The Perfecting Church

God is visionary. He sees what we can’t, knows what we don’t and has the power and resources to bring those unseen realities into existence. We typically associate new beginnings with leaving our circumstances and surroundings. But over and over throughout the bible, God begins again in the same place. No where is this tendency to begin again right where we are more stunning than in the life of Hagar. This enslaved, pregnant teen shows us what it means to be called and seen by the visionary God.

Our thoughts initiate our actions, our actions create our habits and our habits determine our destiny. Our Heavenly Father desires that we set our thoughts and minds on His plans and purposes for our lives and that we not walk in fear and fall into the traps that the enemy has made for us. We must be diligent to regulate and lift our thoughts so they rise to the level of God’s truth so we can fully manifest His desires in the earth.

Pain is a universal part of the human experience in this fallen world. Not one of us is immune. Our heart’s response to the pain we experience— and inflict —plays a pivotal role in our experiences becoming either a portal for manifestations of God’s power or for them becoming portals for great destruction as we respond in our own power.

This is the time to wail, mourn, and grieve over all that is happening in our nation, our states, our cities, our communities, our neighborhoods, and our churches. There is a clarion call from the Father who sees the destruction of His people. He is sending for an army, not of military might, but of women who are skilled at wailing, willing to cry tears over the broken systems, lives, dreams, and hearts of His people. This wailing is a sound that God commissions to alert the oppressed that He has heard their cries. His desire is for His people to mourn and seek Him.

We all have things in our lives and this world that we want to change.  Some have tried and found it’s too painful to change things in our lives and this world.  Some have witnessed others try to change things in their lives and this world and lose jobs, friends, family, and even their lives in the process and concluded it’s just too expensive.  But some have come to realize we are here to bring about change.  God has created and positioned us to push against the pain, to work with Him to remove the thorns in our lives and this world.  Give Online -  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=R9FZD7HFSB7TYConnection Card - https://bit.ly/2wj4z2OPrayer Request Form - https://bit.ly/33NJmdl#Promise2020 #MindSet #Sunday #ChurchNeed Help?Email: care@theperfectingchurch.orgOr call (856) 817-6223Location274 Delsea DriveSewell, NJ 08080Email info@theperfectingchurch.org

Too often, we limit our definition of change to something physical and external, overlooking the profound power of our mindset. Mindset can be defined as the beliefs, attitudes, and feelings that shape the way we choose and live each day. External change typically results in the same kinds of choices and the same kinds of results, because external change doesn’t change our mindset. Among all of the ways we can seek and pursue change, nothing is as powerful as a changed mind.

Crippled as a child, Mephibosheth spent the majority of his life in hiding. He came from royal lineage, but his life and experiences were far from royal. Mephibosheth shows us how radically our lives and circumstances change when we experience the sudden power and supernatural reach of the King’s Table — the promises of God. Like Mephibosheth, we are never beyond the capability or reach of the King’s Table.

Some of the greatest teaching moments in our lives happen right after we catch a glimpse of the true condition and position of our hearts. Reckoning tables are like final exams. They reveal what God knows about us, but we have yet to realize. God uses reckoning tables to show us ourselves and to order our steps. They are His way of adjusting our course so we hit the mark.

Tables of Generosity

There are times in our lives when sacred tables are prepared to help us encounter God and His promises. There are also times when hindering tables are positioned to keep us away from God and His promises. We will experience both in our lives. When Jesus came across hindering tables, He overturned them. Jesus is still turning hindering tables over today and giving His followers the authority to do the same.

Sacred tables are places of intervention, confrontation, instruction, implantation, and promotion. God prepares sacred tables in our lives, where He encounters us personally. God also commissions us to serve others on His behalf. We are God’s wait staff, called to serve His truth and eternal perspective to those being repositioned by sacred tables and those being confronted with His truth while sitting in positions of power.

Tables are sacred to God. They are places of intervention, confrontation, instruction, implantation, and promotion. David, the Shepherd King, experienced God setting up sacred tables all throughout his life. But it was the tables God arranged and put in place in the presence of his enemies, that had the deepest and most transformational impact on David. God is still setting up tables in the presence of enemies and those tables still change us in “never to be the same again” ways.

The Resurrection is the source of the most profound hope we will ever find. Through His suffering, death, burial and resurrection, Jesus rescues us from a debt of sin while modeling how to RISE above our darkest days and crippling doubts to enter into His joyous plan. When Jesus rose from the dead, He laid a foundation upon which we can rest, knowing there’s nothing from which we cannot rise, nor is there anything that can separate us from His love.

There was nothing good about that Friday for those who loved and followed Jesus. Friday marked the death of their Rabbi, their Messiah, their hopes and their dreams. But Friday proves the Father has better hopes and grander dreams than we do. Friday represents the day(s) where what we know and value is crushed, so what God knows and values can be revealed. There’s a goodness in Friday that has the power to change every other day that follows.

Scarcity entered this world back in the Garden of Eden, when we separated from our Source. Scarcity does not return to generosity until we are restored to our Source, the Prodigal Father. Scarcity works to deceive us into believing what we really need is resources and control, but we didn’t lose resources and control back in the Garden. What was lost in the Garden was the life-giving connection with God as our Source, and our distinguished position of being the Prodigal Father’s Beloved.