missionary doctrine. The goal of your life as a Christian should be to get as many people saved as possible working one on one or in groups. This is why I do not have the deeper peace that I should have in my life and I know it. I have seen myself caught up in the thorns of life and I know so many others are caught up in the acquisition of property and material things with debt keeping you desperately "concerned" with the things of this life. Christians need not and should have not been encouraged in this direction. The prosperity doctrine has led so many into the mentality that binds them into this trap.
My great hope is in the freedom we still have to do the right thing. America should be an evangelizing machine. Becoming a Christian should be like commiting your life to military service but instead commiting your life to an evangelizing endeavor that is vibrant and active in sending Christians out and abroad. Being a Christian should be an activist experience and we will not know the true peace of God until we are in this experience.
It is really odd. You would think it would be like this. The word of God conveys this kind of urgency. Sometimes I just wonder how it is everybody got settled in to the way it is now. We have been a part of bringing about the largest secular society the world has ever seen with the largest dispersion of decadent materials the world has ever seen and literally sees daily.
Do you think we as Christians have done everything the right way?
Do you think we are even close?
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