Heavens Surgeon.(The best story ever written)

Panic filled the white room of Saint Mary's hospital as a critical patient just entered. Hopelessly Theodore and Michael the chief of staff stare at a distance as tears roll down their cheeks. Countless times they have experienced miracles in this hospital, but this case looks beyond normal. However, rooted inside of them is their value, like the roots of a strong tree, no wind can shake. There lies hope and hope never disappoints. "Call the doctor quickly there's no movement" Gabriel, the surgeon on duty, exclaims. Stalling towards the operation room gives time for gossip inside. Martha the nurse stood there with a silly smile on her face, as though she knew how all things will work for good for the young man. Supposedly she had seen a dejavu, the doctor's delay doesn't mean denial. Though his coming may tarry but it will come to pass. His hand is not too short that it cannot save. A buzzing sound echoes the room as the panic heightens...enters the master physician with calmness to perform his operation. His tool box consisting of two nails, blood and water.

" how in the world did he get here?" he asks. Michael began to give the surgeon a report on the patient. This devoted young man who has given himself wholly to the masters will. Pure in conscience and upright in character, adored by those who know good and abhorred by the lovers of iniquity. No bad record at all, few enemies but not enough to do such a bad deed. He was bruised and battered by criticism, which paralysed his self-worth, ashamed of his faults located by the investigation of critics he fell into a shock of terminal self guilt. A man who was shot by bullets of condemnation which pierced through his integrity. As if it was not enough he was stabbed in his heart by a Judas nearby, draining all his ability to walk in love and faith. Like the story of the Samaritan, the priests and Levites with all their antidotes to help they were too busy in a building and forgot to aid this brick of Christ's church. Poisoned by snakes in sheep's clothing he further suffered a blow of rejection, so he took the drug of sin and became an addict, I believe there was no hospital on earth that could save him.

Ready and eager the master surgeon begins his work. This man came with a dysfunctional heart and corrupt nature yet the master wilfully receives him. He loves him in spite of his failure of character and offers him a heart renewal. It is often said that a man cannot only be believed according to what he says but by how  he acts. Many people have professed the Lord but it is not all who obtain the kingdom, even betraying Judas thought the master was not aware of his plan to sell him out. Jesus is a surgeon and the best surgeon there could ever be. A man by the name of Dr Chris Barnard was said to be the first surgeon to do a heart transplant, yet we know it is not true, the first heart transplant happened two thousand years ago at the cross of Calvary.

 

" And Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you shall be with Me in Paradise"-Luke 23:43

 

The thief who was condemned for his actions, which were a result of his corrupted heart, stood next to the master. A murderer and worker of iniquity, we all would see his condition as fatal and irreversible, we would write him off as cruel and undeserving of a second chance. A heart that has been dominated by evil, in medical jargon an "Intensive care unit" scenario with no hope. The Dr Barnards of this world see no alternative but Jesus the master surgeon prepares his operation with confidence and greatest of compassion. What could of taken some hours of restless labour through fasting and prayer; The master does it in seconds. in a twinkle of an eye the deceptive heart is changed, the heart transplant of the master works a tremendous deal and what we could have written off becomes the first ever human heart transplant.

"And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My judgments and do them."-Ezekiel 36:26

 

Through all eternity people have been trying to cure their heart condition. The law came to enable them to live right by easing their defiled conscience. The law failed in doing so because it exposed more thoroughly their wickedness. Like the criminal at the cross man knew that he would one day pay for his wickedness that sprang forth from his heart. Self righteousness was the snare of law abiders, they thought they could do the transplant by themselves, Pharisees and Sadducees came in the scene and showed off their way of being pure by doing good works. A man once broke his car and damaged his engine and the whole car. The next day he fixed the car up and it looked brand new. He added effects and spoilers that transformed it from a normal vehicle to a sports car. Everyone marvelled and the jealous folks were angered at his sudden progress. The man messed up and took the initiative to fix up his mess and make it better. Just like the fallen race which uses the law and good works as their justification. He hurries out to the streets and enters the best automobile with haughtiness and a daft grin in his face. Puts the key inside the car's ignition and to his greatest surprise the car won't move. He fixed the outside when the problem was the engine inside.

No matter how good it looked outside the problem was inside. The fallen man changes his greeting and outward appearance yet the problem is his heart! He can transform his religious duties and works yet that won't cure his disease, only one doctor graduated from the university of life with flying honours. No other surgeon knows best and no other medication can cure this disease. There is a law of relativity. For every short there is a tall, for every thick there is a thin. for every heart Condition There's Christ. Where the law failed just like an antidote of medication that doesn't work; there is no cure only he is the answer. He doesn't require counter performance he does his job freely, heavens medical Aid has paid with the blood of Jesus, no other payment would do; To those who come to him he does what he does best; he changes their hearts. He cures the sin disease of wickedness and grants divine health to those who will. If you accept him he will grant you the operation and cure your heart with an everlasting remedy; Himself in you. he doesn't give you medication to live by he gives you the cure which is himself.

Prophet Ezekiel saw the heart transplant of God in prophecy, he saw a generation which will not need to try and do right but will be transplanted with the right heart that is created to do right and godliness only. That heart is not just a new heart(Spirit, inner man) It is a heart that carries something beyond right living and God pleasing. It is the very essence of the message to sinners or sick people who require a doctor. When we come to Christ he puts a new heart in us, deception leaves, wickedness leaves, evil and every thought of it exits our nature. He doesn't restart he renews us. he gives us a new heart and enables us to be better men than we were before. If we were criminal minded we are change after the operation, we walk with forgiveness we lay down our pride and walk with uprightness of character. We no longer see right living as a drag but as a lifestyle, a nature we always embraced. Just like any other patient who exits the laboratory after an operation, just after it occurs we are not aware it took place, we still feel the same like we did before. If our Appendix was removed we don't feel like it was; we not conscious of that fact yet in spite what we feel it still happened. Sometimes when we received Christ we still feel like we are the same old man we were before because there's no external evidence that's concrete enough to confirm that reality.

But to the rejoicing of Martha and the amazement to Theodore, the patient is saved effortlessly. A loud rejoice fills the room as the Master surgeon smiles in glorification. The young man wakes up being divinely touched. Heavens brilliance radiates on his face as he looks in the mirror he no longer sees what he saw, he sees himself in the view of his physician. With a doctor's note which reads:

"You did not choose me, but I chose you and ordained you to be fruitful"

Your duty is just that. be fruitful.

Elijah God's Strategist.

 

 

Prophecy: The power that creates your future

1 Thessalonians 5:20

"Do not Despise prophecy"

Prophecy is a message directly given by God for future(fore-tell) events or current events(forth-tell) through prophets. In simple terms when God makes a promise, that promise over your life is prophecy because he never breaks his promises. God's people are a nation of prophecy. It was the promise of Canaan that kept the hope of the early church ablaze, it is the promise of Zion that keeps the church marching on. The promises of God for his children are found in God's word and the new testament prophets are governed by protocols of this word. They cannot prophesy beyond the written word in foretelling because the future is already sealed in Revelations. However they may speak future events and discourses over your life and the world, not contrary to God's written word. I call it the new rules of the prophets. The old testament prophets were governed by the Law, and the new testament prophets are governed by the word of God.

The word "Prophecy" is directly taken from the Greek word "propheteia". It is made up of "PRO" which means (Before, in time or position), and the verb PHEMI which means to tell. One of my favourite Preacher and mentor once taught me that prophecy is two-fold, but I beg to differ. He missed the third element of prophecy. Prophecy is Threefold, it can be divided into "Forth telling", Fore telling and then the third part- which is found in the Hebrew rendering- "Naba".   This hebrew rendering of prophecy means to speak by divine inspiration whether in prediction or simple discourse.

Forth-telling

The word rendered prophecy in conjunction with forth-telling in the new testament is defined as revealing the mind of God in a particular situation. This type of prophecy brings an immediate answer to your current problem. When the Israelites were losing the battle against the Amalekites, Moses instructed Joshua and Caleb to help him lift up his rod and they would win as long as they complied with the words of Moses(Prophecy). Once a man goes to a prophet for a word that he needs for his current situation, the prophet foretells and causes divine changes in that situation. We need to believe in God's prophets in forth telling us out of dilemmas' and circumstances. Forth-telling can also be associated with a prophets knowledge of a persons past, which i associate with thr gift of "the word of knowledge(Grk eido)-(we'l cover in 4 types of knowledge topic" and wisdom(Grk Sophia)(we'l cover in 3 kinds of wisdoms topic).

Fore-telling

This is the prophets ability to do future predictions. How Jeremiah saw and spoke of the captivity of Israel and the coming emperor who would free them from captivity in the times of Daniel. The prophet speaks with divine inspiration of how future events will happen, Jesus could see his death and he kept talking about it because he knew what would happen. The new testament Major Prophet A.K.A Apostle Paul could perceived the shipwreck on their way to Rome when the experts had given professional opinion that no storm would come. Prophets can see what the future holds for you and they can give a word over your life that will see God's plan about you revealed.

Speaking by divine inspiration: "Naba"

Every messenger declaring the word of God under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit is operating under a prophetic unction. Which in putting things in perspective I would conclude that everyone in the 5 fold ministry is a prophet as they all speak in inspiration and are messengers. John the Baptist is called a prophet though he evangelised but under inspiration he spoke of the coming Christ. Pastors usually give encouraging words, that set people free. These abilities are wrapped up in the anointing of prophecies, the very utterance of God's word is prophecy! that is why Elijah says(Please declare this with me):

"I am a prophet in my life! I carry a promise like Abraham and I evangelise like John. I may not understand my doings like Hosea, I may weep a lot like Jeremiah, I may even feel like quitting like he did (Jeremiah 20:9) but his words are in me as fire shut up in my bones, I may feel like I lost my life and flee like Jonah but God will spew me out of my enemy that swallowed me. He will restore my wasted years like the locust that ate the crops of Joel, I may have my enemies surrounding me but I'm glad because they will stumble and fall(Psalm 27:2-3) I declare in line with a prophet that in the name of Jesus may all that is reserved for me come to me, I slay with the sword of the word which is my declaration ,any principality or power that may have been delaying my angels with what belongs to me, in the all powerful name of Jesus God has perfected all that concerns me! "

Scripture Reference:  Exodus 17

The beauty of thy fellowship

"Now God is faithfull by whom you were called into the fellowship with his son Jesus Christ"-1 Corinthians 1:9

The most beautiful even that happened at the cross was that Christ became sin, the nature the human race had personalised. He as the scape goat took upon himself ther fallen nature of adam's race and nailed it to the cross. The story continues to show us how he single handedly destroyed the prison that was made for sinners; How he defeated the devil and rose again victorious and triumphant. He undid in three days what Adam did in Eden. He restored the mutual participation of God and the human race in himself.

When we read the bible in Gen 2:24, it talks about a man leaving his parents to cleave unto her wife. The word cleave is the  hebrew word  "DABAQ" it means to be joined as one. When Adam cleaved unto eve, they became one kind, Human kind.

In the above verse the bible tells us we were called into a fellowship with the son of God. The greek rendering of the word "fellowship" is "KOINONIA", similar to cleave it suggests a ( partnership, union, communion, oness, participation, social intercourse).When eve joined together with Adam they became the human kind, When Christ joined together with the church, the church became the Godkind. Brothers and sisters we have been summoned into the participation with Christ! I partake in his victory over sin, sickness and darkness, I partake in his victory over the world, over sin and over inferiority before the throne of God. He cried "eloi eloi" so that I could never again be seperated from the love of the father. He took my place so I could take his. I can rightly stand legaly before the father and make claims and demands the same way the master did. The father in heaven hears me as he does Jesus. My voice and that of Christ are intercoursed as one. With the same shout that raised lazarus from the grave, in the name of Jesus, as a participator of the divine nature I call forth every dead thing in your life to come alive!

Prayer: Father God I thank you for calling me in Christ, so that I can feel the open heaven of Eden in my life, thank you for the restoration of fellowship, I pray that you ingraft it in my spirit and let it be the light that shines to the world. Let the world see you in my eye, in Jesus name Amen.

 

Defeating Giants: Mental Giants

Num 13:33 "And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, of the giants. And we were in our own sight like grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."

When God had already told the Israelites to enter thePromised Land after years of wandering, they were already at the verge of the promise coming to pass. The above scripture shows us the report on how the promise land was. Indeed it was filled with milk and honey, yet the minds of the people faced Giants. The two opponents matched together were were Israel and the Giants, the conclusion of the stronger contender was already decided. They were not there yet, they were not contesting but already they saw themselves as unworthy. The Problem was not the Giants in Canaan. The scripture says "We saw ourselves and so did they" In other words they introduced themselves as grasshoppers. The bible tells us, the news of how God took them out of Egypt reached every nation. Their God was feared but in the contest they named two opponents, Israel and Anak, they forgot that the battles are not theirs, there was an Ark carrying eternal presence.

The bible doesnt tell us if they asked the people of Canaan what they think of them. It was their own mindset. They saw the stature of the Giants and based their challenge on appearance. Child of God you may be facing situations and circumstances that look bigger than your paycheck, bigger than your understanding, bigger than your normal challenges. The children of Israel were champions of exoding(exiting) but they had no skill in entrances, the minds of those who saw themselves incapable became an obstacle at the door of the promise. Sometimes we stop praying and believing when our answer is at the tip of our noses because how we see the whole situation gives us our reality. We are creative children of a creative God. Whatever we speak and believed we shall conceive.

There was once a man who was prisoned for 50 years and in his 50th year they visited him. They knocked and he answered "I dont have a key" they told him to open he kept saying "im locked up", eventually he turneed the knob and it opened, for 45 years the door was left open, but he imprisoned himself because he saw himself locked, in his mind he was locked even when in reality he was set free.

The children of Israel had God on their side with all his power but the fear to step into what God promised was blocked by a mental Giant. Throughout the scripture we hear of the Israelites defeating people but theres no were they entered combat with a nation of Giants, because caleb and Joshua changed the view of the people. He said "Giants were? they are bread for us" then suddenly the Giants started to turn into loaves of bread in the minds of the people who eat daily bread.Defeating them would be our daily bread. New confidence sprung up in the camp, the nation was determined to give Anak and his children a hidding. Saints change your mind = change your world. Change your world =maker the rules and overcome any mountain! See it, talk it and step on it!

 

God's Point of contact (Part 1)

"And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me"-Isaiah 6:8

When God had a message to give his people there was a dilemma in heaven. A place filled with billions of God's messengers yet he had no one fit enough to send to his people. In the old testament we see a lot of times angels visiting the patriachs in human form. The Only time these angels appeared in their true form was in dreams.The bible taught us that human beings are spirit beings who possess a soul and live in a body. God talks to us in two-fold.

1. Through The inner man
2. Through a messenger

In the above scripture God needed a messenger to speak to a group of people. A question was posed as to why didn't God send an angel? why was he in need of a messenger in a heaven filled with angels? The answer is that spiritual beings cannot be seen by physical beings. The reason why many believers do not have a personal encounter with God is because they relate to a spirit God in their physical ability.Isaiah was God's reaching out point to his people. The message he caught in the Spirit he could convey in the flesh as he has the necessary abode to this realm. That is why God needs messengers, his hand was mighty to open the red sea automatically, but his power needed a point of contact which was moses. He could have destroyed Goliath in the midst of the philistines, but he needed a point of contact, David to carry out the task and vessel the power of God. Once you begin to break lose from the myth of understanding God your own way, and let him reveal himself in your life, you stand in the gap like Isaiah. You become his point of contact in your sphere of contact. You may be at work and theres a sick person, or at school, the power of God is already inside you to heal and save all that are lost, you are God's voice in this world. Jesus gave you the ability and power, he made you a son of God. As a son you obtained something bigger than moses, if the rod of moses had power in his hand when God was in heaven? how much more you when He lives inside of you.

Child of God you got to understand that heavens point of contact to the lost is you, God is not silent he has already given the nessage in you, when people dont hear about him its not that he is not talking its that you are not. The bible is more than words from God, these words are his voice, the sentence you read in the bible is God talking to his children, but the only way he can is through you! make yourself available to house the power of God.

Acts 19:12- When Hankerchiefs abd aprons were touched by paul, they would heal the sick. The hankerchiefs with no intellect whatsoever could be the point of contact of the Apostle. The power of God is transferred into you the minute you receive the holy Spirit. He makes you God's touch to a needy world. You gotta begin to be aware of this great revelation that you are God's adress and his touch in the world is through you! begin to touch and change the lives of people by showing them God through you.

 

Secret revealed-Childish Pastors

"and said, Truly I say to you, Unless you are converted and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven.Therefore whoever shall humble himself like this little child, this one is the greater in the kingdom of Heaven". Matthew 18:3-4

They had witnessed him work miracles and teach the word with signs and power. The master finds a place to seat and turns his focus from the adults he said his beatitudes to.He forgets the unhealed lepers and the demon possesed, he sees the greatest parable he has taught manifest, a little child, the very expression of purity, the heart new from heavens manufacturor, Jesus sees the perfect man, the tamed creation filled with love, hope and love. He suddenly stops the disciples from stopping the children and says a very remarkable statement, "For such as these is the kingdom" The secret to greatness was not the wealthiest congrigant, the secret was not a beautiful auditorium, the secret was not praying all day and reading the word, though they are essential the master tells us the secret. The reason why David the boy slain goliath, the reason why samuel the boy heard of the future of his father eli and sons, the reason why we sideline them at 9 when the preaching ministry is in them, we abort their gift because their age is suppose to match God's power in them? If Israel waited for the 8 year old Josiah to grow to 30 before crowned king, they would have lost the peace that king Josiah's reign had for Israel. 
The mistery was revealed in the parable of the master, for such as these. Every great move of God began with a child, it was the baby Jesus who taught the synagogue, oh yes it was the child Saul of tarsus who was the armour bearer of those who killed steven, that fired up his passion and made him confesss "Im not only willingh to be bound but to die(like steven the great) for the name of Christ"  The heart of a child is tremendous, It doesnt need to forgive, yes it holds no grudge at first, Ive seen born again pastors who dont greet another cause of "sheep thieving" earthly posession, Ive seen Christian of different denominations not greeting for difference in doctrine, What divides us is magnified and what unites us is forgotten.

The greek original text "little children" is one word=Paidion , According to Strongs greek dictionary, the word Paidon talks of young children but it is used by Jesus figuratively as to signify Immature Christians or newly converts. Now why would Jesus tel the establish Peter and the Visionary John to convert from a highest point in the kingdom to be a "Paidion"? Though they knew the secret to parables spoken and had the authority Christ gave them they needed to convert to little children to enter the kingdom, The new convert is still not fully wiped of his memory of his sinful disqualifications, he stil depends on grace. Self righteousness has not crept in his system, he is not looking to be the greatest he is grateful to be a part of the kingdom of God. I do not want a C.V read before I minister, I do not want my degree mentioned because it serves no purpose how much i studied I come as Paidion because its all about the kingdom, not the church building, the members no! Let us unite and grow the kingdom, i look foward to that day were a movement of combined ministries will arise in SA, You were not called to have independent families but to unite! I appeal to all saints, how do we explain a street with 10 churches next to each other fighting for people? people are souls not products! Its time for the childlike pastors to play in the same playground.

 

Women of virtue

"Who can Find a woman of virtue? for her worth is far more precious than rubies"

As I looked around the world, I noticed that we produce alot of woman activists for good yet there a lack of virtuous women. The bible talks of  this woman as parrallel to wealth and riches. The wealth of a women is not her bank account or the number of people she is attracting, but the virtue she has within her. Virtue is a character, it is an attribute that distinguishes a woman from those around her. There may be billions of women out there but one woman of virtue grabs royal precedence than a billion super models. Child of God your worth is determined by your character, If you act cheap they will treat you cheap, If you dress cheap they will adress you cheap. A woman of virtue looks beyond social trends, If you gotta fit in you become like the rest, it is a woman who stands out who all men of every nature desire. You got to understand that no one places a bet on a losing horse, sister they after your virtue and keeping it will gain you glory! There were millions lining up for the palace but only Esther passed the test, her beauty and virginity was not the key! It was her character that mattered.

The bible talks about Ruth and Boaz. When Naomi gave the girls a choice to leave and find themselves husbands, the other left but Ruth chose to stick to Naomi. Women of virtue serve God they dont throw themselves in the hands of a man who is using them just to try to get married. Marriage has become a sole goal for young women today,they all stiock with trash to find treasure. The rubbish bin dont produce rubbies, you got to have virtue and character! Let God's word build ion you a character higher than those around you, If you dance the tune of your friends you cant expect a different fate. God calls people out of stuff, he called Abram out of oz, He called david out of the house of Jesse, he called moses out the palace. All that glitters is not gold, maybe you in the palace of egypt yet the virtue of God is being compromised, you are living in sin with a future contract in mind to legalise your sin! If you build ion sin you will decorate in sin. Have the Ruth character, that is able to stick to Naomi and wait for her Boaz, you may miss your boaz if you go looking for something that God was preparing for you. Be the woman a man of virtue is praying for, "He who lives by the sword dies by the sword" Remember how you live now will be how you will be treated later. If the hippie lifestyle of the world is your bread do not complain ther meal of your seed growth. You attract who you are, and Boaz comes once in a life time! keep your virtue.