How to Be About Your Father’s Business in a Distracting Age | 08 NOV. 2025 | PHB

PHB | 08 NOV. 2025 | PREPARING HIS BRIDE
You are created and called to live as a beloved child, not a slave—so stop living small under the “elements of this world” and begin to grow into true sonship. Open your whole life to God like a house that has already been fully paid for and designed, not just one tidy corner; let Him renovate every room and shut every “open window” and door that lets in spiritual drafts and contradictions. Remember that you once walked according to the prince of the power of the air and were a slave to sin, but now you have received a new nature and the Holy Spirit, who plants in you the cry “Abba, Father” and trains you to obey from the heart. Sonship is not a gender or a title; it is a nature and a responsibility: you inherit the Father’s mind, carry His authority, and are trusted to act in ways that reflect His heart even when no direct instruction is given. You still choose daily whom you will serve—sin or righteousness—and your choices are not neutral: every act of obedience is presenting your body as a servant of righteousness, and every indulgence of the flesh strengthens slavery to sin. The way out is not mere “binding and casting” but maturing—measuring up, practicing obedience over time, and letting your inner life be coated with righteousness until your instinctive responses begin to look like Jesus under pressure. To do this, you must immerse yourself in the Father’s business: give generous time and attention to His Word and His Spirit, not just songs, services, and activity; feed on Scripture until it becomes your internal “hyperlink system,” the language that lets you truly recognize and follow God’s voice. Understand that both heaven and hell are constantly throwing “links” at your heart—ideas, images, desires—and whatever you repeatedly click, scroll, meditate on, and revisit becomes your history, your bookmarks, and eventually your nature. Don’t be idle or spiritually casual; idleness makes you easy to tempt, but a heart preoccupied with God’s cycles, God’s assignments, and God’s presence finds the world’s pop-ups dull and powerless. Let God wean you from the pleasures and distractions you love, not by guilt but by an intentional exchange: start by surrendering portions of your time and attention—an “installment plan” of love—until the old appetite loses its grip and you discover that you genuinely prefer His presence. Refuse to hide behind service and church attendance while lacking a private life with God; a real relationship with Him shows up as consistent personal prayer, time in the Word, and visible growth in character, not just being around spiritual people. Guard your heart in this age of constant digital bombardment; don’t let social media, entertainment, and worldly narratives slowly normalize darkness while you remain mentally and spiritually stagnant—pursue ongoing mind renewal so that holiness becomes beautiful to you and sin increasingly absurd. Embrace giving as part of your spiritual training: don’t live as a perpetual receiver, but connect your finances to God’s work and to the poor, at whatever level you can, so that your heart learns generosity, trust, and participation in the kingdom’s real costs and burdens. Know that God has already elected you, called you, and invited you into His heavenly economy: you are seated with Christ in heavenly places, called to speak the language of heaven, to trade love with God, to practice righteousness as a lifestyle, and to live in such deep engagement with Him that when temptation and worldliness make their offers, your heart is already too occupied with the glory of another world to be impressed.