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Thought of the Day: November 29, 2023 A new breed of leadership in God’s house in this nation is arising: The Righteous Branch
So many leaders are so consumed with the lost they have neglected the saved in their houses of worship.
They have NOT taught them to hear and see God intimately, nor are concerned that many have lost their first love for the Lord, and God is about to remove their candlestick?
Many Leaders don’t see or care that the sheep are living the American Dream church life as lukewarm, ready to be spewed out of the mouth.
It is all about reaching the lost at all cost, helping those in need outside the house which is right, but not at the neglect of those in the house.
Leaders what are the true needs of the people you are caring for? Do you know? Do you know what their family needs? Do you know if they have the finances they need? Do you know the condition of their marriages and children?
Leaders what are you doing inside the house for those who are in the house? Giving them more ministry meetings, and doing things that advance the church vision? What about their vision?
When a minister or ministry is under a lying spirit they are driven and not Spirit led. They are consumed with one thing and miss the major things God needs right around them.
So many in God’s house are broken, wounded, ill-equipped for what is coming in this nation. They have wounds and cuts that have not been bound up.
They have hurts and issues that are not being dealt with except by the “almighty message” they get on Sunday as the cure all to caring and feeding the sheep.
Most true ministers of God will not neglect those in the house if they are seeking the face of God and interceding for them every day. God will show them what they truly need.
But the ministers and ministry that abandon that first love with Jesus and don’t do their first work of seeking his face, they loose perspective of caring for the sheep God gave them.
They are driven by a lying spirit to win the lost at all cost. They will care for others who may not know the Lord and neglect and abandon those that do.
Look at our nation, We build wall and boundaries in other nations but nor our own. We give billions of dollars to help others with their war, while our kids are dying from fentanyl and worse.
We are undermining the family unit by the education and political leader to replace it with a government nanny state and that is ok?
We giving millions of dollars, housing and care to those coming into this nation illegally while our vets and our poor can’t even get food stamps, housing or care?
Our youth on college campuses are siding with murderers who killed over 1200 Jewish people, beheaded and burned babies and blaming Israel for it? Everything is upside down and backwards and that spirit is in God’s house causing a lot of leaders to be consumed with the wrong priorities in God’s house.
Beloved, This is the ‘natural expression” of where this nation is at, but it also the spiritual expression of much of the spiritual leaders and teachers in God’s house who have lost sight of being intimate with God to know HIs heartbeat. They are blind leading the blind into the ditch.
We must do both care for the needy who are lost and for those who are saved. They both are imperative. Even more the work inside of the house should be to build up the church to come to maturity and the full stature of Christ where each part supplies what the other needs.
When a vision get shipwrecked by the enemy it glitters for all to see, it boast of what they are doing and never speak of what they are becoming or mention the God that is doing the work.
They take the glory for themselves. They can only see themselves and their personal or church vision that consumes them in a demonic way and not by the pure holy love of God.
Do leaders even know the names of the people they tend or is that delegated to others? Do they even know what God has for his sheep they tend or did they delegate that to others who may or may not even care?
Not to lift up President Trump, but do you know when he goes to a university graduation or our military, or even in a restaurant he makes it a point to shake every single persons hand and to ask their name? Like him not, that is what shepherds should be doing with their sheep don’t you think?
Caring over God’s house is serious to God! Loving His sheep as He does is a command including laying your life down for them to be everything God created them to be.
Shepherding is not hurding them into church members. Shepherding is not making clones, or converts only living for your church vision. Shepherding is laying your life down for the sheep as our God shepherd did for us.
Shepherding is bringing God’s sheep to green pastures and still waters and feeding them the Word of God and the Hidden manna from heaven where they are ready to receive the mysteries and secrets of the kingdom.
Shepherding is preparing a people for what is coming on the earth and helping them develop their love relationship as a Bride to Jesus their Bridegroom where they can hear, see, and know God for themselves.
Shepherding is about making disciples of Jesus not clones of themselves or ministry. When the sheep you pasture can only identify to you, your work, your ministry and what the church vision is, they have lost their true life in Christ replaced by a counterfeit image of God and God’s heart.
When you have to be seen and noticed and desire it in your heart knowingly or unknowingly you feed yourself and not His sheep.
When you lift up senior leaders to be heads of state in your church and over everyone else what have you done to the sheep? You have fed yourselves and not His sheep.
D0 we understand when we do that you minister of God put foundation stones of great weight on top of the small stones. What do you think the result is for doing this to those stone underneath that upside model of leadership?
THEY GET BURIED, BRUISED, HURT, LOST AND UN-NOTICED, UNAPPRECIATED UNLESS THEY GIVE YOU THEIR TITHES AND OFFERINGS OR WORK IN YOUR MINISTRY WORK.
THEY NEVER MATURE, THEY NEVER GROW UP AND MANY FORSAKE THE LORD AND EVEN THE GATHERINGS BECAUSE THERE IS NO ROOM FOR THEM IN YOUR INN?
DO WE EVEN NOTICE THEM? DO WE EVEN SEE THIS GENERATION CORRECTLY GOD IS RISING UP? IF WE DID THEN WHY ARE APOSTLES TRYING TO PUT THEIR ARMOR LIKE SAULS ARMOR ON THIS GENERATION OF DAVID’S GOD IS RISING UP.
THIS IS WHAT THE LORD SAID TO THE SHEPHERDS IN EZEKILES DAY:
God spoke through Ezekiel these words on the condition of the shepherds of His day:
The Lord Will Be Israel’s Shepherd
34 The word of the Lord came to me:
2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to you shepherds of Israel who only take care of yourselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock?
3 You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock.
4 You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.
5 So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals.
6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.
7 “‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:
8 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food for all the wild animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,
9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:
10 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.
11 “‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them.
12 As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.
13 I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land. I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land.
14 I will tend them in a good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
15 I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign Lord.
16 I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.
GOD IS RAISING UP A NEW BREED OF SHEPHERDS AFTER HIS HEART THAT WILL LOVE AND CARE FOR THE SHEEP IN THE HOUSE AND NOT ONLY TRY TO REACH THE LOST.
THEY WILL HAVE HIS HEART FOR HIS SHEEP AND FOR THOSE WHO NEED TO FIND THE LORD. THEY WILL DO BOTH AND NOT NEGLECT ONE OR THE OTHER.
JEREMIAH 23:
1 “Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!” declares the LORD.
2 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to the shepherds who tend my people: “Because you have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow punishment on you for the evil you have done,” declares the LORD.
3 “I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase in number.
4 I will place shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the LORD.
5 “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land.
6 In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The LORD Our Righteous Savior.
7 “So then, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when people will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’
8 but they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ Then they will live in their own land.”
Beloved, God loves the sheep in the house as much as the lost. Don’t ever forget that. Don’t ever forget they are to tend once God bring them to you every single day they are there.
You are responsible before God for their spiritual growth and condition and you will give an account on the day you stand before him.
You won’t be able to say Lord I was winning the lost at all cost when you did not bind up the wounds of the sheep in the house or equip them and bring them to the Lord himself to find and know.
That excuse will not stand before the Great Shepherd. We must love the sheep like he does. We must lay down our life for them and help them to become everything God created to be?
If you don’t know what that is or their calling how can you really shepherd them? What will you give them a formula that you try to give to everyone in the church the same way?
We wonder why the house of God is so sick and anemic and powerless in this hour and a laughing stock to the world. But it will not stay that way.
There is an end-time intervention of God happening right now, where God will strike these hirelings and shepherds who feed themselves and scatter the sheep to raise up a NEW BREED OF SHEPHERDS LIKE DAVID AFTER HIS OWN HEART.
THEY WILL LOVE THE SHEEP AS JESUS DOES. THEY WILL CARE FOR THE SHEEP AS JESUS DOES. THEY WILL LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR THEM AS JESUS DID. THEY WILL BRING THEM TO HIM DIRECTLY. THEY WILL TEACH THEM TO KNOW THE LORD, TO KNOW HIS WAYS AND TO FOLLOW HIM FOR THEMSELVES.
THEY WILL NOT MAKE THEM CLONES OF THEMSELVES OR THEIR MINISTRIES THEY WILL BE USED BY GOD TO HELP THEM BECOME FULL GROWN SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD PREPARED, POSTIONED TO RULE AND REIGN WITH JESUS AS A BRIDE WITH HER BRIDEGROOM, AS A SON WITH HIS FATHER.
THIS THE NEW BREED: THE BRANCH OF THE LORD THAT IS NOW COMING FORTH AND BLOSSOMING ON THE EARTH.
BLESSED ARE THE LEADERS GOD IS RAISING UP TO BE IN THE COMPANY OF DAVIDS AND NOT KING SAULS, FOR THEY SHALL RECIEVE THE BLESSINGS OF THE LORD TO ESTABLISH A PEOPLE PREPARED FOR HIS GLORY. AMEN AND AMEN.
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