The Roots of the Righteous

Believers, the ones who follow hard after God, are likened to trees planted by the river whose roots go deep down to the place of unlimited supply.  It matters where you are planted and to whom you are connected.

If we will thrive as God's people on the earth, we need to cherish our connection with the Lord and His Spirit.  It is the most important thing about our existence and destiny.  This place of connection is hidden from view, just as a tree's roots are not visible above the earth.  The things we do when no one is there to observe are the most crucial to our Christian walk.  They reveal the kind of root structure we have developed over time.

The Lord should be our ONLY source; He should be the One who sustains and preserves us; He should be the One who determines our identity.  However, these will be the truth of our life if we are rooted in Him - not in the world; not in man; not in the things that we possess.

There is a shaking that is already here, and only those who have their roots in God will remain unshakeable.  Lord, you are my everything!


(More on The Roots of the Righteous later...)

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Rivers in the desert

How does God cause waters to flow in dry places?  How does He "give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert"?  He is no magician but a worker of miraculous processes.  What, then, is the process He intends to work out in our day that will turn our parched communities around for good?

The answer is in His people.  We are His agents for changing the world.  Jesus rightly claimed that He was the light of the world (John 9:5), which implied that He was God's answer to the world's darkness.  We too, Christ has said, are light for the world's gross darkness and salt for the earth's decay and tastelessness.  We are God's answer to the world - but we need to know this and be it.

If only believers will understand that there is a river flowing from the presence of God within them, and that wherever this river flows it produces life!  With this understanding, we will pass through the "valley of weeping" and turn it into a place of blessing (Psalm 84:5-7).  Without this knowledge, we will be numbered with the millions of mere water-drinkers who are only desperate for some sort of relief from the dryness of their lives.

Let us reconnect with the Lord who dwells in secret, find the portion of dry land He wants us to possess, and become the answer that everyone around will seek - all to the glory of our King, Jesus!

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Water from within vs. Water from without

The moment we come to Christ and drink of His Spirit, a well of living water is formed within us, springing up to life eternal.  It is from this inner well that our nourishment and fulfilment is derived.  Also, this inner well of the Spirit sustains against a backdrop of external famine and hardship.  The confusion that many believers find themselves in on a daily basis is the constant need to petition heaven for a change in their dry, external circumstances, when they are meant to thrive in the midst of every circumstance and through faith in and obedience to God, change every unfavourable circumstance.  When Christians ignore the abundance of "water" within them, they will go from one place to another in search of external "water" that can never satisfy.

Christ has done it all!  We need to appreciate and appropriate what He has already done within us, and with Him transform the parched world around us.  If only God's people will understand this afresh!  If we do, many gatherings that promise circumstantial breakthroughs without refocusing the believer on what has already broken forth within them will lose their appeal.  Charlatans who exploit the ignorance of believers and charge them heavily for the promise of external refreshment will lose their crowds too.

The transition from being a mere water-drinker to a significant well-digger starts from here, because only those who are connected to Christ on the inside will be used of Him to transform life on the outside.  Think about this and gain wisdom.

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Only Well-diggers can change the nation!

The Church that Jesus envisioned, the one for which He laid down His life, is to be full of people who through their relationship with God bring transformation and blessing to their world.  For some reason, our worship houses are teeming over with a different kind of people - a people who relate with God primarily for their own blessings and transformation.  These are a people who forget that they are already blessed with everything in Christ; that they already have the well of the Spirit inside of them and simply need to allow Him to flow into everything around them.  It really matters how we see ourselves and our association with the Almighty.

Mere water-drinkers in the Church cannot bring change to the nation.  Only well-diggers have the vision to transform the land promised to them by God.  The Earth is truly the Lord's and we all have a duty to establish His rule in it through well-digging.  Let the life within you find expression in your world without any restriction, and you will be known as a builder of broken walls, a blessing to many.

Lord, I am a well-digger!

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Getting ready to publish the message!

It's time I get back to blogging.  Left it now for far too long!  It's all the more necessary now that I am getting ready to publish the transformational message God has imprinted upon my heart for a number of years: The Well-digger Message.

I was probably not aware of the depth of what the Lord was inscribing upon my heart when I first preached on Becoming a Well-digger.  It was at Cornerstone Christian Centre in Bromley, UK, in December 2005.  A year later, I published the book The Secret of Abraham, which introduced the Well-digger revelation.  Now, in the middle of 2012, the time is right for the message.

Every God-breathed word is a double edged sword that cuts deep to the heart of man.  This message will cut and will also heal.  This message will produce a Kingdom people with a Kingdom mindset.  May the voice of the Lord be heard across the land as the message is declared to all who have ears to hear. Amen.

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Offenses (2)

"Offenses must come!" Here's another statement of fact that Jesus made when He taught on the subject of offenses. With this statement, He highlighted the reality that humans know so well: the world in which we live is saturated with offenses. Whether you want it or not, whether you cause it or not, that evil, corrosive thing called offenses will come your way. The question is, what are you going to do about it?

The very atmosphere of Eden was offense-free, until the spirit of deception, the old serpent, found a way to corrupt the heart of Eve and her husband. Outside Eden, however, offense is the order of day. Whichever way you turn, it is always making its way towards you. Like invisible radio waves, offense is a part of the fallen world - so also is the unregenerate mind of man that so easily picks them up. If only believers will operate in this life as Christ did! He chose not to tune in to the "offense channel", neither did He receive or broadcast worldly offenses. He was tuned to the Father; He spoke words from the Father and responded to earthly words in the way the Father's Spirit led Him - no matter the consequences. He did this always and never for once faltered.

The result of Christ's spiritual disposition was that provocations never provoked Him; accusations never bothered Him; misrepresentations never unruffled Him; betrayals never surprised Him. It did not matter how many times the prince of this world came to Him, nothing of this world could be found in Him.

How unlike the average believer today! We easily offend and are easily offended. Is this not an evidence that we are more attuned to the flesh than to the Spirit? Those who are led by the Spirit always, whose heart are consistently manifesting His fruit, will know the blessedness of an offense-free life. Surely, offenses must come, but we need not be the originators, receptors, transmitters or facilitators of them.

"My little children, keep your hearts from offenses" - GOD!

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Offences! (1)

I recently found in the book Matthew, a statement Christ made about offenses. It just stood out to me and left an indelible mark upon my heart. After seeing this statement, I understood more than ever before why the Lord used very strong words whenever He discussed the matter. The statement I found is strong and true.

In Matthew 18:7, the first part, Jesus said, "Woe to the world because of offenses!" What a precise statement of fact. If there is anything that has caused much moral and spiritual decay in the world today, it is offenses. In fact, the first sin man created was facilitated by an offense at God. The devil succeeded in making Eve think that God was keeping something good from them, and this thought process led to rebellion and sin. What about the murder of Abel by Cain, was it not because of the feeling of offense aimed at God and Abel?

I have found out that some of the most frustrated believers today, not to talk of those who are not in the faith, do not know the reality of peace with God and the peace of God. They are offended at what they consider to be God's slowness or His seemingly uncaring attitude to their predicaments. This offense at God so easily manifests as offense at man - the root of a million atrocities in this life.

Woe to the world because of offenses! How true. Every war, feud, genocide and disharmony since the beginning of time has offenses written all over them. Just a little feeling of offense, real or perceived, is enough to cause unspeakable havoc between people and nations. Offenses have literally tipped us all in the direction of irreversible destruction. If not for the cross of Christ, the rock of offense that corrects this deadly imbalance, the world would have imploded long time ago. The privilege we have in Christ is the ability to lay hold of divine wisdom that can help us maintain an offense-free heart in an offense-ridden world. We need not be victims of the world's woes. We can find refuge in Christ and be partakers of the divine nature of God - our only guarantee of a life of victory over the force of offenses.

Thank you Jesus for this immeasurable victory!

(To be continued...)

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