No Neutrality in the Spirit

One of the things that we have to recognize as we move forward towards the Manifestation of the Kingdom of God, is that there is No Neutrality in the Spirit. Either you're Moving Forward or you're Moving Backwards, but there is no Neutral, no standing still. This is something that all of us as believers need to be aware of, because right about now it's all about gaining ground and losing ground. There are too many Christians that think they're "ok" because nothing catastrophic is going on in their lives or because they're not engaging in any "major" sins. Oh contraire saints. Once again, there is No Neutrality in the Spirit. You can't just stand still. Either you're making progress or you're digressing.

When we think of being Neutral, like putting a car in neutral, we think of something standing still, or something or someone not taking sides; they're "neutral" on the issue. But once again, such is not the case. If you go to an automatic car wash, before you go in the area where the washing takes place, they ask you to put your car in neutral. Not park, but neutral. Why? Because when your car is in neutral, it has the ability to be swayed in the direction for which the car wash machine moves it. This is how it is in the spirit realm. When you're not "parked in the Lord", Abiding in Him, your mind and heart have the ability to be Satanically swayed. It doesn't matter what the issue is. Remember, Satan is subtle (Genesis 3). So, all he's looking for is an available mind to "sway" in his satanic direction. That's why we can't afford to be neutral. We can't afford to be laxed. We can't afford to be slothful.We have to be sober and vigilant and make sure that we're being diligent to enter into the Rest of the Lord (Hebrews 4). Otherwise we're going to look up and we will find ourselves having spiritually digressed out of the Divine Will of God.

Therefore, my recommendation is this: let's make a decision one way or the other in terms of which direction we're going to go in for the Lord. If you're going all in for the Lord, do it with intensity, with passion, with fervor, with deliberation. Don't be "half-way" selling out to the Lord. That's contradictory in and of itself. If you're going to make the decision to be sold-out for the Lord then do it! And if you're not don't. What I mean by this, and I know it's going to sound unconventional, but if you're not going to sell out for the Lord, go the other way. I'm not saying to renounce your salvation. I'm saying quit playing games. Quit being lukewarm. If you want to be out there, in the world, doing your thing, do it!

There's biblical support for this position. This is what happened to the Prodigal Son (Luke 15). He had made up his mind that he didn't want to live in his father's house anymore. He got his stuff and moved out. It was a rough experience for him. But what looked like digression actually resulted in progress. He "came to himself" and returned home as the son he should've been before he left. But let's look at the son who stayed home; the one most would consider "the good boy". He didn't leave home (we assume). According to his report, he did everything his daddy had asked him to do. By all appearances, he was a good son. But when his brother came home and the father threw a celebration party, the son who stayed home didn't have the spirit to rejoice with his father. This story's not just about how the son who stayed home felt about his prodigal brother, it's about his disconnect with the father. Saints, when God brings some of us into our full inheritance, there are some people who've been at "home in the church" for a long time, that are going to be haters just like this brother who stayed home. But why was he a hater? Because what he thought was progress by staying home, actually resulted in his own spiritual digression. Whenever you can't rejoice with The Father, you've gone backwards. That's why I'm saying saints. Let us all check ourselves, wherever we are in our walk with Christ, and make sure we're not going backwards in the name of "being good". For there's No Neutrality in the Spirit.