Taking Proper Care of Resources

As a kingdom citizen, you must be above reproach.  How do you do that?  By reading and living by the Word of the King, which is given by His Father God.  For example:  When you keep coming to work late, you can lose your employment. When you keep eating too much fat in the food  you consume, you can lose your health.  When you do not cultivate your friendships, those friendships can die.  If you fail to keep putting affection and respect into your marriage it will fall apart.   Whatever you mismanage, you will start losing.  Whatever you manage properly, you will protect.

Remember, proper management applies resources in the most effective, efficient and beneficial way.  Good managers don't waste resources, and they don't give them over to the wrong purpose.  Kingdom Citizens have a standard that is handed down from King Jesus.  God's managers do not hoard resources either.  When you hoard things, you aren't really managing them at all.  So when you earn one hundred dollars, you don't hoard it, but you don't spend it on your own whims either.  You take the first ten dollars of it and give it to the God of your creation.  Then you ask Him what to do with the other ninety dollars.  That is how you manage the money He has given you access to.

To use something correctly implies that you will use it with integrity,  By the way, always remember where your resources come from and who gives you the power to get wealth.  “And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.  Even though God was speaking to Israel, His Word still holds true to this very day.

If you use something correctly, you will not slip into dishonesty.  If you are not supposed to use the copier at work, you will not make personal copies on it.  You won't even help yourself to a paperclip.  Remember, proper management is timely use of another person's property.  Also remember that even your own property doesn't wholly belong to you.

If you are to be rewarded from King Jesus, obey His laws and principles.  There is no excuse for not being obedient.

Deuteronomy 8:18
~~W.R. Luchie

We Manage, We Never Own

The reason we are in trouble in the world is because of mismanagement, through greed.  The only way out of this trouble is through righteous and wise management through Christ Jesus.

My question to you is, What is management? Management is the effective, efficient, correct and timely use of another person's property and resources for its intended purpose with an expectation of producing added value.  Read that definition very carefully.  Notice the individual words:  effective--efficient--correct--timely--delegated--value.  Remember you must recognize that you always manage another person's property, not your own property.  You do not own anything anyway.  You do not own the earth.  You do not own anything that exists on the earth.  You do not own the place where you work, in other words, your job.  You do not own the business you claim is your own.  You may have your name on it, but your business can be gone in one day.  Whether you do it well or not, your responsibility is to manage that job.  When the Lord God made the earth and filled it up with resources, the very next thing He had to do was to make a manager to take care of it.  That manager was humankind.  Men and women were given dominion over the earth's resources.   Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Notice, however, they were not given dominion over each other.  God was still in charge of the people He had created.  God the Creator set it up so that Adam and Eve would find it good to take care of every good thing that He had created.  The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s; But the earth He has given to the children of men.  He wants us to take responsibility for the products of this planet called earth.  Keep this in mind:  God's divine goal was to extend the culture of the Kingdom of Heaven to earth.  The culture of heaven is  a culture of plenty; but only if it gets managed correctly.  When God turned His attention to filing the earth with good things, He decided to create a people in His own image to manage it.


Genesis 1:28   Psalm 115:16
~~W.R. Luchie

Living By Your Faith

We live in a consumer-driven culture and it is in a crisis all the time.  The society around us is obsessed with things and the comforts of life.  People are perpetually tired and worn out, distracted and depressed, irritable and in a hurry.  They suffer from stress-induced illnesses.  They treat each other poorly.  But keep this in mind, the Kingdom of God isn't like that in the least.  The resources we need are supposed to come to us in the natural course of living our lives according to God's design and intention.

We do not seek the Kingdom of God because of its benefits, but its benefits come to us as we seek the Kingdom.  Remember what King Jesus stated: But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you.  The provisions and resources that we need are not meant to become the objects of our faith.  they are meant to be the by-products of our faith in the King.  Always remember, Kingdom dwellers have faith.  Their faith grows as they exercise it daily.  True Kingdom Citizens do not treat their faith as a tool or a trick.  When they exercise their faith, it is not like playing a slot machine, where if they somehow wind up with the right combination of words and actions, they win.  Rather, it is a relationship albeit with an invisible king.  This king of ours communicated with liberally with His people, especially through His written Word.  he has displayed His laws and His principles and has made them accessible to all who have eyes to see and ears to hear.

Our sole responsibility is to trust and obey His Word.  Remember the King gives the gift of the Holy Spirit to those who obey Him.  And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.  God's Son, Jesus, came to preach the Kingdom of God.  That was His first and only message.  From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand".

Matthew 6:33   Acts 5:32   Matthew 4:17
~~W.R. Luchie

You Can Find It In Times of Crisis

Dr Myles Munroe stated to a congregation that "He hated religion". I was one of those in that congregation. My wife Arlene and I were one of the few that responded Amen to that statement.  By the way, it was a church in North Carolina.  Religion is one of the great separations of God's people as well as the world.

My question to you is, What is your response when  a crisis comes your way?  Religious people look for a miracle or miracles.  When a crisis comes, they want God to take care of them without any effort on their part.  They are lazy.  They want to find a magic supply and immediate relief from their troubles.  They treat God the Creator as Santa Clause; or maybe like something less than Santa Clause, because even Santa Clause says you've got to be a good boy or girl before he will bring you gifts. Religious people treat the King like a genie in a bottle.  "If you rub the bottle three times in the name of Jesus, He will come out and grant your wishes".

Now kingdom people are definitely not religious.  Not at all.  Kingdom people are different.  They have a different mindset.  Kingdom people understand how authority works.  They realize that their faith in the King's Word is their greatest asset.  Keep in mind, they have an ongoing, daily relationship with the king.  Not just when they may want something or when they are in a crisis.  They hold the keys to overcoming every crisis that God allows to test them.

My responsibility as a kingdom teacher, is to show you the keys of the kingdom and to help you learn to use them.  Remember, God's commandments and principles will never change.  Here is what God the Creator stated to Moses to share with His people:    Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!  You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.  And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.  You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.  The King's Words will transform one's life, if you only submit your will for His.

Deuteronomy 6:4-7
~~W.R. Luchie

A Great Humbling

Recently, those were the words God put on my heart.   Hmm?  Not a popular "word" for sure!  No "likes" or high-fives on that one.  But the two words that are standing out for 2015 are "humbling" and "obedience".  God was showing me that before the next Great Awakening--before the next great revival can sweep our country--His church must humble themselves.  Now is the opportunity for us to examine ourselves and root out any pride that is within us and within our churches and ministries.  We don't point out other's pride, but our own.  Search our hearts and root it out.  If we don't, He will.  

Today, body cleanses are quite popular...colon cleanses, liver cleanses, kidney cleanses, etc.  What the church today needs is a spiritual cleanse.  Cleanses are uncomfortable, inconvenient and painful.  But once you are through it, you feel so much better.  The pain is worth the results.  

We, as citizens of the Kingdom of God, must root out all the pride and arrogance within us.  We must not seek a good show in the place of an encounter with God. We must stop feeding our spirit junk food and begin to take in the good nourishment of God's Word and intensely seeking His face in worship and prayer.  He wants you to grow and fulfill His purpose for your life, but without proper nourishment you will stay a malnourished, weak, carnal Christian.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.  Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.   If we don't humble ourselves, God will.  He is gracious and merciful and patient.  He gives us many opportunities to humble ourselves and obey His Word.  But we can all name examples of well-known people who became "famous" preaching God's Word who didn't humble themselves and, in time, God allowed them to BE humbled by their sin and pride.  Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time.

People are watching your life.  What you do, matters. You have a purpose to fulfill.  Let's get serious about rooting out pride and carnality in our lives.  Let's make humility and obedience our top priority in 2015.  Now THAT is a New Year's resolution!  

As God spoke these words to Solomon, He is speaking them to us today:

..if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place. For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

He who has an ear, let him hear, what the Spirit is saying to the church.

Proverbs 16:18-19  Galatians 6:7  I Peter 5:6  2 Chronicles 7:14-16
~~Arlene  Luchie

You Are Influencing Someone As You Live

Somewhere in your neighborhood, your presence has influenced someone to keep on doing what they are doing.  Whether it is positive or negative.  The way you live your life in public has helped shape someone else's life.  Keep in mind what the king stated:  You are the salt of the earth.  But if the salt loses its flavor how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.  The way you live  your life will influence someone who is viewing your lifestyle one way or another.  This world is just temporary.  Remember what our king stated in God's Constitution:  Heaven and earth will pass away, but My Words will by no means pass away.

Keep in mind, to large extent, leadership is influence, and all of us already exercise some influence, whether positive or negative, as I mentioned before.  If somebody else is watching you, you are a leader.  The moment you have a child of your own to raise, you are a leader.  When you know more about a particular subject than other individuals, and can teach it to them, then you are a leader.  When you are placed in a position of responsibility over your peers, you are a leader.  Keep in mind; leaders who exercise positive influence don't try to prove themselves to others.  They are more concerned with manifesting themselves, or revealing the purpose that they were born to fulfill.  When you inspire other individuals through your passion, you never have to announce that you are a leader.  People will think of you as a leader and will call you one themselves, because you will have motivated them to do something, to change the status quo, to create something new, to find a solution to a problem, etc.

Now keep in mind, the essence of influence is the ability to motivate others to take action and affect change.  By the way, that is the influence Dr. Munroe had on my life.  You can't influence if you fail to inspire, and you can't inspire if you do not have passion.  Do you see the domino effect?  You won't have passion unless you are convinced about your purpose, conviction and vision in this world.

Matthew 5:13    Mark 13:31
~~W.R. Luchie

The Age of the Powerless Church

Now what do I mean by the word church?  Well, I definitely am not speaking of the brick and mortar building.  The church of the living God, are those individuals who are filled with the Holy Spirit; not those who attend church every Sunday.  The Church are those individuals who are obedient to the Word of God. They are those who obey His Son, King Jesus, and act out His commands through their behavior on a  daily basis.   They are the ones that God gives His Holy Spirit.  It was made very plain in the early first century of the Church.  Peter stated it this way:  And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.

The Church in today's world system and society will never reach the place where they can have real power until they learn to obey King Jesus' commands in its essence.  There are so many in the church buildings who think they are in right- standing with God, but fail to obey His Word.  They obey what pleases them at the time, and disregard what they refuse to accept.  They live religious lives and refuse to embrace the Kingdom of God as Jesus the King taught and preached it.  We have more prophets, more apostles, but no real deliverance of the people of God.  When the Kingdom is present, the power of God is activated, because the Holy Spirit is there.  Not jumping and shouting only, but real deliverance.  And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them. Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

That is what happens when the Church of God, under the leadership of the Holy Spirit, is in one accord.  So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart...  Where is the one mindset among the Kingdom Citizens today?

Acts 5:32   Acts 5:14-16   Acts 2:46
~~W.R. Luchie

Knowing the Purpose When God Speaks

After grocery shopping in a crowded store, I stood at the checkout, trying to find the quickest line.  I pushed my cart in line behind a young lady.  Her little boy was with her and she had a very full cart.  Immediately I heard the Holy Spirit say "Pay for her groceries".  Now I looked more closely at her cart.  It was overflowing, but nothing was extravagant.  Generic foods, no alcohol or "extras".  She had a notebook and pencil.  This was  a woman who was being careful with what she spent.  I will admit, there was a debate going on in my mind.  "That's going to be way over $100"  "I can't afford that in my already strapped budget"  "Was that really God?"  "I am generous and  always want to help people out.  Maybe this is just ME thinking--my natural response".  The cashier quickly rang up the full cart. The young lady reached for her notebook and flipped through the pages.  Then  panic filled her face.  She patted her pockets, scanned the floor. "My card is missing!"  She left all of us standing in line as she retraced her steps throughout the store for her EBT (food stamp) card.  I told my husband what God had told me when I got in line.  Now he also had to come to an internal decision. "Don't void the sale",  he told the cashier.  We had both settled in our minds that she was not leaving the store without her groceries.  Just a few minutes after we had settled that in our minds, she came running back to the register with her EBT card!  

But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”  So he said, “Here I am.”  And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”  Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

What we learned that day is that sometimes God wants us to be His hands, sometimes He wants to teach us something, and sometimes He is testing us.  He will not promote you into a purpose without testing you first.  Yes, your gift will make room for you, but not until your character can withstand the testing and opposition you will face in that purpose.

Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.

God wants to know that whatever He asks, you will do.  It's not about the sacrifice, it is about knowing that you will obey.  Then you will be tested and ready to be promoted into something far greater! “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son—blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

Genesis 22:11-13   I Samuel 15:22b   Genesis 22:16-18
~~Arlene Luchie

Your Sense of Purpose on a Corporate Level

There is a place for everyone to manifest their personal leadership abilities.  There is also a standard that one must maintain in order to be effective in maintaining that leadership.  Your personal vision and purpose should always be in line with the corporate vision and purpose in order for it to be effective.  When King Jesus sent out His twelve disciples, they all had one corporate vision and purpose as well as one message.  .... “Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.  And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’  Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.  Provide neither gold nor silver nor copper in your money belts, nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; for a worker is worthy of his food".

When Jesus came from the wilderness, from being tempted and tried by Satan, His first and only message was:  “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”  He didn't teach on healing, He healed.  He didn't teach on financial blessing, He had access in the Kingdom.  He didn't preach on casting out demons or worrying or getting things or stuff.  He stated:  Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Your gifts and talents should always be in line with your Creator's purpose. If you are a builder, do it for humanity, because you are doing it for the King.  If you are a computer tech, be the best at it, because you are doing it for the King. Remember, a leader who is motivated by his purpose, conviction, vision and passion never uses or abuses other people or individuals.

Matthew 10:5-10    Matthew 4:17   Matthew 6:33
~~W.R. Luchie

A Leader's Purpose Will Give Inspiration

Every time I read and study God's Constitution it inspires me to keep writing and sharing His divine will for all mankind.  My purpose is to inspire other individuals to embrace His Kingdom concept through the reading and studying of His Word.  As a leader, his Word alone give me inspiration.

Now in the process of leadership development, inspiration is the point where the leader connects with other individuals; it is where his purpose intersects with their purpose.  Keep this in mind, a leader's passion for his purpose is like a flame igniting new possibilities in the  minds and hearts of other people causing them to think in new ways and by stirring up and  revealing the convictions and visions within them.  As you can see, it causes a domino effect.  In this way, a leader's vision gives meaning to other individual's lives as it invites corporate commitment to a noble cause.  Remember, people's personal vision will always be found within a larger corporate vision.

Before I go any further, allow me to share with you the meaning of the word "noble".  It is having or showing high moral qualities or ideals or greatness of character; lofty.  Having excellent qualities, superior.  I trust that you see where I am going with this?

I am a staunch believer in God and keeping His Word.  When you inspire other people by your passion for your purpose, you won't need to recruit them to help you or obtain their "vote of confidence", or wait for them to approve of you.  As you awaken their sense of purpose, they will voluntarily join you in order to fulfill their own contribution to the world through participating in your vision.  In God's Constitution, King Solomon wrote, "A man's gift makes room for him, and bring him before great men".   They will offer their time, energy, resources and creative power to be part of a larger purpose to which their vision is connected.  Do you understand how important it is to know your purpose on this planet called earth?  Remember, God is the Creator of the heavens and earth.

Proverbs 18:16
~~W.R. Luchie