The Meek or the Weak?
Test yourself. What is your mindset? Do you begin with God and his rights and goals? Or do you begin with yourself and your rights and wishes?
Loving God with “all our heart” doesn’t just mean inviting Him into our hearts. It also means allowing Him to be the motivation for all our choices.
* “Nevertheless I am continually with Thee; Thou hast taken hold of my right hand. With Thy counsel Thou wilt guide me, and afterward receive me to glory.”
Psalm 73:23-24
*The unsaved have no hope. They will medicate their pain and emptiness with material possessions, relationships, sex, drugs, false idols, etc.
They appear to prosper, but will have nothing but eternal pain and separation from Abba. They will not experience Abba’s grace nor the love of Jesus.
Life is just a vapor. Endure your trials well and live a life that glorifies your Father. Nothing else has eternal value.
Who Are the Meek?
*MEEKNESS– is power under constraint.
*Meekness is not weakness!!!!
Sometimes we confuse the two. But the difference between a meek person and weak person is this:
* A weak person can’t do anything.
* A meek person, on the other hand, can do something but chooses not to.
Jesus said, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5).
The word “Meek” from the original language was used to describe reining in a stallion. It is the idea of a horse being controlled by a bit and bridle. The horse is choosing to submit to authority.
* That is meekness.
*MEEKNESS– is power under constraint.
Although Jesus said, “Blessed [happy] are the meek,” we don’t celebrate meekness in our culture. Instead:
* We celebrate assertiveness.
* We celebrate getting things from other people, sometimes even taking advantage of other people.
* When is the last time you saw a movie that celebrated the virtue of meekness? *When is the last time the big buildup for the movie was the moment when the good guy meekly restrains himself, even though he was wronged?
We don’t want to go to a movie like that. We want to see a payback movie in which the first half consists of bad things happening to the hero, and the last half consists of bad things that come to the people who did those things to the hero.
That is what entertains us. That is what our culture celebrates.
How different this is from what the Bible teaches!!!!
*The Bible celebrates meekness!!
*The biblical worldview says:
* Last is first.
* Giving is receiving.
* Dying is living.
* Losing is finding.
* The least is the greatest.
* Meekness is strength.
* The idea is that we are living by God’s truth—not by what our culture says should make us happy!!
If poverty of spirit is a broken pride and mourning reflects a broken heart, then meekness expresses a broken will.
The master passion of Jesus’ life was to do the will of His Father. It should be our ruling passion also.
There is absolutely no limit to what God can do through a soul wholly committed to Him!
*MEEKNESS– is power under constraint.
God allows your trial because He wants to make you “devil-proof”! That does
not mean you will not be attacked again but you will be trained to stand! It is
all part of His preparing you for greater service, greater anointing and
expanded usefulness in His kingdom.
Furthermore, the Lord is trying to strengthen you against the devil’s wiles.
He is raising up a body of believers who have faced the devil, who have been
strengthened against him, and who know his devices and are not afraid of him!
God is saying, “Once you understand why you are going through this, you will
have taken back all the ground you lost. You will be in control again—by the
power of the Holy Spirit!”
Once Elijah’s trial was over (see 1 Kings 19) he would never run again. He
now had a sense of direction and he was reassured in his spirit.
You see, God was about to send him to nations to raise up kings, leaders and prophets!
*God told Elijah: “Go, return on your way…anoint Hazael as king over
Syria…anoint Jehu…as king over Israel. And Elisha…you shall anoint as
prophet in your place” (1 Kings 19:15-16).
Elijah had been given fresh
anointing power. He was in control again!
“So he departed from there” (verse 19). Elijah came out of the cave to do
God’s will! He did not have to shed a river of tears. No, he simply had heard
the Word of the Lord!
**The only hold the devil can have on you is fear. And you must shake it
off in faith!
You have to say, “I am not going down. God is going to give me a
fresh anointing from heaven—He is going to use me!”
Do you believe that God is not finished with you—that He is teaching and
training you for better things? He wants to speak to you in your cave of
despondency. He wants to tell you what to do and where to go—and He wants to
bring you out!
*So get up out of your despair and shake off the bondage of fear and depression!
*Depart from your cave. You will discover that the moment you get up and walk out, the anointing will flow!
Dear Father, deliver me from going my own way!
Take out of my heart anything that is disobedient to Your blessed will. Grant me today to have a spirit of perfect, willing obedience at all times and under all circumstances, what ever the price or cost. Let my testimony today reflect the words of the preincarnate Christ, “I delight to do your will, yes, Your Law is within my heart!”
“Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.”
(Revelation 5:12 )
The Word of GOD is alive!
•HEBREWS 4:12
The Word of GOD is living!
•PSALM 119:105
*JOHN 10:10
Without the Word of GOD, I won’t experience the abundant life that GOD has for me! It’s not enough to read GOD’s Word! I must *DO HIS Word!
•GALATIANS 3:13
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. (3 John 1:2)
The Aointing will lead me to prosper in every area of my life.
•ROMANS 8:2
•1 CORINTHIANS 6:20
•DEUTERONOMY 29:9
The Anointing will take you into places that Money cannot.
•2 CORINTHIANS 8:9
•MARK 10:23-27
•PSALM 1:1-3
•JOHN 15:7
I activate the anointing for the Prosperity of GOD in my life by obeying The Father.
•ISAIAH 1:19
•JOSHUA 1:8
•JOB 36:11
Thank you Lord-for Your Living and Active Word!!
In Jesus Name, Amen