“Remember He who is worthy has qualified you”

Many people today gain University degrees and years of intense training, they spend much time trying to connect with prominent influential people, have letters added to their names such as M.D. and B.A. all to be able to be what they call “qualified”.

Daniel 1:4 young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king's palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians.

In the world the standard to becoming qualified is often based upon being good looking, handsome, being intelligent, having an understanding of the worlds’ ways and being willing to not only be taught the world system, but to excel in it.

Qualified - holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill; having complied with the specific requirements or precedent : to fit by training, skill, or ability for a specific purpose; to acquire legal or competent power or capacity

We need to really understand that in Kingdom living this is not necessarily how one becomes qualified. Though God does say to “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved…” 2 Timothy 2:15. He wants us to understand that He is the only one that qualifies a person.

Colossians 1:12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.

From a biblical perspective to be qualified is when you meet the spiritual requirements and are called for a specific purpose. Jesus has met all of the spiritual qualifications for each of us and allowed us to be worthy of being chosen.

God has designed a specific purpose for every human being. Once you understand that God himself has chosen you, finding your God given purpose will be your most important job here on earth. Once you find your purpose then you must understand that God and God alone has qualified you. You will accomplish your God given purpose not because of your skill or training or experience, but by the power within you that comes from knowing that you are called and chosen and qualified to accomplish your task.

2 Timothy 2:2 And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.

Chippy

There once was a clay pot named Theodore Clarence Moulding.

Everyone had nick-named him Chippy for a very good reason.

When he was a wee little pot he used to get bumped and banged, occasionally he was even dropped.

Until one day they noticed that he was chipped and broken and he had a wee little crack in his bottom.

Everyone thought Chippy was useless, everyone that is except the Master.

For some special reason Chippy was the Masters' favourite pot. This fact should have delighted Chippy, but instead it made him depressed and sad.

For every morning the Master would pick up Chippy, dust him off and carry him down to the riverside.

He would make sure to hold Chippy’s cracked bottom and tip him over and fill him up and eventually would head back to the cottage. By the time the Master would have reached the cottage and opened the door, to pour out what He had put in Chippy, there was only a few small drops of water left.

Chippy couldn’t understand it, because of him the Master had to go down to the riverside so many times yet the Master continued to choose him to be filled up and poured out. Chippy was so upset over this that one day he decided to ask the Master why He didn’t just choose one of the bigger and newer pots that could definitely hold more water when He went down to the riverside.

The Master became a bit saddened at Chippy’s request. Yet the Master who was kind and gentle told Chippy that as they walked home that he was to pay extra attention today.

As they took that familiar stroll down the path from the riverside to the cottage Chippy noticed something that he had never seen before.

There along the pathway were the most beautiful, multi -coloured, wild flowers. They were standing bright and tall , Chippy brought this to the attention of the Master and the Master  replied “ This is your handiwork Chippy,  for as you have allowed me to lift you up and tip you over and pour you out and because you were chipped and broken and were unable to hold it all in and while you were letting it all flow out  you were creating this garden of beauty!"

With a look of amazement Chippy looked directly into the Masters eyes, "For though you thought I filled you up to take you back to the cottage to pour you out.  My true intention was always for you to water what was along this pathway, you were never falling short with only a few drops."

Tears of joy poured down Chippys face as the Master held him tightly "You were prosperous in the task intended. Fulfilling your purpose in your Master’s Hands. "

So today if you are feeling a little chipped or broken, banged or bumped or maybe you might even have a little crack in your bottom.

Don’t feel like Chippy, just because you are not being used to carry water back to the cottage. The Master may have designed you with another purpose in mind.  So pay extra attention today and look for all the wild flowers that are along the pathway of your life and remember to be prosperous in the Masters' hand.

The precious Sons and daughters of Zion

Valuable as fine gold

Are now considered as pots of clay

The work of the hands of the Potter

Charmaine Hinds

Truly Alive

 My heart has begun beating wildly and the great anticipation is beginning to overwhelm me. I am moments away from being in Your embrace. I am prepared like Esther to be with You. I have taken the time to focus my attentions on You, on Your desires. My heart is pulsating, pumping life to every area of my body, bringing new life to every cell of my blood, new oxygen, new purpose, fresh energy. Lungs are expanding as I take deeper breathes of air to calm myself from the immense intensity I have begun to experience.

  I am purposefully taking captive every thought that enters my mind and bringing all of them back to one thing- You. Your Love is so overwhelming, it envelops me and swirls around me as if to create a tower of safety and security- to hold me there for eternity. I am not a whimsical person. I am not one prone to fleeting desires or self gratifying acts of foolishness, but with You there are no limits, the boundaries are endless. The sky is higher, the oceans deeper, the vastness of the expanse stretches wider because You want to be with me. And I … I want desperately to be with you.

You have shifted Heaven and Earth to unite with me, a mere mortal. I was created for Your pleasure. Yet I have withheld this from You and in doing so I have come against the very reason I was created and plunged myself into living decay. But now I come to the Tree of Life and eat of its fruit and truly begin to Live. Waters of life begin to flow within. A cycle of regeneration now breaks the pattern of death. I am alive. Truly Alive! I was created to Live and bring forth life.
My hands are trembling with the electricity that flows when I align myself with You. You breathe and I inhale Your breath as true light dances around me and I softly float on the clouds of glory that descends. Heavenly visions of past present and future all become one sight to behold. But none has captured my gaze as the sight of You, You are the only sight I long to behold. I am spirit and you are Truth and we are one for this moment.  Deeper feelings has no one known than to know the Love of the Creator for His creation. Every receptacle receiver has heard the message- I love You and You are one with me.

How shall I leave this place and return to the world where the message is a mirror of distorted proportions?
 A twisted twilight zone.

 I grasp You tighter and burn the images permanently within me. I command my memory to save every picture of time that has not even passed yet, for we are in a space of Timeless. Where nothing has begun and nothing has ended.
So reluctantly I release and let go of this moment. But never for an instant will I forget. Longing will stay with me as Your voice sweetly continues to call me out of this mere existence of monotony and into the realm of higher purpose. Being one with You.