Andy Elmes: Breakfast of Champions

Good morning, Champion.

Live in your revealed identity

Hebrews 11:23-24 (NKJV)

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s command. By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.

The life of Moses makes for an interesting read. It’s another one of those God-inspired life adventures.

 

Moses is born to parents who are Levites, a part of Israel; as a baby, to save him from Pharaoh's child-murdering plans, his parents set him afloat in a basket on the Nile, strategically aiming him for the courts of Pharaoh. Pharaoh’s daughter finds him and raises him as her own. He grows up in the household and kingdom of Egypt thinking that this was his true identity, living by their ways and beliefs; although, I believe he always sensed all was not right and something deep inside of Him never sat completely well with it, always feeling a little different.

 

One day someone reveals to him that he is actually not an Egyptian but a part of Israel, God's people. He discovers the nurse that cared for him was actually his real mother – wow, what a day that must have been! Now he has a choice to make: he has been raised as one person but that is not who he really is. He makes the choice to stand up as the person he really is and his life goes in a whole new direction.

 

When you read this account there are things that we can relate to. Each of us has been raised in a kingdom to which we thought we belonged; daily we joined in with all its ways and beliefs. Then one day we find out we actually belong to God and were separated by what Adam did at the dawn of time. When we realise this fact we then have a choice, as Moses did: do we keep on acting and living in accordance with the life we were raised in or do we step out and decide to be, from this point on, who we really are?

 

If we stand up and live according to our true identity our lives too will take a new direction. Yes, it may even attract persecution and cause challenge, but at the end of the day, like Moses, you will know you are now being the person that you really are, not the one you were raised to be.

 

God is your real Father, and through Jesus you have been re-united. Be who you really are – like Moses, refuse to be called any longer what you are not.

 

God bless,

 

Andy

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Breakfast of Champions: Andy Elmes

Good morning, Champion. Faith takes you beyond 1 Kings 17:12-14 (NIV) As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die." Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on the land.' " Reading this account is eye-opening. Imagine if a prophet or evangelist today treated a widow in distress like this. It would be all over the papers the next morning with headlines like, “Greedy Evangelist Eats Widows Last Morsel of Food”.   The brief overview of this account is this: the prophet goes to this woman to get food because God sends him there specifically.   When he gets there he finds this widow getting ready to make one last meal for her and her son, after which she had resolved to starve to death through lack – thank God He had a better plan than that.   She tells Elijah of her “seemingly little bit” and he says to cook it up and release it from her hand into his life and it would supernaturally multiply for her – now, in her great need, and long after he had gone”.  She had to make the choice to place her faith in the words of the prophet of God and not in the very real evidence of her present experience. When she released her “seemingly small bit” the miracle happened. The lesson here is that with both her and the disciples, with their miracle of the bread and fish, they saw the miracle increase come when they were willing to let go of something that did not seem enough.   When exactly did the miracle happen in the hands of the disciples in Luke 19? It was not when they held the bread because that would have crushed them under a mountain of bread and fish, but it was when they let it go and released it in faith!   Don’t see things as small. See them as seed for mighty miracles when God is on the case.   Faith to you today; He is the same today as He has always been, let go of something that does not seem big enough and watch what happens.

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Andy Elmes: breakfast of champions

Good morning, Champion. Faith takes you beyond 1 Kings 17:12-14 (NIV) As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die." Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on the land.' " Reading this account is eye-opening. Imagine if a prophet or evangelist today treated a widow in distress like this. It would be all over the papers the next morning with headlines like, “Greedy Evangelist Eats Widows Last Morsel of Food”.   The brief overview of this account is this: the prophet goes to this woman to get food because God sends him there specifically.   When he gets there he finds this widow getting ready to make one last meal for her and her son, after which she had resolved to starve to death through lack – thank God He had a better plan than that.   She tells Elijah of her “seemingly little bit” and he says to cook it up and release it from her hand into his life and it would supernaturally multiply for her – now, in her great need, and long after he had gone”.  She had to make the choice to place her faith in the words of the prophet of God and not in the very real evidence of her present experience. When she released her “seemingly small bit” the miracle happened. The lesson here is that with both her and the disciples, with their miracle of the bread and fish, they saw the miracle increase come when they were willing to let go of something that did not seem enough.   When exactly did the miracle happen in the hands of the disciples in Luke 19? It was not when they held the bread because that would have crushed them under a mountain of bread and fish, but it was when they let it go and released it in faith!   Don’t see things as small. See them as seed for mighty miracles when God is on the case.   Faith to you today; He is the same today as He has always been, let go of something that does not seem big enough and watch what happens.

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How do you get up from an all time low: Andy Elmes

Good morning, Champion. How do you get out of an all-time low? Genesis 39:20-21 (NIV) Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison, the Lord was with him; He showed him kindness and granted him favour in the eyes of the prison warden. I was listening to the radio on the way to the office and heard a band called The Wanted singing today’s title in a song; they asked this question: “How do you get out of an all time low?" They then sang about a whole lot of things that would not help you, but never mentioned the One who would, Jesus. Listen, when you are in an “low time” God is there and really is your 'very present help in time of need' (Psalm 46:1). Think about Joseph. Here we see him sitting in prison when he had done nothing wrong, but also we see he was not alone. Read it again: both the Lord and His grace were present. Remember Joseph's story? His journey had started with big God-given dreams and promises, and almost straight away he woke up in a low – abandoned in a pit – because his brothers could not handle what God had promised. But as you read on you see God’s favour kept lifting him up and moving him forwards. Here we now see Joseph in a prison – he could have thought, “What is this about, what about the dreams?” In some ways this was an 'all-time low' for him. Yet he was not crushed or disappointed – why? Because he knew something that I am going to share with you. Here it is: this was just one chapter in a very, very good book – not the best chapter, granted, but like the other chapters it would come and it would go. He knew that God had promised him that the story would end looking a lot different to a prison cell; he trusted God above what he was feeling or currently experiencing (that’s faith). Champion, that is what we all need to do when we find ourselves in 'an all-time low'. Remember, God and His favour are present with us and that this is just a single chapter in a very good book (your life). We then turn a couple of pages in Joseph's life-story and he is no longer in a prison but instead the Prime Minister of the nation, saving the brothers who abandoned him in that earlier chapter of life. That’s God, my friend; if you keep believing He will keep moving you to the next and better chapter. Remember, His plans are to prosper you, to give you a hope and a future (Jer 29:11), but that does not mean that sometimes the road or route is not a little bumpy! God bless, Andy

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