A disciple of the Lord must always be a vessel of truth – willing to speak with the truthfulness of God’s Word in the face of criticism, persecution and even death. Into days society it is too easy to go with the flow, which causes people to lower the standards of God’s Word in the face of the popular vote.
We must always seek to walk in righteousness even when the popular vote leads towards pleasing people, for at the heart of the matter is what is pleasing to the Father. The church belongs to the Lord, not to man. He has paid the ultimate price to receive the authority of the Father, being recognized as the only One worthy to be the head.
The three young men, facing the fires of the furnace, were unwilling to compromise in order to save their own lives – In doing so they were meet by the King Himself and what was meant for death by the popular turned into a time of basking in the presence of the Almighty – their faithfulness positioned them into the very place where death itself had no authority rather the natural had to submit to the Authority of Supernatural God.
Today many in positions of authority bow down to complacency, compromise and contentment and in doing so they walk out from under the blessing of divine protection relinquishing the authority that has been purchased for the righteous! To this end they have submitted themselves to the ruler of this world, giving up the beautiful gift of freedom. Then they set back and cry out “Where is the power and authority of heaven” – “where are the signs and wonders which manifest the heavens supernatural display bursting forth through the natural”
Oh’ how the enemy has fooled many with false signs and wonders, trapping them in the prisons of selfish pride.
Many today worship the messengers, signs, miracles and wonders with greater intensity than they worship he Lord.
A true disciple never positions themselves to receive the glory, rather like that of Paul – they quickly point out that all the glory belongs to Jesus!
We must come to realize that there is a great cost in accepting the Salvation of the Lord, in regards to the things of this world yet the reward of eternity far out-weighs all that this world has to offer.
Let us rise up to the place of walking in the manifestation of the Word in our own lives to the place where our lives bare witness too:
Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Messiah.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down.
They triumphed over him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death. (Rev 12:10-11)
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