His Ways are not Our Ways

More of God means less of You or I, this is the challenge! Most of the time I don't necessarily think we need more of God, we need more obedience to God! To get closer to God we have to go His way, He first works death in us! Think about the heart like a cup of water filled to the rim, and mixed in there is some engine oil. You can't put more water in it or it will overflow. No matter how much water you dump into that cup the oil stays at the bottom. There's a lot of dead stuff in our lives that we don't get rid of and we ask God to pour the anointing in, but our heart is already filled with dead things we refuse to dump out. God is looking for a clean and empty vessel. Brokenness is a good thing, because you are being emptied and God is close to the broken hearted (Psalm 34:18).

God will try us again and again with problems (Proverbs 17:3). God wants to work with us, He wants to get real faith out of us, because without faith it's impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:16). Adversity produces advancement, strength comes from struggle, muscle comes from Resistance, and trouble drives you to God. I believe that many of our dilemmas are gateways to glory. How can you glorify God if you've never had a problem? To know deliverance you have to first have a disaster. To know the miraculous you have to first be in a mess.

We need real faith, and human reasoning always attacks faith. If we understood the purpose of God was in place before the problems arrive, the problems cannot supercede the purpose. We need to be locked into our destiny rather than focused upon the problems, afterall nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of Christ Jesus.

You should be hearing something in your heart from God often and go through seasons of breaking every so often. So examine yourself and ask: Why don't I feel the rivers of living water flowing in my life? Do you still talk to God all day? Do you have hidden sin? Is there something you refuse to give up you know is wrong? Do you just play the role of a Christian but your hearts not in it? Is their unforgiveness or bitterness somewhere? They are tough questions to examine in yourself and I don't like examining my heart and finding rotten apples. But it's better to let God prune the branch than allow a rotten apple to stink up the orchard.

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