Monthly Article for JULY  2010   

Did you know that one of the proving factors in the CONFIRMATION process of your God ORDAINED PURPOSE is CHALLENGE? The 3 specific challenges are: opposition, adversaries and obstacles. Some might be saying; WHAT?

Men and women responding to God's call into ministry have confirmation services where elder ministers publically acknowledge, and officially endorse them as credible and set for activated service. While this is scriptural and a vital public seal by elders (as listed in 1Timothy 4:14), it must be understood that this is not the full CONFIRMATION process. It actually  starts with a very personal revelation and COVENANT between you and God to become all that He says you already are.

Whether or not the commission is to an office within the church function or out in the marketplace and professional dimensions, we've all been ORDAINED of God to specific PURPOSE. We need to know, however, that even though God has ordained us does not mean it automatically happens.

Note: In Jeremiah 1:5; God told this young man, that before He was formed, He knew him, sanctified, and ORDAINED him a prophet unto the nations, but in order for this ORDINATION to be CONFIRMED, Jeremiah would have to OVERCOME the opposing faces of threatening people and "root out, pull down, destroy, and throw down the challenges as one who had been SET (v.10) over the nations to build and plant.

In fact, all through the Bible we can read that when oppositions arose it was a clear indication that God's ORDAINED plan was being birthed or breaking through to new ground, Hebrews 6:16-19 makes it clear, that God's confirmation defeats all strife giving us an anchor of HOPE to lay hold onto. If in what we're doing, we continue to struggle to make it happen through our own fleshly determination, then we need to understand we may be working our own plan "for God" instead of standing in God's plan depending on His strength.

Opposition: comes first when we receive a revelation of vision and therefore tries to distract us

Adversaries: come when we are at the open door of a new season of progress and they are called "adversaries" because they are "adverse" to us going through, therefore they seek to..... detain us

Obstacles: come to make you think there's no way to get through, when the TRUTH IS we've already made it through, therefore it tries to deceive us

Defeating these "heavy" challenges is not just about being "battle" minded or adversarial with flesh & blood, but our best "warfare" (strategy) is to keep spreading the LIGHT of God's Kingdom into every nation with global VISION that is relevant with no compromise and not with the man made religious wineskins of sub-cultural clichés. The reaction of the enemy is due to the innovative Kingdom PURPOSE that is rising IN US as we live and move in our KING JESUS!

In these times of difficulty, we should not be alarmed, but we should see these challenges as the greatest confirmations of our God ordained VICTORY. When it seems impossible, our God given PURPOSE will break forth into innovations, ideas, and a Kingdom economy that OVERCOMES the world's systems.

Get ready men and women of God, prepare for the greatest days ahead, because even though it's the "end times" for the enemy..... IT IS NOT THE END FOR GOD'S ORDAINED CHAMPIONS, it is just the BEGINNING of a NEW DAY! Keep dreaming and having VISIONS!

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