Cooking for the King
I saw a documentary recently about Windsor Castle and the staff that serve the Queen and the royal family there.
They had all prepared for a banquet that was to celebrate the peace between France and England for the past hundred years
(the Entente Cordiale), so everything had to be perfect. The royal chef had to make sure that everyone involved was listened
to and accommodated, and it all went very well in the end despite guests being late and protesters at the gates. When they
interviewed the Royal Chef afterward, he said something that really struck a spiritual chord. He said, "There is no room for
ego here like other chefs, when you are the Royal chef, my job is only to find out what the Queen wants, and serve that to
her, and to the others she wants to be fed. This sounded profound because many other high profile chefs love to be adulated
and praised for their personal creations and world famous cuisine.
In the Body of Jesus, we have had many people either knowingly or unknowingly serving up food to the rest of the
Body that they think will make them look good and pump up their own spiritual ego or so called "ministry", but if you notice,
there rarely seems to be alot of anointing or stability in what they are serving up, and why is that? They need to drop their
egos and flesh and find out what King Jesus wants to be served up on the menu, rather than something that supposedly makes
them look good. When we truly love the sheep, we will want to feed them the most nourishing food we can straight from heaven
because you want them to be strong and bear fruit for our kingdom, and for the glory of God. If we are still trying to impress
people to win their praise, affirmation, and approval, then we need to pray for more of Gods love for the sheep and for Him.
We all must learn this so that we become good obedient chefs to the King.
Another thing about cooking for the King is that we need to make sure the food is not mixed with impurities and
that it is as pure as possible. The Wilderness is about purging us of these impurities (sin habits, flesh, unforgiveness,
lack of love) and helping us to become "clean pipes" so to speak, to carry His words and power to a very hurting and lost
world. You wouldn't sprinkle arsenic onto a pot roast before you served it to your dinner guests, but when we harbor sin,
bitterness, and unforgiveness in our hearts and try to minister to others, it mixes with our gifting and can defile and contaminate
those who partake of it. In this Wilderness, God has been purifying us from all the wounds and sin habits of the past that
have been poisoning our hearts and tainting the good food that God is wanting to serve up through us. The Holy Spirit has
been teaching us to serve up good, healthy, pure, anointed food from heaven. Be encouraged this day that when He is finished
with His Wilderness work in you, that you will be the best chef you can possibly be, and that you will feed the many new sheep
that will come into the Kingdom because of the soon coming great North American revival. "Bon Appetit".
JN 5:19 Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he
can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the
Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these. 21 For just as the
Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.
JN 15:5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much
fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers;
such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever
you wish, and it will be given you. 8 This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my
disciples.
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