INTERPRETING WITH ADVANCED SIGHT REGARDING GOD’S INTERVENTION OVER THE PRESENT BATTLE OVER THE NATION OF AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA, AND THE REST OF THE NATIONS.
Several parallels, or do I say paradox is taking place within the nations, particularly, in America, South Africa, Nigeria, as well as the UK but it will take a genuinely advanced, prophetic ( spirit) sight to bring clear prophetic, perspectives and interpretations to these things to the extent that we are not overrun by our views or well ingrained religious and nationalistic or globalist prejudice in our analysis.
13 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”
14 “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord e have for his servant?”
Joshua 5:13-14
Only those who have explicit, in-depth knowledge of biblical definition and spiritual perspective regarding present, global crisis are able to clearly see things, and correctly separate truth from their own human (views) interpretation and expectations.
When Joshua saw this man standing, he immediately placed a presumption perspective and expectation on the stranger without allowing the man with a draw sword to introduce himself, and this is the unfortunate stand or view many Christians have chosening in approaching the many complex issues of life. Sometimes, the place or point where we stand regarding the battle of life can preoccupy and overwhelm our thoughts to the degree that they negatively impact or blur our judgement.
While standing before a type of a Jericho’s resistance challenge, we should never allow our prophetic perspective of approach to be compromised. Keeping a perspective of balance of judgement in decision without being pushed into a comer of concluding on issues we are get to get divine judgement could cost us.
We must be cautious that we don’t continue to promote the narrative of God is for us, and he is against them. The perspective of Which side God is regarding certain issues must require well matured, biblical and spiritual insight. Our battle must always be on. The point of principle and value and never on the personality. The rules of engagement regarding the battles of life, especially in this season demands we excercise the finest of redemptive approach to any situation as kingdom regents. Joshua was taught a good listen that Jehovah is not a politician; God is neither a Republican nor is he a Democrat.
The God of America, as he is likewise the God of the rest of the world is not on the side of our religious or political biases.
He maintains his position of neutrality in his redemption purpose of all human.
It is us that must align our belief, motive, and agendas to his define standard.
For us to precisely see and appreciate the deliverance methodology of the Father for our nation and generation, we have come to the place of circumcision.
The Lord of Host wants to remove the reproach of our nations, including that of the United States of America, but it will not be done on some charismatic, believe or manipulation of intervention.
Hearts must be brought to God in sincere repentance from our blind spots, religious prejudice, our ingrained superior complex attitudes.
Pride must come down, and humility must be exalted and allow to flow like a river starting from the heart of the head of state to the ordinary Jones on the street.
Everyone needs to be circumcised by heart as we approach the battle of Jericho.
This battle will only be won through the power of obedience and the presence of God.
The priest must now take their place as the undress themselves from the spirit of pride and arrogance that kept them blind. It’s time to be redressed to bear the government of the nation upon their shoulders again.
The governing authority that will bring healing to the nation of America, South Africa and the rest of the world will flow from shoulders that have perfected the sacred call of carrying the (ARK) Presence of God.
May the Lord continue to grant us his grace and wisdom to both see and share in his truth with the finest of redemptive spirit, and ascended revelation in this season.
Iron must continue to sharpen iron for us to develop and maintain clearer, biblical, prophetic insight and wisdom in our interpretation!
Thanks for stopping by to read the concluding article on this subject, I hope it will help to realign your heart to the current emphasis of the Lord, or maybe, reaffirm the things you already know regarding this vital subject.
There are still lots of loose ends regarding our understanding of redemption we need to carefully address, especially in this period, heaven is inviting us to a more ascended, position of governmental authority and representation.
Countless many, as we can see in the word of God and in modern history were defeated by the enemy during their prime days of strength and glory. A very good example of this is that of Rehoboam, Son of King Solomon. The scripture affirms that when Rehoboam’s position as the King of Israel was firmly established with all the fortified cities he had built and the great numbers of armies at his disposal, he and the rest of the people abandoned the laws and ways of God.
It was clear that this king did not understand the principle
of redemption, solidly built on an ongoing, developmental relationships. He thought
he could use God to achieve something grand for himself and the nation with maintaining
a heart of love and commitment to the ways of God. This is the same value system many have
applied towards their relationship and interaction with the things of the
Spirit, and this is the reason why many are struggling to find joy, peace, and righteousness
in their so-called Christian faith.
2 Chronicles 12:1-2
After Rehoboam’s position as king was established and he had become strong, he and all Israel a with him abandoned the law of the Lord. Because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of King Rehoboam.
For us to effectively present ourselves as accompany of them ready to represent the Father’s prophetic intention for this season, we must close the various gaps of truth, insight, Revelation, and wisdom within the basic philosophy of our spirituality.
Becoming an integrated, spiritual, kingdom entity is a must in our qualification of advancement to the next frontier, and I do believe this is one of the main reasons the Spirit of the Lord is calling our attention to this subject of the salvation of the Soul.
What differentiates David from Saul was where they stand regarding the work with God in leading the people, and how they responded to the voice of God when they were both found wanting. Perfection is never about a sinless life as critically important, we daily press towards a sacred life of consecration, but about how we honestly respond to our sinful acts.
King Saul responded with lies, deceit, and self-glory to the voice of God’s judgment while David responded in repentance, humility, and submission to the judgment of God. These two individuals highlight the configuration of the hearts of those called and anointed by God to carry out an assignment for him. Pride and self-deception are one of the most powerful weapons the enemy has used right from the days of the fall of the first man and his wife in the garden.
To effectively deal with the dysfunctional character, nature
within us, we must be honest, truthful and willing to allow God into every
aspect of our lives. Those who hide behind the term, ‘am a Christian’ without
adhering to the value standard of a Christ-like life are deceiving themselves,
and the enemy loves such individuals.
Apostle Paul, in his
letter to Timothy, who was the resident Elder of the Church of Ephesus,
highlighted this critical point, which is still the main challenge of today’s
Church, which is, the idea that we can replace authenticity with a form. A form
is that which looks like, feels like, sound like, but in fact, it’s fake. This
text speaks of having a form of godliness but denying its power is something
that should seriously concern any true spiritual leader and any serious
follower of Christ.
The form of godliness has almost replaced the authentic,
particularly, amongst spiritual leadership, and this has unfortunately opened
the many lives to the lies of the enemy, particularly in the arena of
spirituality. Many of the messages, teachings, and so-called biblical
initiatives we see being practiced today are nothing but products of forms of
godliness while the power of the gospel of the kingdom is being denied.
This lie has eaten deep into how the majority see and relate
to the salvation’s relationship. There’s a lot of activity to show some sense
of commitment to the ways of God while deep beneath the hearts of this
professed believers this a disconnection. The mismatch in the Church today is a
serious issue of not understanding the nature or function of the operation of
the Soul, which I believe needs to be urgently addressed before it’s too late.
THE COST OF PRESUMPTION
To presume, and generalize knowledge, and the progressive
experience in spiritual subjects is to make one of the greatest errors in the
art of spiritual journey. Spiritual things from biblical perspective are often
not related to formulas. Secondly, when it comes to the issue of Spiritual
maturity, you begin to talk about the reality of kingdom principle and Christ
lifestyle which is alien to what many have come to believe and accept as
Christianity today.
Most of the teachings and traditions being practiced in our
Christian gathering and denominations are a clear extension of the refined
Roman-catholic Spirit and Judaism, traditional practice. These two schools of
thoughts are the most influential customs that influence what today known and
called the Christian religion is, and of course, they are not consistent with
what Christ established as his ecclesia.
You must have noticed that this two-main influence, with many others,
carries a form of godliness, but denies the power of right biblical value
relationship.
A FORMULA OF RELATIONSHIP, WHICH ONE SHALL IT BE?
A formula by design will always give a predicted result as
long as your calculation is defined and precise in relating to your expected
result. However, in spiritual dealings and realities, you can accurately get
all the formulas right and still not arrive at your predictive, expected
outcome. Why? The Father never intends to relate to his body of the earth from
a mentality or perspective of some formulas or laws. Yes, in our early days of the
salvation experience, we might assume that the Father can be related to from a
position of specific formulas.
MY PERSONAL JOURNEY
Example, I could still
remember when I was growing in the Lord, often times when I pray regarding
certain issues of need, I will usually get my prayer answered almost exactly
the way I have requested it. I had somewhat mastered the formula of my approach
to God in terms of what I desire him to do in my life, and to some level, it
seems the Father was playing along in relating to me in terms of this limited,
somewhat religious mind frame I was using to approach him.
I was innocent, naïve, or even ignorant regarding the ways of
the kingdom. Back then, I am not sure if I do understand what salvation truly
means and how to experience the spiritual life within my new relationship with
the Father.
All I did was an extension of what I see many do around. I
didn’t understand that there’s anything like spiritual development or the right
protocol value of approaching the things of the kingdom. All I understood was
the language of the word of faith; confess it and claim it, and then, a lot of
hype in my praise and prayers; and of course, a passionate sense of worship
without necessarily understanding what I was doing as long as there’s the
result. I was result oriented and not principle and value focus like many
believers back then.
If I can pray the more and worship with more passion, God
will answer my prayers. As you can see, my motive of doing those things was
already predicated on what God can do for me, rather than, doing those things
because I am a son, called and chosen to give glory to my Father who has
already given all things to me.
RITUAL OR SPIRITUALITY?
The unfortunate thing however was, these powerful spiritual principles
of approach back then were taught from a perspective of what I can gain or get
in return for my benefit. Basically, this concept, or idea of spirituality, is
a user-friendly philosophy of spirituality’. Everything is passionately pursuit
if it is going to bring me a blessing, increase, promotion personally, and
prosperity regardless of the alternative Father may have in store for me.
As you can see, the principles were right, but the motives
were utterly wrong. Unfortunately, this is how many are still approaching the
things of God, which is formula based. This is an approach of a slave, orphan
spirit many are still expressing in their spiritual quest. The Father does not desire to deal with any
of his children from this fallen, humanist, religious value. Formula is a deep
reflection of the ministry of the law still operating in our lives.
We are called to journey in the redeemed nature of our Spirit
in a true relationship; a relationship that is born out of trust, faith, and
complete obedience to the ways and life of the kingdom of God.
The term relationship is one of the most abused and
misunderstood words today, both in the body of Christ and generally in society.
And this is a deliberate, strategic plan from the kingdom of darkness to
corrupt, dilute, and desensitize the power and value the word, like many others
within the hearts of men.
WHEN SPIRITUALITY MEANS SOMETHING ELSE
There’s no strategy as powerful as reducing or nullifying the
meaning of something in the public domain until such a thing means something
else from its original meaning of intent. This is one subtle way the enemy has
tried desensitizing our spiritual sight and values, especially in this
contemporary Age. The battle to reduce the meaning of words and discredit the
power of God’s values and philosophy has been ever-increasing warfare in our
time.
We live in a day where truth today is viewed as relative.
People now have the audacity to challenge the truth and value behind every word
spoken by our Lord Jesus Christ. Keeping
the true meaning and intention of words in it’s original, intended, context has
become critical to the objective in maintaining the very essence and value of
kingdom truth.
The purpose and value of truth are reduced if the words used
in conveying such truth is not clear or understood to be saying what it is
intended for. Therefore, if I say I love you, and you don’t understand the original
meaning and purpose of the word love, you will undoubtedly borrow the general
meaning and value system society uses to measure the value of what I am saying
to you. This is a grave matter that needs those in the apostolic ministry to
clarify, at least this is one of the core objectives of those in the office of
the authentic apostolic governmental ministry.
Words are no more words if they’ve lost their very essence, values, and
core objectives.
RELATIONSHIP, A JOURNEY TO SPIRITUALITY
Therefore, to say that relationship is the very essence of
our spiritual development is a serious statement when we capture the true
essence of the word term relationship from divine meaning and perspective. A relationship is the single thread that ties
the mystery of the Godhead together in that order of perfect unity that makes
them one in three. My point is, there’s more to understand in the very nature
and life of God in relating to relationship than we can comprehend with our
unregenerated frame of thought.
The idea of a religious formula, rituals, and the inscription
of the laws is easily understood from the carnal, humanist frame of thinking,
but God does not live in such a realm. Even when he gave us the law, a type of
formula, was for the objective of schooling us to understand certain
fundamental principles required to build the necessary character values have
been in living in slavery, abusive lifestyle for a long season. It’s more
challenging to manage freedom if one has been in bondage for as long as one can
remember.
You need to set specific guidelines and rules in place to
protect those coming into this freedom. Freedom can soon have turned to
self-bondage when the right values and understanding of lifestyle has not been
taught. This is what the Lord did when he gave the children of Israel the
commandment of approaching him and relating to one another in the camp.
The moment we move into the art of living according to his
eternal design, the good, elementary principle of formula and laws no longer
suffices or applies to us because we’ve transited into the lifestyle of the
covenant through the blood of Jesus Christ, for this is the heart of our
calling in kingdom order of relationship.
UNDERSTANDING SPIRITUALITY
Back to the point, I was trying to make about the idea of
maturity. I have highlighted all this explanation to make this critical point
that I hope you’ll now be able to appreciate. You cannot presume or jump into
conclusion when it comes to spiritual development and maturity. Therefore, to
assume the fact that you stand shoulder to shoulder with your teacher at
school, or boss at the workplace suddenly makes you equal with them.
Or better still, to
assume the fact that you have the same matured body features and figures with your
parents suddenly make you equally developed as your mother or Father is to
express utter ignorance that can cost you dearly according to the word of God.
Maturity, in particular, spiritual maturity, is not merely
defined by a person’s Age; if your definition of maturity or the respect of
individuals is merely limited to their age gap or material acquisition and
influence in society, then you’ve certainly proven that you lack the knowledge
of basic life principles and the core values that drives human existence.
I see this sense of
disrespect within the body of Christ in the name of spirituality, especially on
social media. If you have ‘knowledge’, such knowledge, regardless of how potent
must function within an atmosphere of humility, honour, wisdom and respect. If
your quest for knowledge exhibit pride and arrogance, you have nullified the
law that makes truth work within your life, and therefore, you will be rejected
from accessing divine things.
The template that gives you the code to access spiritual
Revelation is a template of humility to those who are given the mission of
spiritual apostolic stewardship. Because many have not been taught that
spiritual things operate through the ministry of what could be likened to the
ministry of certain folks within kingdom called gatekeepers, they assume they
can just walk into the presence of the Father to ask for anything in terms of
spiritual Revelation.
THE PROTOCOL OF BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY
Spiritual things work through divine protocol and these protocols
work through specific underpinning value systems that interfaces between heaven
and earth. If you lack the knowledge of the ways of the Spirit, you will be
denied access to the ascended life of God, or the things of his kingdom,
especially in a position or atmosphere where there’s a corporate gathering of
the Saints.
There are people within the body of Christ who are designed
over regions to be portals of revelatory access. These elders at spiritual
gates of nations, cities and communities regulate and carefully administrate
the apostolic construction, or prophetic engagements that generally flows into
regions and atmospheres according to heaven’s divine season.
This is the idea behind the Church and the angle position
within the seven nations in Asia minor according to the book of Revelation.
Those churches are planted to regulate the spiritual, socioeconomic, and
political destiny of their cities for Christ. They are the original governing
leaders of their communities.
[AND ARROWS], TURNED [AND RAN] ON THE DAY OF BATTLE.
Psalm 78:9
by Isaiah-Phillips Akintola
Many seemingly mighty and elegant edifice, erected within the minds and around many Christians to behold will be collapsing at this end of days, particularly, from amongst what is presumptively defined as kingdom communities due to their weak, imbalanced spiritual philosophy and understanding.
We shall continue to discover as the new dawn of the days of the Lord falls upon us that that size, weight, and height do not necessarily amount to vision, strength, longevity, capacity, and productivity. The root or foundation we build will ultimately determine how far we go, and how long we shall remain, and this truth has now become a critical focal point as the sound of this present, spiritual advancement begins to lead us to a new frontier.
During one of our recent morning beyond devotional series, I was interested in probing why 22 thousand soldiers, armed for battle were disqualified, having failed the test of their fears and their lack of courage.
I have often used this scripture in Judges 7: 2-3 to reinforce my strong points while I am extrapolating on the subject of kingdom apostolic values and its principles, but it never really dawned on me to view this scripture from a redemptive perspective which is highly critical on the matters of advancing our kingdom mandate in this season.
During this last Easter week celebration, I took the time to do a series of teachings to highlight the importance and meaning of our salvation in Christ, and it’s advisable that we should often revisit this foundational truth even as we go on with the Lord.
The reality is, we cannot exhaust the ascended, revelatory, knowledge infused within the ministry of redemption. If creation is waiting in anticipation for its redemption, the logical reality will be that it’s those who have thoroughly understood the process and working of the various aspects of regeneration within the complex soul-life will be able to effectively and successfully carry out such a complicated task.
The important lesson from these 22 thousand, sandaled soldiers is that It’s so easy to make a declaration that we are taking back the land from the forces of darkness who have invaded our cities and space, it’s a different ballgame to be equipped ready for the warfare of reclaiming our lands.
The bottom line was 22 out of 33 thousand chosen warriors on the way to the battle were sent back home because something that ought to have been part of their default, the footing of readiness as the army of God was not there, hence, they were sent home. What could disqualify you and me in this season of preparedness and enrolment for the battle of the Lord?
I am sure you’ll agree with me that they’ve been times when we’ve assumed a sense of preparedness and readiness for an assignment only for a superior eye to access and scrutinize us, only to fish out of fear, weakness, ignorance, and unpreparedness.
How many times have we been told we are prepared and ready, particularly, from those who we assumed should know better than us; how many times we’ve presumed readiness in terms of receiving the necessary intelligence, training and capacity to engage the complexity of life like becoming a wife, or ready to be a husband and a father?
What about raising children, going into business, taking that position of leadership either in ministry or in some corporate, secular position, only to realize we’ve been disqualified because something regarding our foundational footing and philosophy is not in order?
Redemption does just deal with our initial position of salvation but also addresses the dysfunctional realities within the core structure of our humanity. The ability to identify and accept the various dysfunctional, well-seated, Adamic has fallen believes and characters that have become part of our default operational system of thinking and behaving is a milestone in the journey of redemption.
“The LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men with you for me to hand Midian over to you. Israel might brag and say, ‘We saved ourselves.’ Announce to the troops, ‘Whoever is scared or frightened should leave Mount Gilead and go back home.’ “So 22,000 men went back home, and 10,000 were left”. GOD’S WORD Translation. Judges 7: 2-3
One of the most unfortunate things we can accept as followers and members of the Christian faith is to allow the deception of the enemy to shut change, reduce, downplay, or even confuse the core meaning, purpose, and implications of our redemption. 90% of the challenges we are facing today are due to the lack of insightful knowledge of the implementation and impact of the ministry of redemption.
Moving from a presumptive notion to a more precise understanding will allow us to begin the adjustment process in our orientation to sound biblical concept of redemption. We cannot bring light to humanity if our spiritual ideology is out of synch due to a wrong and imbalance doctrinal knowledge.
The re-civilization of creation, according to the word of God, starts from the precise redemption of creation. Redemption [regeneration] is both the footing and the framework of the value worth of spiritual essence and maturity.
Once the foundation of what we define to be redemption is not in alignment with the divine architectural design principles of progressive spiritual development, whatever we seek to achieve or build, including our family values, or ministry objectives will never arrive at the divine intention of God.
This is a day, a season of spiritual breakthrough for us. We are not leaving any stone on turned; we are not giving the enemy any chance within the space of our lives. We want to enter the realm of spiritual breakthrough without hindrance, and therefore, the Spirit of the Lord has led me to pen down this short prayer of confession. I’ve deliberately generalized the prayers; you can personalize it if you wish. This is a timely prayer of self-deliverance and breakthrough. There’s power in your confession and word declaration. Please, pray these words by faith and total trust in the word of God, and you will see the liberating power of the Holy Spirit manifest in your life.
Father in the name of your Son Jesus Christ, we, your people, today declare that we are united with you through the eternal blood of your Son who died on the cross to redeem us from the curse of the law. Because of the new life we have through the virtue of our covenant as joint heirs with Christ, we declare that we’ve been free from every form of bondage and Satanic imposition. We renounce every known and unknown allegiance with the spirit of disobedience. We break the bondage of ignorance, wrong affiliation, and demonic presence within our lives and space.
We are sons of obedience; bearers of the eternal light of Christ, and therefore, we refuse every form of Darkness or Satanic, New Age projections over our life, family, ministry, or community. Your words say, for my people, perish for the lack of your knowledge. Father, perhaps, we have been living in ignorance through certain wrong affiliations, decisions and relationships that may have become open doors for the enemy to gain access into our lives and space.
Today, we ask for your forgiveness, and we confess every wrong action, decision, and connection we have that is contrary to your intention for us; we submit to your leadership and authority. We shut the doors we’ve ignorantly open for the wrong spirit to torment and hinder us from the life of liberty you’ve given to us. We bind our soul to the love of Christ; we yield our thoughts and imagination to the will of Christ.
We accept the good plans of the Father for us; we eat of the fruit of the tree of life that produces righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. We receive the love and mercy of God for us. We are partakers of the good life in Christ Jesus. Our confession is that of faith, hope, and love for Christ and his kingdom. We, as your sons and daughters proclaim the liberty of the gospel of Christ that sets free from every Satanic, occultic and demonic influence.
We rise against the spirit of fear, depression, oppression, insecurity, perversion, manipulation, intimidation, control and abuse. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, we are free from the lies and deception of the enemy. For he whom the Son sets free is truly free indeed. I declared that I am free from the spirit of religion, wrong ancestral connections, poverty, sickness and diseases.
Today, we renew the covenant of eternal union and oneness we share with Christ. We confess that we are delivered and liberated from every limitation, bondage, doubt, fear, intimidation, insecurity and lack. Father we declare, may your kingdom come into our live and space. May the authority of your kingdom dominion override every authority or dominion we have ignorantly allowed to influence our lives and space. In obedience, we submit to your love and wisdom.
We, therefore, declare and confess the enemy has no foot whole over any area of our life. We are secure in obedience, faith, and total trust in you. We are free from the influence of wrong words, interference, and negative, soulish people in our lives. We are no longer controlled nor prejudiced by the mistakes, misdeeds, and the wrong decisions of our childhood or teenage years
Our minds, thoughts, and imagination today are freed, renewed, transformed and delivered through the spoken words of life. Yes, we are people birth through the incorruptible word of life and not of death; we are free from the curse of the law of sin and death. We have the life of Christ reside in us, and therefore, we have the penetrating, illuminating light of God residing and transforming us from inside out.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, the name that is higher and stronger than all names and authority in the heavens, on earth and beneath, we declare we are stronger than any Satanic and demonic words sent to cripple us from advancing into the new beginning of the Father for us. We take our place in the ministry of divine governance; we proclaim today that we are seated with Christ in heavenly places, far above all powers, principalities, and wicked spirits. We break into a new day of glorious light, favor and abundance blessing. We are bless and not cursed. We are rich and not poor; we are well and not sick.
We proclaim, no weapon formed or fashioned against us will prosper. We condemn every tongue, words, thoughts, idea, imagination and intentions, designed to harm, frustrate or stop us from reaching our destination. We cannot be stopped because the Lord is our strength, shield and defense. We go forth in the name and authority of our Lord Jesus Christ. We reclaim our inheritance in the name of Jesus Christ. In faith, we take possession of what belongs to us and our family, ministry and community. We declare that greater is he who is in us than he who is in the world. We go forth in the spirit of breakthrough to God’s ordained plan for us in this season and beyond….In Jesus name… Amen.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart…
The art of beauty is a multi-billion industry today, and this is good and recommended to assist those who need this industry the most. But the fact remains, many who have patronized this important, lucrative industry are realizing that they are still very much unsatisfied and unfulfilled, and this is not because the beauticians are failing in their art of practice.
On the contrary, the beauty industry has greatly improved in the last few decades with the help of new discoveries and advanced technology in the field. So, why are people still not getting satisfied with the way they look? Well, simply put, beauty is primarily about how one feels on the inside, and not really how you look as much as that also is important. One can look very lovely and attractive to others, and still feel very dirty, dysfunctional, and disconnected from the reality of life, and this is the case with many, unfortunately.
Secondly, these wealthy, high-class individuals are hoping that beauticians will help them carry out a surgical adjustment only God, the creator of all things visible and invisible can carry out without a single surgery on a human face or their body as the case may be. The fact is, there’s no beauty studio, well equipped enough to reconfigure [beautify your inner life] you in a manner that will give the kind of self-confidence in the quality of presentation that you’re searching.
The way you often are a clear reflection or indication of how you feel or think on the inside. One’s feeling or want or need speaks to us of how we see life and respond. Often, when our soul is crying out for something, we need to firstly probe the source of such a need before we jump into a goose chase. If we refuse to examine the cause of a need, we may end of only responding to something we thought we desperately need only to realize that it’s not what we need.
When we are not confident in who we are and allow that identity to mature in a manner that becomes our emblem of recognition, we can easily be charmed and seduced by what we see in others to the point of wanting to become like them. The search for something or people to add beauty [self-confidence or approval] into our lives is a taboo. We only get to see and honestly appreciate the beauty of others and things around us to the degree of our inner, spiritual awareness and reconfiguration.
A person that is yet to be spiritually awakened cannot see nor value his or her own beauty, nor will such a person be able to offer beauty to others. Beautify is of the Lord, and everything God does and represent to us is a deep reflection of his eternal nature which is glorious. The scripture above relates beauty to the state of one’s eternity.
Beauty lies within your spirit; beauty is an integral part of your spiritual makeup, and when you allow yourself to be known and truly reborn by your creator, not only will your true beauty be restored to you, but you’ll also see others in their true state of beauty.
The first thing that happens to man in the garden after the fall was the loss of the sense of beauty. Adam tried everything to cover his lack of sense of beauty and insecurity, but unfortunately, he will need to repeat the process again and again. Beauty is far beyond how we see ourselves and life; beauty is a manifest, presence of God that gives us confidence, courage, and standing to be what he wants us to be.
Every plant and flower stand in their own order of class and beauty without trying to be something else. When you look at the plants and flowers in the fields what do you see and how do you see yourself through the unspoken messages they declare?
Life is a mystery arranged in beauty, but you’ll have to look beyond face value to see the inner beauty of God in everything within and around you. I continually stand in amazement how God has hidden the most valuable treasure in common things to be picked and discarded like a flower.
The other day I was looking at the arrangements, structure, color, and character nature of each flower I’ve been able to snap in the picture. Could it be that we are today missing something critical message heaven is speaking to us in regard to our restoration just for the fact that they seem to be hidden in some so-called mundane places or things? There’s a fundamental question we need to ask ourselves in this season where presentation and look have almost shortchanged the essence of life and its values.
This is a day of beauty, but this beauty is not going to happen because of your facial look, or physical construct and expression; this beauty is going to be manifest through the inherent, character values of regeneration of our spiritual state before the Lord and creation.
The mystery of beauty. Spring is a reflection of the glorious beauty of Christ to creation.
God gave us beauty to express his glory and majesty.
One of the characters of God is beauty; beauty is a deep reflection of the Father’s creativity. Very few today appreciate nor understand the purpose of beauty, and due to this ignorance, the enemy has sought to pervert the beauty of God in and around us.
When we read and familiarize ourselves with the account of creation in Genesis, we begin to get the sense the Father’s eternal intention, which I believe is to express his glorious beauty, power, and majesty across the earth. The’s no way we can begin to talk about God without mentioning his beauty, majesty, and glory.
The beauty of God is still relevant teaching we should pay more close attention to even as we are invited to step into a new spiritual epoch. We can choose to shift our focus from the present darkness and begin to pay more close attention to the dawn of the new season, emerging out of the shadow of yesterday.
I believe that within the present challenges of darkness eclipsing the earth that there’s a dawning of a new day; a day where the light of God is becoming even brighter than when we first began.
The choice to choose to see beauty in ashes is a wonderful training we must endeavor to go through, so has to become a testimony of heaven’s brilliance in time where people find it difficult to see nor appreciate the investment of God’s treasure in earthen vessels.
I love to take pictures, and I’ve been able to use my camera to capture the most beautiful images out of the worst condition or situation around. Creating images out the chaotic, life, realities is something I cherish and love as a follower of Christ. it was not always like this. I have had my own share of seasons of pain, frustrations, disappointment, fear, discouragement and even the sense of giving up.
The Father was gracious to me to have given me another chance to see life through his eyes. Indeed, until we learn to see and understand ourselves and life itself through the eyes of the Father, we will never see anything beautiful about our lives.
It takes a person that has been invited to the hill of the Lord to see things and people from an elevated point. when the Lord brought me to have a glimmer of life from an ascended point, it changed my self-perception, and the way I generally see other and things.
Sprint is upon us again; what do you to see? Are you going to fix your eyes and attention on just the troubles, needs, pains, disappointments and failures around you? Or are you going left your eyes and behold the blooming of beautiful flowers springing up all around you?
Many of the flowers grow in the most disadvantaged and marginalized communities. The pain and challenges of our environment do not stop the flowers from blooming when their season arrives. this is a lesson we should learn as we see spring dawns upon us again.
Are you going to allow your fear and worry to rob of the beautiful things the Father desire to reveal to you in this season. There’s more to those beautiful butterflies and flowers blooming; there’s a spiritual message the Father is conveying to you, and you don’t want to miss his voice in this season of [spiritual] spring.
Within the chaotic challenges of life, beauty is all around us. The appreciation of beauty starts with the configuration of our self-perception. When we cannot recognize our own inner self-beauty, it will be hard press to value and appreciate the beauty of others or what is around us.
When the rainbow appears in the sky, it does not remove the reality of the needs, pains, and the complex challenges around us, but it sure does reminds us of the eternal, promised covenant of God to creation.
I live in an environment of two contrast, and I am sure that is this is the story of almost everyone living in one community or the other South Africa. You can be living in some worth define, expensive, beautiful estate when the bridge across your estate or complex is a total reflection a sharp contrast.
A contrast that highlight by the facts of marginalization, poverty, inequality, the lack of essential socioeconomic opportunities and so on. , To, therefore, define your status by where you live is some worth blind and inaccurate at least here in South Africa.
The legacy of Apartheid housing layout is still very much visible in the so-called post-Apartheid political state. I brought out this point to say that living in South Africa, particularly as believers, requires that we keenly understand the true definition of beauty and how to appreciate even in the midst of struggle. But to merely fix our eyes and attention on the darkness of our history is to rob ourselves in the ongoing transformation of a new nation emerging in beauty and glory.
Beauty is not measured nor determined by class, race, gender or wealth. The grace of Beauty is a character that is reflective in the value of self-awareness and self-worth, entrenched in the identity of every human, especially those who have discovered the unconditional, eternal love Christ for them.
It takes a person who appreciates the investment of God in his or her life to see the worth and value of God in others, and therefore, perceive their beauty and appreciates it as they grow and bloom for God and creation.
Beauty is an internal and eternal design of our unique identity and ability, or maybe, our disabilities as the case may be, this means that when we’re able to discern each other’s essence precisely, we can then begin to appreciate each one’s potential and contribution to life.
No one is an accident; we are all born and located where we are for a reason, that should positively impact and transform someone else life.
I try to see and appreciate beauty in everything around me. 90% of my picture are taking in places people will hardly ascribe as beautiful. I’ve been able to see grace, elegance, and beauty through the eyes of God because everything he created was designed excellent and beautiful.
The challenge many are faced with today, especially here in South Africa is that we’ve stopped seeing the inner beauty in ourselves and around us. We’ve become more fixative on others definition and description of beauty either through the social media or amongst other social groups and friends to the point of rejecting God’s eternal definition of who we are and what we represent on his behalf. We are a nation of beautiful people and landscapes, but we’ve allowed darkness to almost cover these beauty.
It’s like the more we absorb the identity others regarding who we are as a nation, the more we lose our moral values and identity. The lack of seeing and appreciating our self-beauty has led us to become something terrible to each other to the point of manifesting the spirit of Cain-the spirit that kills his own brother.
When what is designed beautiful becomes altered by insecure dysfunctionality and corrupt Imagination, when have then directly, or indirectly turned the image of God into an idol of human craft that will eventually bring sorrow and pain to the heart. To design or craft an image that expresses the beautiful values of God for creation is to extend the glory of God within such fields of existence.
Beauty is a mystery that can only be correctly defined and understood the way God sees his creation in the beginning…after he created man, and he said, it was very good. Goodness and beauty are synonymous to the awakening of light of God within a heart that is once darkened by corruption. Beauty is the act of perfection in creation; it is not the expression of adornment.
Why do today’s Christians, mainly ladies use the term sexy to refer to a beautiful person or image? It’s important we note that sexy and beautiful are two different words that mean two completely different things. Please take note, when human minds and imagination begins to get transformed, they will start to enjoy the art of pure beauty.
Capturing the image of pure beauty through lens view of the transformed mind, passing through eye gate, expressed through the art of (sound) words, writings, or even paintings and photography is one of the glorious mysteries of the redeemed spirit that is called prophetic.
The prophetic is a reflection, and also an expression of the beautiful heart of the heart revealed through various arts and acts. Beauty is not just about what you see; it is about how you understand the value of what you see.
There’s beauty in sight
There’s beauty in sound
There’s beauty in words
There’s beauty in silence
Entering the art of appreciating beauty is first to learn to unlearn the perversion the soul has accumulated as the image beauty. Admiration is a beautiful thing when the soul is free of the wrong definition accumulated by false impression. Inspiration is wonderful when the mind has yielded to the creative life source of the Spirit. To think you can be inspired to create anything outside the life of God is to believe that a fish can survive living outside water.
Not acknowledging the giver of a thing doesn’t make the person less the giver of such a thing. Your acknowledgment of the presence of God in your life only creates more magnificent room for him to do much more you can ever imagine or think. Not recognizing and appreciating does not erode the fact that thing you have belongs to him. Beauty is of the Lord. All good and perfect gifts come from him.
I am an art student; this implies that every aspect of my life is by default drown to the creative life and nature of God…even science is an art of beauty in the sight of the creator. What he imagines, he creates, though we may not see it, the Lord is forever creating new things, yet, ancient in his eternity.
Do you know that the beauty of eternity is both past and future? There’s nothing new under the sun than to appreciate through the lens view of the Spirit what has been brought your path through providence.
Allow me to bother you again with one of the life-messages of wisdom. Many Christians today have become so naturally accustomed to specific and essential, practices to the extent that we have almost forgotten the transforming-life lesson we should be learning from them.
Yesterday evening my wife brought these plants home, and she immediately got a cup with water inside and dropped the plants in it. I didn’t give much attention to it except for the fact that she said one of the plants is a pine tree.
This morning while I was making myself a cup of tea, the Holy Spirit drew my attention to the cup and asked me, what do you see? I immediately cut the reason for the question; if the plants are not secure in the appropriate environment, they will eventually die in the next few hours or days depending on their longevity.
The right habitat of the plants does not only secure their existence but also their potential in growing and fulfilling their ordained purpose for life.
What a profound truth that we daily take for granted. Living daily in the environment that sustains who we are made to be is an ever-fresh revelation we should always cherish if we must remain relevant in life.
We’ve been placed in an environment that sustains everything we are, and should represent as humans made in the likeness of God. A life lived in the consciousness of the abiding presence of God is one that receives provision for life and godliness according to brother Peter.
Let me remind us that we do not have any excuse whatsoever not to remain in our natural habitat as followers of Christ, and for those who are none-Christians, nature speaks to us of who we are, and how we ought to be sustained in life even without a preacher.
This is the reason the book of Romans declares that as humans, we have no excuse for not living our lives according to the ethics code of God.
Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Why is it easy to see the repercussion of not transplanting a plant in their right habitat of water supply, yet, it seems so difficult to accept our own inherent sustained environment within the stream of living water?
While these plants do not have the will of their own to jump out of the water, and if they can, they will eventually die. We, however, see the will of these plants bound to the eternal objective of what they’ve been ordained for in their service to the use of man and the rest of creation.
Man, as the most superior of all Gods creation has been given a will because the one who created him has a will. However, we have not truly fathomed, understand, nor appreciate why we’ve been given a will that should be continually surrendered to the one who gave it to us as part of our daily devotional service to him who created us for his own good pleasure.
We’ve assumed that because we have a sense of where we came from, at least as Christians, immediately translates to been secured within the environment of our sustainability which of course is a terrible lie.
Refusing to consciously yield ourselves in obedience to the will of God is like a fish out of the water, assuming it will survive. Friends, this is not just some natural law, but a spiritual one, that should be daily sustained and in practice if we desire peace and fulfillment.
If you ever assume that you can survive with your supposed advanced intelligence and secured financial muscle without you abiding continually in the presence of Christ who is the source of all things, is a lie and you will soon die if you don’t remain in your natural spiritual habitat in Christ.
I hope these few lines will stir and motivate your spirit mind to start abiding in Christ our eternal source.
