Prayer For
High Impact Christianity In A Low Impact World
Father I
come to you boldly as a son to his Father and I greet you in the name of
Jesus your son because you have said
that there is none other name given under heaven whereby men must be saved
except the name of Jesus.
Father I
adore you and praise you because you are worthy to be praised. You have brought me from darkness to a place
of light, and redeem me out of the hand of the enemy, and for this I will give
you all the glory.
Father I
enter into your courts with praise and your gates with thanksgiving, and my
desire is to dwell in your presence because it is there that I find strength
and security.
Father I
confess my sins before you, and I repent in the name and after the nature of
Jesus the Messiah and I ask as a son that you hear my prayer and that this word
goes to you unheeded by any demonic activity.
Father I come in the place of all my brothers
and sisters who may be in trouble right now, those who don’t know your word or
your will, and I intercede on their behalf and by faith cover them with the
shed blood of the Holy One, Jesus the Christ .
Father as
your son I submit to your will and your ways and I humbly ask that you use me
as a Master would use that which belongs to him. Conform me by any means necessary to your
image and after your likeness and I will not forget to give you all the glory
because you are worthy of all the praise.
Amen and
Hallelujah
This
lesson comes at a time when the world is as it has never been before. This world has progressively moved away from
the will of God to a position of complete enmity against the words, will, and
ways of God.
This
lesson will be broken down into 3 Points.
They will instruct you on how to develop a high impact
Christian lifestyle and will teach you how to cultivate that
which you have developed.
Historically
speaking when I speak to you of the world I will be speaking to you from the
Christian understanding as given by scripture.
Webster
dictionary defines The World as the globe or planet Earth, everything that
exist anywhere. The secular concerns of
the Earth and its affairs i.e. a worldly person. A system of governments, people, creatures
and plant life.
These
definitions are by nature designed to keep one in a state of delusion and its
patterns are designed to promote a self generation of the working of the flesh
producing anti-godly, anti- Christian beliefs, thoughts, and actions of which
the end result is eternal death.
Throughout
scripture the world is mentioned as the enemy against God and the key element
which prevents us from living the high impact Christian lifestyle that Christ
has called us to.
Through
the Holy Spirit we have put together a definition that should help you to
define the true nature of the world and enable you to see it from a godly
perspective.
“The
world is a system of beliefs and thinking, an ideology created by Satan to
develop in mankind the self generation of sin.
This system includes anti Christian ideas involving the family,
education, governments and politics, medicine, sex, marriage, the economy,
races, and television”.
In
other words the end of the world would not be the end of birds and trees but
the end of a system.
If
the world is against God then the world has lost its god…ly mind.
If
that is the case then we need to come out of the world.
Please
turn to the Word of God, the book of James
chapter 4:4. From this verse I will
be reading from the NIV which reads “You
adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred
toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a
friend of the world becomes an enemy of God”.
What
a powerful statement from God. The word
adulterer used here comes from the Greek word Mochiea. Literally
translated it means sexual intercourse with a third party during marriage.
Throughout
history and in this verse God has described His relationship with Israel and
now the church as a marriage. God’s people often after entering into a marriage
commitment with Him stray away to other gods and ways of worship.
In
James 4:4 He is not talking to non
Christians but He point blanks calls His people who deliberately participate in
the ways of the world adulterous or the mixing of pure with impure.
In
our desire to develop a High impact Christian lifestyle we can now see the need
to Identify the deception of the world, develop a lifestyle according to the
word of God and cultivate that lifestyle into a high impact Christian life with
the ability to sustain oneself through the high and low spots that are sure to
come.
This
message is intended to help you to develop a high impact Christian lifestyle. It has been designed to enable you to
cultivate a spiritual fitness ministry so that you may be fit for the race
ahead.
I
will be making points in helping you to developing this high impact Christian
lifestyle. My intent is to point you in
the right direction so that you may identify the things in your daily walk that
may be missing or lacking which would prevent you from the high impact
lifestyle.
Remember
our goal is high impact and will require a reconditioning from the old status
quo twice a week church attendance which has been the norm among many born
again believers in this day.
Point 1
RENEW---
Many born again believers are so ingrain into the system of the world that even
after accepting Christ there remain many strongholds which would prevent them
from having the impact that God has in store for us.
Many falsely believe that just being a
Christian brings about a renewed mind but the bible clearly states that faith
without works is dead or not real faith but a deluded state of mind.
The
book of James chapter 4:7 reads
submits yourselves therefore to God.
Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Many misquote this verse by just stating the “resist
the devil and he will flee” part, but they unconsciously omit the beginning
statement submit yourselves to God.
There
can be no understanding of the devil let alone resisting him without first
submitting to God. There can be no
submitting to God without the true knowledge of His son Jesus Christ and the
Principles He has set forth in His words to bring about in us a High impact
lifestyle in a world gone mad.
Please
turn to Roman 12:2. This scripture give us definite insight on
how we are to change our thinking so that we can develop a positive and
impacting life. It reads in the NIV, “Do
not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's
will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will”.
The
word of God states that “If any man be in Christ, he is a new
creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new”. 1 Cor. 5:17
This suggests that the mind you got
saved with has to change. You can’t stay
full on a steak you ate last week and the mind you possess operates on the same
principles. It needs constant feeding in
the ways and word of God to properly develop.
I have listed four tools within Point 1 to help you to renew your
mind.
1. Constant reading and listening to
the word of God. This will strengthen
your relationship with the Holy Spirit and increase your faith because faith
comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
2. Those things you can change,
change. You’ve got to submit to God and
consciously remove those things that you know are an offense to God and a
stumbling block to your high impact lifestyle.
For me these things include the removal of all alcohol, cigarettes,
night club lifestyle and also certain foods that I have completely given up for
the benefit of my temple. This is not an
overnight matter but should continue for a lifetime.
3.
As you go throughout your day remember the worlds’ main goal is to pull
you in and infiltrate your mind with the simple things of the world that we
take for granted. Pause throughout your
day and say simple and very short prayers that are connected to what’s going on
in the now.
4. Find
a word based church that teaches biblical Christianity. When you find that church place yourself in a
position to be of service and know that high impact and low impact are on the
opposite ends of the spectrum. The bible
says be not
deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also
reap. Half measures avails us
nothing. We must become willing to be
completely sold out for Jesus Christ if we are to reach our goals.
Point 2
RESTORE--- The word restore means to
return to its original or usable and functioning condition, to regenerate or
return to life. In the case of the high
impact lifestyle, the definition I will use is to get or give new life or energy.
After my mind is renew on a day to day basis
of reading the word of God and marinating in the Holy Spirit of God, you will
begin to develop fruits, and the gifts of the spirit begin to manifest
themselves in your life.
I am now able
to be used by God, in service to my pastor and the regional church I belong
to. Oftentimes at this level we can
experience burnout because while we are not dominated by this world we still
have worldly obligation which pulls us often to the brink of exhaustion.
It is often said that money,
property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose in service to Christ,
those in the faith and the world about us.
For this reason we must experience new life and energy from the Father above.
Please
turn to the word of God the book of Psalm
23:1-3 KJV version. It reads “The
Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. He
maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still
waters. He restores my soul. It then
goes on to say He leads me in the path of righteous for His name’s sake”.
We
can see that God the Father is the restorer and all of our strength should rest
in Him. We can also read that after our
soul (which is our mind, will, and emotions) is restored God leads us in the
path of righteous for the furtherance of His kingdom and the name of Jesus
Christ.
Restoration is God’s business
but it only happens when we store up our treasure in Him and not those things
of the world. We have been commanded to
be in the world and not of the world.
When
we allow Him to lead us as our shepherd then the pull of this world is but a
glance to the eternity of His promises in our lives. I now become willing to turn my will, my
emotions, and my life over to God so that He can restore me so that I may
continue a high impact Christian lifestyle.
Point 3
Revival—the
world revival is a worn out concept in the sense that at this stage in
developing a high impact Christian lifestyle, we are seeking to develop newness
with Christ.
In my new book " A Declaration to the Spiritual Soldier" I suggest that“The very
word revival suggests a degradation of the very instrument which gives the
church its very essence and influence.
This is the power of the Holy Spirit without which there is spiritual
death. This proves, conclusively, that
if there is a dramatic need for REVIVAL in which there is a worldwide cry to
God, then there must be a cataclysmic failure of the church to move, operate,
and be led under the auspices of the Holy Spirit”.
Again
in Revelation 21:5 KJV Jesus states behold I make all
things new. This newness cannot be
redone over from the past because the word new indicates a quality that exists
now that has never existed before.
In
this, the last point in developing a high impact Christian lifestyle in a low
impact world, we will define a new word for a new person with a new
lifestyle.
They
are innovators and adapt early to different non denominational and non
traditional methods of reaching souls that are lost in Christ. They are leaders of the next church which the
Holy Spirit is ushering in to reap a harvest in a world where God does not
exist.
In Closing, Saints, God is
doing a new thing. Since the death of Christ, He is leaving the old and pouring
out new wine (His Spirit) and using new wineskin (people). You must become willing
to let go of traditions and old techniques and ways of doing things, and in this
the last days, become early and creative adapters breaking all traditions and
in the way Gods’ word is delivered.
Selah
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