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The Third Eye Perspective:
By Carlos C. Brown
Thought For Today – “God Travels At The Speed of Spirit”
Good Morning Peeps! How are you doing this Friday morning, good I hope? Today is a very special day for me! Why you ask? Because today, I will be Preaching my very first “real” sermon! I am so excited that I’m about the burst as the older generation would say LOL! Let me jump right into this thing here…..First of all, I give honor to God, and my virtual pulpit guests (Bishop T.D. Jakes, Pastor Ron Crawford, Pastor Jentezen Franklin, Pastor Derwin Baker, Pastor Gerone Hobbs, Pastor Robert McCray, Pastor Robin McClure, Pastor O.D. Phillips, and Pastor Billy Graham), the Deacon board, the Church congregation, members and friends. I come before you today under the authority of our Lord and Savior in Heaven to bring you this powerful message. Please turn with me in your Bibles to the book of 2 Kings, and lets start around the 7th chapter and verse #1. Now, due to the lack of time, I’m not going to type all the Biblical verses in this email. I will just give you the meaning of the verses. The Biblical story being discussed here, is when Elisha was speaking to the officer of the King about him not getting to receive the blessing of what was to happen because his Spirit was too blinded in the outer wrapping of the messenger, and he mocked what Elisha was saying to the King. Now, the mistake that the officer of the King made, was that he did honor the person God sent (Elisha) to deliver the message. Until you recognize the calling on person that God is honoring, God will not send you that person(s) He is honoring. Elisha prophesized that the officer would get to see Gods work (Blessing) take place, but that he would not be allow to partake in it. Now are you ready for me to Preach my sermon? Here it is, “God Travels At The Speed of Spirit!” BOOM! I’m done! What? What do you mean “is that it, where is the rest of the sermon?” Apparently, you just missed the whole message if you think there should be more to that statement! That one sentence, “God Travels At The Speed of Spirit,” is a complete sermon by itself!! You missed that, because you were too focused on analyzing the outer wrapper (ME) of who was delivering the message…. “Carlos ain’t qualified to be Preaching, who does he think he is? He got so much dirt in his past, and there ain’t no way God would call him to Preach to anyone!” Some of ya’ll reading this, just sank real low in your chair and looking all around because I just read your minds didn’t I? LOL!!!!! And just for the record not that I have to validate my calling, I’ve been doing this for over 18+ years. BOOM! Go and TWEET THAT! As Pastor Ron would say LOL! And AMEN goes right here!
Now for those of you who placed WAY too much thought into what I typed above in my opening statement, I was just using that statement “I am about to Preach my first real sermon” as an analogy, or just a figure of speech. Again I repeat, I am NOT an Ordained Minister, Pastor, Bishop, or Preacher! A Messenger of God? Maybe, but that would be it. I received this particular thought for today, while listening to Pastor Ron Crawford’s message this morning about “Old, or Old Fashioned?” That message talked about how the generations of today focuses too much on the outside wrapping, aka the person delivering the message than the message itself. And he made a very powerful statement that stuck with me and it kept eating at me over and over as I listened to the rest of the message. You see, the statement “God Travels At The Speed of Spirit,” basically or literally means depending on how your “Spirit” is set up, that God can do something as quickly as our Spirits can believe and understand that it is HIM that is doing it. Still don’t get it huh? Okay well how about this example. I know all of you reading this have sometype of schooling background in your past right? Well if you attended any kind of legitimate educational institution, you had to take some sort of science am I right? Well if you remember anything from those courses it probably dealt with Atoms, Molecules, and Matter right? Now watch this, even those three things recognize who and more importantly WHAT God is! How do I know that you ask? Because each one of them obeyed God when He said, “Let There Be…..” Is that not a powerful statement? When God said “Let there be light,” the Bible says there was light! When God said, “Let there be Darkness,” darkness appeared didn’t it? Even the light, the darkness, and the matter (Earth), all were formed or created at just the command of God speaking it. And AMEN goes right here….
But here is this problem with people of today. They are too focused on the outside wrapping paper that a Godly message comes from, that they more times than not miss the entire message. And were all guilty of it are we? I know I have missed a lot of Godly messages because “I” couldn’t validate the outer wrapping it was being delivered in in my past. Another thing Pastor Ron said that really hit home with me was, “The Spirit Doesn’t Learn, It “RECOGNIZES!” WOW! That is a very powerful statement! A question each one of us have to answer for ourselves is, “Did God Just Speak To Me?” We have to forget who or what the outer wrapping is or looks like, or what labels have been placed over them and hear the message! Another famous Christian statement is “God doesn’t call the qualified to be messengers for Him, He qualifies those that He calls!” Meaning, the majority if not all of the people God has truly called to be messengers for Him, they were all flawed in sometype of way. God could easily have sent someone to deliver a message to you that was consisting of your breakthrough instructions, but because you knew some dirt on that person you were too blinded by your view, opinion, or belief of that person’s purity to hear, or receive it! The Pastors I listed above that were in my imaginary pulpit as my guests were Men of God that I either admire and or respect for their ability to deliver God’s Holy Word. The televangelists ones, I’ve never met in person, but have watched them many times on TV, and it is easy to recognize that they have the Anointing of God on them. However, that does not mean they are perfect in any way. And most if not all of those listed will tell you they aren’t perfect. One thing about each of them though, if you hear them speak, you know without a shadow of a doubt that they are legitimately called by God. That is “IF” your Spirit is in good “Fellowship” with God and can receive them for what they are….”Men of God.” In closing, if you can’t look past the outer wrapping (the person including their flawed past) that is delivering the message from God, you’ll never be able to receive what God has for you. If your Spirit is “on the same page” Spiritually with God, He has the power to move 10 Million times the speed of light and sound in answering your Prayers if He so chooses. But If you can’t see past the outer wrapping, then you may never witness God showing up and showing out on your behalf! Can I leave you with a couple of questions to ponder today if I may?
“How Godly Recognizable, Is YOUR Spirit? Or Are You Spiritually Blinded By Fleshly Validation of The Outer Wrapping?”
Can I Get An AMEN???
“Today, choose to “Ride or Die” with Jesus Christ! He did it for you!
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