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4W Doctrine of an abundant life

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🔷 4W Doctrine

1. WORSHIP — The Heart (Alignment)

“I live surrendered to God first.” – based upon John 4:23

Daily priority: relationship over results


Anchor: Who I am becoming > what I am doing Check: Am I aligned or just active?

2. WISDOM — The Mind (Direction)

“I seek truth before I make decisions.” – based upon Proverbs 4:7

Think SMARTER before acting HARDER Principles over preferences

Check: Is this right… or just easy / profitable?

3. WORK — The Hands (Execution)

“I act with discipline and excellence.” – based upon Colossians 3:23

HARDER: Do the work, daily No “shoulda”—only DIDA Check: Did I execute or just intend?

4. WEALTH — The Resources (Stewardship)

“I steward and multiply what God entrusts.” – based upon Isaiah 48:17

Money is a tool, not a master Love people. Use money.

Check: Am I managing or multiplying?

🔁 The Flow Order

Don’t treat these haphazardly — they stack in order:

  1. Worship → 2. Wisdom → 3. Work → 4. Wealth

If you flip it:

Wealth first → you drift Work first → you grind Wisdom first without worship → pride Worship first → FLOW

The 4W Creed

“I align my heart (Worship), renew my mind (Wisdom),
execute my disciplan (Work), and empower my resources (Wealth);
all for God’s glory.

Kirk

⚔️ Real Talk (Leader to leader)

Most people: want wealth, try to work, skip wisdom. ignore worship.

That’s why they stall. You don’t need more ideas—you need ordered discipline, that’s DisciPlan!

Spirit and Truth coincide with Relationship and Religion.

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“God is spirit, and those who worship Him
must worship in spirit and truth.”

John 4:24

My Pondering

We are called to worship, know and respond to God in spirit and truth as we read here as Jesus speaks to the Samaritan women at the well. The well is old and deep, as Jesus connects to her with His presence and spiritual resources to living water.

Spirit relates and connects us to relationship and true religion illuminates God’s holiness, His divine law, commands and righteousness.

Religion is transactional which is necessary in how it organizes, provides structure, truth and sound doctrine.

Relationship is transformational which is also necessary because it takes us to higher spiritual level connecting our heart and emotions to God’s essence of love, joy and grace.

Let’s move from transactional to relational, which is transformational. From surface level to deep meaning, from young milk drinkers to mature meat eaters.

Let’s transcend from knowledge > understanding > revelation > transformation. Each stage is important and we can have nor sustain one without the other as spirit and truth rely on each other.

God expects us to worship Him not because He needs it. He has angels doing that. He expects because His glory deserves it and because it connects us with Him and transforms us in higher dimension which He created us for; relationship.

Let’s aim to be:

Dependent upon God.

Interdependent with family and friends.

Independent from sin, as the Spirit empowers.

Let’s worship God in all that we do; corporately in public and internally in private. Let’s worship with our whole being, our head, heats and hands at church, home, work and play.

Do you agree and will you join me throughout our whole salvation process from redemption, through sanctification and ultimately to glorification into eternity?

Bach, music and overcoming pain

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Did you know?

Johan Sebastian Bach lost his little daughter and then three sons and then his wife. Then he remarried and then he and his second wife, Anna-Magdalena, lost four more daughters and three sons. Eleven beloved children…

Many researchers have wondered: how Bach managed to handle these losses?

How did he not stop breathing, how did his heart not stop?

And most importantly, how could he continue to write music?

Kantati, cello suites, masses, concerts… The most beautiful music the world has heard.

Do you know how he did it?

At the end of the his music, he always wrote “Soli Deo gloria” (Glory to God alone) and in the beginning, “Lord help.” Therefore, you can pray during Bach’s music because the music itself is prayer. You could, then, consider Bach’s music a conversation between man and God.

How do you deal with pain?

Worship is the best solace.

Although I struck you in anger… Isaiah 60

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My Pondering

This was originally written to the people of Israel. The good news for Christians is that God grafted us in to the family tree. He adopted us so it also applies in a certain but different sense.

We have much to look forward to. This genuine hope floats and shines mercifully into our souls.

Our future is surely brighter physically and spiritually.

God’s speed is painfully slow at times as one year to us can be a thousand to Him while one for Him could be a thousand for us. God is Spirit and timeless yet He is the author of it. When God calls, let’s be quick but not hurriedly rash. One moment, God moves slower than clouds yet when God acts, He is quicker than a lightning bolt.

Q: Why aren’t things like you describe happening here in our country?

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An African bishop described the wonderful things his churches were doing in a difficult part of his country. Hundreds of us listened to him, and we were deeply moved. After he spoke, the bishop took questions. Someone asked what a great many of us wanted to know: Why aren’t things like you describe happening here in our country?

The man wasn’t a diplomat. I liked that about him, and I liked it more after he answered this question. He said, “Here is the reason you do not have such things happening in this country. You Americans study your God. We Africans worship ours. You get smarter. We get changed. And then we change the world around us.”

His next words never left me. “By doing rather than merely studying, we create a culture. Newcomers and the young feed on that culture. They watch. They do. They, too, are changed. Our culture expands. You Americans create a system of thought. The most you ask is that people contemplate new ideas. You might ask them to give or to sometimes attend meetings, but no contagious culture is created. Nothing is offered to newcomers and the young but thoughts. So they think. They don’t do.”

Become your most Masculine Self

Worship

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Q: When we worship God is it about our giving to Him what is pleasing or is it more about getting what makes us feel pleasure?

A – My Pondering: Worship is about God first and foremost. Always has and always will. Anything else is a facade. We are encouraged to worship God not because God needs it, its because He deserves it. Its part of our creational design.

When we are filled with the Holy Spirit, it’s reciprocal as we are part of the circular relationship. As Jesus taught, less of my old self means more of Him, my new and improved man…that’s a good pleasurable exchange.

Apart from the Spirit residing in us, it’s impossible to please God via worship. There is no connection. With the Spirit, its inclusive, so its not an OR thing but an AND, from my experience and study of Scripture.

When we bless God, because He is so good and loving, we are blessed in return.