Tuesday, September 15, 2009

The Temple (An Insert from my book "Unplugged")



The quickest way to abort a person’s destiny is by bad habits. Bad habits are any and everything that interferes with the progression of something normal. We all have had bad habits. They affect our lives everyday. They affect the way we think, act and interact with people. They affect our relationship with God. Your body is the temple. Within its corridors hold your soul and your spirit. The soul and the spirit are dependent upon the status of the body. If the body dies, everything that it holds ceases to exist on this earth. Without the body, the purpose that lies within it will be cut short. The more we damage our bodies, the more we shorten our purpose. Purpose is the name of the game. Each and everyone of us has a purpose but only few fulfill them. Why do you think only a few people fulfill their purpose? This is because of bad habits. Satan knows that each and every one of us holds within us a purpose from God. This purpose is geared towards impacting the world’s system in order to release its affects from those that are bound and to raise the banner of Christ so that He gets the glory. Satan’s goal is to abort your purpose. If he can abort your purpose, then what God intended for you to do will be aborted as well. We have to understand the importance of our freewill. God can do everything but interfere with man’s free will. Whatsoever a man chooses to do, he will be affected by those choices. Wherever a man chooses to go, he will be affected by the way he chose. No matter what it is that we choose, we will be affected by what we choose. So if you choose to eat poorly, then you will have poor heath. If you choose the wrong friends, then you will be influenced to do bad things. If you choose to have sex outside of marriage, then you suffer the consequences of them. In our world today, we choose not to take responsibility of our actions. We choose based on impulse and feeling rather than reason and wisdom. We make choices off of deception rather than truth. We will never understand how to be responsible of our actions if we first do not choose to understand the validity of our choices. The choices you make will last for a life time, and they will affect where you will spend eternity. If ninety percent of your choices are negative, then ninety percent of your life will be negative. If ninety percent of your choices are poor, then ninety percent of your life will be poor spiritually, physically or both. We love to blame others for our poor choices. We love to blame the devil for our poor choices. We even blame God for our poor choices, but we fail to blame ourselves. The moment you point the finger at yourself, the quicker change will occur. The more you continue to point the finger at others, the more you deceive yourself. Look at your life, and look at all your poor choices. Think, who is it you should really blame? I know many of us were brought up in bad situations and bad homes and into bad environments, but no matter how bad the situation, you still have a choice. Excuses will always eliminate you. Excuses will always keep you stagnant. No one ever moves forward while making excuses. Every time you make an excuse, know that you just missed out on a chance to step forward. Every step not taken is one less step forward. If you never step forward, how will you ever fulfill your purpose? See how deep this is? If Satan can have your mind so focused on what you do not have or how you were brought up or how much you love certain foods or how you love certain people, then he will use those things to keep you stagnant. Your body was created to hold purpose and was meant to be a tool used to complete its task. Everything on this planet is a tool. Everything on this planet was made to be a tool to help someone or something else. Food is a tool used to give us energy and nutrients to keep us alive. Trees are a tools used to bring forth fruit, shade and wood to help those that need them. Look at our bodies. Everything in us is aimed to help something else survive. Everything is a tool, from clothes to cars to houses. The quickest way for something not to be fixed is to eliminate the tools. If there are no tools, then how could anything be fixed. If everything is left broken, the greater cause is left unfulfilled. Each and every one of us holds within us a tool that is needed to fix a problem from a global scale to a personal scale. But if we do not operate in whom we are to be, how will the global problems or the personal problems be fixed. If we do not have you, it will cost us. It has been said that the wealthiest places in the world are the grave yards. Everyday people die without leaving their God inspired treasures on earth. When we are plugged into the world, we are slowly being sucked away from our purpose. Were you created to watch television, to club, drink, play video games, hang out and party? No. You were created to fulfill a purpose. Some of these things are not bad, but they are when they distract you from sharpening your creative skills, reading books, helping advance your abilities, praying, fasting, and seeking the face of God. If you do more entertaining yourself then you do educating yourself, you are not focused and remain stagnant. Purpose is not a career; it is a call from God. Your career may not be what God has called you to do. Your opportunity may not be what you are called to do. The school you are at now may not be where God has called you. The city you stay in may not be where God has called you? The person you married may not be who you were called to marry? We make choices off of impulse, without first consulting the creator. If you are at the wrong place at the wrong time, how can you ever do the right thing at the right time? God has intended for us to do the right things at the right time, but we will never get there if we are at the wrong place in our lives. Purpose can only be fulfilled when there is humility and a yearning to do what God has called us to do. If we do not humble ourselves, and if we yearn more for the world’s system, our choices will lead us to an unfulfilled destiny. Are you at the wrong place? Whenever you are driving and are at the wrong place, is it not wise to get directions? Just because you are at the wrong place does not mean you cant get directions and end up at the right place. You may get there late in your mind, but you could be right on time with God. You first have to make the choice to change.