victim to this scripture's foretelling fate. The message that I heard from Tracey was life changing! It will for the rest of my life shape how I think. How many people grew up around him, knowing him, that simply would never allow ANY word from him to penetrate their being? What a sad shame! When Jesus said this, he wasn't saying it as if it were a biblical principle that is inescapable. As a matter of fact, according to the next verse, regardless of that situation, he went about his business. He kept doing what he knew he was meant to do. In that verse, the people's unbelief and nonacceptance stopped the hand of God from touching their lives! Jesus never meant that this is how it should be. My brother is one of my greatest heroes. The things he has instructed me on have benefited me greatly. Some of the things he has learned in communion with God and shared with me have been filled with more actual substance than many, many services in church. I can't imagine how awful it would have been for me to have missed some of those things just because of the human weakness Jesus described in Mark 6:4. I couldn't imagine not taking to heart what my pastor says because I had grown up around him. Don't get ripped off. If someone you know has a good word, take it to heart. Don't miss potentially life-building wisdom for some petty reason that means nothing. That's not what God wants. He puts people in your life for you to build up and to be built up by. Don't miss out on something that may complete a part of you.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Ripped Off
I've really wanted to write a post lately. But I have this thing about me that won't let me write something when I've read or heard something profound from someone else. The reason for this is that I refuse to chance writing someone else's word. It's no good to me, because everything I write, I feel; like you would feel a really great song, or some poetry that moves you. My spirit thrives on God's inspiration when I write, and it's all very personal and heart-felt to me. It's not a pride thing, I just know in my heart that the weird way I write is exactly how I'm supposed to do it. Enough about that, let me get to the point. I was recently able to hear some truly great stuff from my pastor, Tracey Armstrong. It was so packed with revelation that I was in shock, and am even now reeling from the effect of that great teaching. It was so impactive to me that I felt sorry for people who didn't hear it. Somehow that led to thinking about Mark 6:4. "But Jesus, said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house." This does not only mean a literal prophet. It refers to teaching, preaching, prophecy, almost any anointing. I thought about how so many people fall
victim to this scripture's foretelling fate. The message that I heard from Tracey was life changing! It will for the rest of my life shape how I think. How many people grew up around him, knowing him, that simply would never allow ANY word from him to penetrate their being? What a sad shame! When Jesus said this, he wasn't saying it as if it were a biblical principle that is inescapable. As a matter of fact, according to the next verse, regardless of that situation, he went about his business. He kept doing what he knew he was meant to do. In that verse, the people's unbelief and nonacceptance stopped the hand of God from touching their lives! Jesus never meant that this is how it should be. My brother is one of my greatest heroes. The things he has instructed me on have benefited me greatly. Some of the things he has learned in communion with God and shared with me have been filled with more actual substance than many, many services in church. I can't imagine how awful it would have been for me to have missed some of those things just because of the human weakness Jesus described in Mark 6:4. I couldn't imagine not taking to heart what my pastor says because I had grown up around him. Don't get ripped off. If someone you know has a good word, take it to heart. Don't miss potentially life-building wisdom for some petty reason that means nothing. That's not what God wants. He puts people in your life for you to build up and to be built up by. Don't miss out on something that may complete a part of you.
victim to this scripture's foretelling fate. The message that I heard from Tracey was life changing! It will for the rest of my life shape how I think. How many people grew up around him, knowing him, that simply would never allow ANY word from him to penetrate their being? What a sad shame! When Jesus said this, he wasn't saying it as if it were a biblical principle that is inescapable. As a matter of fact, according to the next verse, regardless of that situation, he went about his business. He kept doing what he knew he was meant to do. In that verse, the people's unbelief and nonacceptance stopped the hand of God from touching their lives! Jesus never meant that this is how it should be. My brother is one of my greatest heroes. The things he has instructed me on have benefited me greatly. Some of the things he has learned in communion with God and shared with me have been filled with more actual substance than many, many services in church. I can't imagine how awful it would have been for me to have missed some of those things just because of the human weakness Jesus described in Mark 6:4. I couldn't imagine not taking to heart what my pastor says because I had grown up around him. Don't get ripped off. If someone you know has a good word, take it to heart. Don't miss potentially life-building wisdom for some petty reason that means nothing. That's not what God wants. He puts people in your life for you to build up and to be built up by. Don't miss out on something that may complete a part of you.
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