Are We Led By Our Conscience Or Led By The Spirit?

One of my prayers lately has been that I truly may be Spirit led. After studying a little on the subject, I have come to this conclusion. If you you want to be Spirit led, avoid thinking that doing good means I'm Spirit led. In reality you are led by your conscience, totally deceived and may not even know it. Being moral doesn't mean your Spirit led. This will only make you think your a good person, when the scripture says: "NO, theres no one good".. Being Spirit led will require you to depend totally on the Holy Spirit, while being led by your conscience will require you to depend on your morality..

Hebrews 10:2 … For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.That verse is further proof that God has not called us to be “moral”, nor are we supposed to be “immoral” the way the devil would want us to be. We are called to be “a-moral” – no more consciousness of sins. Just as if Adam had not eaten from the tree God had forbidden. Just like little children.The church has lost this truth – thinking it is called to be a beacon for morality. Always “taking a stand”. Always pointing a finger. No. The only stand we should take is a stand for Jesus. The only one we should point to is Jesus. Only he can purify. And once purified, we have no more use for conscience.

We are either led by our conscience or led by the Spirit. If I do what’s right “because it is right”, I am led by conscience. If I avoid what’s wrong “because it is wrong” or “because it’s a sin”, I am led by conscience. I am eating from the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. I am living by that. And sooner or later I will fall.But God has called you to live by the Spirit. And the Spirit will produce all sorts of good fruit in you- fruit that fulfills morality anyway, but we’ll be unaware of it. No longer will I do what is right “because it is right”. There are better reasons! Reasons like… love. Love is a better motive than morality. No longer will I avoid terrible things because “it’s a sin”. There are better reasons! Reasons like… “I don’t want to!” You can “act moral” but still desire sin. Or you can let God put his desires in you and live by those.That’s why we’re not called to live by conscience. Even if we do, our conscience doesn’t see the entire picture God sees. Living free from conscience, we begin to step into being Spirit-led. We begin to truly live by faith.

Romans 8:14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.And sons of God are purified by Jesus. So do not be afraid- if this sounds too “radical” or “scary”. This is the essence of the gospel! You will see the Kingdom of God because you have been made to be like a child. No more consciousness of sins. Jesus did not say that he came to make you moral. He came to give you life. There were two trees in the midst of the Garden – one was Morality, the other was Life. The first was law, the second was grace. 

Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, ¹²teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age.Jesus came to be your morality, so that you can experience real life from him.I pray this blesses you the way it did me..

Pastor Albert

Don't Hate, Appreciate

If there was something Jesus detested it was religion. There was one group in particular who was really into it though. The Pharisees brought down God’s perfect law to the level where they thought they could keep it. And Jesus always put them in their place. In fact Jesus called them “whitewashed tombs” and a “brood of vipers”. Why was Jesus so angry at them? Because they were self righteous? Yes. But more than that, because they “put loads on people’s backs but do not lift a finger to help them”.(Matt 23:4 and Luke11:46) They disqualified people from God with their added rules that only they could keep. The same people Jesus wanted to reach out to and just love on- were afraid to go near Jesus because of the religious hypocrisy and the fear propagated by these Pharisees. That culture is still alive today. And it STILL stops people from drawing close to God.

Even in “the Kingdom”,  there are many “christians” who have a jealous spirit. The spirit of the Prodigal Son’s older brother- jealous that the Father was gracious and merciful. Would he prefer that the Father was mean? Who then would bother returning home? The spirit of the ones who worked early in the vineyard, jealous that the ones who came late got the same. They are the 99 who were left behind because the shepherd was looking for the 1. They don’t identify with the “1″ that was lost. They don’t think they were ever lost, and they forget that they only stand by grace too. They think they are “the first”. They are Martha, angry at Mary for resting at Jesus’ feet. They lose out on the “better part” because they forget that only “one thing” is required. Faith!

If you would just believe.. Thats it. Don’t miss out on what he died to give you. Don’t listen to people who add things to something that is yours for free. Don’t think that God wants to save your soul from hell, but also wants to give you a life that’s full of “trials and tribulations” to some way “prepare you for heaven”.  The Kingdom is Here. If you are in Christ… you have everything that he gave on the cross- his life, his righteousness, his health, his wealth, his standing with the Father, his beauty, his mind and his heart. It’s already there, and the beauty of life this side of heaven is learning about what he have in Him, and not what we need to earn without him… Who we are in him, not who we have to become in order to receive his approval. We are new creations- HIS new creations. He did this to us. 

Don't Use Grace As An Excuse

I have said it and now i say it again, I’m the result of Gods grace. I preach and teach Gods grace. What people do with it is between them and God. As for me His grace has empowered me to be more purposeful in what I do.. In fact since the the revelation of grace has come in to my life, I’ve accomplished more because its not just me trying in my own effort now its His grace through me.. I’m no longer worried about results and the opinions of people, I just live for Him.. This grace that I have received scares the religious because to them I have become “liberal” in their eyes. When in reality I’ve never felt more liberty and freedom than what I’m experiencing in my life.. Free from guilt and condemnation, free from sin.. So people ask me; does that mean you can do whatever you want including sin and it’s all good? Please read carefully what I’m about to write. The grace of God is not a license to sin in fact its the antidote against sin.. If people go around saying they’re under grace yet fornicate, lie, cheat, commit adultery, steal, gossip and have un-forgiveness in your heart, than they are deceived. 
How can people practice sin and say they're under the grace of God.. That is so contrary to what the Apostle Paul wrote in the book of Romans. He was under heavy pressure to explain this grace he was now teaching. Let me show you what Romans 6:1 “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?” It can’t be more clear than that. “Certainly not”, Paul writes. He even goes on to further explain in verse 14 “For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace”. You can not be under grace and sin has dominion in your life. The word dominion is defined as "Lordship", in other words, sin can't be your Lord and say Jesus is your Lord at the same time. You can not serve two masters.

  Here’s what people say to justify their sin, “I’m under the grace of God and everybody else is religious”. When sin has dominion over someone it will lead them to withdraw from the body.. I heard some one say, "sin will make cowards out men". All of a sudden they don’t need to go to church because church people are a bunch of hypocrites. They become arrogant, un-teachable, and their hearts fill with pride.. They become exactly what the book of 2 Timothy 3:5 says; having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! Believe me when I say i’m not a sin preacher, I consider myself a grace preacher. However i say these things to bring clarity to the body.

This liberty we have received in Christ has a purpose. Look what Gal 5:13 says; “For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another”. The grace of God is a teacher we just have to willing to be taught. Titus 2:11 says; “For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age” Grace is for the righteous and the unrighteous, Don’t make any mistake about it. Grace keeps the righteous from falling but if he falls, His grace will lift him up. Grace will also draw the unrighteous and save him by that same grace. No matter what we all need His grace in our lives...  Pastor Albert

The Results of a Spiritual Awakening

The Results of a Spiritual Awakening

Jonah 3:5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. 6Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. 7And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water. 8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. 9Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?

• I begin with a question this morning, “What happens when an awakening comes?” 

Last Sunday I talked about "Transforming Apathy into an Awakening". in fact many today have never born witness to a moving of the manifest presence of God. 

Thus, these have little idea about what to expect. 

I want to take a look at Jonah as to understand an awakening.

Jonah had a divine call, a determined run, a disaster at sea, a destitute man, a distressed prayer, a directed preacher, and a decisive action. 

Now Think about it, God awakens us with a purpose in mind. 

We become conscious of the fact that something has to be accomplished.

That is what happens when the alarm goes off.

Now, the common people of Nineveh have repented, turned to God, and a spiritual awakening is breaking out all through the city.

Do you notice that Nineveh is not awakened until first the prophet is awakened.

* Let me offer 3 results of God awakening a city.

1. Lives are changed. 

Think about this, God has sent Jonah to Nineveh to preach His word. 

If God sent Jonah, God is giving power to the words and the message of Jonah. 

It seems that everywhere the message went out, God honored His message and people’s lives were affected. 

God is clear in Isaiah when He says, “My word will not return void.” 

Think about this, the man of God and the word of God empowered by the Spirit of God will lead to lives changed by the power of God. 

Here is what many miss today; this change affects all of life. 

It affects desires, schedules, attitudes and actions. 

It doesn’t simply affect “a part of life” or a “compartment in life”, it affects ALL of a person’s life.

You begin to hear what you couldn’t hear when you were asleep.

Why? Because in the midst of an awakening things are never the same.

1. The word begins to spread                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              When spiritual awakening happens there's no need for a public relations person to promote it.

Flyers, handbills, signs, nor mail outs are required to let people know. Candidly, if you ever find yourself in the middle of a spiritual awakening, just “TRY” to keep it from being known and you may wind up one of the most frustrated people around. 

Truth is, word will get out. 

Why? Because just as surely as you can’t stop bad news and lies from traveling, good news which is consistent, will make the gossips columns in the same. 

The scripture said, “When the word “reached” the King. 

When God gets loose, both lives and lips are loosed and the word gets out. Lives are loosed to live in a way they have never known or even imagined. 

Today, we think freedom is doing what “I” want to do, but real freedom comes in completely doing what you are designed to do. 

When we do this, another thing happens to us.

• Our lips are loosed. Let’s consider this thought just for a second. 

Why is it seemingly so difficult to speak a word in behalf of what we say we believe so dearly? 

When our lives are loosed the obvious outcome is that our LIPS are also loosed. It is a natural outgrowth.

1. No one is exempt. 

When God begins to move, He knows no boundaries. 

In Nineveh, His powerful word reached all the way to the throng room. 

There are two words in this sentence to which I will draw your attention; the first is ‘word’ and the second is ‘reached or came.’ 

The text says, “When the “word came ” the King.” “Word” is also translated as tidings, message, and news. 

The Hebrew words would convey something like a matter, an issue, or a cause. 

Certainly the changing lives within the city of Nineveh rose to every level. 

It was being talked about in the stores, on the streets, in the houses, and had now made it to the White House. Do you understand that the new of an awakening affected everyone in that city.

It had “reached”, “had touched”, or “arrived” in the throne room. 

Scripture makes no indication that Jonah was in the throne room, so it must have been the power of the message, the power to change lives, and the power of God giving supernatural support to the message of “AWAKENING”.

In my message last Sunday I offered the observation that we are in desperate need of Spiritual Awakening.

Guess what the alarm is sounding to awaken from our sleep. Don't push the snooze button on the alarm, it is time to stop procrastinating an begin to accomplish God's purpose in your life.

WRITE IT

WRITE IT

Recently the Lord really spoke to me clearly about the year to come. I asked the Lord what will happen 2012? He said write it. What? Write it, what does that mean. Than it hit me, I will have what I write.. By no means am I a gifted writer but i desire to write. I felt a little intimidated thinking of who might read my STUFF. Truth be told it's not about what everyone thinks. In fact, its about sharing your heart, vision, victories, failures, hopes, and faith. Not everyone may read it but if one reads it and it inspires that person, thats awesome. Look what the Prophet Habakuk, (boy that was hard to say and write) said: Then the LORD answered me and said:  “ Write the vision  And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time;  But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.  Though it tarries, wait for it;  Because it will surely come,  It will not tarry. 

    I believe that if it was important for the prophet to write, why would  it not be important for us to write also. We are the prophets of our own destiny. Don't leave your life to chance, its to precious. Be intentional, and purposeful about your life. The psalmist David said; "My tongue is the pen of a ready writer". Believe it or not every time you speak your writing on the canvas of your heart. Writing is for people who are serious about being intentional with their God given grace in life.

 Look what was written about Abraham, the father of the faith: (as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”). Did you read this? He would be a father of many nations because it was written. As if thats not good enough look what it continues to say: "Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead". I believe what you write can affect you but also your children and your children's children. However my favorite example is Jesus: And He was handed the book of theprophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found theplace where it was written:

18      “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,

      Because He has anointed Me

      To preach the gospel to the poor;

      He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,

      To proclaim liberty to the captives

      And recovery of sight to the blind,

      To set at liberty those who are oppressed;

19      To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” 

20Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant andsat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. And He began to say to them, “Today thisScripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” So all bore witness to Him,and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of Hismouth. And they said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”

I believe this is powerful because it tells us that God the Father had a plan for His son's life. To the point that He was willing to have His prophets write about it. What's funny is that people thought he was just Joseph's son. People might think your just another John Doe, but when they see you walking in your purpose they will be astonished. You can tell them, didn't you know, it has been written about me. Recently I told our church to start witting, even blogging and believe your life has meaning enough to write about. Who ever reads this I want to challenge you through this blog to write. However don't write to impress but to inspire.  Pastor

MATURITY

Sunday message: Just because you pray, read your bible, worship, go to church, even speak in tongues make you more mature. Maturity comes from the judgment you've develop in making right decisions. I know a lot of good believers who love God and have the greatest of intensions and motives, yet they lack good judgment, reasoning to make the right decisions. They live in a perpetual cycle of emotional outburst, of blaming others for their lives, they react to circumstances rather than responding to them, in fact you can count on them always running away when the pressure comes. Why is that? They haven't matured, no judgment! 

Apostle Paul said: 1 Cor 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought (reasoned, judged) as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Reasoned- to take an inventory, that is, estimate —conclude, (ac-) count (of), + despise, esteem, impute, lay, number, reason, reckon, suppose, think (on), judge, discern.

I truly believe that many Christians who have trouble walking in their divine its not lack of passion or even sin, its a failure to mature. Beloved His grace is sufficient to help us develop the reasoning and good judgment we need. The word says; acknowledge Him in all your ways, and He shall direct your paths.

Maturity is a psychological term used to indicate how a person responds to the circumstances or environment in an appropriate. This response is generally learned rather than instinctive, and is not determined by one's age. Maturity also encompasses being aware of the correct time and place to behave and knowing when to act appropriately, according to the situation and the culture of the society one lives in.

In other words, how do you respond to circumstances or develop Judgment to know; with who, what, when, and where. Its not your action thats the problem, their just a by-product of how you reason or judge a situation.

The mature graduate from one level to the next.
They are not repeating the same test every year.

The immature constantly need to be governed by rules.
The immature become very legalistic in their approach, especially with others. They demand so much from others but very little of themselves.
They are always referring how it used to be, the law, and can’t enjoy grace.
The immature are led by the law, yet the mature are led by the spirit.

James 1:13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 

The mature understand righteousness, they don’t need to be watched like little children.. The mature have received and walk in GRACE.

James 1:14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

The mature have developed judgment, reasoning, and know how to choose between good and evil.

Beloved my desire is that the body of Christ mature and by doing so develop weight in the spirit so that we can influence the world and be respected as a corporate force in the earth.

Pastor Albert

Ps: Tell your neighbor its time to mature. If you want share this with others

Prophetic Word: Darkness versus Glory

Yesterday I went to pray and after a little while I fell asleep. However when i woke up the Lord gave me this verse; Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine For your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. 2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you. People things are not going to get better for the world, in fact things are going to get worse. Yet in the midst of great darkness, God glory will begin to be revealed over who believe in Him.. There will be a parallel of opposite proportions for the world and Gods people. When you begin to see greatest darkness, than you begin to expect great Glory. People, now is not the time to react but to reflect the glory we contain. For to long Gods people has been reacting to what the world does as if we need to imitate what they do to be accepted. The word says that Christ in you is the hope of glory. Thats why I believe that God will allow things to get worse for and in the world, so that we who contain His glory may begin to reflect what we possess. 


Isaiah 60:3 The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising. 4 “ Lift up your eyes all around, and see: They all gather together, they come to you; Your sons shall come from afar, And your daughters shall be nursed at your side. Theres a day coming where you don't have go to the world as to think they have the solution, or imitate what they do. No, they will be coming to His people for the answer and want to imitate us. Haven't you noticed that the "church" want to imitate the world, they want to look like her, dress like her, act like her, and even speak like her. The only reason for that is because of no glory. But when the glory of God is revealed over us, the world will run to us. I believe there is a new sound arising in the church, I hear a new worship rising in the church and all other musical preferences will begin to quiet and even die out. I hear "revival worship", as things begin to get worse, Gods people will begin worship like never before. It will be our anthem of deliverance that will cause God to respond on our behalf. Get ready to rise and shine like never before, because the earth is groaning for the manifestation of the sons of God! Pastor

Impartation versus Inheritance

Several day ago the Lord began  ministering to me about the difference between an impartation and someone receiving an inheritance. The way i have understood it was, that only children inherit, which I still believe to be true. However what is the inheritance, and when does one inherit? Does someone have to die to receive an inheritance? At the same time what happens with an impartation and why it seem not to last? Well the Holy Spirit gave me a couple of scriptures that i believe will reveal some answers to these questions. 

First impartation, Numbers 11:17 Then I will come down and talk with you there. I Will Take Of The Spirit That Is Upon You And Will Put The Same Upon Them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone.

Numbers 11:25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders; and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, Although They Never Did So Again.

It says they never did so again.

I think we can say clearly that an impartation can be for an assignment, and even temporary or a specific period time.
The impartation can even last longer depending on the revelation of the one receiving the impartation. He imparted of Moses spirit, thats what an impartation a transferring of someone else's spirit for a specific purpose.

I imagine how frustrated a pastor must feel when thet impart into his people and it seems they can not sustain it but for a period of time. I feel the same way with some of my people, yet i need to understand that it was an impartation not an inheritance.

Now inheritance. Numbers 27:18 And the LORD said to Moses: “Take Joshua the son of Nun with you, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him; 19 set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation, and inaugurate him in their sight. 20 And You Shall Give Some Of Your Authority To Him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient. 21(B) At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, he and all the children of Israel with him—all the congregation.”

If an impartation can be for an assignment or temporary, than an inheritance should be a permanent new way of life. If i understand correctly, the inheritance a son receives from a spiritual father would be some of his Authority. Certainly that can occur when the child (nepios) has reached maturity and becomes a son (huios). In other words the son has "legal authority" to assumes his fathers way of life and blessing as a result. 

The same with Elijah and Elisha, He was hoping for an impartation but Elijah was interested in having an heir he could transfer to. Anyone can receive an impartation but sons receive an inheritance.
To conclude, no one has to die, because Moses was alive when he gave him some of his authority. Impartations may come and go but an inheritance can last forever. I may not have the same house, car, or live in the same city but If i can an inherit some of your authority, and anointing, I'll have your way of life.

Gods Favor and People!

I hope to be an inspiration, with what i'm about to write.

Two of many reasons why people leave a church, one you are moved by God, second the relationship has changed  certain people. However the reality is that we need people in our lives to help get to the place God has ordained for us..

The favor of God will work in conjunction with people. The favor of God to take you to the land of purpose you will need people.

Interestingly enough when God created the earth He also created man so he could govern it. Yet God also needed people to execute his plan here on earth. Here comes Adam to help God on earth, a key component.
That's why God will always use key people that are indispensable for the things of God to happen in your life.
We also have be careful, because the devil will use key people to hinder you, and that everything you have heard in your life concerning your purpose will not become a reality. 
People can be a blessing or a detriment. Right people enhance you wrong people will debilitated you.


We know so many people, but we need the favor of God to be a repellent to some people but be attractive to the right people, to accomplish his will.God can remove people from our lives that can hinder you, so please don't pray for people God has removed from you to come back..

People are the key for what God is doing in us!
It's impossible to have success alone, neither is failure .
Batman needed Robin, Lone Ranger need Tontoe. 
It's time to invest in the right relationships and not waste time because our greatest asset we posses is people.

Connection with people is a mandate, it's privilege and unavoidable. 
Sin did not manifest in the earth until there were two. Yet God said Its not good for man to be a lone.
Being alone is not good when it comes to fulfilling the purpose that God has ordained.
Alone you can not multiply, you can not increase, You can't govern.

Divine connection will raise you up, when they're not divine they crush you. 

Maybe you are the problem in relationship, so excuse yourself.

What God will begin to send in favor will come camouflaged in people.
New people, new connection, new things. 
Our life is precious but short in comparison to eternity.So it is important we live with an understanding of time.

Eccles 9:11 I returned and saw under the sun that— The race is not to the swift, Nor the battle to the strong, Nor bread to the wise, Nor riches to men of understanding, Nor favor to men of skill; But time and chance happen to them all. For man also does not know his time: Like fish taken in a cruel net, Like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time, When it falls suddenly upon them.

When you know you have 33 years to live you better have an idea of what you were called to do. 
Thats why i want to share these five recomendations with you.
1. We don't have time to waste. 

2. Your life of relationships with people must change. 
Two ways, with the intensity that this could be your last on earth, but if you are awake in the morning, live as if you had a plan that will take 100 years. How much would your agenda change if you knew today would be your last day.

3. The time and calendar factor would become a determining factor in your life. 
When you begin to ask how long will it take me to accomplish this project, your going to need a watch and a calendar. You only have so many days on earth and you need to be productive. Thats why we need the right people in our lives,

4. Begin to invest your money in things that were not acceptable before, but are acceptable now. 
Now I understand the the factor of time.

5. The priorities of life would change. 
Being lethargic or passive about making decision or determinations in our lives can be costly even detrimental.
Usually its because we don't a revelation of how short our time here on earth is. I'm not talking about premature deaths.Life is short because God has placed so much in every one of us that our lives are not long enough to accomplish them.

Eccles. 3:10 I have observed the burden that God has given to people to keep them occupied. God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance(eternity) in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.

You have always existed for God.
People will help you waste time or people will help redeem time.
I want the favor of God so I can come across people in which will help me redeem time.. 
God uses people, to manifest His favor in our lives.


If you would have told me 18 months ago, that I would be experiencing Gods favor in the manner in which I'm sharing with you, I would have not believed you.
I also had an exodus of people leaving our ministry, however God has revealed his favor over us that he brought new people, relationship to our lives. You see God wanted to make us better, but he needed to remove the wrong  people, so he can get the right people in. At one time I thought people were a curse to me, but now i understand that the right people can be a blessing also. You see i didn't know how to get the wrong people out and the right people in, so God did it for me. Not that it was easy but it was needed. When Abraham had to tell his son  Ishmael to leave with his mother, i'm sure it was the hardest thing he had to do. Abraham realized that his future was in the balance. Thats why the right people will help you become the father of the faith, and a people or just another father.  Friend our time on earth is precious, we don't have much of it to waste. So i declare that God will favor you with the right people who will believe in, what God has placed in you..  Pastor Albert

It's Time To Grow Up!

Human beings are physical, spiritual, and emotional unities.

We relate to our environment with our bodies, and we relate to God through our spirits.

So, when you begin to have emotions that are threatening your joy and peace, or feelings that urge you to stray from God's plan for your life, do what Jesus did.  

Seek the Lord in prayer, and ask Him for the strength to feel those emotions, and do God's will anyways.  

Whenever Satan tries to plant a thought or emotion in my mind, the first step I must make is to recognize it as a threat!  

It's a threat to my joy, my peace, and my relationship with God.

The more you ignore your emotions, the less you will feel their control. 

Then you will have officially learned how to control emotions instead of allowing them to control you.

This is a secret of staying in faith..

Emotions Powerfully Affect Our Lives

Imagine what it would be like to be intelligent, volitional beings without emotions. We'd be like computers, machines with no sensitivity, no ability to relate, no sorrows, and no joys. That doesn't sound very appealing to me! 

Our emotions were given not to control us but to enable us to enjoy life.

Heb. 5:11 of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Maturity is delayed when we become dull of hearing

Dull - no-thros' From a derivative of; sluggish, that is, (literally) lazy, or (figuratively) stupid:—dull, slothful.

Rom 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Transformed - met-am-or-fo'-o;  to transform (literally or figuratively “metamorphose”):—change, transfigure, transform.

What keeps us from thriving? 

What stunts our spiritual lives and frustrates our development? 

Why are we disappointed in the Christian life? 

Why does God seem far away, not intimate or near?

Sometimes this failure to thrive is caused by emotional obstacles that have crippled us, given us a wrong concept of God, or made us devalue our worth and the word.. 

When it comes to emotions we can't make our feelings the focus of our attention, as society today seems to have done with the motto, "If it feels good, do it." 

Ephesians 4:20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Ephesians 4:11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—

The bible doesn’t tell you how to live it shows you how to live.

We listen more to our feeling than we do to God, or the word.

You know how much counseling my wife and i have done in ministry?

We tell people don’t do this, or that, we warn them, give them versus of the bible.

We must go back to the Bible for some important facts and principles about how to handle our emotions in a godly manner, beginning with the idea that:

However people are more in tune with their feelings that they can hear good counsel.

people think that because i have invested so much emotionally in something i must not let it go to waste..

Beloved learn how to let things go.. Let it go!

Genesis 20:9  And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, scoffing. 10Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with Isaac.” 11And the matter was very displeasing in Abraham’s sight because of his son.

Displeased- raw-ah'- A primitive root; (literally by broken to pieces); figuratively to make (or be) good for nothing, that is, bad (physically, socially or morally).  to afflict, associate selves by mistake , break (down, in pieces), + displease, do harm, (do) hurt self, (behave self, deal) ill, do mischief, punish, still vex, (do) wicked, be (deal, do) worse.

Other examples are plentiful: Selfishness is applauded and encouraged. 

Men and women walk out of marriages. 

Children are aborted, neglected, abused, and often left to raise themselves. 

Uncontrolled anger is exploding in random violence unparalleled in our history as a nation. 

All of this and more are the results of blindly following our feelings without any respect for God in our lives.

2 Cor 3:16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

The best way to mature people is unveil Jesus in the scripture..

We often think we can solve our spiritual needs with a change in our physical circumstances or moving to another city, changing a mate, changing churches, and some times those thing are needed but what we need is to grow up and be transformed.. 

We take a little vacation. We go to the mall and buy a whole new wardrobe. 

For others, it's living for pleasure. 

But those remedies are just Band-Aids or temporary anesthetics. 

2 Cor 3:14 But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. 15But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.

Transformation comes as Jesus is read in the scriptures.

2 Cor 3:2 You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

Versus 7 thru 16 are in parenthesis  He is the spirit of the old testament. But they couldn’t see Him.

God wants our emotional stability to be based on our relationship with Him rather than on physical or chemical stimuli.

2 Cor 3:4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God. 5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, 6who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

7But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, 8how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 9For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. 10For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. 11For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.