Engage the enemy, not one another. Spiritual boredom, day in day out. .meeting here, meeting there.. change metamorphosis, but still the anointing not poured out, wasted oil.
hmmm.... how many unbelievers do you talk to in a day? How often do you go outside of the click of your own church members or people who believe EXACTLY the same as you.
There is a danger in not diversifying. In not ministering on the OUTSIDE. The same gifts that are designed to cleanse, heal and refresh those who are HUNGRY for God and NEEDING His touch; become gifts of self destruction when continually turned within it's own body. Not unlike autoimmune diseases resulting from a hyperactive immune system attacking normal tissues as if they were foreign organisms.
Get out church.. Get out of your 4 walls. Volunteer at a homeless shelter, women's shelter, prison ministry. Get involved in Work Place Ministry. .. GET OUT!
Let GOD use you every day of the week, don't just store up for Sunday and hope you get called on to speak or pray for someone. Don't look at one another with "discernment" to see if there is sin in each other's life you can "fix". GET OUT!
Our nourishment must come from the outside.. Praising our God on the inside.
No more pressing wine .. on the threshing floor.
How does it happen?
When your body is being attacked by e.g. bacteria, your immune system react by making antibodies (the "Y" shaped objects in the illustration). Antibodies are protein that react to a certain type of intruder, attaches to them and mark them as a target for the immune system. Normally, these antibodies are only directed at intruding micro organisms, but sometimes the body mistake it's own tissue as 'the enemy' (see illustration). The obvious question here is of course: Why? And the answer: No one really knows.
The immune system is such a complex entity, that the fault could lie in several places. Some believe it's in the gene's, others think it could be certain types of immunologic stimuli (chemicals or vaccines), and again, side effects of certain types of medication have been proven to trigger autoimmune diseases. Even stress and trauma has been discussed as cause. All in all, no one really knows yet. But the broad idea is that it could be dormant (in the genes) and only triggered by certain events. [entire article] http://www.mctd.eu/mctd.html
hmmm.... how many unbelievers do you talk to in a day? How often do you go outside of the click of your own church members or people who believe EXACTLY the same as you.
There is a danger in not diversifying. In not ministering on the OUTSIDE. The same gifts that are designed to cleanse, heal and refresh those who are HUNGRY for God and NEEDING His touch; become gifts of self destruction when continually turned within it's own body. Not unlike autoimmune diseases resulting from a hyperactive immune system attacking normal tissues as if they were foreign organisms.
Get out church.. Get out of your 4 walls. Volunteer at a homeless shelter, women's shelter, prison ministry. Get involved in Work Place Ministry. .. GET OUT!
Let GOD use you every day of the week, don't just store up for Sunday and hope you get called on to speak or pray for someone. Don't look at one another with "discernment" to see if there is sin in each other's life you can "fix". GET OUT!
Our nourishment must come from the outside.. Praising our God on the inside.
No more pressing wine .. on the threshing floor.
How does it happen?
When your body is being attacked by e.g. bacteria, your immune system react by making antibodies (the "Y" shaped objects in the illustration). Antibodies are protein that react to a certain type of intruder, attaches to them and mark them as a target for the immune system. Normally, these antibodies are only directed at intruding micro organisms, but sometimes the body mistake it's own tissue as 'the enemy' (see illustration). The obvious question here is of course: Why? And the answer: No one really knows.
The immune system is such a complex entity, that the fault could lie in several places. Some believe it's in the gene's, others think it could be certain types of immunologic stimuli (chemicals or vaccines), and again, side effects of certain types of medication have been proven to trigger autoimmune diseases. Even stress and trauma has been discussed as cause. All in all, no one really knows yet. But the broad idea is that it could be dormant (in the genes) and only triggered by certain events. [entire article] http://www.mctd.eu/mctd.html
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