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The Bride Dismembered:

A Call to Love and to Reunite the Body

This message comes with a bit of a disclaimer. I've been sitting on this for quite a while. Sharing it now isn't related to a particular event or person. It simply continues to resound in my heart and is part of my prayers. I'm here if you need an open conversation rooted in love. I promise to listen.

This is a message for the Body of Christ, those who profess Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

For a while now, my heart has felt increasingly heavy over the divisions in our nation, how it’s no different in the church, and that the factions sometimes appear even greater in His Body, His Bride.

I see the Bride of Christ dismembered with its pieces strewn about.

Passions run high for Jesus, and for what each believes rightly or wrongly reflects His heart in the things transpiring in our nation. I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed a time when anger has run as high as it is between those who are brothers and sisters in Christ.

We believe our position is “right” and the other is heinously in error. I’ve witnessed very few humble conversations seeking to understand from a heart positioned in love, and instead, have seen countless stones being viciously thrown from opposite sides.

What testimony is being spoken to the world through our words and behavior? How are we any different than someone who isn’t a follower of Jesus when we act and speak to one another as we do?

We’re more interested in winning arguments and turning people into converts, not of Jesus, but of our beliefs outside of our faith.

God is coming back for a pure and spotless Bride, not one that’s bloodied and torn apart from the battles we seek to win in an effort to be right and push a particular agenda.

We’ve got to do a better job of walking in humility and love, being willing to really listen to one another, and hear one another’s hearts speaking. We must allow the heart truths we hear to dismantle any lies we’ve believed because we’ve only seen part of the picture and written a false narrative we’ve believed to be truth.

It’s likely we’ll still believe differently, but in listening to understand, and valuing and honoring one another, my prayer is that we'll stop cutting off vital parts of the body. An arm or a leg can’t function on its own, and the body suffers greatly when either is severed.

Love is the glue that holds the body together and doesn’t let any part separate itself.

We can be the mature Bride and speak the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15).

“...Let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” (1 John 4:7-8)

Do you know God? Love others by allowing His love to be reflected in your words and actions.

Living for Him,

Andrea

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It's Time To BREAK THE GAME!

Recently, I read Sunrise on the Reaping, the latest installment in the Hunger Games series. The story takes place years before Katniss and Peeta enter the arena and centers around their mentor, Haymitch’s, game.

I read it because our daughter, Abigail, asked if I would read it, so she had someone to talk to about the story. I’d read the others alongside the kids, as well, so after she finished, I borrowed her book.

I didn’t expect to hear God speak through it, but He absolutely did.

While there are multiple themes, one that stood out to me was Haymitch’s offhand remark and later decision to try to “break the game.” Without giving too much away, let me share enough to be able to explain what God spoke to me.

There’s a moment in the training session before the game begins when both the Peacekeepers and several of the recruits are armed. Haymitch knew the recruits outnumbered the Peacekeepers by four to one on that particular day, and if they moved quickly, they could probably grab other weapons in the room and, if not subdue the Peacekeepers, they could at least do significant damage. He said as much aloud to another recruit, and Plutarch, who worked for the Capitol, overheard him. Plutarch’s genuine questions to Haymitch were to ask him why he didn’t take action and why he submitted to it all.

As the training continued, Haymitch discovered the arena in which the recruits were sent to fight to the death was a machine; he recognized that machines could be broken, and as the story unfolded, he decided to do all he could to “break the game,” even if he died trying.

What I heard God say is that it’s time to break the game.

You’re probably asking the same question I did. What does that even mean?

He showed me how we live according to traditionally accepted ways of doing things in every sphere of society. It’s the “game” we play and participate in without question because it’s what we’ve always known.

What’s the “game”? It’s the world’s system.

God is breaking that game and is inviting His sons and daughters to partner with Him in establishing something from heaven instead.

It’s far more comfortable to sit back, watch things unfold in the world, criticize it, and leave it to someone else to take action around it. Yet, Matthew 11:12 says, “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.”

I’m NOT suggesting literal violence. Hear me clearly on that. What I am saying is that there’s a forcefulness to God’s kingdom advancing on the earth, just as there’s a forcefulness to plowing new ground in preparation for seeds to be planted for harvest.

When we choose to forge new paths, we’re often met with resistance in the natural or spirit realm. Will we shrink back and give up, or push on to dismantle the old and build what God is showing us, even if it comes at a cost?

I heard a warning. If we don’t take up our roles and responsibilities in “breaking the game,” the rebellious will, because the game WILL be broken.

The question God asked me was, “Which fruit would you rather eat?”

What does it look like to break the game of the traditional ways of doing things in business, education, government, and more? God wants to have that conversation with us in every area of our lives, show us what needs to be torn down, and give us the blueprints to build anew with Him.

We’re designed to be pioneers, innovators, inventors, and those on the forefront of society as sons and daughters of the King of kings, ruling and reigning in every area of society. That’s our mandate from the beginning of creation.

It’s time to break the game and advance God’s kingdom in every area of society. The question is, are we willing to lay down our lives, sacrifice, and pay the cost of breaking the old and building the new?

If we don’t, others will rise in our place.

Either way, we’ll eat the fruit of what is established.

It’s time to break the game.

Living for Him,

Andrea

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