Stay within your position and authority

We are different parts of the Body of Christ. We all have been given certain authority and position. Many have not received more authority because they have not fully submitted to the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. Moreover, many Christians have not learned to submit to the authority in which God has placed over their lives. Authority is granted as one submits to authority.

However, many Christians are not only usurping God's authority by meddling their noses where it does not belong, many are in full out rebellion without realizing what they are doing. Many have stepped outside of their authority and position thinking themselves more highly than others.

When we step outside our authority or position, we will be in serious trouble. We are the different parts of the Body of Christ. Be content with where you are at. Be content with your wages as Paul said. Be content with your place for that is where God may desire you to be there until your next season. Be content with the gifts that have been granted to you. Yes, you must desire more but is the foundation of the Word of God there in your life?

The fish are bound to their place in water. If they step outside of water, they step outside their authority and boundaries. They will eventually die. The birds have their place in the air. The animals have their place in the jungle or forest. If the animals come into the cities of men, then there will be trouble. People will win against the animals if they compete against us for we have the higher authority over animals. Animals must subject themselves to men as Adam was given the authority to name them.

Whatever position you have been placed in by God, be content and grow in HIM from there. Stop looking at the other positions or the other positions of the Body of Christ with envy or jealousy. Stop looking at other people's gift and desiring them for the wrong reason. Stop usurping God's authority by bashing those God has placed in higher positions at your churches voting them out or firing them. The board or congregation does not have voting power to remove or install pastoral position. Those positions are for those who have been called. God is a monarchy and not a democracy. All must be done through prayer and not by majority vote. There is only one VOTE that counts. God is your first option, He is your second option, and He is your last option. There is no other contingency plan outside of God. Do not create your own golden calf.

Those who have higher authority and anointing have all PAID a heavy price. Nothing is Free! They have come from a road sharing in the suffering with Christ. It is from a road of suffering where one is taught the deeper revelation and things of God. It is a place where they have DIED to themselves and in Christ to receive their positions or authority.

While many are still walking their journey, do not look for the short cuts. Do not look for another door. Only thieves will come from another door. There is only ONE Door and that door is Jesus Christ! You must come through the narrow way and it will only get narrower. You must persevere and endure in all things as we are tested to prove whether our faith is genuine.

Be content with your position and grow in HIM. Learn from those who have already traveled the many roads. Learn from your spiritual mentors that God is trying to place in your lives. But always remember, you must be sold out to Jesus as going for broke. It is all or none. There is no middle ground for the lukewarm will be spit out. The lukewarm are not unbelievers.

Fire of God!
Steve Yong Kim
April 10, 2012