Assistants in Focus Jan/21/16

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Development

Once a woman becomes pregnant, she knows the child should develop every month.

When a fetus stops developing in the womb, the doctor will diagnosis this as a high-risk pregnancy. This is, she can have a miscarriage at any moment.

If the fetus develops well, at the end of 9 months, a baby is born. After birth, he evolves; during the first months, he begins to gain weight, grow, crawl and learn to walk – all of this happens during the first year.

If he doesn’t speak or walk during the first and second year, his parents know they are facing a big problem, because the child was born perfect, but did not develop properly.

How can we bring this to our lives? How can we bring this to the needs of the Church?

A person is in church (womb). He begins going to church, so the normal thing to happen is that his life with God develops through the instructions he receives from the Word of God. He begins to develop his spiritual side (a communion with God, through prayer, fasts, reading and daily meditation on the Word of God, etc.) until he is born again.

How many people came to church (womb) searching for a miracle, received something from God by using their faith, but did not want to make a commitment to God, so they didn’t develop their lives with Him, were not baptized in water and eventually left the church (womb)? Actually, what happened was that they were “aborted”.

On the other hand, there are those who came to church, accepted the Lord Jesus, developed, were born again, but then stopped developing and today, they have become old in the church, but remain in a child’s body; this is, they are in church, but haven’t received the Holy Spirit yet.

Why is this?

Because they stopped developing.

And the worse part is that many think this is normal.

…of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. Hebrews 5.11-14

Warriors

Boldness in the War

 When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him. The man had a sword in his hand. Joshua went to the man and asked, “Are you a friend to our people or are you one of our enemies?”
 The man answered, “I am not an enemy. I am the commander of the Lord’s army. I have just now come to you.”
Then Joshua bowed his face to the ground to show respect and said, “I am your servant. Does my master have a command for me?” Joshua 5. 13-14

When God called us and anointed us with His Spirit He had a purpose to make war against hell and all injustice that His people have been suffering in this world.
God can only count on warriors, those who fear no evil, the courageous who go against their enemies to defeat them all. They are those who do not care about what others say about them because what they want is to please the One who called them. They know clearly that only the victory is able to exalt Him.

Unfortunately, God cannot count on many who were called because they are more concerned about their well being and which benefit they are going to reap. They are there own lord and want to please themselves.

Dear assistant,

We are part of an army of warriors and God is counting on us for Him to manifest His power in this world. The question is: can He count on you? Or are you thinking of give up on your faith and lose your salvation? Which vow did you make on the day you were raised to serve as an assistant?

A man and woman of God do not look back because he and she know that if they look back, God will not be pleased with them.

Let’s go forward. God is with you and there is nothing to lose.

You are not defeated when you lose, but when you give up!