Relationship Reconstruction

Good evening, saints!

Today’s post comes with an urgency. The message it recaps is sobering and an urgent wakeup call! Let’s not let God’s call keep ringing. Let’s answer with haste!

The Word that is summarized below has been brought forth with great power by our Pastor and a faithful Apostle. Because of such a critical message, this post will be very detailed (and yes a little long). Please take your time and go back over the message “Relationship Reconstruction” on our “Listen In” page at www.thebodyofchristinc.com after or while you read this post.

We have all heard the saying at some time in our lives: In order for a home or a building to stand, it must have been built on a strong, sure foundation.

Have you built a life that will stand? Or is the foundation of your life destroyed? Are there cracks and holes that need to be repaired? Well, if you’re wondering what caused this deconstruction, the answer is here.

On last Saturday’s FORREAL Radio Broadcast, titled “Relationship Reconstruction,” Chief Apostle H.C. Gunn taught us that if Jesus is not our foundation or if the foundation we once had in him is rocky and unstable, then we need a relationship reconstruction. He said God, at this very moment, is reconstructing the church.

To build a life in God that will stand, and a foundation with Jesus that will last eternally, we must build our lives according to His Word -- not our opinion or feelings or wants and desires, nor according to our family way. If we build on His Word fully, there won’t be any way to destroy or remove what is being built in our lives. Instead, we will see further construction, further development and further improvement in our lives through Him.

Here’s a good sign that we need relationship reconstruction: When we think our foundation with the Lord is strong because we go to church or because we say we love God.

Remember, the pharisees went to church too and they, through legalistic (adhering excessively to law instead of relationship) ways, thought they were professing their love for God too. But because the pharisees did not desire a true relationship with Jesus, they also did not have a real relationship with God.

Despite of all of the works and efforts they had done, their relationship lacked true love for God. How can we say we love God, when we disregard Jesus or his Word? They followed rules and traditions but did not let God and the living Word rule their hearts. So, Jesus had to push their ways out in order to reconstruct the relationship and show us what it takes to truly love and walk with him eternally.

As a person who professes to be saved, the life that we have built can’t stand on simply saying we love God, or going to church, it’s about our daily relationship with him and having a clear motive to follow God no matter what we lose or what we don’t have.

If we are not motivated to follow God at all costs, then our relationship with the Lord is deconstructed and not firm, so we are sure to fall and fail. We fail when we are not loving God as we should. Remember this, as Chief Apostle Gunn said: When you have a strong relationship with someone, you love them with all that you have and all that you are. Chief also powerfully said: “We must decide today to love God sincerely, strongly and submissively.” He explained that a true relationship with the Lord means being willing to rededicate and recommit your life to Him when you feel you have backslidden or fallen away, or your love has grown cold.

Chief Apostle Gunn gave the example of seven of his grandchildren (elementary, middle and high school-aged) who made a decision over the last month-and-a-half to rededicate their lives to Jesus – Amaya, Alexandria, Jennifer, Isaac, Israel, Solomon, and Samuel. Their decision shows us that even at a young age we can look around at our lives and see where our relationship with Him has gone off track. If the children can see that reconstruction needs to take place in their relationship with God, then there is no excuse for us as adults. We’ve got to rededicate ourselves continually to God because when we seek a relationship with God, we should be able to notice where there are areas of our lives that remain undedicated to Him. The Holy Spirit will also warn us and deal with us to let us know when we have gotten off track and if we pay attention to those warnings and dealings we can begin to reconstruct before it’s too late.

Chief showed us that there are important steps we can take to reconstruct our relationship with the Lord:

1. Get up, don’t give up. Don’t give up, even if a pattern has been set in your life where you keep backing up on God or keep damaging relationships and lives. Get up again and come back to God.

2. We need to get ourselves to the place where we can tell God that we see our failures or can see where we have become religious or grown cold in our love. We need to tell God when we see that we have allowed the Amalekites (those thoughts, feelings, opinions, habits, desires, people, sometimes even family, who reject the promise and will of God) to take over in our lives instead of Jesus.

3. We have to love God with all of our intelligence, education, creativity, decisions, career, relationships, income, etc. We have to love God will all of our heart, mind, soul and total being. When we see that we aren't doing that, then we need to repent and make changes immediately.

4. We must tear off what we have added to our lives without God or that isn’t of God. Drop what causes contention and division between us and God and with others.

5. We must take ourselves before God every day to tell him where we have sinned and where we are sorry. And we must come before him every day to tell him how much we love him and be honest about where we have lacked love.

6. We have to remember that in order for God to pour himself into us fully, we’ve got to make room for what he has for us by getting (ourselves) out of the way. We’ve got to unbusy ourselves.

7. When we don’t rededicate ourselves to God and fail to love him sincerely in our hearts, it will show in our lives and in our children. How can we teach our children to love God, if we aren’t doing it ourselves? But if we come back to God in our hearts and in our minds, he will manifest himself in our lives and he will manifest himself in our homes.

8. We can no longer wait until we get to church to act like God or to love him. We must wait for him in prayer, making daily confessions to him and displaying and choosing repentance. We must groan and labor to be who he desires us to be. We must go after God diligently and with everything, adoring him in worship every day.

As Deuteronomy 6:1-8 shows us, reconstructing our relationship with God, all goes back to the Word. It must be at the forefront of all we do. Here’s what it says:

1 Now, these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

2 That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:

5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.