{"id":16016,"date":"2017-03-13T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/?p=16016"},"modified":"2021-10-13T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T17:31:06","slug":"dead-beat-christians-having-the-form-but-not-the-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/dead-beat-christians-having-the-form-but-not-the-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Beat Christians – Having the Form, but Not the Power"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Don’t Be a DBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What do I mean by being a deadbeat Christian (DBC)?\u00a0 It is a person who claims to be a Christian, but has no power or evidence of God\u2019s life operating in them.\u00a0 They have the form, but no power.\u00a0 They are alive in body and soul, but lack the operation of God\u2019s life in them.<\/p>\n

Now some of these folks are actually born-again.\u00a0 However, they follow form and tradition that makes void the Word of God in their lives.\u00a0 They are what I call, unbelieving-believers.\u00a0 They are all talk, but no action.\u00a0 And when they do act, it\u2019s based on the natural and the possible, not the supernatural and the impossible. Alive, but dead, DBC\u2019s go through life aimless and purposeless.\u00a0 They live a routine life as predictable as the sunrise and sunset.\u00a0 There is no WOW happening in or with them. This is sad!<\/p>\n

I was a DBC.\u00a0 I loved God and served the Lord to the best of my ability.\u00a0 We had a pretty good Master-slave relationship.\u00a0 I never seemed to measure up to what I thought God was expecting of me.\u00a0 My days were filled with God-activity, but void of His presence and power.\u00a0 I was living based on my perception of God and not based upon a revelation of Him.<\/p>\n

Sure, I studied the Word, but it was based on ideas and my view of who I thought He was.\u00a0 I was expecting God to be a certain way.\u00a0 I placed Him in a box and expected Him to stay there!\u00a0 My view of the Word was natural.\u00a0 Truths clearly written in plain sight were hidden and veiled because my concepts kept me from seeing them.<\/p>\n

Take for example, tongues.\u00a0 An “unknown tongue” is a gift of the Spirit and available to EVERY believer.\u00a0 However, I was taught that that was a \u201cchildish gift\u201d and something to be avoided at all cost.\u00a0 It was mocked among those I grew up with spiritually.\u00a0 I never sought to speak in tongues and quite frankly was afraid of the whole idea.\u00a0 Now could a person with that attitude ever experience the gift to tongues?\u00a0 NO!<\/p>\n

As I begin really seeking the Lord beginning around 2007-2008, I was open to anything.\u00a0 My life was powerless and did not match what I was seeing in the Bible.\u00a0 I was mad and fed up.\u00a0 I watched Daystar and TBN all the time seeking for answers.\u00a0 As a result, I was introduced to some amazing ministries:\u00a0 Mike Murdock<\/a>, Kenneth Copeland,<\/a> Andrew Wommack<\/a>, Steve Gray, <\/a>Gary Keesee,<\/a> and a few others.\u00a0 However, these ministries had the most impact on my life.<\/p>\n

One thing I noticed.\u00a0 The tongue speakers had EVIDENCE of the miraculous happening in their lives.\u00a0 No one associated with me from 1973 to that point in my life demonstrated anything supernatural.\u00a0 The more I studied and exposed myself to the supernatural, the more I wanted its manifestation in my life.\u00a0 I was sick and tire of being a DBC.\u00a0 I wanted to have life and have it in abundance just as Jesus PROMISED!<\/p>\n

I heard about praying in the spirit.\u00a0 What is that I thought?\u00a0 Whatever it is, I wanted it!\u00a0 My pastor, Gary Keesee<\/a>, preached on it and His life demonstrated what I wanted in mine.\u00a0 This wonderful gift was in plain sight since I started reading the Bible in 1973, yet I never saw it or experienced its power.\u00a0 I was beginning to see that praying in the Spirit was a secret entry point into the supernatural. \u00a0DBC’s don\u2019t like the idea praying in tongues, but this deadbeat Christian wanted to live again and was willing to receive the gift.\u00a0 This gift was in me all the time.\u00a0 It was installed within my spirit by the Holy Spirit when I was born again.\u00a0 I just needed, by faith, to start using this gift.\u00a0 I am not sure of the exact date or time, but I began to practice praying in the spirit.\u00a0 In the beginning, it was like stammering lips as portrayed in Isaiah 28:11 and 33:19.<\/p>\n

Today, I am praying in the spirit more and more.\u00a0 I love it and satan (I won\u2019t glorify the creep with a capital letter) doesn\u2019t!\u00a0 I will tell you more about the experience some other time.\u00a0 The purpose of this writing is to address the deadbeat mentality in the church and to hopefully awaken a desire to be released from the living dead into a life of abundance.<\/p>\n

I have prayed for people and they were healed!\u00a0 As a deadbeat Christian I could not do that!\u00a0 I have increased my wealth to levels I never could have as a DBC.\u00a0 I have seen people fall out under the power of the Holy Spirit and I have as well.\u00a0 I have seen people I know healed of incurable diseases.\u00a0 I myself have been healed several times and live in divine health.\u00a0 How is all this possible?\u00a0 How did this all happen?<\/p>\n

It all started for me with hunger.\u00a0 Hunger for truth.\u00a0 Hunger for God Himself.\u00a0 As I sought God for more, He gave me more because He said that seekers find.\u00a0 Doors are open to knockers.\u00a0 Answers come to the sincere askers.\u00a0 God will do exactly what He said IF we trust His Word. \u00a0You have to be willing to leave your safe and comfortable zone to experience all that God has for you.<\/p>\n

Speaking of trust.\u00a0 As I sought the Lord, He had to deal with trust issues in me.\u00a0 I thought I trusted Him, but after several months of dialog with the Lord He showed me that I didn\u2019t trust Him.\u00a0 Once I confessed that I did not trust Him, life began for me.\u00a0 I began to live again.\u00a0 The Word was opened and revelation came.<\/p>\n

There is no secret that God does not want to reveal to us.\u00a0 There is no promise that He wants to withhold from us.\u00a0 The only blockage is how we perceive God and the wall we built to keep Him out\u2026walls of traditions and doctrines of men.\u00a0 Religion is a DBC creator.\u00a0 Religion binds people and blinds them from truth.\u00a0 Religion drains power and desire out of people.\u00a0 Religion holds people in bondage as slaves to its cause.\u00a0 Religion wears people out with good, but lifeless works.<\/p>\n

Are you tired?\u00a0 Have you had enough of being a DBC?\u00a0 Do you want to live again?\u00a0 Do you want God to show up in your life?\u00a0 Do you want to experience the power of the Holy Spirit surging through your veins?\u00a0 Do you want to be healed?\u00a0 Do you want to experience the power of creating wealth?\u00a0 Do you want to give life to others?\u00a0 Do you want to make a difference?\u00a0 Well, my friend, you can!<\/p>\n

I was a DBC and now I am living again and so can you.\u00a0 It all starts with asking, seeking and knocking.\u00a0 It starts with an open heart.\u00a0 It starts with questioning everything you have been taught and comparing it to the Word of God.\u00a0 It starts with trust.<\/p>\n

One thing I did was I bought a new Bible with NO NOTES or COMMENTARY.\u00a0 Like the Apostle Paul I \u201cwent away\u201d to get revelation from the Lord Himself.\u00a0 I read the Bible with new eyes and an open heart.\u00a0 I can tell you first hand, that God will show up when you desire Him. \u00a0The book of Hebrews says that God rewards those that seek Him\u2026and reward them He does.\u00a0 As I prayed over His Word, revelation came as a flash of light and impregnated by soul with the revelation of Himself.\u00a0 Today I am a different man.\u00a0 I have changed and am changing into the image of the One I have grown to trust with my life.<\/p>\n

God is no respecter of persons. What He did and is doing for me, He will do for you.\u00a0 The question is: \u201cIsn\u2019t it time to stop being a DBC and live again?\u201d<\/p>\n

I pray this article sparked a hunger in you for more of Him and has caused questions to arise in your hearts.\u00a0 For I know that seekers will be rewarded.\u00a0 God bless you on your new journey to walking among the living believing-believers who are changing the world by the power of God in them.<\/p>\n

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