The Choice of Continual Input – How to Keep Growing and Bear Fruit All Life Long

Therefore, on This Solid Ground, I Seek To:

• Have consistent, “often,” heart-to-heart, raw, intimate quality time in the secret place with the Father (Matthew 6:6)
• Cultivate my “first love”. Ensure you have a fire, a passion, a zeal, a hunger, a deep thirst for everything God has for you – all based on the fire, passion, zeal of God in love for you. We are talking God, the meaning of life, the purpose and destiny for all of us here!!
• To seek understanding, insight, and wisdom from the Word of God before making major decisions and even to talk about any subject. Be slow to speak – quick to listen to God (James 1:19).
• My people perish because of lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). So passionately and wholeheartedly – as the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit loves you wholeheartedly – seek knowledge about the truth of God in the Bible. And do what you read.
• Above all else seek understanding (Proverbs 4:7). So passionately and wholeheartedly – as the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit loves you wholeheartedly – seek understanding about the truth of God in the Bible. And do what you read.
• Lean not on your own understanding (Proverbs 3:5-7) – seek Him & His Word for the best way.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.

Proverbs 3:5-8

Binge-listen, read – and practice it

• Passionately listen to and read the Bible (the YouVersion App and website are excellent for this).
• Proactively find and read and listen to books and sermons from people who bear much fruit that looks like salvations, miracles, holiness, wisdom, humility, unity, honor – constantly – for it refills our fire to understand and then do something about it. And what does the Word of God say: Faith comes by hearing – and hearing / seeing / experiencing – by the Word of God (Romans 10:17). Here are some of the ones that inspire me (click here) – please binge-listen – binge watch. Fill yourself constantly. What you fill yourself with – will come out of you – you will become that.

Binging the right input in the right way

My list of people that I presently listen to – but whom:

• I do not worship.
• I have critical questions for – for all are lacking compared to Jesus – and we need to talk openly about those lacks and be aware of them – even though we do not look cool when we do – for we are now not perfect…
• I put the words, actions, and commands of Jesus first, before them.
• I love and honor ministers in Christ for the good they do – for I see them as fruit-bearing brothers and sisters in Christ
• I get all the Scriptures about honor and judging well out of them.
• It’s not always “either” this “or” that – as many preachers like to say – but it is this first, then that, then that.

Keep learning

• Fullness of the fivefold: Listen to and follow and learn from the fullness of the 5-fold ministry giftings who are all about equipping the saints – not just to Bible teachers or prophets, or evangelists or pastors or apostles.
• Find the fruit-bearers and walk with them: Find people who are truly on fire and bear much Biblical fruit – and listen to them – hear them, walk with them, and do what they do – with the Bible, Jesus, and Acts as the foundation. This is probably one of my biggest secrets to why I keep on being on fire and keep on growing and have ended up in a place where I bear much real Biblical fruit in terms of deliverance, healings, salvations, prophecies, baptism in water, making real disciples etc.
• Willingness not to be afraid of the opinions of people. Fear of man is one of the biggest traps possible. See my writing about the terrible death trap and snare of the fear of man here.
• Humility, endurance, and patience in suffering – not making decisions until the will of God has been clarified. Study to show yourself approved – a worker unto God (2 Timothy 2:15). Be like the noble Bereans (Acts 17:11), who searched the Scriptures to see what was true. Please use the principles found here: A Bible Study About Correct Bible Study.
• If there is something, you do not understand – that is OK. Don’t make big fast decisions to look cool and strong. But say: “I don’t know fully. But I will work and study to find out the best possible healthy, truth-filled, Word of God = Bible based answer.” Be slow to speak. Quick to listen and learn.
• If you know you need a better grasp of humility, I strongly recommend the book The Final Quest by Rick Joyner.
• First, be a humble, hard-working disciple. In that process you will learn to hear from Heaven – both directly for yourself and you will get healthy input from prophets & prophetic people and you will also find more specific and unique callings, tasks, gifts, and assignments. Keep obeying ALL that Jesus practiced – and commanded. Keep dying to self, with no fear of the opinions or actions of people. Keep humbly, brokenly, repenting into the fullness of His goodness and satisfaction with you – and obey then – with a willing heart.
• Keep it simple. Read and do. Be a simple child who does not over-complicate things (Luke 11:28 & Luke 10:21). Neither over-simplify everything, and make quick superficial judgments (John 7:24). Use this simple Bible study method yourself and with other believers: Discovery Bible Study (DBS) Method.
• Show up consistently. I consistently place myself in deep fellowship with other believers. Fellowship with healthy growing believers is as important as going to work. The Bible says: Do not forsake meeting with the saints (Hebrews 10:25). In the very first church they met daily from home to home and in the temple (Acts 2:42-47). Keep showing up. It was publicly and from home to home – the Acts 20:20 – vision.
• I give away all I have for free (Matthew 10:8). I am responsible to teach others to be obedient to Love, which is all Jesus commanded (Matthew 28:18-20) – and to teach others how to do this obedient discipleship (2 Timothy 2:2). This is true for every disciple. We are to give it all away.

Stay humble – do not make a major decision before you know the will of God in that area

• Actively wait in the Lord (Psalm 27:14): Seek Him with passion and fire.
• Pray, and then listen, then write it down, then do it.
• Study the Word of God about it.
• Get set free from evil spirits (so they don’t come to you as a lying fake “holy spirit”). I recommend at least one full blown deliverance session for all Christians at least once a year.
• Talk with good advisors who bear much fruit in the health and breadth of all that Jesus was, did, and said – including Matthew 10 and Luke 10.
• Get insight from prophets of God – who hear accurately from Heaven. This should only confirm what you have already sensed yourself.

Keep asking, seeking, knocking

Keep asking, seeking, knocking – keep doing it till you get, find, and the door is opened. Seek – and keep seeking till you find! And the greatest GIFT you find is more of the Holy Spirit. This is what the Greek text says. It is your decision if you stop.

Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

Luke 11:9

• Go for the fullness of all fullnesses in Christ – some of which are: the intimate friendship with Father, Son, Holy Spirit, the Word, the Spirit, the character of holiness, the discipleship and multiplication, the fruit, the maturity, the calling – all fullnesses of the fullness of Christ.
• The next generation: I will be gone one day – to watch you in the great movie hall of Heaven – to cheer you on. Others will take my place and my children and their children – and yours, spiritual and / or physical will take our places. I build for the next generations – you please do the same as well. I am not the only one with anything from God. God gives freely. Papa loves us with a passionate fire!