Works

Rightly ordered faith from a lifestyle of perspective can only be expressed toward God on this earth through genuine love for people and especially those in the family of God.

That genuine love for people takes the form of "the works" that is evidence of your living faith. Faith without works is dead faith. The manifest demonstrative evidence that faith exists in the life of the believer is the genuine love a person has for other people. It is seen by the works a person does.

All of this is the real aspect of a lifestyle of faith. A lifestyle that will be expressed in being a giver. While it is true that you can't give what you don't have, and God wants to richly bless you with all wealth and prosperity, the real root that defines us as believers is our rightly ordered faith expressed in genuine love and truth toward people. Our ability to give because of the prosperity in our lives is a fruit of a lifestyle of faith and genuine love, not the main objective. God will get it to you if He can get it THROUGH you. Jesus said to seek FIRST His Kingdom and His righteosness (Matt. 6:33) and all of these things (stuff) will be added unto you.

God's Kingdom is His will and purpose according to His perspective. You see the gold and the silver are so common in heaven that it is used to pave the roads. Why would anyone seek that stuff? God will give you wisdom and insight to apply Heaven's type of building material on this earth, but you need to have your head and your heart in the Kingdom of God to know what to do with the common stuff of heaven! Proper perspective that results in rightly ordered faith has only one outlet in this world, it is the corridor by which Heaven comes to Earth, it is our genuine love and truthfulness for and with others and especially those of the family of God.

The old sinful nature approach is to gather the stuff because of the lack and then give when you have enough. The sinful nature revolves around self. The new nature in Christ revolves around Christ, His will and purpose and nature of which we take on in our life.Our nature changes to His nature and is expressed through us uniquely according to the gifts and abilities designed within us. The abilities, the wealth, the wisdom and the insight are all side effects of the core lifestyle of proper perspective, rightly ordered faith expressed by genuine love and godly truthfulness toward people and especially the family of God.

When your head and heart are in heaven, then you will know what to do with the 'common stuff' of heaven on the earth. Wealth, wisdom and insight are side effects of a lifestyle of living, breathing, seeing, loving, interacting according to the Kingdom of God. Seek first really actually means JUST THAT. No addons, peripherals, accessories of imaginations of any vain mind can help it, change it or alter it. If it isn't it, then IT is not IT.

Your life is not expressed in an envelope, You are the envelope delivered to a lost and dying world! While your life will produce many envelopes of giving, careful not to make the material in an envelope your primary work on the earth sent in proxy for someone else to do. No. You are the primary work on the earth. Your lifestyle is what people will see both before they get to know Christ and afterwards. Your life is what will produce in the Kingdom of God. Yes, you will find yourself giving more offerings in envelopes at church, but that is only emanations of the real life that you live.

You can be no earthly good if you are not Kingdom of God minded. You need to be Heavenly minded in order to be genuinely a real force for righteousness and long lasting good on the earth. To be heavenly minded has only one real outlet of expression and it is right here on the earth through the life of the believer living in proper perspective, rightly ordered faith expressed in godly-truthfulness and genuine love toward people and especially those of the family of God.

While it may be true that you don't hear this preached everywhere, it is no less the repeated message of all of Paul's writing, the message that Jesus kept repeating and the entire synopsis of all of the Old Testament. It all boils down to this one thing. The heart of the matter.From here is where a person can produce in the Kingdom of God some 30, 60 and even 100 fold.What is produced in the Kingdom is the people who end up going there and are well equipped, heavenly minded folk who love God with all of there heart and use the stuff of heaven on the earth.

I mean when you step out today, this scarcity minded, fearful world ought to see you and take notice. Like a food truck at a starving, drought stricken village, our life should be decorated with the glory of Heaven. For even the most common things of heaven are priceless on the earth. Our very life lifts up the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and HE WILL DRAW THEM TO HIM. Our lifestyle of being a heavenly steward, ushering those people (all people on the earth) to the King of kings and the Lord of lords, who loves them with an immeasurable love. Those people, including you, are God's passion, His treasure, His desire for them to be a part of His family. He wants to sit them together with Him in His heavenly place as He has with you. That they too can live a life of significance, meaning, purpose and value. Living in proper perspective and rightly ordered faith expressed in godly truthfulness and genuine love toward people AND ESPECIALLY for those in the family of God already!

Works. Friend that is works. Works that last and can be carried with us when we have run the race and finished the course.

Today is your day friend. There is no other day like today. Today is the an only day that will never happen again in all of history. What you do today can last all eternity.

Blessings to you, friend.

In Christ,
Brother Ben