What Kind of Relationship Is It?

Are you a giver or a taker?
Do you go to church for what you can give or what you can get?
Are you in a marriage where you bring something to offer every day or do you just want it your way?
In friendship, what is your motive, what you can impart or what you can extract?

I was reading Romans 1 this morning and Paul says to the saints in Rome, “I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established —- that is, that I may be encouraged together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.”

Reciprocal relationships are the best relationships. Where both parties are coming to add value to the other person. When a relationship is one sided it gets out of balance and people get frustrated, irritated, hurt, because one giving but the other is only taking.

This works in everyday relationships and it works in our relationship with God. We know He is God and needs nothing, but what if our relationship with Him is either distant or close because of what we invest in Him? He has invested His Son into our lives, He has given us His Holy Spirit as a deposit/guarantee of a future with Him forever. We can’t out give Him.

Relationships are not a competition of who can give more, rather they are a response to the one we say we love. If we say we love God how are we responding to God in worship, in giving, in time spent with Him?

Paul was a giver. He sought to impart a gift to the people of Rome. Next time you go to church or go to coffee with a friend or come home to your spouse, what gift can you impart to them? It is truly more blessed to give than receive, so be a giver and watch how much you receive in return. Our God is reciprocal. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Sound Speaks

A change has taken place, a seismic shift of the likes that no one will be able to miss. It will be a gradual roll out, for it is so massive that if it was all revealed at once we would not be able to handle it. The kingdom of God is not in word but in power (1 Corinthians 4:20).

The days of intellectual arguments, being afraid of the dark, seeking to escape because things are getting so bad, will give way to the Truth that has set us free. Truth is a reality but until we see it we cannot appropriate it in our lives.

Authority is a reality, but until you understand what you have been given you cannot access it. No wonder the Bible says, the god of this world has blinded the eyes of unbelievers (2 Corinthians 4:4). This is not about salvation only, this is about Christians who do not know what they have access to in Truth and in Authority.

The word of God spoke to me this morning, as a voice that was coming from my physical Bible. It was almost audible, it was so clear, so obvious, so undeniable. As I was reading, the voice of God spoke the words on the page in sound, not just in sight as I read.

He spoke with sound Psalm 92:6-7 “A senseless man does not know; nor does a fool understand this. When the wicked spring up like grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed forever.”

Why this verse, why this morning? For me those are not questions that need to be answered. All I know is that I heard as I was reading, I heard the Lord speak with sound these verses.

Because of the sound I heard, the voice I heard, I know it is done. Not it will be done, it is done. The wicked rulers have been destroyed forever. How do I know, for I heard the voice of God in sound say it this morning. This Truth cannot be unheard for me. It is done! Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org