- I also considered His blessings as my own. My tendencies to possess and possess.
Walking Barefoot. Boaz's relative took his shoe off while negotiating over the right to marry Ruth. David, being defeated in rebellion, left Jerusalem walking barefoot. Jesus walked barefoot to Calvary.
"Jesus was showing us how to live our lives. He was showing us how to win over the devil. He was giving us the strategy for accomplishing the greatest job ever given to man - taking over the earth from Satan and winning it back for God. Jesus was showing us that the only way to conquer is to submit. Jesus wants us to follow Him, going barefoot, losing our rights and gaining the world."
Mark 8:34-35 - 34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said:“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.
"Then, why is He asking us to give Him back those rights? Because it is really the only way we can express our love back to Him." Loren - On his birthday... 'I gave the children money so they could turn and show their love by giving back to me'.
"Family and home are all of this and more. They are good and perfect gifts, coming down from the Father. Yet they are also gifts that He requires us to hold lightly, never putting them before Him and His work.
- climb this mountain with my hands wide open. Spiritual adultery when gifts master us.
Putting something on the alter. Another way of saying 'I give up my rights'. To lose, (marriage for Loren) was to gain.
"It's not how much of my money that I give to God that counts. It's how much of His money I keep for myself"
YWAM slogan:You do the possible, then God will do the impossible.
'what? you've never had a call?' 'you mean you've never heard the call!"
When Abraham gave up the right to stay in his own country. When he had a good business with his father, God told him to pack up and leave by faith.
'where lord? he asked. And God replied, 'I'll tell you on the way'
***"How can we work with people who believe differently than we do? Aren't we supposed to guard against heresy and apostasy? I have come to the conviction that the spirit behind an issue is more crucial than differences in understanding. The spirit of heresy is adding to what is truth. The spirit of apostasy is taking from truth.
- The truth of Jesus' death and resurrection, we cannot deny. Everything else is adding and taking from truth. Which is more important?
"Pride is the sin behind true heresy and apostasy, which leads to deliberately adding to the truth of God's Word or taking some of it away. We must be on guard against this and seek instead to communicate in the spirit of truth, being led by the Holy Spirit who has been given to guide us into all truth."
"Did Jesus say, 'by this shall all men know that you are my disciples, because you have the same statement of doctrine?' No, he said they would know we belonged to Him because of our love for one another"
John 13:34-35 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.35"By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."Christian lumber business owner catches robbers stealing his wood. 'A load of lumber was a cheap price to pay for two souls, especially when you consider that Jesus taught us that one soul is worth more than the whole world.'
Hitler is dead, but to Loren, Hitler wasn't dead in his heart.
"Forgiveness is laying down your life psychologically for another. It is laying down your emotional rights"
Jesus wasn't a wimp. He was a carpenter who probably built loads of stuff and was a very manly man. Meekness isn't being weak. "Meekness is the character trait of a strong person who is continually surrendering his or her rights to God... Jesus was meek when He took out a whip and drove the money-changers from the temple, just as He was meek when He stood before Pilot ad refused to utter a word to save Himself."
Loren faced an atheist in a debate. He had embraced the same spirit as the opponent."We had won the argument that day in Seattle but had left behind a man who was humiliated and further alienated from the Gospel"
Loren had given up Darlene, surrendered her unto the Lord saying she is no longer his. "You see, you can't be in fear for someone you have given to God"
"When we sin, it's like we say to the devil, 'thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth!' Sin is the will of the devil and sinning helps to secure his throne."
"We must realize that the devil is only a created being, Satan is not the opposite of God - he's not some evil, counterpart. God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and everywhere present. Satan is none of the above... Satan can't create anything. He can only father lies. Even man has been given power Satan hasn't."
"He took the road of submission all His life, and taught us that the meek will inherit the earth. He showed us how to regain that authority we lost."
Loren's interpretation on End-Times: "Jesus told us to occupy until He came (Luke 19:13) It isn't occupying the earth if we hole up in a religious enclave and let everything outside our church walls rot away. I believe the Lord wants us to aggressively go out and reclaim lost territory from Satan and leave the timing and conclusion of history to Him. We're still making the same mistake Jesus was correcting in Acts 1:6-7, when the disciples were pressing Him to know if they were in the end times. Jesus replied 'it is not for you to know'. The timing of the end of this world is in the Father's hands."
"To occupy means take Leadership. When an occupation army moves into a nation, the take authority in the economy, the military, the media, and the schools. Jesus is telling us to take authority.
How to pray for the Media: "Pick your least favorite newsman, Get his or her face firmly in your mind. Then realize that this is a person for whom Jesus Christ hung on the cross - this is an individual worth of the sacrifice of the Son of God."
Performing Arts, Entertainment, Sports: "The devil wants us to think fun is his department, but that just isn't true." Revelations the colors and the art in God's throne.
Commerce, Science, Technology: John Wesley 'The Use of Money' "Gain all you can ... save all you can... give all you can!"
God is saying to us, 'I know more about running a government than anyone. I know more about farming or fishing than you do. I know more about your business, your teaching. I know how to best communicate and use the media. I want to teach you My principles, so that you can teach others to observe all I have commanded and have a great harvest of souls. I have a calling for you and I want you to succeed at it. I just need for you to obey Me"
"Take up His cross. Take your shoes off. Go barefoot. Become a slave. Lose your rights and you'll win the kingdom. You'll rule and reign with Jesus."
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