Indagatio Veri

'God loves everyone the same, but he favors some more than others.'  This was my Facebook status today and it has generated a few responses which is great!  It is rather an offensive thought to many Christians, since we are culturally preconditioned towards 'sameness'. The church has been molded to fit this ideal which is actually contrary to God's plan for the body of Christ. It seems wrong to say that God would choose favorites.  In fact Romans 2:11 says that God does not choose favorites; however, it is clear that this passage is talking about favoritism in terms of ethnicity and/or social status. But scripture reveals that God does show his favor in different ways.  We will look at two of those ways; 1. Reward for good works and 2. Spiritual Anointing. I have a friend who was given a diamond from the Lord just a couple days ago. I have heard testimonies about this happening but have never seen it myself. When she showed it to me I was still skeptical but ...

        Often times we think of heaven as something we are waiting for; that we live in hope of the future promise of eternal life as we strive in this broken world.  Yet the Holy Spirit has been revealing to me a very different reality; we, as Christians, should not passively wait for the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven, but actively bring it here to Earth.         "Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells (2 Peter 3:11-13)." Did you catch that? We ought to be people who are not only waiting for, but hastening the coming of the day of the Lord!!!      "Being asked by the pha...

It's a sad reality, but many times we are too prideful to accept forgiveness. We say we are forgiven but continue to let our previous sin effect our thoughts and actions.  True forgiveness not only takes away the sin, but it resets the standard. True forgiveness restores you to a purified state; literally making all things new and without blemish. It is prideful for us to cling to something that God has taken away, and view ourselves differently than our Father sees us. Many times we don't live in freedom because we don't allow God's forgiveness to transform us; rather we pridefully cling to our sin that is no longer there while heaping judgment on ourselves because of it. This actually causes us to live in sin rather than to live the righteous life God has made accessible through the Spirit. Being afraid of sin or distrusting God's work in redeeming us, causes us to empower the lies that Satan is speaking to us; which leads us to sin. Fear and condemnation reveal...