7 Feb 2015 by Jason Law CM –
Seremban Life Assembly, located in Oakland Industrial Park Seremban, is full of simple-hearted, warm, people whose principle is to build a community-minded and disciple-oriented church without walls. One of the initiatives they are currently undertaking is the setting up of a clinic as a community center for kidney patients. They have also conducted workshops in areas like music and ministry.
Recently, our contributing writer Reverend Jai Kumar shared in the church about the secret to obtaining breakthroughs in our crisis. He shared that God always give His children the best, above and beyond what we even think of asking for. Yet there are many people who are begging God daily to bless them instead of walking in His blessing. As Christians, we must realize that we are sanctified not through our own efforts but by the grace of God, for we can add nothing more to the work done at Calvary.
Reverend Jai imparted that Christians are not called to be performance-driven; we are called to be faith-driven, and this is the secret to overcoming our crisis. The devil can target the efforts of men but he can never defeat the work of God. This means that we must position ourselves by coming to God with a heart and mind of gratitude and moving with Him in the supernatural.
Coming to God in Faith
‘Every season has a timeline and in every situation God is in control. Out of so many people God has chosen us and we have been purchased by the blood of Jesus. We need to remember this and move beyond what we see and feel with our physical senses. We need to be different from the world where many are constantly seeking for answers in their life but not finding them. We must show them the reality of God in the Christian life,’ Reverend Jai encouraged. In his message, he shared seven mindset secrets to breakthroughs and miracles in our crisis.
Seven Mindset Secrets to Miracle/Breakthrough in Your Crisis
- Trials, hurts, and disappointments are just like battles and storms in our life.
Reverend Jai pointed out, that often, to reach mountain-top experiences, we first have to go through the valley experiences. Many stories in the Bible illustrate this, but we see this even in God’s creation in the natural world. In order for grape to turn into wine, it has first to be pressed. The same goes for wheat; it has to be moulded before it can be turned into bread to feed the hungry, and also for the olive which has to be pressed in order to obtain the oil to heal the sick.
- God often meets us at our level of expectation
Many people give up halfway instead of being steadfast in the Lord. One secret to obtaining breakthroughs is by never giving up our faith that every difficult season will eventually come to an end. Always have a level of expectation and recognition of who God is when we come before Him. God delights in and blesses us according to our faith.
- We must have initiative
Often, instead of always waiting for Him, we need to have initiative and work together with God in our crisis. If we refuse to let go – and unless we cast our cares on God and walk alongside Him – we will remain in our crisis situation.
Reverend Jai shared that there is a danger in staying in our comfort zones; Moses found refuge in the desert and when God called him to deliver the Israelites out of Egypt, he was paralyzed with fear. The paralyzed man at the pool of Bethesda gave excuses instead of accepting the healing from Christ in faith. For a man like Abraham, faith was everything and God recognized it unto him as righteousness.
- There are seasons for everything in life
There are timelines to each season, in praying and waiting, and in moving forward. When the people were delivered from Egypt, they had to move forward in faith. They did not have the option of wondering what would happen if they were caught. When God moves us forward, He closes every door behind us, as the Israelites saw at the Red Sea. God didn’t want the enemy to overtake His people.
True exercise of faith is always attached to an element of fear, and requires an act upon that fear or risk. Faith is not an absence of fear; it is choosing to trust God despite the fear. Just like the Israelites, we need to rise above our surrounding circumstances.
- Don’t fit God into a box
Humans have a tendency of always wanting to fit God into our understanding, but God has said that His thoughts are not ours (Isaiah 55:8) and that they are much higher than anything in the human mind. That means that often we need to stop rationalizing and lean on God instead of our own limited understanding.
Reverend Jai pointed out that God often heals in illogical ways just as He did when he instructed Elisha to tell Namaan to bath in the Jordan river (2 Kings 5) or when Christ instructed the ten lepers to approach the temple priests before they were healed (Luke 17:14). Freedom comes by lifting the lids off our minds and recognizing that there are no limits where God is concerned.
- There are only two mindsets
Mindset determines our direction in lives and Reverend Jai imparted that there are only two types of mindset in the world; worldly or Godly, it is either one or the other. Immediate environment has a power to seduce and shape us in a direction away from God and our human mindset is fragile and vulnerable. This is why there is a crucial need of renewing our minds daily with the word of God. The Spiritual mindset must form our foundations.
- Realigning/repositioning in God
One of the most effective illustrations of the power in realigning ourselves with God comes through the story of King Jehoshaphat of Judah in 2 Chronicles 19 and 20. According to the passage, the Moabites formed a great and powerful confederacy with the surrounding nations, and marched against Jehoshaphat.
The people of Judah were alarmed for they were defenseless before the huge army. God simply instructed Jehoshaphat to realign the people and nation unto Him, and by the morning, the huge confederacy had fought among themselves and destroyed each other.
In many passages of the Bible, God reminds us to be still and know that He is God. Much of the secret in obtaining breakthroughs in our lives comes from realigning our mindset and attitudes alongside those of God.
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What is the meaning of There are seasons for everything in life
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As I said in the article, what Reverend Jai shared is that there are times when we need to wait on the Lord and there are times when God calls us to act. In the case of the Israelites, they had to leave everything behind in Egypt, follow Moses under the leadership of God out of Egypt, cross the Red Sea in faith that God will hold the waters til every one of them had crossed, etc.. They had to act and not just pray and wait around in Egypt.
In the general sense, it also means that there are times in our life when everything is smooth but there are also challenging times where faith is challenged. A famous passage in Ecclesiastes 3 states that there is a time for every activity under Heaven.