Monday, June 30, 2014

Praying For Others


For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints (the people of God), I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers. [For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him, By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones), And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength, Which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places], Ephesians 1:15-20

The Holy Spirit causes us to desire to see all that our Father is. We are empowered to fully expect to see things that pass all human understanding. We are flooded with Divine Hope to see the dead raised, the lame walk, the blind see, and the most despicable person to be set free. Because of Christ we can’t help but to eagerly desire to see Spiritual gifts for all mankind. 

Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost (completely, perfectly, finally, and for all time and eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He is always living to make petition to God and intercede with Him and intervene for them. Hebrews 7:25

We are now one with Jesus and Jesus ever lives to intercede for us so that we might be saved to the uttermost. So we too live to intercede for people, we do this because we are part of Jesus’ body and the body has the same purpose as its Head. This is why we never cease to pray for others, it is what we have been grafted into Jesus to do. It is one of the greatest reasons that we are alive, it is why Jesus is alive, to serve those who need served. We forgive sins and they are forgiven. We lay hands on the sick and they recover. We ask and receive. We do all of this because we are one with Jesus and this is what He does.

This is a great example in Ephesians 1 of how we should pray for others. We should pray for people to have wisdom and revelation. Jesus causes us to desire and pray for the gift of prophesy for others. He uses us to pray that we have a deep and complete understanding of all things. The Holy Spirit empowers us to go for the gusto in our prayers for others. Our Father causes us to desire that the body has it all, nothing lacking, full and complete glory and perfection in Christ on this earth and on this day. Pray that people see that they are called and that they are called to greatness and pray that they receive the revelation of the peace that goes with it.

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Abundance In Everything


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
The first key to an abundant life is to know that it is the will of our Father that we have one! God is so concerned with us living abundantly that He sent Jesus so that we could. Just take a minute and consider all of the scriptures that talk about our Father's desires for us to have life abundantly. Virtually ever Book in the New Testament proclaims that through Christ we will be victorious as God works through us! 
One of the first Truths that God ever shared with me is that He wants us to have abundance in our salvation. Wherefore 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
Our Father also wants us to be abundantly healthy, as a loving Father should. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 3 John 1:2
Our Father wants our prayer lives to be abundant. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: Matthew 7:7
Our Father wants us to have the gifts of His Spirit abundantly as we wait for Jesus’ return. So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 1:7-8
Our Father wants us to be abundantly prosperous in our worldly needs so that we may be charitable and so that we may be self-sufficient. And God is able to make all Grace (every favor and earthly blessing) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation]. 2 Corinthians 9:8 Amplified Bible
Our Father wants us to have abundant knowledge and wisdom and He wants us to know all things. But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him. 1 John 2:27
And finally our Father wants us to have abundant love. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Ephesians 3:17-19

Friday, June 27, 2014

The Holy Spirit Controls Us To Be Used


For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit. Romans 8:5
Amen, notice how our Father so clearly and plainly tells us the Truth that we are now controlled by His Holy Spirit. I cannot say this enough, because I honestly believe that people really don’t know this glorious Truth, the Holy Spirit controls us. Far too many believe that we control ourselves. They believe that we, on our own, must decide to choose or not to choose to follow our Father’s will. This couldn’t be farther from the Truth because through Christ we are free from anything that would ever separate us from our Father. His will is what controls and leads us into righteousness.
For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him. Colossians 1:16
Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! 2 Corinthians 5:17
Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love. For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]-- Ephesians 1:4-5
O Lord [pleads Jeremiah in the name of the people], I know that [the determination of] the way of a man is not in himself; it is not in man [even in a strong man or in a man at his best] to direct his [own] steps. Jeremiah 10:23
Our old condition has passed away, we have been re-created in Christ to exist, and it is not in us to direct our own steps. We are now one with God just as Jesus is one with Him. This is what allows us to go and honestly be used to tell the world the Truth that sets them free, John 17:18-23. We are controlled by the Holy Spirt and therefore there is now no condemnation for us, Romans 8:1. We are always fully pleasing to our Father because our Father is always greater in us, then we are in this world. Our Father always causes us to triumph, because He doesn’t know failure. For us to fail would mean that God had failed. We are all, 100% of the time, victorious through Christ. 

Thursday, June 26, 2014

We Are Prisoners Of Christ


FOR THIS reason [because I preached that you are thus built up together], I, Paul, [am] the prisoner of Jesus the Christ for the sake and on behalf of you Gentiles-- Ephesians 3:1
    
Paul writes to us that he was the prisoner of Jesus Christ. Jesus arrested Paul on the road to Damascus and forced him to serve the Kingdom of Heaven. Don’t think so, go and read Acts 9 and see what actually happened to Paul. 

But the Lord said to him, Go, for this man is a chosen instrument of Mine to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the descendants of Israel; For I will make clear to him how much he will be afflicted and must endure and suffer for My name's sake. So Ananias left and went into the house. And he laid his hands on Saul and said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, Who appeared to you along the way by which you came here, has sent me that you may recover your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit. And instantly something like scales fell from [Saul's] eyes, and he recovered his sight. Then he arose and was baptized, Acts 9:15-18

Jesus told Ananias that Paul was a chosen vessel of God and Paul wrote to the Ephesians that He was a prisoner of God. Paul also wrote to the Galatians that he was chosen by God to serve before he was ever born and he told the Corinthians that he was Jesus’ slave.

But when He, Who had chosen and set me apart [even] before I was born and had called me by His grace (His undeserved favor and blessing), saw fit and was pleased To reveal (unveil, disclose) His Son within me so that I might proclaim Him among the Gentiles (the non-Jewish world) as the glad tidings (Gospel), immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood [did not consult or counsel with any frail human being or communicate with anyone]. Galatians 1:15-16

These sayings of Paul do not sound like a man who believed in free will. They do sound like a man who had known the Truth and was set free by it. They sound like a man who knew that our Father was in control and the driving force in our lives. They sound like a man that was convinced that because our Father was in control that all things now worked out for his good, Romans 8:28. They sound like a man who knew the love of our Father and freely accepted the Truth that God is in complete control. The love of our Father and the love that He gives to His children allows us to accept and actually rejoice in the Truth that He is in complete control of our lives. We cherish the Truth that we are the prisoners of Jesus. It means that the battle is His and the victory is ours. 

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

We Never Have To Worry About Being Disgraced


This is in keeping with my own eager desire and persistent expectation and hope, that I shall not disgrace myself nor be put to shame in anything; but that with the utmost freedom of speech and unfailing courage, now as always heretofore, Christ (the Messiah) will be magnified and get glory and praise in this body of mine and be boldly exalted in my person, whether through (by) life or through (by) death. Philippians 1:20

We do not have to worry one little bit about ever being disgraced.

But when they deliver you up, do not be anxious about how or what you are to speak; for what you are to say will be given you in that very hour and moment, For it is not you who are speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. Matthew 10:19-20

We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose. Romans 8:28

Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us. Romans 8:37

But thanks be to God, Who in Christ always leads us in triumph [as trophies of Christ's victory] and through us spreads and makes evident the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere, 2 Corinthians 2:14

Our Father will cause Jesus to be magnified through us in everything. It is always our Father’s power that is at work within us. He will always carry out His purpose through us of showing forth His victory for all through Christ. We are never left alone or forsaken by our Father to fail, Hebrews 13:5. And we are always more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us. 

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

God Makes Sure That We Are Rewarded


Knowing that for whatever good anyone does, he will receive his reward from the Lord, whether he is slave or free. Ephesians 6:8
   
As we have studied so many times before, the Truth that sets us free is that we are empowered with the Holy Spirit to accomplish all of the required works of the Bible. There is no fear for us whatsoever that we will miss the mark, because in Christ we will perform all of these things. We will receive from the Lord because we are empowered by the Him to do all things. In Christ we will love and respect our elders as He loves and respects them. We will not provoke but encourage and strengthen as Jesus encourages and strengthens. We will respect others and render service in the full power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit that we are now one with.

You will fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? Even so, every healthy (sound) tree bears good fruit [worthy of admiration], but the sickly (decaying, worthless) tree bears bad (worthless) fruit. A good (healthy) tree cannot bear bad (worthless) fruit, nor can a bad (diseased) tree bear [excellent fruit [worthy of admiration]. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. Therefore, you will fully know them by their fruits. Matthew 7:16-20

Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me. I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing. John 15:4-5

For the kingdom of God consists of and is based on not talk but power (moral power and excellence of soul). 1 Corinthians 4:20

We are in Christ and one with Him right now. His is the only power that sustains us and because of this great Truth we will fulfill every last commandment and scripture that has been written. When our Father had the word “if” written in the Bible, He had already fulfilled the “if” for us through Christ. If you are truly a part of Christ, there is never any question of if, because the Truth is if is finished or us! So as you read all of the verses that speak of how we have to be, rejoice, because Jesus is our Head and He alone will cause every last Word of our Father to come to pass in our lives. We are more than conquerors through Christ.

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. Romans 8:37

Monday, June 23, 2014

Grace Is Seen By All


Let all men know and perceive and recognize your unselfishness (your considerateness, your forbearing spirit). The Lord is near [He is coming soon]. Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God. Philippians 4:5-6

The Holy Spirit will cause us to show all people our Father’s Grace. When Jesus was here 2000 years ago He was used to do the same thing. Think about Jesus’ life, did He go around and tell everyone that He was the Lord and that they must worship Him. Or was He used to heal the sick, raise the dead, feed the hungry, make wine for parties, and run off religious bullies who were placing rules on people that no one could keep? Jesus was used for the latter. Our Father never changes and He will use us the exact same way today, Hebrews 13:8.

There are non-believers everywhere today who are lost and need help, just as there were when Jesus was here. They do not need to hear that they are wrong, most of them know that already. What they need is to see love in action and that can only come through the power of the Holy Spirit working through us, without Jesus we can do nothing, John 15:5.  

We do not have to fret about being used to serve. We never have to be anxious about it either, because we cannot help but to be used by our Father. We are Jesus’ body and the body of Jesus will be used.  

But when they deliver you up, do not be anxious about how or what you are to speak; for what you are to say will be given you in that very hour and moment, Matthew 10:19

So please join with me in making this request to our Father: use us just as You use Jesus, 1 John 4:17. We want all of the power, love, grace, faith, and hope that Jesus has. We want to be used to do the same works that Jesus did and even greater works, John 14:12. We want to be removed from all of the concerns of this world and totally realize and trust in You Father just as Jesus does. 

Sunday, June 22, 2014

Grace Is Free


Grace and spiritual blessing be to you and [soul] peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah), Galatians 1:3
   
As with all of the Epistles that the Holy Spirit has Paul write, He has him clearly tell us that we have Grace from our Father. The word Grace is translated from the Greek Word, Charis. Charis means: that which affords joy, pleasure, delight, favor, and love. It also means the merciful kindness by which our Father exerts His Holy influence on our souls and that turns us to Christ and His power keeps us, strengthens us, and increases our Christian virtue. Grace means that we are governed completely and solely by our Father’s Divine power.

Grace is also a free gift from our Father.  

But God's free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man's falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God's Grace and the free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of] many. Romans 5:15

The Truth for a born again believer is that our Father freely exerts His influence on our souls. He freely caused us to call on Jesus as Lord, John 6:44. Our Father freely causes us to be strong in Christ and He freely causes us to grow in Christ. This brings us great joy and delight, because when it is our Father freely causing us to do these things, we have peace that there is now no condemnation for us, Romans 8:1. In Christ we now have peace that everything that is needed for us to live eternally with our Father will get done. 

And He will establish you to the end [keep you steadfast, give you strength, and guarantee your vindication; He will be your warrant against all accusation or indictment so that you will be] guiltless and irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). 1 Corinthians 1:8

So when you read the Word Grace, rejoice greatly, because it means that our Father is in complete and total control of your life and He will never leave you or forsake you. Grace will also breed Grace. When our Father freely gives Grace to us, it causes us to freely give Grace to others. Grace is a rapid growing plant too.

Friday, June 20, 2014

We Are Free From The Law So That We Can Be Used To Serve


So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit [our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit]. Romans 8:4
    
So many people are in a religious situation where laws and rules are being preached and commanded of them. This is such a shame, because they are being taught lies that bind them. The Truth, and it is so freeing, is that every requirement for righteousness was fully accomplished for us by Jesus. Righteousness is not found by keeping rules. 

Let’s put this Truth in the real world plain English: we are now as righteous as Jesus is! I want you to think about Jesus, do you believe that He is worried about messing up? What about ever being overtaken by satan? Do you believe that Jesus can be sick? Every single glorious thing that we believe about Jesus, He has because He is so righteous. Now because of His Blood we are as righteous as He is, 1 John 4:17. That is why Jesus came and that is what He accomplished for us. Jesus secured complete and total success for us. We are sanctified by this Truth, John 17:17, and the Truth is that Jesus made us every but as righteous as He is. 

Grace and spiritual blessing be to you and [soul] peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah), Who gave (yielded) Himself up [to atone] for our sins [and ]to save and sanctify us], in order to rescue and deliver us from this present wicked age and world order, in accordance with the will and purpose and plan of our God and Father—Galatians 1:3-4

We are rescued from this wicked world, not by being taken out of it, but by being kept by our Father while we are still in it, John 17:15. Our Father's Grace is what keeps us and there are no longer any laws to stop us from fully realizing that we have it. We have our Father’s favor just as Jesus has it. Our Father definitely wants us to know and enjoy this Truth. If you don’t believe that He does, just look at how many chapters in Romans that He had written to tell us that we are free from the Law. He also had it written of in Galatians, Ephesians, and Corinthians. 

There is another real world application to this Truth, we can go into the world and actually serve them through our Freedom in Christ. We can intercede for people and they will be healed, just as they were healed with Jesus. We can cast out demons, raise the dead, and prophesy Truth just as Jesus did. We can freely receive and freely give and all without any condemnation. We can because there are no laws that anyone has broken. There is nothing that holds us back from loving all people in the full power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit that dwells within us. 

Thursday, June 19, 2014

We Now Witness With The Full Power Of Our Father


And with great power gave the Apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great Grace was upon them all. Acts 4:33

Our Father is great and He has never done anything that isn’t great. He empowered Samson, He gave Solomon wisdom, He used King David to kill Goliath, He walked this earth manifested in the flesh as Jesus, and He worked miracles through the Apostles with great power and with great Grace! Our Father knows how to witness! He can preach a sermon and then work miracles left and right to confirm the Words that He spoke and prove that they are Truth!

Our Father wants to use each and every one of us with the fullness of His power! Faith allows Him to and we have the strength of Christ so that He can! Together with God there is nothing that cannot be accomplished through us! Our Father can talk about how He raised Jesus from the dead through us, just as He spoke through Jesus about how it was going to happen! Our Father is confident in His abilities; He is assured that His Word is powerful and just like with the Apostles, He will freely bestow His Grace, His great Grace, on each and every one of us!

Our Father has given us a new heart that desires His Truth, a heart that is filled with the very love that He has for Jesus. We now have a heart that seeks His fullness, a heart that eagerly desires His Spiritual gifts, and a heart that has no fear of accepting that He wants such great things for us! This is what is in abundance in the new heart that our Father has given us and this is how our mouths speak! We don’t go looking for God, we know Him, we know He is in us, and we know that we are in Him! Out of the abundance of our hearts, our mouths speak!

Nay, in all things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. Romans 8:37

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

The Power With The Sign Of Healing


They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. Mark 16:18

The Word of our Father says that we shall be used by Him to lay hands on the sick and they will recover. The sick will recover, the sign of God within us goes beyond just praying for the sick, the proof of God within us, is the sick recover!

And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both men and women. Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow them. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one. Acts 5:14-16

We are shown here that all that were sick were healed. They weren’t just prayed for, they were healed, and because of the power of our Father working through the believers, multitudes were saved! The ministry of healing grew the Church like nothing else and it does the same thing today! 

Without television, without radio, without telephones, without mailers, and without the Internet, people, even from far away cities, came and were added to our Father because of the ministry of healing! The power of the sign of healing is unmatched! Jesus healed everywhere He went, and so did the Apostles, so did Paul, and so did those who believed! Man has no ability to miraculously heal apart from God! We have to create a medicine with side effects. We have to cut a person open and remove something, or shoot poison into the sick and hope that it kills the sickness before it kills the person. This is man’s healing process and we charge enormous amounts of money for it. But our Father just heals, no pain, no charge, and when He does, people get saved, even those who just watch it! Jesus taught us that all who believe would have this sign follow them and as our Father had Paul write, we all should eagerly desire it!

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Our Father Will Use Us


Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doth the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works sake. John 15:10-11

The first faithful thing that Jesus will lead us into regarding works is this: it is our Father within us, He does all of the works! Faith Authored by Jesus regarding this Truth is the key to walking in the full power and love of God Himself! Faith Authored by Jesus in this Truth will allow us to walk as Jesus walked! 

He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked. 1 John 2:6 

I am come a Light into the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not abide in darkness. John 12:46

Through Jesus we are empowered to live and understand all of the Truth’s of our Father! Through Christ and the Light that He provides there is now no darkness for us! And since there is now no darkness for us, there is now no occasion for us to stumble and fall! Jesus will teach us all that there is to know about our Father and He will give us the confidence and full assuredness that it is our Father within us doing His works of righteousness! Jesus will Author the faith within us so that God can give us the utterance to speak in new tongues. Jesus will finish the faith within us so that our Father can cast out all devils through us! Jesus will Author and Finish our faith, so that God can empower us to suffer no harm or ill effects from deadly things! Through Christ, and through the faith that He now gives us, we will lay hands on the sick and the power of our Father within us will cause them to recover, just as they recovered when Jesus laid His hands on them!

Jesus will Finish our faith so that we just don’t talk about these Truth’s of God. He will Finish our faith so that we will actually live and rejoice in the Truth’s of God. The world will believe and they will know that our Father loves them, just as He loves Jesus because of the acts of love that He uses us to perform for them! We will live in the fullness of our Father and in the power of our Father because Jesus has given us the faith that allows our Father to work fully through us!

Monday, June 16, 2014

We Have Jesus' Anointing To Be Used


And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Ephesians 3:19

Hallelujah, the Truth is that our Father now works through us in the full power and demonstration of His Spirit! Think of the way that Jesus lived when He was manifested in the flesh. Our Father had compassion on the sick, so He used Jesus to heal the sick and He used Jesus to raise the dead! Jesus didn’t stumble at Who He was, He rejoiced in it. We are now one with Him and our Father has given us an Anointed mind that looks towards Jesus for full understanding of who we are. Jesus will show us and He will give us the ability to accept and have boldness in who we are!

Now here is the powerful Truth of our salvation, if we have truly been empowered by the Holy Spirit to make Jesus the Lord of our lives, we can’t help but look to Him!

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me. Galatians 2:20

If we are truly saved, it is now Christ, which is our Father's anointing, the exact same anointing that Jesus has, that now lives within us. The exact same anointing that God gave to Jesus to live and to fulfill all that He was sent to do, now lives within us! The same anointing that allowed Jesus to know that it was God within Him doing all of the works, now lives within us! The same anointing that allowed Jesus to know that He was One with God, now lives within us! We have not been given a different anointing then Jesus has. We have the exact same anointing and it is that force that now lives within us. We cannot help but to look unto Jesus to Author and Finish our faith, the very life force within us can do nothing else! We will win and our Father will work through us. This way of life is not dependent upon our abilities to accept our Father's Truth’s either, it’s dependent upon Jesus’ abilities, and He finished all that was needed for us to fully believe at the Cross!

Jesus will Author and He will Finish our faith and it will allow our Father to be all that He is within us! How great is that? This is the freedom that we have been given through salvation: our Father does the works and we all receive the rewards! Through Christ, our Father can now have fellowship with us and through Christ He is able to work through us as He has always desired to. Jesus makes us able vessels unto God’s righteousness! Our Father will show His signs through us and we will glorify Himself in every action! Through Christ we will never stumble or fall!

Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy. Jude 24

Because we are saved, and because we are now one with Jesus, and since we have His Anointing, we will never fall, and we will stand before God with boldness and with all joy! Greater is He that is within us, than he that is in the world!

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Our Kingdom Is The Most Powerful


For the kingdom of God consists of and is based on not talk but power (moral power and excellence of soul). 1 Corinthians 4:20

We have power, God’s power, working through us! Just as Jesus has God’s power working through Him!

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

The Kingdom of our Father is in power, it’s in doing the works that Jesus did and even greater ones. Now that is some power! Jesus doesn’t hymn hall around with this statement either! Jesus said we shall be used by our Father to do miraculous works, no questions about it! Jesus spoke with certainty and with authority about God working through all of us who have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to believe! It’s the power of our Father working through us that allows people to look beyond man, beyond some fancy words, beyond poetic speeches, and cunningness to see the Truth, and the Truth has set us free!

People need to know that our Father still heals. They need to know that He still gives wisdom and knowledge, peace and joy that passes all understanding. The world needs to know that our Father understands us and knows our needs, even before we ask. The world needs to know that God is willing and able to do the absolute perfect things in every situation for us! Jesus said that if we believe on Him, then we absolutely would do the works that He did. The Truth is this: if we truly have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, then God absolutely will work through us. He will work through us as He worked through Jesus and our Father will even work greater things through us, because the sacrifice of Jesus has allowed Him to! The hindrances of the price of sin are gone. The Blood of Jesus has destroyed them and the Old Covenant is finished! Our Father is able to work through us with the freedom of the New Covenant, where sin and the wages of it have been destroyed and removed from us. Our Father can now work freely through all of us! Look at what God was able to do with just the one body of Jesus. Now He has millions of us! Faith comes from hearing this Truth!

Father I ask You in the Name of Jesus, that you use each of us, so that the Church will finally walk in the full and complete power that you have provided for us through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior! A-men!

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Christ Is Always Working Through Us


But the righteousness based on faith [imputed by God and bringing right relationship with Him] says, Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend into Heaven? that is, to bring Christ down; Or who will descend into the abyss? that is, to bring Christ up from the dead [as if we could be saved by our own efforts]. But what does it say? The Word (God's message in Christ) is near you, on your lips and in your heart; that is, the Word (the message, the basis and object) of faith which we preach, Romans 10:6-8

What our Father is telling us here is that it is always Christ empowering us to ever live to serve. Our Father’s power, or Christ, is always with us. He is always leading us and guiding us. It doesn’t matter how smart we are or how we can quote scriptures. It doesn’t matter how old we are. It doesn’t matter if we are sick, or have cancer, or have had a stroke, or are on medication, Christ is not limited by our flesh. We do not do works, or keep laws, to bring Him into our lives. The power of our Father is always with us and because He is, there are no limitations whatsoever for us. We can be used to raise the dead, heal the sick, give to the poor, forgive those who are killing us, walk two miles when we are only asked to walk one, and bless those who curse us. 

Because we have Christ we can even ask amiss and the Holy Spirit will take what we ask, turn it around and make it conform exactly to our Father’s will. 

So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groaning’s too deep for utterance. Romans 8:26

The Law doesn’t permit such Grace. Jesus has made us free and because He has, we are free indeed, John 8:36. So don’t consider your abilities, because you have none. Through the complete and full power of the Holy Spirit we only consider Jesus’ abilities, Who is limitless.

Thursday, June 12, 2014

We Can't Help But To Esteem Others


Do nothing from factional motives [through contentiousness, strife, selfishness, or for unworthy ends] or prompted by conceit and empty arrogance. Instead, in the true spirit of humility (lowliness of mind) let each regard the others as better than and superior to himself [thinking more highly of one another than you do of yourselves]. Let each of you esteem and look upon and be concerned for not [merely] his own interests, but also each for the interests of others. Let this same attitude and purpose and [humble] mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus: [Let Him be your example in humility:] Who, although being essentially one with God and in the form of God [possessing the fullness of the attributes which make God God], did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained, Philippians 2:3-7

But the person who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him. 1 Corinthians 6:17

For we are God's [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live]. Ephesians 2:10

Our Lord, Jesus, Who we are now one with, ever lives to serve others, Hebrews 7:25. He is a High Priest Who knows what it is like to be going through what we are going through, Hebrews 4:15. Jesus humbled Himself to come to the earth and serve those who He created. He then allowed Himself to be sacrificed for His creation so that we could have all of the glory that He has, John 17:22. Now here is the powerful Truth of the Word: we are now one with Him, so we cannot help but to be humble and esteem others more than we esteem ourselves. Because we are as Jesus is, even while we are on this earth.    

In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world. 1 John 4:17

We are the branches of the Vine of Jesus Christ and we cannot help but to produce the fruit of meekness, humbleness, and love that Jesus is. 

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

You Have Abounding Grace To Help Everyone


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

Our Father is willing and able to make all Grace abound towards us. He will do this so that we will always have all sufficiency in all things and so that we may abound in every good work! This is such an awesome verse that I just had to repeat it! Our Father teaches us that faith is believing that He is able and that He is willing to perform His Word, Romans 4:20-22. And faith comes for us by hearing our Father’s Word.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17

We need to hear each and every day, and even multiple times a day, that our Father will make all Grace abound towards us. We need to hear that through Christ we will always have all sufficiency in all things, so that we may be used by our Father to abound in every good work! We need to hear that our Father will use us to help everyone!

With that being said, what exactly is Grace? The Strong’s Concordance defines grace like this: that which affords joy, pleasure, sweetness, and delight. Grace means favor, the merciful kindness of God exerting His influence on our souls that causes us to turn to Christ and that which keeps us, strengthens us, and increases our faith, knowledge, affection, and Christian virtues!

Using the Strong’s definition of Grace lets read 2 Corinthians 9:8 again. And our Father is able to make all favor, influence, strength, faith, affection, virtue, and protection that causes joy, pleasure, and delight to abound toward us; so that we may always have all sufficiency in all things, so that we may abound unto every good work. Our Father will always favor us, and He will always strengthen us with affection, virtue, and faith so that we can be used by Him to perform every good work that is needed, wherever we go! Our Father will always protect us as we are always used by Him. Our Father will always influence us, so that it is always Christ Who is strengthening us! He does this so that we can be used by Him in all things through the power of Christ! Our Father will always do this for us and Jesus ever lives to intercede for us that we are saved to the uttermost!

Our Father will always cause His grace to abound towards us so that we will always have all sufficiency in all things! God will always exert His influence on us, because He will never leave us or forsake us, Hebrews 13:5. Because of Grace we will always have all of the love, wisdom, knowledge, power, faith, hope, forgiveness, joy, health, money, resources, and Anointing that we need! And since we have all of these things in abundance, our Father will always abound through us in every good work! Jesus came that we might have life and have it more abundantly, and Grace is the power of our Father working for us that allows us to live in His abundance! 

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Jesus Was Manifested To Take Away Sin


And ye know that He was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin. Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, neither known Him. 1 John 3:5-6
Jesus has completed all of the tasks required for our perfection! Man had absolutely no ability to even keep the simplest of the laws before Christ came. Think about it, our Father said that man should not make any graven images, and yet, at the first sign of trouble, graven images abounded! This is a very basic and simple law to keep; yet man had absolutely no ability to keep it! Our Father also asked man to keep just one day a week holy and that was too much to handle. Man messed the Sabbath Day up so badly, that when Jesus healed people on it, they wanted to kill Him for it! The Sabbath was made for man, not for God!
So we really can’t preach that we have any ability on our on to perform any acts that will allow our Father to move in our lives! It is only our Father within us, He does the works, and our Father can work through us because it was Jesus who paid the price, so that He can! If it where up to us to act right, and not sin, so that our Father could come in and accomplish something, nothing would ever be accomplished! Man cannot even keep one day! But with the power of God within us, there is nothing that we cannot do, because there is nothing that He cannot do! We don’t sin, because God’s Seed remains within us. We don’t sin, because every law that was contrary to us, was destroyed and taken out of our way! We don’t sin, because greater is He that is in us, than he that is in the world! We don’t sin, because God is our Father! Man cannot have two Fathers; we only have one. If God is our Father, then sin has no ability to be within us, because to be born of God, means the Blood of Christ has been applied to our lives, and that Blood cleanses us from all sin!
But if we [really] are living and walking in the Light, as He [Himself] is in the Light, we have [true, unbroken] fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses (removes) us from all sin and guilt [keeps us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations]. 1 John 1:7

Monday, June 09, 2014

Our Helmet Is A Gift


And take the helmet of salvation and the sword that the Spirit wields, which is the Word of God. Ephesians 6:17

Salvation is a gift, so that means that our helmet is a gift. Salvation is placed upon us, we do not place it on ourselves. 

For it is by free grace (God's unmerited favor) that you are saved ( delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God; Ephesians 2:8

And this is the will of Him Who sent Me, that I should not lose any of all that He has given Me, but that I should give new life and raise [them all] up at the last day. John 6:39

We are also told in Ephesians 6:17 that we are to wield the Word of God as a sword. Jesus is the Word, He is our Head, He is our Vine, He is our Shepherd, and we are one with Him. Jesus is greater within us than anything that is in this world. Jesus causes us to walk in the paths of righteousness for His Name’s sake. We wield the Sword of the Word because we have been grafted into It, we are one with It, we cannot help but be who we have become.

So relax, our Father is the One Who dresses us for battle and He is the One Who always causes us to triumph in everything. This is why we have confidence in our eternal salvation, because we can never lose it. 

For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable. [He never withdraws them when once they are given, and He does not change His mind about those to whom He gives His grace or to whom He sends His call.] Romans 11:29

The Armor of God is placed on us by our Father. He sanctifies us completely in the power of His Truth. He will use us to wrestle evil and He will cause us to be victorious over it every single time. Our Father will show the world that they are loved, just as Jesus is loved, and He will do it through us.  

Sunday, June 08, 2014

Our Father Creates The Anti-Christ


For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him. Colossians 1:16  
The anti-christ will speak so wonderfully and he will be permitted by our Father to do many works and people will love him, Revelation 13:5. He will look very religious, but everything that he does and says will bring the power and glory to what man is doing. He will be blasphemous, because he will talk of what man can do if we only choose to. Jesus will be mentioned by the anti christ, but man will always be the main focus of his testimony. We see this kind of ministry being very prevalent today. How many times have you heard, “if we take the first step, then God will take the next two?” Or, “that God is our co-pilot?” The message of the end times is being spoken all over the world right now. 
The Truth is that we are dead and yet we live, Galatians 2:20. We are dead and our lives are hid with Christ in God, Colossians 3:3. We are new creatures in Christ, all things are now new for us and every old thing has passed away for us, 2 Corinthians 5:17. We do not first do anything, even accepting or choosing, on our own. A branch does not first choose or accept to produce the fruit of the vine that it is united with. The clay does not first act or accept the potter. The hand does not first move, then the head reacts to its movement. Our Father is proactive towards us, He is not reactive to us. So these end time false teachers, that Jesus spoke of, are all around us right now. There are many false prophets who claim to come in the power of Jesus, when they aren’t, and they are leading many astray. This is not the sign of Jesus' return though, it is only the beginning of the sign of His return. 
However these false prophets will fail. Jesus will win and He will overcome all that is against Him, even bad teaching. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord, Romans 14:11. Jesus will succeed beyond our wildest expectations! Neve forget though, that these false prophets and the anti-christ are not in control, our Father is. Our Father created all things, even these people and beings. He did it to wage war on evil, not on His kids. Everything was created to bring about our perfection. All things now work for our good, whether we know it or not.