Set Your Priorities by Gloria Copeland

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God is requiring that we get our priorities right. The

things of this world steal from us time and energy we

should be giving to the things of the spirit. You can get

so caught up in using your faith for the affairs of this

world that your desire will be for the things of the world

instead of for God.

 

Be cautious of the thorns of life. The Scripture says the

cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches and the

lusts of other things enter into the heart and choke the

Word until it cannot produce (Mark 4:18-19). People who

give their thoughts and energy to gratifying the flesh will

not walk in the power of God.

 

I’m not talking about sin. Obviously, we will not consistently

walk in the power of God with sin in our lives. But I am talking

about the attention and affection of our hearts being given

to this natural, physical world instead of to God. We are

either walking after the natural world or after the spiritual

world. Many have tried to have the best of both worlds.

 

You may have a little success that way, but you will not

experience the blessings and power of God to the degree

He desires for you. God requires more of us because we

have revelation knowledge of His Word. “For unto whomsoever

much is given, of him shall be much required” (Luke 12:48).

 

We are a generation to whom much has been given. God

has not trained us in His Word so we can consume it on

our own lusts, but to equip us to walk in the spirit while we

live in a natural, physical world. We have a job to do. He

has taught us to use our faith to harvest souls. We have to

learn to walk in the spirit to fulfill God’s plan for this hour.

 

A well-known preacher prophesied:

 

But as you walk with the Lord, as you prepare your heart,

as you feed upon His Word, as you listen to what the Spirit

of God says, your heart shall be prepared and your mind will

be changed until you will flow in the supernatural as naturally

as a bird will fly in the air. And you’ll flow in the supernatural

as naturally as a fish will swim in the water. And you’ll flow in

the supernatural as naturally as you will breathe the very air.

 

We will not even be conscious of using our faith, because it

will be so very natural and normal to walk in the spirit! But to

do this we must let go of our allegiance to this natural world.

It holds no security anyway. Jesus said, “For whosoever will

save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for

my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it” (Mark 8:35).

If we try to hold on to the natural things of this world instead

of serving God with our whole hearts, we will miss out on the

glorious things of the Spirit.

 

When Kenneth and I first heard about living by faith,

we were in desperate circumstances. We didn’t know

any better than to be sick and in debt. It was easy to

dedicate ourselves to the Word, because we had no

other answer. We couldn’t do anything else.

 

We were broke! But as we honored God’s Word, God

honored His Word and prospered us. We came to a

place where we were no longer desperate, but could

do financially, whatever we wanted to do.

 

It takes a lot more faithfulness to be totally dedicated

to God now that we are prosperous than it did when we

were broke. Today we serve Him, not out of desperation,

but because we love Him and are devoted to Him.

 

Just think about it. God has people in the earth who

know how to use their faith. We know how to put the

Word to work, and we’re going to serve Him. Now, God

has something to work with…faithfulness!

Gloria Copeland

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