Waste Management

Greetings!

Haggai 1:9Ye looked for much, and behold…I blew upon it. Wherefore? Saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste… 10Therefore over you the heavens withhold their dew… 11And I called for a drought…upon all the labour of the hands. (Darby Translation)

Our vision, that is our picture of what a restored broken life looks like, is what we call The S.P.I.C.E. Life. And the “P” represents the fact that a broken life, one that is not functioning in the manner God intended, must be restored physically if it is going to bring God glory (credit).

I wonder if during this consecration and fast, God desires that we not simply look at His temple or church building called Pentecostal Tabernacle. Maybe He is also referring to how we use His temple, that is, our physical bodies. Paul reminds us in the letter he wrote to the Church located in the city of Corinth that our bodies do not belong to us. Our bodies belong to the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 3:16 and 6:19; 2 Corinthians 6:16)

In fact, Paul is almost shocked that believers were unaware of this. Thus they were wasting their bodies. Waste is defined as: 1Using our bodies thoughtlessly. 2Causing our bodies to lose energy or strength. 3 Failing to take advantage of the bodies God has given us. Latin: coming up empty (See verse 11). We must manage, that is get a handle on taking advantage of these bodies in which the Holy Spirit lives and through which He performs our Kingdom assignments. God expects us to come out of this consecration with a change in lifestyle, that is, eating better and exercising more.

And the Glory (credit) God will get from this new house (our after consecration body) will be greater than the glory God got from the bodies we had prior to the consecration (Haggai 2:9).