A Benefit Of Salvation: Peace

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

The peace of our Father that passes understanding shall keep our hearts and our minds, now that is some kind of peace! Our Father, Who is Omnipotent, Who is Omnipresent, Who is the Beginning and the End, and Who is not afraid of anything, has given us His peace and He shall keep our hearts and minds through the power of His Anointing! Our Father has made everything that has been made, so what can threaten Him? The devil, who our Father created, led a rebellion with a third of the Angels and our Father just threw them out of Heaven. There was no war that God was required to lead the troops into to put the rebellion of satan down; there was no bloodshed, and no disruption in His Authority or His power! He just spoke and satan was flung from Heaven and like a lightning bolt and he came crashing to the earth! Our Father does not have to concern Himself or take thought for sickness, debt, fear, work, fellowship, or anything, He’s at perfect peace with Who He is and what He is, and how He is. His peace is the perfect peace that passes all understanding! That peace, the perfect Omnipotent peace of God, now keeps our hearts and our minds!

Now what is really powerful about this Truth is that our Father doesn’t give us a list of do’s and don’ts to receive His peace! All we have to do is what Philippians 4:6 teaches us and ask God for everything in every situation! Which has been totally covered by God Himself, since He has given us the mind of Christ! Our new minds and hearts that have been born into us just naturally look to our Father for everything and since they do, our Father is able to keep our hearts and minds in His perfect peace that passes all understanding! So through the power of our Fathers might we ask Him for all things pertaining to our spirits, our souls, and our bodies! We ask our Father for our all of our wants and all of our needs. We ask our Father for all little things and all major things. We are empowered with the exact same mind as our Lord and Savior and since we are, we have the exact same peace that allowed Jesus to come to the earth as a man! Our Father will absolutely, totally and complexly keep our hearts and minds in His perfect peace! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free!

God Isn't Sick, And As He Is So Are We

“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

The Bible teaches us that as God is, so are we on this earth; so is God sick, can He be sick, or does He need to be sick to minister to us? God proclaims that if we are saved than sickness will not even come near where we dwell. “Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.” Psalm 91:9-10 Is God lying here? Did God lie when He said that by Jesus’ stripes we were healed? Did Jesus respect those people He ministered to some 2000 years ago more than He does us? Was Jesus more compassionate back then than He is now? Jesus told us that it was better for us that He went away, because if He went away then the Holy Ghost would come to us. So shouldn’t healing and health be even more prevalent within us, for it to be better for us?

These Truths are why salvation is so great! No man can steal them from us; words only begin to scratch the surface of the power of these Truths. These Truths of health and abundance, about wisdom and knowledge, and a victorious life through Christ are for all men. There is no reason each and every one of us can’t live fully within them. Through God all things are possible and with Him no foe is able to stand against us! God will provide complete and total victory, in every area of our lives, every day, from now throughout all of eternity! Grab a hold of God, and you will never experience the disappointment of failure. God will lead you into the paths of righteousness and His virtue will be yours! You are a child of God; Jesus is our example, the first born among many brethren. If God did it through Jesus, it is a pattern for how He will do it through us as well! Salvation means health, any other doctrine, is a wolf in sheep’s clothing!

Go and read how Jesus healed the Centurions servant, how He healed Peters mother-in-law, how He healed the ten lepers, the man with the withered hand, and the little girl that had died. Read about Lazarus, read how the Apostles would walk by and people were instantly healed, read how Paul anointed handkerchiefs and the people who touched them were healed. Go and read how Paul was preaching and a guy fell to his death during the sermon, and how God just had Paul go down and raise Him from the dead, and then had him preach until morning. Go read how Paul was stoned and taken out of the city, and God raised him from the dead. Read all of these and allow God to reveal to you that salvation means health, Godly Health, abundant health, more than needed health, health in excess, and uncommon health! Jesus is Lord and He is a Lord of abundance! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us completely and totally free! Today is the Day of our Salvation, so now is the Day of our Health in Christ Jesus!

An ABundant Life Does Not Include Sickness

"I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture. The thief cometh, 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 10:9-10

Jesus came so that through Him we might have life and have it abundantly. An abundant life is one of health. The Greek Word that means abundance is perissos, Strong’s 4053, it means exceeding, over and above, more than necessary, supremely, extraordinary, surpassing, uncommon, more remarkable, and more excellent. If an abundant life meant we were to be sick, than we should be sicker than any one else, far more than necessary, we should be uncommonly sick, far above those who aren’t saved. People who are sick are trying to get well. Do you know anyone who is sick that isn’t? Those who are sick go to the doctor, people are trying to eat right and exercise to avoid being sick, abundance through Christ does not include sickness.

We are now members of Jesus’ body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone. God’s Anointing that has been given to us now makes us strong in the full and complete power of His might, and since it does ask yourself this question, can God be sick? Can our Father be sick, or does He need to be sick so that He can be compassionate to help us? If we are now one with God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, we are as God said that we are in 1 John 4:17, we are as He is, even while 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.”

Peace

Yesterday I was asked by someone why they didn’t have peace. I asked them what did they mean, and they said that they had read in the Bible where we should have Jesus’ peace and that they didn’t have it. And God just told me so plainly to tell them that He had shown them His Truth and that they could rest assured that He would cause it to come to pass fully within their life.

It was so great because God did not have me give them a list of do’s to make it happen. Because they can’t make it happen, only God can. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God and God had showed them His Word. Faith is Authored and Finished by Jesus, and Jesus had led them to His Truth and He was Authoring the hope for it and as surely as He had showed them that they could have His peace, He is going to insure that they get it! The responsibility of their peace was on Jesus not on them. Jesus is their Head, God is their Gardener, and Jesus is their Shepherd. God’s grace will exert its influence on their souls and anything that would hinder their ability to live in Jesus’ peace will absolutely be removed by God Himself! Our Father will give them His power, His ability, and His hope and faith to live in all of His blessings! The battle is our Fathers and the victory is ours! Greater is He that is within us than He that is in the world. And God can now do all things through us by the power of His Anointing that strengthens us! We don’t look at our hand and tell it that it needs to do something to receive the blessing of the body, our Head leads the hand to do what is needed and we are now part of the Body of Christ, where Jesus is the Head! The responsibility of our receiving the promises and blessings of God are on Jesus, and He ever lives to intercede for us so that we are saved to the uttermost. Jesus has taken on the servants towel, and if we don’t let Him serve us in all of our needs, we can have no part of Him. It is all God, it has always been all God, and it will always be all God!

We can’t help but to be blessed in the power of our Fathers might!

Salvation Means Health

"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

Let’s go back and review the Greek words for salvation and saved, they both mean health and deliverance from sickness and disease. Soteria (salvation), Strong’s 4991: means deliverer, health, rescue, and safety. Fourfold salvation: saved from the penalty, power, presence and most importantly the pleasure of sin. Deliverance from the molestation of enemies, future salvation: the sum of benefits and blessings which the Christians, redeemed from all earthly ills, will enjoy after the visible return of Christ from heaven in the consummated and eternal kingdom of God. Sozo (saved), Strong's 4982, means to keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger and destruction. To save one from perishing, to save from disease, to make well, to heal, to restore. To preserve, to deliver from the penalties of sin and judgment and finally to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of deliverance.

Jesus was used by God to heal so many people during His earthly ministry, that when they couldn’t get to Him with the sick, they literally ripped the roofs off where He was, so that they could get to Him, Mark 2:4. We can’t read the Gospels and ever come up with the conclusion that God wants us sick; it’s just not the Truth! Jesus never says that He cannot heal a sick person because God doesn’t will it. Jesus never put sickness on someone to teach them a Truth about God, nor does He ever deny to heal anyone who asked. Jesus never said that He couldn’t heal because it was God’s will for them to be sick! Everywhere that Jesus went He healed, whether they could accept it or not! Even in His hometown where He marveled at their unbelief, the Word says Jesus healed! Now Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He changes not. Jesus’ compassion is just as strong today as it was 2000 years ago! “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and forever.” Hebrews 13:8 So if God acted compassionately and miraculously through Jesus 2000 years ago, He is the same way today! If God was healing the sick back then, He is healing them today. Jesus ever lives to intercede for us and that is why we are saved and healed to the uttermost! By Jesus’ stripes we are healed! Today is the day of our health and now is our accepted time in Christ Jesus. Christ is far greater in us, than anything that is in this world.

A Benefit Of Salvation: 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

As we read the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John one thing becomes very clear, Jesus is all about healing the sick. Jesus healed lepers, He healed the blind, the lame, the demon possessed, and He even raised the dead. “Now when He came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much of the people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her, and said unto her, weep not. And He came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And He said, Young man, I say to thee, arise. And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And He delivered him unto his mother.” Luke 7:12-15 Jesus had not yet gone to the Cross and He had not yet received a single stripe, yet we see that His purpose and His ministry was to make people whole, and healing is part of being whole! If this was Jesus’ Ministry before He was sacrificed and if this is how He acted before He was raised from the dead, how much more do you suppose that this is how His Ministry is now? Now that He has shed His Blood and ushered in the New Testament, the perfect Covenant?

Let me ask you this as well, did that mother, whose son had died, come to Jesus and ask for a miracle? Did her son ask to be raised from the dead? No, Jesus was just walking by and He had compassion and acted on His compassion. Look at John 5:5-9. “And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, He saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool; but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Arise, take up thy bed and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked: and on the same day was the Sabbath.” This lame man at the Pool of Bethesda showed no faith whatsoever; he only had doubt and when Jesus asked him if he wanted to be whole, he said that he couldn’t be, because someone else would beat him to it. Did this man’s complete lack of faith stop Jesus? Absolutely not! Jesus just told him to be whole and he was. There are a lot of people that will try to tell you that your healing depends solely on our faith, or our ability to believe that we can be. Well here are two examples where there was none and yet there were healings! Faith can play a role in healings, Jesus told the woman with an issue of blood, Luke 8:43, that her faith had made her whole. But grace and compassion are a huge part of God’s personality and God is not limited!

We Have Jesus' Faith To Know All Things

"So faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God." Romans 10:17

"Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of things we hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality. Hebrews 11:1 Amplified Bible And praise God that through the power of His Holy Spirit we: “Look unto Jesus the Authorer and Finisher of our faith,” Hebrews 12:2. We have been given the Holy Ghost to teach us all things, and we have Jesus Who allows us to have the faith to diligently seek God, and since we do we will be rewarded, we have God’s absolute Word on it. It’s finished! The Truth that has set us free is that : greater is He that is within us, than he that is in the world and God can now do all things through us by the power of Christ Who has strengthened us! God wants all men to have all of this and today is the day of our salvation and now is the accepted time for this to happen! We now have Jesus’ peace that passes all understanding and we now have Jesus’ joy fulfilled within us so that our joy may be full! God is absolutely and completely for us, so there is nothing that can be against us! We have been delivered from our strong enemy and we have been delivered into God’s large place! A table has been prepared for us in the presence of our enemies as we are led beside the still waters in as we lay down in the soft green pastures of God’s grace. Jesus’ stripes have healed us and there is absolutely no weapon that has been formed against us that can proper. We have the very Spirit of God within us that causes us to abound in this hope and we have Jesus insuring that this hope is begun and finished in His perfect and complete faith. Our yoke is easy to be born and light in the anointing of Christ that our Father has freely given us.

We Know The Truth

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

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

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

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

We Now Live In God's Wisdom

“Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” 1 Corinthians 2:13

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

We Are Now Alive Like Jesus Is Alive

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

Our Father's ways are infinitely higher than mans ways, this is the absolute Truth. Our Father knows this Truth better than we do, so He gave Himself completely to us to guide us in all of His Truth, so that His ways can now be our ways as well!

“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, Whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26

There is absolutely nothing that our Father does not know and our Father gave us His very Own Holy Spirit to teach us and show us everything! Our relationship with our Father is so complete and so intimate that He proclaims, “But the anointing which ye received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is Truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.” 1 John 2:27

Our Father has provided a way for us to know all of His Truth, even if we never have a Bible! Even if we were cast out on an island with no other human beings around, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we could still be taught and shown everything and know everything and be free! Once we are born again by the will of God and empowered by the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus, we are never alone again. Our Father never leaves us or forsake us. Jesus will forevermore lead us in the paths of His righteousness and A-men, He knows the way! Our Father knows how to teach each one of us, what may be needed for me, may not be needed for you. Our Father deals with each of us individually, as He leads us into all of His Truths that set us free! And the great Truth of our salvation is this: through Christ, death has no more dominion over us. When we were chosen and born again, we died once to sin and from that very moment and forever more, we now live unto God as Jesus lives unto God! We have all of this because that is how powerful Jesus’ sacrifice was and is for us! We are great because Jesus is great. It’s all God, it’s always been all God, and it will always be all God!

A Benefit Of Salvation: God Leads Us Into All Truth

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

“And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” John 8:32 Through Christ we shall know all of the Truth of God, because God will guide us in all of His Truth and His Truth shall make us free! God is not limited by our humanity, or by our flesh, God loves us so much that He gave us His Holy Spirit and through Him, God is able to guide us into all Truth. The Holy Ghost will take each and every last thing that God has given Jesus and He will reveal it all to us, and through our Fathers Truth, we shall be free! The Holy Spirit will strengthen us to accept the Truth and the eternal power that is within it! The Holy Spirit will go to God and advocate on our behalf, and He will empower us to actually live in the fullness of God’s Truth! The Holy Spirit will teach us and strengthen us in the Truth of God’s love and through the power of Christ within us, we will love as Jesus loves! The perfect love of God will set us free and it will cast out all fear from within us! The Holy Ghost, the very Spirit of God, shall teach us of the abundance of God. He will take all that Jesus is and reveal it all to us and through the power of the Holy Spirit we shall know God, as Jesus knows God, and we shall be free! The Holy Ghost shall teach us to be used by God in the ministering of His spiritual gifts, as Jesus was used by God in the ministering of His spiritual gifts, and we shall be free. The Holy Ghost shall teach us to pray, to witness, to forgive, to hope, to love, to live, and to live abundantly in every area of our lives, spirit, soul, and body, as Jesus lives abundantly, and we shall be free, free as Jesus is free!

Jesus Is Our Protecting Shepherd

“I am the Good Shepherd: and the Good Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep. But he that is a hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth, and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the Good Shepherd, and now My sheep, and am known of Mine.” John 10:11-14

Jesus gave His life for us and He now ever lives to intercede for us, this is why we are saved to the uttermost, Hebrews 7:25. The Good Shepherd knows His sheep and He never leaves them. He never allows them to be scattered or harmed by the wolves! The sheep do not defend themselves against the wolves, the shepherd defends and protects them, and our Shepherd is not a hireling, He is the Good Shepherd, Who has laid His life down for us, and Who ever lives to protect us! Jesus is our Shepherd and we are saved to the uttermost because of Him. Because of Jesus we are now and forevermore delivered from danger and evil, we are delivered from the power, presence, pleasure, and penalty of sin. Because of Jesus we are saved from perishing, we are saved from disease, and we are saved from any evil that would hinder or obstruct our reception of deliverance! God through His power within Jesus and the Holy Ghost defends us from any and all attacks and no man and no thing can ever separate us from this benefit of salvation! God does not ask us to do it alone, He is right here empowering us with His very presence and with His very own abilities, we stand because God stands within us! We stand because we are now one with our Father through Jesus Christ! No foe can penetrate the protection of our Father and we are more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us, and no weapon formed against us will ever prosper! Because today is the day of our salvation and because today Jesus stands triumphant and victorious! Satan and evil have been defeated, they stand each and every day in defeat, they have no choice! Jesus is Lord!

Jesus Will Give Us The Faith That God Will Defend Us

“Looking unto Jesus the Authorer and Finisher of our faith,” Hebrews 12:2

We have now been empowered with the Holy Spirit of our Father to allow Jesus to Author our faith to really begin to dare and believe all that God has spoken for us! Through the power Christ within us we can actually know God and ask Him for whatever we will! Through the power of Christ that our Father has anointed us with we know that no weapon that is formed against us will ever prosper and that greater is He that is within us than he that is in the world! This is what we have been born again to do, this is the new heart and the new spirit that God has given us. This is the seed that we have been born of, God’s very own Incorruptible Seed! Through the anointing of Christ we will be used by God to produce much fruit that will endure! We are united with the Vine of Jesus and because we abide in the Vine, God can do everything through us abundantly! We are not alone anymore, we are not just ourselves anymore, we have been empowered by God Himself to say yes to Jesus and because we are born again we are now one with Him! "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 Perfect in one and the glory of Jesus, that is what we have in Christ Jesus today and every day for the rest of eternity!

Through Christ We Absolutely Have Eternal Life

"And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. My Father, which gave Me them, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father's hand" John 10:28-29

The King of Kings, Jesus Himself, boldly proclaims twice in one verse that no one can pluck us out of God's hand. Psalms 18 clearly shows us God’s attitude towards those things and beings that try to harm us! When we call upon our Father in times of trouble, the earth trembles and shakes as He rides to our rescue to remove us from our enemies and to place us in His large places! We need to encourage each other daily with the Truth of what God is like when it comes to His children, as all of these verses that we have studied together so far proclaim. Read what God actually desires for us, how He reacts when we have troubles, read and hear these truths, because faith of an abundant life comes from them. Our Father is God, He came from nowhere, He stood on nothing, and He spoke and here it all is. Our Father took clay, formed it into a man, breathed into that lump of dirt, and here we are! Our Father created us in His very image, in true righteousness and holiness! Our Fathers desire is to have eternal and unbroken fellowship with us. Our Father is the Living God, salvation means something, and Jesus went to the cross and endured all of the abuse and separation to insure that we could have it. Salvation is everything, it is alive, it’s protection, it’s abundance, it’s health, it’s direct access and unity with God, it is power, it’s the very power of God, and all of the benefits of salvation are for all of us who have been chosen and empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept it! And no man, no demon, and no situation can pluck us out of God’s hands! If they try, stand back and watch the righteous whooping of God begin! There is absolutely no weapon that is formed against us that can prosper! We are absolutely more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us! A thousand shall fall at our left side and ten thousand at our right, but we shall only see the reward of the wicked with our eyes, the harm shall not touch us! Today is the Day of our Salvation, because today is the day that the Lord has made for us, and through the power of our Fathers Anointing we shall rejoice and be glad in it!

Jesus Defeated Satan, So We Now Have 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

Satan is the thief, he came to kill us, steal from us, and death only came on man because of him. Satan came to steal our blessings and he came to destroy God’s purposes within us. “And these are they by the way side, where the Word is sown; but when they have heard, satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the Word that was sown in their hearts.” Mark 4:15 Satan wants each and every one of us destroyed, his soul purpose is to devour and consume us with evil and death! God knows this, He knows this better than we do, so what did God do to overcome satan and his schemes? God sent the best that He has, Jesus! Jesus is now our rock, He is now our deliverer, our strength, and because of Jesus and the power of His Anointing that we are now one with, we have been saved from all of our enemies! Jesus has saved us from our strong enemy and from all of those who have sided with satan and hate us! Jesus not only delivered us from satan and from all of the demons of hell, He has delivered us into the large place of God’s eternal salvation! Jesus came and gave us life, and He gave us life abundantly, more abundantly! Jesus has given us the Holy Ghost, the very Spirit of God, to comfort us, to strengthen us, to unit us, to advocate for us, to stand by us, and to seal us with the glory of God! We have passed from death unto life through Christ, and now God is more than a Conqueror through us and we are now strong in the power of His might!

Jesus defeated satan, and because He did we now have and enjoy abundant faith, hope, love, joy, peace, knowledge, wisdom, health, prosperity, forgiveness, blessings, miracles, prophesies, compassion, discernment, and power! Jesus was successful and He is successful today in you and I! We cannot help but to be blessed in the full and complete power of His might!

A Benefit Of Salvation: God Defends Us

"The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength, in Whom I trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. I will call upon the Lord, Who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of His Temple, and my cry came before Him, even into His ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because He was wroth. There went up a smoke out of His nostrils, and fire out of His mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness His secret place; His pavilion round about Him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. At the brightness that was before Him His thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave His voice; hailstones and coals of fire. Yea, He sent out His arrows, and scattered them; and He shot out lightning’s, and discomfited them. Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at Thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of Thy nostrils. He sent from above, He took me, He drew me out of many waters. He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me. They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay. He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me." Psalm 18:2-19

Wow, how awesomely God reacts when we are troubled and call upon Him. Our Father shakes the earth, smoke billows from His nostrils, a consuming fire shoots from His mouth, and He sends arrows, hail stones, and coals of fire. Our Father rebukes the evil for our sakes and because of the power of His voice, the foundations of the earth are revealed. He rescues us from those that hate us and who are too strong for us, and not only does He save us, but when we have been rescued, He places us in the large place of His abundant glory! God’s consumes us will all of His grace and glory! Now that is awesome! This is how God reacts when we call upon Him in times of trouble! You have to love it; you absolutely have to love it! God never does anything half way, we are His kids, and He loves us completely! God actually delights in us; He likes us! Jesus Christ is Lord and you and I are united in the power of His might!

God's Will Is Now Our Will

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

We have studied together so far that God wants us prosperous with His abundance, having all of our desires and all of our needs fulfilled for us by the glory of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Through His Love, by His presence, and with His Word, God has provided a way for us to be as Jesus is. We have seen in the Word that God has faith and boldness in us, because He knows absolutely that Christ, His Anointing, dwells within us, and God knows far better than you and I the power of our unity with Him. God knows the heart and the spirit that He gave us; He knows their power that allows us to walk in His will. God can say that we can have whatsoever we ask, because God has given our will to us, and it’s no longer our will but His will. Old things have passed away for us and all things have become new, including our God given will to love and long for true righteousness! And God’s will for us is an abundant life through Christ Jesus. Our Fathers will for us is Health, His will for us is abundant grace, His will for us is Peace, His will for us is Joy, His will for us is Wisdom, it’s Miraculous, Forgiving, Kind, Gentle, and Powerful! These are the attributes of the heart that we have been given by God and out of the abundance of our hearts, our mouths will ask!

Through Christ we have the power to desire and seek our Fathers full power and through the strength of the Holy Spirit we are not intimidated by it. It’s God, it’s all God, and we only can ask for whatever we will because of Him! We have been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of God’s Incorruptible Seed. We have been given the Holy Ghost to teach us all things. God has faith in His salvation and in our unity with Christ, and God now dwells within us and we too have is strength in believing all of His Truth’s! It’s God Who said all of these things are true, so through the power of the Holy Spirit within us we have boldness to walk in and have faith in the power of our salvation, just as God does!

Through Christ We Have The Will To Ask

"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

What’s really powerful in this verse concerning asking and receiving is our will, “ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you.” I mean think about it, Jesus said “ask what ye will,” so it’s an absolute Truth, but is it an attainable Truth for us? Most of the Christians I talk with question whether their will and God’s will are actually the same? They believe that we may get it right once in a while, but how can we be sure? I hear it said all of the time that God will not take our free will from us, but is that the Truth? Ask yourself these two questions, can we have God’s will 100% of the time, and if we are saved, are we permitted to retain our own will that is contrary to His? Let’s turn to the Word and see the Truth, and the Truth will set us free!

“Not with eye service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.” Ephesians 6:6 Doing the will of God comes from the heart! So it’s with our hearts that we do the will of God! That’s cool! Because what does God say about our hearts? “A new heart will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them.” Ezekiel 36:26-27 Wow! God takes care of our will, He does it by giving us a new heart and He gives us a new spirit, and He also places His Spirit within us, so that we can do what? So that we can do His will! A-men, through Christ we are never left alone by God! God is right here in us, with us, leading us, providing the necessary components, and strengthening us to do His will in everything. We can ask and receive because God has given us a heart and a spirit that can ask His will, and He doesn’t stop there, our Father put Himself within us to finish the job completely! God never says that there is a benefit or a requirement that is from Him, that He doesn’t fully empower us with Himself to obtain and to fulfill! I have heard people say that God will not take away our free will; He does too! God takes away our sinful will, yes and A-men He takes away our sinful free will, look at Ezekiel 36:26, God said that He would take away our stony hearts, our hearts of dead works, dead wills, and dead desires, and we thank you Father that You do! God said that He would cause us to walk in what is right and righteous, and we praise You Father that You do! If it were up to us, we would keep it, and then we would not be able to ask and receive. But God loves us so much that He put a new heart and a new spirit within us that only wants His will and we can ask away; because we have Him within us a 100% of the time and with God there is a 100% success ratio!

Now don’t get me wrong, can we ask amiss, yes, James 4:3. But hear me out; faith comes from hearing and hearing by the Word of God. The reality of so many believers is this, that we are just humans, bound to mess up, we have this free will which is contrary to God’s will and that’s just the way it is. So even though Jesus said ask what ye will, the chances of us living that way are slim to none! Many believe that with a lot of hard work and self-determination that maybe once and a while we can get it right, but never all of the time like Jesus did. But the Bible says that God’s yoke is easy, and the Bible says that God gave us a spirit and a heart that can. The Bible says that God did take away our will that was contrary to His, and Jesus said ask and receive! This is the great victory of our salvation, nothing is ever left to chance, because everything is left up to God! Through the power of Christ we can ask our will and receive, because through the power of Christ and the Holy Spirit we have been given our Fathers will, just as Jesus has our Fathers will!

How God Handles Our Asking

“And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto Him, they have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever He saith unto you do it.” John 2:3-5

One of the best examples that I have ever found in the Bible of how our Father is with us concerning asking Him for things, can be found when Jesus began His ministry. Jesus proclaimed that He only spoke what He was commanded of God to speak, John 12:49, so what Jesus said to Mary here in John was of God, and Jesus said that it wasn’t yet His time! So what did Mary do? She went right ahead and persisted in asking Jesus to do something miraculous. And Jesus without rebuking her, began His public ministry. How great is that? Mary asked God what she willed and God did it, even though He had at first said no! For those of us that have kids, we know exactly why God did what He did for her.

I hope you see this Truth that our Father is not inaccessible. God’s provided a way for us to be one with Him, exactly like Jesus is one with Him. Jesus asked God for everything, He spoke only what God had told Him to speak and Jesus gave God the glory and honor for everything that happened. Jesus had a 100% success ratio with God! He did because He was one with God, and because of Jesus, we too can have a 100% success ratio, because through Jesus, we too are now one with God. Our strength does not lie within our own abilities to serve God; our strength lies within Jesus’ ability to serve God by serving us. Jesus ever lives to intercede for us and that is why we are saved to the uttermost! We are not alone, Jesus is our Head, He is the Vine and we are the branches, and He is our Shepherd, leading us in the paths of righteousness for His Name’s sake! We can go to our Father with everything and even if we are messing up, we have Jesus right there interceding for us, so that we will always be saved to the uttermost!

Jesus Came So That We Could Be Like Him

“For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordained them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.” Romans 8:9 (Amplified Bible)

The Bible teaches us that Jesus is the firstborn among many brethren. The reason that God sent Jesus to us, was not just to give us a Savior that allowed us to make it to Heaven, but so that He could have the power to make us like Him, that’s the fullness of God’s salvation! God just didn’t provide a way for us to escape an eternity in Hell, an eternity separated from Him; He provided a way through the power of His Anointing, which is Christ, for us to actually be one with Him and thus be like Him! That’s what God has always wanted and desired for us to be. Our Father created us in His image, and Jesus came so that we might actually live in the fullness of our creation! Jesus was and is the greatest man ever born, there is none of us greater than He is, He is the Alpha and the Omega, He is our Head, He is our Savior, He is fully God, and these Truths of Who He is, does not for one second limit us from being like Him! It does not demean Jesus for us to live in the fullness and completeness of His salvation! Jesus came so that God could make us like Him. Jesus came so that we could have direct access and unity with God, as He has direct access and unity with God. Jesus came so that God would be able to do the works of His righteousness through us, just as God did through Him, and yes to allow God to do even greater ones! The power of God within man has been perfected by the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior! John 14:12. Jesus came so that we could ask of God for everything and receive, as He asks everything of God and receives! Too many of us try to elevate Jesus by degrading ourselves. That is basically just placing the focus on us and not on God. That’s not how Jesus says we are to elevate and praise God. Jesus said that we elevate God and bring praise to Him by allowing Him to produce much fruit through us. “Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples.” John 15:8 Man apart from God can do nothing, however man with God can do everything, Mark 10:27.

A Benefit Of Salvation: Whatever We Ask For Shall Be Done

"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

Hallelujah, there are so many different areas that we can praise God concerning this Truth! But as I was praying about what God wanted us to study, He told me that the real power of this verse is with our relationship with Him. More specifically, the fact that we now have direct access and ability through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to go to our Father with anything and everything! We can because we are now members of our Fathers body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone. "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in Me. 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 15:4-5

God our Father is the Creator of everything, and there is no power that is greater than He is, and our Father has created us to have direct access to Him. But the Truth of our relationship is really so much more than that, because through the power of Christ we have actually become one with our Father, as Jesus is One with our Father. God has given us the ability through faith Authored by Jesus to ask Him for whatever we will, just as Jesus asks God for whatever He wills! Our Father, the Creator of it all, has said that He will give us whatever we ask for, and to have all of this power all we have to do is to abide in Him and have His Word abide in us. This isn’t a benefit of salvation that is reserved for just a select few of us either; it’s for each and every believer, because every born again believer who has been chosen by God and baptized with the Holy Spirit has the Word abiding within them. This isn’t a hard Truth to live either, “For My yoke is easy, and My burden light.” Matthew 11:30 Jesus is the Word, John 1:14, and every one of us who has been empowered and chosen to make Jesus the Lord of our lives has Jesus abiding within him. “And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, as we are One: I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfect in one, and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” John 17:22-23 It is impossible for us to have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus and make Him the Lord of our lives, and then choose to not have Him abiding within us. If we choose to live apart from Christ then we have never been chosen by God and baptized with the Holy Spirit and we aren’t saved! The two go hand in hand! Salvation is unity and oneness with God our Father through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior! So ask what you will, you have The Word abiding within you and you abide in Him! Now you may not be as mature as you’re going to be, but if you are saved, Jesus abides within you and you abide within Him. So ask and receive, seek and find, and knock and the door will be opened unto you, herein is our Father glorified that you bare much fruit!

God Knows What All Of Our Needs Are

“(For after all of these things do the Gentiles seek;) for your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.” Matthew 6:32

Our Father knows all that we need to live, and He teaches us and empowers us to seek Him first and seek His righteousness and then all of our needs are added unto us according to His riches and His glory. God is not mocked, whatsoever He has promised, He will absolutely do! God is not a man that He should lie, so if God said that we are not to take thought for our lives, He meant, take no thought! Now that goes against what most of us have heard and it definitely goes against society, but remember that God has given us a new heart and He has placed His Spirit within us to cause us to walk in His Truth’s. Jesus’ yoke is easy to be born, this Truth is in us, and we are more than capable through the power of Christ that strengthens us to live without taking any thought for our own lives! We are far better than flowers and we are far better than birds! Just look at the birds, they get to fly south every winter, they don’t have to hang out in the snow and cold! God is a God of abundance!

Think about our Father for a second? Is God taking thought for His own life? We never read that He is; yet we read that He is always taking thought for ours! Our Fathers Spirit now abides within us, we are born of Him, born of His incorruptible seed, and Jesus is now the One giving us abundantly everything needed to live, just as a branch receives everything needed to live by the vine! We are now alive because God has birthed us and He now lives within us. So we will resemble Him, taking no thought for our own lives, yet ever living to help others. Jesus ever lives to intercede for us with the compassion that He had when He was here in the form of a man, and we are now one with Him, so we too ever live to intercede for others! Jesus’ needs are being met in abundance by God and our needs are now met by that same abundance! God loves us, just as He loves Jesus. Faith comes from hearing and hearing by the Word of God. This needs to be preached, we need to encourage each other with it daily, our needs have been met according to the same riches and glory that Jesus’ needs have been met! And since they are, we can now have peace and joy as we take no thought for our own lives, we have been given the mind of Christ, it’s how our Father has made us! Jesus came that we might have an abundant life, and our abundance is measured with the same level of abundance as Jesus’ is!

Take No Thought For Your Life

“Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not life more than meat, and the body more than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies in the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet Solomon in all of his glory was not arrayed like one of them.” Matthew 6:25-29

Jesus tells us to take no thought for our physical needs; food, clothing, or our lives, which are all definitely real needs that we have while on the earth. Jesus teaches us this because He knows, He knows beyond any shadow of a doubt, that our needs are now met according to God’s riches and glory! So; “Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith.” Matthew 6:30

How many sermons have we all heard that teach us how to pray or act to get something, a new home, a car, clothes for the kids, a spouse, a job, more money, or whatever else we need? I have heard hundreds of them; whole ministries are out there who are devoted to preaching nothing but that kind of stuff. Well, Jesus said to take no thought for these things; it’s kind of hard to reconcile the two isn’t it? God teaches us to seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and all of these things will be given to us, and they will be given to us according to His riches through our Lord and Savior Jesus! “But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all of these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33 God knows what we need and He doesn’t slouch in meeting our needs, our Fathers blessings overtake us through Christ! If you are concerned with your needs, don’t be like the unsaved and worry about them, and focus on them, through the power of the Holy Spirit within you seek first God’s Kingdom, and all of your needs will be met. Now here is the really powerful Truth for us, we can’t help but seek God first, because we have the power and strength of Jesus within us, we are now one with Him, and as He is, so are we in this world! We have God’s grace and it is constantly exerting its influence on our souls! All things now work together for our good, and Jesus will lead us in the paths of our Fathers righteousness! We are strengthened with the fullness of our Father and through His grace and strength we will come to the maturity of taking no thought for our own lives! It’s the Father within us doing the works and faith comes for us by hearing God’s Truth, and His Truth sets us free!

God Meets Our Needs Abundantly

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

When God meets our needs, He does it according to His riches and according to His glory, and He does it for us through the power of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The standard that God meets our needs by is so far beyond anything that this world has to offer; God’s minimum is superabundant to man’s abundance. When God fills our cup it runs over, and when He feeds us, He starts with nothing and then when He is done there are baskets full left over. God is a God of superabundance! Our needs are met with far more provision than ever is required. The Truth is God wants us to lack in nothing. Consider Heaven for a moment. Heaven is a perfect place, love, faith, and hope all abound, there is no sickness, no fear, the streets are made of gold, there are mansions, there is absolute abundance, everlasting life, and power, everything is met abundantly! In Heaven God’s power shines so brightly that they don’t even need the Sun, God’s glory lights up the entire place! Now let me ask you a question, is God a respecter of persons? Does our Father favor one person above another? No He doesn’t! Acts 10:34 "Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons." So if in Heaven people have all of their needs met, spiritually, soulfully, and physically, why wouldn't we have the same here on the earth? It is same Father providing the abundance in Heaven as is here on the earth. Does God respect people in Heaven more than us? Doesn’t God’s Word proclaim that now is the day of our salvation? According to God, we don’t have to wait to be saved, so we don’t have to wait for our needs to be abundantly met!

You may say that Brad, "there are no people in Heaven, at least not in human bodies." If you believe that there are only spirits there now, shouldn’t our spirits be as abundantly supplied as theirs? But there are more than just spirits in Heaven; there are bodies too. I was preaching once and as I spoke God began to speak to me. It was amazing; Words flowed from me, yet I was totally in another conversation with God. God asked me the very same questions, "Am I a respecter of persons? I said, no. He then asked me about Heaven, is there sickness? Is there hunger? Is there lack? Is there fear? Is there a lack of understanding? Do people get killed? Do people owe money? All of these questions I answered no to. Then God said if my children do not have lack in Heaven, and I am not a respecter of persons, than there should be no lack on the earth for My children! I shouted I see it and A-men, and never skipped a beat in my other sermon, and until I said what had happened, no one knew that God was holding a conversation with me while I was preaching. God allowed me to taste just a little fraction of what He is like and capable of. He talks to millions of us all at once, in individual conversations, and never skips a beat. God had John write in 1 John 4:17 that as He is so are we in this world. I didn’t do anything to do this, it was God within me that was allowing me to preach and have a conversation with Him at the same time. I was really just along for the ride. But God showed me that this is how we all can live 100% of the time. Think of all of the millions of dollars that are spent on preachers traveling, then think of how God is? God is more than capable of allowing us to talk to each other as He does, without ever leaving where we are. If man can make a phone that can conference call, or video conference, God can allow us to talk through our spirits!

Now back to people being in Heaven, there are people, just like us with physical bodies. The Bible speaks of at least two of them, Enoch and Elijah. The Bible teaches that neither tasted death, but both were delivered to Heaven. Scriptural proof: Hebrews 11:5 "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death;" and 2 Kings 2:11 "..there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into Heaven." Right now in Heaven Enoch and Elijah are not in fear, they do not have sickness, they do not have lack, and they are now in Heaven. God showed me this during that sermon and it was so exciting. God sees our needs as being so far above what we see them as. We tend to think as a need as being the bare minimum; God sees it as His absolute abundance!

Through Christ We Abundantly Sow God's Word

"Listen to what the parable of the sower means: When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches it from his heart. This is the seed sown along the path. The one who receives the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the Word and at once receives it with joy. But since he has no root, he last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the Word, he quickly falls away. The one who received the seed that fell among thorns is the man who hears the Word, but the worries of life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful. But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the Word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown." Matthew 13:18-23 NIV

As we are led by the Holy Spirit to abundantly sow God’s Word to the world, remember this: if someone wishes to disagree with it, they are disagreeing with God, not just with us. We have been filled with the Holy Ghost and He strengthens us to abundantly sow the Truth of God that will set the world free. We are used and empowered by God to share His Word in love with the world; but God keeps the responsibility for Himself to make it grow. Remember this too, that all who hear God's Word may not prosper because of it. Yet even though all may not prosper by hearing the Word, it is our desire and our prayer that all will. God's Word does not fall void to the earth. The Anointing of Christ within us loves those who even disagree with God, and God’s Anointing empowers us to earnestly pray for them, and to intercede for them. If they won’t listen to us, the love of Christ within us leads us to pray that God sends someone who they will listen to. There are absolutely no exit signs in Hell, keep that in mind and allow God to be Who He is within you! Think about our Father and how He acts for a minute, how many prophets did He send in the Old Testament to the children of Israel, how many times has He forgiven us, and does He ever change, does His Word ever change? This is what we are born again of and this is Who is now alive within us!

Jesus taught us to ask for whatsoever things we desire, and He told us that by receiving and producing much fruit through our asking, actually glorifies God. This is God’s will for our lives. He wants to provide for us and He wants to give us more than just our needs, He wants to give us our wants. The Lord is our Shepherd; we shall not want, Psalm 23:1. God gave us the Holy Ghost to empower us and He gave us Jesus to Author and Finish our faith. Our Father has given us a new heart that allows us to walk in His will, and He has given us the mind of His Anointing, which is Christ. And the heart and mind that God has given us desires that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth! God will never leave us or forsake us, and He has allowed us to actually be one with Him through Jesus our Lord and our Savior. Now let me ask you this, if all of these verses are true, don’t you think that we will resemble Jesus, Who is the Word of God manifested in the flesh? Jesus came for all men to be saved and He ever lives to intercede for us so that we might be saved to the uttermost. Jesus asked and He received, and you can’t tell me that asking for water to be turned into wine was a need, that was definitely a want! “Not with eye service, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;” Ephesians 6:6 It’s God’s will for our wants as well as our needs to be realized through Him! And through the love of Christ that is within us we want for all men to be saved! And we want to be used to sow the Truth that will set all men free!

We Have The Holy Spirit Who Empowers Us To Understand

“Either make the tree good, and his fruit is good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil of his treasure bringeth forth evil things.” Matthew 12:33-35

Remember this fact, we did not write the Truth’s that we have studied together so far. It was God Who wrote each and every one of them. And God wrote them in such a way that it would take faith Authored and Finished by Jesus to hear and to accept them. "And the disciples came and said unto Him, why speakest Thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath." Matthew 13:10-12 What Jesus is saying here is that since we are truly saved we have been given the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost will give us all of the needed understanding to accept God’s Truths and through Christ we shall grow in all of them. And because of the power given to us by God, we now have His Word in abundance in our hearts! And for those who are not saved, even though they hear the Truth, they will not understand it or be empowered by God to accept it. Remember in John 14:26, that Jesus said that He was sending the Holy Ghost to act on His behalf. The Disciples had Jesus right there with them, and we now have the Holy Ghost right here living permanently within us. Which according to Jesus is a great and powerful thing, a thing to be desired and cherished! "However, I am telling you nothing but the Truth when I say it is profitable (good, expedient, advantageous) for you that I go away. Because if I do not go away, the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come unto you [into close fellowship with you]; but if I go away, I will send Him to you [to be in close fellowship with you]." John 16:7 Amplified

We Are Empowered By Jesus To Ask God For Everything

“For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guides and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart.” 1 Corinthians 2:16 Amplified Bible.

When our Father empowered us with His Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as the Lord of our lives, He also empowered us with all of Himself to hold the thoughts and purposes of Christ in our new Anointed minds. The thoughts and purposes of the minds that we have been given by our Father now believe for what He desires and we now want and hope for what He wants. We were chosen by God and born again, we can’t help but to believe, because we are born from God’s Incorruptible Seed. The old things of our lives are passed away and behold all things have become new unto us! We now have Jesus Authoring and Finishing our faith, and we can’t go and ask God for anything and actually believe that we can have it without Jesus being the One within us, telling us to ask for it in the first place! And Jesus isn’t going to ask for something that is contrary to God’s thoughts, intents, and purposes. And since we have Jesus within us, we are able to have full peace and joy in allowing Him to empower us to not only ask our Father for whatsoever things we desire, but we also are able to delight in asking! “If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples.” John 15:7-8 Do you see why God has said that we are able to delight in asking? Because when we bear much fruit it glorifies Him. Jesus fully allowed God to produce much fruit through Him, and through Christ so shall we. How could we do anything less, Jesus is the One Who now Authors our faith, His Word now abides within us, and we now abide in Him! Jesus ever lives to intercede for us, and since He does, we are saved to the uttermost, and we have life and have it abundantly! You and I have been chosen by God to be one with Jesus and as He is, so are we, even while in this world!

We are eternally blessed in the power of our Fathers might!

A Benefit Of Salvation: God Gives Us The Desires Of Our Hearts

"Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." Mark 11:24

"Delight thyself also in the Lord: and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart." Psalm 37:4

When we love Jesus, God will give us whatsoever things we desire. Hallelujah! Now stop and read that out loud again, what things soever, (that’s in red, Jesus said it) that we desire, when we pray we are to believe that we will receive them from God and we shall have them! Remember that faith believes that God is and that He is a rewarded of those who diligently seek Him! Also remember that we now have our faith Authored and Finished by Jesus Himself, so that we are empowered with the strength of Christ to believe that God is willing and able to perform what He has spoken! We are powerful, able, and willing through the Anointing of God to delight ourselves in the Lord and our Father will give us the desires of our hearts! That’s just good stuff! That’s the Truth of God and the Truth of God sets us free!

You ever hear someone say that God will only provide our needs, not our wants. I have heard that so many times and I just shout for joy, because I know that God is not just a provider of our needs, He goes right on over to our wants and desires. Our Father is a God of abundance and great mercies. He is a God Who wants His offspring to greatly prosper in every area of their lives: Spirit, Soul, and Body! God sent the best He had, Jesus, so that we could have it all through Him. Jesus paid a high price for you and I, and it doesn’t matter whether we fully understand all that He has done for us, and it doesn’t matter whether we feel worthy enough to receive it, God’s Truth is His Truth, and Jesus said whatsoever things we desire! We don’t look to ourselves for this faith, man on his own has no ability to accept and believe this, we look unto Jesus for the needed faith to live and walk in this awesome Truth. "Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith; Who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the God." Hebrews 12:2 We have Jesus living within us to lead us in the paths of righteousness and we have Jesus within us to Author and Finish whatever faith is needed to realize and to live in the fullness of God’s Truths! And since we have been empowered to delight ourselves in the Lord, our Father will give us the desires of our hearts, and our Father has given us a heart that desires His Truth!

God Abounds His Blessings Towards Us

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

Through Christ we now have all of God’s grace abounding towards us. Through Christ we now have all of God’s sufficiency in all things, and through Christ we are abounding in every good work! We have all of this because God is able to do it through us and because God wants to do it through us! If you think we are limited by anything, go and study on the Truth of grace. Grace means we now have Gods unmerited favor exerting its influence on our souls, strengthening us, and increasing our faith, knowledge, and affection. And the Truth that sets us free is that we now have God abounding His grace towards us! So it doesn’t matter who we were and it doesn’t matter how mature we are in Christ. If we are chosen and born again of God, we now have all of our Father’s grace abounding within us, so that we may always have all sufficiency in all things. Because God is God, we have sufficiency in all Truth, all Hope, all Love, all Faith, all Knowledge, all Wisdom, all Forgiveness, all Health, all Finances, all Joy, all Peace, all Power, all Miracles, all Prophecies, and all Discernment. Through Christ we have all of God abounding within us! We have all, so that God may abound in every good work through us! God is willing and able to perform what He has said, and God said that we would abound, God said all and He said every! That is our Dad and He is able to do superabundantly, far above what we can ask or think, by His power that is at work within us!

This is our salvation through Jesus Christ. It’s not some boring uneventful thing that just gets us to Heaven. It is alive, it is full, it is fun, and it is all and it’s abounding! Hallelujah, that’s good preaching!

Our Need To Believe Is Supplied By Christ

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

God is so good and merciful towards us, and our salvation is so complete, that we don’t even have to worry about having the needed faith to believe our Fathers statements of Truth. Look at Hebrews 12:2 "Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith; Who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the God." God loves us so much that He will even produce the needed faith in our lives to accept what He has freely given us. God wants us completely and absolutely saved, and He loves us so much that He did something to insure it. Today is the day of the Lord, and we have been empowered by the very Spirit of God to rejoice and be glad in it. "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

If you are struggling with the Truths that we have studied so far, the Truth that through Christ we prosper in everything we do, than go and read the verses before and after the ones that we have discussed, go and read all of John 15 and 16. If you want to see some real power go and read John 17. We have not taken any of the verses that we have studied out of context. God said them; therefore they are all absolute Truths! Man can argue with these scriptures all he wants; it doesn’t change what God is, and who we are in Him. Faith comes from hearing and hearing from the Word of God. I know that without the Holy Ghost all of these Truths will absolutely disturb the daylights out of us. But our need to accept and believe that God is willing and able to do them through us, has been provided for us through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Through the Holy Ghost, and because we now have God Himself dwelling on the inside of us, and even if we are babies in Christ, we are strengthened with all of God’s might to accept the Truth that will set us free!