OPERATIONAL MENTALITY OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH

By Pastor Adebola Samuel

Part 2

The values of the kingdom they carried inside themwould not permit them to bow to the perversities of the people where they were carried away into bondage. It is time we recognize who we are and occupy our place in the plan of God. We also cannot bow to the perversities of our days,we carry inside us what it takes to register a mighty impact for God and transform the spiritual landscape of our environment.But as long as we continue in our own ways and we keep neglecting the weightier matters of the kingdom, we will never be able to please God who saved us and called us with a holy calling. It is not wrong to be blessed and to enjoy the blessings of God in our lives but God’s beginning point with man is a beginning of responsibility before the blessing follows;(Gen 1:26).The dominion we were given by God is a responsibility,(Gen 2:15).He put the man He had formed in the garden “to tend and to keep it”, this is responsibility.Alongside the responsibility is the blessing of what man may freely eat. Our earthly blessing, what to eat, wear, where to live, money to spend are all wrapped up in our calling.

We want to posses the land and enjoy the blessing of God and I really do believe God wants us to have and to enjoy His blessing, but God will have to work in us to establish His government.Following His pattern in Israel, God had to reveal Himself and His government to thembefore they could posses the land.

In Exodus 19-20, God made Himself known to the people and gave them the law to live by. He established His government and kingship over the people.

In Exodus 24,the people accepted and bound themselves to live under the government of God (Note verse 3 and 7).

Exodus 25-40, God showed Moses the pattern of the tabernacle, the tabernacle was built and dedicated.

In Leviticus, God showed how He wanted to be worshipped and served, God demanded that His people conform their lives and conduct to His rules and regulations. A God who cannot determine how to be served by His people and leaves it to the whims of the people, does not qualify to be God. If the God you are serving does not place a demand on you and put you under responsibility, you need to investigate to be sure you are serving the living God.

God closes the book with blessing on those who serve Him in line with His commands but today we put the blessing before His commands; that is why we have remained weaklings and infantile in our mentality and actions (Lev 26)

Let us submit to the inner dealings of God so He can establish His government in us then we can become an example of how men ought to conduct themselves in the society, conduct our lives, marriages, families, businesses etc. We will then become the alternative society and a counter culture to the perversities of our environment; we will walk in what it takes to change our world.

The Mentality Of People In Whose Heart God Has Established His Government.

  1. Abraham(Gen14:21-24).There is no greed or covetousness in their heart. (Prov1:10-19).
  2. Mordecai (Esther3:1-4),they would not bow to the unrighteousness of their day even when under pressure from their peers.
  3. Daniel and Shedrach, Meshack and Abednego (Dan1:8; 3:16-18)they purposed not to defile themselves and they did not love their lives even unto death.
  4. Daniel6:10,they were given to prayer.