If It Can Be Shaken
God promises to shake everything that can be shaken. It is His solemn word and something that He will not do half-heartedly. We have an unshakeable kingdom because we have an unchanging Person, 
Jesus. The religious systems and practices of the church are being shaken. The kingdom cannot be shaken. The authority and power of God to act sovereignly through His people cannot be shaken. His truths and redemptive government that releases the captive cannot be shaken. But the systems of misbelief and the systems that sustain the agendas of men are most definitely being shaken. (Heb.12:27)
Agree With God and Interrupt Evil
Let us not be sabotaged by contradictions within our own thinking and beliefs. For example, a common misunderstanding among churched people is 
that we must expect and allow world conditions to get worse. However, the concept of passively allowing evil to be successful contradicts God’s Word and character. An unfailing principle of the Word is seedtime and harvest, whether it is good seed and good harvest or bad seed and bad harvest. So, world conditions get worse when evil sown comes to harvest. While that is a fact, the contradiction we need to be aware of here is that does not mean that getting worse is God’s will or original intent. We can agree with God and interrupt the sowing and reaping of evil. Thinking God intends to allow evil to succeed is contradictory to His character and principles, and that kind of mis-belief is a contradiction that causes conflict in our soul.
(This is the tenth excerpt from Kathy Gabler’s article “Contradicting Contradictions“.)
Disappointment That Distracts
Another thing that can distract us from mandate is disappointment. Disappointments can distract us from purpose. I think some of our greatest battles start with disappointments, and disappointments come most often because we have erroneous expectations or misbeliefs. For example: if we believe God’s will is for us to live trouble-free, then we set our expectations accordingly. That’s a misbelief and mis-expectation. It will never happen. Jesus said, “In the world you will have tribulation.” The only way out of tribulation is to be out of the world. Misbeliefs, even if they sound like truth, will lead us down a dead-end road into a downward spiral. If we believe that God’s will is to have trouble-free lives, when there is trouble we will come to one of three dead ends: 1) Accusing God of falling short on His side of covenant, leaving us to live in anger and a sense of betrayal; 2) accusing self of doing something wrong and missing God’s will and smothering ourselves with self-examination and self-judgment; or 3) accusing the devil of singling us out so that we live in the torment of self-pity and believe we are a helpless victim. That view of ourselves actually positions us to be a victim and invites more trouble. God’s will is not being trouble-free. He would have never allowed the snake in the garden if that were the case. God’s will is that we step on trouble and overcome it every time it rears its head!
(This is the fifth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Rebuilding Our Temple-Part 2“ which was published in SEEC Magazine [Marty and Kathy’s ministry magazine]. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)
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