Agenda for Today
May 1, 2015
Colosians 3:17
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Agenda for Today
Lord, what is on Your agenda today?
Other thoughts invade my mind as I take time to pray.
I try to focus in on what Your will is for me,
But my mind is cluttered by all the mental imagery.
I find my thoughts on these rabbit trails,
Then I catch myself only to feel like I have failed.
Help me Lord, get my soul quiet before Your throne.
Help me give myself, that I may be all Your own.
Lord, what is Your agenda today?
Give me spiritual ears to hear what You have to say.
Order my steps and help me with the choices I make.
Help me loose myself in You and do all for Jesus sake.
Fill my thoughts and be in all I do,
Let my former distracting thoughts, now be thoughts of You.
Focus me in Your will and plan for me.
In all I do, let it be done as unto Thee.
You are the ark and the safety for my heart,
Help me find in You my every portion and needed part.
Be my everything, as You are meeting every need,
Let me live in Christ and humbly follow as You lead.
Kent Stuck
Blessings,
#kent
You are the Pastures of God’s Truth
December 4, 2012
Jeremiah 14:6
Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights and pant like jackals; their eyesight fails for lack of pasture.”
7 Although our sins testify against us, O LORD, do something for the sake of your name. For our backsliding is great; we have sinned against you. 8 O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress,
why are you like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays only a night? 9 Why are you like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? You are among us, O LORD, and we bear your name;
do not forsake us!
You are the Pastures of God’s Truth
This word of Jeremiah could well speak of the spiritual condition of our nation today. As a nation we have lost the spiritual vision of who we are. Our backsliding is great and many have forsaken the name of the Lord. As a result the pastures of spiritual provision have dried up for many. A spiritual famine has beset those who have gone in their own way and embraced the secular viewpoint of society today. There is a leanness of soul that has come upon many today. Many have become disillusioned with religion and the tele-evangelism of yesterday when they saw the greediness of men’s hearts revealed in the name of God.
There is a remnant that knows their God and who hold fast the faith. It is this remnant that has preserved this nation up to this hour. Their prayers and intercession have not gone unheard. God has been preparing a people for such a time as this that they may be the pasture in the midst of a spiritual wilderness. They are the streams of water that will provide the knowledge and life of God to those who are now seeking for real truth and meaning in their lives.
People of God prepare yourselves for all that the Lord has poured within you over the years. Those who are in spiritual famine He will move upon to bring them to drink from the wells of salvation. You are about to be poured out for a people that are hungry for the truth and who the Spirit of the Lord is drawing. There is a field ripe unto harvest and we are the laborers sent forth to gather in the harvest.
The Lord has not forsaken His name and He will show Himself mighty among those who hold it fast in their hearts. Come and refresh yourselves in the Lord for we are His people, called forth by His name to show the way of salvation and righteousness.
Blessings
kent
Prophecy: The Pursuit of Excellence
December 3, 2012
John 14:3
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
Prophecy: The Pursuit of Excellence
Celebrate that you are not lonely. My Spirit is always with you to comfort you, encourage you and sustain you. Step beyond the threshold of your present faith into the realm of unseen and unknown. In that dimension you move fully by faith and reliance upon Me. You a spiritual people with a spiritual dimension and a heavenly calling. Rise above your circumstances and surroundings. Cease seeing the circumstances around you as walls that hem you in. Step into the vehicle of My Spirit and move in that place of the unseen.
Develop your spiritual eyes and tune your spiritual ears, not that you become mystical and strange, but you are to move in a place that is not of this earth or naturally perceived and understood. The pearls that I give you do not cast before swine, for the earthly man in human intellect will not understand or comprehend.
In order to journey with Me you must abide in Me. Pursue My thoughts, My heart, My plan and My will. I can take you places that others never go, but you are not to pursue the experience. You are to pursue Me.
There is much I have to train and impart into My people in this age and time so that they may see how I am moving in this hour in conjunction and unity with their lives. If your eyes and heart are set upon those things that are without, you will miss the deeper dimensions that I desire to lead you into. I am Spirit. Come to know what it is to commune in Spirit and in Truth.
The weak and faint hearted will not pursue Me where I would take you, if you have ears to hear and a sincere heart after Mine. Just as Elisha would not have received the mantle and double portion of Elijah had he allowed himself to be distracted or redirected. As Elijah is a type of My Spirit, your heart will be tested, but allow nothing to detour you or restrain you from your faithful and steadfast walk with me. Where I go and lead, you must go also, although there will be many times and good reasons where you don’t feel you will be able too.
Press in and lay hold with the tenacity of all that I have put within you. Settle for nothing less than My best and My highest. Many have been content to settle along the way and have ceased to press on toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God that is in Christ Jesus. If you want My highest, then be unwilling to settle for the lesser, even though it still looks good and fulfilling. I have called you to pursue My good, acceptable and My perfect will. Anything less than My perfect for you is less than I have called you too. Be ye perfect, even as I am perfect. Your perfection lies in your identity with Me. See yourself as nothing less than what I have called you to be, a partaker of My divine nature.
My provision is there for those who are willing to pursue.
Blessings,
kent
The Secret of the Kingdom
January 30, 2012
Mark 4:10-12
When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. 11He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables 12so that,
“‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’”
Jesus spoke to the multitudes in parables which were stories of word pictures that carried within them kingdom truth. Now to many in the multitude they either didn’t understand or they may have just caught the natural understanding of what was being said. What Jesus was telling His disciples is that these parables carry kingdom mysteries and truths that are meant to be revealed by the Holy Spirit to true believers and followers of Christ. As we come to an understanding and revelation of kingdom truth it is to teach us how to live out of that truth and not what we see in the world. The blind follow the blind, but those who have spiritual eyes to see and spiritual ears to hear, pursue the truth that the Spirit wants to reveal and not just what their natural mind perceives.
What I believe Jesus was saying is that a lot of what He was sharing wouldn’t make a lot of sense or have a lot of meaning unless you have a real heart for the kingdom and the truth that is contained in these parables. A lot of us, through personal revelation or the teaching, we have heard through the years have some grasp of the these kingdom truths that Jesus spoke. What He spoke for His people to really hear was how to change your paradigm and thinking from the worldly culture you have grown up in to the heavenly culture of the kingdom. The secrets of the kingdom are keys for transformation from what we have been into what we have been called to be. Many of us hear, but don’t put into practice what Christ taught. They just remain noble ideas, but they fail to transform our culture and paradigm because we haven’t become kingdom minded.
Jesus expresses it well in His parable in Matthew 7:24-27, “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
Kingdom building in our lives establishes Jesus Christ as the foundational rock upon which all of our life values, principles and cultures are built. Many will sit in church or hear the messages of the kingdom and give mental ascent, but fail to put into practice these truths. What Jesus is saying is, ‘it is not what you hear and agree with as being truth that makes you wise, it what you begin to apply and walk in that builds the kingdom in you. God’s kingdom can not be moved, but every pretense of it will be washed away. That is the foundation of sand. Sand is believing something in your heart, but never acting upon it to become reality in your life. This where many “so called” Christians are deceived. They acknowledged the reality and truth of Christ, but denied the power of its life changing ability within them, by only coming and hearing, but not putting it into practice.
The secret of the kingdom is stepping into what you know with the grace, the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Christ in you is not just in word, but it is in power, love and a faithful walking into kingdom truth.
Blessings,
kent