Tuesday, May 30, 2006

The Blood Of Jesus Will Change The World

“How much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God?” Hebrews 9:14

There are so many needs in this world: fear, sickness, hatred, un-forgiveness, lack of unity, and doubt. All of these things, and so many more, are needlessly being allowed to flourish. The world needs us. They need to see God working through us who have been purged by Christ. They need to see God’s active love working through us; and we need God to be Who He is within us. So many try so desperately to do what is right on their own, yet even with the best of intentions they can never do it, only God can do it through us! And A-men, our Father is willing and able to do far more through us than we can even dream of!

As I am writing this, the world is being assaulted with the hatred and bitterness of radical Muslims. They are killing and destroying themselves and so many others along with themselves. The anger and hatred of thousands of years of strife are overflowing through murder. America and Europe are spending billions upon billions of dollars and young men and woman are given their lives to try and end it. The news media is in a feeding frenzy of fear and daily they are bombarding us hopelessness. The World is divided on the answer, and many believe there is no answer at all. Yet there is an answer, an answer for today, an answer for the accepted time, and the answer is God within us. The answer is God doing His works through us; His work of love, His work of power, His work of reconciliation. Money will not solve the hatred and un-forgiveness of man, how many billions have been spent already? How many lives have been lost? Islamic faith is not the answer, look at the bitterness that it has caused, this sect of Muslims are killing that sect, there is no unity there. Yet love, the love that God has for Jesus, the love that now abides within us can change the world. The love and the glory of God that have made their home within us will change it. Through our unity with Christ, the world will believe!

Monday, May 29, 2006

The Glory Of Being The Temple Of God

"Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" 1 Corinthians 3:16

When God was having Paul write that we are the Temples of God, the people knew of the power of the Glory of God that once lived in that man made Temple. They knew that if a man would enter into the Holy Place without being first cleansed with blood, he would fall over dead from the power of the Glory that had filled the room. When Paul was writing that we are now the Temples of God, it meant something to these people. It meant that through Christ we are cleansed; it meant that the Blood of Jesus has been permanently applied to our lives. “For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” Hebrews 9:13-14 The Blood of Christ has cleansed us, so that we may be filled with the Glory of God and the Glory of God dwelling within us allows us to serve Him in fullness of the Spirit! The glory of God now lives within us, we are united with it, one with it, covered in it, and filled with its fullness! The glory of God has stopped our ability to work carnally, it has purged our dead works, and praise be to God it has enabled our Father to fully work through us! The Glory of God now does the works through us that it did through Jesus and it will do even greater works, because Jesus has gone to be with the Father!
Faith comes from us hearing this Truth, and the Truth sets us free! Through Christ we are free to be used to raise the dead, heal the sick, prophesy to the needs of the people, perform miracles, tell the weather what to do, and all to further the Kingdom of our Father. Greater is our Father Who is within us, than anything or anyone that is in the world! Today is the day of this power and today we have been set free from all of the bondages of the flesh to be used by God to do the works of righteousness that will set the captives free!

Sunday, May 28, 2006

We Are Now The Temple Of God

"Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" 1 Corinthians 3:16

“When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the Temple of the Lord. And the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the Glory of the Lord filled His Temple.” 1 Kings 8:10-11 In the Old Testament there was a physical building known as the Temple of God, it was made of wood, stone, and precious metals. It was built to the exacting standards that God had prescribed, and when Solomon had completed the work given to him, God filled this man made building with His Glory. The Glory of God was so great that the priests were unable to work because of it. Mere men were unable to work because of the Glory of God that was present. Remember what Jesus prayed in John 17? Remember how Jesus prayed that we would have the exact same Glory that He has. Jesus prayed that we would have the magnificence of God, the Excellency of God, the Dignity of God, God’s preeminence, God’s grace, His majesty, and His splendor that is His glory, dwelling within us! These are the descriptions of what filled that man made Temple and as the glory of God filled that room, it completely overcame the Priests and they were unable to work.

Now here is the really cool part, man can’t work in the presence of God’s glory! “For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His.” Hebrews 4:10 Yet as the Temple was used by God, so are we! How? By God working through us! We are now strong by the Anointing of Christ that has strengthened us. Our flesh as been quickened, and God is now able to do all things through us! As our Father is so are we in this world, and through the power of Jesus we now are the vessels that are used by God to bring His glory and fruit to the world! “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 Our own works, our dead works, our carnal mind, the enmity of our flesh, our sinful natures are destroyed by the Glory of God that now dwells within us! Yet we live, but it is no longer us that lives, it is God’s Anointing within us that lives, and it is now God working through us! The Light has driven out the darkness and we can now be used by God to do all things by the strength of His Anointing that is upon us! That is how powerful we have been made in Christ. Salvation is Awesome!

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

We Can Ask God To Take Away Our Free Will

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:” Matthew 7:7

For those who confess that God will not take our free will from us, OK, I’ll give you that, even though our Father has said that He will purge our conscious of dead works from us, and that He will give us His Spirit to cause us to walk in His ways. But for those who believe that God won't take it away, let me ask you this, can we give it to Him? If you still have your free carnal will that is not pleasing to God, just give Him permission to purge it out of you. We are now one with the One Who is perfect, Who is glorious, and Who is virtuous, and He gives us what we ask Him for so that our joy may be full. Our Father's will is for us to be mature and perfect, to be healthy, to have peace, to be filled with joy, to live abundantly, in spirit, soul, and in body. His will is for us is to have all of the very best of Him, to be filled with all of His fullness! If you are hanging on to your old human will, a will that is filled with dead works, cast that burden on God. Ask Him to purge you, walk in the fullness of Christ, walk in power and glory of Christ, and walk in His perfect love! This is the thought process that glorifies God and this is the mind that He has given us! We are born of God’s Incorruptible Seed, and we now only live because of the Anointing of Christ that lives within us! Our bodies of sin have been destroyed and we have been crucified with Christ. We are now new creatures in Christ who live unto God and we have been raised up together with Jesus our Lord and Savior by the power of the Holy Spirit that He has given us!

Jesus ever lives to purge us from dead works and if we have truly been empowered by the Holy Spirit to say yes to Him. Jesus will absolutely purge us who are one with Him from dead works! Imagine a life without any, and I mean any, dead works. Faith for this comes from hearing and hearing from the Word of God. We have Jesus within us, He is willing, and He is able to do it! Right now we need to begin to imagine our lives without any faults, lives where the Spirit leads us; lives just like Jesus. You don’t think it’s possible? Turn to 1 John 2:6 and read another requirement of us living a godly life.

“He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.”

Jesus had absolutely no dead works and He is the only One that can fully purge them completely from us! We are now one with Him, we are one with Him this day. Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, the substance of things not seen. The Holy Spirit within us allows us to abound in hope for such a life! A life where the Truth is if we sin, not when! We have been called of God, and since we have He has justified us, and since He has justified us, He has glorified us, and our glory is now that we are one with Him, just as Jesus is One with Him!

Monday, May 22, 2006

We Are Not The Divided House Of God

“How much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God?” Hebrews 9:14

Have you ever heard someone say that God will not take our free will from us? These people believe that we have this carnal nature of dead works, or this sin nature, and then we also have this Godly nature. They believe that we are doomed, while we are on this earth, to keep this old sinful thought process and on any given day we may choose to use it. I know this sounds right, and I know that most of us feel this way, but the Bible teaches us that a divided house cannot stand. “And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” Mark 3:25. If we still have this good conscience and this bad conscience coexisting within us at the same time, than we are a divided house and we cannot stand, we will fall! God teaches us that if we are double minded then we will not receive anything from Him. “For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” James 1:7-8 If we have these two contrary natures within us, even though we are saved, then God’s Word has destined us to fail! Jesus did not come to cause us to fail, He came that we might have life, and have it more abundantly, John 10:10! Our destiny on this earth as Christians is not failure; it is to be victorious through Christ Who strengthens us! Jesus taught that we are perfect in Him, so that the world will believe and be saved! The Light drives out any part of our will that is darkness, God prunes it away, and anything that hinders our deliverance is removed by the Anointing of the Holy Spirit! The Bible teaches us that the carnal mind is enmity against God and that it cannot please Him. “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” Romans 8:6. The Bible teaches that we have now been given the mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2:16. And in Hebrews 9:14, the Word of God proclaims that Jesus has purged our conscience, or our sin nature of dead works from us, so that we can serve God in newness of the Spirit. Jesus has purged our will of dead works, so that God can work through us mightily, just as He works through Jesus mightily and that brings us life and peace! To believe that we still have our carnal will is death, because there is no fellowship between righteousness and unrighteousness, 2 Corinthians 6:14.

Once again we see that there is a need in our lives, we are to have no dead works, and we see that Jesus did something about it, He purged our thought process, our free will that was full of dead works. Find any requirement in the Bible that speaks of us living a full and complete life with God, and you’ll also find a scripture that says that God is in us, one with us, causing us to do it. Just as He said He would do in Ezekiel 36:27 “And I will put My Spirit with you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them.” The carnal mind says that we are weak, but the Spiritual mind that God has given us says that we are strong, strong through His power and might. The carnal mind says that our flesh is sinful, but the Spiritual mind says that we have been quickened together with Jesus by the resurrecting power of the Holy Spirit that now dwells within us! The mind that thinks on our inabilities is carnal. It doesn’t please God for us to talk about how weak we are, it pleases God to talk and think about how strong He is within us! It pleases and glorifies God when we allow the Truth of Who He has made us, to be what is in abundance within our hearts! God has given us an Anointed mind that thinks on His glorious Spiritual ways and God has given us a heart that believes the Truth on Who He has made us, which is alive in Christ!

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Jesus Has ABsolutely Purged Our Consciences

“How much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God?” Hebrews 9:14

Jesus is right now our Divine Advocate; an Advocate Who will never leave us or forsake us. An Advocate Who was willing and able to endure the Cross. An Advocate Who took on every last one of our sins and Who paid the price in full for all of our sin, forever destroying the wage of it for all of us who have been chosen of God and who have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Him as Lord! An Advocate Who ratified the New Covenant with His pure and Holy Blood. “But if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 It is Jesus Who empowers us with Himself to walk in the virtues and glory of salvation. It is Jesus Who Authors our faith to live in the fullness of His salvation. It is Jesus Who sheds His love abroad in our hearts. It is Jesus Who heals us and it is Jesus Who leads us and guides us in the paths of righteousness. We can do nothing without Him, and A-men, we are empowered by our oneness with Him to be used by God to do everything! God is now strong through us by the power of Jesus’ might and we are now more than conquerors through His Anointing that loves us! And praise God for the Truth that Jesus has purged our consciences from dead works so that we might truly know that we are united with God through Christ to serve! Jesus is our refiners fire and our fullers soap that perfectly cleanses us as we are conformed into His Divine image. The Blood of Jesus has cleansed us from all old things and from all sin, and the Blood has allowed God to recreate us in His image of righteousness and true holiness! Greater is He that is now within us than He that is in the world!

We truly are new creatures in Christ. We are blessed this day in the power of our Fathers might, and in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ the world will believe and be saved because if it!

Saturday, May 20, 2006

If We Sin, Not When We Sin

“My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous.” 1 John 2:1

Years ago when our Father began to first teach me about our freedom from sin, He took me to this verse of scripture. And do you know what He had jump off the page at me; the one little Word, “if!” Our Father said if any man sin, not when every man sins. My whole life I had heard when, not if, and that was about as exciting for me as anything else that God had ever shown me in His Word. Sin is not a given for the saved, our Father has provided a way, our Righteous Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Way, the Light, and the Truth. Our Father has given us His very self to insure that it is if we sin, not when we sin.

And praise God if it happens, we absolutely have an Advocate working on our behalf every second of every day, right there in the Throne Room with God, One with God, completely and totally defending us! Jesus is always and completely defending us. His Blood is ever cleansing us even if, isn’t that so great, if we sin, not when we sin! We don’t have to defend ourselves from sin, because sin no longer has any power to separate us from the love of God. Sin no longer kills us as it did Adam. We have passed from death unto life; Jesus now is our Advocate, our Defender, our Justifier, and our full and complete eternal Reconciliation. The Holy Ghost has sealed us with Himself and He will keep us until the Day of Jesus’ return, Ephesians 4:30! I hope you see this. God’s revelation on if, not when, will change your whole life. Thank God we have Jesus Who will Author and Finish our faith of if, not when. And praise God we have been given the Anointed mind of Christ to believe it, just as Jesus believes it. We have all of the power and knowledge of Jesus to know that we are dead to sin and to know that our relationship to it has been broken. We now know the Truth that our body that could do sin has been destroyed and that because of the power of Christ we are no longer capable of being effected by sin, Romans 6:6.

Even if we aren’t at this point of mature knowledge of who we are in Christ, we still have unbroken fellowship with God through the power of our Advocate Jesus Christ! This is vitally important; there is now therefore no condemnation for us who are in Christ Jesus, Romans 8:1! We are so blessed today because our Father is flooding us with the fullness of His Truth. We have Jesus Who is giving us the faith to do so and the Truth will set us free! We have been justified, glorified, and conformed to God’s Divine Nature, and there is no sin in the Divine Nature of God! Sin no longer has dominion over us, its power, pleasure, presence, and penalty have been done away for us through Jesus Christ. Jesus made a shew of sin openly at the Cross; triumphing over it and His Light eternally keeps the darkness from us, Colossians 2:14! This is who we are in Christ and this is the Incorruptible Seed that we have been born of!

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” 1 Peter 1:23 We are now alive and one with Christ and we have passed from death unto life and we now live unto God, just as Jesus lives unto God!

Friday, May 19, 2006

We Are Dead And Free From Sin Through Christ

“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. For he that is dead is freed from sin.” Romans 6:6

Our bodies of sin have been destroyed! Don’t you just love the word destroyed? Our bodies of sin have not been broken, they are not just turned off, our bodies of sin have been destroyed! They cannot be rebuilt; they have been crucified with Christ and they are dead and hid in Christ in God! And why did God destroy our bodies of sin? So that from the very beginning moment of our salvation, we could no longer serve sin! Praise God we are now one with Him through Christ and we no longer serve sin! We no longer serve sin because of God, because of His power, because of His glory, because of His Light that has driven out all of the darkness from us! Our Fathers light that now dwells within us is the only power for this freedom! Remember how we studied earlier that God's Holy Spirit that dwells within us has quickened our mortal bodies? With these Truths do you see how God sees us? Do you see who we have really become in Christ? We are no longer on our own, we have been grafted into the Living Vine, Who is Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. This is why we can consider ourselves dead to sin, and this is how we can consider ourselves alive unto God. We die to sin only once and we do it by being chosen of God and empowered to accept Jesus as Lord. And then when we are born again Jesus reveals His glory through us. If you struggle with this, ask for faith, look unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith. There is no great burden here, just ask and receive the ability to fully believe who God has made you. Ask so that your joy is made full, then God will receive all of the praise and glory, and the world will believe and be saved! It’s really just that simple! The burden of Christ is easy and His yoke is light and pleasantly borne!

The force that separated God from man was sin. This is death! We cannot have godliness and have sin as well. Bitter water and sweet water do not come from the same fountain. “Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?” James 3:11 God has given us everything that pertains to godliness, and one of those things is freedom from sin, which is life and life abundantly! “According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue:” 2 Peter 1:3 Since we are dead with Christ, which is God’s Anointing, we now live because of His anointing; we now live united with Him, called unto glory and virtue! Jesus is the Light of the world, and the Light drives out all of the darkness of sin! “Wherefore He saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” Ephesians 5:14

God has much more for us to study on this and through the power of the Holy Spirit within us we will. I don’t know about you, but I just get so excited when I see these types of verses. My whole life, Christians have been so sin oriented. What I mean is this, so many of us are so concerned with the weakness of the flesh, the condemnation from the pulpit, the amount of time that has been preached on human shortcomings! It was always taught, if not explicitly, it was implied, that we as mere men could never rise above our lowly state of the flesh. Our flesh was given so much power and strength in its weakness. The attitude seemed to be that we would just have to live with it, we should fight against sin, but never really expect that we could not sin! And when we did sin, there would be self condemnation and condemnation from others, but praise God’s Holy Name one day, in the sweet by and by, He would come and rescue us from all of ourselves. This is not the Truth of our salvation in Christ! The eternal Word of God proclaims that God has already come to us by the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ! The Word of God teaches us that God already did something, and that we are now alive with and one with, the One Who would keep us from sin! God never says that we have to wait! God always seems to have me gravitate back to this subject, because for me this is the true power of our salvation. Adam was separated from God because of sin, but we now have Christ, and He will never leave us and He will never forsake us, Hebrews 13:5, and that means the separating power of sin has to be done away with for us, and it is, and it only is, by the power of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Thursday, May 18, 2006

We Share In Jesus' Ressurection

"Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection:” Romans 6:4-5

Through the power of Christ in our lives we are now in the likeness of Jesus’ resurrection! Jesus is only alive because of the power of God that is within Him. Jesus only lives by the power of the Holy Spirit that gives Him eternal life, and praise God we are now alive with Jesus through the exact same power of God. Just as Jesus is, so are we, in the likeness of His resurrection. We now have the exact same Spirit and the same life giving Anointing that Jesus has. We are one with and alive with God as Jesus is One with and alive with God! We are now members of Jesus’ body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone! Our old man is crucified with Christ, and behold all things are now new to us! “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new. And all things are of God, Who hath reconciled us unto Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed us the Word of reconciliation.” Romans 5:17-19 The Anointing of the Holy Ghost has destroyed our old man, the old man that was nothing but sin, and we now walk in the newness of life that Jesus walks in! All things in our lives are now of God, just as the Holy Ghost teaches that they are in Romans 5. We have been crucified with Christ, and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who lives, it is Christ within us Who lives. And greater is He that is within us, than He that is in the world! Today is the Day of our Salvation and now is our accepted time, and it is, because today we are one with Jesus’ resurrection and life!

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

We Are Alive In Christ

"Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection: 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. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him. Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him. For in that He died, He died unto sin once; but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:4-11

We are now buried with Jesus by baptism! So what exactly does that mean? “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. But He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:” Matthew 3:11 We are buried with Jesus through the baptism of the Holy Spirit of God. The power of the Holy Spirit’s Anointing upon us has crucified our flesh, and the Spirit of God has now made us alive together with God through our Lord Jesus Christ! We now walk in the newness of Jesus’ life by the power of His resurrection that has been bestowed upon us! Just as Jesus lives through the power of God, so do we! This is why we are able to walk in newness of life, because we have been sealed with the Holy Ghost and we are now strong in the power of His might and we are now more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us! We are now one with Christ, because we have actually shared and been made partakers of His death! Therefore we actually share in His life and are now partakers of His life.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Together Lets Pray To Be Exactly Like Jesus

"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. Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them also glorified. What shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:29-31

Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.” John 16:24

Pray for me, and I will pray for you, that all of us come to know exactly who we are in Christ and Who He is within us. Ask that Jesus will Author the faith for us all to live in all of these Truths that we have studied so far. And here is the Truth, we are either going to be transformed to the image of Jesus now, or later. If we are truly saved, God has proclaimed that we absolutely will be, so A-men, we will be! Jesus is returning for a glorious Church, without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, and that is a church that has been conformed into His image, a church that is in the full stature and measure of Christ, and the desire of our hearts, the hearts given to us by God, desires for our Fathers will to be fulfilled within us all! I have never met a brother or sister in the Lord who doesn’t desire to be more Christ like, but I have met many who believe that we can’t be as He is on this earth! But the Truth that will set us free is something entirely different. The Truth is that it is God’s will that we be conformed into the very image of Jesus Christ, and to insure that we will be, God has devoted Himself to ever live as one with us so that through the power of His might and through the strength of His Anointing, we will be! The Truth is this, what God desires, He gets!

Father, I ask You right now, in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus, that all who read this study, and all that I come into contact with, and all who they come into contact with, will be conformed into the very image of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Who we are now one with. I pray that we love like Jesus, we serve like Jesus, that You perform miracles through us like You do through Jesus, that we understand like Jesus, that we see as Jesus sees, hear as He hears, and act like He acts! Father I pray that we are conformed to His very image, to the full measure of His stature, as is Your desire. Father I thank You that this goes beyond words, and that it goes into practice and action! I thank You that we are now the glorious Church You have called and provided for us to be. No more infants tossed to and fro. But that we are steadfast in You, mature, and fully accepting and fully united with You, without spot, without wrinkle, and without blemish! I praise Your glorious Name, A-men!

Monday, May 15, 2006

There Is No Condemnation For Us

"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. Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them also glorified. What shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:29-31

It is God’s will that we are one with Him and that through the power of His Anointing we be conformed into the image of Jesus. God wants us to walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, think like Jesus, act like Jesus, have the glory of Jesus, be delivered from the evils of this world like Jesus, and to do the works of Jesus! To insure that He can do all of these things through us, God has called us, He has united us with Himself, He has justified us, He has glorified us, and what can we say to all of this? Can we brag about our own efforts? Can we glory in our own abilities? No, all we can say is, “God is for us,” and praise His Holy Name, because we are now one with Him, we can be just like Jesus!

Ask yourself this, what if we are not there yet, what if we aren’t as mature as we can be? Does that bring condemnation on us? No, there is now therefore no condemnation to us who are in Christ Jesus, Romans 8:1. So if we aren’t as mature as we can be, what should we do? Well the first thing to know is this, the Holy Spirit teaches us all things and Jesus leads us in the paths of God’s righteousness. We are not alone here, we are never alone, God is our Father, and He abides within us. God shall never leave us or forsake us! God is our Father and He knows better than anyone what He needs to do to fulfill His calling within us! Faith in who we are in Christ comes from hearing the Word of God! We are one with God and our Head knows what each part of His body needs to become as it should be! Our Father is in control and He will never leave us or forsake us, and His love cast out all fear and all of the torment that comes with it!

Sunday, May 14, 2006

The Glory Of Christ Has Made Us

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

Jesus prayed that we would have the same glory that He has and Jesus proclaimed that we are now perfect through our oneness with God. Jesus has given us great and precious promises and through the Anointing of God we have become partakers of His Divine Nature and through Christ we have escaped the corruption that is in this world. These are the Truths of our salvation through Christ, and since these are Truth, it only makes sense that God has given us such great and precious things, and that we should be conformed to the image of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, the Firstborn among many brethren! How can we be anything except like Jesus, He is now our Head, and we are now His body, and we are now one with Him! God has given us an Anointed mind that knows the full extent of who He has made us in Christ! We need to really begin to invite the Holy Spirit to teach us all things concerning this transformation into God’s Divine Nature! We need to stop considering ourselves to be mere humans, because the Holy Spirit of the Living God has quickened our mortal bodies. We are now the children of Jehovah and we have been giving the exact same glory as Jesus, and God loves us just as He loves Jesus. We have been made perfect by our unity with God, the Holy Ghost, and Jesus, and now Jesus is glorified within us. Look at the scriptures below, we continue to lay block upon block on the foundation that we are now and forevermore one with God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. God’s Word is Truth and His Word is the rock that establishes our firm foundation! We are now one with God through Jesus Christ, God now dwells within us through the Holy Ghost, and we now dwell in Him!

"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

"And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine; and I am glorified in them." John 17:10

"If ye abide in me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." John 15:7

Saturday, May 13, 2006

We Cannot Be Corrupted

“By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in this world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and becoming sharers (partakers) of the Divine nature.” 2 Peter 1:4 Amplified Bible

Through the power of Christ we have become sharers of God’s Divine Nature, and just as the rottenness and corruption of this world cannot touch our Lord and Savior Jesus, they now cannot touch us who are one with Him! Nothing can corrupt Jesus and we are now members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bone! God has rescued us from this world and He has allowed us to become one with His Own Nature, it’s our destiny in Christ! These precious and exceedingly great promises are for us right now! Our justification is now, our glorification is now, our calling is now, and we are now the sons of God, because we are one with God right now! “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.” 1 John 3:1-3

We have escaped the hatred of this world. When they wanted to stone Jesus, He just walked away. When they wanted to throw Him over the cliff, He just walked away. When satan tempted Him, He just told him to leave. When it was time to crucify our Lord, He permitted them to do it. They asked who He was, and as He told them, they fell back and to the ground, and He permitted them to get up and He allowed them to do what it is they had to do. And then on the Cross He forgave them all, for they knew not what they had done! Just as our Lord escaped and has escaped all moral decay, corruption, and rottenness, so have we; and we have done it through the free gift of our Fathers Anointing!

Friday, May 12, 2006

We Are Conformed To Jesus' Image, Justified And Glorified

"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. Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them also glorified. What shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:29-31

Once we truly are chosen by our Father and empowered with His Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus and make Him the Lord of our lives, it became our destiny to be conformed, by the Anointing of God, to the very image of our Lord Savior! God has called us out of the darkness of this world and we are now a chosen generation and a royal priesthood! “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him Who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;” 1 Peter 2:9 God has declared that it is our destiny and our birthright to be conformed into the image of the One whom we are now one with, Jesus. And God has justified us with the Blood of Christ, so that we can be! God has glorified us so that He can fulfill His will of creating us in His own image! This is God’s desire for us, and since it is, nothing will stand in His way of accomplishing it! We are now more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us! “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” Romans 8:37 In every last thing and in every area of our lives, the Anointing of God is victorious through us! God is going to fulfill His desire for our lives and nothing will stand in His way! Since we have been saved, we will be conformed to the very image of Jesus, it is our destiny!

So rejoice in the Truth that God is going to use you to do great and marvelous things! He will use you o preach the absolute Truth that will set the captives free. He will use you to heal the sick, cast out demons, speak prophetic utterances to those in need. Through Christ you will proclaim from the rooftops what Jesus has proclaimed in silence. You will be used by God to do the works that He did through Jesus and He will even use you to do greater works, because Jesus went to the Cross and has allowed Him to. You have a great and spectacular destiny in Christ and today is the Day of your salvation!

Thursday, May 11, 2006

We Now Have Our Fathers Divine Nature

“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, for He that is dead is free from sin.” Romans 6:6

Now look at Colossians 3:3, “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” “If then ye be risen with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.” Colossians 3:1 “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:6

Stop and recount the points that we have studied over the last several postings. We need love, so our Father gave us His love! We had a sinful body; so our Father quickened it with His Anointing! We need faith, so Jesus Authors and Finishes our faith! Our Father has given us all things that pertain to life and to Godliness. Everything our Father has and everything that our Father is, He has given us. Just as Jesus taught in the parable of the Prodigal Son! Through Jesus, our Father can do everything through us! We are now one with Jesus and He is glorified in us! We are one with God, exactly as Jesus is One with God, because we are now one with Jesus! Jesus dealt with our flesh on the Cross, and since He did, our Father has freely allowed us to walk in the fullness of His Divine nature!

Today is the day that our Lord has made, and He has empowered us with the fullness of Himself so that we may rejoice and be glad in it!

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Do You Think That You Are Dead To Sin?

"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:11

Ask yourself this, do you really consider yourself to be dead to sin? If you don’t, ask God why you don’t? God’s eternal Word says that we should consider ourselves to be dead to sin and alive unto Him just as Jesus is dead to sin and alive unto Him. We have studied that God has given us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, and we seriously have to ask ourselves, did our Father do it or didn’t He? We have studied that through the power of Christ that we have full access to a life without falling. We have seen that God has given us exceedingly great and precious promises and that we have taken on and are partakers of the Divine nature of God Himself! We have all of this because of the power of Christ! This is who God has made us because He loves us, He never leaves us and He never forsakes us, so our quickened flesh is always strong through the power of His might! If you stop and actually consider that all of this greatness and freedom we have is only because of God, it is easily grasped and believed. Because God has the ability to make us that way, He is God!

Satan wants us to dwell on our flesh: we’re just a human, our sin nature, our shortcomings, blah, blah, blah. But the Word of God proclaims that our mortal flesh, the very thing that the world and satan wants us to consider as an unmovable restriction in our lives, has actually now been made alive with God Himself. Through the power of the Holy Spirit within us, God has now quickened our flesh! God knew that our flesh was nothing but corruption, so He did something about it, He gave us something to overcome it, something that pertained to godliness, He gave us Himself, and the Light that He is has driven out the darkness that we were!

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

We Have God's Mind To Know Who We Are In Him

"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:11

Christ is now in us and His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, is now life for us and it is life abundantly! The power of God that raised Jesus from the dead and that forever eliminated sins ability to even touch Him, is now alive within you and I. We have been made alive together with the same life force of God, the Holy Spirit, that raised Jesus from the dead and that quickened Him together with God. The wage of sin is death, but the gift of God is life eternal through Christ Jesus our Lord! God tells us that we are to consider ourselves to be dead to sin, and thus we also should consider ourselves to be dead to the wages of sin. We are able to think this way about ourselves, because God has given us the Mind that He has, the Mind of His Anointing, 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’s Mind knows and understands the power of His Anointing and the power of His salvation for us! The Anointed Mind of Christ, that God has united us with, knows the Truth that human flesh apart from Him is nothing but sin. And it also knows the absolute Truth that God’s Strength, provided to us by Jesus’ sacrifice, has overcome the weakness of our flesh! God has given us a mind that knows Who He is within us and a mind that knows we are no longer alone! The mind that God has given us fully understands that we have been crucified with Christ, and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us that lives, it is Christ within us Who lives! The mind that God gives us knows that He can do all things through us by the power of His Anointing that He has given us! Our mind from God does not fear, it does not doubt, and does not hate. Our mind loves, forgives, has hope and faith, and does not for one second doubt that God loves us. It actually knows the breadth, length, height, and depth of our Fathers love, and it is able to grasp the peace that comes from Jesus, even though His peace passes all understanding. As our Father is, so are we, even while we are in this earth!

Monday, May 08, 2006

Jesus Becme Flesh, So That We Could Become One With God

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” John 1:14

Jesus was with God from the very beginning! He was One with God and to save us, He came to the Earth as a man, born of a woman. Jesus took on flesh, flesh that could be destroyed, flesh that could be tempted in every way that we can be tempted, yet through the power of God He stayed without sin.

“For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” Hebrews 4:15

Jesus’ flesh could be destroyed, it wasn’t some supernatural flesh, it was just like ours and it was killed! Think about it, Jesus’ flesh had taken on every sin and every sickness that the world would ever have.  Jesus' flesh was destroyed on the Cross and afterwards it laid dead and lifeless in a tomb. Then after three days the power of our Father's Anointing came upon it and Jesus’ flesh was quickened and raised up and lived again. The dead flesh of Christ was raised and made alive together with God! This is what has happened for us now that we are saved, our dead flesh has been raised up and made to be alive together with God!

“For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.” Ephesians 5:30

We no longer live by the power of the flesh, we now live by the power of the Spirit of God dwelling within us. We have our Father's Spirit within us right now; we are one with it and He is above us, through us, and in us! There is now one body, one Spirit, one faith, one hope, and one love. It is all God and we are one with Him! Today is the day of our salvation and now is our accepted time. This isn’t some whacked out theology, think about it, all God is saying is that His Anointing has overcome the weakness of our flesh!

Sunday, May 07, 2006

What Christ Does To Our Flesh

"But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you." Romans 8:9-11

So many Christians I know are worried about the weakness of their flesh; if you are one of them, in the Name of Jesus stop it. The weakness of our flesh has been overcome by the power of God’s might! We now have Christ dwelling within us and we are now one with Him and our mortal flesh has been quickened, which means our flesh has been made alive together with Christ, by the power and victory of God's very own Spirit. We are now one with God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior! We are now the Temples of the Holy Ghost and the very presence of God that now dwells within us cleanses us and strengthens us from all sin! “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16 We are now new creatures in Christ, all of the old things of our flesh have passed away from us, and behold all things are now new for us as we live united with Christ! “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 Before we were saved our flesh was weak, but now the weak have been made strong in Christ, because the weak have become one with Christ! We have been saved from our corrupted flesh; the weakness of our flesh has been done away with by the strength of the power of the Anointing of God that has been given us!

One application of Christ and your flesh is forever changed. Christ wipes out every wrinkle, every spot, and every blemish, Ephesians 5:27. Oil of Ole only covers it up, you have to continually buy that stuff and the results are questionable. But man the Anointing of God is free and one application is eternal. And we don’t even have to apply it, God does it for us. You talk about a bargain!

Saturday, May 06, 2006

God Keeps Us From Falling

“Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:” 2 Peter 1:10,

Ask yourself this question; do you have the hope that you will never fall? Is never failing to high of a standard; is it too much pie in the sky? Well we can see what God has to say about it here in 2 Peter. God shows us that there is a way for us to never fall, and that way is Christ in us, doing the works. Faith is the evidence of things hoped for; true godly faith is only Authored and Finished by Jesus. So if you don’t think a life without falling is within our capabilities, then ask God to show you what He was talking about through Peter, and you will see that it is totally available to us, and Jesus’ yoke is not harsh, it is easy to be borne! Through Christ we are now one with God and God is more than able and willing to do all things righteously through us! The Truth that sets us free is that we are one with God and the power of not falling is on God, and not on His body parts! When we look towards God and towards His power it is easy to believe that He can keep us, just as He keeps Himself. The revelation here is on our unity and oneness with God. Faith comes from hearing this Truth and this Truth sets us free!

Through the power of Jesus’ sacrifice we are now new creatures in Christ, and old things have passed away and all things have become new for us. “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 power and glory of our perfection, the ability for us to never fall lies completely and totally with Jesus, and He is our High Priest Who ever lives to intercede for us so that we may be saved to the uttermost. Jesus has rescued us from our weak humanity and He has delivered us into the strong place of being one with our Father as He is One with our Father! Jesus is that great and through His power we shall never fall and through Jesus our election is sure!

Friday, May 05, 2006

We Now Have Life As God Has Life

“According as His Divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue.” 2 Peter 1:3

We have been given all things that pertain unto life and unto godliness! We have been given all things that pertain unto life and godliness just as God has all things that pertain unto life and unto godliness! Notice that these things are not reserved for us, waiting for us in Heaven, they are for us right now, today, this very second! God doesn’t have to wait for these things, and we are now His body and one with Him. Praise God, we have been strengthened with Christ, the very power that God gave to Himself when He came to the earth as a man. And through our Lord and through the power of His love, we have been made to be partakers of God’s glory and virtue. The power that has been freely bestowed upon us by Jesus, allows God to be Who He is within us, so that we can walk successfully 100% of the time! For us to fail would mean that God had failed, and God never fails. All things now work together for our good, just as all things work together for God!

We are now more than conquerors through Christ Who love’s us! Greater is our Father Who is within us than anything that is in this world! The weapons of our warfare are now mighty to the bringing down of strongholds. And through Christ we have life and we have it abundantly, an abundant life according to our Father riches and glory, an abundant life that overtakes us! Today is the Day of our Salvation and now is our accepted time and our faith to accept all of God’s Truth is Authored and Finished by Jesus, the Alpha and Omega!

Thursday, May 04, 2006

We Now Have God's Great And Precious Promises

“By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises..” Let’ stop here for a minute, who gave us the precious and exceedingly great promises? Whose promises are they? They are God’s promises and they are precious and they aren’t just great, they are exceedingly great! Now back to the verse, “so that through them you may escape [by flight] from moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in this world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and becoming sharers (partakers) of the Divine nature.” 2 Peter 1:4 Amplified

Man that is awesome stuff! We have been given God’s promises, so that we may share and be partakers of His nature. And because of God we have escaped the corruption that is in this world! God’s love is precious and it is exceedingly great, and we are now partakers of it and God’s love now abides within us! We have escaped the corruption of this world through it, as it covers up and destroys a multitude of sins!

We can’t escape lust and greed through our own efforts, with our own faith, or our own anything. We escape corruption because of God, through the power of His Anointing, which is Christ, and we have escaped corruption because it is God’s nature dwelling within us! These are God’s great and precious promises to us! We are victorious because of God, and God is victorious 100% of the time! There is now no weapon formed against us that can prosper because there is no weapon that can prosper against God. And through Christ we are now more than conquerors, just as God is more than a conqueror! As He is, so are we in this world!

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

All That God Has Is Now Ours

And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.” Luke 15:27-31

The point we need to realize from this parable of the Prodigal Son is this, everything that the father of these two sons had, was always the son’s! The power of the father, the wealth of the father, the supplies of the father, all that he had was the son’s. The same Truth that Jesus spoke of in this parable applies for you and I, all that our Father, Who is God, has is ours! We need love, so we now have our Father’s love. We need faith, so we now have our Father’s faith. We need wisdom, so we now have our Father’s wisdom, we need protection, and praise Jesus we now have God’s protection. Love is the greatest thing of all, and praise God, we now have the best love there is! The love that cried out for forgiveness on the Cross is now our love! The love that bore our sins, our sicknesses, and our diseases, is now our love. We have a Godly commandment to love, and man we have been supplied with the most powerful and capable love of all, God’s love! God’s commandment kept and fulfilled, by God Himself through us, and as Jesus said, without Him, we could have never done it! But with Him, praise God with Him, we are one with the One Who can do it all! Hallelujah! The Word of God is quick and the Truth of God’s Word has set us free to be used as our Lord and Savior was used!

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

God's Love Within Us Produces 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

Without God, without Jesus, we can do absolutely nothing righteous! We cannot love, unless God loves through us. There is nothing good that comes from our flesh, there are no qualities of man that can stand up to the righteous requirements of God, but praise God’s Holy Name, we now fully meet the standards of God by the power of God that now dwells within us! There is no fear of failure, because God’s perfect love has driven out all of the torment of fear! There is no question about having the needed faith, because Jesus has Authored and Finished our faith! There is no question about not knowing what to do, because we have the Holy Ghost Who teaches us all things! There is now no question about not having the resources, because our needs are met according to God’s riches and glory in Christ Jesus! There is no question that God has called us, because we have His Spirit within us crying out Father, Father! The love that Jesus had to come and serve, is now abiding within us, and as Jesus 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 Our love has been made perfect by Christ, because our love is now God’s very own love, everything the Father has, has been given to us through Jesus our Lord!

Monday, May 01, 2006

Our Fathers Love Is Shed Abroad In Our Hearts

“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

God’s perfect love that has been shed abroad in our hearts casts out all fear from us. “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 God had no fear whatsoever that Jesus would fail. God knew that Jesus would come and that He would be sacrificed, and then He would be raised from the dead and since He absolutely would be, we would be saved to the uttermost! Jesus knew the exact same thing and this is the confidence of God’s love that now dwells within us! God’s love drives all fear from us!

There is one basic commandment that Jesus has declared to us under the New Covenant; we are to love. "And this commandment have we from Him, that he who loveth God love his brother also." 1 John 4:21 We will see as we continue in this study that God provides everything for us just as He has provides everything for Himself. He can do nothing less, we are His body; we are His flesh! There is nothing that God has commanded us to do, that He is not within us doing! There is never any separation between God and us. Just as we do not remove body parts, God does not remove us! It’s always the Father within us; He is always doing the works through us by the power of Christ which has strengthened us so that He can! God says we are to love, so Jesus has made us one with the exact same love as God has. And we now cannot help but to love as our Head loves! The body acts as one! Jesus has made us one with the very power of God to fulfill His commandments. God places all of the burdens of our eternity on Himself. God says we need faith, (Hebrews 11:6) so our faith is now Authored and Finished by Jesus. (Hebrews 12:2) God says we need to love, so He gives us His love to love others with. God says we need to study to show ourselves approved, (2 Timothy 2:15) so He gave us the Holy Ghost to teach us all things. (John 14:26) God provides complete and total salvation for us! Jesus came and died for us, so that we might have life and have it more abundantly! Our abundance is now God’s abundance! Jesus leads us into the paths of righteousness by making us one with the only Righteous One, God! Jesus causes us to walk in God’s statutes and to keep God’s judgments by making us one with God Himself, so how could we walk any other way? We are not living this life alone, we are united with God through Christ and He never leaves us or forsakes us! God does not give us ordinances and rules that are dependent upon our own human efforts to succeed. No, God gave us Himself, He gave us His love, He gave us His Spirit, He gave us His Son; He gave us all of Himself to carry out the works of His righteousness within this world, and through our Father, and only Him, can we have any level of success! And our Father’s least is mans miraculous abundance!