Fearlessly Courageous
From the Desk of Dennis Piller
8 1 2023
Time to Get UNSTUCK
Can I pick up on yesterday’s message and ask if you pressed into His directive? His word? Did you stop and listen? What did he say? If you haven’t ….would you write it down…maybe in the margin of your bible so you can remember in times to come. Really what was it? If you haven’t, I am calling you out to do that now.
It’s time to get UNSTUCK!
If you don’t have a clear purpose on what God is calling you to right now you are STUCK…If you are pressing forward in some ministry, it’s time to Stop and Listen and reflect…but more than that…to Pray and Fast! to hear about a bigger thing… a clear direction in the Spirit on how to proceed. Let’s reread the Prophecy he gave:
He said, “The work I have for you cannot be successful in the flesh.- in your will or determination. It is only by my grace and walking in the spirit. I am doing something bigger and I need more than your heart. I need you to step into the deep spiritual waters right before you. Stop and listen. Let go of whatever you think and stop and see what I see. Pray and fast and zero in on my voice. Let my spiritual wisdom take over the carnal thinking that has crept into your sanctuary. Purify your thoughts, heart, and intent. Sometimes it hurts to let go of a good thing YOU want for the higher things of the Spirit. Press in with faith. Press in and crucify the flesh. Surrender everything and let me give you a fresh look – and a fresh vision. Let me give you a clear direction.
Stop and wait on me!”
What worldly thinking or perhaps better said, what worldly habits have you allowed to invade your sanctuary with God? Come on…it must be something…You must see some areas that have been polluted or compromised, are they important to you to clean out so you can strengthen your walk with Christ?
What he is saying is that we have allowed carnal thinking to creep into the sanctuary of His presence. I think it’s a call out to clean out our refrigerator…to throw out things that have expired…perhaps some practices or some lazy habits we have picked up to the extent they are watering down our closeness with the Father. Or that we are continuing with a thing that The Spirit has moved on from regarding your participation. His anointing for you has left that past thing or this current thing and He has something bigger for you. He says you cannot do it in the flesh..or your will and determination” He is calling us to step in…” intentionally”. move forward by faith. You may not have a clear vision now and he is saying just that.
Have you been looking for a breakthrough for something? Have you been stuck in some area of your life? Sometimes we get so caught up in our own troubles, ailments, desires, dreams, and wants that we have stopped looking for what God is doing around us. We are just not seeing what He’s doing because we are walking in the flesh and not the spirit. He says some things only come by “Prayer and Fasting” and He has clearly called for that here! He said, “Deeper spiritual waters are right there before you!” Stop and Listen… Are you listening? Have you stopped to wait on the Lord or perhaps I should ask when was the last time you stopped to wait on Him and His directive or vision? Look, I am not trying to chastise you but to get you to intentionally seek out the higher things god has for you. Break the chains! He says, “Press in AND crucify the flesh!” What is that for you? It’s not nothing! … Not to God. You must know that the depth of our bondage to sin cannot be seen with the human eye…the fleshly eye…It is only discerned by the spirit. It is only revealed by His word and by the leading of the Holy Spirit to take the scales from our eyes to see what God sees. That happens as we grow up and mature in Christ.
We were slaves to sin in our prior life. We were slaves to our current preferences. We preferred them to God clear and simple. We preferred sin to Christ. Yesterday he said we have allowed carnal thinking to creep into your Sanctuary with Christ. He says, Stop and Listen…without Spirit Eyes we cannot see the things of God…He is saying to Pray and Fast so we can draw closer to him so we CAN see what he is seeing. Praying and fasting causes me to believe there are some strongholds that need to come down. Some deep-seated world preferences that have taken up positions that will require stepping into the deeper waters of God. He said, “Let my spiritual wisdom take over your carnal thinking!” He says we are to take every thought captive unto Jesus. Why is he saying for us to “Press in by faith and Crucify the Flesh?”
Gal 2:20-21 says:
Paul exchanged his worthless works for God’s grace. Verse 20 tells us that when a person is convicted of sin and makes a decision to submit to what Jesus did for him, he makes an exchange. He gives up doing things his way in favor of submitting by faith to the Lordship of his Sin Bearer.
Look at Galatians 5:16-26. “So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other so you are not to do whatever[a] you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things, there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking, and envying each other.”
An angry spirit, a biting tongue, being defensive, not listening, being overbearing, judgemental, opinionated…what has crept into your sanctuary?
He is saying Pray and Fast. Stop and Listen. Have you? Will You?
He has something for you…more than you have now…
You will need to press in to know it!
(I would love to hear your comments below on what God is saying to you)
Only as an encouragement, I started my fast by excluding breakfast
and spending some extra time with Jesus.
casting crowns Only Jesus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eQd3K2Fxp4&list=PL3oW2tjiIxvTstLS9GlgaT_mqONT0WVDw&index=18
