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May 15 - May 24, 2022
When people who don’t have the core values of the Kingdom built into their thinking and lifestyle try to operate in supernatural ministry, they experience problems similar to an air-conditioned car from the ‘60s.
the gifts of the Spirit are the love language of God. When people experience a healing, they should feel loved by the Father. Prophecy should be the embrace of God Himself. And folks shouldn’t need to be delivered from their last deliverance.
The gifts of the Spirit are the love language of God.
We never have permission to move in power in a way that misrepresents the love of God.
Many people think if they got the word of knowledge or prophecy right, then their ministry was justified.
The story of Noah and his three sons demonstrates how exposing someone’s sins to others can lead to death:
and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
Ham exposed his father’s sin to his brothers. He didn’t lie about his father’s failure, but his actions resulted in a curse on his own life.
should make it clear that oftentimes when people are stuck in sin, they need to be confronted in a redemptive way.
However, if we abandon the core values of love, honor, and respect, we can be right about their issues, but we will most likely fail to help them come to true repentance.
Love is a higher core value in the Kingdom than being right, and if you get that backwards, you won’t release the realit...
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The core values of the Kingdom and the fruit of the Spirit are the walls of salvation, ensuring that our ministry is actually expandi...
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DISCIP...
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We have to be careful not to try to do with prophecy, or any of the gifts of the Spi...
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Discipleship is the process of developing people through teaching, training, discipline, cor...
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DELIVERANCE
Deliverance is another one of the power gifts that needs to embody the loving hands of God and the core values of the Kingdom.
We can and should cast out demons without dishonoring the people they are holding captive.
Demons respond only to authority.
“Demons don’t respond to volume; they respond to authority. The demons are the ones that have the loud voices when they come out, not the minister,”
So many times the dignity of a person is lost at the expense of their deliverance, but it doesn’t need to be that way.
CORE VALUES DEFINED
Core values are the principles, standards, and virtues at the center of the way we live, love, and think. Our core values are the prophets of our destiny. They dictate what we allow ourselves to desire and they decide what is critical to accomplish in our lives.
It is important to understand that core values are different from high values.
Our core values set the boundaries for our behavior.
I will sacrifice for my high values but I would die for my core values.
they are the fiber of my being, the very essence of who I am.
Core values are at the center of the way we live, love, and think.
He showed me that living by His virtues would simplify my life, as they would become my life coach. Here are the virtues He gave me:
I will never work for money or sell myself at any price.
Our core values simplified our decision because all we needed to know was whether God was in this move or not.
CORE VALUES ARE THE LENSES OF LIFE
We will often question what we hear, but seldom question how we hear.
Many times we question what we see but we hardly ever question how we see.
When we have pain or brokenness in our hearts, it is like we’re wearing dark lenses over our souls. We begin to view the world not as it is, but as we are.
The darkness in our own souls reinterprets life, creating a perverted reality.
We often question what we hear but not how we hear.
But, if your interpreter has a prejudice, what you see and believe to be real will be a perversion of the truth.
We view the world not as it is, but as we are.
Our core values are the instruments of our soul that keep us flying upright through the storms of life.
Our core values keep us flying upright through the storms.
If our core values are not based on the truth, we will consistently misdiagnose the problems of the world around us, and thus fail to treat them in an appropriate way. We simply cannot help people with our supernatural ministry when we are viewing the world through a worthless value system (a “log” made of wood, hay, or stubble), which blinds us to the King’s perspective.
They are looking through a logjam!
The key to building a Kingdom worldview is heavenly revelation of eternal reality.
Most of the time our opinions of others are more of a commentary on who we are than on who others are.
My opinion of them is affected by my own disappointment in myself.
I view them through the lens of jealousy and my assessment of them is really a commentary on my own heart and life.
It is important that the eyes of our heart are clear so we view the world through our special “Son-glasses.” Paul put it this way:
Paul says that the key to building a Kingdom worldview is heavenly revelation of eternal reality.
This revelation creates the foundation for our worldview from three primary things—the hope of His calling, the glorious riches of His inheritance in the saints, and His power for those who believe.
