Renovator Ministries

Pastors and leaders:

Remember the Eggs?  You know back in the 80′s this guy took two eggs and put them in a skillet and said this is your brain, then he took the skillet with the eggs and put them on a hot fire and they sizzled away as he comments this is your brain on drugs.

Ever thought about your soul without rest, without a routine time of solitude, silence and meditative prayer. No different.  Without the necessary contemplative spirituality in ones life the eggs in the skillet are your soul and once deprived of rest your soul gets fried and ruined and you’re no good to anybody. Jesus said that you know!!  That without Him and a deep abiding relationship you are no good to anybody it is in John 15: 5 look it up right now!!  Ever taken that to heart?  So that “no good to anybody” results in those sobering stats I shared with you last month. The link is here if you forgot. Big numbers on adultery, divorce, job dissatisfaction, lack of reading the Word, lack of  your church having a program to make disciples in your ranks.  That’s being no good to anybody and its because your soul is on fire due to a lack of abiding and tons of performance driven by your needs and ego instead of THE HOLY SPIRIT.

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Harsh? Yes because care!  If we stood on the sideline and just watched one pastor after another crash and burn and did nothing then we should be harshly criticized but WE ARE NOT. We want to get into your loop and pull you out into the arms of  the Holy Spirit and let Him take you to JESUS to restore you, to refresh you,  to realign your call.

You are second in command of your church and if you are not fresh and hearing well your efforts are in the long term for naught. Look at how often Jesus talked to the Father as He carried out His assignment from heaven. He did NOTHING without checking in. I would wager you do nothing to very little from checking in. I have been apart of dozens of churches in my six decades on this Earth. I have heard pastor after pastor give lip service to checking in for the decisions made in a church but knew full well the decision was based on wanting to please the flock and keep his call more than not and finally this could not be sustained and either the pastor moved on or the people moved out, time after time.

It’s time to come out of shadows and become emotionally and spiritually healthy. Let us show you how to hear the Holy Spirit through a contemplative life and watch your people grow with you.

Let’s schedule a day of prayer!! What are you waiting for?  Contact us: georgea@renovatorministries.org and let’s get going on getting your soul the care it needs.

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Looking forward to connecting with you!!

Abide,

georgea

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We can arrange for a place of sabbath for a day or a weekend for you and others anywhere in the USA.

Details for your particular needs can be discussed when you contact us.

We have retreat outlines that can guide you through your time.

Again all we do is FREE, but any donation to our ministry is appreciated.

Additionally some retreat centers will have minimal costs.

We pray you come out of the shadows and let the HOLY SPIRIT take you to Jesus.

Abide,

georgea@renovatorministries.org

Greetings!!
The Sermon on the Mount ends with this eyewitness account from the tax collector:

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law. MT 7:28-29

What stands out for me are the words AMAZED, AUTHORITY, NOT AS THEIR TEACHERS OF THE LAW.

Ask yourself my friend is your pulpit rich with those three characteristics?  Pastor ask yourself is this what you bring on a Sunday?

I started here in this blog because this is the last blog on THE SERMON. But allow me to tip toe back to verses 24-27 in light of 28 and 29.

Jesus told the AMAZED that if they put what they are hearing into practice they will be wise like a person who builds their house on the rock. The storms will come but the house will stand. What did they hear that needed to put in to practice? They heard a way forward to deal with ANGER, LUST, LIES, PRIDE, MATERIALISM, WORRY, RELATIONSHIPS, DEALING WITH ENEMIES, and JUDGING OTHERS. And they heard the deal to change starts INSIDE of themselves, NOT OUTSIDE, AS THEIR THEIR TEACHERS OF THE LAW taught.

Can you not imagine how the spiritual light came on when for years they had been washing and doing and abstaining, and washing, and segregating and washing, and doing and THEY NEVER CHANGED! Now they heard from the MASTER WHY!!!  And they responded :What AWESOME AUTHORITY this man has!!

Are you still in awe everyday of the MASTER, TEACHER Jesus? If you are one to sit and be still and let the HOLY SPIRIT take you to Jesus then there is no way you are not AMAZED as he speaks with you and shows you how to live in His will for the day ahead. If on the other hand you never take time to allow the HOLY SPIRIT to take you to Jesus for Life your Christian faith is most likely a DULL HABIT.

Recently I had an experience of listening to the torment physiologically Jesus went through on GOOD FRIDAY. It humbled me to the core but towards  the end I heard the HOLY SPIRIT say to me: HOW NOW WILL YOU LIVE? So often we sit in shame in enduring the passion with Jesus when truly we should rise up in RESURRECTION POWER and proclaim our radical response to life because of the passion of Christ. Again Jesus did not leave us with no written guide in this regard. The written guide is JOHN 13, 14, 15, and 16. These chapters Jesus is telling us how we should live in response to His death and resurrection.  When we live  a life abiding in the Trinitarian presence of God we live a life full of FRUIT and FREE of what Jesus spoke about in THE Sermon on the Mount.

You see friends this is the NARROW WAY of Matthew 7:13-14 clearly stated in verse 21. How could justification by GRACE be NARROW (Romans 10:9)?  The Narrow Way is SANCTIFICATION through the process Jesus speaks of in John15:1-8. Not only do the Scriptures speak of such our daily experience screams of this truth as we encounter person after person who embraces Romans 10:9 with a sincere heart but will not for the LIFE of them endure by routine practice the words of Jesus in John 15:5. The result is Matthew 7:26-27, saved for eternity but miserable for life.

Friends I pray you understand the VISION of LIFE in THE KINGDOM NOW that leads to daily AWE in HIS presence.

The HOW of this life is replete on just about every resource we have on this site. It’s a life of DISCIPLINE, a life Jesus modeled in the Gospels. ROUTINELY: being still, listening in  prayer, submitting, meditating on scripture, abstaining from stuff you crave, living simply before the Master.

These next final weeks of Lent would be a great time for you to start and move an activity of the lenten season to way of a Christian life that is a RAGING FIRE and not a DULL HABIT.

We are praying for you at RENOVATOR MINISTRIES.

Abide,

georgea

God’s timing to see Him work in our lives is so perfect.

Take our bi- yearly family vacation to Hawaii. What can we not deal with in Hawaii?  Well living together with our grandchildren,son and daughter in law plus my lovely bride in a moderate sized villa one get’s a real good look at my warts and all. In spite of my warts and moods my family loved me through it all.

It’s so easy for one to remark at things we see or feel  but how would that really change anything. Remember the passage in our video on Matthew 7:6

“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.

This is such wisdom from the mouth of the Master. You see so much to comment on with those you are in relationship with at play,work, school and even church but those you may wish to speak to do not want it and are not ready to hear so it gets trampled and you get bit. This has helped me zip it time and again. But wait Jesus knows the thoughts in our mind and heart. Even though our thoughts and feelings go unspoken it needs to be dealt with in my heart. Again Jesus never fails us as he says:

  “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

Pray for those you are judging in your heart and your thoughts and attitude will change to one of LOVE and UNDERSTANDING for their plight right now. Your actions from your heart will then be one of cooperation with your prayer for them.

These verses are truly AWESOME when applied in the thick of battle like we experience every day when we are prone to judge. The key is to believe them and use then. Appropriate these truths to transform your mind and heart to a Christlike character.

Let’s make this simple and useable. When you are apt to judge remember the target of your judgement does not want to hear it so they won’t use it and in the end you get it back in your face. So the alternative to this dysfunctional interaction is a functional and effective communication- PRAYER!

How wonderful it is when we know and understand the power of living in the KINGDOM NOW!!

Utilizing Matthew 7:6-8 as much more than good reading material but power for life in the KINGDOM NOW makes one’s life GOD HONORING.

Can you see the VISION for this good and beautiful life that God intends for us now. I remain so zealous for you all to catch it and live it. I remain so zealous for you PASTOR to teach it weekly to your sheep. This is the ONLY way forward and I can say that with total authority because this is the teaching of the MASTER and He has told us in Matthew 28 that He has been given all authority in heaven and on earth and therefore we in His name are to GO and make APPRENTICES teaching them to obey everything He has commanded.

So now that you have the VISION for what life can be like free of judging enter into the MEANS to do so, to be SILENT and to PRAY for whatever you feel needs to be changed in another.

On by the way that LOG in your own eye resolves itself as well when you follow the MASTER’S wisdom and live in the KINGDOM NOW!

Until next time my friend LOVE, PRAY and ABIDE!

georgea

For so many of us who claim the name of Jesus we desperately need the Holy Spirit to do his transformative work in us in 2012. Some of us with this great need even have some desire to “get around to it” but lack the vision. They so desire their church to be a teaching partner with the Holy Spirit to show them the vision and the means.

The Vision for Christlikeness that needs to be taught and cast within the church is the safest place on Earth is living in the Kingdom of God right here and right now.  The Kingdom is where what God wants done IS done! It is living in His will. When we get that so much legalistic garbage that manifests itself in our lives as “trying” in our power to be good and avoid evil ceases as we learn the objective is to live in God’s will and allow Him to deal with the good and the bad. Again I must remind you that Pastor Bonhoeffer relentlessly taught his seminarians that basic fact to forget the attempts at good and bad and get in His will.  When we are in His will we partake in His divine power and when we partake in His divine power we have everything we need for life and godliness.  Don’t take my word for it read this:

 ³ “His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. ⁴ Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.”  2 Peter 1:3-4  NIV 1984

We when we live in God’s will we abide in His divine power and everything else we may NEED follows. This is not a promise to fulfill our WANTS, there is no such promise 21st Century believer! God just deals with our daily provisional NEEDS and when we live in His will they are met. BOOK IT!!

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