Will It Profit You?
Are you ready to believe things can be different?
Think about this question, then ask yourself what you have settled for. The Kingdom is supposed to profit you every time you have an exchange with the King. There is an unfortunate thing that has happened to the church in the West. There is no profitable exchange taking place when believers go to church. It’s actually way worse than that but that’s for another time.
Let’s look at a man Jesus had an encounter with that is very similar to us today. In John 5, there is a man who has been crippled for thirty-eight years. He comes inside the Beautiful Gate to sit on the porch waiting for someone to do something for him so he can be healed. Unfortunately, because he has put this responsibility on to someone else, he now believes in his mind he can never be healed, so why is he still there. What happens when Jesus shows up?
“When Jesus saw him lying there, he knew that the man had been crippled for a long time. Jesus said to him, “Do you truly long to be well?” John 5
This seems a bit offensive Jesus. He has been here for a long time waiting for someone to put him in the water. Why would you be so harsh? Of course, he wants to be healed. This would be like Jesus showing up to you on a Sunday morning sitting in church and ask you- Why are you so dead? Why are you here if you believe nothing can change? This man at the pool responds to Jesus, “Sir, there’s no way I can get healed, for I have no one to lower me into the water when the angel comes. As soon as I try to crawl to the edge of the pool, someone else jumps in ahead of me.”
Are you showing up with the same belief that things can’t change? Are you settling for showing up to listen or read and nothing change? This is your choice. Everything we need for change in our lives has already been purchased and settled by Jesus. It is in the Kingdom realm of Yahweh; we just have to believe and step into it. Let’s not settle for our exchange with the Kingdom to be unprofitable. Jesus is actually asking this man, “Are you ready to abandon how you see yourself and receive the faith for your healing.”
We must believe and be intentional to go after the profit of the Kingdom that is promised to us. There is an exchange that should happen when you encounter Jesus every day, not just Sunday and Tuesday. You would never go to work without it profiting you so why do we settle for showing up to church, reading our bibles and devotionals, encountering Jesus and it not profit us?
“Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.” Hebrews 4:1
We refuse to be a people who do not profit every time we gather together. Profit is something being birthed in you by what you hear and experience. Our standard is being set to profit every time we encounter Jesus alone or with our Kingdom family. Jesus is worthy of a mature bride.
Are you ready to mix faith with what you’ve heard and see things change?
