The ANOINTED CHOSEN BRIDE

Chapter 4 Love thy enemy

Mark and Tamryn was a modern happy married couple with two young girls. They enjoyed listening to heavy metal music. Tamryn started struggling with major depression. After diagnosis and on the road to recover, she started having a relationship with the Lord. She started spending more and more time and church and religious activities. Meaning she spent less and less time with her family. Mark initially supported her in her quest to recovery and respected her choice of religion. Mark believed that God exists and received daily devotionals through electronic media. Tamryn received the gift of division of spirits. When Mark would play the heavy metal songs they used to enjoy together, Tamryn would see figures of demons appearing and filling the room, attaching themselves to her little girls. This freaked her out. That is when the braking pint in their marriage happened.

Mark was dumb struct, because their choice in music never used to be a problem. Even Tamryn used to play it before she started her change in life style. Mark and Tamryn got separated and eventually divorced. Mark decided to become an atheist, as he felt religion stole his family and marriage from him. Tamryn justified the divorce as he could not be married to an unbeliever (this was prior to Mark's transition to becoming an atheist).

Allot of people leave the church and therefore also Christianity, because of religious people. From what can be gathered from the gospel, Jesus had a low tolerance for the Pharisees (religious people of His generation), or maybe this is largely misunderstood. He said that the truth should not be revealed to them, lest they get saved and live forever or maybe this might also be misunderstood.

When starting your walk with Christ as a believer, it is dangerously easy to get so righteous in your mind that you appoint yourself as judge and jury over others. Usually with a corresponding I am doing for the sake of my Lord. Or we get so religious in trying to do good that is no longer about the Lord, but our own achievements in how many we can help get saved.

We cannot expect to clean a fish before it has bee caught. Although we should be fisher of men. But in God's way, not ours. We have also been lost, on the wrong path, dirty with sin. We were only cleaned by Grace, mercy and kindness that come from the Lord. Not by our own works.

We speak the Word in someone's heart as a sower sows the seed in the landscape. We pry for the lost. We do what our hand finds to do, if someone struggles and we are able and equipped to help we do.

The seed dies. All we do, pray, minister and help will seem in vain. It will even sometimes be thrown back or discarded. We dust ourselves off and carry on, not fretting on manifestations in the natural. The see we sown, must first die.

Even a action can be a word sown. A smile. A kind gestures. Love, kindness and understand undeserved. This is being a light for the earth, when all seems dark and no one seems to care, we ar there. Being salt on to the earth, giving flavor to life, when everything else seems bland. Standing up for someone being judged by the so-called popular people.

It is not for a farmer to germinate the seed. That is what God does. We need to learn to let God be God. Waiting on Him, while we do next what our hands find to do. The Lord is faithful, He will not let His Word turn back empty.

If it is the Lord's will we will one day see those people in who's lives we have sown, how they have grown in their relationship with the Lord. The Lord brings the rain and dew to make us grow and bear fruit. So, others can come and enjoy the fruit an be blessed by it.

Sharing blessings blessing given by the grace of our Lord is good. The Lord's glory and blessings are given to us for the purpose of being shared. That is how multiplication is activated.

When moving from Egypt to the promised land, God fed the Israelites with manna. Some were greed and took more than what they need and the manna got spoiled by worms. Others .were reserved and took less than they required and it became more than enough, they still had left over and it did not spoil the next day.

In selfishness the Levite priest became obese as they tried to get as much fat from the boiling pot of offerings, which left less to be sacrificed to God.

When the widow asked Elijah for help as her husband was a prophet and they were to take her sons and all belongings the next day. Elijah told her to borrow as much empty containers and fill it with the little oil she has left. The flow of the oil to fill the cans kept flowing as long as it was poured, as the pouring stopped so did the flow of oil.

If blessings and gifts are to be represented by water, it can either be contained in a river or a dam. We choose what we do with the blessings and gifts given to us by the grace of the Lord. We receive gifts and blessings to be a blessing for others. If we keep it to ourselves, in fear that it may be lost when we start sharing, that we may also have some. It is like a dam that stores water. Pesticides and sicknesses start brewing and contaminates the water. It works the same with our gifts, blessings and testimonies. What is meant as a blessing becomes a curse when you try to retain and not share it. However, when we share and give to others, wanting them to share in our joy, it is like a river. Rivers are infused with nutrients that nourish and prospers all beside it. The blessing, testimony of gift, benefits everyone and it multiplies, as they receive other gifts it is also shared.

In the world system when you give away you lose and that will be lost forever. In God's economy the more you give the more it multiplies and increases. So, what can we give, we can give our time which makes space for more time in our busy schedules? God is a God of order.

Avoid making people dependent. Fullness River of God. Source Jesus Fountainhead. Unlimited resource. River Holy Spirit. In you. Flow Share Declare Move through you. Force Water detox. Cleanseimpurities. Wealth. I am nothi8ng. Nutrients in water. Here I am use me.