Stop Hiding from God

Genesis 3:7-10 depicts the aftermath of the fall of man. In this passage Adam and Eve have already eaten of the fruit from the tree of life that God has forbidden them to eat and their nakedness was revealed unto them and after hearing the voice of the Lord calling for them they covered themselves with self made materials to hide their nakedness from God.

This passage of scripture is full of rich revelation and prophetic insight about the relationship between us and God after our fall from glory. See so many times in life we are taught and conditioned to hide our flaws from people and to take refuge in our strengths and be shamed of our weaknesses. 

Due to this form of thinking it makes it difficult to accept the glory and grace of God when we enter into a relationship with Jesus by way of His sacrifice. It has been my personal experience that the biggest mistakes made in ministry and in personal walks with God is that we always hide ourselves from God,  we try and hide the sins that so easily besets us, we try and hide our lusts and our addictions. We are taught to look, act and dress holy but in our hearts and minds we are full of dead men's bones.

We have a form of Godliness but are denying the power thereof. And this makes us ineffective in bringing deliverance, healing, restoration and even salvation to God's people. The biggest mistake that Adam and Eve did was hide themselves from God. They covered themselves with man made clothes to hide their nakedness from God who has and still has the power to heal, fix and change any are of your life that is flawed. 

In this passage nakedness symbolizes their weakness, their vulnerabilities, their issues, their sins, their stuff. Just as it was back then so it is today. We as modern day believers hide our nakedness from God. We hide them behind titles, behind degrees, behind hats, behind tailored made suits and gator boots. We hide them behind mega churches and fancy pulpits. We are operating out of the influence of personality charisma instead of the influence of the Holy Spirit. 

We have become walking corpses in the spiritual realm. Because we are spiritually dying due to our lack of transparency. It's not until you confess your sins that salvation is obtained and through salvation you gain access to the power and workings of the Holy Spirit. After this you have to submit to the will of God. You have to lay it all out and allow God to pour into your Spirit. The problem is instead of laying our issues and sins at the feet of Jesus, we cover them up and pretend to be okay. We replace our issues with religion and think we have mastered the art of fooling God. We have erred in our thinking. For the bible declares that God knows the hearts of men and he has numbered every hair on your head.

So if he knows how many hair strands you have then he knows you have issues with homosexuality, he knows you have a sex addiction, he knows you are a lier, he knows you struggle with anger and drug addiction that's why He has been calling out to you, that's why He has been knocking at your door to give you the chance to ask for His help, to ask for His hand. For the bible declares that if a man seek he shall find, ask and he shall have and knock and the door shall be open unto him. God has never been a God of hostile take over. He will not force you to come to Him, He will not make you ask for His help. He gives you free will to choose you this day whom you will serve.

That's why transparency is so important because transparency is the tool to your transformation. It is not until you become transparent about your issues that you can start to receive help. Let me put this in natural terms. Unless a sick persons goes to the doctor and tell him their symptoms, the doctor will never have access to provide them with the resources needed to heal them. See the doctor has already been qualified and skilled to have the resources to heal your sickness but he can not give those resources to you until you ask for them. 

Like natural like spiritual. Jesus because of the cross has already gained authority and power and position to give you the resources needed to become healed but He can not give you those resources unless you come to him and ask for them. If you don't ask God to heal you, you won't ever be healed. If you don't ask God to save you, you won't ever be saved. If you don't ask God to deliver you you won't ever be delivered. 

See asking is very important because in asking you have to confess and admit that you have an issue that needs to be taken care of. Your asking shows and tells God that you need and trust Him enough to deal with your issues. It wasn't until I started telling God that my same sex attraction was taking control of my life again that I began to gain power, It wasn't until I realized that we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the power of our testimony that I started to become transparent before God and man.

My transparency allows you to see the power of God work in my life and allows God to work in my life to show you that He has the power to heal, save and set the captives free. 

The bible tells us we are to be a light unto the world and our transparency is that light, through our transparency people are able to see Jesus, the bible says that He is strong in our weakness. So the more we are transparent the more the strength of Jesus is revealed and the more Glory our Father receives!!!!

Battlefield of the Mind!!!!

The bible teaches us that so as a man thinketh so is he. Meaning you are what you think. You do as you think. You speak as you think. Your behavior mimics your thought process. Thinking transforms you into the person you show to the world.

It's easy to buy new clothes, paint your face, get some cosmetic surgery, smile when you're really angry and laugh when you really want to cry but the real battle is taking place in your mind. It's hard to get those unwanted images out of your head, it's hard to ignore the small voice telling you to indulge in your flesh. It's hard changing your mindset, it's hard changing your thinking because that is the one thing that has been unaltered since your birth.

We condition our bodies, we create and recreate our social behaviors to influence or status but our mindsets stay the same. We still think the same way. We have become perfect chameleons where we imitate others around us. We show people the face they want to see. That's  why we have a hard time surrendering and becoming one with God because we try to show him the person we think He wants to see when in reality he wants us to show him the messed up face so He can truly set us free but instead because of our thinking we run and hid and cover ourselves with leaves just as Adam and Eve did in the garden.

See the enemy didn't trick Eve because she was weak and Eve didn't convince Adam because he was weak they ate of the fruit from the tree because the enemy planted the seed in Eve's mind and got her to thinking about eating the fruit to gain the knowledge and she did the same to Adam. That's why the bible teaches us to not give place to the enemy and to cast down every thought and imagination the exalts itself up against the will of God.

See the enemies knows that all he has to do his control your thinking because if he can control your thinking he controls your behavior and if he controls your behavior he can control your life.  Let me be transparent to better help you grasp this concept.

I struggled with a lot of residual emotional and mental trauma from the abuse I was a victim of. Just recently I thought all was well until God opened my eyes to show me that the devil still had control over my mind. I just recently had a meeting with my publisher giving me the good news about my book release "Tears of Deliverance" which is October 1, 2011. She was telling me that it was time for me to start my own ministry. God has already been speaking to me about excepting the calling to Minister so I was open and excited about the confirmation. Then when I got home and began to THINK, I began to tell myself that I wasn't good enough to except the call, that I didn't deserve to be called or deserved to be successful and that I was going to mess everything up.

Instead of me rebuking the enemy and shutting down those destructive thoughts I entertained them and began to speak those things that I was thinking. Then my behavior changed. I began to revert back to the old person that God has saved and delivered me from. I started to do things to sabotage where God was taking me. I went back to fornication with men, I went back to being angry and deceitful. And God showed me that every time something good happens to me be it relationships or situations I always sabotage them and bring them to an end. I then began to recall events from my past and I remembered great friendships and situations that I have been in that I ultimately destroyed them because of my thinking. I thought I wasn't worthy, I thought I was a screw up and ultimately I became what I was thinking.

See that's why some of you can't stay in a good relationship or on a good job, that's why you don't have any best friends and that's why we keep being wishy washy with God because we THINK we don't deserve anything good. We THINK we are going to screw things up. You may have been a whore like me, a homosexual like I was, a masturbator like I was, a lier like I was, you may be or have been all these things and more but those sins are not who you are, they maybe what you are doing but what you are doing can change if you change how you are thinking.

You change your thinking, you change your behavior, change your behavior, you change your situations, change your situations, you change your life. But the key is to change. The bible tells us to renew our minds daily and that we should have the mind of Christ. The word renew simply means to change over to another. When you renew your subscription to a magazine you are simply changing over, the old way is expired and you are changing over to the new.

Remember the bible says that we are new creatures in Christ Jesus, old things are passed away and behold are things are new, meaning the old mindset and ways of thinking we had has expired and its time to change over to the new way of thinking.

Operating out of an expired way of thinking will contaminate your behavior and make your life sick, let me make this plain: Think about what happens if you drink old expired milk? It makes you sick....so it is in the natural so it is in the spiritual. The reason why your life is in shambles and your relationships are failing is because your mind is spoiled, your way of thinking has been contaminated and it is making your life sick. I am here as a living witness that Jesus is your antibiotic, the word of God is your elixir to soother and heal all area of your thinking to renew your mental processes and give you the mind of Christ. There has been a battle going on in our minds and we have been getting a beat down from the enemy. He has infiltrated our thoughts and took over our thinking.

Every time I ever fail prisoner to sin and temptations it was always because I entertained a thought and did not bring it under submission to the word of God. I fell back into sexual sin because sex was on my mind and instead of praying for strength I re-winded the images in my head of an old encounter, the reason why I cursed that person out is because I entertained the thought to curse that person out for making me angry instead of praying God to bridle my tongue. I entertained anger and lust instead of thinking about the scripture that says vengeance is the Lords' and love thy neighbor as thy self and flee from all acts of sexual impurity. Let me make it more clear. See the reason why you can't see how beautiful you are in-spite of all the compliments you get is because you have allowed yourself to think that you are ugly. You have allowed situations to make you think that you are ugly. If have allowed the way people treated you and wrongly loved you change how you think about yourself. The reason why you keep staying with him/her after he/she beats you and emotional and mentally abuses you is because you have allowed yourself to think and believe that's what love is and that somehow someway you deserve it. You buy the hottest outfits and rock the sickest shoes but you still see nothingness in the mirror because you have allowed your expired mindset to contaminate your thinking thus making your life sick. You can change your hair, you can change your make-up, you can change your body and your clothes but until you change your mind you will always look and feel the same.

Always remember that outter change can never truly be achieved until inner change has been accomplished and inner change can never be accomplished until mental change has started.