Fifteen ways to dishonor the Lord, dishonor your Pastor, and ensure that Satan has continual access into your life! By James Lantz
- Pay no attention to God’s word, consider it to be unimportant and void of power!
- Resist all of the Holy Spirit’s impressions and thoughts that He brings to your mind!
- Resist those who are in authority over you!
- Do not bring God His tenth (the tithe)!
- Stay away from church so as not to be exposed to the anointed word and His anointing!
- Refuse to get involved with God’s prosperity plan (sowing offerings and reaping increase)!
- Pursue your carnal desires with all your might so that you have no time to serve in the church!
- Do your work half heartily because you know you are not getting paid what you are really worth.
- Withhold your love!
- Be quick to judge others because they should know better!
- Complain to others so your bitterness can spill over unto them.
- Keep account of all the wrongs that you perceive others have done to you.
- Continually worry about how in the world you are going to make it through your problems!
- Keep your mind tuned to the music of this world until your soul is totally sold out to the ways of this world!
- Always excuse yourself for not doing what God said because nobody else has it as hard as you do!
Fifteen ways to honor the Lord, honor your Pastor, and honor the body of Christ
by closing the door to the devil and taking hold of the blessing of the Lord!
1 Sam. 2:30 . . . them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Heb. 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Pro. 16:7 When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
1. Follow God’s directions for they will cause you to succeed and abound with blessing!
Pro. 4:20-22 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Mt. 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock.
Ps. 33:4 For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth.
Heb. 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
2. By following the Holy Spirit’s leading we will accomplish our mission and receive great reward!
Pro. 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Rom. 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
3. It was God who established parents, leaders, and governments to protect us!
Rom. 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Col. 3:12 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye service, as men pleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
1 Pet. 2:13&14 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise . . .
4. The tithe is about honor and access!
Mal. 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Mt. 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Heb. 7:8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
5. Submitting to God’s word and those He appoints is submitting to God Himself!
Eph. 4:11&12 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.
John 13:20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
Heb. 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
6. Offerings are a way for us to show our love and to establish the measure that God can multiply back to us!
Pro. 11:24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth
to poverty.
2 Cor. 9:6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
Mark 4:26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
7. Walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh!
Rom. 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Rom. 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Heb. 12:1. . . lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race . .
8. Work whole heartily as unto the Lord because it is from the Lord that we receive the reward of the inheritance!
Col. 3:23&24 … heartily, as to the Lord, . . . ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
1 Cor. 3:8 … planteth and watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
Ps. 75:6&7 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
9. Love one another as Jesus has loved us!
Jn. 13:34 A new commandment I give …, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
1 Peter 4:8 NLT Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.
1 John 3:23 . . . believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
10. Judge not that you be not judged!
Mt. 7:2 NLT . . . as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.
Rom. 2:1 YLT Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man–every one who is judging–for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging,
James 2:13 … he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
11. Abound with thanksgiving and stay rooted and built up in Christ!
Phil. 2:14 NLT Do everything without complaining and arguing,
Ps. 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
1 Cor. 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thess. 5:18 NLT Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
12. Forgive others knowing that the Lord has graciously forgiven you all of your sins and short comings!
Mt. 18:28 YLT . . . and having laid hold, he took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that which thou owest.
Mt. 6:14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
Eph. 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us
13. Trust in the Lord because He is your good shepherd!
Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Rom. 4:19 . . . he considered not his own body now dead, . . . neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:
Phil. 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
14. Meditate and speak God’s word through out your day so you will be thinking and doing the Father’s will!
Ps. 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. ( also Joshua 1:8 )
Phil. 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
15. We are not of those who draw back and suffer loss and destruction!
1 Cor. 10:13 NLT The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. … tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.
1 Pet. 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing …
Mt. 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Mk. 8:34 . . . Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Rev. 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
