A common theme that I write about is focusing on your relationship, alignment, and communion with FATHER. After all, that is what Love is all about. The things of this world can divert your attention away from what is really important. The solution to every problem you have can be found by being in communion with FATHER. The adversary has no place in those who are closely linked with FATHER. In the 4th chapter of the book of James we find:
7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
These are instructions for us to walk out, not simply read and proceed on to the next Truth. We must walk out these instructions. You must subject yourself in obedience to FATHER in order to “submit” and you must place yourself under HIS direction. At the same time you are to resist the devil and he will flee in response. However, submission comes first in order for this to occur.
A double-minded man’s heart needs purification. When you are constantly analyzing and reasoning, you can easily become double-minded. Scientists have studied the left brain where logic and reasoning occur versus the right brain where the creative and intuitive reside. You must be careful or you can reason away FATHER’S blessings in your life. The ego or “self” will focus on your left brain and will encourage you to develop your left brain at the expense of your right brain. The result is double-mindedness.
When I talk about giving, your left brain will kick in and become offended. You will begin to analyze my every word looking for some fallacy so that you can negate the overall Truth about giving. You will cite endless examples of abuse by the five-fold ministry and rationalize away why you should tightly grip your money even more so. The one thing you fail to consider is that FATHER looks at your heart when giving and it matters not what the recipient does with your money. Your blessing isn’t determined by their use or abuse, your blessing is determined by your intent. My wife and I have been abundantly blessed over the years by this specific Truth. The story of Jesus at the treasury observing the widow’s giving in Luke 21:
1 And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,
2 and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites.
3 So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all;
4 for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had.”
Jesus confirmed that her offering was to GOD, not the officials running the Temple. He had no issue with there being a treasury. She please FATHER by her willingness to give and Jesus took note of this reality. In contrast, He was not impressed by the wealthy who gave very little even though it was of a greater monetary value than the widow’s two mites.
Why have I continued to bring up the topic of giving? It is because this issue is the most subtle of all hindrances to your communion with FATHER. If you can’t overcome the subtlety of greed, you cannot fully enter in to HIS Presence. It is my desire that all of those who read these words “enter in”. You can endlessly analyze Scriptures and look for hidden keys hoping to unlock some mystery that will allow you entry into the Holy of Holies but I say to you that we should approach FATHER as children who simply want to give HIM their all. The key is hidden in plain sight!
Do you want to “die to self”? Then get close to FATHER. How simple! Change your focus from the complexities before you to the simplicity of entering into HIS Presence. As you do this, HE will give you the solutions to your complex problems, to those issues that seem to defy analysis and reasoning. It times past, I would have some business issue or software logic issue that seemed to be just beyond my grasp. I would set the problem aside and commune with FATHER. Suddenly, HE would open my eyes to the solution of the problem and it was usually contrary to standard logic. HIS ways are higher than our ways thus we need to keep this Truth before us each day:
Proverbs 8:32 “Now therefore, listen to me, my children,
For blessed are those who keep my ways.
33 Hear instruction and be wise,
And do not disdain it.
34 Blessed is the man who listens to me,
Watching daily at my gates,
Waiting at the posts of my doors.
35 For whoever finds me finds life,
And obtains favor from the LORD;
36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul;
All those who hate me love death.”