Day 254 - Tend My Sheep

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength (Vol. 1) - # 287

         

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Tending sheep brings results.  Michael gives us a great insight to this…

DAY 254

Tend My Sheep

So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, {son} of John, do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My lambs.” --John 21:15

It is interesting that Peter was to tend the sheep in response to loving Jesus. I loved having sheep as a child; it was great fun feeding and watching them. They definitely do need tending. Jesus did not tell Peter to fatten the sheep; that is the job of the butcher. He did not say stimulate and excite the sheep; that is the job of the wolf. He gave the job of shepherding to Peter. So many wipe out because of lack of encouragement and food. What feeds the sheep is the true Word, Jesus. Just talking about Jesus will allow the disciple-maker to feed and tend the sheep. Often I meet people who are so down, so depressed, but simply bringing up the name of Jesus or something He taught or said will bring a lift to their spirits. This is tending. Much of what we see called worship today is only of man; it is not feeding, shepherding, or tending.

My grandfather hated feedlots. It was his feeling that cattle and sheep were something to be nurtured; they needed space and quality conditions. I was surprised once to discover that the feedlots were giving the cattle plastic pellets to eat, for after all, they took the place of grain and could be recycled. Despite the fact that there was no nutritional value in the pellets, they were formulated to trick the normal digestive system of the cow. Church today is full of plastic pellets. Oh, we sing, we jump, we worship (sing ourselves happy), and yet we leave so dissatisfied with nothing to keep us in the coming hours when spiritual strength is needed at work or at home. Tend the sheep! Simply speak of Jesus to one another. This is the food that will keep us beyond the conversation, the sermon, and the meeting. Colossians 3:16 & 17, “Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.”

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The Word of Christ is Him.  Only Jesus Christ can lift spirits, even with just a simple bringing up His Name or something He taught.

God changed my disciple-making in Colorado back in 1988 at the retreat where we first met Michael and Betty Wells.  Well, amen.

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Day 253 - Take the Blame!

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength (Vol. 1) - # 286

         

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Michael’s writing, Day 253, is a REALLY interesting and REALLY great one.  I wonder how many of us follow the wisdom of this venture into truth?

DAY 253

Take the Blame!

Then let me bear the blame before my father forever. --Genesis 44:32

There is much said today about the person who is a blame-taker. We are told that blame is something that we are not to wear, and indeed, so few believers are willing to take the blame for their condition, yet there is a measure of integrity that comes from being willing to take blame. 

Often when I have been discipling a person God has revealed something about him He was not yet revealing to the person. Therefore, I did not mention it but stored it in the back of my mind. I know that I have no right to bring out a shortcoming that He is not revealing, for with His revelation will always come the power to overcome it. When He reveals a failure, it is not a burden, for His power accompanies it, and with the power comes hope. My point is that oftentimes others have annoying, carnal, self-centered behavior that we see and they cannot. Why? Obviously, it is to work something in us. However, instead of looking to the Lord and within, we make the mistake of looking to them and wondering at their condition.

Have you ever thought that you are to blame for your response to carnal persons? That their behavior is revealing your heart and carnality? Has their behavior revealed bitterness, lack of love, and your own carnality? You are to blame for your response! Do not fret about seeing others’ behavior; your behavior is the issue. When you are tempted to reject others who offend you, remember there is probably a bigger fish to fry, and that fish is you!

There is another aspect of blame-taking that is legitimate. II Samuel 12:4-7, “‘Now a traveler came to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take from his own flock or his own herd, to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him; rather he took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.’ Then David’s anger burned greatly against the man, and he said to Nathan, ‘As the LORD lives, surely the man who has done this deserves to die. And he must make restitution for the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and had no compassion.’ Nathan then said to David, ‘You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel, “It is I who anointed you king over Israel and it is I who delivered you from the hand of Saul.”’” 

Would David have judged another man’s failure had he known he was going to hear, “You are the man”? Unfortunately, I have spent a good part of my life judging others. I once had the opportunity to question an elderly saint, “Why do believers not finish well?”

He took a pen in his hand and asked, “Who holds the pen, who keeps it from falling, and who moves it from place to place?”

“You do,” I responded. 

He then “walked” the pen over to “look” at another pen that was lying down and had the upright pen say, “You pathetic pen! Look at you lying there; what a failure you must be!” Then the elderly gentleman dropped the pen he was holding and said that the pen is like a man who is touched by the glory of God, held by the glory of God, and moved by the glory of God, but then who takes the credit himself. All God need do is let go, and the man is as flat as those he judges. Man lives in pride, becoming a god unto himself and a god to others! A chill ran down my spine, for I could hear the voice of the prophet saying, “You are the man.” The only reason I have not left my family or have ever ministered to others or had a revelation of grace is that the glory of God was holding me. When I see hypocritical believers, those caught up in adultery, those with rebellious children, or those steeped in carnality, I just want to shut up! If I stand, it is not because of my own great strength and wisdom, but only because of the glory of God.

We can have no pride except in His goodness and glory. As abiding believers, we do not want only to preach that there is nothing the nearness of Jesus will not cure; we want to demonstrate it, showing that we believe in the glory of God. “Lord, I take the blame for judging! But I have come to a place where I am extremely frightened and want nothing to do with judging.”

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Well, amen.

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Day 262 - Standing Alone

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength (Vol. 1) - # 285

         

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In this day’s writing, Michael addresses something none of us really like to face.  Yet, it is a reality of this life.

How have you “handled” the experiences of “standing alone”?

DAY 252

Standing Alone

If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore, the world hates you. --John 15:19

There will be several times throughout life that you will find yourself standing alone. It can be in times of deep inner need when no one comes to your aid. You might find yourself standing alone for truth in your workplace, home, or church. You may be rejected after sharing your faith or falsely accused with no one defending your character. Standing alone is not a unique experience. 

There are several approaches that can be taken when you find yourself standing alone. First, you can act like Job. “I waste away; I will not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are {but} a breath” (Job 7:16). He adjusted to his misery and became comfortable with it. Expectation and hope take effort. Pessimism holds out its hand and offers its own peculiar brand of friendship. Pessimism comforts by telling you what a clever person you are to recognize hopelessness. 

Second, you can take the approach of Paul. II Timothy 4:14, “Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.” That is, others have caused your misery; if it were not for others, you could be in bliss. Therefore, comfort yourself with thoughts of others suffering for the pain they caused you. Your pain is a ten; theirs will be a hundred. This approach definitely will not leave your pain at a ten, though; it will increase it.

Third, you can approach standing alone as did Jesus. Luke 23:46, “And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, ‘Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT.’ And having said this, He breathed His last.” Though you are standing alone in your situation, you recognize you are never left alone. God will never leave or forsake you! Standing alone, there is no hindrance between you and the Father, not any other voice or opinion but His. Into His hands you commit your spirit! His hands! Can you imagine? He created man with His hands. He did miracles with His hands. He upheld His people with His hands. He keeps us from evil by His hands. In these hands you lay your spirit when you are standing alone. What happens next? The self-centered you breathes its last, for you cannot be in His hands and cling to selfishness.

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It didn’t take long to see which “way” we deal with these “standing alone” situations, did it?

“Self” always deals us a bad hand.  It is a great Life to have the self-centered me breathe its last and Live in His hands…with His Life lived through me.

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Day 251 - Sowing and Reaping

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength (Vol. 1) - # 284

         

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It is interesting to really stop and ponder the immediate, overall, and/or long-lasting impact of God’s various laws.  And far too many misinterpret and allow a wrong impact to affect their life.

Michael draws our attention to one given law, and how some live in defeat due to not understanding God.  And, as always, he gives us some good thoughts to consider for turning to God for victory over fleshly problems.

See if this scenario has ever happened to you, or to someone you know…

DAY 251

Sowing and Reaping

Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord. --Hosea 10:12

Coming from a farming community, I have sat on a tractor more than once and thought how nice it would be if we did not have to do that every year. Every farmer knows the truth that he cannot sow once and then keep reaping for the next seventy years. The effects of sowing and reaping last for one season. Therefore, if we were to apply this principle to consequences, we could readily see that they, too, are for a season. Sow to the flesh and reap to the flesh; sow to the spirit and reap to the spirit. Galatians 6:8, “For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal life.” However, a person cannot sow to the Spirit once and expect to reap the consequences of that act for the rest of his life. The same is true for the flesh. If one sows to the flesh, for that season he will reap flesh. The answer is to start sowing to the Spirit in this season and the next, so in that way each new season will bring something new, beautiful, fresh, and living to reap, rather than by sowing to the flesh and reaping death. 

It makes no sense that a Christian would commit a stupid act of the flesh and God would keep him under bondage, placing him for the rest of his life in a new category entitled “Second-class Believer”! Again, if it were possible to commit one sin that would cause suffering the rest of his life, then it would also be possible to commit one act of righteousness that would carry a person through his whole life. But abiding is for the moment, the season. God is not interested in punishing us for the rest of our lives. Often believers think everything that goes wrong is a consequence of a past mistake, like marrying the “wrong” person, succumbing to temptation and sin, or betraying a loved one. Very likely it is not the past that is causing misery, but today’s walking in the flesh.

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OK, how many of us recognized this scenario and quickly admitted a personal experience, or acknowledged someone else’s fling?

Sowing and reaping.  A simple law, correct?  With many optional issues of sowing and many optional issues of reaping, correct?  What is about these familiar words of God that we do not seem to “connect” with?

Each of us has to take Michael’s discipleship to heart, and make some choices about our past, our present, and our future.  Correct sowing on our part yields a spiritual harvest from God.  But we must keep one thing in mind: WE are the ones who do whatever SOWING.  God only enters into the reaping.

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Day 250 - Soulless

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength (Vol. 1) - # 283

         

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Michael presents the sad picture of all “empty” people, those without Christ.  See if you can identify and relate those you know who are “empty” with the one key word Michael attaches to that type.

DAY 250

Soulless

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. --Ephesians 6:12

My father once asked me, while visiting the former Soviet Union, "What is the deal with the art?" I explained, "Years of refinement went into making a picture, statue, or painting that could communicate nothing. The art is about nothing. It was dangerous to communicate something.” Communism was about nothing, it inspired nothing, it is the spirit of nothing, and it lingers. There is a difference between soulish people--those who live without the influence of Christ's Holy Spirit on mind, will, and emotions--and those who live in a soulless state. Much of what I have observed in Africa, the former Soviet Union, and other places is soullessness, and to me that is much sadder. The spirit of indifference is growing in its power in such places, where man fought over the flower until it was pulled apart. I am not surprised at some of the demonic attacks I have experienced in these areas, with their histories of having one group oppressing the other until neither has anything, and then both wondering what it was all about. I know what it was all about: Satan. Our battle is not against flesh and blood but spirits and principalities.

I have mentioned before that if we understood why Satan would destroy a marriage, we would be much more afraid of him. He will destroy it for nothing! No reason! He is indifferent. After all is lost, people often just look around, wondering what happened. At the time it made so much sense to be angry, to protect self, and to pay back insult for insult. Having depleted everything, they stand back and wonder what it was all about. A boy gets a girl pregnant, and upon that discovery, he does not want to hear from her again. Why? His involvement was all for nothing, in complete indifference. The thumbprint of the enemy is always indifference. We must pray to see the spiritual principalities move.

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Indifference.  What a sad word.  What a sad person who is indifferent. 

May we keep in mind what some we know are living with: soulish (living without the influence of Christ's Holy Spirit on mind, will, and emotions).  Apart from the grace of God working in our lives, we would be living like that.  Perhaps some can relate to a time in their adult life when times were like that.  How grateful we Saints must be to know what living with Holy Spirit’s influence is.

But, have we ever been to a country, or in contact with people, like Michael describes: soullessness.  A spirit of indifference.  The look in a person’s eyes is telling.  Their actions are telling.  Their words are telling.

May we take every opportunity to make every effort to share the grace of God with any we encounter like this.

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Day 249 - Something Much Worse Than Racism

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength (Vol. 1) - # 282

         

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In America for several years now we have been bombarded with “racism, racism, racism.”  Every day, all day long, there is a constant drone about someone of an opposite persuasion being a “racist.” 

Michael gives us a perspective about one of the greatest problems society faces that if he was acknowledged, the ills of society would be dramatically changed, and perhaps many eradicated.

DAY 249

Something Much Worse Than Racism

“For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with wrong,” says the LORD of hosts. “So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.” --Malachi 2:16

The governments are always emphasizing what they think they can fix and glossing over what they cannot. Often governments bandy around the topic of racism as one of the worst sins in the world. I have spent much time in places where I was the brunt of racism, and I can live with it. I will tell of something that is much worse than racism. I know of many families, of many different races, wherein the husband and wife hate one another. This I cannot live with, and governments do not address this problem, even though it is known that if we have peace and love at home, the struggles outside the home are minimized. I was so blessed one time in Brazil when I was there to speak at the gathering of a family ministry; listening to the believers in the trenches of this ministry, I learned that they regarded themselves as warriors in the battle to bring Christ into the very center of divorce. As a direct result of this ministry, I was even told of a judge that had decided that no couple could be married or divorced in his court without first going through Christian counseling. Hatred between husband and wife is the worst form of “racism.” If only governments would attack it with fervency. Of course, we know why it will not happen, for to attack it, Jesus must be brought into the equation. He and His disciples are the only ones among all religions teaching that a husband must love (without excuse) his wife and a wife must respect (without excuse) her husband. Without conversion, both are impossible.

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Wow!  What an insight!  LIFE (Christ’s Life) can overcome any “problem.”  Imagine what the family trees would look like IF LIFE were brought into each home.

Beginning with the current generations, if every person was converted to following this one simple teaching (husband love his wife, without excuse, and wife respect her husband, without excuse) there would be an eradication of so many of the problems our society faces.  Michael emphasizes to us that divorce is much more damaging than all the jabber, or even actual action, of “racism.”

Yet, I was told of one “great” pastor from several years ago (1990’s) that stopped preaching against divorce because the singles ministry of that church had become such a large percentage of the total membership, and the person telling me this (he owned a Christian bookstore) was one of those singles, and he went on to call it a “bed & breakfast ministry.”

Families that have a heritage of “no divorce” should pray fervently that God would pour out His grace, and family members would respond, to keep that record intact in their family tree.

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Day 245 - Silence in Arguments

Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength (Vol. 1) - # 281

         

Michael’s book is available through:

ABIDING LIFE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL

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Back in the early 1990’s I had a church member who appeared on a popular morning talk show, and after the program was over we were talking in the TV station’s lobby.  The program host spoke some astounding words: “Sad to say, I believe we have created a monster…the ‘talk show.’  People love to talk about a problem, but they never take any action to do something about it.”  How astute has that statement proven to be!

“Talk Shows” abound, and actions are nowhere to be found.  That’s “arguments” for you…

DAY 245

Silence in Arguments

And they were saying this, testing Him, in order that they might have grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down, and with His finger wrote on the ground. --John 8:6

Arguments have their roots in pride and are calculated to prove intellectual superiority, but they lack power. I have personally won arguments against those enslaved to drugs and alcohol, but they went away still slaves. I have won many arguments concerning marriage, but those couples, too, went away to visit the lawyer. I have won countless arguments with philosophers, psychologists, evolutionists, atheists, and cult leaders. They all went away to worship the image they were seeing in the mirror.

Jesus divided His dialogue with men into two categories: argument and ministry. Argument He usually avoided. Some came requesting food or power, not ministry, and from those He withdrew. Some sought to draw Him into a melee, and we find Him quietly drawing in the sand rather than heatedly presenting His point. Why? His response would have only fueled more debate with those who had a vested interest in not moving at all from their position. Jesus came to minister. If by His own Holy Spirit He was made aware that ministry was not possible, Jesus simply withdrew or refused to speak. As an Indian friend says, “The refusals of Jesus define Him!” For we do, in fact, know more about Him from His refusals than from His accomplishments. He refused the best seats, refused to make a loud noise proclaiming Himself, He refused to hurt the one who was hurting, He refused to minister spiritual truth in the power of the flesh, He refused to defend Himself, and He refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery.

Like Jesus, we must have a goal of ministry, not dialogue. When we begin to talk to our child, friend, co-worker, or pastor and realize we are standing there alone, without the power and witness of the Spirit, it is time to be quiet and draw in the dirt. If He is not ministering, then neither should we. Remember, the issue is not who listens to us, but whether we are listening to Him.

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Well, Michael has shown us what the TV ‘talk show’ host was speaking of.  And then he showed us Jesus’ answer.  And Michael points us to WHO (not ‘what’) our focus should always be!

As could be expected, when the enemy had no TRUTH to discuss, they always turned to attacking His character.  Same for us today.  Truth does not need to be defended, just proclaimed…or, written in the dirt.

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