Jesus said, Get behind me Satan and PUSH

that is Push me into my destiny, Bishop Jim Earl Swilley expressed yesterday, November 23, 2008from the pulpit as he ministered to us from Gen. 27 and Ecclesiastes pertaining to sowing in famine. He spoke many oracles of God on Sunday but these was particularly interesting. Basically mainstream Christiandom believes that Satan or the adversary has equal amounts of power with God Almighty. However, at CITN, we believe that Satan or the devil or the adversary works for God since, after all God made Satan. So what Bishop Swilley is maintaining here is even in our worst circumstances and situations, they are all working together for our good and ultimately we win because God wrote the back of book since He is the author and finisher of our faith.

Bishop's 7 points on November 23, 2008 are;
1)Sow in famine
2)See the big picture
3)Speak the word only
4)Sacrifice with Joy
5)Say what you really believe. God says if you establish a thing, He will decree it
6)Stay connected
7)Settle into your destiny/Acts 17:28 - In Him we move breath and have our being in Him.

Today I was reading an excerpt from My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers and found the following article'

SHALLOW AND PROFOUND
"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31 Beware of allowing yourself to think that the shallow concerns of life are not ordained of God; they are as much of God as the profound. It is not your devotion to God that makes you refuse to be shallow, but your wish to impress other people with the fact that you are not shallow, which is a sure sign that you are a spiritual prig. Be careful of the production of contempt in yourself, it always comes along this line, and causes you to go about as a walking rebuke to other people because they are more shallow than you are. Beware of posing as a profound person; God became a Baby. To be shallow is not a sign of being wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there are no deeps: the ocean has a shore. The shallow amenities of life, eating and drinking, walking and talking, are all ordained by God. These are the things in which Our Lord lived. He lived in them as the Son of God, and He said that "the disciple is not above his Master." Our safeguard is in the shallow things. We have to live the surface common-sense life in a common-sense way; when the deeper things come, God gives them to us apart from the shallow concerns. Never show the deeps to anyone but God. We are so abominably serious, so desperately interested in our own characters, that we refuse to behave like Christians in the shallow concerns of life. Determinedly take no one seriously but God, and the first person you find you have to leave severely alone as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.