That Tongue!

It's been a while since I blogged. My apologies to all those who have come here again and again and found nothing new. Trust me, it was not because God was silent. He is speaking and teaching me, and I am soaking it all up like a sponge.

Today's lesson was fun and an eye opener. I am studying the book of Jeremiah, that I may learn the requirements of my God. I read Chapter 8 and verse 6 jumped out at me:

"I have listened attentively,
but they do not say what is right".

I know he is omnipresent, but I had forgotten that he is "the silent listener in every conversation." Like you, I'm busted and ashamed at what he may have heard.

When God created man, he wanted man to have the ability to steer the course of his life, to turn around if he found himself going the wrong way. As such, he created a rudder and a bit that we could use to steer ourselves... the tongue. James 3 talks about the power of the tongue and says something very interesting: I dare say he is able to keep his whole life in check as well, for life and death are in the power of the tongue.

The tongue is always on fire. James says that its fire comes straight from Hell! "If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check." How scary is that?! If in the natural (before redemption) the tongue is lit by hell, it is important for us to exchange the unholy fire of the tongue, for a holy fire when we are saved.

Let your tongue be fired up by heaven. Quench the hellish flame and let heaven light you up to say those things that will bring refreshing and life in every area of your life, and to all who hear you. Life and death is hid in your tongue. Choose life, that you and your offspring may live!

Fresh water and salt water cannot come out of the same fountain. And the fig tree cannot bear olives. You shall know them by their fruit, for out of the heart, the mouth speaks.

No Limits

This is the day that the Lord has made that I may be glad and rejoice in it!!! I am so blessed to be alive today. I have been reading "Your Best Life Now" and "The Secret" and really they are saying the same thing, and it makes sense. That we shape our lives and our universe around us by the thoughts we think and the words we speak. The Secret has a world view to it, and Joel puts it all in the Christian context, but it is really the same thing.

I love how the secret uses the scientific approach to talk about the law of attraction (I am a science major) especially when I remember that SCIENCE DISCOVERS WHAT GOD HAS MADE! God made this universe to respond to my thoughts and to bring to me what I think and say. That is why his word says "As a man thinketh so is he" Joel puts it very well by saying that when you think and say something, whether positive or negative, your subconscious mind takes that thought and those words as statements of fact, and sets about to make them happen. God made us that way!!! Start calling those things that are not as though they were, and begin to see it happen. That is why David said we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Even we do not understand how marvelously God created us and the universe. Having said that, and having been redeemed from the Curse through Christ Jesus, I put it to you that not only I'm I an heir to the Kingdom, I am a creator together with God. And so are you!!!

What I'm I saying? If you don't like what you see around you, change it by your positive thoughts and words. Change it completely and create what God wants to see on this earth because he made you that way and because he is always working as Jesus said. Therefore you too should get busy. Dream up skyscrapers and build them (Trump does it, why not you?), Dream up corporations and build them. Ask God to let you use more than just the 5% of your brain that science says we use at our maximum capacity.

I am convinced that we only use 5% of our brain because we have not gone to God and said show me your dreams for where I am. Show me the exploits you created for me to do ahead of time. I want to do more, to be more, to have more. Do you? Seek God. Ask him to visit you in visions and dreams of the night, like he did with Joseph and Daniel. Let him draw for you what he wants to see, work at his level not your own, for his ways are greater than ours, and his thoughts are so much higher than our own. I challenge you, just as I have been challenged. There are no Limits! I am convinced that I have stepped out of the range of thousands and moved in to my millions and will soon be talking Billions, Trillions, Gazillions all to do what he wants me to do. I can't wait to wake up everyday to create new things, to change the world around me and to receive the wealth of the unjust that has all this time been piled up for the just (Let the redeemed of the Lord say so!).

And I recently learned how that works... You sow into God's Kingdom, and he in turn causes you to reap from the enemies camp. The transfer of wealth is here. Dream big, sow much, and let God plunder hells finances to give the righteous what we need to make those dreams a reality. So stop saying you have no money. There are no limits!!!!

Now Faith...

Now Faith is being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you CAN NOT see! It is calling those things that are not as though they were. It is doing that which has never been done before not by power, nor by might, but by the Spirit of the Most High God! It is knowing your God, so that you can do exploits in the earth!!!

I have just met up with one of the leaders in the call centre industry in Kenya, and he was very discouraged to the point of saying that he is not sure if Kenya will make it in this industry. Now Faith...

He is of the belief that Jesus and God have no place in business and that once God comes into it all, it goes to Hell in a hand Basket. But I know different!! Maybe if he knew Jesus he would look at the industry and see something else. God asks this question of you and I today. "What do you see?" When you look at your job, your business, the industry that you are in, What do you see?

Do you know what I see right now? I see the call centre industry flourishing in Kenya. I see the wealth of the Nations pouring into this country through this industry. I see elevation. A new middle class coming from it. I see thousands of jobs created in this industry. I see this country's GDP rising, the economy growing at 20% per year.

What do you see? Now Faith....

Behold I do a new thing. Now it springs forth. Do you not percieve it?

Now Faith...

Update!!

It's been a while!! I am happy to report that my surgery was very successful and I am recovering faster than I could have ever thought possible. And God has been teaching me all kinds of things, I can't wait to start blogging regularly again so I can share!!! Here is something to think about though:

a) Prophetic Entrepreneurship
b) Leveraging the Universe

He is just blowing me away. My faith is huge and he keeps pumping me and pushing me to believe him for the impossible. Dan 11:32 comes to mind "They that KNOW their God shall be strong and do exploits" This is where we are at in the business world. So all you wonderful business minds out there, begin to call on the name of the Lord. Seek him until you find him. Let him come down and show you great and mighty things you knew not about! He is faithfull and I love him! Hallelujah to the King of Kings, Lord of Lords, the author and the finisher of all I do, the Great I AM, Alpha and Omega!!

Seek him fervently

God is not a respecter of persons. What he does for one, he will do for another. If he can use one, he can use another. I am challenged by Daniel this morning. Challenged by his desire to know God and to understand his ways and where he is leading him. Constantly you find him praying and seeking to understand. And always he gets visitations from angels to give him insight and understanding. God revealed the future to him because he sought to understand.

How many times do we seek to understand what God has in store for us? Our purpose here on earth? How we can be more effective where we are? If I was to seek God with the desire to understand how to run this company under Kingdom principles, would he not give me guidance? If I was to ask him where the industry is going, so I am better able to strategize would he not show me?

I have been remiss in calling on God for insight, foresight and understanding. As such, I have been average and have not stood up above the competition. Daniel and his friends were found to be 10 times better and wiser than all the rest. I believe it is because they sought God earnestly for understanding, revelation of mysteries, guidance, insight, foresight and the way forward.

Lord grant me the desire to seek you more, to call to you more, to seek understanding from you, to rely on you like Daniel did. How else will I be the best in my industry. Give me the grace I need to fast and pray, to seek your face for this industry in which you have placed me. That I too like David may serve my generation faithfully. Cause me to seek you fervently, with renewed urgency. I thank you and honor you, in Jesus Holy and Mighty Name I ask this, Amen!