Friday, November 25, 2005

Gods Will Be Done

“But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19

What does Jesus say that our greatest need is? “But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33 All things will be added unto us if we seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness! Our need to seek God’s Kingdom first has been supplied unto us according to God’s abilities and according to His glory! “And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them.” Ezekiel 36:27

We are now members of Jesus’ body, we are now new creatures in Christ, we now have the mind of Christ, Jesus is now our Head, and we have been crucified with Christ, and nevertheless we live. Yet it is not us that lives, it is Christ in us that lives! As born again children of God we cannot help but seek first God’s Kingdom and His righteousness, because we are one with it and because that need is met by God according to His riches and according to His glory! “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in Me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in Us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are one: I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in One; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” John 17:21-23

There is only one way to have all of our needs met and that is by seeking God first! And salvation through Jesus Christ insures that we will! If something needs corrected, God will prune it out of us, so that He can produce much fruit through us! It’s all God, it has always been God, and it will always be God! Greater is He that is within us than he that is in the world! If someone is preaching that we need to do something to get God to move and they don’t preach that it is God within us doing it, than they are preaching a lie! They are preaching something other than the Gospel and they are accursed! When Jesus was called good, He said that only God was good. When Jesus preached about works, He preached that it was God within Him doing the works! Remember this Truth: the only thing Jesus ever did to be the Christ, was to be born by God! It’s the Father within us, He does the works, and we have been born again only by the will of God!

Be blessed in this Truth and the Truth will set us free! God’s will be done!

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Faith In Being Used By God

“Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doth the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father.” John 14:10-12

The Holy Spirit of God that now dwells within us does not stagger at this Truth, and He strengthens us, and teaches us, and allows us to abound in hope in believing all of the Truth of what Jesus spoke here! The mind of Christ that we now have staggers not at this Truth and it fully and completely believes that God is able and willing to work through us, just as He did through Jesus! Take notice of how Jesus had compassion on the sick and hungry and how God used Him to do something about it. God is a God of answers. Some people came to Jesus with great faith, some did not, but regardless, God answered them and had compassion on them, and He used the body of Jesus to work through. Jesus’ body, made of earth, just like ours, and empowered by the Holy Spirit, just like ours, was the chosen vessel of God’s compassion! This is what it boils down to, it has been born into us, we have been anointed with the strength, and we have been empowered with the Holy Spirit to be fully used by God to show the same compassion that He showed through Jesus. The One Who was used by God, Jesus, is the One Who is now Authoring and Finishing our Faith!

After all that we have studied about being used by God, ask yourself this: what do you believe that our faith should look like? Jesus is Lord, and greater is He that is within us, than he that is in the world!

Father Your will be done!

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

True Godly Compassion

“In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples unto Him, and saith unto them, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with Me three days, and have nothing to eat: And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far. And His disciples answered Him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness? And He asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven. And He commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and He took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to His disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people. And they had a few small fishes: and He blessed, and commanded to set them also before them. So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets. And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and He sent them away.” Mark 8:1-9

Jesus called things that are not, as though they were, and thousands of people were fed! Jesus is now the Author and Finisher of our faith! Jesus is our Vine and we are His branches! God never changes, He worked this way through Elijah, through David, through Abraham, through Moses, through Jesus, through Peter, and through Paul and He works this way through us today! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for and we have the Holy Spirit dwelling within us and He empowers us to abound in the hope of being filled with and being used with the fullness of God! The Holy Spirit allows us to hope to be used as Jesus was used and He allows us to hope that we will be used to do even greater works than Jesus was used for! Faith comes for us by hearing how God works through us! Today is the day of our salvation and today God will work through the least one of us greater than He ever worked through the greatest of the Old Testament! A-men, we are born again from the Incorruptible Seed of God and A-men we will be used!

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

How God Desires To Use Us

“While He yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further? As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, He saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe. And He suffered no man to follow Him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James. And He cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly. And when He was come in, He saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed Him to scorn. But when He had put them all out, He taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with Him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying. And He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment. And He charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.” Mark 5:35-43

God didn’t use Jesus to pray for the dead girl, He used Jesus to command her to live, and she did! If we say that we are in Him, than we too should walk, even as He walked! “He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.” 1 John 2:6 God will use us exactly as He used Jesus and the world will believe and Jesus will be glorified through us! My point is this, as Christians we love to pray for the sick, pray for the hungry homeless man on the corner, and pray that the hurricane not hit. But through the Word we see that God works very differently. God used Jesus to command the sick to be whole. He used Jesus to bless the food so that it multiplied, and He used Jesus to tell the storms to cease! God never changes and Jesus said that if we believe on Him than we would be used by God in the same way! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth will set us free to be used by God with all of His fullness!

We are eternally blessed with the omnipotent power of His glory!

Monday, November 21, 2005

Power Even When We Just Show Up

“And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched His garment. For she said, If I may touch but His clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that virtue had gone out of Him, turned Him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? And His disciples said unto Him, Thou seest the multitude thronging Thee, and sayest Thou, Who touched me? And He looked round about to see her that had done this thing. But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before Him, and told Him all the truth. And He said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.” Mark 5:25-34

We have been set free from the weakness and separation that the wage of sin brought, so that God can now use us exactly like He used Jesus. If God did it through Jesus, He can do it through us! And look how God used Jesus with the woman who had a blood issue; Jesus didn’t need to do anything except be there! God’s virtue just flowed from Him, and as He is, so are we in this world! “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father.” John 14:12

Sunday, November 20, 2005

We Are The Glory Of Jesus

“And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, ever as we are One.” John 17:22

Jesus prayed that He would be glorified through us, and praise God He is! Every time God is able to perform His works through us, it’s all on account of Jesus! Jesus prayed that we would be one, and Hallelujah we are and that is why the world will believe! “That they all may be one; as Thou Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.” John 17:21 What we read in John 17 is Jesus asking God for us to be empowered, just as He was empowered. Jesus prayed that we would be one with God, just as He was one with God. Jesus desired these things so that God could work through us, just as He worked through Him. Jesus prayed that we would be protected, just as He was protected. Jesus had the authority to ask and God was able to give Jesus what He asked for, and it is all so that God can produce truly righteous and holy fruit through us, just as He did through Jesus! It does not glorify Jesus by us believing that since we are just humans that God cannot work through us as He did through Jesus. No! Jesus came and freely offered Himself, and through His sacrifice, Jesus gave God the ability to come to us! Through the power of Jesus’ shed Blood, He gave God the ability to empower us with everything that He had empowered Jesus with! All of this was done so that God could work through us just as He did through Jesus! Jesus was fully God and He has given us the ability to be one with God, just as He was one with God. This is how Jesus is glorified through us. What glory is there in just talking about Jesus? Glory is obtained when actions are taken, and our actions are those of God working through us in power and demonstration of His Spirit! Faith comes from us hearing this Truth and this Truth sets us free!

This Truth will set us free, it will perfect us, it will allow us to minister, and it will edify the body of Christ! “For the perfecting of the saints, for the working of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.” Ephesians 4:12 Praise God through the ministry of the Truth we shall no more be tossed to and fro and we shall no more be deceived and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the cunning craftiness of evil men! Through the ministry of the Truth with the power of Christ Himself we shall grow up in all things and become the glorious church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish that Jesus is returning for! A-men and A-men!

Saturday, November 19, 2005

We Are Kept By God Himself

“I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which Thou hast given Me, for they are Thine. And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to Thee. Holy Father, keep through Thine Own Name those whom Thou hast given Me, that they may be one, as We are One.” John 17:9-11

Hallelujah Jesus prayed for us and there is no stronger and no more eternal prayer than Jesus’. Jesus told Lazarus to rise from the dead and he did! Jesus told the lame to walk, the blind to see, the water to be wine, and the storms to cease, and A-men they obeyed His every Word! And here Jesus prayed that He would be glorified through us and praise God He is! Jesus prayed that God would keep us, and He prayed that we would be one with God and one with each other through Him and A-men we are! Jesus always receives what He asks God for, He never asks amiss! Now stop and really take hold of what Jesus asked God for us to have! Jesus prayed that God would keep us! Jesus prayed that God Himself would keep us, not an angel, not a bishop, not even ourselves, but that God would and A-men He does! “I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from evil.” John 17:15 “And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto His Heavenly Kingdom: to Whom be glory for ever and ever. A-men.” 2 Timothy 4:18

Just as God kept Jesus, that is how we are kept. They wanted to throw Jesus over a cliff for reading God’s Word, but God kept Him and Jesus just walked away! They wanted to stone Jesus for telling the Truth, and yet God kept Him and He just walked away! Satan wanted to tempt Jesus after He had fasted for forty days, and yet God kept Him and Jesus just told satan to leave and that old defeated dog had to flee! Herod tried to kill Jesus when He was just a child and God kept Him and delivered Him! Death tried to hold Jesus, but God kept Him and raised Him up from the dead and delivered Him from the grave and because God did, we are alive this day in Him and praise God no weapon that has been formed against us will ever prosper! Praise God because He did, we are now more than conquerors through Christ that ever lives to intercede for us so that we might be saved to the uttermost! Hallelujah we are kept and praise His Holy Name we are preserved by God Himself! This is the day that the Lord has made and through His glorious power we are able to rejoice and be glad in it!

Friday, November 18, 2005

We Have Been Chosen By God To Produce Righteous Fruit

"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it to you." John 15:16

We have been chosen and ordained by God! We are a royal priesthood that has been strengthened with the very Anointing of God, so that He can produce His righteous fruit through us, and the fruit that God produces through us will remain for eternity. God worked through Jesus to raise the dead, heal the sick, direct the weather, and feed thousands of hungry people with just a couple loafs of bread and a few fish. And most importantly God used Jesus to shed His Blood on the Cross, so that all who call upon Him might be saved! This all happened 2000 years ago and all of God’s fruit remains to this day! The Blood that Jesus shed for us some 2000 years ago is every bit as strong today as it was then, and the fruit that Jesus used to prove that it was God working through Him, still motivates and strengthens us today! We have the exact same God working within us, we stand in the exact same Anointing, we have the exact same Spirit within us, and the exact same perfect Blood that flowed through Jesus and allowed God to be in Him, is still in full force for us! The works that God performs through us will remain, just as the works that He performed through Jesus will remain, how awesome is that? “Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.” 1 Corinthians 3:13-14 God does the works and we receive the rewards! Hallelujah that is good stuff!

Jesus has provided the way for God to succeed through us in every area of our lives. Jesus has given our mortal lives the strength that allows God to work through us and to produce His fruit, and since we have been chosen for this very purpose, whatsoever thing we ask for, with the Authority of the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus, God will give it! The Truth is that we have been chosen to follow in Jesus’ footsteps, and God has empowered us with Himself so that we can, and so that He can! God wants us to receive rewards, the more rewards we receive, the more He worked through us! We should be asking God for everything, so that He can do everything, and then He can reward us for His labors! This is how the Spirit within us thinks, this is the Incorruptible Seed that we have been born of, and this is the Anointing that has been given us, all of the powers of righteousness look to God for everything, for the small things and the large things!

Thursday, November 17, 2005

More Than Just Words For The World

“Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.” Acts 5:15-16

“And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy. And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise and make thy bed. And he arose immediately. And all that dwelt in Lyda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord.” Acts 9:33-35

A man was healed by the power of God flowing throw a believer, and because this sick man was loved in deed and not just with words, two whole cities turned to the Lord and were saved! Do you believe that if Peter had just gone and told this sick man that he was praying for him and that Jesus loved him, that there would have been the same result? Does God change? Did God love Lyda and Saron more that He loves Paris, New York, Columbus, or New Albany?

There are dozens of other scriptures that show the power of God working through His children, loving people in need with action and immediate answers and not just with words. Jesus told us that all who believe would act as the Apostles acted. “And Jesus said unto them, Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak in new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Mark 16:15-18

We have been strengthened with Christ, the Anointing of God, so that all of us who believe can be used by God to do the works that Jesus did and walk as Jesus walked. The same Jesus Christ that healed through Peter will heal through us. Peter didn’t walk in his own power, his faith was Authored by Jesus, just as our faith is. The church has become very good at preaching with only enticing words, but allowing God to work fully through us is another story. Enticing words are not God’s will for those in need. God’s will is that He can work powerfully for those in need even through the least one of us. Faith comes from us hearing this, and Jesus will Author and Finish our faith so that we can be used to bring full glory and honor to God, by allowing Him to be Who He is within us. Through the power of Christ we can go beyond just saying that we love God, to truly loving God, loving Him in Truth and in deed! Today is the day of our salvation and now is our accepted time! God has placed His Spirit within us and He has caused us to walk in His statutes and in His judgments! We have called upon the Name of the Lord and we are saved! Jesus is our Vine and we are His branches, and the will of God is for Jesus to produce much fruit through us! These are the Truth’s of who we are in Christ and these are the Truth’s of Who God is within us! The Truth will set us free and our freedom will show itself through God’s active deeds of love, and the world will believe and be saved! We are God’s glorious church, a chosen royal priesthood. Through the power of Christ God has removed all of our spots and wrinkles, and He has cleansed our blemishes, and He has strengthened us with His very might! Glory be to God, this is the Truth!

Father I thank You that through Christ we all come to the full knowledge of Your Truth. I pray that we go from just talking about Your fullness to being fully used by You! Father with You all things are possible and the Blood of Jesus has strengthened us so that we can now be partakers of all of Your possibilities! Father I thank You that You never change and that it is still Your will that we are used by You to show Your immense love to the world in action and in deed! Father You are greater in us than anything that is in this world and through You we can be used to do all things! Thank You!

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

How God Will Use Us

“That He would grant unto you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with the fullness of God. Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.” Ephesians 3:16-20

“Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.” Colossians 1:11

Through Christ and with His anointed mind we live with the power of the knowledge of the Truth, and the Truth is this, it is God’s will that we should preach the Gospel in the power and demonstration of His Spirit. And with the wisdom of the Truth that we have been strengthened with all might according to God’s glorious power, and in the Truth that we have been filled and strengthened with the fullness of God, let’s study some scriptural examples of God loving others through us in action and in deed.

“And Peter fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, look at us. And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. Then Peter said, silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And he took him by the hand, and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the Temple, walking and leaping, and praising God.” Acts 3:4-8

God used Peter and John to command this man to be whole. Just as God used Jesus to command Lazarus to live, the storm to stop, the water to be wine, the food to multiply, and the fish to cough up tax money! Faith comes by hearing the Truth that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And if this is how He worked in times past, this is how He works today, and this is how He will work tomorrow! We are blessed and are a blessing in the power of God’s might!

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

For The Saved It Is Not A Question Of If

“But whoso keepeth His Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby we know that we are in Him. He that saith he abideth in Him, ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.” 1 John 2:5-6

The way that we will know that we are in God, is by having God’s perfect love flow through us, and by walking in the power and demonstration of His Spirit, just as Jesus walked in power and demonstration of the Spirit! The perfect love of God is what allows us to love in deed and in Truth. Jesus came and He served the needs of those around Him, and if you read the Gospels, He wasn’t just out there telling the people that He loved them; He showed them God’s love for them by allowing God to use Him to answer their needs! Jesus allowed the power of God to flow through Him and the lost were saved, the sick were healed, and the dead were raised, and God was magnified and glorified through His life! It’s not just about us loving others through our deeds; it’s about truly loving God enough to allow Him to work through us by performing His deeds of virtue and righteousness! If the only thing we were ever to do was just to say that we love and never walk in the power and demonstration of love, as Jesus walked in the power and demonstration of God’s love, than we are deceiving ourselves and the Truth is not in us! Our faith would be dead. But our faith is not dead, because our faith is derived directly from Jesus Who is alive, and Jesus is leading us into the paths of God’s righteousness for His Name’s sake! Because of the strength of Christ, we will walk as He walked, with the signs of God flowing from us, and the knowledge of His wisdom will be made known to every creature, as He performs His works through us! We are born again of God, and God is love, and God’s love is active, and as He is, so is He through us, even while we are in this world!

“And I will put My spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them.” Ezekiel 36:27 Because we are born again God has placed His Spirit within us and He will cause us to walk in power and demonstration of His Spirit! God is not a man that He should lie.

“And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.” 1 Corinthians 2:4

Monday, November 14, 2005

True Love For God

"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth." 1 John 3:18

Through the power of Christ that has strengthened us, we are now able to be used by God to do all things. And through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that now strengthens us with the knowledge and the abilities of God, we can go beyond just talking about loving the world! We now can be used by God to actually love the world with His actions and with His power! The Truth of God Himself has set us free to be the vessels and instruments of His Divine Love! Through Christ we can now love the world, we can now love our brothers and sisters, and we can now love God, just as Jesus loves! “And I have declared unto them Thy Name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” John 17:26 We have Jesus continuing to declare God’s Name unto us, and since He ever lives to intercede for us, we continually have the Love of God abounding through us! Through Christ our love is now active and alive and through Christ we are now able to be used by God to do the works that He did through Jesus and we are able to be used to do even greater ones!

This is the day that the Lord has made and we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to rejoice and be glad in it!

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Through Christ We Have All Of The Answers

"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." Philippians 4:13

The world doesn’t know how to stop terrorism, but through Christ we do, and with the power of God that now dwells within us, He can use us to stop it! Salvation is the only answer to stop the violence and we now have the mind of Christ that knows that we have been perfected in our oneness with God through Jesus Christ, and because we have been, the world will believe! “I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.” John 17:23 The Muslims who have been caught in a lie, will know that God loves them, just as He loves Jesus, and they will believe, and they will accept Jesus as Lord and terrorism will cease!

The world doesn’t know how to cure AIDS, but we do, because we now have the Anointed mind of God, and we know that all we have to do is lay our hands on the sick and the power of God within us will cure all diseases. To the world, the simplicity of what God has spoken as Truth is stupidity, it’s to easy, they believe nothing can be this simple, life is hard. That is the Stumblingstone that God has laid in Zion, the world looks to themselves for actions and answers, but the Truth that will set the world free, is that it is God Who will do the works through us, and nothing is hard for God! The world doesn’t know how to stop Hurricanes or Tornadoes, but Jesus did! He just spoke to the weather, and it became what He said. This is the strength that now abides within us! The world believes that we must have money to do anything, but God just calls what He needs into being, and we now have that Anointed mind, and we now have that Anointed strength! Faith for us comes from hearing these Truth’s, and these Truth’s will set us free. These Truth’s are eternal, and the glorious church without spot or wrinkle, the church that is as Jesus is in this world, will walk and live in the fullness of God. Through Christ God will be fully Who He is within us, and we will live the way that God lives, and then Jesus will return! God has given us His unction and He has strengthened us with His Anointing so that we can know all things and so that we can be used by Him to do all things!

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” John 14:12

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Through Christ We Think LIke Christ

"For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ." 1 Corinthians 2:16

God chose Jesus and He appointed Him, and He empowered Him, and we now have His mind! Jesus knew how He was going to die and when He was going to die, so there was never any fear or doubt along the way about the will of God concerning His death. He could walk right in and preach even in places where they wanted to kill Him, because He knew the Truth of when and how He was going to die, and that Truth set Him free to be used by God! Jesus knew that He was going to be raised up from the dead, and that allowed Him to have the faith to offer Himself freely to be crucified. No man took Jesus’ life, He had been set free by the Truth, and He freely laid His life down for us! This is the mind that we now have! Jesus knew that He was born of God and that allowed Him to fully know and understand that God could use Him. Jesus knew what to say to each and every person, and that allowed Him to go and give the exact words of freedom and in the exact manner that they needed to hear it! Jesus knew that it was God within Him doing all of these works so He had no fear, and we now have His mind. Jesus was anointed by God, He was strengthened by God, so that He could fully and completely know the Truth and the Anointing of God set Jesus free to be fully used by God, and we now have the Anointing that God gave Jesus, the Anointing of Christ, the mind of Christ! This is what strengthens us, this is the mind that we have, everything that God gave to Jesus, so that He could walk in power and perfection has now been given to us. So that God can use us fully, just as He used Jesus fully! The mind we have been given knows this Truth and faith comes for us by hearing it! Jesus was fully empowered because He was fully God, and we are now one with God through Jesus, and this is how the world will believe and be saved!

“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.” John 16:13

“But the anointing which ye have 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

Friday, November 11, 2005

There Is No Fear In Knowing Everything

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." 1 John 4:18

Because of Jesus, there is no longer any fear for us in knowing all things. The world has so many problems and we have been given the unction from God Himself to know the answers to each and every one of them, and we have been given the Holy Spirit to dwell within us, so that God can work through us to answer every last one of them. The torment of seeing people sick and hurting is gone for us, because we know that we are indwelled with God Himself, and we have the knowledge that all we have to do is lay our hands on the sick, and the great grace of God will flow through us and heal them! It doesn’t matter if they are saved or not, read in the Bible, right after Jesus would heal people they would instantly turn away from Him. How many thousands of people did Jesus heal and yet how many were with Him when He was crucified? The power of sickness is not greater than the power of God’s virtue and even the least of us has the power of God within them. The torment of us relying on our own abilities has been cast out, we now know the Truth that it is God within us; He now does the works!

The fear of not knowing what to say has been cast out of us. We now have the Holy Ghost within us and He will give us the perfect utterance exactly at the right moment, and even if He has to speak through us in a foreign language, so be it! The Holy Spirit knows how to speak in every situation and in whatever language is needed, even with the appropriate slang, so the person can hear clearly and understand fully! The fear of thinking we are not good enough or that we have not earned the ability to know all things has been cast out of us, because we know that Jesus is our righteousness and that it’s not by our works that we are saved and filled with God’s fullness. Faith comes from hearing the Truth that all fear, whatever it is and whatever the reason for it, has been cast out of us and the torment of ignorance has been done away for us. Because we have an unction from God, and we have been appointed and chosen by God, and because of God and the power that He has within us, we now are strong enough to know all things!

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Through The Holy Spirit We Are Now Know It All's

"But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." 1 John 2:20

The Amplified Bible translates 1 John 2:20 like this, “But you have been anointed [you hold a sacred appointment from, you have been given an unction from] the Holy One, and you know [the Truth] or you know all things.” How awesome is that? We have a sacred appointment by God Himself and we know the Truth that has set us free. “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a peculiar people; that ye should bring forth the praises of Him Who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2:9 God has chosen us, and we have been appointed by God, and we have been empowered by God to know the Truth of all things! This empowerment will definitely make us peculiar to the world! Because we have been called out of the darkness that the world is in and we now abide in God’s perfect Light, and His Light has driven out all of the darkness from within us! The very sin that Adam and Eve committed, the sin that the world is still dying from, eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, has been done away with for us! We now have the full power of God within us, and through Christ we now can know all things. The Light has driven out the power of the knowledge of evil for us and we are no longer poisoned by it. We now have the power that God has, to know what evil is, but to not be affected by it! This is what makes us peculiar to the world, why aren’t we drawn to sin, why has it lost its allure for us, why is there no longer any pleasure in it for us, why does it have no power over us, and why are we not suffering form its presence? People see this power through us, and the power that they see is God, and they bring forth praises to Him, because of what they see of Him through us! This is the life we now enjoy as chosen royal priests unto God!

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Faith And Works

"For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." James 2:26

Our faith in Jesus as Lord is proven to be alive by the works of God through us, there is no other way to prove faith! There is now no condemnation for us, there is now no fear for us, and there is now no weakness for us, since we have been strengthened with the power of the Anointing of God! The Truth is that faith without works is dead and the freedom for us is that we look to Jesus and He Authors and Finishes our faith! Through the power of Christ, we should be being used by God, and through His power within us the world will believe and be saved. Look at how the United States and the world are being bankrupted by socialized medicine; it doesn’t need to be that way. The sick were dragged into the streets when Peter came by, and they were healed! Africa doesn’t need to be destroyed by AIDS, God can heal all manner of sickness and disease. Jesus fed 5,000 people with just some table scraps; famine should not even be mentioned when the glorious church of Jesus Christ, without spot, wrinkle, or blemish is on the earth! Faith comes from us hearing this and all fear is removed as we see and experience the perfect love of God and when we see what His will actually is. There is no condemnation for us, because God is showing us His Truth and we are being set free to be used by Him. These are exciting times and glory be to God we have been chosen by God to be part of them! God is the same yesterday and today and forever, and He now has millions of able bodies to work through, because Jesus came and He was victorious! If we truly love Jesus, we won’t just talk about Him, we will be used miraculously by Him!

Father I pray in the Name of Jesus, our Lord and our Savior, that You work through us as Your Word has said You will! Father I thank You that we fully and completely understand Your love and how it manifest itself in actual works of righteousness! Father it is all You, and I thank You that this Truth sets us all free, so that we can be used by You to Your fullest extent, nothing lacking, even through the least of us! I thank You and praise You Father that today is the day of Your salvation and now is Your accepted time for us! I thank You for choosing us Father and counting us as worthy to be the vessels of Your honor. Your will be done Father, and Your will is glorious! A-men!

Monday, November 07, 2005

Power In Our Speech And Our Preaching

"And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor the princes of this world, that come to nought," 1 Corinthians 2: 4-6

Paul spoke exactly like Jesus did, he told the people to believe in Christ because of the signs that they saw God performing through him! James told people the same, believe because of what they saw God doing, and that there was really no other way for people to believe, there was no other way to show it! The point to really grab hold of is this, even the least of us, can be used by God to show His signs through! This is not just for the preacher, or the evangelist, this is how God uses each and every one of us! “Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” Matthew 11:11 We need to become so bold as to look in the mirror and see if the signs of God are being shown through us. Jesus didn’t lie, He wasn’t just speaking to fill up the last part of the Gospel of Mark. Jesus said that the signs of God would absolutely follow us, and the Holy Spirit confirmed this Truth through Paul, James, John, Peter, and the hundred and twenty in the Upper Room on the Day of Pentecost! Out of the mouths of two or three let everything be confirmed! God spoke through the Prophets of the Old Testament that He would work through us, God showed us how He works by working through Jesus, and He showed us how He works by working through the Apostles, believers, and through Paul in the Book of Acts. God doesn’t change; He will work through us as He always has worked, through signs and wonders, and not just through enticing words! God never just talks about changing a situation, He changes the situation! He is a God of loving actions and He loves to use us as the instruments of His grace to show the world who He is!

Sunday, November 06, 2005

How We Go Into The World

“Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall He do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father.” John 14:11-12

We show our faith to the world by the works of God being done through us, just as Jesus showed His faith by the works of God! If people won’t believe us for the Words of Truth that we speak, then we should ask them to believe because of the works and signs that they see God doing through us! The Truth that will set the world free is that all who believe in Jesus as Lord, even the least of us, will be used by God to do the works that He did, and His signs shown through us will prove that God is alive! Love the world enough to hear the Truth that will set them free! Many will say Lord, Lord, but Jesus will say that He never knew them. The ones that Jesus will know are the ones who have allowed God to use them to show the world who He is! Through Christ we are now doers of the Word, we can’t help it, because it is who we have been born to be! No questions about it, no doubts, for we now have the mind of Christ, not an unstable double mind. We now have a mind and a spirit that eagerly desire the Spiritual gifts that actively serve the Kingdom of our Lord. Through the power of the Holy Spirit that strengthens us and comforts us, we now eagerly desire all that God is! Through Christ we are now more than conquerors and as He is, so are we in this world!

Greater is He that is within us than anyone or anything that is in this world!

Saturday, November 05, 2005

The World Needs Proof

"And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Mark 16:15-18

These signs are the proof of our salvation. These signs are how God will show His faith through us, and these signs are the proof that God is real and that He loves us, just as He loves Jesus! The Holy Ghost tells us that we should eagerly desire all of God’s spiritual gifts and all of His spiritual blessings. God strengthens us in these desires so that people can see all of God through us! There is enough preaching out there, what the world truly needs is God’s loving works, and hearing that His Truth allows Him to create the faith within us, that will allow Him to be all that He is within us! Through Christ we have been strengthened so that even the least of us in God’s Kingdom can be used as Jesus was used, and faith even as small as a grain of mustard seed will blow a mountain into the sea! We need to proclaim from the rooftops what Jesus proclaimed in silence, so that the power of God, His Anointing and His faith, will be actively shown through us!

We have the Living and only God within us, and devils have to flee, it’s not an option, they have no ability to stand in the presence of the glory of God! Jesus has given us His glory and He is glorified within us! Poison has no effect on God and we are now His body, created in His image in true righteousness and true holiness, and we have been strengthened with His Anointing, so poisons and deadly venoms now have absolutely no effect on us! The sick will recover by the loving touch of God, and God’s will is to use our hands as His touch! We are a chosen generation and we are a royal priesthood, and we are the chosen vessels of God’s works! This is how the world will see that God is real and that He is the only answer, and the world will know that we are one with Him, and they will desire Him, and they will be saved!

Today is the Day of Our Salvation and now is our accepted time in Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior! We are now and forevermore strengthened with the power of God’s eternal might!

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Faith Is Proven By God Working Through Us

"Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew you my faith by my works." James 2:17-18

We will show the world our faith, our faith that has been Authored and Finished by Jesus Himself, by the works that God does through us! Our salvation is active and the world will see God through us. The world deserves more from us than just enticing words. Jesus came as our Savior, yet He also came as our example, He showed us how to live through God. He showed us that the love of God is active, that God didn’t just want us to talk about Him, He wanted us to live through Him. Jesus showed us that God wanted to live through us, that He wanted to stop the hurting and pain that sin had caused, and that He wanted to use man as the instruments of the works of His grace. Jesus came and He allowed God to heal the sick through Him, Jesus came and God gave through Him, God spoke through Him, and God actively did His works of righteousness through Him. Jesus showed us that we are to live by the power and authority of God within us. Devils should flee from us, the sick around us should be healed, and the Truth should set the people free as God works through us. This is how God will truly show people that we have faith, by performing His works of grace through us! We can say that we have faith all day long, but God working through us shows the reality of our faith! This is how the world will believe!

Greater is He that is now and eternally within us, than anything that is in the world!

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Our Father Will Eteranlly Work Through Us

"Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doth the works." John 14:10

Jesus told the people to believe because of what they saw God doing through Him. God has strengthened us so that He can do the same works and signs through us! God never changes, as He used Jesus, He will use us! Jesus was the first fruit of what will be millions, “For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.” Romans 8:29 And as He is, so are we in this world! “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17 There is no force that can stand against the strength of God and we have been strengthened with God Himself, and there is not one spiritual blessing that He is now unable to use through us. Jesus came and secured God’s rights to use us fully and the power of sin that hindered our ability to be used by God was destroyed at the Cross! Now in every place and in every situation the fullness of God’s blessings will flow from us and the world will believe and be saved!

Whatsoever thing a man soweth, that shall he reap! We have been born again from God’s Incorruptible Seed to be as Jesus is, and Jesus is the Word. When Jesus was attacked by satan, the power that was within Him, the Holy Spirit, sowed the Word and satan retreated. When Jesus was tired and hungry, He sowed the Word and was refreshed. This is the power of the Holy Ghost within us, we can’t help but do what we have been born to do, and that is to sow the Word that will set the world free! Faith comes from hearing this Truth and the Truth sets us free!

We are eternally empowered in the Strength of God’s Might!

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

We Are Now Delivered From Every Evil Work

"And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto His heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory forever and ever. A-men." 2 Timothy 4:18

Through Christ we shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make us free! The Truth is that our Father will deliver us from every single evil work! Terrorism, hatred, lies, fear, doubt, immoral laws, immoral politicians, ungodly judges, it makes no difference what the evil work is, nothing can stand against or prevail against the Anointing of God that now strengthens us! The power that allowed Jesus to walk out from the middle of a crowd that wanted to kill Him, now abides eternally with us! The power that allowed Paul to be raised up from the dead after being stoned, now abides within us!

"Fear thou not, for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness." Isaiah 41:10

Our Father has strengthened us and He will uphold us in every situation! God will triumph through us in every situation and in every place, and as He works through us, the world will see Him, and they will believe and they will be saved! The glorious church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, the church that Jesus is coming back for, suffer's no defeat. We are victorious through the power of Christ that strengthens us and the knowledge of God is made known through us in every place! This is our heritage, this is what we have been born again for, and this is why we have been recreated in God’s image, to be used, and to be used mightily!

"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do His good pleasure." Philippians 2:13

And its our Father's good pleasure that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth. Look at how God used Jesus to show Who He was, and then you will see how God will use us!

God is glorified in each and every one of us through the power of His might!

Saturday, October 29, 2005

What Are God's Responsibilities?

To Save Us: “Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:13

To Save Us To The Uttermost: "Wherein He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him. Seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them." Hebrews 7:25

To Glorify Us: “And the glory which thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are one:” John 17:22

To Meet All Of Our Needs: “But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19

To Teach Us: “But the anointing which ye have 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

To Sanctify Us Completely: “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Thessalonians 5:23

To Make Us Righteous: “Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,” Romans 4:6

To Give Us An Abundant Life: “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10

To Do More Than We Can Think Of With Us: “Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,” Ephesians 3:20

To Keep Our Hearts And Minds: “And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:7

To Give Us Peace: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” John 14:27

To Make Things Easy: “For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:30

To Give Us Joy: “And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves.” John 17:13

To Use Us A Lot: “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5

To Heal Us: “Who His own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by Whose stripes ye were healed.” 1 Peter 2:24

To Show Us All Things Plainly: “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.” John 16:13
To Protect Us: “And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto His heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.” 2 Timothy 4:18

To Keep Us From Evil: “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil.” John 17:15

To Cause Us To Love: “But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.” 1 Thessalonians 4:9

To Give Us Hope: “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” Romans 15:3

To Give Us Faith: “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2

To Insure That We Never Fail: “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of His knowledge by us in every place.” 2 Corinthians 2:24

To Keep Us From Falling: “Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,” Jude 1:24

The Truth is this: everything is now the responsibility of God when it comes to us, because through Christ we have now become one with Him. There is no longer any separation whatsoever between the two of us! We are now members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.

Jesus Is Lord!

Love, Brad

Friday, October 28, 2005

Through Christ We Now Have It All

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:" Ephesians 1:3-4

The Truth is that through Christ we have been blessed with all spiritual blessings. There is nothing that our Father has that has been withheld from us! We now have and are one with the fullness of God. He has given us all of Himself, just as He gave Jesus all of Himself! We have all of our Father's love, all of His Spirit, all of His gifts, all of His power, all of His Anointing, and all of His blessings. We now have all of our Father's blessings, praise God we have all of them, nothing has been withheld from us. The Light has driven out all of the darkness from us and through Christ we are now holy and without blame!

We now have the strength of Jesus and there is nothing that can come between God and His love for us! Our Father can now do all things through us and He can now use every spiritual force that He possesses through us. The weak have become strong in Christ. We are now strong through the Anointing of the Living God! There are no limits for our Father with us any longer; the power of His Anointing has strengthened us so that we can be fully used by Him! The least in our Father's Kingdom, the Kingdom of the saved, is stronger than the greatest of the Old Covenant! Sin prevented God from fully indwelling King David, Daniel, John the Baptist, Elijah, or Moses. Yet even with their limitations our Father was able to do mighty and miraculous works with them. Our Father is not limited by our weaknesses any longer. He has strengthened us and now He has millions of us, all strengthened with the power that Jesus has, God’s very Own Anointing, to work through! Our Father can now work through the least one of us, greater than He ever worked through the strongest that we read about in the Old Testament! Every spiritual blessing, ever spiritual force that our Father has, is fully available through the least one of us who has truly been empowered to accept Jesus as Lord!

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Who We Are In Christ

“That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in Me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in Us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are one: I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” John 17:21-23

As I was driving home this evening here is what our Father spoke to me: “A lot of people believe that they have access to My power, but very few believe that they have actually become one with it!”

“How then shall they call on Him in Whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?” Romans 10:14

The Truth that sets us free is this: through Christ we have become one with  our Father, Who is God, and we are now one with all that He is!

“Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17

Jesus Is Lord!

Monday, October 24, 2005

We Are Anointed To Triumph

"Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of His knowledge by us in every place." 2 Corinthians 2:14

God will always triumph through us by the power of His Anointing, and He will always triumph through us in every place! God will triumph through us in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Palestine, China, the Philippians, Washington DC, San Francisco, and New Albany, Ohio! God will triumph through us at work, at home, at school, at the market, at the in-laws, wherever He leads us, that is where He will use us to triumph! There is no situation that God will not use us to triumph over, there is no place beyond His love, and there is no force of man that can overcome the Triumphant glory of God that works through us! God is not a man that He should lie and God has spoken the Truth that we will do all things through Christ Who strengthens us, and that He will always cause us to triumph through Christ! People are so quick to talk about how dangerous our world has become, but the Truth for us is that there is no weapon that has been formed by satan or by man that will ever prosper against us! God is more than a conqueror through us and as He triumphs through us, in every place, and in every situation, the knowledge of Him and the knowledge of His salvation and the knowledge of His love will be made known to the world! God has spoken it and it is Truth!

Sunday, October 23, 2005

No Limits

"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." Philippians 4:13

There are now no limits for us to be used by God, because through the strength of Christ, God is now able to do all things through us! Think of the Middle East, the hatred and the lies of Islam, and how there seems to be no answer. They have been fighting and killing for thousands of years and to date nothing has worked. But through the power of the Anointing of God, and through the strength that He has given us, the strength that has allowed us to be filled with all of His fullness, we can now be used to change things! The perfect love of God can change in one moment, what it has taken satan centuries to destroy! God said let there be light and there was light. Jesus told Lazarus to rise and walk, and even though He had been dead for days, He immediately came forth at the command of Jesus! This is the Anointing that has strengthened us. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and His Word tells a mountain to remove itself and it obeys! A storm was striking the Sea of Galilee with all of its force, it was so fierce that the Disciples feared they were going to die, and Jesus just spoke to that storm and told it to stop, and the deadly storm ceased immediately! This is the power of what we have been created in; this is the workmanship that God has ordained us to walk in! God can do all things through us by His Anointing that strengthens us! Jesus came so that we might have peace that passes all understanding, and He came for the entire world to have it, and it is time that the world does! Faith comes from hearing what God can do through us, and the Truth sets us free to be used for all good works!

God prophesied through Ezekiel that He would cause us to walk in His ways, and Christ is the power that allows this prophesy to be realized! The power is with God. He knows each one of us and what each one of us needs to be used fully by Him. "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." Ephesians 2:10 We are a chosen generation and we are a royal priesthood through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior! Now is the accepted time and today is the day of our salvation! Through Christ we cannot help but to be blessed.

Friday, October 21, 2005

We Are God's Wormanship Unto Good Works

"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." Ephesians 2:10

God has created us and He just didn’t create us, He has created us in His image, in true righteousness and in true holiness! “And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” Ephesians 4:24 How great is that Truth? God didn’t just save us, He bore us again from His very Seed. He removed the limitations of our own righteousness and our own holiness, and He recreated us in His holiness and in His righteousness! God has strengthened us with His very Anointing, the same Anointing that was upon Jesus. The very power of God Himself, the power that enabled Jesus to be Who He was, has created you and I. We have been recreated, born again, of God’s Incorruptible Seed and we can now be the vessels of God’s good works! We are no longer limited by fear, God’s true love has cast out the spirit of fear that sin brought upon us! We are now strengthened and enabled to work as God has always intended for us to work. God has ordained us to do good works, and through Christ, that is how we now walk, in power and in demonstration of the Holy Spirit!

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Want To Be The Greatest?

“But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest. And He sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, if any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.” Mark 9:34-35

Notice that Jesus did not rebuke the Disciples here for desiring to be great! He actually told them how to do it and according to Jesus, to be the greatest we must be the servant of all. There is no better way to serve others than by desiring that God serve them with all of His Spiritual Gifts through us! Jesus is the greatest, and that is how He served God and man! God’s love is expressed in action and not just in word! Through the power of Christ we should desire to be first, we should desire all of God’s Spiritual Gifts, we should desire to excel in them, and by doing so, what we are truly desiring is to love as Jesus loves! Greater is He that is within us than he that is in the world and as He is, so are we in this world! The Mind of Christ knows that we have been strengthened with all that is needed, so that we can be used in the fullness of God, and we now have the Mind of Christ! The sign of Jesus’ return will be that the Gospel is preached to every nation and this is the power that God will preach it in: with signs and wonders. We will say to the world if you don’t believe us for the Word, believe us for the works that you see God performing through us! The world will see God through us and they will know that we are now one with Him through the power of Jesus, and they will believe! Jesus is Lord and Jesus said they would!

Father I thank you that You grant to each and every one of us a spirit of Truth that desires to be great!

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

How We Are Used By God To Build The Church

"So it is with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in gifts that build up the church." 1 Corinthians 14:12 NIV

The spirit that our Father has given us just doesn’t desire that we have the gifts of the Spirit, but that God excels through us with His gifts, so that the Kingdom is furthered! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free! We want to be used by our Father to His fullest potential. We want all that our Father has said that we have and we want it to the fullest of His potential! Look at Mark 16:15-18, Jesus said that two of the gifts of the Spirit would follow all of us who believe, healing and tongues. Now look at John 14:26, Jesus said that He would send the Holy Ghost to dwell within us and that He would teach us all things, so wisdom and knowledge are for each and every one of us who are saved! Next turn to John 14:12, and you will see that Jesus said miracles would follow all of who believe! Hebrews 12:12 tells us that Jesus will perfect our faith, so all who believe in Christ have the gift of faith and it comes directly from Jesus! The Holy Ghost has been given to profit all of us and it is the Spirit that is doing God’s works through us. It is the Holy Spirit that causes us to excel in God’s gifts!

I see people get caught up in believing that the Spirit will not do all of His works through them or perform all of His signs through them. Why limit God? What is wrong with us eagerly desiring all of our Father? What is wrong with eagerly desiring the way of love and desiring all of our Father's Spiritual gifts? I don’t know about everyone else, but I want all that God has to offer. I want all of us to be used fully by Him. I want the full arsenal of God to be used through all of us, all of the time, to help all that we come in contact with so that the Church is built up! I never want our Father to be limited through any of us, and I know that He has strengthened us with His anointing, so that He can do all things through us! It needs to be preached that our Father can do it all through us, and that He is willing and that He is able to do all things through us! Our Father is God and He has made the weak strong in the power of His might!

Sunday, October 16, 2005

Praying For Muslim Terrorists

“Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.” Luke 6:28

Please join with me in praying for all Muslim Terrorists.

Father We ask You in Jesus’ Name that You empower us to truly give thanks for them, always making mention of them in our prayers. We join together and ask that they may come to know You as the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Father of glory. We pray that You give unto them the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. We pray that the eyes of their understanding are enlightened; so that they may know what is the hope of Your calling, and what is the riches of the glory of Your inheritance in the saints. We ask in Jesus’ Name that they come to know the exceeding greatness of Your power towards us who believe, according to the working of Your mighty power through them. Power just as You wrought in Christ, when You raised Him from the dead, and set Him at Your own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come! Father we ask that they have peace that passes all understanding and that they have the very joy of Jesus fulfilled in them! We pray that they receive the Spirit of Truth and that He comforts and strengthens them and that He plainly shows them things to come. We ask that they are whole: spirit, soul, and body and that they are empowered to accept the Truth that Jesus has born their sicknesses and sins and diseases on the Cross and that His stripes have healed them! We ask You Father that they become part of the glorious Church that has been sanctified by the washing of water and Your Word and that they have no spot, wrinkle, or blemish! We ask that they become perfected in Your love and that Your love casts out all fear from within them, so that they may stand boldly on the Day of Judgment!
Father I ask that You empower all of us to be doers of Your Word and not just hearers this day. A-men!

We Are Blessed In The Power Of His Might!

Love
Brad

Saturday, October 15, 2005

Through Christ What We Can Do This Day

Preach The Gospel In Power: “And Jesus said unto them, Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak in new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Mark 16:15-18

Know The Truth: “And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” John 8:32

Have No Fear: “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” 1 John 4:17-18

Be Filled With The Fullness Of God: “And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” Ephesians 3:19

Be One With Christ: “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which 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

Be Faultless And Full Of Joy: “Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.” Jude 24

Over Come The World: “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.” 1 John 4:4

Not Be Ashamed: "Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed." Romans 9:32-33

Have Power, Love, And A Sound Mind: "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." 2 Timothy 1:7

Forgive Sin: “Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.” John 20:23

Always Triumph And Always Make Jesus Known: "Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of His knowledge by us in every place." 2 Corinthians 2:14

Produce Much Fruit: “I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5

Preach With The Power Of God: "And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor the princes of this world, that come to nought," 1 Corinthians 2: 4-6

Thursday, October 13, 2005

The Gifts Of The Spirit Profit All Men

"But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the Word of wisdom, to another the Word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit, to another the gift of healing by the same Spirit. To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another divers kinds of tongues; to another interpretation of tongues." 1 Corinthians 12:7-10

These gifts have been given to us by God to profit all men and the Spirit within us eagerly desires that they should be performed through us. The Spirit of God doesn’t stumble at the awesome power of them or doubt that God is willing and able to perform them, and the Spirit is now strengthening us! The Holy Spirit may use us to do just one of them at a time, or all of them, or different ones at different times, but it is always the Spirit within us doing the works of God. The spirit that God has given us eagerly desires all of them though, and we desire them all, so that God’s love may be expressed in its completeness through us. It really doesn’t matter if it the Spirit is using just one of us or several of us to work through in a situation, just as long as the fullness of God is being delivered to a world that so desperately needs it!

Sunday, October 09, 2005

What Jesus Has Given Us This Day

What Jesus Has Provided For Us This Day


Salvation: “(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)” 2 Corinthians 6:2

Hope: “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” Romans 15:13

Love: “And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.” John 17:26

Unity With God: “I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.” John 17:23

Glory: “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:” John 17:22

Peace: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” John 14:27

Joy: “And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.” John 17:13

Health: “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” 1 Peter 2:24

Abundant Life: “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10

Sanctification: “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Thessalonians 5:23

Freedom From Sin: “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” Romans 6:6

Knowledge: “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.” John 16:13

Wisdom: “For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.” Luke 21:15

Able To Be Used By God: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” John 14:12

Ability To Witness: “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” Mark 16:15

Eternal Life: “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.” John 10:28

Safety: “And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.” John 17:11

Saturday, October 08, 2005

We Can Go To God Directly

“At that time you will ask (pray) in My Name; and I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf [for it will be unnecessary]. For the Father Himself [tenderly] loves you because you have loved Me and have believed that I came out from the Father.” John 16:26-27 Amplified

I was watching a movie today and the lady in it was given a statue and told to pray to saint someone and her home would be blessed. As I watched the scene God reminded me of these two verses. Why do so many believe that we must have one of our brothers who have gone on to Heaven before us to talk to our Father on our behalf? Why do so many believe that we must have Mary pray for us, when Jesus Himself said that we didn’t even need Him to do it? Man is destroyed for a lack of knowledge and the Truth that sets us free is that because of Jesus we have direct one on one access to our Father! We no longer need others to do it for us and there is no desire for God to have it done. According to our Father we do not even need for anyone to teach us, 1 John 3:27. God wants to talk directly to us, He wants to teach us, He wants to be here with us, and He wants to eternally fellowship with us. Our salvation is complete through Christ and we have no need to have a go between. Today is the day of our salvation and through the power of Christ we are able to be strong and glad in it!

And if we do need help to talk to our Father, His Spirit will do it!

“Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” Roamns 8:26

Friday, October 07, 2005

We Are Empowered To Desire All That God Has

"Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy." 1 Corinthians 14:1 NIV

We are to follow after the way of God’s love and we are to eagerly desire His Spiritual gifts, especially that we may be used by God to prophecy His eternal Truth’s. We are to desire to love people as God loves them and we are to desire that God speaks His specific Truth’s through us, so that people will know His will and desires for their lives! We are to eagerly desire to prophesy so that we may be used by God to assist in making peoples lives complete and full; so that they might have life and have it more abundantly! We are to desire that we may be used by God to heal those who are sick. We are to desire that God will use us as vessels to perform His miracles through, so that when the worldly powers have or offer no solutions, God will be the answer and the saving solution! We are to desire that God gives us full and complete knowledge and wisdom of His Truth. We are to desire that God empowers us to discern all things, so that we will never have to question the legitimacy of anything. We are to desire that God will speak and pray through us, in whatever tongue is needed, so that His will and desires are always spoken through us in this world! Then we are to desire that God will interpret His tongues through us, so that His message will be shared and heard and understood by the masses! These are the desires of us who are following after the way of God’s love, because these are the desires of God Himself! God has given these Gifts of His Spirit to man, and God is the One Who works these gifts through us! God is love and these gifts are the actions of His love! Those who are born of God will desire the things that are of the Seed that they have been born of! We cannot help but to eagerly desire to truly love and not just in word, but with the power and demonstration of the Spirit of God that is within us! This is who we are in Christ; this is the mind and heart that has been given to us by God. This is the Incorruptible Seed that we have been born again of! This is how the Vine is that we are connected to. We have been recreated in this image, in true righteousness and true holiness! If we are born again, this is the way that we will desire to live. We can only be who we have been created to be!

Thursday, October 06, 2005

Free Grace

“Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:” 1 Corinthians 1:3

We are saved, righteous, pure, holy, perfect, powerful, glorified, and free from sin because our Father loves us and because He has freely justified us through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! God loves us so much that in Psalm 8:4 the psalmist writes, what is man, that Thou art mindful of him? God has created us in His Own image, He now calls us His children, and God proudly proclaims that we are now one with Him. We are saved and now have eternal life because God favors us and only through His grace have we been made this way! Works are only a byproduct of our justification and unity with God. It is no longer by our works, as it was in the Old Testament, that we are united and have fellowship with God; it is by His grace, His free and unmerited grace! Today is the day of our salvation and now is our appointed time to be fully used by God, so that He may abound through us in every situation!

This is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice for He has made us glad! Because today is the day that God will freely exert His influence on our souls and cause us to walk in His statutes and keep His judgments. Today is the day that we have the very Holy Spirit of God leading us in all Truth and showing us things to come! Today we are no longer servants, but sons, sons of the Most High. And today we have peace that passes all understanding because today we have the joy of Jesus as our strength! We are no longer just men, we are now new creatures in Christ. All old things have passed away for us because through Christ all things have become new for us. These are the things that have been given us; these are the things of God’s free grace.

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

God Abounds His Grace Towards Us

“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:” 2 Corinthians 9:8

Our Father will always make all of His grace abound towards us, so that in every situation we will always be fully sufficient to be used by Him! Hallelujah that is great! God teaches us that we will never be put in a situation that He is unable to cause us to handle.

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13

It doesn’t matter how mature or immature that we are in Christ, we will never fail. Because there is now no situation or temptation that we will ever experience that can overcome the abounding grace of our Father that is working through us. We now are able to have all joy and peace in believing God’s complete Truth’s, regardless of our maturity level. Because we always have our Father, Who is God, right here with us abounding our strength, causing us to abundantly exercise His virtue, ever increasing our knowledge, and abundantly keeping us! Jesus came that we might have life and that we might have it more abundantly and our Father’s grace is the instrument of that abundance! And as our Father abounds His grace towards us, so that we will always have all sufficiency in all things, so that in every situation we will abound in His good works, we will have peace, joy, and pleasure afforded to us! Through Christ we are saved to the uttermost and the Truth of God’s grace has set us free!

Monday, October 03, 2005

We Are Freely Justified To Be Used By God

“Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:” Romans 3:24

We are now justified freely because God has exerted His influence on our souls and because He now keeps us and causes us to exercise His virtues. We are now justified because God has strengthened us so that He can do all things through us. God now increases our faith so that we are continually able to be used more and more by Him. “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.” Romans 1:17 Our works do not make us righteous and they do not justify us; God’s grace justifies us and makes us righteous. And God’s grace will be revealed by His virtuous works that He now performs through us as He causes us to grow in love.

When we are saved we will continually grow in being used by God, we will move from faith to faith, and as Jesus leads us in the paths of righteousness we will increase in God’s grace. “But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.” 2 Peter 3:18 There is so much freedom and power in this Truth. God will cause us to grow up and He will continually increase our knowledge, our faith, and our affection, as He ever increases us to walk in His virtues! Jesus is coming back for a glorious Church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, and we will be this way because God has caused us to be! We are never alone, God will never leave us or forsake us, and if we are truly saved we will mature and as God matures us, He will be able to use us more and more! This Truth is peace that passes all understanding, because we have now entered into God’s rest, where we have ceased from our own works! And the glorious Truth about God’s works being performed through us is that they bring refreshment and energy: they are the meat that the world has no idea of!

Jesus Christ Is Lord!

Saturday, October 01, 2005

When Is The Rapture?

“And He said, The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed upon the ground, And then continues sleeping and rising night and day while the seed sprouts and grows and increases--he knows not how. The earth produces [acting] by itself--first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the grain is ripe and permits, immediately he sends forth [the reapers] and puts in the sickle, because the harvest stands ready.” Mark 4:26-29

I was reading an article a couple of days ago that was talking about when the rapture would come. The Author talked about how fast things have changed in the world during this last century. He wrote about weapons of mass destruction and how terrorist will have them and use them, and if there isn’t a rapture soon, then there won’t be anyone left to be raptured. As I prayed about the article, here is what our Father shared with me.

The rapture will come immediately when the fruit is ready and not one second before! Notice that Jesus said immediately! Now the Bible does tell us how we will know when the fruit is ready. “That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Ephesians 5:27 If we are looking for signs of the rapture, they will not be found by looking at terrorist or technology. The signs of the rapture will be found by looking at the fruit and the church is the fruit. When we see a church that is glorious and we see a church that is being used by God as Jesus was used by God, John 14:12, than look for the immediate harvest!

Satan can not destroy our Father's timetable. The rapture is just like Jesus’ life was, no man could take it before God was ready to give it! Our Father is stronger and bigger than terrorists. Our Father is greater than any chemical or any nuclear weapon. And the sign of the times comes from only looking at the fruit!

The rapture will also not come until the dead in Christ are raised first.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the [sound of the] last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead [in Christ] will be raised imperishable (free and immune from decay), and we shall be changed (transformed). 1 Corinthians 15:52

The last trumpet is the seventh trumpet and it will not sound until the end of the Great Tribulation when Jesus returns to rule the earth.

The seventh angel then blew [his] trumpet, and there were mighty voices in heaven, shouting, The dominion (kingdom, sovereignty, rule) of the world has now come into the possession and become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ (the Messiah), and He shall reign forever and ever (for the eternities of the eternities)!We are blessed completely in the power of His might! Revelation 11:15

The theory of a pre-tribulation rapture is a lie. Our Father is not going to take us away from a world that desperately needs the Body of Christ. Our Father will empower us to survive and actually thrive during these last 3 1/2 years. When the world doesn't have food we will be used by our Father to give it. When the world doesn't have water, our Father will empower us to supply it. There doesn't have to be a rapture to save us, because Jesus already has.

You also must be ready therefore, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not expect Him. Who then is the faithful, thoughtful, and wise servant, whom his master has put in charge of his household to give to the others the food and supplies at the proper time? Blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) is that servant whom, when his master comes, he will find so doing. Matthew 24:44-46

Righteous Works Are Performed By Grace

"And if by grace, then it is no longer by works, if it were, grace no longer be grace." Romans 11:6 NIV

I have always heard that grace is the unmerited favor of God. But if we look grace up in a Strong’s Concordance, number 5495, we will see that grace has a much stronger meaning for us. According to the Strong’s Concordance the grace of God affords us joy, pleasure, and delight. The grace of God means that God has exerted His influence on our souls and that He has turned us to Christ. The grace of God means that He now strengthens us, that He now keeps us, that He increases our faith, our knowledge, and our affection. And God’s grace now causes us to exercise His virtues. We cannot do these works, only God can, and God has freely bestowed His grace upon all of us who believe and are saved! “To the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved.” Ephesians 1:6

Through grace we are now accepted in Christ and since we are God will now work His virtuous works through us! Through Christ we are now strengthened to be used by God. Through Christ we now have an Author and Finisher of our faith so that we can be used by God, Through Christ we are now kept so that we can be the vessels of God’s righteous works. And through Christ we now have the love and compassion to be used by God. All of this brings praise to God and as Jesus said in John 15:8, the production of God’s fruit through us brings Him glory! But grace doesn’t just bring glory to God, the fact that God can now work through us brings us joy, pleasure, and delight!

Friday, September 30, 2005

Through Christ We Receive All Things Of God

“And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” Matthew 21:22

With man it is impossible to ask for all things whatsoever, but with our Father nothing is impossible! We now have our Father's Holy Spirit dwelling within us. It is His Spirit that gives us the ability utter God’s Words in prayer so that we will never ask amiss! That is peace that passes all understanding and that is full joy! And praise God, we now have our Father pruning out anything and everything from within us that would hinder the production of His righteous fruit through us. Our Father does this for us so that we can ask for all things whatsoever!

We now have the mind of Christ, so we have the capacity to ask for all things just as Jesus asks for all things! Our Father isn’t offended at whatsoever. He rejoices in the Truth that He is the power within us that allows us to boldly come to Him and ask for whatsoever, and to ask for all things! All things, no matter how large or how small, through the power of Christ we ask our Father for all things! All things are possible for us and nothing is withheld from us. We are fully provided for by God just as Jesus is provided for!

Our Father is not limited by our ability to believe, if we can’t believe as we should, that doesn’t even hinder our Father. He will just have His Spirit pray for us, with words that we cannot even begin to utter!

“ Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit Himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” Romans 8:26

Our Father will cause us to grow, so that through each and every victory we will become stronger in the power of His might! Our Father's love for us will not be hindered by our own level of maturity. He is able to do above all that we can ask or think, and He does it by the power of His Spirit that is now within us. So whether we are praying or whether the Spirit is praying for us, we receive all things from our Father! All things are possible for God, and He is for us, so who or what can be against us!

Thursday, September 29, 2005

We Are Anointed To Know All Things

“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 no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.” 1 John 2:27

Praise God we can now know all things! We have been reborn and recreated in the very image of God, in righteousness and in true holiness! We now have the strength of God’s Anointing upon us and upon our minds that allows us to know all things; the weak have been made strong! The Holy Ghost remains with us and He teaches us all things, and He brings to our remembrance every Word that God has ever spoken! “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, Whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26 Through the Anointing of the Holy Spirit that now abides within us, we are able to know all of the things of God! “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 shall show you things to come.” John 16:13 How awesome is that? Jesus now calls us His friends and He shares everything with His friends. “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you.” John 15:15 Do you think that God hasn’t told Jesus everything? God and Jesus are One in the same, everything that God has spoken, Jesus has heard! Jesus is the Word of God and Jesus has given us the Holy Ghost so that we too can hear and know all of the things of God! It’s no longer impossible for us to know what God knows, He has given us an Anointed mind that has the strength to know, and He has Anointed us with His Spirit to teach us and to share with us all that He has. We’re not just God’s kid’s, we are now His friends, strengthened with His very power, so that we can stand united with Him!

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

We Now Have God's Love

“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” Romans 5:5

We now have the love of God shed abroad in our hearts. Think of God’s love for a moment, it has now been shed abundantly within us, just as it was abundant and full in Jesus, because we have now been filled with the fullness of God! We now have the strength of the always-triumphing Savior Jesus Christ within us, so that we may love as He loves. The Anointing of God has strengthened us so that He can now show His love through us, just as He showed it through Jesus. Think of Jesus’ love, He freely allowed Himself to be crucified, so that you and I might be saved! He freely offered Himself so that He might have the joy of serving us for the rest of eternity; this is the love that has been shed abroad in our hearts! We now love those who hate us; we love those who love us, we love unconditionally, just as God loves! God’s love is active, it serves, it tells those who are sick to be whole, it tells the dead to rise, and it reaches out for those who are without, and freely invites them in. God’s love preaches the resurrection of Jesus through us with great power and with great grace! Faith comes from us hearing that we have God’s love shed abroad within us, so that we will love as He loves! This is now possible because Jesus has strengthened us so that we are able to be the vessels of such love, and through Jesus we are able to believe that we can have such love, and through the power and strength of Christ, God now abides within us!

Love is what allows us to serve. It is what drives us to desire that the works of God be performed abundantly through us. The world needs the signs of God so desperately and we now have the love of God shed abroad in our hearts so that we may be used by Him to do something about it. We now have the Father within us and He does the works!