ITS THE HEART

In anything that we do in ministry or in what we serve, if we want to bear fruit in its full strength we cannot do by the works of our skills. It has to be done from our heart. From the root source of the heart it flows unto skills and overflows into the atmosphere. Without the heart that flows the river, our skills will only reach a certain measure but never beyond. God is Spirit so every thing that is for the Lord is a spiritual thing. Skills are an endowment but it takes the heart of the Anointing to take it to the fullest measure.

When the shepherd boy David stood before King Saul, he had asked to take Goliath down. King Saul then had the battle armour put onto David because that's what the 'real' soldiers on earth wear to battle. But those things weighed David down and he could not function in them. David had to strip himself off from those 'earthly professional' garb. His heart -- his faith in God, his love for God -- was his garb to wear as he went to meet Goliath and killed the enemy. The Anointing that resided and flowed from David's heart and spirit broke through the dark horde that kept the Israelites in bondage of terror and fear (1 Samuel 17:31-53).

We can only break through into the real realm of glory through the heart in our offering. Otherwise we are enclaved within the sphere of our limited skills and abilities. Perhaps we are wearing the cumbersome battle armour because thats what people around us do. But if those armour are not God's, they will only encumber us down.

David flung the sling by his skill.

But it was the heart where the Anointing and the Power of the Spirit resides that carried the stone and struck Goliath down.

Lose yourself from these weights of standards and demands set by man in your offerings to the Lord!! Standards of the earth will only reach within the earth. But God's standards will reach into Heaven on earth.

GO BEYOND CONVENTION. GOD DOES NOT WANT US BOUND BY CONVENTION, HE WANTS US TO BE FREE FROM IT SO HIS LIVING WATERS CAN FLOW INTO THE DRY PLACES. SPIRITUAL THINGS CANNOT BE COOKED UP. THEY CAN ONLY BE FLOWED BY THE SPIRIT--THAT RESIDES IN YOUR HEART. WE CAN ONLY GO AS FAR AS WE ALLOW THE SPIRIT FREE FLOW.

In Christ,
Beulah "FLOW"