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

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!

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!

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!

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.

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!

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!

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!

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

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

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!

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

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

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!

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.

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!

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!

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!