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Conversation That Pleases The Master
The first step for everyone in the army of the living God is that we must be gracious in our raising as grace will achieve what the multitude of strength can not achieve.
There are levels of grace. Grace builds up and raises - Christ Jesus is an embodiment of grace. (2 Tim. 2:1, Jn. 1:16, 2 Sam. 1:4)
One of the things we must understand is that we need to pay attention to the grace that is in Christ Jesus. Yet, there is still another grace that is in the Son of God; we must receive grace for grace. (1 Tim. 1:1, 2 Tim. 2:2-3)
It will take a stature and building of grace to stand in the days we are in and not so much of anointing.
Anointing is a kind of grace that is upon a man and not within. We must concentrate on being built from within, to be qualified to be in the army of the Living God.
Our building is a warfare and will always be done in a time of contention. There are spirits that don’t want the church to be built, but we must not give up. (Matt. 16:18)
Spirits are against our building process, so as we grow, we will confront the spirits that occupy the heights we are breaking into.
A strong local assembly is one that embodies conversations. It is by our conversation that we will multiply ourselves. The conversation of Christ is not easy, it involves a lifestyle of death which comes by enduring hardness; we must be hard against 'self'.
The soldiers of the Lord are not men who have physical strength, but persons armed with conversations, as conversations have more potency than preaching. (Matt. 22:22)
There is no way we can imbibe a heavenly conversation if we have not been built for it. The dominion/power that spirits have over nations is via their conversation (lifestyle). (Dan. 1:4)
There are some traditions/conversations that were handed over to us by our fathers which are vain conversations. Conversations that have not been embodied cannot be passed from one generation to the other. (2 Tim. 2:2)
The average person can have a nice personality, but wickedness in the person is revealed when the standards of Christ come and the person rejects them. As good soldiers of Christ, we must endure contradictions.
Light circumcises our hearts in an ongoing process because we have many veils in our hearts; this is because we must not be found entangled with the affairs of this present life. (2 Tim. 2:4)
We didn’t choose ourselves, our Lord Jesus Christ has called and enlisted us. Thus, we have a duty to please Him who has called us, as this is required of us. The essence of every circumcision is to make us not entangled with the affairs of this world. (2 Tim. 2:4)
The general perspective about Christianity is need-oriented, however, we have to receive sight to understand that what God wants to do in us is a priority, not what he wants to do with us. (Phil. 2:13)