The Father’s heart
David was a man after God's heart and in this days, a company of men like David whose heart will be totally after GOD will emerged.
The book of John
opens us to the heart and nature of the Father
and his Children. John wrote by inspiration “He that loveth not knoweth not God for God
is love ( I John 4:8)” and by this we know that outside love, God does not
exist. For this cause, the operative clause of the Kingdom of God is Love towards everyone including those that
are without for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that
those who believed in him shall not perish bout have eternal love. . Our call
is to minister by and from this
perspective, This is a redemptive perspective where our action and prayer are
motivated by a desire for the salvation of those who hurt us and the ungodly. To
do this, we must daily feed on the tree of life which is the love of God
through daily communion with the Father. The love of God is the greatest weapon
we have been given and with it , you will never fail.
Overcoming a negative heart
Sometimes, we preach the right things but not with the
Father’s heart of Faith & love. This is sometimes reflected as a negative
tint in our message sometimes discernible by our hearers., no wonder we can not
bring forth after the Love of God but after our type of heart. The message of Christ which we preach is a good news and not a negative message and our
heart and message are to be inclined as such by the Love of God.
The Father’s heart makes us to see ourselves as members of his body and indeed, members of
one another and it is only natural that we must regard and respect our members,
that is his church. We must discern the true body of Christ and it is only in
this position that Christ is pleased with us. Here, truth is spoken in love and
humility. And in ministering to the body, we speak as from Christ with his
heart unto his people with us as ministers inclusive. We must therefore purge ourselves of arrogance
posture, know it all spirit or a domineering spirit that “colonize” the
brethren and stripped them of the liberty, the courage and confidence available
in Christ Jesus. To walk in the path of “ Rulership over the brethren ” is to
veil Christ from the people and this puts us against the Spirit of Christ.
Servant heart
Jesus said, the Son of man has come to serve and not to be
served. In the Babylonish world of men, leaders pride themselves
and enjoy others playing a servitude
role before them. While we should
welcome support services from our brethren as partners that can help us to concentrate on
other priorities such as prayer and ministering the word ( Act 7 ) , we are not
to parade ourselves as ‘ Lord” over the people of God selfishly converting our brethren to
‘Confectionaries , Cooks and horse/Chariot drivers (resources to be used for our gratification
and dumped) after the manner of like Saul. This pattern is not of God and we
must not indulge in behaving as ‘
ancient Kings” who are surrounded by praise singers, men doing even small
things that they can do themselves such as carrying their bible, worshiping them . The solution to this is to
possess the Fathers ‘ Servant heart driven by the Love of God in Christ Jesus.
We must cultivate the servant heart of Christ. A heart positioned to serve and
not be served. A heart committed to add value not for advantage. A heart
positioned to be worshiped and not receive worship or exercise lordship over
God’s heritage. Remember the words of
the great reformer in “ Final Quest”,
“When pure truth is combined with pure love, men can be the
men they were created to be without having to dominate out of insecurity. Women
can be the women they were created to be because their love has replaced their
fear. Love will never manipulate or try to control out of insecurity, because
love casts out all fear. The very place where relationships can be the most
corrupted is also where they can be the most fulfilling. As your mind is
renewed by the Spirit of Truth, you will not see relationships as an
opportunity to get from others, but to give. Giving is the greatest fulfillment
that we can ever know”
Gentle & lowly
hear of Jesus.
We must be a man after
God’s own heart like David. We must imbibe the simplicity of Christ and
do away with the complexity of living and lifestyle driven by the spirit of
this age. We must cultivate the “Gentle and lowly heart of Jesus for he is
gentle and lowly in heart. We must reject the arrogance spirit of Babylon .
Rick Joyner in his book wrote, “Pride is the hardest enemy to see and it always
sneak up behind , in some way, those who have been to the greatest heights are
in the greatest danger of falling. You
must always remember that in this life, you can fall at any time from
any level. A man with the heart of Jesus is willing to listen and learn from
others including those that do not agree with him
When arrogant sets in, a man begins imagine that the Lord
would do anything of significance unless He did it through him. Criticism of
others and jealousy sets in also when
the Lord moved through anyone who was outside us or our ministry . Feeding on the love of God will
heal our heart and cloth us with the garment of humility. True humility is to
see ourselves as God sees us and not as other see us and this I the path of
life.
Sincere Heart
The sincere heart of
Christ is activated through the love of God shed in our
hearth daily by the Holy Spirit as we commune with God . This helps us not to
hide from facing difficult revelation about ourselves . By the love of God, we
are empowered to confront issues about
our persons and Characters in reality and seek the face of God for deliverance.
Our can is to celebrate the feast of God (dealings of God) with the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth .
