Technology has been a bane of my existence – a thorn in my side, if you will. It’s not that I’m technologically challenged, though. If anything, I know too much about how well the tech around me should function when it’s been properly built and calibrated to work without fail (save planned obsolescence, of course).
That said, when MY tech doesn’t work (and it always seems like it’s only MY stuff), I used to definitely get pretty bent out of shape. I’m like the second coming of Moses (NO – I don’t have a prophet complex… just wait for it!) when it comes to my dysfunctional things, though: I used to strike my equipment for not working but now I know better: I speak to it!
Whereas Moses struck a rock to get water from it per the instructions of God, when the people kept pestering him and showing how faithless and forgetful they were despite God providing for them time after time; the next time they complained about having no water, Moses got a little heated. God told him to SPEAK to the rock to release it’s hydrated portion but, in anger, Moses hit it. The water came out but at a great cost: disobedience. This disobedience got Moses a one-way ticket AWAY from the Promise Land.
Thank God I’m under a new dispensation because I’ve had PLENTY of times when “the mood strikes me” to Strike Back when my electronic Empire colludes against me (that’s a Star Wars/President Trump reference rolled in one, right there)!
I’m in a calmer stage in my life where dysfunctional devices don’t get clapped at these days, though. Jesus told us to speak TO our mountain by faith and believe ONLY that it would be cast into the sea. Jesus, when presented with a dysfunctional fig tree, cursed it with His words and kept it moving – leaving His disciples to marvel at how immediately His word curse came to pass.
I’ve had a few choice words in my day, too… but that was a different type of curse! I’ve purged my words from curses heard because I know the power of my tongue. If I did decide to speak death over a thing, I believe and have seen how it will respond to my words thanks to being restored as a steward of earth through God’s righteousness attained for me by Jesus Christ. Even now, there is a small infestation of grass species in my TruGreen-treated yard that I do NOT want to thrive. So what am I doing about it? I went to the largest patch, declared it to be “the head of the tares/weeds” in my yard and cursed the root of it so that it is no longer fruitful, multiplies, replenishes, or subdues my suburban harvest! But I don’t want to curse my electronics, though – I LIKE my electronics (when they work)!
Case in point: I have a refurbished (I KNOW… I was asking for trouble!) WIFI printer that allows us to print wirelessly. Wouldn’t you know it, though – this joker started NOT working within a year of purchase! I began to speak LIFE into it – commanding it to connect and commanding it to function, in Jesus’ name. I would troubleshoot it according to the software that was on my laptop but I would do so without any DIRECTLY accessed knowledge of what to do. I would disconnect it from its power source. I would open and shut the lid. I ran the gamut on random things to do to get this printer to STAY connected so that I could print whenever, wherever I wanted… but it would always seem to revert back to a default status of dysfunction.
Recently – I finally came to my senses. I asked the SOURCE of my strength of what to do. It occurred to me that I was actually the one who was disconnected from my power source in this matter: God. I had been speaking and declaring but without words of knowledge and wisdom: two gifts that are readily available to whomever simply asks the Holy Ghost. Once I resolved in my mind to get out of my OWN defacto, de-faulty and disconnected status, God directed my attention to a small light on the front of the printer.
I noticed that it had been blinking and I was getting a strong sense that it should, in fact, be a solid blue light. Like a blue light bulb turning on, it occurred to me that if this light was blinking, the WIFI connection was a little “off.” I hit the menu screen, found the Connection Wizard and went through the steps to have it detect my network and put in the network KEE to reestablish the connection.
I had been so blinded with frustration that I had misused the power of the tongue… EVEN though I had been speaking functionality (life) over my printer. The awesome thing about this is that God serviced my immaturity several times through my faulty strategy of doing everything BUT what He could reveal to me once I sought HIS wisdom. If the WIFI connection was truly the issue, there was no way on earth that my 1) turning off the power, 2) unplugging the power cord and 3) running the troubleshooter software (in various permutations of that order) should have EVER resolved the problem. Yet, it did; albeit it temporarily.
God let me fumble through dysfunction and blessed my steps anyway until I remembered the simple solution: stay connected.
How is your connection to the Father? Are you hearing and doing exactly what He’s trying to download to shoot your troubles away?
MANU FORTI MINISTRIES, LLC
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