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3/28/22 The Unaware Plague

As I do research for our books and other ministry outreaches, I am pretty astounded by how unaware most people are of the war they are in. They don’t see overwhelming business demands as a tool of the enemy to nullify their real effectiveness. They don’t understand that hours before the television set help erode family unity. Cell phones are divisional devices used to separate families.

Take a look around. Watch how the enemy of everything that God desires is steadily at work to distract, divide, and destroy everything God holds dear in the family unit. He will use anything he can, any way he can, to take the family members’ eyes off of the important and place them on the urgent or the entertaining.

If you think that I’m being a little melodramatic, do this experiment. Pick any device - cell phone, television, business pressure, school, or social engagements and compare the time consumed by them with the time a family spends together communicating and investing in each other. See how long most families spend quality time together before each member runs off to do something more important. I think you will be amazed at how few people consider their family more important than whatever personal god they serve first. What do you see in your family?

Let’s talk more!

Jim Corbett

3/26/22 In Need of Refreshing

“I know that your situation seems never-ending. I understand that you have been waiting for Me to move on your behalf for a long time. At this moment, you need refreshing. Remember My promises. Remember why you are where you are. Look at your situation from My perspective and find My perfect will. Look first from the perspective that I am perfecting you. I am training you to wait on Me. Quiet your heart of accomplishment. Stop struggling against those things that cause discomfort to your flesh.

"Listen to Me. Listen to My Word. I am working on things that you can’t see and in ways you will not understand if you approach them from a worldly perspective. Be still and know that I am God, your God. I am with you. I am for you. We will make it through this together if you look to Me.”

Psalm 18:1-2 NIV

1) I love you, O Lord my strength.

2) The Lord is my rock, my fortress and deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, he is my shield…

Psalm 46:1 AMP

God is our Refuge and Strength [mighty and impenetrable to temptation], a very present and well-proved help in trouble.

Psalm 46:10 NIV

“Be still and know that I am God...”

II Cor. 4:16-18 AMP

16) Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after day.

17) For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!],

18) Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.

One of the most important books I have ever read other than the Bible is a book called Waiting on God by Andrew Murray. It is a small book with 31 two-or-three-page chapters, ideal for daily study.

The main premise of each chapter is that the waiting on God is as important, or even more so, than any result for which we might wait. In our waiting on God, we gain God Himself; His desires, His perspectives, and His heart. The physical results of that waiting - or, in most cases, the removal of any trial we were enduring - fall pale next to having His presence, which is gained in the waiting time. Our impatience is the enemy of any real work that our Father is doing.

I choose to work diligently while waiting quietly, Lord,

Jim Corbett

3/26/22 More Than Your Own Skills

To be able to fulfill your offices of husband and father with power and skill, you’re going to need much more than you can do in your own strength. You’re going to need the power of the Holy Spirit continually working in and for you.

The enemy of your family is hard at work attempting to nullify your marriage and destroy the legacy that God intends for your children. If you think that you’re going to be able to fend off the onslaught that is programmed against you, you’re badly mistaken. If you think that there is no war, you are already beaten and just don’t know it.

Visible evidence of his aggression against your family - such as constant strife between you and your wife, children who don’t want to discuss the things of God with you or have little interest in Jesus and the cross - means you have a spiritual battle on your hands. Head knowledge won’t do the trick, so your preaching at them will fall on deaf ears. Your youth pastor is not going to be able to help continually. Your pastor is not the one.

The power to bring vibrancy to your marriage or to win your children back to God lies with you seeking the Lord on their behalf. It’s in your spiritual job description. They are incapable of winning the fight themselves. They need you as a daddy, fighting for their best interest on your knees. It’s time to bend down and hit the carpet, friend. It’s time to call for help from the winner of all battles. His name is Jesus and He’s waiting for you! It’s you He’s chosen for their sake.

Let’s talk more!

Jim Corbett

3/25/22 Welcomed with Open Arms

“Drop in on Me sometime. I’m really the perfect host. I don’t care what you look like. I don’t care where you’ve been before you come. It matters little to Me if you’re dirty or if you’re clean. I don’t even care if it has been a long time since We’ve been together. I simply desire to be with you. I miss you.

"One thing I would like to tell you, however, is that if you do stop in, I need you to want to be here. Don’t come to Me out of some religious obligation. Don’t come because you think that you need to come, or that it makes either one of Us feel better if you pay your obligatory visit. I don’t feel better when you come and leave your honesty and integrity outside My door. You don’t feel better when you are here, and you can’t look Me in the eye because your heart is far from Me. How foolish your visits are when there is no real interaction.

"If you do all of the talking, what would ever be accomplished? I have much to say to you. I have much to tell you about your world and about the times and seasons in which you live. I will give you infallible directions on how you can prosper, even during the confusing times which lay before you. I will impart My power to you to strengthen you for the battles which you will incur. There is no hope for you if you don’t receive My strength.

"When you come, expect this – I will welcome you with open arms. I will offer you everything that I own. I will feed you with the finest food from My private storehouse. Some foods you have never tasted before. You may stay as long as you like. You may come as often as you desire. Please understand, My door is always open. Oh, yes, bring a friend. I love your friends, especially the lost ones.”

Heb. 4:16 AMP

Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God’s unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].

Suppose that once upon a time, every one of us had little hope of any relief from all the consequences of our actions. Let’s say we all were condemned to pay the full price for our foolish actions. We were even cut off from God.

Then, let’s say that because of the undeserved actions of someone who loved us very much, all our consequences were removed from our lives. Added to that - because of that wonderful person’s love for us - we all got to communicate with the Creator of everything whenever we needed to receive mercy, grace and forgiveness, fellowship, or anything else we would ever need.

Now, let’s say that, even though we had the right and the privilege of going to God any and every time we needed anything, we chose not to do so - simply because, oh, simply because we chose not to do so. Some other time, let’s talk about how brain-dead we would be!

Rushing to my Father sometimes only because I am able to do so,

Jim Corbett

3/25/22 How Far Would You Go?

I once saw a movie where a father’s daughter was kidnapped. Instead of following the rules set by the kidnappers, he used his very capable skills to find her, rescue her, and destroy the kidnappers. The movie was a story of his relentless pursuit of someone he loved even more than his own life.

As I look around at the families in the church today, I am amazed at how many are so fractured that they don’t resemble the family that God has in mind. After getting past all the rhetoric about how powerful and influential society and its dictates are, the bottom line is that the rescue of a man’s family is normally not a priority on his list.

I believe that most men have been sold a bill of goods, told that they are too weak or incapable of doing something about whatever worms have crept in to destroy their family. I am convinced that they have been lied to by the enemy, who is out to not only destroy the family, but bent on minimizing the limitless power of the office that the father has to reclaim and help restore the children God has given him.

The guidelines for God’s family are pretty clear. The husband is a spiritual covering, continually seeking the Lord on behalf of those he stewards. The wife is an equal in supporting and undergirding his mission of providing a safe spiritual place for their children to prosper in Christ. They are to nurture their children in the deep things of God, so that they become honorable legacies who are capable of passing on spiritual wealth to their own offspring.

If anything disrupts the flow of God’s love and power in that family, everything else is to take second place until Christ-like harmony is restored. Nothing or no one should get in the way of the war that the father and mother engage in to rescue any one of their children in harm’s way. They are to be relentless in seeking the Lord for wisdom and guidance, and then for doing whatever is necessary to bring His real life back to the ones they love. They are to persevere until the job is completed and the enemy is destroyed. Do you agree? If not, why not?

Let’s talk more!

Jim Corbett

PS A good example of this kind of warfare is in the first chapter of our book, The Father Factor.

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