Be Careful How You Choose

When you give thoughts to marriage, you must be very careful how you choose your "running mate".  It is similar to choosing a candidate for vice president.  You both must be of the same mind.  Choose your wife or your husband, in terms of til death do you part.  Men, you are a cultivator of your wife and family.  You and your wife are to be on the same page at all times.

Remember this one thing:  If your wife is motivated by sensual needs and worldly desires when you first meet her,  then you have to feed into that emotional part of her. While she is your wife,  unless she is converted to the kingdom mindset,  the husband is to cultivate his wife.  By doing so, they both will have the same mindset.  Remember what God's Constitution states:  "Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.  For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness?  And what communion has light with darkness?"  There are so many pastors and leaders that are catering to their wives sinful desires.  To the point that they are missing God's message for their lives.  Do you know of someone in that situation?  They have become unstable in all their ways.  Many of us get married before we have a solid concept of the kingdom.  Keep in mind, you got married while you were unbelievers.  One of you got converted and the other remained the same.  Maybe even worse.  Remember, the king wants us to be of one mind.  "Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgement".  Always remember, if you are considering a life-long partner, keep in line with the Word of God. Never allow your feelings dictate your selection or judgment.

II Corinthians 6:14  I Corinthians 1:10
~~W.R. Luchie

The Two Worlds In Which We Live

Allow me to share with you the two worlds that we reside in concerning marriage and divorce.  In this, Jesus the Christ points out that God's original creation and Moses decree that allowed divorce where operating in two different worlds.  He stated that God made a male and a female; and He intended for a man to leave his parents and be joined permanently to his wife.  After that, they will be "two whole individual people joined into a oneness bigger than both of them".  Read what God's Constitution stated concerning male and female through Adam:  And Adam said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.  Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh".

Keep this in mind, it was possible for a man and a woman who knew no sin to become totally one, and Jesus the King stated this:..."Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.  And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery".  Now, keep in mind, Jesus was saying, "As far as I am concerned, the people of the world system can legally marry one another and live together but God their Creator and their Source didn't marry them; which is God.

Here is something for you to really think about.  If you truly believe what you have read concerning the King's Word (meaning the Bible) then you will go out of your way to obey it, regardless of what the world system may say or do concerning marriage.  God created marriage and its institution.

Genesis 2:23-24  Matthew 19:8-9
~~W.R. Luchie

Standing on His Word, Regardless  of the Chaos

We live in the midst of a world where men who claim to know God, live lives in chaos--men who are taking their own lives, having affairs with other men's wives, making a choice to become gay, leaving their wives and families,   preachers who are reluctant and afraid to preach the pure Gospel of the Kingdom because of what the world's system may do or say.  The question is, where do you stand when it comes to the King's Word?  We are living in the days when parents are not training their children anymore.  Instead, they want to become their friend.  We are living in the days where males aren't men, because they lack a real father image in the home.  My question to you, again, where do you stand in the midst of this chaos?

Children are out of control, sometimes to the extreme of killing their parents, in part because the father is either absent from the home or the father and husband has lost his masculinity and rightful authority to a society that seeks to castrate him.  There are several other reasons why our children are losing their grip on life. 

Do you remember what King Jesus stated while He was here on earth, concerning the last days?  Well, here is a synopsis:  Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?"   And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you.  For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.  And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.  All these are the beginning of sorrows.  

Keep this in mind, this is just the beginning of sorrows.  So stay in the Word of God and live by His principles and precepts.

Matthew 24:3-8
~~W.R. Luchie

How to Manage Power

Where do you stand when it comes to authority and power?  Do you know how to handle it?  Or are you one of those individuals who just acts without thinking?  One of the false concepts of authority that led to its misuse and abuse is that power is synonymous with authority (meaning that they are the same).  That is not true.  I see this more and more in religious leaders and those who hold a position of authority in the church. Many people have come to see authority as a greater strength that is able to subdue others.

Allow me to share this with you.  Power is the capacity to move something by force or energy, whether it is an object, an idea or a person.  It is the ability to cause, activate, initiate, transform or impact.  Power can be exercised through position, knowledge, strength, force, integrity, influence, personality or threats.  But keep this in mind, power isn't the same thing as authority.  The difference is that true authority is always sanctioned, or authorized.  Whereas power can be illegitimate or even unauthorized.  Do you remember what the devil told Jesus? Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.

This temptation was an attempt to offer Jesus the King power by the wrong means.  Always remember, Satan's methods involve a detour around God's purpose that He has for your life--an inducement to "take the easy way" to power.

Luke 4:5-6
~~W.R. Luchie

What Are You in Pursuit Of? 

When you are in pursuit of the Kingdom, nothing else really matters.  I learned that the hard way.  I have learned this:  when people violate the principles of authority, it is usually because they didn't have a foundational understanding of what genuine authority really is.  I realize that many individuals who have great gifts, talents, dreams and promises have destroyed their future by failing to implement these principles.  For example:  many individuals pursue prosperity or fame for their own selfish desires.  But these pursuits are not authentic.  Instead, people should be pursuing their inner authority, their purpose for being here on earth.  They will discover that when they do, prosperity and health will arrive at their doorstep.  Our prosperity is found in our Creator and Source.  This is why Jesus made this statement:

"But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you".  There are so man (so-called believers in Christ) that have given up obeying God's Word for possessions.  

Pursue your purpose.  Submit your will to the One who has given you another start.  Your prosperity is found where your authority is.  Keep in mind, true authority is the right and the power to be who you were created to be.  

Seek the Kingdom and discover your purpose and that will please the King.

Matthew 6:33
~~W.R. Luchie

The Self-Surrender of The Christ

Jesus was committed to proclaiming the Kingdom to the world.  His focus was on self-surrender.  After being tempted of the devil in the wilderness, the King's first and only message was the Kingdom of God.  Now the first necessity of entrance into the Kingdom of God is self-surrender to the Father's Will.  So His first assignment was to preach the Kingdom.  Read:  From that time Jesus began to preach and to say "Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand".  In order for one to truly live and serve the King, you must first surrender your selfish will for His divine Will.  Jesus Himself uncovering the nature of His Father and the nature of the Kingdom of God, also obeyed the law of self-surrender.  Having said that, what about your full surrender to the King?  Remember, God the Father gave all authority to Jesus, who is King of Kings and Lord of Lord.  Do you recall what Christ stated to His disciples?  "...All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Now I want you to notice, He didn't say "making Christians" which is a religion. He said "make disciples" (learners).  Once you read, study and embrace God's Word, you and His Word will become one.  I am an example of that last statement.

So God, His Word and man become one.  This is important, and it is most definitely true and not debatable:  if you surrender yourself, you will live.  But if you refuse to surrender yourself, you will decay and perish.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.

Matthew 7:17  Matthew 28:18-20  Mark 8:35
~~W.R. Luchie