Sermon on Mount: Matthew 6:7-13

And when you pray, do not heap up phrases (multiply words, repeating the same ones over and over) as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard for their much speaking. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. Pray, therefore, like this: Our Father Who is in heaven, hallowed (kept holy) be Your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven (left, remitted, and let go of the debts, and have given up resentment against) our debtors. And lead (bring) us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Matthew 6:7-13

Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days of [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them. Psalm 139:16

[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, Ephesians 1:17-19

For this reason [seeing the greatness of this plan by which you are built together in Christ], I bow my knees before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,For Whom every family in heaven and on earth is named [that Father from Whom all fatherhood takes its title and derives its name]. May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the [Holy] Spirit [Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality]. May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]; [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]— To Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen (so be it). Ephesians 3:14-21

So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aide 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 to deep for utterance. Romans 8:26

Sermon on the Mount: Matthew 5:43-47

You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy; But I tell you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, To show that you are the children of your Father Who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and makes the rain fall upon the upright and the wrongdoers [alike]. For if you love those who love you, what reward can you have? Do not even the tax collectors do that?And if you greet only your brethren, what more than others are you doing? Do not even the Gentiles (the heathen) do that? Matthew 5:43-47

For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.. Ephesians 6:12

For if you forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses. Matthew 6:14-15

DO NOT judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves. For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others, you will be judged and criticized and condemned, and in accordance with the measure you [use to] deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you. Why do you stare from without at the very small particle that is in your brother's eye but do not become aware of and consider the beam of timber that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, Let me get the tiny particle out of your eye, when there is the beam of timber in your own eye? You hypocrite, first get the beam of timber out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the tiny particle out of your brother's eye. Matthew 7:1-5

Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]. It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail. 1 Corinthians 13:4-6

Consider Yourself To Be Dead To Sin

And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father! Galatians 4:6

Right now we really are God’s children and because we are His kids, we now have the Holy Spirit just as Jesus has Him. Just as Jesus is kept by the power of the Holy Spirit, so are we. Jesus came and allowed Himself to be sacrificed so that we could have everything that He has. Jesus has died to sin once and because of what He did for us, so have we.

Because we know that Christ (the Anointed One), being once raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him. For by the death He died, He died to sin [ending His relation to it] once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him]. Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:9-11

We are the body of Christ right now, Ephesians 5:30, so we too are dead to sin and alive to live as one with God. Our relationship with sin has ended, not because of what we do, but because of what Jesus did. Because Jesus was so successful, we are now free from the law of sin equals death. 

Because we are members (parts) of His body. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning [the relation of] Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:30-32

For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death. Romans 8:2. 

There are so many forces in the world and in religion that will try and make us feel like we can’t do anything but sin. Yet they are all lies. The Truth is that we are free from sin because Jesus has done it for us and only because of what He has done. It’s not by our works or by our obedience, it’s only by Grace. If we consider ourselves to still be sinners, what we really are saying is that Jesus just didn’t pull it off.  If we look at what we do as the measure of our Father’s Grace, then we are saying that we are the instruments of righteousness and not Jesus. What we do is not what makes us free or not free, it is what Grace is that makes us free and Grace is all undeserved. 

We HAve Been Given The Best Of God

But it is God Who confirms and makes us steadfast and establishes us [in joint fellowship] with you in Christ, and has consecrated and anointed us [enduing us with the gifts of the Holy Spirit]; [He has also appropriated and acknowledged us as His by] putting His seal upon us and giving us His [Holy] Spirit in our hearts as the security deposit and guarantee [of the fulfillment of His promise]. 2 Corinthians 1:21-22

The Anointing of our Father, which is Christ, has established us. Our Father's anointing has sealed us and because it has, we are able to be taught all things and be used by our Father to do all things! We can now be used to do all things by our Father through Christ Who strengthens us! We are now strong in the Lord with the power of His might! The earnest of our Father and all of His fullness now abides within us! We have the best of God, we have His all, and we are sealed with it until the Day that Jesus returns!

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God [do not offend or vex or sadden Him], by Whom you were sealed (marked, branded as God’s own, secured) for the day of redemption (of final deliverance through Christ from evil and the consequences of sin).Ephesians 4:30

The Holy Spirit has sealed us until Jesus returns! Our Father has strengthened us with His earnest until Jesus returns! We now have the mind of Christ and we are now confident through it. We are confident in Jesus’ abilities and we don’t grieve the Holy Spirit by denying our Father the ability to use us to do all of His good works through! We can’t deny our Father, because we are now crucified with Christ, and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who is living, it is Christ within us Who is living, Galatians 2:20! Jesus has never denied God and He never will and we are now His body. We also have been given Jesus’ mind and with His mind comes His thoughts, through Christ we now think like Jesus thinks, 1 Corinthians 2:16!

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 15:5

Our Father began all of this within us and He will continue to produce abundant amounts of fruit through us! Our Father is a God of action. When He called the heavens and stars into existence He never said stop and to this day the Universe is still growing! Our Father's first miraculous work through Jesus was to turn hundreds of gallons of water into wine! Jesus called upon God and fed thousands of hungry people with only table scraps and when they were full there were basketfuls of leftovers! Our Father worked through the Apostles to heal the sick and whole cities turned to Jesus! God has always worked abundantly through those who He empowers to believe and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, so He always will!

We Have An Abundant Holy Spirit

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost: Which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior; That being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Titus 3:5-7

Look at what we are shown here in Titus: our Father has shed His Spirit on us abundantly, praise God, abundantly! We didn’t get just some little smidgen of our Father’s Spirit. No, He has shed Himself on us abundantly!

That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all 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 fullness of God. Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. A-men." Ephesians 3:16-21

Everywhere we turn in the Word of our Father, Old Testament or New Testament, He writes to us that He has given us all of His completeness and fullness through Christ. And He doesn’t say that He has just given us them, but that we are actually one with them, just as Jesus is One with them! We never read that we are limited and we never read that our Father asked us to go it alone. When God talks about us, He uses Words like abundance, completeness, perfection, glory, preservation, pure, justification, and perfection! According to our Father we are all of these things, because Jesus came and He came so that we might have life and have it more abundantly. The Truth for us is that we now have life as Jesus has life and as He has life abundantly!

We Are Strong In Jesus

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Ephesians 6:10

Think about Jesus’ might and power for a minute, and as you consider His immense abilities, think about the Truth that we are now strong in it. Also remember that we are now one with all of Jesus' power and abilities! We are strong in the power of Jesus’ might each and every day, it never leaves us or forsakes us!

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

Jesus told the weather to be what He desired and it happened. Our Lord, Who we are now one with, told water to be wine and it obeyed Him! Our Savior, Whose body we now are, told the dead to live and they did! Jesus was hated and yet He loved, and He now Authors and Finishes our faith! He spoke with God and heard from God and never doubted what He heard, and He is now our Head! Jesus endured the brutal death of the Cross for the joy of being able to serve us and we are now members of His body and flesh of His flesh! Our Lord raised Himself up from the dead! He ever lives to intercede for us. He is the Alpha and the Omega, He is the First and the Last, He is the Great I Am, and we are now strong in the power of His might! We have been Anointed with the power of the Creator of it all and we are now strong in the power of His might!

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

We are now strong in Jesus, because Jesus is now strong in us! We are one with Him and He is One with God. Jesus is in us, through us, above us, and behind us. We are strong because we have God's very Spirit dwelling within us. We are strong because God is for us and nothing can ever be against us.

For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:29-31

We are strong in Jesus because our Father, Who is God, loves us!

Now in the knowledge of this Truth we are able to be used by our Father to serve a world that so desperately needs to see the glory and power of the Living God! Our Father can now use us to do the works that He did through Jesus and He can use us to do even greater works because Jesus went to the Cross and empowered Him to. We will be used to cause the blind to speak, the lame to walk, the deaf to hear, the dead to live, the lost to be found, and we will be used to speak specific prophesies that will strengthen the body and glorify the Kingdom! Today is the Day of our Salvation and now is our appointed time!

Satan Will Never Win Against Us

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, Who also will do it. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

Paul, Peter, John, all of the Apostles, and all of the Prophets in the Bible suffered persecution. Jesus teaches us that we will suffer it too, but we have the peace that our Father will deliver us from every evil work. I hear it preached all of the time about the struggles that we have with satan. People there is no struggle with satan! If we have been chosen by God and empowered with the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus as the Lord of our life’s, then satan is no longer a threat to us! If he were a threat than he would have to be a threat to Jesus, Who is our Head! 

Through Christ we have been sealed with the Holy Ghost, so how could satan penetrate the Holy Ghost to harm us, Ephesians 4:30? If Jesus is our Shepherd; how is it that satan can get by Him to us, John 10:11? How is it that if our Father is preserving us and keeping us from evil until Heaven, that He can fail by letting satan defeat us? Satan is not an issue for the believer, he wants to make you think that he is, but if he is, than all of these verses of Truth are lies! We will wrestle with satan, Ephesians 6:12, but it will be as the conquerors that we are through Christ, Romans 8:37! We will go into all of the world and run satan and evil off from every area that we are led in! From the sidelines satan will attempt to stop us, but there is no weapon that he has and there is no one that he is in control of, that can come against us as we stand anointed and united with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords!

Will we be persecuted for the testimony that we are used by our Father to share, absolutely we will, but our Father will deliver us from it and we will win. Our Father will receive the praise and glory through the victories; others will see it as well and God will be praised! Death has no victory over us, to be absent from the body is to be present with Christ, 2 Corinthians 5:8! Persecution has no victory over us, we are more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us. We win, each and every time. I know it’s not often preached, I mean we hear sermons that ask why do bad things happen to good people? But through persecution we grow in the strength of the Lord. When we are weak, our Father is strong and His strength is perfected in our weakness! The Truth is that through Christ we win each and every time. No one who has been chosen by God, and who has truly been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as Lord, ever looses, ever! All things now work for our good! 

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

Perfection In Christ

And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude], And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God’s image, [Godlike] in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:23-24

We have been born again through the power of Christ. Through the operation of God we have put on the new man that has been created just as the Alpha and Omega was created! The Beginning and the End, the Almighty, our Savior, Who is alive for evermore, has perfected us by allowing us to become one with Himself! Jesus lives within us and His voice thunders the Word of our Father through us as His brightness shines from within us!

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Matthew 5:14

We all say so casually that we are saved and that not a bad thing, it is a tremendous fact. But the Truth that sets us free is that what our salvation means for us is that we are now one with Jesus Himself! We have been created with the same righteousness that created Jesus and we are now new creatures in the same holiness that glorifies Jesus! The Light of Jesus has driven out the darkness of sin that was within us! The keys of death and Hell are now in our Saviors hands and He has used them to set us free from the torment that they deliver! Jesus has set us free from death and hell by raising us up together with Himself!

And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: Ephesians 2:6

Here is a great place to talk about the word Christ, which means the Anointing of God. We use the word Christ a lot as Christians; so let’s make sure that we know what it means. When we read Jesus Christ, it means Jesus the Anointed One. So with that in mind, we can accurately say: we have been baptized into the exact same Anointing as Jesus. The Truth is that we have put on the exact same Anointing that God used for Himself, when He came to the earth as a man! Take hold of that Truth, we have been given the exact same strength that God gave to Himself when He was here as a man! We are continually one with the exact same anointing that God gave to Jesus, so that He could work through Jesus! Our Father has freely given us His glory and the Holy Spirit has made us alive together with the Anointing of God! We can do nothing without the Anointing, yet with it, we have been strengthened, just as Jesus is strengthened, so that our Father can do everything through us. Our Father actually desires for us to be used by Him to do marvelous and miraculous things!

Herein is My Father glorified that ye bear much fruit, so shall ye be My disciples. John 15:8

We Are Now Filled With Our Father's Faith

[That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams] Ephesians 3:19-20

Our Father is faith and we are now filled with His fullness. We don’t just have some of God’s faith; we have the fullness of His faith! This Truth passes all human knowledge and ability. You see faith overrides knowledge; faith tells the dead to rise and they do! Faith tells water to be wine, and it does! Faith tells dirt to become man, and it obeys! Faith says a poisonous drink has no ill effects, and it doesn’t! Faith says to lay hands on a person with cancer and the cancer has no choice but to leave! Faith says that these things will happen each and every time, with no doubts, and they do! Faith says that we are filled with the fullness of our Father, God’s fullness! Faith says that even if we don’t think we have the faith, it doesn’t matter, our Father has the faith, and He is able and willing to do more through us than we can ask or think of!

And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb; He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. And being fully persuaded, that what He had promised, He was also able to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification Romans 4:20-25

Faith allows us to believe that our Father is bigger than us, and that He is always willing and able to do what it is that He has spoken! And praise God; we have Jesus within us giving us His faith that never stumbles at the Truth that God is always willing and that He is always able to fulfill His Word! Jesus doesn’t leave it up to us to believe this way, He leaves it up to Himself, and Jesus is always is victorious! Now is the accepted time and today is the day of our salvation!

For He says, In the time of favor (of an assured welcome) I have listened to and heeded your call, and I have helped you on the day of deliverance (the day of salvation). Behold, now is truly the time for a gracious welcome and acceptance [of you from God]; behold, now is the day of salvation! 2 Corinthians 6:2

God Love Us

But God--so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us, Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation). Ephesians 2:4-5 

Our Father has an intense love for us; He loves us just as He loves Jesus.

I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in One; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me. John 17:23.

We all say that our Father loves us, but the reality is that His love is so intense for us, that He had to do something to satisfy it. What that means is that our Father needs to love us. He is unwilling to be without us, so He did something about it, He made us alive with Christ, even when we were dead in sins! He made us alive together with the exact same life force that He used for Jesus; that He uses for Himself. Our Father has made us alive together with the exact same Anointing that He gave to Himself when He came to the earth and manifested Himself as a man! The Anointing that God trusted to keep Jesus alive and in full power and in full fellowship with Him while He was here as a man, has now been given to us. The very thing that our Father trusted for Jesus, is exactly the same thing that He trusts for us! How awesome in that Truth?

So what exactly does it mean, “even when we were dead in sins?” It means that our Father was not willing to wait to have fellowship with us, so He enabled us to have fellowship with Him on this earth, as well as for all eternity. Our Father wants us to be alive with Him right now and forevermore, so that our oneness with Him will be used to reveal the Light of Truth that will save the world! We too have this love, this intense and wonderful love within us, we are one with it, it consumes us just as it consumes our Father.

This unity with our Father, which comes to us through Jesus, is what He will use to win the world! Think about it, all nations at one time fellowshipping and one with God: China, Iraq, Iran, Russia, India, and Africa, as well as Europe, the America’s, and yes even Israel! The world, a glorious church without spot wrinkle or blemish, a world where our Father is magnified, and man lives in the victory of our Father's magnification. This is what our unity with God through Christ will allow the world to have!

Jesus Delivers US From Every Evil Work

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

Stop right here and read that verse again, “The Lord, Jesus, will deliver us from every evil work, and Jesus will preserve us unto His Heavenly Kingdom.” Jesus proclaimed that satan came only to steal from us, to kill us, and to destroy us, John 10:10! Now here is the Truth that sets us free: so what, who cares what satan came to do? We don’t care about satan, we care about what Jesus came and did and we care about what He is doing!

The bracelets ask us what would Jesus do (WWJD)? Well, Jesus will keep us from evil and He will preserve us, that is what Jesus will do! Praise God, how awesome is that? Jesus will deliver us from every evil work! The Truth is our Father is for us, so who or what can be against us, Romans 8:31? The Truth is that our Father has made us more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us, Romans 8:37! No weapon formed against us will ever prosper, through Christ our darkness is as the noonday. We are now preserved and sealed with the Holy Spirit of God, Ephesians 4:30!

Satan may try to steal from us or even kill us, but Jesus is our Shepherd, so the thief will be ran off each and every time! Satan will be ran off because greater is He that is now and forevermore within us, than he that is in the world, 1 John 4:4! Satan cannot harm us, who are the body of Jesus, any more than he can harm Jesus! When our Father chose us to serve the world we won, and we always win, because the One that we are now one with always wins! Welcome to salvation, all things now work together for our good, Romans 8:28!

Our Father Knows What He Is Doing

And they said to Him, Grant that we may sit, one at Your right hand and one at [Your] left hand, in Your glory (Your majesty and splendor). But Jesus said to them, You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism [of affliction] with which I am baptized? And they replied to Him, We are able. And Jesus told them, The cup that I drink you will drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized, But to sit at My right hand or at My left hand is not Mine to give; but [it will be given to those] for whom it is ordained and prepared. Mark 10:37-40

The Holy Spirit clearly tells us that our Father has already ordained and prepared someone to be seated at Jesus’ right hand and at His left hand in His Kingdom. The Spirit clearly reveals, through the scriptures, the glorious Truth that we are predestined to carry out our Father’s will. I don’t know why predestination is a problem for anyone to believe? Our Father predestined Jesus to carry out His will, Luke 2:31. Our Father also predestined Paul to carry out His will, Galatians 1:15. Every Christian I have ever met boldly confesses that our Father is in complete control. They confess that He is Omnipotent and Omniscient. They glory in Him being the Shepherd, the Potter, the Vine, and the Head. So why should they freak out that He knew what He was doing and had a plan and a purpose to carry out His will?

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 3:10

For me predestination takes away all of the fear of eternity. Our Father knew who I was and how I was, before I ever was, Psalm 139:16. Even with all of this knowledge, He still chose me and He still had a plan and a purpose for me. I greatly rejoice in the Truth that we have absolutely no ability to override our Father's will. God is our Shepherd, He is our Head, He is our Vine, our Potter, our Lord, and our Master. Jesus purchased us, we are now His possession, 1 Corinthians 6:20. That makes Him responsible to keep us and guide us. We do not lead our Father, He leads us. Our Father is not reactive to our abilities, He is proactive in causing us to be who He wants us to be. That just brings me so much peace. I have no fear whatsoever in the Truth that our Father knows what He is doing and that He has all of our best interests at heart.

Faith and hope in predestination takes away all of our pride and ego. If our Father gives us one talent or five talents, doesn’t matter. What matters is the Truth that our Father chooses what He wills and the benefit is glory for all of us. Just as the vine determines when and what fruit that the branch will bear, so does our Father determine the things that are to be in our life's.

We Now Have No Limitations

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

There are now no limits for us to be used by our Father, because through the strength of Christ, He is now able to do all things through us! The Truth actually is because of what Jesus came and did for us, our Father can now even use us in more ways the He used Jesus.

I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father. John 14:12

The perfect love of our Father can change in one moment, what it has taken satan centuries to destroy! Our Father said let there be light and there was light. Jesus told Lazarus to rise and walk, and even though He had been dead for days, He immediately came forth at the command of Jesus! This is the Anointing that has strengthened and empowered us. Our Father is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and His Word tells a mountain to remove itself and it obeys! A storm was striking the Sea of Galilee with all of its force, the storm was so fierce that the Disciples feared that they were going to die. Jesus just spoke to that storm and told it to stop, and the deadly storm ceased immediately! This is the power of what we have been created in; this is the workmanship that our Father has ordained us to walk in! God can do all things through us by His Anointing that strengthens us! Jesus came so that we might have peace that passes all understanding. He came for the entire world to have it and it is time that the world does! Faith comes from hearing what our Father can do through us and the Truth sets us free to be used for all good works!

God prophesied through Ezekiel that He would cause us to walk in His ways and Christ is the power that allows this prophesy to be realized! The power is all with our Father. He knows each one of us and what each one of us needs to be used fully by Him.

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

We are a chosen generation and we are a royal priesthood through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior! Now is the accepted time and today is the day of our salvation! Through Christ we cannot help but to be blessed.

Our Father's Will For Us

Our Father which art in Heaven, hollowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven! Luke 11:2

The awesome Truth that goes right along with the Lord’s Prayer is that our Father's will for us on the earth is as splendid and glorified as His will is for those in Heaven! The most faithful thing that we can ever desire is for our Father’s will to be done in our lives. And the goodness of His will far exceeds anything that we can think of!

Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams] Ephesians 3:20

Our Father's will is for everyone to be saved from the Lake of Fire! For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:3-4

Our Father's will if for us to be blessed! Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: Ephesians 1:3 Are our Father’s blessings only for us in In Heavenly places, meaning we must have to wait for them? And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: Ephesians 2:6

Our Father's will is for us to be Holy! And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled. In the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight: Colossians 1:21-22

Our Father’s will is for us to be glorified! And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: John 17:22

Our Father’s will is for us to be healthy! 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 2:23

Our Father’s will is for us to be perfect! I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me. John 17:23

Our Father’s will is for us to be knowledgeable! That in every thing ye are enriched by Him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; 1 Corinthians 1:5 

We Now Have God's Devine Nature

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

Through the power of Christ we have now become sharers of our Father’s Divine Nature. So just as the rottenness and corruption of this world cannot touch our Lord and Savior Jesus, they now cannot touch us who are one with Him! Nothing can corrupt Jesus and we are now members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bone, Ephesians 5:30! Our Father has rescued us from this world and He has allowed us to become one with His Own Nature, it’s our destiny in Christ!

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 1:4

These precious and exceedingly great promises are for us right now! We are justified right now, we are glorified right now, our calling is now, and we are now the sons of God, because we are one with God right now!

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure. 1 John 3:1-3

Through Christ we have escaped the hatred of this world. Just think about what that really means? When they wanted to stone Jesus, He just walked away from them. When they wanted to throw Him over the cliff, He just walked away. When satan tempted Him, He just told him to leave. When it was time to crucify our Lord, He permitted them to do it. When they wanted to arrest Him, they asked Him who He was, and as He told them, they fell back and to the ground, and He permitted them to get up. Jesus allowed them to do what it is they had to do. And then on the Cross He forgave them all, for they knew not what they had done! Just as our Lord escaped and has escaped all moral decay, corruption, and rottenness, so have we; and we have done it through the free gift of our Fathers Anointing! Now here is the cool part, once He gives His gift of anointing, He never takes it back.

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

We Are Sealed By God Himself

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God [do not offend or vex or sadden Him], by Whom you were sealed (marked, branded as God’s own, secured) for the day of redemption (of final deliverance through Christ from evil and the consequences of sin). Ephesians 4:30

How long does the Bible teach us that our Father has sealed us for? According to God, He has sealed us with His Holy Spirit until the day of redemption! The Holy Ghost doesn’t seal us for just a moment, or just as long as we act right, no way! Our Father seals us until the day of redemption. We are sealed until the day that Jesus physically returns to the earth! 

Our peace is that we are now new creatures in Christ, who have been sealed with the very Spirit of God, 2 Corinthians 5;17! We have been made one with the very Anointing of God and we are now the Temples of God, 1 Corinthians 6:19. How awesome are these Truths? The Truth set us free and faith comes by us hearing these Truths, John 8:32! These Truths will set us free from fear, from sickness, from doubt, and from sin! 

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

The Mind of Christ that we have been given allows us to know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that we are now alive unto God, just as Jesus is alive unto God! We have been baptized with Christ and we have put on Christ! We are one with Him right now. We are not one with Who He was, we are one with Who He is! 

And now O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine Own self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was. John 17:5 

Jesus has been raised from the dead, death has no more dominion over Him, and He now has the complete and full glory of God. This is Who we are now one with! So Just as Jesus is sealed from attack, so are we! Just as Jesus is sealed from sickness, so are we! Just as Jesus is sealed from all of the ills of the world, so are we! We have been sealed with the exact same Spirit of God that Jesus our Lord and Savior has been sealed with! 

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

Through Christ our Father has given us all things that pertain unto life and unto godliness!

Our Bodies Have Been Destroyed, So That We Can Be Used

We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin. Romans 6:6

Our Father has given us the Mind of Christ and His Mind tells is that we can have no confidence in our flesh, 1 Corinthians 2:16. The Mind of Christ shows us that through Him our flesh has been destroyed! We have been crucified with Christ, nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who lives, it is Christ within us, Galatians 2:20! 

Think of it, if you are in a battle and the soldier beside you is killed, would you put any confidence in His ability to protect you? Absolutely not, and that is how it is with us, we have no confidence in our flesh, because our flesh is as dead as dead can be. Our flesh has no ability to do anything that would earn us right standing with God! Through our Father’s power working in us we now put our trust in the Bright and Shinning Star that is Jesus. He is alive, He is brilliant, and He is with us, He is in us, and He is One with us! This is where our confidence lies, this is the wisdom and knowledge that fills the new mind and heart that our Father has given us! Our minds now look towards the Truth and they do not stumble over it! We have confidence because we have been fully equipped, so that we can be the very vessels of honor that our Father desires to work through!

Our Father now has millions of born again believers, all united and one in Christ, that can be used by Him just like Jesus was used. We are truly an army of one! These mortal bodies of ours have been quickened and made alive together with Christ, because we are born again from the very Incorruptible Seed of God. 

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) Ephesians 2:5 

We are now the very tools that God works through on this earth! And since we have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to give ourselves up for God, He has raised us up together and we have been seated together with Jesus our Savior. 

And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:6-7 Faith comes from hearing the Word, and the Truth of God’s Word sets us free!

Righteousness is ours, it’s ours because Jesus gave it to us. Our Lord gave us His very own righteousness. Righteousness allows our Father to be with us and righteousness allows God to work through us! The works that our Father does through us do not make us righteous; Jesus makes us righteous! This is the freedom of salvation, and our Father would that we all have it!

Christ Directly Connects Us To Our Father

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.  Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation. The Scripture says, No man who believes in Him [who adheres to, relies on, and trusts in Him] will [ever] be put to shame or be disappointed. Romans 10:8-11

A-men, we don’t have to go up to Heaven and get Jesus to come down here to the earth to help us! We don’t have to bombard the Gates of Heaven with our prayers to get our Father's attention! Our salvation through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, gives us direct access and unity with our Father 100% of the time. We are never left alone or forsaken. Now Jesus hasn’t just given us access to God either; He has made us one with Him, just as He is One with Him! We are now members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bone, Ephesians 5:30. We are now the Holy habitation of God Himself. God’s righteousness cries out from within us that He is always with us. The Spirit tells us that God is in our hearts, that we now have His Spirit, that we have the mind of His Anointing, that He is our Father, and that we are now one with Him here on this earth, 1 John 4:17!

“And because ye are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then a heir of God through Christ.” Galatians 4:6-7

The Holy Spirit will cause our conversation to reflect these absolute Truth’s! There is never a situation, good or bad, when we are separated from our Father. And out of the abundance of our hearts our mouths will speak, Luke 6:45! Our hearts are now filled with God Himself and the Truth’s that He has filled us with, will set forth His righteous works in our lives! We are a glorious church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish and greater is He that is in us than anything that is in the world, 1 John 4:4! Through the power of the Holy Spirit we are strengthened to talk and act like it!

We Are Baptized With And Forever One With Christ

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith. For as many [of you] as were baptized into Christ [into a spiritual union and communion with Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah] have put on (clothed yourselves with) Christ. There is [now no distinction] neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:26-28

The Greek word that we translate baptized from is baptizo. The best way to explain what baptizo means is to use an example of a cucumber becoming a pickle. To make a pickle a cucumber is submerged into the pickling spices and the cucumber is forever changed. It will still look like a cucumber, yet the cucumber has taken on the characteristics of the spices and it even has the pickling spices through it. The cucumber can never go back to being a cucumber; it has been forever changed into a pickle. 

This is how we are now in Christ, our old man has passed away, and behold the new man, created in God’s image, a partaker of His Divine Nature, has been born, 2 Peter 1:4. We may physically look like our old selves, but we now have Christ in us, on us, through us, and we are now one with Christ, we can never go back. 

I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me. John 17:23 

We have been crucified with Christ, nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who lives, it is Christ in us Who lives, Galatians 2:20. Praise God, we need to say this Truth out loud daily! “We are new creatures in Christ, we have been dressed with Christ, old things are passed away for us, and behold all things have become new for us.” 

Thank God we have been baptized into Christ and we have put on Christ, and A-men, we are now one with Christ, sealed by the Holy Spirit of God, and we cannot go back! 

In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, Ephesians 1:13