Entitlement is a Mentality, Not an Actuality!
For some of us, The Word of God is the very essence of our being. Our understanding of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice on our behalf is clearly understood as a debt that we can never ever fully repay; but we can honor His gift of salvation to us with our lives and how we live, and if we obey the scriptures, this demonstrates our sincere gratitude for His sacrificial gift of salvation.
Herein lies the problem: many can’t get past themselves! The mind and/or the mouth is causing so many to perish. Everything, and I do mean everything, is about them(you)! Even when it is NOT about them(you). You know the ones, even fellowshipping together turns into a “what about me” scenario. This description may be you or you know someone like this. You can’t even go to church and experience The Presence of Holy Spirit because someone offended you by sitting in “your seat”, or it was your turn to do the announcements but someone else was selected to do them. Its always something with them.
Or perhaps you and your friends or your family get together and here comes the complaining, the whining, and/or the gossiping that just diminishes the joy in getting together in the first place and sours the entire time spent. Its the same old rigamarole, the topic of them (or perhaps you are the one) dominating the conversations. Their problems, their complaining, their whining over and over and over and over. It gets old fast because it is the same time and time again.
Rest assured, 0these blogs are talking to the Church, those that are called by His name, The Body of Christ. It gets a bit tiresome to have to speak to you as babes and not as mature believers, however, my calling and my gifting requires obedience to my Heavenly Father.
If you are reading this, stop a moment, just pause…and do an introspection. This is between you and God.
How many times in a day do you say “I”? Count and see just how many times you begin a sentence with “I”. That one letter directs inward towards you.
In a group environment, are you content with how things are? Meaning, do you have to have this or that your way every time? Do you have to make it know when you do not like the way something is set up or being executed? Or how about your nose is up there because you wouldn’t have done it this way? Notwithstanding, ungodly or spiritually unclean environments that you shouldn’t have been in in the first place or your discernment picks up something is not spirally copacetic and you know you need to grab your grace and run! This message is not that to be clear.
If you honestly realized you start a lot of sentences with “I” or answered yes to the questions in #2, you have an entitlement mentality. And guess what Beloved, that is pride. And you already know, THAT spirit (pride) is not of Holy Spirit and you can rest assured, you will not have eternal life with that mindset nor that spirit dominating your life.
You can trust and believe that entitlement is a distortion of reality and therefore nothing more than a mentality! Holding on to that which you need to let go is dangerous. Jesus died for all of mankind, you (as well as all of us) are in that number, so there is no reason for you to think more highly of yourself than you ought.
Romans 12:3 - For by the grace [of God] given to me I say to everyone of you not to think more highly of himself [and of his importance and ability] than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has apportioned to each a degree of faith [and a purpose designed for service].
King David, mind you we are talking about a king, said: For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand [anywhere else]; I would rather stand [as a doorkeeper] at the threshold of the house of my God Than to live [at ease] in the tents of wickedness. Psalm 84:10. King David was merely making it clear that although he was a king, and was bestowed with great authority to rule and possess wealth unimaginable, he would rather be a mere doorkeeper at the House of God, than to live comfortably in his sin and out of his flesh. He was grounded in humility when he understood the revelation of who God is and that Sheol (Hell) is real.
Beloved, it can be said many times over and over, and it is said many times over and over in this ministry, far fewer make it into Heaven and have eternal life than those that land in Sheol (Hell) and have eternal death. Here it is in scripture:
Matthew 7:13-15 - 13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
You are deceived if you believe you can be on this earth with an air of entitlement (which is pride) and make it in. Meaning have eternal life. You confessed Jesus as your Lord and Savior and yet walk around as if you are entitled to be better than another person God created?
My apologies Beloved, but what did you create?
Did you breathe the Breath of Life into anything?
Can you make the sun stay in the sky?
Can you hold the earth in the exosphere and it not fall?
And yet you have pride and an air of entitlement. What that says is that you do not have a revelation of your Creator nor do you have the revelation to know to fear God.
Proverbs 9:10 - “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
You can say you fear Him, but your life demonstrates otherwise. Beloved, does it really matter if you are last on the list? If it is Father’s list, say… the Book of The Lamb, be thankful and make merry that you are on His list period! In the grander scheme of things, does it really matter what material things you have or do not have? Because, you entered this world with nothing and surely you shall leave with nothing. The Egyptians that had their wealth buried with them in their pyramid tombs are either on display as relics and historical artifacts or they were stolen by tomb raiders, but they remained here on Earth! And that which you felt you needed or had to have, now that you have acquired it, you still have no peace and have left a trail of broken and shattered relationships because your mindset of entitlement destroyed it all.
Remember this: Pride is a destroyer. Entitlement is a character trait of the spirit of Pride. Therefore, destruction is upon you because of your believing you are entitled.
Proverbs 16:18 - Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
Take a look at what a mentality of entitlement looks like in the scriptures:
2 Kings 5:1-14 Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy.
2 Now bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife. 3 She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”
4 Naaman went to his master and told him what the girl from Israel had said. 5 “By all means, go,” the king of Aram replied. “I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman left, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold and ten sets of clothing. 6 The letter that he took to the king of Israel read: “With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman to you so that you may cure him of his leprosy.”
7 As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy? See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me!”
8 When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes, he sent him this message: “Why have you torn your robes? Have the man come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.” 9 So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha’s house. 10 Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.”
11 But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage.
13 Naaman’s servants went to him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’!” 14 So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.
So, Just to recap:
Verse 1 - We learn Naaman has some sort of status, but not because of anything he did, but that The Lord did through him.
Learn and learn quickly, all that you have and who you are is not because of you, but because of what The Lord did for you either through you or through someone else for you.
Verse 7 - Even the king of Israel knew to acknowledge that even being a king, there are things that only God can do.
I am so obedient to my calling and my gifting, not because of myself, but because of the Lord My God moving through me. It is irrelevant whether I am liked or disliked because of this calling and this gifting, I fear and reverence my Creator and therefore, it is Him whom I strive to please and stay in His will. And to many, this fact does not look like many thought it would or even should.
Verse 8 - Elisha, the Man of God (Prophet) heard of Naaman’s medical need, he reached out to have Naaman come to him, because The Lord was going to heal Naaman through Him (in this case, through Elisha with instructions) and Naaman arrives with all his pomp and pageantry.
A clear sign of a person who has a mentality of entitlement is the fact that they always have to make a grand appearance, now-a-days its with the vehicle they drive, the loud music, anything that commands attention. And in all their pomp and pageantry - they are either in debt because of it (deep debt - let me add) or they were gifted with it because it surely isn’t something they of themselves could truly afford on their own except The Lord do it for them.
Further, when Naaman learns he must go and dip in the Jordan River, one of the dirtiest rivers at the time, he pitched a fit because as you read for yourself, he is Naaman and felt entitled to one of the more…shall we say, cleaner bodies of water.
You really have to just shake your head. Some people and they mentality of entitlement you really have to pity them because pride has blinded them.
Verse 11 - And still being on his proverbial soapbox, Naaman goes on further to point out that Elisha didn’t even come out to greet him.
From there on to verse 14, Naaman, is given a tongue-lashing in which his entitlement is brought to his attention since it is he in need of healing of leprosy. Therefore, he finally has a reality check and goes and dips in the Jordan River. There is a whole message in his “dipping” seven times in the river. You who are spiritual will get it right away.
In closing, we are a teaching ministry. Henceforth, f this teaching ministered to you and opened your eyes and ears of understanding, do not allow the adversary to attack you with condemnation. Just as Jesus said in John 8:11 - Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more. Beloved get over yourself and be healed, delivered, and set free from the spirit of pride in the form of an entitled mindset.
Blessed Be The Name of God our Father and The Lord Jesus Christ,
Apostle & Prophetess Wendy Connor
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