Monday, December 20, 2004

Our Father Leads Us In All Truth

"Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come. He shall glorify Me: for He shall receive of Mine, and shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are Mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and shew it unto you." John 16:13-15

“And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” John 8:32 We shall know all of the Truth of God, because our Father will guide us into all of His Truth and His Truth shall make us free! Our Father is not limited by our humanity or by our flesh. Our Father loves us so much that He gave us His Holy Spirit and through Him, God is able to guide us into all Truth. The Holy Ghost will take each and every last thing that our Father has given to Jesus and He will reveal it all to us, and through His Truth, we shall be free!

The Holy Spirit will strengthen us to accept the Truth and the eternal power that is within it! He will go to God and advocate on our behalf and He will empower us to actually live in the fullness of God’s Truth! The Holy Spirit will teach us and strengthen us in the Truth of God’s love and through the power of Christ within us, we will love as Jesus loves! The love of God will set us free and it will cast out all fear from within us! The Holy Ghost, the very Spirit of God, shall teach us of the abundance of God. He will take all that Jesus is and reveal it to us and through the power of the Holy Spirit we shall know our Father, as Jesus knows our Father, and we shall be free! The Holy Ghost shall teach us to be used by God in the ministering of His spiritual gifts, as Jesus was used by God in the ministering of His spiritual gifts, and we shall be free. The Holy Ghost shall teach us to pray, to witness, to forgive, to hope, to love, to live, and to live abundantly in every area of our lives, spirit, soul, and body, as Jesus lives abundantly, and we shall be free, free as Jesus is free!

“Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him. For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:9-11

Our Father's ways are higher than mans ways, this is the Truth; God knows this Truth, so He gave Himself to us to guide us in all of His Truth, so His ways can now be our ways as well! “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, Whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26

There is absolutely nothing that our Father does not know and He gave us the Holy Ghost to teach us everything! Our relationship with our Father, Who is God, is so complete and so intimate that He proclaims, “But the anointing which ye received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is Truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.” 1 John 2:27 Our Father has provided a way for us to know all of His Truth, even if we never have a Bible! Even if we were cast out on an island with no other human being around, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we could still be taught everything and know everything and be free! Once we are empowered to say yes to Jesus, we are never alone again; He will never leave us or forsake us. Jesus leads us in the paths of righteousness and A-men, He knows the way! Our Father knows how to teach each one of us, what may be needed for me, may not be needed for you. Our Father deals with each of us individually, as He leads us into all of His Truths that set us free!

“Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” 1 Corinthians 2:13 Man’s wisdom is foolishness to God! “Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” 1 Corinthians 1:25 Just look at America, we try to have the government take care of our elderly. So we created Social Security and it is virtually bankrupting the Country, and no one can live on the puny amount provided by it. America spends billions of dollars on educating our youth, and yet millions of our children aren’t being taught. We have passed hundreds of laws that demand that we respect each other, and yet racial and social divides still exist. These things are all examples of man’s wisdom and none of them work! But with God, there is no failure, God has all of the answers; God gives peace that passes understanding, Philippians 4:7, even in a world where people blow themselves up to kill others in the name of Allah. God’s ways are higher than mans ways. Our Father has a retirement plan for all of His children and it’s an inheritance to our children’s, children, Proverbs 13:22. Our Father has a health plan that doesn’t even require a minimum co-pay, 1 Peter 2:24. These Truth’s all sound like foolishness to men, but for those of us who have believed on Jesus as Lord and who have been filled with His Holy Spirit, these are the Truth’s that have set us free! Through the Truth we have ceased from our own labors and have entered into God’s rest. We have been given a sound mind that no longer fears and we now are empowered by Christ to take no thought for our own lives, for Our Father knows what we need and when we need it, and He supplies our needs and our wants in abundance!

Over the last several postings we have discussed some pretty awesome truths and I know that it can be an intimidating thing to look at a verse and see that we can ask for anything we want or read that we should be prosperous in everything we do. Everything: spiritually, soulfully, and physically, prosperous in everything, this is the Truth of the power of God within us. When was the last time you heard it preached that we could know all of the Truth that Jesus knows? I know that many in religion try to qualify these truths, or even shy away from them, out of fear. But we have not been given a spirit of fear, but of power and of love, and we have a sound mind, the mind of Christ, 2 Timothy 1:7! Think about it, only if a person is truly saved will God perform His Truths through them, so why shy away from them? If a person is saved, great, they are new creatures in Christ and they will ask and desire godly things. If they are not, they won't, and it does not matter if they desire or ask for evil, because what they ask for and desire, will not be heard by God! "Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doth His will, him He heareth." John 9:31

The reason there is no fear in the incredible power described in these verses we have been studying is because of the Truth mentioned by Jesus in John 16: “the Holy Ghost will guide us in all Truth!” God has given Himself to strengthen and teach those of us who have truly accepted Jesus as Lord and who walk in His salvation. God will give us the desires of our hearts! Now that not only means that we will get something we have asked for, but it means that God put the desire in our hearts in the first place, so that we would ask for it. We can ask, because we have been made perfect in our oneness: Jesus is now within us, we are now in Jesus, and Jesus is in God, all made perfect in one so that the world may believe and be saved! Paul describes being born again like this, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me." Galatians 2:20

We have said yes to Jesus, so we can ask, desire, and believe for what our Father wills this day. We have been born of God, we have been chosen by Him, and He has given us a new heart and a new spirit that is completely and perfectly equipped to ask for His will! Not only do we now have a new heart and spirit, we now have God within us, insuring that we are saved to the uttermost, teaching us all Truth and allowing us to be set free by the knowledge and wisdom that He is now teaching us. Heaven and earth will pass away, but the Truth that God is teaching us will remain! God has given us everything needed, even Authoring and Finishing our faith to believe that He able and willing to do what He has spoken! Our Father is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 Through the strength of the Anointing of God, which is Christ, we are able to allow God to be Who He is within us, and we are able to allow these Truths to transform us into the children that Jesus went to the Cross-for us to be!

"So faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God." Romans 10:17 "Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of things we hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality. Hebrews 11:1 Amplified Bible And praise God, “Looking unto Jesus the Authorer and Finisher of our faith,” Hebrews 12:2. We have been given the Holy Ghost to teach us all things; we have Jesus Who allows us to have the faith to diligently seek God, and be rewarded because of it, and we have God’s Word on it. It’s finished! Greater is He that is within us, than he that is in the world and God can now do all things through us by Christ Who has strengthened us!

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