February 27, 2017 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

Step One…If My People

A prophetic & theological word

2 Chronicles 7:14: If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and heal their land (NEV).

Don’t you want forgiveness and healing…sure you do. In Christ it is easy but it takes 4 steps. Each step is important and sequence is important. Each subsequent step is dependent on the preceding step. Let’s deal with ‘Step One’…humility.

As I stated in my article yesterday, February 26, 2017, Have You Ever… “The Holy Spirit has been reaching out to me, talking to me about humility. He has been doing this in such a way that every Scripture I read or situation I find myself in, the Spirit says to me “Got humility?” He causes me to see or understand things about humility that challenges who I am and how I do things.”

This is how it works—it takes faith to move ahead in God, but faith is totally dependent on humility. What do you say? That’s right—no humility no faith.

Luke 7:1-10, the Roman centurion’s servant: “I am not worthy that you (Jesus) should come into my house, nor that I should come to you…Jesus’ reply, “I have not found this great faith in anyone that is an Israelite.” Humility produces great faith.

Luke 17:3-10, disciples asked Jesus what does it take to have faith and Jesus tells a story about a servant. Vs. 10: Jesus tells them what to say, “Say that we are unprofitable servants, that we have done only what we should have done—we deserve no reward or special recognition in the Kingdom of Heaven.” You want faith that works, it is only in & with humility—that we are always unworthy. Humility says ‘that it is God alone and we can only do His will if we never receive credit or seek recognition’.

Philippians 2: 7-8 “But Jesus made himself of no reputation, and took on Himself the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, He (Jesus) humbled Himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.” The point is that humility was the prerequisite to doing God’s will and being obedient, and your humility allows you to exercise faith and connects you to accomplishing God’s will.

I can tell you emphatically that if you struggle with exercising faith: receiving answers to prayers, living in the presence of God or even finding God’s will in any particular situation—it is because you have not embraced humility. You have placed you personhood above and ahead of God. You are not humble. You seek your will alone. You believe you deserve recognition, and furthermore, you deserve blessings or godly (anointed) status because of your service or position in the Body of Christ.

One cannot come to God without being humble, needy, poor in spirit—broken. I am nothing without God and nothing with God…it is ‘God alone’ and that’s OK with me.

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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