Beware of the swarms of locusts that could rob seven years of good harvests. Yet the prophet Nahum gave us a good news right from the beginning, 1:3 The Lord is slow to anger, yet great in power. The Lord will certainly not let the guilty go unpunished. He marches out in the whirlwind and in the storm. Storm clouds are like dust stirred up by his feet. (EHV)
The watchman hears this: beware of “Lawlessness”/”locust” spirit.An urgency call is here for every Christian to claim the seven years of prosperity of Joseph and not allow locusts to continue to swarm in to invade your territory. Please take heed because the locusts will not stop unless you take up the authority already given to you in boldness and stand now and stand your ground with the whole armor of God.
You need to ask the Lord how to take positive action and activate your gifts in your area of influence.
You are a citizen. You are a member of a community. You are an employee. You are a member of an organization. You already participate in many arenas of your local community/network, including political, social, business/commercial, cultural/sports/entertainment, economical/financial, educational, religious and government/administration. You have a vote in your hand. You know what the Lord wants…
Who was the great transformer? Pharaoh, the all powerful ruler of Egypt, or Moses the Prince of Egypt who turned away from the corruption of Egypt and left his comfort zone to respond to his calling from the unseen God to lead His people to freedom from slavery and oppression? History does not lie. Read on…
Today we are reminded that the ten plagues only struck those who chose not to believe and acknowledge the righteous God whom Moses and his people believed, the same God we believe. Take note the idolatry arrogant heart of Pharaoh caused him to make foolish and self-destructive decisions. He exalted himself above the righteous and holy God. Pharaoh did not fear God because he thought he himself was god. While he comfortably indulged himself in his luxurious palace wining and dining opulently, his people suffered in prolonged incremental fear and torment. He had no love or compassion even for his own people. Why was his heart hardened? He was obsessed with keeping an ample supply of cheap/free labor the miserable enslaved Israelites provided to perpetuate his wealth and related social-political power. He was consumed with jealousy of Moses, a former prince of Egypt, now the formidable great transformer leader championing…
Why did Paul choose to leave a somewhat neutral intellectual Athens where he discoursed with civil Jews and Gentiles without being obstructed but instead proceed to a melting pot like Corinth? Because he saw a greater Gospel sharing evangelical opportunity at Corinth with its strategic crossroad location situated between Italy and Asia Minor on the Isthmus and is master of two harbors and a large population with various needs conglomerating for the economic boom and related activities. Corinth city was flourishing by the 1st century AD as an important international center of administration, trade, games and entertainment. Corinth had the largest population in Greece with Greeks, Jews, Romans, even the Phoenicians and Phrygians from the east. Corinth’s financial prosperity was the result of business activities, athletic games, the skills and quality of its statesmen and craftsmen, and immorality. Because of its close connection to the sea, with ports to the east and to the west, the cosmopolitan population of Corinth consisted largely of sailors, merchants, adventurers, and refugees, which included retired and discharged veterans.
Thus, Paul and his team had found a needy evangelistic target as well as a market niche from the Jewish refugees (from Rome), Roman soldiers, the many tradesmen and religious pilgrim travelers and the games competitors and spectators.
Corinthian became the second largest city in the Roman empire, boasting a population of 700,000 people. In eighteen months Paul built the largest church in the history of the world. The lowest estimates are 40,000 and most historians say the number was more like 80,000 people. Read on…
In recent years the world notes how effective economic leverage works in social-political re-engineering. Today we study another kind of successful leverages from a great master, Paul, a businessman-apostle. Economic (financial) interest is always the top priority in this world. It ties with the micro self-interest of an individual and the macro self-interest of a group, a nation or even the whole world.
In 2 Corinthians chapters 8-9 we continue to reflect on Paul’s motivations and strategies, supporting a broader understanding of mission – one that sees the purpose of the church as going beyond mere evangelism, and including all manner of personal and social reconciliation (including the use of financial and economic resources). Paul presented a sustainable economical and spiritual inter-linked blue-print to the Corinthians who were already well versed with the marketplace and its language. Now Paul teaches them the higher spiritual reality which is an integral part…
Paul is a relentlessly power leader and speaker who lives and talks and walks in the power of the contents of what he preaches. He walks all his talks. None of his words fell flat on the ground.
Paul is a superb relentless motivation speaker and a leader who walks his talk in authority and in power. I was asked to give an impromptu speech for five minutes under the main topic of “high performing organization” to my fellow corporate colleagues. We were each given 10 minutes to prepare. Unlike others who were experienced managers, I was at that time a fresh graduate and had to think outside the box. I drew a picture of a man standing on top of a patch of ground. Then the ground was dug away and he fell into the hole. It gave the message that a leader without supporters/helpers (or a king without subjects) is useless. The seemingly insignificant supportive workers (or citizens) in an organization (kingdom) form the solid ground the CEO-leader stands on. A high performing organization requires a leader who values and sustains those who together make and…
The Lord often speaks twice to us on the same truth, sometimes after a lapse of time. Today I am led in my spirit to repost what I have posted on 27th January 2019, exactly two years ago. The truth that really matters is we are taught not to look at a person through his past, or even his mannerism inherited from his past. The Lord demands another standard from every believer of Jesus, and it is entirely different from the way the world works. The world sizes up a person by his external, and often based on his past, often fine combing to find a hairline of stuff that some people do not like, and blow it up with a magnifying glass. But the Holy Spirit states a new fact for all Christians who are born of the Spirit of God, “So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! (2 Corinthians 5:16) And this same law applies to us as well. Jesus has also spoken of the golden rule, that is, do to others what you wish to be done to you. The same measure we use to measure others will be used to measure us. Let us meditate on the original article below and ask the Lord to help us live out the identity of the Son of God already in us, and give us the ability to use the power in us to manifest the integrity that He has lived throughout His life.
Today I have done a simple diagram. Let us read this new wine revealed in new wineskin. I am awed that we can actually apply this simple rule of law to every practical aspect of our lives, as ambassadors for Christ, representing the Kingdom of God.
2 Corinthians 5:11-21
2 Corinthians 5:11-21New King James Version (NKJV)
11Knowing, therefore,the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.
Be Reconciled to God
12Forwe do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you opportunityto boast on our behalf, that you may havean answerfor those who boast in appearance and not in heart.13Forif we are beside ourselves,it isfor God; or if we are of sound mind,it isfor you.14For the love of Christ compels us, because…
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