Lena's Discipleship Journalin' to Acts 13 Today

So why would the Holy Spirit need to appoint human messengers to go to preach to His church body? Have you ever thought about that? I’ve heard it stated that 80 or so percent of the Bible’s words are written to people who call themselves followers of God. Yet we find it laden with a call to discipleship, consecration, and holiness. Its words are not speaking to people who do not yet know of God, it speaks to those who think they do!
The Holy Spirit anointed and appointed two men and other helpers to go into His church and bring a living word for the church to follow. I noticed today 4 different races, cultures and backgrounds represented in the messengers who were sent to the religious mindset of the day.
Only one was a religious man, in the sense of his own life being dedicated to the study of scripture and its laws. That man had to be taken off of his high horse, arrested by God’s spirit, awakened and completely changed before the Holy Spirit sent him back into the very church he’d served. What he’d been raised to think that seemed to be what was correct and righteous and good, was all waste to God’s own plan.
The men would come from different backgrounds, but they would not live in His kingdom with the flavor of any of those backgrounds. The old would pass away and the newness of Kingdom of God citizenship would present itself through Him to the world. God would not allow them to go anywhere with His message, if they did not get the new “law” written upon their minds and hearts, the law of the spirit of Christ Jesus had to be written on their hearts a new.
Fasting brings separation. One must see to separate. Such as with a bad relationship one should separate from. They must see that it is bad and stand back and make a new move, away from what is bad, the fast would be the time to be separated and see further for greater wisdom and following action.
In fasting we separate from our own desires and embrace His. We afflict our souls telling our soul that we will not just be who we were born to be and stay that way. We won’t allow our self life that luxury, we must change into whatever His image and likeness is. We say no to earthly desires and pleasures. We shut down the screaming child in us who wants their own way.
I was thinking, God gave them a word and their soul may not have liked the word, the influence of their culture may not have embraced the word, their lifestyles may not have enjoyed the word, so they fasted longer to tell their souls NO to you and YES to God!
Sometimes our souls need to become blind, especially if influenced by the lies of God’s enemy. Remember in Saul’s conversion he was made to be blind for 3 days. He laid this same whammy on the sorcerers.
A sorcerer uses satan’s power as his source of self exaltation and to veer people’s attentions off of God as THE Supreme Source.
Did you know the influences and addictions of drugs (prescribed and not prescribed) and alcohol are based on sorcery? Think about the word- source-ery. Interesting huh? Who and what is your source of pain relief? Who do you trust to be healed? What about entertainment? Why do you have to entertain other sources, other offers for being fulfilled, made to feel happy and satisfied, that are not from God?
We are keepers of the eye and ear gates to our souls. Satan bombards these to have a place to enter-in to us. Thus the word Entertain. “Let me find a way to detain them by flashiness and trickery; then and as they are unaware, I’ll enter in”. This is the device and trickery of the devil! Be aware, wake up and do not sleep on this one. It is sorcery in its fullest sense. It delights the senses and numbs the spirit, to being able to hear and follow God’s Spirit and voice. It is so mind filling and distracting. It is a demonic strategy to take us in to its prison.
Usually when we read these kinds of things, we so separate ourselves out from them, but we need to rather put ourselves right in them. How are we being entertained? How are we being tricked, deceived, led in, captured? Do we allow another source to heal us, relieve our pains? How do we deal with sorrows? Who is our source and why is anything our source other than God? If anything is our source other than God Most High, we are involved and sucked into sorcery
The man needed to be blinded to that spiritual activity, and opened up to see the true light of the Lordship of Jesus Christ as his own Source.
Demonic forces attach themselves to people. They are on a mission and take it very seriously. They do not ever let go of a person as an influencer, unless made to and legally so. They won’t leave if someone just wishes they would. It has to be one in authority who says so.
It’s like a citizen who just thinks someone should not hang around a store’s property. The citizen may ask them to leave or request they do or become angry that they don’t, but the person is going to stay. They’ll be like, “on who’s word are you basing your request?” But when the manager or owner or owner’s son shows up, too bad buddy, time is up, leave! The wicked spirits understand the Godly order of authority more than we do. When we get it and walk in it, we must insist on it.
I believe it takes holiness and separation for the spirit realm to know we are in and under authority. They have to know we choose order and submit ourselves when it is hard. They know hierarchy inside and out. They know when a man is playing games, doing his own will everyday of his life. I don’t believe we can live disobediently and have the kind of power needed to loose powers of wickedness who are on assignment to reign. This is where we lack results. Power and authority are unleashed to responsible people, to people who understand God ordained and set up order, and willingly yield to it without being forced to.
I don’t believe you can be drinking on Saturday night to relieve yourself of a sorrow and then have much authority to de-seat a principality on Sunday morning.
How much we fear or believe the Lord is how much we are wiling to separate out of our cultural backgrounds and dive in and become learn-ed kingdom citizens. Our lifestyle of freewill choice is where the power to help others change their own lives lies. I am free and do not have to obey anyone, but I release the power of God’s very character when I do anyway, that which I do not have to do. They don’t deserve it, but I love and forgive them anyway. That’s when people get healed and made whole, sorrows fleeing away!
After being tested, by the grace of God remain……faithful and FULL of faith!
The inheritance is the earth, the earth belongs to the Lord who can do as He pleases with its contents. He has decided to allow sons to rule it for Him. We are not exactly speaking of dirt here, we speak of dirt beings, humans. Rule for humans, so we can bring salvation to them. Fight the spiritual enemies of their souls, submit to other humans so you can de-seat and displace principalities of darkness that blind truth. Bring truth to the insides of men, and teach and train them to do the same for other flesh natured beings, removing the curse on their land.
What we, the church reject, will be offered to others who will accept it. God has a mission to accomplish on earth. He is asking those who will go do His mission and do what changing it takes to be the persons He needs to execute that will and plan.
Is God putting up with us? Yes, He has been. With all who say they are His, while doing whatever they think is right. Those He loves, even though they do not deserve it, He puts up with. He puts up with those who ask for someone else to follow after other interests than who He has set up over them to obey. He puts up with it, because He is Love, He puts up with it!
God is looking for men and women after His own heart, those He receives joy from, and doesn’t have to just put up with.
There is a need for the church to turn from sin, where we serve ourselves or who or whatever we deem, setting up our own standards of rule in which we serve and obey ourselves. We must turn to Our God as our only God and be baptized. That means covered with all He is, and completely immersed in whatever He wills for us to do. We come under to be surrounded with his ministry, co-missioned with Him. Salvation is for us, church people. That means we can be healed, if we want to, delivered, if we want to, saved from the death grip of selfish living, if we want to, and fully immersed inside of the purposes of God through Christ, who is our eternal ticket to fulfilling of purpose, starting now.
God can also say to us, and so longs to say to us, “You are My sons, today I have become your Father.” (Because you’ve allowed Me to be.) Sons are not sons alone, they are products of fathering. If they submit to fathering, they are sons. If not, they are children. There is a difference.
Without a test of authority, no one would know we are sons who have any father. The father would not know this. The spirits of wickedness would not know this. With a test it is known to all. Only a father can acknowledge a son. It is known in the test given by the father, not chosen by the son. The son chooses to pass his father’s test, not a test of his own choosing. It’s about being response able over His father’s investments and will. It’s about inheritance. Children do not get inheritances to manage and keep. Sons do.
The Father’s test was death to self life. It will always be the test for sons.
I’ve noticed lately how much people change to make money. Some expect to make money without change, but many are willing to make more by making the necessary changes into someone’s image to get the proper job done, and they get paid-rewarded when they make those conscious changes. They’ll go through training to become what that position deems they should be. They’ll dress how the job deems they dress, even speak in the way the trainer teaches them to speak, all in pursuit of more money, which is a nice thing to have plenty of, right?
If we as a society are so willing to comply and conform to what our society tells us sells the goods, why would we not be as willing to conform and comply with the Lord of heaven and earth who is trying to tell us how to win our world and have the inheritance He’s paid for to accomplish His Divine eternal mission?
The independence of the flesh does not like this message; neither does the self bettering and self exalting religious mind. We’d rather be our own rulers, but we can’t. God is God of the whole universe. We make war with Him when we choose to rule ourselves and we experience havoc in our lives, we find everything is off kilter.
The balance is in doing it someone else’s way and not insisting on our own ways. That takes a death of self, and we don’t like it. So what, tell your souls so what! We’re gonna serve the Lord’s purposes and in it be truly free to live eternally and receive the inheritance as He deems.
As for me and my own person, spirit, soul and body - We will serve the Lord. Come on Body and Soul, we’re gonna spread some good news today!
There is another King and it isn’t you!
Guess what now? Get ready for the first test, as a childlike souls arises and throws a fit about it, insisting on it’s own way, because it always has been allowed to. Or will the spirit man - father him and just say – no?
Everyone needs a father.