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WELCOME TO GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING

The title of today’s episode is: GOD IS NOT SQUARE

God is not square or rectangular, therefore he will not fit into a box. God is so big that he can hold the universe in his hand. But he is so small that he can fit inside the smallest heart. But he is not square.

Slang in the 1970’s the word square was used to mean not cool, boring, conventional. Not up with modern times. 

Those who would say that God or serving God is not cool are not doing it right. It is exciting to serve God, every day is an adventure. Christians that are yielded to Christ never know what miracle He may work through them that day. God is bigger than any box we could put him into, but religion tries.

Religion says, God only works one way. Religion says there are no more miracles. It says that you cannot go out and witness unless you go through “our program” to learn how. Religion has divided God’s people.

Jesus came to set people free from religion. The Jews had religion, but they didn’t have freedom to enjoy life and really know the heart of God. We have that opportunity because of Christ. Jesus didn’t come to start a religion, he came to start a relationship with mankind.

From the time Adam sinned God had few that he had a real relationship with, most went by man’s ideas of God. He had such love for us, he desired for us to know him, that he came and died for us. All so we would know his heart for mankind.

The body of Christ needs religion broken off of it. Religion says, there are no more prophets. I am here to tell you that there are prophets today. But not everyone that says they are a prophet of God is the real deal. As a matter of fact, many more that claim to be prophets are not true prophets.

How do we know the difference? The word of God says that the Holy Ghost will lead and guide you into all truth. Our Spirit will bear witness to what they are saying. It will always line up with the word of God; Always, no exception.

But people fear the deep things of God. Therefore, religion says God doesn’t talk to people like that today. But then will turn around and say that God told them to go pray for someone. They will say God laid something on their heart to do or say, but cannot stretch their minds to accept that God still has people that operate in the office of the prophet.

Eph 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

These are offices in which the ministry works. There are still apostles today. They have a special task of planting churches. They are the ones God uses to unite his body. 

The Prophets hear from God. They discern the heart of God and hear what he is saying to His Body as a whole. We willing accept the prophecy in the written word. Why would we not accept prophecy from God through a prophet of God? As long as it lines up with the word of God.

We accept that there are evangelist today. These are ministers that are used by God to travel between the churches to be an encouragement, to preach salvation and help bring unity to the body. They can preach the word without apprehension because they do not know people in the congregation as personally as the pastor.

Evangelist most of the time do not hold positions of pastor. They can be pastors short term. A pastor is one that is set over a congregation to be there to help the people to walk closer to God. He is there encourager, their friend, their guide. He is there to warn them if they are making a wrong choice. A pastor is one that feeds the flock and guides them toward Christ.

Then there is the office of teacher. Some ministers are called to dig into the deep things of God. They want to know the little gems hidden in the word of God. They take these revelations and share them with the saint of God. This is so all can come to a deeper knowledge of God.

Eph 4:12-13 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Why did God set the five offices of ministry into the church? For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry and to edify or build up the body of Christ. So we can come into unity of faith and understanding of the Son of God. These different ministries work together as a full ministry to create a strong body that has the fulness of Christ.

I know that some of you will not agree with me. All I ask is that you pray about it. God is trying to break religion of man off of his body. If you have the Holy Ghost allow him to lead you into the fullness of God.

I was raised in a denomination that there were miracles, signs and wonders. But not any denomination is completely right. I have had to break free from a lot of religion myself. I pray every day for God to empty me of me and man’s ideas of him and fill me with only what he wants me to know about Him.

I believe that God is getting ready to start showing up in these miracle ways again. I don’t want people to be too afraid of the move of God that they miss him. My greatest fear is that many people will be too religious to see God. They will be like the Pharisees and not know Jesus, because he doesn’t fit into their religious box.

When people would ask me why I didn’t do certain things I used to tell them it was against my religion. (Shame on me). Now I say it is against the word of God and I try to walk according to the word. I no longer want anything to do with religion, but I do desire a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ.

Religion is the worship of a deity. Many worship false gods and gold statues. But many Christians are not fully following the Real Jesus. They are only following an idea of who he is, one that has been filtered through the lens of religion. Mans ideas and traditions of who he is and not the full picture of the one who loves us so much that he died to have a relationship with us.

I want to end with a prayer today: Dear Lord Jesus, I pray you break the bondage of religion. Bring unity to your body. Help us all to not be so stuck in religion that we miss you. Help us to draw closer to you and really truly know you. Help us to share your heart for the lost and the broken. Help us be the body and not a group of people that say we are the body. Help us to not to try to put you in a box of religion.

Thanks for watching,

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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