The Steps of a Good Man

God does not desire that the trials we face bring despair in our lives. God desires it brings about goodness and growth in our lives. God allowed the enemy to test Job but it wasn’t so that the enemy could test him. It was to put Job into a place so God could bless him the way He wanted. Now that doesn’t mean that sin takes place because it’s God’s will. Sometimes we’re stubborn enough that we need a little knock on the head. Jesus did not die on the cross for you to wander in the wilderness. It is time for you to enter into the promised land. When I come to the point in my spiritual maturity, enter into my place of kingdom purpose, there are still problems, but I know, good or bad, that God is there. There are many of us in the body of Christ who, we’re in church, but we haven’t crossed over the Jordan. We are still in the wilderness, wanting our tasty onions back in Egypt. It’s time for us to move on from Egypt. At some point we need to come to the realization that being in E...

As you grow closer, you desire to grow closer. As you taste your Heavenly Father’s love, you desire for more of His love. But that can also be said of sin. The closer you grow to your sin, the more you desire to grow even closer to it. Those desires will never be fulfilled. The more you try to fill that hole with the desires of this world, the bigger the hole gets. The more you bind yourself to those things, the more unsatisfied that you feel. You’re not simply binding yourself to the things of the world but you’re binding yourself to the enemy. It brings despair and destruction. You weren’t formed to be bound to those things. Peter wasn’t created to be a fisherman but a fisher OF men. If you have not found yourself in your Heavenly Father, you will never be satisfied. It was in His likeness that you were formed. As you get to know Him, you get to know you and as you get to know you in Him, you realize what true satisfaction and identity are.

You can be in the house and not know the Father. Not understand the personality of the Father. The Pharisees knew all about God, but when He was right in front of them, they could not see Him. They did not have that intimate relationship with God. The things with which we are intimate with will effect the way that we are. Now to define it, intimacy is a close personal friend, to be a friend to, involving friendship, to honor, to prize, to value. So if we honor and cherish the things of this world, we are intimate with them. If we are intimate with the world, our identity is shaped by what we are intimate with, what we hold close. And being intimate with the world is like having bad breath, everyone knows you have it, except you. Everyone sees the slop you live in, but because you have become so comfortable with it, you see no problem with it. I don’t want to prize and honor the slop, I want to prize and honor and value the Father.         ...