February 18, 2023 • 13 mins
There will be times when you're forced to disappoint people because you don't have time to fulfill every obligation set before you. Family, life, and the abundance of the call to ministry require balance, and sometimes there aren't enough hours in the day to fulfill it all. To avoid becoming overwhelmed in ministry, you must disappoint people by telling them no. If you give a yes when no is necessary, you end up people-pleasing, and God's anointing is not on that type of behavior.
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Culture Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary. (n.d.). https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/Culture
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(00:10):
Welcome to the barber cat.
I am your host,
Naomi K thank you for listening but as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel even so we speak not as pleasing men,
but God which triumph our hearts,
the fear of man bringeth a snare but who also put his trust in the Lord shall be safe.
(00:36):
I start my mornings with prayer and devotion.
Sometimes my prayers are long and sometimes they are quick and to the point the duration of my prayer is influenced by what's in my heart,
what I need to lay down at the altar of the Lord or what the Lord has placed on my heart as intercession for others.
Whatever the need is,
I go before the throne of grace and I press God for an answer and deliverance after prayer,
(01:03):
I immediately go into devotion and study of the holy scriptures.
I mentioned in an earlier podcast that I believe devotions are helpful because they entice the believer to perform a deeper dive into the word of God to learn more about the Lord and his promises for man.
The devotional I'm studying right now is doing just that.
(01:25):
A few days ago,
the devotional talked about how to avoid people pleasing when you are a leader in the body of christ and although the focus of the devotion leaned toward managing time,
the Minister who wrote the devotional dropped some nuggets I believe are relevant to the moment we are living in right now.
(01:46):
Let me say this first.
Everything about the gospel is relevant but this topic came up at a very critical moment that the body of christ is in right now.
The Minister starts by explaining how there will be times when you're forced to disappoint people because you don't have time to fulfill every obligation set before you.
(02:07):
Family life and the abundance of the call to ministry require balance and sometimes there aren't enough hours in the day to fulfill it all.
To avoid becoming overwhelmed in ministry,
you must disappoint people by telling them no and if you give a yes,
when no is necessary,
you end up people pleasing and God's anointing is not on that type of behavior.
(02:32):
Now,
the Minister offers some supporting scriptures to drive the point home.
However,
as I was reading those scriptures,
the Lord ministered something else to me First Thessalonians 2 4 says.
But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel even so we speak not as pleasing men,
(02:53):
but God,
which triumph our hearts.
The amplified version says it this way,
but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel.
That tells the good news of salvation through faith in christ,
so we speak,
not as if we were trying to please people to gain power and popularity,
(03:17):
but to please God who examines our Hearts expecting our best Proverbs 29 25 says the fear of man.
Bringeth a snare but who so put his trust in the Lord shall be safe.
God's word is popular but his word isn't always accepted or believed.
(03:41):
I shared a post out on social media recently and the post says we've simplified God so much that some of us have convinced ourselves,
he no longer performs miracles.
However,
he's still a miracle worker psalms 1 47 5 says great is our Lord and of great power.
(04:03):
His understanding is infinite.
Verse four says he counts the number of the stars.
He calls them all by their name.
Whenever the Lord shares something like this with me,
I always seek him for a why I know the immediate answer is because I needed to hear it,
but the holy spirit compelled me to share it.
(04:25):
So I wanted to know why here's the answer I received.
Some of us in the body of believers have mixed christ like living with culture and the two have nothing to do with each other.
I hear members of the body of christ saying let's do this or let's support this for the culture.
(04:45):
I've said those words as well,
but God corrected me and delivered me from that type of thinking,
here's why the ideology of culture is in direct opposition to living a christ centered life.
And if we say we're supporting culture because of the color of our skin.
We also need to know that culture doesn't have anything to do with the race.
(05:07):
Culture has nothing to do with the brown nous of your skin or the whiteness for that matter?
Culture is defined as a collective of any type of belief,
custom or artistic expression of a group,
society,
place or even a moment in time.
(05:29):
That means the idea and the central focus of a culture can vary at any given moment or time.
There isn't a leader in any culture because its premise is similar to group think and group think is forcing harmony within any group via irrational means.
Also there isn't an in goal in culture other than celebrating the current idea within the culture.
(05:56):
Sinners accept the gift of salvation not to become a part of a culture but to become a part of a family.
God's family romans 8 16 through 17 says the spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are Children of God and if Children then heirs heirs of God and joint heirs with christ.
(06:22):
If so be that we suffer with him,
that we may be also glorified together.
New converts learn that after they receive the gift of salvation,
they must live out the gospel of the cross through studying and adhering to God's promise is the word of God,
christ is the head of the family or the patriarch.
(06:45):
He ordains leaders.
The fivefold ministry apostles,
prophets,
pastors,
teachers and evangelists to teach exhort and council as a means of spiritual and moral guidance.
The end goal of salvation is to live eternally with the father in heaven.
(07:07):
Now how do all of these scriptures fit into all of this?
There's this belief floating around that God is too big to express all of who he is at once to a sinful nation,
christians or christ like people can't talk about the God who chastises or the God whose word corrects sinful behavior were limited to speaking on scriptures about God's love,
(07:32):
know this God chases those whom he loves.
That means God rebukes your ungodly behavior.
He disciplines you,
meaning he repositions your life back into alignment with his word.
Then he humbles you so he can call you his child.
(07:53):
God's love is the knowledge of who he is.
That means you can't know God's love without knowing his principles for christ like living.
You can't know God's love and still desire to practice ungodly behavior and you can't know God's love and desire to love something or someone else greater than him.
(08:18):
The enemy's goal in this hour is to box God's leaders into a culture mindset.
He wants to limit the leaders delivery of who God is to what the culture wants to hear and see.
That's people pleasing or diluting the gospel with culture rich language that satisfies people's emotions so that they receive God the way they want him instead of how God wants to be represented through his word.
(08:47):
Listen,
the Lord is too great and he is too majestic for leaders in this hour to cower to culture by taking this great big God and boxing him into a file cabinet and then handing out little file folders of his love when the culture feels like they need it.
(09:07):
There are too many examples in the word of God,
where men and women gave their lives to the Lord.
After one meeting with jesus or one encounter with God's Word.
In the Book of the Acts of the apostles,
chapter eight talks about how an Ethiopian eunuch of great authority had an encounter with God's word and God's apostle Philip.
(09:31):
The bible says that God sent an angel to tell Philip to leave Jerusalem and get down to the desert,
which is Gaza Philip obeyed.
At the same time Philip obeyed God's request to leave Jerusalem.
The Ethiopian eunuch was leaving Jerusalem as well.
The bible says that the Ethiopian eunuch was sitting in his chariot,
(09:53):
reading from the book of Isaiah.
He was reading Isaiah's prophecy about jesus,
the savior,
who would become the lamb slain for our sins.
The Holy Spirit instructed Philip to approach the chariot and acts the Ethiopian eunuch.
If he understood what he was reading the eunuch answered by asking how could I understand unless someone teaches me?
(10:20):
He then invites Philip into the chariot to teach him and give him a deeper understanding of the prophecy.
While this exchange is happening,
the chariot is moving the entire time as Philip teaches what the prophecy means.
The chariot comes to a body of water.
(10:42):
The eunuch says to Philip.
You see this water.
What would hinder me from being baptized,
Philip says nothing except you believe in your heart that jesus is the son of God.
The Ethiopian Eunuch said,
I believe that jesus christ is the son of God.
He then commanded the chariot to stand still Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him.
(11:10):
The Ethiopian eunuch was a man of great influence.
So Philip approaching him was a big deal in today's society.
The eunuch would be somewhat of a celebrity,
someone of notoriety and if he had a social media account,
he would probably have a verified blue check.
It's also important to understand what's happening in the background.
(11:32):
During this exchange with Philip and the eunuch ministering the gospel of jesus christ wasn't culturally accepted as a matter of fact,
just two chapters back in Acts chapter six,
we witnessed the stoning of Stephen for standing up for his faith.
Fast forward to today and the saints are facing almost the same cultural roadblock to ministering the gospel of jesus christ pastors can't freely minister to their flocks as they need to without being censored on social media,
(12:06):
cultural bandits hideout in the pews of churches recording leaders and then weaponizing the messages God has given them to share with the world against them.
This behavior is known as cancel culture and it's trying to suffocate prophecy and the spreading of the good news.
What's more unfortunate is that some of the leaders that God has raised up and put an influential positions are cowering to the culture because they fear losing influence and affluence.
(12:38):
But the devil is a liar.
God is too big and too great to hide him for the fear of culture.
I once heard a pastor saying that salvation is free,
but the gospel will cost you everything.
Hear me?
Don't allow the fear of how people will receive the word.
(12:59):
God has given you to become a snare in your own life.
The bible says that God provides a safe place in him for those who share the good news.
Thank you for listening.
Welcome to the barber cat.
I am your host,
Naomi K thank you for listening but as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel even so we speak not as pleasing men,
but God which triumph our hearts,
the fear of man bringeth a snare but who also put his trust in the Lord shall be safe.
(00:36):
I start my mornings with prayer and devotion.
Sometimes my prayers are long and sometimes they are quick and to the point the duration of my prayer is influenced by what's in my heart,
what I need to lay down at the altar of the Lord or what the Lord has placed on my heart as intercession for others.
Whatever the need is,
I go before the throne of grace and I press God for an answer and deliverance after prayer,
(01:03):
I immediately go into devotion and study of the holy scriptures.
I mentioned in an earlier podcast that I believe devotions are helpful because they entice the believer to perform a deeper dive into the word of God to learn more about the Lord and his promises for man.
The devotional I'm studying right now is doing just that.
(01:25):
A few days ago,
the devotional talked about how to avoid people pleasing when you are a leader in the body of christ and although the focus of the devotion leaned toward managing time,
the Minister who wrote the devotional dropped some nuggets I believe are relevant to the moment we are living in right now.
(01:46):
Let me say this first.
Everything about the gospel is relevant but this topic came up at a very critical moment that the body of christ is in right now.
The Minister starts by explaining how there will be times when you're forced to disappoint people because you don't have time to fulfill every obligation set before you.
(02:07):
Family life and the abundance of the call to ministry require balance and sometimes there aren't enough hours in the day to fulfill it all.
To avoid becoming overwhelmed in ministry,
you must disappoint people by telling them no and if you give a yes,
when no is necessary,
you end up people pleasing and God's anointing is not on that type of behavior.
(02:32):
Now,
the Minister offers some supporting scriptures to drive the point home.
However,
as I was reading those scriptures,
the Lord ministered something else to me First Thessalonians 2 4 says.
But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel even so we speak not as pleasing men,
(02:53):
but God,
which triumph our hearts.
The amplified version says it this way,
but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel.
That tells the good news of salvation through faith in christ,
so we speak,
not as if we were trying to please people to gain power and popularity,
(03:17):
but to please God who examines our Hearts expecting our best Proverbs 29 25 says the fear of man.
Bringeth a snare but who so put his trust in the Lord shall be safe.
God's word is popular but his word isn't always accepted or believed.
(03:41):
I shared a post out on social media recently and the post says we've simplified God so much that some of us have convinced ourselves,
he no longer performs miracles.
However,
he's still a miracle worker psalms 1 47 5 says great is our Lord and of great power.
(04:03):
His understanding is infinite.
Verse four says he counts the number of the stars.
He calls them all by their name.
Whenever the Lord shares something like this with me,
I always seek him for a why I know the immediate answer is because I needed to hear it,
but the holy spirit compelled me to share it.
(04:25):
So I wanted to know why here's the answer I received.
Some of us in the body of believers have mixed christ like living with culture and the two have nothing to do with each other.
I hear members of the body of christ saying let's do this or let's support this for the culture.
(04:45):
I've said those words as well,
but God corrected me and delivered me from that type of thinking,
here's why the ideology of culture is in direct opposition to living a christ centered life.
And if we say we're supporting culture because of the color of our skin.
We also need to know that culture doesn't have anything to do with the race.
(05:07):
Culture has nothing to do with the brown nous of your skin or the whiteness for that matter?
Culture is defined as a collective of any type of belief,
custom or artistic expression of a group,
society,
place or even a moment in time.
(05:29):
That means the idea and the central focus of a culture can vary at any given moment or time.
There isn't a leader in any culture because its premise is similar to group think and group think is forcing harmony within any group via irrational means.
Also there isn't an in goal in culture other than celebrating the current idea within the culture.
(05:56):
Sinners accept the gift of salvation not to become a part of a culture but to become a part of a family.
God's family romans 8 16 through 17 says the spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are Children of God and if Children then heirs heirs of God and joint heirs with christ.
(06:22):
If so be that we suffer with him,
that we may be also glorified together.
New converts learn that after they receive the gift of salvation,
they must live out the gospel of the cross through studying and adhering to God's promise is the word of God,
christ is the head of the family or the patriarch.
(06:45):
He ordains leaders.
The fivefold ministry apostles,
prophets,
pastors,
teachers and evangelists to teach exhort and council as a means of spiritual and moral guidance.
The end goal of salvation is to live eternally with the father in heaven.
(07:07):
Now how do all of these scriptures fit into all of this?
There's this belief floating around that God is too big to express all of who he is at once to a sinful nation,
christians or christ like people can't talk about the God who chastises or the God whose word corrects sinful behavior were limited to speaking on scriptures about God's love,
(07:32):
know this God chases those whom he loves.
That means God rebukes your ungodly behavior.
He disciplines you,
meaning he repositions your life back into alignment with his word.
Then he humbles you so he can call you his child.
(07:53):
God's love is the knowledge of who he is.
That means you can't know God's love without knowing his principles for christ like living.
You can't know God's love and still desire to practice ungodly behavior and you can't know God's love and desire to love something or someone else greater than him.
(08:18):
The enemy's goal in this hour is to box God's leaders into a culture mindset.
He wants to limit the leaders delivery of who God is to what the culture wants to hear and see.
That's people pleasing or diluting the gospel with culture rich language that satisfies people's emotions so that they receive God the way they want him instead of how God wants to be represented through his word.
(08:47):
Listen,
the Lord is too great and he is too majestic for leaders in this hour to cower to culture by taking this great big God and boxing him into a file cabinet and then handing out little file folders of his love when the culture feels like they need it.
(09:07):
There are too many examples in the word of God,
where men and women gave their lives to the Lord.
After one meeting with jesus or one encounter with God's Word.
In the Book of the Acts of the apostles,
chapter eight talks about how an Ethiopian eunuch of great authority had an encounter with God's word and God's apostle Philip.
(09:31):
The bible says that God sent an angel to tell Philip to leave Jerusalem and get down to the desert,
which is Gaza Philip obeyed.
At the same time Philip obeyed God's request to leave Jerusalem.
The Ethiopian eunuch was leaving Jerusalem as well.
The bible says that the Ethiopian eunuch was sitting in his chariot,
(09:53):
reading from the book of Isaiah.
He was reading Isaiah's prophecy about jesus,
the savior,
who would become the lamb slain for our sins.
The Holy Spirit instructed Philip to approach the chariot and acts the Ethiopian eunuch.
If he understood what he was reading the eunuch answered by asking how could I understand unless someone teaches me?
(10:20):
He then invites Philip into the chariot to teach him and give him a deeper understanding of the prophecy.
While this exchange is happening,
the chariot is moving the entire time as Philip teaches what the prophecy means.
The chariot comes to a body of water.
(10:42):
The eunuch says to Philip.
You see this water.
What would hinder me from being baptized,
Philip says nothing except you believe in your heart that jesus is the son of God.
The Ethiopian Eunuch said,
I believe that jesus christ is the son of God.
He then commanded the chariot to stand still Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him.
(11:10):
The Ethiopian eunuch was a man of great influence.
So Philip approaching him was a big deal in today's society.
The eunuch would be somewhat of a celebrity,
someone of notoriety and if he had a social media account,
he would probably have a verified blue check.
It's also important to understand what's happening in the background.
(11:32):
During this exchange with Philip and the eunuch ministering the gospel of jesus christ wasn't culturally accepted as a matter of fact,
just two chapters back in Acts chapter six,
we witnessed the stoning of Stephen for standing up for his faith.
Fast forward to today and the saints are facing almost the same cultural roadblock to ministering the gospel of jesus christ pastors can't freely minister to their flocks as they need to without being censored on social media,
(12:06):
cultural bandits hideout in the pews of churches recording leaders and then weaponizing the messages God has given them to share with the world against them.
This behavior is known as cancel culture and it's trying to suffocate prophecy and the spreading of the good news.
What's more unfortunate is that some of the leaders that God has raised up and put an influential positions are cowering to the culture because they fear losing influence and affluence.
(12:38):
But the devil is a liar.
God is too big and too great to hide him for the fear of culture.
I once heard a pastor saying that salvation is free,
but the gospel will cost you everything.
Hear me?
Don't allow the fear of how people will receive the word.
(12:59):
God has given you to become a snare in your own life.
The bible says that God provides a safe place in him for those who share the good news.
Thank you for listening.
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