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1/03/22 You Are Valuable

Do you have any idea how valuable you are to your Father God? I don't think many of us men can really grasp the concept of a Father that loves us not for what we do, but just because we are valuable to Him. In fact, most of us look at the stewardship that we have been given only as an obligation that we will be held accountable for, without realizing that it is because He really cares for us, He chooses to trust us.

Some of us had an earthly father who demanded from us without the corresponding love and encouragement. We were told to live up to expectations to maintain some kind of worth in his eyes. Possibly because he never had any encouragement from his father, he wasn't able to pass on what he had no knowledge of. Whatever the case, we spent our days attempting to prove our worth to him, and to anyone else for that matter.

God is not like that. He lovingly places value on us, value that is not changed by our actions good or bad, right or wrong. His kind of value is a wealth beyond our comprehension. It is placed on us simply because we exist and belong to Him.

If we ever really comprehend that concept, we can take on the powerful stewardship given us as husband and father with an incredible joy, knowing that our heavenly Father is not only for us, but covers our back when we blow it. In essence, His mercy and grace flow stronger to us and our needs when we turn to Him because we are out of answers. He guards us, protects us, loves us unconditionally, and guides us to truth, just because we are His. Maybe it's time to bask in the value He places on us as we go about our days heading up our family, so we can pass unquestioned value on to them.

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Jim Corbett

1/01/22 Discernment Needed

“Guard your heart. Guard the hearts of your children. Pray for those with whom you come in contact. Pray for discernment within My body. Many who call themselves Mine through Jesus have little wisdom to discern good from evil. They are often taken in by the enemy and are helpless to break free from their bondages.

"Others are wolves dressed as My sheep. Be careful of them. They are already in your midst to hinder the flow of My Holy Spirit. They are actually praying against your prayers. Make sure your heart is in order. Make sure that you have spent enough time in My presence to wake up from your slumber. You need to become wise.”

Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV

8) “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.

9) “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Hosea 13:6 NIV

“When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me.”

Joshua 7:13 AMP

Up, sanctify (set apart for a holy purpose) the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: There are accursed things in the midst of you, O Israel. You can not stand before your enemies until you take away from among you the things devoted [to destruction].

When the church of Jesus Christ decides to follow the ways of the world, we become fair game for the schemes of the enemy. He delights in allowing us to attend our church services, sing our songs, and listen to each others’ prophecies. What he will come against with all of his might is intimacy with God. He loves it as long as we play church games and hates it when we really get serious and decide to dig in with our Lord, seeking holiness.

Whenever we, as children of God, choose activities over intimacy, promises over repentance, and comfort over sacrifice, we can count on cold gatherings and fruitless works. We can count on sterile spiritual relationships, which are helpless against the ploys of the enemy. We will walk blindly into his traps and joyfully remain in deep slumber, thinking that our Lord is pleased and that everything is in order.

Wake me up, Lord,

Jim Corbett

1/01/22 It’s Not About You

How would you fare if you found out that nothing in this life is about you - nothing? What if you fully understood that there may be no Hollywood ending for you; that you were asked to burn yourself out for Jesus and no one will ever know about it? What if you were called to pour yourself and all that you had into others out of obedience? What if, in God's eyes, there is really no other way to live?

As a father, husband, and man of God, your job is to seek out the life of Jesus and then live it out in front of those around you. That means that you do nothing of yourself or for yourself. It's called the crucified life - a life of laying down your own for the best interests of others and for the glory of God.

Jesus overcame the world from the cross. Although that kind of life is foreign to us, He asks us to do the same. He asks us to provide a smooth path for our wives to become all that they can be in Christ. He asks us to guide our children to the life that has been bought for them from the cross. He asks us to be an example of Him to our friends and acquaintances. We are stewards of their precious lives. When we stand before Jesus He won't be impressed about how much money we made, or how big a house we had; we will answer for the lives that God has placed in our path to direct and love.

How much time have you spent to find out what this life is really all about? The more you devote yourself to the Word of God and spend time in His presence, you will see that your life is to be spent for others, not yourself. That's what the life of Jesus looked like. That's what ours should look like. What does yours look like?

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Jim Corbett

12/31/21 Run Out of Answers

“I am only found at the very end of your rope. So many times you ask Me to assist you in what you are doing. Many times I oblige. My heart, however, is that you follow the example Jesus showed you. He purposely expressed that He did nothing of Himself to show you the way of living His perfect life. Having no answers allows Him to live His life of answers through you. You will never know the freedom of your salvation and all that it means until you surrender all of who you are to all that He is. Run out of answers. You will find that He is the Answer with every answer.”

John 5:19-20 NIV

19) Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.

20) For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does.”

John 6:57 AMP

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live by (through, because of) the Father, even so whoever continues to feed on Me [whoever takes Me for his food and is nourished by Me] shall [in his turn] live through and because of Me.

We attempt to be better Christians. God is asking us to die to all our efforts to be better and understand that we can do nothing to make us better. He wants us to surrender fully to the One Who is perfect and allow Him to live His life through us. That, however, limits our participation in the things of God. We don’t like to be left out. It makes us feel unimportant and insignificant. It wounds our pride. We are so self-important that we sometimes even love to play the Holy Spirit, as we go around directing and fixing everything.

Forgive us, Lord,

Jim Corbett

12/31/21 Imaginations

2 Corinthians 10:5 (AMPC) [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One),

What if everything we have been taught to hold dear since we were old enough to reason has been a lie of the world that has set itself up against the Word of God? What if all of our thoughts, self-strengths, abilities, or anything that does not have God as its center or source is not of God, so we are to cast them down? If that is truth, they are strongholds that set themselves up against the will of God in our lives.

Jesus walked above the world and all of its ways. There was not one thing of the world He accepted or based any decision on. He only listened to His Father and did what they had agreed should be done. The lie of sickness and disease, the lie of doing anything without consulting the Father first, the lie of fear, dread, even death when it was not time, like Lazarus, were called to account by the kingdom laws of His Father. He lived in the realm of higher laws. Gravity even meant nothing to Him when He disappeared into the air.

With our limited carnal abilities and reasonings, the things that Jesus did, those that we are able to comprehend, are sometimes held as good stories for us to learn from. But what if we are supposed to really walk as Jesus did? He was Spirit and flesh. We are flesh and of the Spirit because of the covenant of the cross. He was the first born of many. We are the "many" that followed Him in our born again experience. We are called to do even greater things than He did.

Maybe it's time to really seek the Lord's opinion on how we are to live this life, looking above the ways of the world and casting down anything that doesn't agree with the Word of God. Jesus didn't like them; should we live under their dictates? What do you think?

Let's talk more!

Jim Corbett

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