5 Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth (Matthew 5:5)
Every ministry has a purpose or a set of purposes that The Lord brings people together to accomplish through their relationship and the combination of gifts and talents of that group of people.
One New Man Ministry has been a place of healing since its inception. Randi Lechner at one of our prophetic conferences declared the name: One New Man: A Healing Place.
Over the years, we have utilized “healing technologies”physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually to be a venue for healing. These include, my practice, FFI courses, the School of the Spirit, Fire and Glory soaking, prophetic impartations and a healing of our spiritual genetics through the restoration of authentic Hebraic Roots.
Healing occurs against a background of honor. We gravitate towards honor. The scriptures state that when we honor and are honored, we are in a culture of blessing and healing.
16‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may be well with you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you. (Deuteronomy 5:16 (NKJV))
Certainly, we would agree that long days, a state of well-being and an inheritance in the Land which the Lord has for us is indeed healing and restoration. We can also see the connection to honor. Honor is recognition of correct and proper alignment.
It should be obvious to honor our father and mother. Yet, because rebellion is bound up in our heart, we have to be instructed to align ourselves correctly.
15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
The rod of discipline will remove it far from him. (Proverbs 22:15 (NASB))
Discipline removes the foolishness of our rebellious nature.
Discipline is the application of meekness.
Meekness is the constraint of power to the task at hand. The mother lion has the power to destroy her cubs, but she constrains herself out of love and picks them up gently.
The Israeli army has the power to obliterate Gaza and Hamas. But because they recognize that to do so, is to use power without meekness, without honoring that there are people in Gaza who are pawns of the regime, the army drops pamphlets and makes phone calls to warn residents of their impending attacks.
Meekness is discipline. Another word for meekness is diligence.
4Poor is he who works with a negligent hand,
But the hand of the diligent makes rich. (Proverbs 10:4 (NASB))
Diligence is the way we describe a disciplined person. They do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done. This is meekness and true humility. Humility is not just the apology but also includes doing what needed to be done.
Now, when we see that meekness is really discipline then we can begin to understand how it is necessary to our inheritance. We cannot operate in dishonor and walk in our destiny.
What do we need to honor? Well first and foremost the Lord. But, what does it mean to honor the Lord?? Well the Hebrew word for honor is Kavod, which means weightiness. When we honor the Lord, we give the greatest weight to His Word, His instruction set.
Well we know His general instruction set. But generalities do not produce specific results. We need specifics. This involves work on our part. We need to know His specific will in our lives. This begins with recognizing the real problem is not even His will but our own.
You see we are automatically wired for our own will. It is why we resist doing what we know we need to do. There is an inherent stubbornness; an iniquity in our being that sabotages our accomplishing what God has in store for us.
This takes the form of worry. Worry is from the kingdom of mammon, which is biblical code word for self will.
24“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
25“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26“Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27“Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29“and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30“Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32“For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. (Matthew 6:24-34 (NKJV))
What we don’t immediately realize is that worry and mammon are the same kingdom. Worry is the result of serving mammon. Mammon is serving myself. The problem is that at the root of that is the idea of self-worship. I want to be god. Or put another way, I want to live with illusion that I am in control of my life. This is mammon. The solution is to seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. When we do that, then Yeshua promises us that we will have life, food, clothing, etc…
It isn’t the life, food and clothing that are the problem, but the worry. Worry is anti-meekness. Meekness is the disciplined use of power and available resources to accomplish our destiny, our inheritance. Worry is the mental activity of avoiding the disciplined work living in fantasy of an illusionary world that is rooted in unreality.
Worry requires chaos. Meekness requires order. Worry lives in the darkness of what if’s, Meekness lives in the light of accountability and disciplined focus and action. Worry-Mammon says to itself, I’ll get to it someday and then carries those half-promises in the mind dissipating all creative energy and replacing it with fantasies, Meekness, organizes and seeks out kingdom truth, honoring authorizes in areas of weakness and walks into a concrete inheritance.
Church has done a very poor job of practically imparting Biblical truth. Meekness has been replaced by shame-based false humility instead of being heralded as a disciplined programmed systematic progression towards an inheritance.
Meekness requires a system. It actually describes a system. The mind cannot operate well left to its own imaginations. This is chaos. We never think of what we need to be thinking of when we need to be thinking of it. Instead we think and act on what is in our thoughts and imaginations. This is mammon, doing what is right in our own eyes, and it produces worry, stress, sickness and chaos. It produces death to our destiny.
It is time to become teachable. It is time to pursue destiny. We are a house of Destiny. We are building a Destiny House, which will come to pass through disciplined planned action by meek people. Are you one of them????
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