Dad

God doesn't need any king, prophet or the priest. A father is every thing. If every father takes care of his family right way, the whole world will go in peace. A king partially resembles God, a prophet partially resembles God and a priest partially resembles God. But a father can resemble God to the final extent. That is why we needed Jesus who had king, prophet and priest in him to resemble God the Father.

The anointing of a king can cease, the anointing of a prophet can cease and the anointing of a priest can cease but the anointing of a father will never cease, and a father is a father always. When I offend my dad, it actually offends the Father in heaven.

God made fathers. He believed them. If they could take care of their houses well, the whole world can be fine. But they failed, so floods came. What was the job of a DAD?

1. Dominion
2. Assurance
3. Divinity

After the floods, since they failed, God divided their job and made this job as three offices and gave it to the kings, prophets and priests. When Moses felt it was difficult to rule, God distributed the spirit on Moses to the 70 leaders. Ruling is a father's nature.1Tim. 3:4-5. Speaking future is a father's nature. And paying for children's mistake is also a father's nature. Job 1:5. Ultimately king-prophet-priest is his nature.

Family needs to be restored before the kingdom is restored. Mal. 4:6. Christians look for business principles in the bible rather than family principles. It is because they are more concerned of their own kingdom than the kingdom of God.

When Abraham was in Ur, God told Abraham to leave his people but not his father. Act. 7:3. So he took his father Terah with him to Haran. After his father died God appeared to him again and told him to leave his father's house. Gen. 12:1.

A disciple came to Jesus and asked if he could go to his father and bury him and come back. I don't know if his father was actually dead or he does mean that he wants to go and stay with his dad until his death. Jesus didn't say no. Or may be Jesus does mean a no. Whatever it is a "disciple" is a disciple. He was not a first admission to ask like Elisha asked Elijah. A disciple has been there and now he cannot turn back after laying hand on a plow. Luke 9:62

I leave my parents to be a part of building the  kingdom of God. But if leaving parents is the kingdom of God, then I don't want such a kingdom, because I miss my God the Father there.

Is grace an excuse?

A man is working as a police. He has two sons. Older one is a kind of undisciplined and younger one is prudent.The older one used to borrow things and never return. He take things from shops and never pay money. If they would try to resist him, he would mention that his dad is a police man. Those people don't want to get into any risk so they stop resisting him. Younger one said, "brother this is not good. You are using dad's name for defending your bad things." But he never listened to his younger brother.

One day the younger one went to the bank to try a loan. They asked him  how he is going to pay since they need some government employee to give surety. Then the younger son said, "my dad is a police man." Bank people said yes to him.

After he had returned home, he said every thing to his mom. The older son heard this and came and said, "my dear younger brother, have you not used dad's name to defend yourself?"

The younger brother replied, "brother, it is not called defending, it is called depending."

God sent grace to depend on it rather than to use it to defend your sins. Grace makes you okay, it doesn't mean it's okay to sin.

Miracles zone to Movement zone

It was raining. A man's car was struck in a pond. He tried a lot. He could not move. He said, "Lord help  me." Then he heard a sound. A crane, which can lift a fallen vehicle was going on the road. He praised God and shouted. The crane guy saw him and came to see the situation. He brought the crane and lifted the car gently and placed it back on the road. Then left. Man of the car is happy. He praised God who did this miracle.

After a while he heard a voice saying, "move, move to Hyderabad city." Then he started to look around. He put his face out side of the window  and looked back and forth. His face sounds like he did not find what he is looking for. Then Lord said again, "what are you looking for?" Then the man answered, "Lord, the crane you sent was able to lift my car and put it on the road again. And the crane you are going to send to lift my car and put  me in Hyderabad must be bigger than this. I could not find any sound of crane coming"

This man is still looking  for a miracle when he is actually  able to drive to Hyderabad.

There was an another man. Few days after the Israelites finally came into the promised land, he approached Moses and said, "I don't think you are praying enough Moses. I don't see any manna now. It seems you are getting lazy"

Moses replied, "Go and sow your seed in the ground. Take the outcome. Now we have moved from miracle zone to the movement zone." Who is lazy? Moses or this man?

I agree that we still need miracles in this movement zone. These miracles are not for those who find their comfort in desert, and lazy.