Kingdom Mechanics

I love new beginnings. I’m all about progression, advancement and better and better. There’s just such hope in it. Welcome to 2009 everybody.

This week’s confession from a highly caffeinated Christian comes perking with a shameless plug for my conference this January called Kingdom Mechanics. It’s all about how to make 2009 your best year ever. I know most of you wont be able to attend so I have included some highlights of what I think can get you where you need to be faster and better than ever this year. Let’s get to it.

(1) God wants you to advance in every way in 2009
"Blessed are those...who have set their hearts on pilgrimage" (Psalm 84:5). In other words, blessed are those who have settled in their hearts that they will keep going in their journey with God. Blessed are those that, while enjoying and appreciating what He is showing them and doing in their lives, know that He is drawing them into "much more."

(2) Permission granted to have a vision and dream big.
You never feel more alive than when you are accomplishing vision. The Bible says in Proverbs 13:12. Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life. We have been taught too long to only dream within the confines of church. Don’t you dare do it this year? God wants in on every part of your life so dream big and go for the bleachers.

(3) Recover what was stolen from you in 2008
God has recovery for you this year but we have to partner with him to make it happen. The strategy David used in 1st Samuel 30 is fail proof. First you see what's missing then you strengthen yourself in the Lord. That’s all about understanding His nature and attitude about your situation, which is always better than ours. After that, seek a word from God and look for clear definition. The last four steps look like this rise up, pursue the enemy, overtake it and recover all. Go get it! It still belongs to you.

(4) Ask the right questions this year and get the right answers
God loves seekers and seekers ask questions, but there’s a right way and wrong way to seek. A very illegitimate mindset and question we ask is WHY? We don’t get to know the whys of life. Why is attached to pain and loss. Why is never attached to destiny but always attached to history. Holding onto the wrong questions will always keep us into the wrong places. The right answers come from asking the right questions. Those right questions are defined in the book of Acts, chapter 2 as “What does it mean?” and “What’s should I do?” These are questions God loves to answer.

Let’s determine right now to stop asking why. 2009 will not be full of whys but it will be about getting the big picture and knowing how to go to the next better place. That puts us on the offensive and not on the defensive.

(5) Destroy the enemy of self-pity
The biggest enemy I face tends to be in-a-me. I have found that self-pity must be surrendered if I am going to get better and better in life. One of the most effective ways to destroy the habit of feeling sorry for myself is to first focus on God’s goodness towards me. It’s hard to be really miserable over what’s wrong when I am incredibly thankful for what is right in my life.

(6) Refuse to fear change
Constant change is here to stay. Transition is now a staple for all of us. We live in a different day than any generation before us. Stability is no longer defined as continuance without change but as remaining rock solid in constantly changing environments and methods. Be willing to embrace transition in 2009 and accept closure as a part of victorious Kingdom Living.

(7) Rage against the machine

There are actually twelve strategies I will be going over in the conference but I want to finish this column by saying there is more for you than there is against you. Everything against you is big and like a machine. It’s blind, mechanical, and impartial. Just like the Terminator it is relentless in coming after you. It can't be bargained or reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. It absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

The machine says if you’re poor you can’t live life like other people. The machine says if you’re a minority you can’t have opportunity. The machine says if you have been incarcerated you will always be a convict. The machine says if your father was an alcoholic then you will be. It says if you were molested then you will become a pedophile and if you are above the age of 40 nobody will hire you. It says all kinds of terrible things while reducing people’s lives to misery before it finally kills them.

Rage against the machine this year. Rise up against everything that says you cant and arm yourself with this wisdom. Relationship with God always trumps the machine.

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