self promotion = self destruction

Hello out there. I hope you are doing well today. I am still in this subject of manifesting the sons of God. I will take a different approach today. I was impressed by the Holy Ghost to talk about this subject today. This issue is in every church in America. Let me first say that I thank God for my Pastor, who speaks into my life as well as give correction when I need it. I am a better man today because of my pastor. I spent all day yesterday without any radio, music, cds' and really got in tuned with The Lord Jesus. He "CLEANED MY CLOCK", about the subject here.

Psalms 75:6 says that promotion comes not from the east,west,or south[ he left out the north?] but God is the judge. The verse b4 that says not to lift up your horn on high, and don't speak with a stiff neck. You do not promote yourself, it is The Lord Jesus that does it. Now I will go through a few scenarios and show how this is a creeping thing, it is not noticed by the person operating in it.

1. Have you ever thanked someone for doing something and they said this" TO GOD BE THE GLORY" or "ALL GLORY GOES TO HIM" or "GOD GETS THE GLORY"? I've seen it many times. the issue that the person being thanked is trying to put the glory on the the Lord, but in reality they bring the glory back on themselves by saying that. So the person who is thanking them, gets the impression of " boy they sure are humble". This is a deception. What they fail to realize is in Col 1:27, Christ in YOU, the hope of glory. His Glory is inside of you, and it is manifested through different works, He gets the glory by you doing what He told you to do. So when you are thanked for doing something, just say " you are welcome", and move on.

2. Musicians: I've been an organist,pianist, and bass player for about 30 years. I use to live to hear people say" boy you sure can whip that organ". I even had my cousin say to me" you make that organ speak in tongues"! When the music played at the church, I was always the loudest, the showboater, the star attraction. People all over the Winston-Salem area, heard of me. I got full of pride. I knew that I was anointed for music, but I let self promtion get in the way. I taught many people how to play, but I could see that the self promtion was also tranferred to them without me telling them. My prideful spirit tranferred to them. Musicians, I cannot stress this enough, the piano is the lead instrument, let the piano player lead. When you take off in another direction contrary to what is going on with the rest of the music, you are showboating, it is EVIL, stop it! I can remember playing the bass and somehow getting the rest of the musicians to follow me instead of the leader, it is EVIL. I've seen musicians play everything they know in one song and then do it again in another. You season the song with your style, DON'T POUR SALT ALL OVER THE MEAL, YOU DICE IT! I'm telling you this so you can check yourself. You have arrived when you no longer have anything to prove.

3. My wife recently attended a Joyce Meyer conference. She said that there was a woman behind her saying "AMEN"to everything that Joyce was saying, everything! You've met people who had to be the loudest talkers in the group, or the jokester. They are promoting themselves through any means possible, it is EVIL, STOP IT. Don't be the mouth of the group. Listen.

4.Don't release uneccessary knowledge, until it is asked of you. The problem with Joeseph was he told his brothers his dreams. God never told joeseph to tell his brother about his dreams. Joeseph could have bypassed the prison, if HE WOULD HAVE KEPT HIS MOUTH SHUT.
If you are a person who has alot of dreams, don't tell everyone you know about them. Have you
ever heard this " God told me this" and "God told me that, and that, and that, and this ,and that.
They must be close to God because He told them that, nawww it is an opportunity to promote yourself. If The Lord Jesus tells you anything, it will come to pass, and everybody will see it, you won't have to broadcast it. Mary had the opportunity to promote herself when the angel told her that she would have a son, named Jesus. Luke chapter 1:29 said that she cast in her mind what was going on, she didn't cast it in her mouth. The angel visited marys' husband Joseph and told him to take the young child and his mother and go to egypt[mat 2:14]. Joseph had the opportunity to self promote. He meditated on what the angel said, but didn't release it out of his mouth. What would have happened if Joeseph or Mary would have said" We have the son of God, and yall don't", " an angel talked to us, not yall ". Herod would have found them and killed Jesus. So self promotion can destroy your future. Let's visit the old testement and find a situation shall we?

II Chronicles 9: The queen of Shebe[ethiopia] came to see the Wisdom of Solomon. Read this chapter carefully, and don't miss this. There are places in this chapter where he is referred to as
"King Solomon", and then there are places in this chapter where he his referred to as "Solomon".
Same man, different roles. When he is referred to as "King Solomon" it means he is acting like a king[ thats good]. When he is referred to as"Solomon", thats not so good, he is acting like a man, and not a king. So here is this queen that is in awe of all that Soloman is and his wisdom, that came from God, his riches and wealth, servants ministers etc. In verse 2, Solomon answered all of her questions, not King Solomon, just Solomon. He is releasing wisdom uneccessarily, to impress that queen[ self promotion]. right at the end of that chapter, He dies and now rehoboam, his son reign in his stead. Nowhere in the chapter does it talk about Rehoboam? why? Could it be that Solomon is so busy impressing people that he forgot to train up his son to take the throne, Like David did for Him?

Two things in what I just said

1. 2chron 9:31 Rehoboam, his son: it is President Barak Obama, It is not Barak Obama, president. when the title[son] goes behind the name, it speaks of disagreement. When the title[son] goes before the name, it speaks of agreement. My wife is named Anne, so she is"my wife Anne", she is not "Anne my wife"!

2.When it says that Rehoboam reigned in his stead, it means that Rehobaom got the kingdom and the throne, by defualt. Solomon did not train up his child in the way he should go, and as a result, when you get to chapter 10, he is fighting for a position that he could have obatined, had he been trained. If you are fighting for a position in the local church body, it is not yours, stop it! I remember fighting for position of Minister of music at a church once. I said that Iwas the min. of music, but the pastor never gave me that title.

David trained up Solomon and then submitted himself under Solomons hand. So Soloman was king over David while David was still alive.[1Kings 1:34]. It is evil for a person not to train up someone to eventually take that persons place. I've heard of preachers who preached right up until they died,but didn't train up a replacement, so now the church has to hire someone from the outside to come in, instead of training someone from inhouse. I always made sure that I duplicated myself in other musicians so If I were to leave, they could take over. People don't train up a replacement because they are still holding on to that title, that office, that feeling of control. It is self promotion at it's most subtil level. "can't nobody do it better than ME". I hope and pray that any one reading this blog will share it with others. We must get this spirit out of our churches, or our next generation will be doomed. Take care for now