TRUE PROMOTION
Bible says in Psalm 75:4-7
4 To the arrogant I say, 'Boast no more,'
and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up your horns.
5 Do not lift your horns against heaven;
do not speak with outstretched neck.' "
6 No one from the east or the west
or from the desert can exalt a man.
7 But it is God who judges:
He brings one down, he exalts another.
Our Lord is a promoter. He wants promote us in our spiritual life and even in this world. Before he promotes us he will see certain traits in our life.
Bible says Psalm 75:7 “God who judges”. He will judge three things in our life.
a) Our words
b) Our motives
c) Our Actions
After he done it he will exalt us based on these traits. The same God he is promoting, he is demoting also. There is no junction in between, either we will be promoted by God everyday in our life or else we will be demoted by God every day in our life based on these traits.
1) Covenant Relationship with God:-
Covenant Prayer God’s Blessing.
You should have covenant relationship with him for True promotion. If you are not making covenant with God and praying to God you are wasting lot of time. First make a covenant relationship with Jesus then pray to God then heaven will respond.
How to make a covenant relationship with God?
a) Continuous Prayer through Fasting (Pray in the Spirit)
b) Read/Meditate God's Word
c) Obey God’s word according to His time (not our time)
2) Spirit of Humility:-
Bible says in Proverbs 29:20 “A man's pride brings him low, but a man of lowly spirit gains honor”.
Bible says in Proverbs 3:34 “gives grace to the humble”
Bible says in 1 Peter 5:5, 6 "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time”.
How to develop the spirit of humility?
a) To accept God's estimation
b) To think always others and you special before God. When you don’t have the spirit of humility there are two wicked spirits (Spirit of Pride and Spirit of Devaluation) will work in our life and that bring our life down. In between there is a spirit (Spirit of Humility) that only God is looking in our life. It doesn’t have pride (over estimation about yourself above God’s word) and devaluation (under estimation about yourself what God is estimated)
• Positive Proud: Boast only Jesus Christ. It is good to have positive proud, that is glorifying
Only Jesus Christ in your conversation or in your testimony.
• Negative Proud: It manifest in 2 ways.
1) Over estimation about yourself what God estimated (Negative Pride)
2) Under estimation about yourself (that is insecure) what God estimated (Spirit of
devaluation)
c) To live a selfless life (Christ centered life) - Don't keep it anything for yourself. Don’t live for yourself and not think about others.
3) Clean Heart/Sincere Heart:-
How to get the clean Heart?
Good Motives (Reason behind what you are doing) --> Good Conscious --> Clean Heart
When you have good motives you will have good conscious, when you have a good conscious you will have clean heart.
Always act and react based on your conscious in each task that is given by God. Even though if you don’t hear the voice of Holy Spirit at least acts and react based on your conscious so that you can see God’s direction in your life. Many of them they act properly initially once you entered the particular task if they don’t like it they will react wrongly end up with problem.
So always act and react based on your conscious or guidance of the Holy Spirit in each given task or opportunity in your life.
Bible says in Matthew 5:8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God”.
When you have clean heart you will see God. Amen! You will really see God in your family, in your job and everywhere.
4) Clean Hands:-
Bible says in Job 17:9 “those with clean hands will grow stronger”
Why many Christians are so weak?
Because their hands are not clean. That’s why during prayer intercession when they life up their hands towards God, Father God turned back because their hands are full of blood, not clean. Even sometimes our mouths are full of blood because we destroyed some man of God or woman of God talked wrongly through our tongue that’s why some time God doesn’t want to listen our prayer. So always make sure that our hands are clean before God that leads to true promotion.
5) Faithfulness:-
The one who manages the property of another person is called Steward. Similarly, we all are Stewards in the kingdom of God.
There are 7 important things God have given to us (Steward) to manage:
1) Life --> Our Life belongs to God; he has given to us to manage properly for his glory.
2) Body --> Our body has been given by God to us to manage properly for his glory. It is the temple of the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:19, 20)
3) Children -->They are not ours. They are the gift from God. So we have to train them properly for his glory. Bible says “Train the Children in the way”. Jesus is the way, truth and life. There is only one way to train up our child that is Godly way.
4) Time --> we don't own time. Time has been given to us to manage properly for his glory
5) Gifts and Talents --> It is Gods property, it has been given to us to manage properly for his purpose.
6) Ministry GOD has given each one us ministry to manage properly for his glory. Do it faithfully and diligently.
7) Environment --> They are not ours. We have to take care of the environment and manage it properly for his glory. If we are stewards, we should be faithful.
These are the three characteristics of faithful steward:
1) Faithful steward must be true to his words, promise and vows
2) Faithful steward must do his work according to God’s requirement or his standards.
(1 Corinthians 4:1, 2) He must do his work accurately and excellently.
3) He must be loyal (A reason for a person exist that is called Loyalty), constant and reliable.
The difference between Faithful steward and unfaithful steward is both of them accepts the responsibility from God through man of God and understand the responsibility but faithful steward does his work according to HIS (God) time (refer Matthew 24:45-51 --> "Feed the household at the proper time") but unfaithful steward does not do HIS work according to HIS (God's) timing, but somehow he is finishing his work, but he is always doing the work according to his time (not God’s time).
Our Lord Jesus Christ will check faithfulness in the following three areas.
Bible says in (Luke 16:10-13)
"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else's property, who will give you property of your own? "No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." (Luke 16:10-13)
1) Faithfulness for little things
2) Faithfulness for temporary (money) things
- Many Christian they are not receiving true riches from God because they are not faithful to temporary things (money).
3) Faithfulness for other goods.
6) Merciful Heart
Bible says in Matthew 5:7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy”.
- Do something to others which they do not deserve. God is expecting such kind of heart in our life,
Such people are always promoted.
7) Spirit of Excellence
Whatever task God has given to your hand, always finishes it excellently.
8) Teachable spirit
Whatever you received from one source pass it to others.Amen.Never keep it for yourself.
Bible says “Freely you received and freely give”.
9) Generous soul / Giver:
Bible says in Proverbs 11:25
“A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed”.
10) Attitude of Gratitude/Thankful/Grateful towards God and Man/Woman
Bible says in Romans 8:28
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,[j] who[k] have been called according to his purpose”.
Appreciate whatever Lord has done in your life. God will never promote person who is always complaining, grumbling, murmuring, envy, pride and jealousy (In ward appearance) all the time, that is ingratitude. Always be thankful and grateful to God and his creation. Many times we are thankful and grateful to God but not his creation (Man/Woman).The way we treat any man or woman that will reflect the creator (God).That’s why we should love everbody.Never reject them because they are God’s creation.
11) Faith
Hope always expects, so that Faith works. That’s why faith without work is dead.
12) Hope (Positive Expectation for better tomorrow)
Today many Christians are living in sin and doing anything they want because they don’t have hope. They forgot the coming of the Lord. They don’t have a positive expectation, always have negative picture about their life and future. You will not have faith without hope.
13) Don't give up Spirit (Endurance/Perseverance)
Suffering Perseverance Character Hope
Suffering produces perseverance, perseverance produces character, character produces hope but
that hope (in Lord) doesn’t disappoint you. (Romans 5:5)
14) Wisdom / Spirit of understanding
Bible says in Colossians 2:3 “In whom all the hidden treasure of wisdom and knowledge”
Bible says in Isaiah 11:2 “the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding”
You will not get wisdom without knowledge. Bible says in 2 Timothy 1:7 “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (fear), but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline (sound mind).”.
You will not get wisdom of GOD or good sound mind unless you walk in Love. If you walk in Love you walk with GOD, because God is Love (1 John 4:8).But we will not get God’s love until we filled by God’s power or anointing.
First God’s Power God’s love Good sound mind (wisdom) (Refer 2 Timothy 1:7)
But world says you will get power when you have knowledge. That’s the way today the devil is deceiving the churches. When you have Knowledge you will have power, then you will have everything.
First Knowledge finally end up with Power (World says)
No!!Knowledge should not be in the first scale. According to word of God, first God’s power, then God’s love and finally end up with sound mind.
Until we receive God’s anointing we can’t receive God’s love (Romans 5:5), once you receive God’s anointing through the Holy Spirit and then you can walk in Love. Once you walk in Love, then wisdom will flow in your life.
So people who walk in Love (Love of God) they will never lack in wisdom.
15) Knowledge / Fear of God.
Bible says in Isaiah 11:2 “the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD”
16) Sacrifice
Bible says (Psalm 50:4) “Gather to me my consecrated ones (Selected one, chosen one), who made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
Our Lord Jesus Christ has done a great sacrifice for us (He died on the Cross for us), but to the fulfill his plan (our relatives, friends, colleagues to be saved) on this earth we have to do little sacrifice. We have to spend so many hours in his presence to know his perfect plan and to do accordingly.
From our side we need to put little sacrifice (Prayer with fasting, spending time with God) and to fulfill his plan in our life.
Bible says in Psalm 75:4-7
4 To the arrogant I say, 'Boast no more,'
and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up your horns.
5 Do not lift your horns against heaven;
do not speak with outstretched neck.' "
6 No one from the east or the west
or from the desert can exalt a man.
7 But it is God who judges:
He brings one down, he exalts another.
Our Lord is a promoter. He wants promote us in our spiritual life and even in this world. Before he promotes us he will see certain traits in our life.
Bible says Psalm 75:7 “God who judges”. He will judge three things in our life.
a) Our words
b) Our motives
c) Our Actions
After he done it he will exalt us based on these traits. The same God he is promoting, he is demoting also. There is no junction in between, either we will be promoted by God everyday in our life or else we will be demoted by God every day in our life based on these traits.
1) Covenant Relationship with God:-
Covenant Prayer God’s Blessing.
You should have covenant relationship with him for True promotion. If you are not making covenant with God and praying to God you are wasting lot of time. First make a covenant relationship with Jesus then pray to God then heaven will respond.
How to make a covenant relationship with God?
a) Continuous Prayer through Fasting (Pray in the Spirit)
b) Read/Meditate God's Word
c) Obey God’s word according to His time (not our time)
2) Spirit of Humility:-
Bible says in Proverbs 29:20 “A man's pride brings him low, but a man of lowly spirit gains honor”.
Bible says in Proverbs 3:34 “gives grace to the humble”
Bible says in 1 Peter 5:5, 6 "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time”.
How to develop the spirit of humility?
a) To accept God's estimation
b) To think always others and you special before God. When you don’t have the spirit of humility there are two wicked spirits (Spirit of Pride and Spirit of Devaluation) will work in our life and that bring our life down. In between there is a spirit (Spirit of Humility) that only God is looking in our life. It doesn’t have pride (over estimation about yourself above God’s word) and devaluation (under estimation about yourself what God is estimated)
• Positive Proud: Boast only Jesus Christ. It is good to have positive proud, that is glorifying
Only Jesus Christ in your conversation or in your testimony.
• Negative Proud: It manifest in 2 ways.
1) Over estimation about yourself what God estimated (Negative Pride)
2) Under estimation about yourself (that is insecure) what God estimated (Spirit of
devaluation)
c) To live a selfless life (Christ centered life) - Don't keep it anything for yourself. Don’t live for yourself and not think about others.
3) Clean Heart/Sincere Heart:-
How to get the clean Heart?
Good Motives (Reason behind what you are doing) --> Good Conscious --> Clean Heart
When you have good motives you will have good conscious, when you have a good conscious you will have clean heart.
Always act and react based on your conscious in each task that is given by God. Even though if you don’t hear the voice of Holy Spirit at least acts and react based on your conscious so that you can see God’s direction in your life. Many of them they act properly initially once you entered the particular task if they don’t like it they will react wrongly end up with problem.
So always act and react based on your conscious or guidance of the Holy Spirit in each given task or opportunity in your life.
Bible says in Matthew 5:8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God”.
When you have clean heart you will see God. Amen! You will really see God in your family, in your job and everywhere.
4) Clean Hands:-
Bible says in Job 17:9 “those with clean hands will grow stronger”
Why many Christians are so weak?
Because their hands are not clean. That’s why during prayer intercession when they life up their hands towards God, Father God turned back because their hands are full of blood, not clean. Even sometimes our mouths are full of blood because we destroyed some man of God or woman of God talked wrongly through our tongue that’s why some time God doesn’t want to listen our prayer. So always make sure that our hands are clean before God that leads to true promotion.
5) Faithfulness:-
The one who manages the property of another person is called Steward. Similarly, we all are Stewards in the kingdom of God.
There are 7 important things God have given to us (Steward) to manage:
1) Life --> Our Life belongs to God; he has given to us to manage properly for his glory.
2) Body --> Our body has been given by God to us to manage properly for his glory. It is the temple of the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:19, 20)
3) Children -->They are not ours. They are the gift from God. So we have to train them properly for his glory. Bible says “Train the Children in the way”. Jesus is the way, truth and life. There is only one way to train up our child that is Godly way.
4) Time --> we don't own time. Time has been given to us to manage properly for his glory
5) Gifts and Talents --> It is Gods property, it has been given to us to manage properly for his purpose.
6) Ministry GOD has given each one us ministry to manage properly for his glory. Do it faithfully and diligently.
7) Environment --> They are not ours. We have to take care of the environment and manage it properly for his glory. If we are stewards, we should be faithful.
These are the three characteristics of faithful steward:
1) Faithful steward must be true to his words, promise and vows
2) Faithful steward must do his work according to God’s requirement or his standards.
(1 Corinthians 4:1, 2) He must do his work accurately and excellently.
3) He must be loyal (A reason for a person exist that is called Loyalty), constant and reliable.
The difference between Faithful steward and unfaithful steward is both of them accepts the responsibility from God through man of God and understand the responsibility but faithful steward does his work according to HIS (God) time (refer Matthew 24:45-51 --> "Feed the household at the proper time") but unfaithful steward does not do HIS work according to HIS (God's) timing, but somehow he is finishing his work, but he is always doing the work according to his time (not God’s time).
Our Lord Jesus Christ will check faithfulness in the following three areas.
Bible says in (Luke 16:10-13)
"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else's property, who will give you property of your own? "No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." (Luke 16:10-13)
1) Faithfulness for little things
2) Faithfulness for temporary (money) things
- Many Christian they are not receiving true riches from God because they are not faithful to temporary things (money).
3) Faithfulness for other goods.
6) Merciful Heart
Bible says in Matthew 5:7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy”.
- Do something to others which they do not deserve. God is expecting such kind of heart in our life,
Such people are always promoted.
7) Spirit of Excellence
Whatever task God has given to your hand, always finishes it excellently.
8) Teachable spirit
Whatever you received from one source pass it to others.Amen.Never keep it for yourself.
Bible says “Freely you received and freely give”.
9) Generous soul / Giver:
Bible says in Proverbs 11:25
“A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed”.
10) Attitude of Gratitude/Thankful/Grateful towards God and Man/Woman
Bible says in Romans 8:28
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,[j] who[k] have been called according to his purpose”.
Appreciate whatever Lord has done in your life. God will never promote person who is always complaining, grumbling, murmuring, envy, pride and jealousy (In ward appearance) all the time, that is ingratitude. Always be thankful and grateful to God and his creation. Many times we are thankful and grateful to God but not his creation (Man/Woman).The way we treat any man or woman that will reflect the creator (God).That’s why we should love everbody.Never reject them because they are God’s creation.
11) Faith
Hope always expects, so that Faith works. That’s why faith without work is dead.
12) Hope (Positive Expectation for better tomorrow)
Today many Christians are living in sin and doing anything they want because they don’t have hope. They forgot the coming of the Lord. They don’t have a positive expectation, always have negative picture about their life and future. You will not have faith without hope.
13) Don't give up Spirit (Endurance/Perseverance)
Suffering Perseverance Character Hope
Suffering produces perseverance, perseverance produces character, character produces hope but
that hope (in Lord) doesn’t disappoint you. (Romans 5:5)
14) Wisdom / Spirit of understanding
Bible says in Colossians 2:3 “In whom all the hidden treasure of wisdom and knowledge”
Bible says in Isaiah 11:2 “the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding”
You will not get wisdom without knowledge. Bible says in 2 Timothy 1:7 “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (fear), but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline (sound mind).”.
You will not get wisdom of GOD or good sound mind unless you walk in Love. If you walk in Love you walk with GOD, because God is Love (1 John 4:8).But we will not get God’s love until we filled by God’s power or anointing.
First God’s Power God’s love Good sound mind (wisdom) (Refer 2 Timothy 1:7)
But world says you will get power when you have knowledge. That’s the way today the devil is deceiving the churches. When you have Knowledge you will have power, then you will have everything.
First Knowledge finally end up with Power (World says)
No!!Knowledge should not be in the first scale. According to word of God, first God’s power, then God’s love and finally end up with sound mind.
Until we receive God’s anointing we can’t receive God’s love (Romans 5:5), once you receive God’s anointing through the Holy Spirit and then you can walk in Love. Once you walk in Love, then wisdom will flow in your life.
So people who walk in Love (Love of God) they will never lack in wisdom.
15) Knowledge / Fear of God.
Bible says in Isaiah 11:2 “the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD”
16) Sacrifice
Bible says (Psalm 50:4) “Gather to me my consecrated ones (Selected one, chosen one), who made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
Our Lord Jesus Christ has done a great sacrifice for us (He died on the Cross for us), but to the fulfill his plan (our relatives, friends, colleagues to be saved) on this earth we have to do little sacrifice. We have to spend so many hours in his presence to know his perfect plan and to do accordingly.
From our side we need to put little sacrifice (Prayer with fasting, spending time with God) and to fulfill his plan in our life.
