Seven Steps To Empower Your Life Through Christ

Seven Steps To Empower Your Life Through Christ

THE ESSENCE OF DESTINY Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny.
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There are so many nuggets of wisdom and special messages of faith and knowledge throughout the bible that it is hard to condense into a set of lessons or talks much less one brief Blog entry. However I have been given these seven things to focus on.

You see I know that Jesus is coming back soon, and very soon, for a church, his body, his bride, that is without spot or blemish, a church that had made itself ready. We tend to think it is our pastors job or Jesus’ job to make us ready to be eternally with the King of Kings, ruler of Heaven and Earth. Whose Kingdom shall have no end. Do not misunderstand me, without The gift of God’s Son, His willing sacrifice of death, and resurrection, we would have no way to begin to make ourselves ready. As Jesus had to chose to carry out God’s plan of redemption for mankind, we must chose to ask Jesus in to our harts to forgive our sins and be Lord over our lives. Then we must go further to fellowship with him until we learn his plan for our lives, so that we can walk in the center of his will and plan for our life. Not just so that we can be better people, and receive rewards for being in obedience but to be in God’s perfect will and provision for our work and life.
Remember though, we often believe it is by our good behavior or our works that we could be good enough, we fool ourselves.
Ephesians 2:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

This does not mean that we should not care about how we conduct our selves, but as we become a new creature through our loving new relationship with Jesus Christ, our desire changes to be about my fathers business of sharing His love and life with others, and breaking away from the sinful behaviors that ruled us in the past. However when we slip and fall into old habits of a sinful nature instead of running from God and saying now I have blown it, there is no hope, our first step is to come to Jesus and say I am sorry , Please forgive me, He will, then turn from it and learn from it.
To start our seven steps we are going to accept the fact that you have chosen to be a Christian somewhere in your past, whether you are living a Christ like life currently or not. Which means that you made a conscious decision to make Jesus Christ, The Anointed One, The King Of Kings who sits at the right or strong hand of God the Father Almighty, Lord of your life. At that time He has chose to wipe away all of your sins, and make you joint heir to all that he owns, and call you friend. To bless those that bless you and curse those that curse you, He Promises to be your provider, your protector, your king and savior eternally. What an offer! What temporary pleasure are you not willing to give up to have that assurance.

As a good friend has told me, "there's nothing in Hell I lost I want back that is worth giving up eternity ruling and raining with Jesus my savior."

1.Step number one is realizing you are "not all that", that you are not your provider, God is! Give your business or your job over to His use. Make a giving not a living. The first step in improving yourself is to admit without God you can do nothing! I will lose most "self - made men right here. I also will loose many upward mobile Women and many self reliant Moms.

Act 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

2. Step two requires following God's plan of blessing you. You must give 10% of all your increase as your first fruits offering or Tithe. You must give it to your local church where you get your teaching, if you don't have a local church give it to a ministry on TV or Radio Or online where you get good biblical teaching until you find a local church. This Tithe blesses or redeams your other 90%, and will strech it. If you are not doing this you are robbing God.

Mal 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Mal 3:9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Mal 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Mal 3:11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

Notice in verse 3:8 God mentions Tithes and Offerings seperately, thats because your Tithe, or 10%, opens the doors of Heaven, but your Offening is what God multiplies back to you 30-60-or 100 fold. Thats how you can take a small salery and have great blessings.

For many yearsI thought whatever I have left in my pocket was good enough for God, but I learned giving to God is a system set in motion to bless me.

Many pastors will not teach on this biblical truth, for fear they will lose many of their people, when in truth they are robbing them of their blessing.

We are getting long, I will go into the other steps in my next blog entry. Take time to digest what we have talked about this far.

Brother John

May God Protect and Guide You Till We Gather Again!