Establishing unwavering belief.
Spirit Breakfast 🍞🍵
30/7/2020
Please read carefully, it might as well be the most important Spirit Breakfast I've shared so far this year...
Text: 2 Timothy 1:12 (King James Version)
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
All over the globe we see many leaving the faith. Many rejecting God and His Son. Many are shunning the Christ in the name of enlightenment and illumination.
This trend seems to be prevalent with the younger generation. They are a class of people who haven't been able to balance the truth of what they've been taught and the realities of life.
Many of these individuals were believers from infancy, children of devoted believers, children of pastors and spiritual leaders, some of them even held offices in the body of Christ, and some were even pastors.
When I see such deviation from the faith by many of such class of individuals, I look at my life and pause to wonder why I haven't joined that train?
With so many conflicting circumstances on a personal on global scale, I wonder what is it that roots my faith in the supremacy and sovereignty of God?
And why is that of all the many religions in the world, why is it that if I must follow a faith, why must it be Christianity?
These individuals who have deviated were taught by parents, friends or spiritual leaders to believe in Jesus, but they haven't been shown how.
I have come to an understanding that the body of Christ has done so much of teaching and less of showing.
I am not deriding or dishonouring the importance of teaching. Far be it from me to do so who has been called as a teaching prophet.
However, while we have so many teachers today, we have less instructors/trainers and spiritual compassess.
The wisest king who ever lived said in Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Once again, I look at myself and see this Scriptures fulfilling itself abundantly in my life.
Earlier believers can testify that the foundation and basis of our current spiritual maturity is not a poduct of teachings alone but of training.
By virtue of spiritual training which we passed through onto spiritual maturity, we had personal experiences and encounters that solidified our belief system.
We were instructed and instruction is a deeper form of teaching that is saddled with specific guideline on how to accomplish a thing.
These instructions guided our spiritual journey and we met the Lord at different junctions of our spiritual pilgrimage.
Therefore, our belief system is no longer on the basis of that which we've been taught. It rests on the conviction of that which we have personally experienced and encountered.
I believe that the majority of believers who fall from the faith are those who have so much teaching but less training. They know in their heads so many scripture via teachings but they've never met the Spirit who authored the Scriptures.
When your belief system is based only on what you've been taught, you can easily fall for another teaching that feels better to you.
The weakness of teaching is also limited to the teacher's understanding and capacity. Therefore, many were taught by many with an ability that couldn't withstand certain issues that pulled at their faith.
Other teachings have been erroneous and have not presented the full Gospel thereby leading to half-truths that could not set the individuals free of the weights that pulled at their faith.
Paul said in our anchor text while in prison that he personally knows whom he had believed in.
Our faith is a personal one that is rooted in our personal experiences and encounters with the One who has saved us.
True belief is solidified upon deep conviction necessitated by a personal experience or encounter. The veracity of truth concerning a person's belief system is that one has encountered that truth for himself.
The encounter of Peter and Paul which solidified their faith were different. Likewise, our spiritual journey also take different paths.
If your faith and belief is only built on that which I've taught you based on my personal experiences and encounters, you're bound to falter when personal issues that are different from my spiritual path tug at your belief system.
It must be a personal experience right from the day you receive the love and life of Christ.
John said in 1 John 1:1-3
[1]That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
[2](For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
[3]That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
The above scripture was a product of a personal knowledge of Father and His son Jesus Christ. This sort of belief is not moved by all winds of doctrines or circumstances.
The reason many cannot boldly confess and tell others of the love of Christ is because they're yet to personally encounter it for themselves even though they are believers.
It is important that the body of Christ once again begin to lead people to know Christ on a personal level. Enough of mass-producing half-baked believers who aren't rooted in the Lord.
As great as the transfiguration experience on the mountain was, it was not sufficient to transform the three disciples who were on that mountain. It took the Pentecost experience to do so.
The Pentecost experience was more personal than the transfiguration experience. It took a personal interaction on a deep spiritual and soulish level for the disciples to come to a knowledge of the One they had followed for three years.
Therefore, it is not a function of your longevity as a believer that solidifes your belief system. It is a function of the level of personal experiences you have.
Also, it is not about the many public encounters you have in public worship gatherings. How well do you know the Father when you're shut up in your closet?
Parents and spiritual leaders try to indoctrinate young ones to follow the path of the faith without properly leading them to the Author of our Faith.
We must more than teaching begin to train and show by modelling.
If you teach that prayer is good, train your child and your spiritual children how to pray. Lead them through the process.
Don't just teach about salvation, lead them to it. Phillip only showed Nathaniel to Jesus and he remained a believer for life.
Don't just teach them to read the Scriptures, guide them on how to read the scriptures.
Don't just teach them to meditate, show them how to meditate.
Jesus saw and did what the Father did, and also showed same to His disciples. That is how spiritual stability is established when spiritual fathers show their children how to attain spiritual maturity.
Few believers today can accurately describe their salvation experience. And fewer can describe other personal encounters and experiences they've had in their spiritual walk.
Christianity is a belief system that is based on a personal experience and encounter with Life Himself. We don't believe because we've been taught, we believe because we've met the Source of Life for ourselves.
Upon this is our faith built and our belief established through hell and high water and we can proclaim like the Apostle Paul said that we know whom we've believed and by virtue of our personal experiences and encounters, we've been fully persuaded that God is able.
I pray from the deepest of my heart as I write this that all over the globe, may believers who have never truly had a personal encounter with the Lord of Life come to know Him for themselves.
And I pray for you that you won't turn back from that which you've believed. I pray that you receive a divine experience and encounter from the Lord. A divine visitation like Saul had on the way to Tarsus.
I pray that God interrupts your activity and stamp His image deep in your heart where it can no longer be erased.
I pray by mercy that as you study the Word, the Author of the Word will be revealed personally to you.
I ask that as you pray, may you meet the Spirit of Prayer who causes the Earth to spin without falling out of Orbit.
Have a graced day...
#SpiritBreakfast™
#TriumphantThursday™
#PastorMuve™
#power
#belief #believe #God #Father #Jesus #Son #knowledge #personal #experience #encounter #faith #persuaded
30/7/2020
Please read carefully, it might as well be the most important Spirit Breakfast I've shared so far this year...
Text: 2 Timothy 1:12 (King James Version)
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
All over the globe we see many leaving the faith. Many rejecting God and His Son. Many are shunning the Christ in the name of enlightenment and illumination.
This trend seems to be prevalent with the younger generation. They are a class of people who haven't been able to balance the truth of what they've been taught and the realities of life.
Many of these individuals were believers from infancy, children of devoted believers, children of pastors and spiritual leaders, some of them even held offices in the body of Christ, and some were even pastors.
When I see such deviation from the faith by many of such class of individuals, I look at my life and pause to wonder why I haven't joined that train?
With so many conflicting circumstances on a personal on global scale, I wonder what is it that roots my faith in the supremacy and sovereignty of God?
And why is that of all the many religions in the world, why is it that if I must follow a faith, why must it be Christianity?
These individuals who have deviated were taught by parents, friends or spiritual leaders to believe in Jesus, but they haven't been shown how.
I have come to an understanding that the body of Christ has done so much of teaching and less of showing.
I am not deriding or dishonouring the importance of teaching. Far be it from me to do so who has been called as a teaching prophet.
However, while we have so many teachers today, we have less instructors/trainers and spiritual compassess.
The wisest king who ever lived said in Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Once again, I look at myself and see this Scriptures fulfilling itself abundantly in my life.
Earlier believers can testify that the foundation and basis of our current spiritual maturity is not a poduct of teachings alone but of training.
By virtue of spiritual training which we passed through onto spiritual maturity, we had personal experiences and encounters that solidified our belief system.
We were instructed and instruction is a deeper form of teaching that is saddled with specific guideline on how to accomplish a thing.
These instructions guided our spiritual journey and we met the Lord at different junctions of our spiritual pilgrimage.
Therefore, our belief system is no longer on the basis of that which we've been taught. It rests on the conviction of that which we have personally experienced and encountered.
I believe that the majority of believers who fall from the faith are those who have so much teaching but less training. They know in their heads so many scripture via teachings but they've never met the Spirit who authored the Scriptures.
When your belief system is based only on what you've been taught, you can easily fall for another teaching that feels better to you.
The weakness of teaching is also limited to the teacher's understanding and capacity. Therefore, many were taught by many with an ability that couldn't withstand certain issues that pulled at their faith.
Other teachings have been erroneous and have not presented the full Gospel thereby leading to half-truths that could not set the individuals free of the weights that pulled at their faith.
Paul said in our anchor text while in prison that he personally knows whom he had believed in.
Our faith is a personal one that is rooted in our personal experiences and encounters with the One who has saved us.
True belief is solidified upon deep conviction necessitated by a personal experience or encounter. The veracity of truth concerning a person's belief system is that one has encountered that truth for himself.
The encounter of Peter and Paul which solidified their faith were different. Likewise, our spiritual journey also take different paths.
If your faith and belief is only built on that which I've taught you based on my personal experiences and encounters, you're bound to falter when personal issues that are different from my spiritual path tug at your belief system.
It must be a personal experience right from the day you receive the love and life of Christ.
John said in 1 John 1:1-3
[1]That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
[2](For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
[3]That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
The above scripture was a product of a personal knowledge of Father and His son Jesus Christ. This sort of belief is not moved by all winds of doctrines or circumstances.
The reason many cannot boldly confess and tell others of the love of Christ is because they're yet to personally encounter it for themselves even though they are believers.
It is important that the body of Christ once again begin to lead people to know Christ on a personal level. Enough of mass-producing half-baked believers who aren't rooted in the Lord.
As great as the transfiguration experience on the mountain was, it was not sufficient to transform the three disciples who were on that mountain. It took the Pentecost experience to do so.
The Pentecost experience was more personal than the transfiguration experience. It took a personal interaction on a deep spiritual and soulish level for the disciples to come to a knowledge of the One they had followed for three years.
Therefore, it is not a function of your longevity as a believer that solidifes your belief system. It is a function of the level of personal experiences you have.
Also, it is not about the many public encounters you have in public worship gatherings. How well do you know the Father when you're shut up in your closet?
Parents and spiritual leaders try to indoctrinate young ones to follow the path of the faith without properly leading them to the Author of our Faith.
We must more than teaching begin to train and show by modelling.
If you teach that prayer is good, train your child and your spiritual children how to pray. Lead them through the process.
Don't just teach about salvation, lead them to it. Phillip only showed Nathaniel to Jesus and he remained a believer for life.
Don't just teach them to read the Scriptures, guide them on how to read the scriptures.
Don't just teach them to meditate, show them how to meditate.
Jesus saw and did what the Father did, and also showed same to His disciples. That is how spiritual stability is established when spiritual fathers show their children how to attain spiritual maturity.
Few believers today can accurately describe their salvation experience. And fewer can describe other personal encounters and experiences they've had in their spiritual walk.
Christianity is a belief system that is based on a personal experience and encounter with Life Himself. We don't believe because we've been taught, we believe because we've met the Source of Life for ourselves.
Upon this is our faith built and our belief established through hell and high water and we can proclaim like the Apostle Paul said that we know whom we've believed and by virtue of our personal experiences and encounters, we've been fully persuaded that God is able.
I pray from the deepest of my heart as I write this that all over the globe, may believers who have never truly had a personal encounter with the Lord of Life come to know Him for themselves.
And I pray for you that you won't turn back from that which you've believed. I pray that you receive a divine experience and encounter from the Lord. A divine visitation like Saul had on the way to Tarsus.
I pray that God interrupts your activity and stamp His image deep in your heart where it can no longer be erased.
I pray by mercy that as you study the Word, the Author of the Word will be revealed personally to you.
I ask that as you pray, may you meet the Spirit of Prayer who causes the Earth to spin without falling out of Orbit.
Have a graced day...
#SpiritBreakfast™
#TriumphantThursday™
#PastorMuve™
#power
#belief #believe #God #Father #Jesus #Son #knowledge #personal #experience #encounter #faith #persuaded
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