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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2020 16:33:41 GMT -5
TALENT ( What are you doing with Yours )
(14) For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. (15) And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey……………………………….........
(19) After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. (20) And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more. (21) His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. Matthew 25:14- 15 &19-21 KJV
Talent: ( Talanton ) tal'-an-ton (to bear; equivalent to; a balance (as supporting weights), that is, (by implication) a certain weight (and thence a coin or rather sum of money) or “talent”: - talent.
Every day is a gift that God has blessed us with, does God want you to prosper and be in good health even as your soul prospers. Many today don’t believe that God takes pleasure in the prosperity of his children, and doesn’t want them to have good health, but only that their souls prosper.
If Jesus came that we might have life and have it more abundantly, is that just as our souls prosper? Or does it compass every area of our lives? The character of God is examined in the Old Testament where it was said, that God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked.
So; does God really want his children dirt poor, and diseased, does he take joy in our pain and lack? Why, in some people’s mind is it a sin to have enough wealth to make life enjoyable and to believe that God can heal a diseased body? I cannot understand this kind of thinking, some people act like it is a sin to desire to prosper and be in good health, even though many of those who have these desires; have put God first in their lives and are blessed in this life because of it.
Why do I say this; because many of those people whom are experiencing prosperity share their abundance in tithes, offerings, and giving to charitable organizations. They are people who put their money where their mouth is when it comes to walking the walk. They are blessed and do not take their abundance for granted, they are healthy and do not take their health for granted, they give thanks to the God of all Creation and are willing to lay it all down to do his will, because their money and health is not their God, but gifts from God to increase the kingdom and kingdom kindness to those in need and those doing the work of God in Spirit and Truth.
Many people are seldom balanced ( talanton ) or looking for balance and become lopsided in their approach to the Principles, Precepts, and Protocols of the Kingdom of God. The truly spiritual among us love God first and foremost above all things physical or corporeal, they understand how God’s gifts enable them to be an agent of God in a dark world that is in need of a Savior. They learn to use those gifts to their advantage in propagating the gospel of Jesus Christ.
(24) Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: (25) And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. (26) His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: (27) Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. (28) Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. (29) For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. (30) And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 25:24-30 KJV
Too many today do bow at the altar of materialism, and worship those things above the one made them. But does not preclude the fact that there are those who understand these things are gifts to be used like tools to accomplish God’s objectives upon the earth, those people will be blessed in the Kingdom to Come because they were wise stewards of the gifts, talents, and callings which were entrusted to them for the advancement of the Kingdom of God.
Brethren; keep the faith by increasing the talent ( balances ) God has given you. You will blessed as your practice the principles and progress duty the process. This has been a Faith Fact from a Faith Perspective.
Shalom & Agape!
Your Emissary of the Faith, Apostle Ray
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Post by frienduff on Oct 15, 2020 18:24:50 GMT -5
Trivia time my friend . Its time to sharpen one another with the beautiful truth .
Let me give us an example my friend .
I have seen a great evil in the land . There was a poor man who lacked much and yet was covetous . There was a man who made much , yet gave unto the poor who lacked . And the poor judged the wealthy man as though the man who had was covetous . Covetousness is in the eye of the poor as it is in the eye of many rich as well . IS it evil to be rich . NO . But a truly rich man would spread and give plentifully unto all around who did lack . For a man who is rich in JESUS , is not a man who will heap and steep what is given unto him , UNTO HIMSELF . He will be as was the early church . A fat giver whose hopes and trusts are not in uncertain riches . But his love is for the peoples and FOR JESUS above all . To be rich is not evil , BUT TO DESIRE TO BE IS EVIL . Fact . A man must learn to be content in whatever state he is . FOR it is not riches that are our strength and even if we lacked all IF one has JESUS they lack nothing and have EVERYTHING THEY NEED . FOR JESUS IS ALL they TRULY KNOW THEY DO NEED . ITS Why in prison paul could sing . Now , is the prosperity gosple evil . YES IT IS . ITS THE LOVE OF MONEY . And let me show us an example my friend . Because we will not only be judged for what we did , But for WHY WE DID . Many with the prosperity mindset give . BUT WHY . Let me prove a point . DID YOU know the most greedy kid in the world can be a giver . IF YOU PROMISE them MORE of what they have given . Let us use an example . Watch a greedy kid . HE has one two dollars and he is craving that candy . He spots one who lacks basic food . If you remind him to give his dollars to those who lack He wont want to let go . BUT TELL that same kid , HEY KID , IF you give that two dollars to that poor one , I WILL GIVE YOU A BLESSING OF TEN FOLD TWENTY DOLLARS THAT KID GONNA GIVE . CAUSE HE WANTS THE TWENTY DOLLARS . DID HE Give unto the kid who was in need out of love , or out of love FOR MONEY . PROSPERITY GOSPLE IS DEADLY . MANY give cause they been taught , IF YE GIVE , DADDY GOD GONNA BLESS YOU WITH A TEN FOLD INCREASE . SO Why are they truly giving . ANd all the while the ones who told them that , THEY banking off the church and getting richer and richer . WHY we do as we do , we will also be judged for in the end . What we truly loved , IS whose we truly are . LEARN YE GODLINESS with CONTENTMENT and BE YE CONTENT with such things as you have . FOR GOD is with the lambs , HE ALONE is our helper .
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Post by frienduff on Oct 15, 2020 18:30:28 GMT -5
WHEN YE GIVE , give to those who cannt repay you , your reward in heaven , IN HEAVEN will be great . In fact JESUS said WHEN we would be recompensed . AT THE RESSURECTION of the just . Our hearts should not be on money . THEY should be ON JESUS . And if riches do increase , SET NOT your heart upon them . And a heaper and steeper , well their heart is now set upon those, else they would give and not heap and steep . We must call a spade a spade . Let the beauty of the wisdom of Christ grow in the hearts of the lambs . LOVE YE HIM , HIS SAYINGS above all , and ye neighbor as your own self .
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Post by frienduff on Oct 15, 2020 18:37:01 GMT -5
Lets give another example . Lets say a man is trying to save up for his a new item he desired . THEN he sees another man who lacks . But he tells himself , OH LORD , I WILL GIVE to this man as soon as i have bought what i wanted . DO we really think the love of GOD exists in such a man . An example . Lets say i had an old winter coat . But it was getting time for a new one . I am saving up twenty dollars a week for it . The coat is sixty dollars . Now i have forty . I See a man who does not even have a coat for winter , much less a man who has need of food . But i say , well one more week i will have my twenty , I can buy the coat . THEN later i will find that man and give him some change . DO we really think i had the love of GOD in my heart for that man . NOPE . The church , specially the leaders , OUGHT to set the example for the flock . If we can close an eye to one in need , well that is sure proof the love of GOD does not dwell within us . JOHN knew it too . OH even if i walk over and bless that man and say HEY man i will pray for you , YET gave him not , well it profits nothing . Time for the lambs to have those hearts set on the needs of even others , above our own selves . Lambs look out for other lambs . If we lack and do not have , well THEN you can pray for him . But if you have and dont give , well that is not good peroid . no matter how many words you pray .
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Post by frienduff on Oct 15, 2020 18:40:24 GMT -5
Okay , that last statement may have seemed rough . But before we think it was . I want to remind us of ONE who did all for the sake of others . NEVER for his own self . And church , ARE WE NOT SUPPOSED TO WALK IN HIS FOOT STEPS . JESUS DID all for the sake of others , EVEN his own enemies . I MEAN , who here was not once an enemy of GOD by wicked works in our minds . AND YET GOD gave grace and reconciled us through faith IN JESUS while we were yet enemies . JESUS went to the cross for his enemies , and yet many cannot even give to those who lack . This is truly not a good sign at all .
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Post by Tabitha3319 on Oct 16, 2020 16:57:41 GMT -5
So their used to be a YouTube minister I subscribed to who claimed to have a relationship with God few other Christian's have because he was willing to suffer homelessness and how he despised comfort for the sake of following Christ.
I didn't understand why his ministry was making me feel bad but he was kind of going to an extreme to avoid "worldly comforts" and then bragging about how he'd given up everything for the Lord.
It was starting to make me feel like a lesser Christian because of my blessings and how I wasn't suffering 24/7.
But since then, my understanding is that this minister has gone to an extreme for his own reasons but God gave me good things because He loves me, not so I could overthink them.
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Post by watchful on Oct 17, 2020 6:35:02 GMT -5
So their used to be a YouTube minister I subscribed to who claimed to have a relationship with God few other Christian's have because he was willing to suffer homelessness and how he despised comfort for the sake of following Christ. I didn't understand why his ministry was making me feel bad but he was kind of going to an extreme to avoid "worldly comforts" and then bragging about how he'd given up everything for the Lord. It was starting to make me feel like a lesser Christian because of my blessings and how I wasn't suffering 24/7. But since then, my understanding is that this minister has gone to an extreme for his own reasons but God gave me good things because He loves me, not so I could overthink them. Amen. We can put ourselves through a lot of needless torment overthinking things. If that man is boasting then he is probably acting out of self-righteousness and not because the Lord led him to become homeless. If he is trying to tell all Christians to likewise become poor on purpose then he is way out of line. Jesus was not pleased with those Pharisees who were exploiting widows and telling them to give up the roof over their heads "for God". There are different callings and different 'asks' by the Lord for different individuals, and our job is not to do what seemeth right to us or to try and make others do what seemeth right to us, but just to simply follow and obey God's leading for ourselves. The Lord can take a poor person and lift them up out of poverty for His glory, and conversely He can take a wealthy person and put it on their heart to not live ostentatiously and to give generously to the poor, also for His glory. There is also an aspect that the concepts of poverty and riches are to some extent relative according to where you live and how you were brought up, etc. We should simply let God be God in our lives.
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Post by watchful on Oct 17, 2020 7:17:13 GMT -5
Okay , that last statement may have seemed rough . But before we think it was . I want to remind us of ONE who did all for the sake of others . NEVER for his own self . And church , ARE WE NOT SUPPOSED TO WALK IN HIS FOOT STEPS . JESUS DID all for the sake of others , EVEN his own enemies . I MEAN , who here was not once an enemy of GOD by wicked works in our minds . AND YET GOD gave grace and reconciled us through faith IN JESUS while we were yet enemies . JESUS went to the cross for his enemies , and yet many cannot even give to those who lack . This is truly not a good sign at all . I dont' think it was rough, and I don't disagree with what you are saying, but just want to qualify it somewhat. Jesus was a homeless itinerant, but we are not all called to be so, especially women, or men with families. Also I'm not sure we are to necessarily help every poor person we run across, that's not even humanly possible in some areas of town and sometimes not wise either if someone is going to spend it on booze or drugs. As women we can also be easy prey unfortunately for sob stories and should not always act independently of our husbands. So as long as we have the willingness in our hearts, we need to be submitted to the Lord and led by Him, and He will move upon our hearts. Mar 14:7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
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Post by frienduff on Oct 17, 2020 10:35:12 GMT -5
Okay , that last statement may have seemed rough . But before we think it was . I want to remind us of ONE who did all for the sake of others . NEVER for his own self . And church , ARE WE NOT SUPPOSED TO WALK IN HIS FOOT STEPS . JESUS DID all for the sake of others , EVEN his own enemies . I MEAN , who here was not once an enemy of GOD by wicked works in our minds . AND YET GOD gave grace and reconciled us through faith IN JESUS while we were yet enemies . JESUS went to the cross for his enemies , and yet many cannot even give to those who lack . This is truly not a good sign at all . I dont' think it was rough, and I don't disagree with what you are saying, but just want to qualify it somewhat. Jesus was a homeless itinerant, but we are not all called to be so, especially women, or men with families. Also I'm not sure we are to necessarily help every poor person we run across, that's not even humanly possible in some areas of town and sometimes not wise either if someone is going to spend it on booze or drugs. As women we can also be easy prey unfortunately for sob stories and should not always act independently of our husbands. So as long as we have the willingness in our hearts, we need to be submitted to the Lord and led by Him, and He will move upon our hearts. Mar 14:7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. Well of course my dear sister . And also we must be on gaurd . An example . I wont just hand money to every person . and there is a reason for that . A few times in the past i was giving money on a regular basis to one person . One day i noticed he looked terrible . He admitted he was hooked on drugs . Sadly i had been giving him money and he was using it for drugs . A few times before that i had been g etting convicted about this and was worrying he might be doing that . AND it got confirmed . HE didnt lie about it . I could no longer give that man money . We can give those food , but we must be on gaurd . IF folks are poor and standing on the street , saying need help , need food , and you offer them food but they had rather have the money . THAT is not a good sign .Because if a man is truly hungry and truly is needed food , they would be very happy to get the food . Many folks are sadly hooked on drugs or alcohol . AND the last thing we want is to give those money to support their habit . HOWEVER , we can GIVE them food . Do that . Or if they need a coat or blanket . Give that . But watch out about the giving of money , DUE to what if they are hooked on drugs . Also if we spend a bit of time to talk to them , discernment will occur . Always help one out , BUT always be sure its really help we give them and are not feeding their habit . ANd if we know for sure they are addicted to something . DO NOT give money . Give food , blankets , And above all share that gosple . But be careful . And i know not everyone will be homeless sister . I am not homeless , well i mean i do have a house . BUT always be ready to give to anyone who lacks . And as i said , food , clothes and etc . But watch out for who you just give MONEY TOO . Because if we love them , WE dont want to feed their addiction and end up possibly killing them . I mean that would be horrible . You give one money and they overdoes and die . We cant be a partaker of their habits . BUT again we sure can clothe them , feed them .
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Post by frienduff on Oct 17, 2020 10:38:29 GMT -5
If a brother be naked and etc we are to care for them . But also remember this , IF one will NOT work and just roams about as a busy body in others matters , YEAH HE can work and eat HIS own bread and not free load off another . There is a big difference between being in a hard spot , and simply NOT WORKING and just eating off others . Paul shut that down fast within the church .
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Post by frienduff on Oct 17, 2020 10:45:51 GMT -5
So their used to be a YouTube minister I subscribed to who claimed to have a relationship with God few other Christian's have because he was willing to suffer homelessness and how he despised comfort for the sake of following Christ. I didn't understand why his ministry was making me feel bad but he was kind of going to an extreme to avoid "worldly comforts" and then bragging about how he'd given up everything for the Lord. It was starting to make me feel like a lesser Christian because of my blessings and how I wasn't suffering 24/7. But since then, my understanding is that this minister has gone to an extreme for his own reasons but God gave me good things because He loves me, not so I could overthink them. well , there you go sister . THE man was BOASTING IN himself . that alone is a major red flag to me . Some will leave homes , but they aint gonna be boasting in themselves . Big red flag there sister . And the bible says , IF they can work , THEY OUGHT TOO . Paul himself never just lived off the church . THOUGH they can , its not because paul had not the power to live off the gosple ,BUT he Just like JESUS , had set the example . Its quite clear we should work with our own two hands . And even paul did in places . When paul asked for things , it was a cloak so he would be warm while he wintered , i think it was his own cloke too . HE Didnt live off the church and build him mansions . I wont give a dime to thsoe prosperity creatures . NOT one red cent . They have whored out the church and pimp themselves up on pedastools and get rich off the church . They have heaped up treasures on earth in the last days . AND i wont partake of thier evil and give them even one cent . We give to those who truly do need . Look how careful paul was about money matters . HE even told the church he was asking , You can send anyone you choose with ME , when i deliver this to the poor saints in jersualem . SO THEY Would KNOW this had nothing to do with covteousness , but truly it was for the poor who lacked . WHO does kenneth copeland tell that one too . WHO checkes out where his money goes and HAS he even ever once offered such a thing . OH but we can see where lots of his money does go ,THE man has an AIRPORT , coupled with planes , jets , mutil million dollar houses . OH I KNOW where his love is , ITS on earth , WHERE HIS RICHES ARE . HE dont fool the lambs .
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