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!

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!

Ephesians 4:26-27

26 When angry, do not sin; do not ever let your wrath (your exasperation, your fury or indignation) last until the sun goes down.

27 Leave no [such] room or foothold for the devil [give no opportunity to him].

Think about how so many teach these verses. They teach that we can allow satan into our lives through our own actions. If we had the power to allow satan in to harm us, then what kind of Shepherd would Jesus be? I don’t care how smart or stupid a sheep is, the Shepherd alone is responsible for keeping it safe. Also, if we could allow satan in to mistreat us, then what kind of Gardener would our Father be? The Bible teaches us that we have been sealed with the Holy Spirit, Ephesians 4:30. So if we had the power to allow satan into our lives, the seal wouldn’t be that strong would it?  

So the question is, can satan be involved in our life’s? The Truth is that satan was created by our Father. He was created to serve our Father. Just because satan rebelled doesn’t mean that he no longer is a servant, he isn’t that strong to change what our Father created him to be. So for satan to be able to come against us, he has to be directed to or allowed to by our Father. And if our Father directs satan to come at us, he can only do what our Father allows him to do. The reality is that our Father does allow him into our lives from time to time to carry out His will. 

And to keep me from being puffed up and too much elated by the exceeding greatness (preeminence) of these revelations, there was given me a thorn ( a splinter) in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to rack and buffet and harass me, to keep me from being excessively exalted. 2 Corinthians 12:7

Our Father sent this messenger of satan here to deal with Paul. If satan on his own came to Paul, he would have caused Paul to be puffed up. Vanity and pride are the tools that satan would have used to cause Paul to fail. The Truth in all of this is that we can have peace even if satan is allowed to come to us. Our Father is still our Gardener and Jesus is still our Shepherd and we are still sealed with the Holy Spirit. Satan is still a servant of our Father and he can only do what his Master, Who is our Father, tells him to do. Our peace is that all things work out for our good! Satan does not have free range in our life’s and just because he rebelled didn’t release him from his service to our Father.

So if you are ever asked if you were attacked by satan this week, you can rejoice and loudly proclaim that if I was, it was because my Father allowed him and directed him to. Paul writes this in an attempt to have people live right. There is a wonderful scripture about satan and it is Luke 22:31. Satan had to ask to attack the Apostles. Now if he was so powerful and so free to do what he wanted, why did he have to ask? The Apostles were messing up all of the time and satan was not allowed to just come and get them. He had to ask first. Doesn’t sound like he is all of that powerful if he had to ask. Our Father is powerful and our Lord is powerful and through Christ we stand. Our own strength is useless, just as our own righteousness is useless. But we never stand in our own strength, we are always kept by Jesus’ strength and Jesus never fails

Jesus Is In Control Of All Flesh

[Just as] You have granted Him power and authority over all flesh (all humankind), [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him. John 17:2

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

For in this city there actually met and plotted together against Your holy Child and Servant Jesus, Whom You consecrated by anointing, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and peoples of Israel, To carry out all that Your hand and Your will and purpose had predestined (predetermined) should occur. Acts 4:27-28

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

It is easy for us to accept and believe that Jesus is active in controlling the flesh of those who have been empowered to accept Him. But the glorious Truth is that Jesus controls all flesh. He even controls the flesh of those who do evil. The worst of the worse, Jesus is in control of them as well. Look at what the Holy Spirit tells us, our Father anointed and consecrated both Pilate and Herod to carry out His will of torturing and killing Jesus. We also read in the Old Testament that our Father was in control of Pharaoh and hardened his heart to keep on attacking the Israelites. 

The peace of the Truth of Jesus being in control of all flesh is this: everything works out for our good. Hardships bring a faith and trust in people like nothing else can. Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance. Romans 5:3

The Truth that Jesus even controls the evil people of this world also brings us great peace. It does because the wicked can only do what our Lord permits and allows them to do. Even satan, the father of the wicked, is controlled completely by Jesus. When the devil wanted to attack the Apostles, Jesus told him no, Luke 22:31. Jesus will never allow us to be tempted above that which we can stand, 1 Corinthians 10:13. So relax in the peace that Jesus is even in control of the evil people.

Does God Want Us To Help Ourselves?

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. John15:4-5

There is a very religious statement that is right out of the sermon of the anti-christ and it is this: God helps those who help themselves. I received an email yesterday stating that the President was mocking God by denying that God wants us to help ourselves. The Truth is that our Father doesn’t want us to ever, or under any circumstance, do anything without Him. Jesus tells us plainly that we can do nothing without Him. It is a flat out lie, and it will be used mightily by the anti-christ, that we are to do things on our own. 

Jesus tells us that He will actually deny that He ever knew people who claim that they have done things on their own, even when they say that they are doing it in His Name.

Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name and driven out demons in Your name and done many mighty works in Your name? And then I will say to them openly (publicly), I never knew you; depart from Me, you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands]. Matthew 7:22-23

Jesus tells us that it is a wicked thing to say that we have done anything on our own, even if we say that we are doing it for Him. The Truth is that greater is He that is in us. The Truth is that we are only more than conquerors because of Christ working through us. The Truth is that we can do absolutely nothing on our own. A confession of anything other than the Truth is wicked! We never, and I mean ever, do something first on our own, so that our Father can then do something for us or through us. Our Father never leaves us and He never forsakes us. He is 100% of the time our Head, our Vine, our Gardener, our Potter, and our Shepherd. If our Father doesn’t first cause us to do it, it will never be done. 

Jesus Was Sent To Keep You And I Safe

For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him. John 3:17

With 24/7 news and internet it is easy to get caught up in the bad things that are happening around the world. But our peace passes all understanding and our peace is that Jesus came so that we might be kept safe and even be sound through it all.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control. 2 Timothy 1:7

The Spirit that we have been given is the Spirit of Christ and our Spirit did not run from the Cross. Our Spirit allowed Itself to be killed, John 10:17, went down to Hades, took the keys of death from satan, Revelation 1:18, preached to the captives and set them free, 1 Peter 3:20, and then raised Itself up from the dead. Our Spirit told the weather what to do, turned water to wine, so that the party could continue, and walked on the water during a storm.

This is the Spirit that you and I are now one with. We are instruments of our Father’s righteousness and through our Spirit the world will find salvation. Our Father would that all men be saved, 1 Timothy 2:4, and He will keep us safe, as He uses us to do things that are far beyond what we can think, dream, or pray for, Ephesians 3:20.

1000 Years Of Everyone Being Blessed

And those servants went out on the crossroads and got together as many as they found, both bad and good, so [the room in which] the wedding feast [was held] was filled with guests. Matthew 22:10

In this verse we are shown that Jesus is now ruling the world and the wicked who sided with the anti-christ have been destroyed. The unworthy who took the mark of the beast have been removed and yet there are still people for us to go and bring to the Marriage Supper. Notice that Jesus does not tell us that at this time people are allowed to not come to the celebration: as many as are found, both good and bad, are brought to feast and all are blessed! During this 1,000 years Jesus is in total control of the earth. It is a time of prosperity, peace, and health as has never been experienced before by man.

Jesus and His Bride will rule for these 1,000 years with a rod of iron. There will be no ability for people to descent the invitation to be blessed super abundantly by our Father.

And He shall rule them with a sceptre (rod) of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, and [his power over them shall be] like that which I Myself have received from My Father; Revelation 2:27

From His mouth goes forth a sharp sword with which He can smite (afflict, strike) the nations; and He will shepherd and control them with a staff (scepter, rod) of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath and indignation of God the All-Ruler (the Almighty, the Omnipotent). Revelation 19:15

There will be bad people here during this time. They just wont be allowed to do anything bad, Jesus and His Bride will not allow it. We know that there will be bad people here for the Millennial Reign, because millions of wicked people will rise up at the end of the 1,000 years and rebel against Jesus when satan is released from the abyss. Our Father allows this to happen because He is the One Who release satan.

So we see here that when Jesus returns there will still be people around. The Bride of Christ will have been transformed to be like Him and we will rule and serve with Him. The glorious Truth is that there are millions of people around being served. Our Father shows His grace and favor without any sin, war, famine, economic downturns, or any other distraction. Everyone good and bad will be blessed by Jesus and us who are His Bride.

I was always taught that when Jesus returns there wouldn't be any body left but the saved, but here we clearly see that both good and bad are around to be served at the Wedding Feast. Remember that Revelation taught us that the Wedding Feast does not begin until the 7th Trumpet, or the last trumpet, sounds. When it does sound, Jesus immediately returns to the earth and the Feast begins. And here we see that the earth is filled with both good and bad people and they are all blessed.

And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his place of confinement. And he will go forth to deceive and seduce and lead astray the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth--Gog and Magog--to muster them for war; their number is like the sand of the sea. And they swarmed up over the broad plain of the earth and encircled the fortress (camp) of God's people (the saints) and the beloved city; but fire descended from heaven and consumed them. Revelation 20:7-9

Jesus' Blood Allows Us To Rest

"For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His." Hebrews 4:10

Our Father sent Jesus and the Blood that our Lord shed on the Cross for has fully completed its work. Jesus' Blood has overcome the evil one and it has set us free, so now we have rest. Because of Jesus we can have peace, joy, hope, faith, love, and we can have all of these things richly and we can also richly enjoy them. We are a royal priesthood, a chosen generation, a peculiar people, and we are now in our Father's Light.

Have a great day in the Lord, He has done it all for us.

We Stand Against Tribulation By Being One With God's Power

“These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33

Now here is another awesome thing, in Heaven there is no tribulation, yet Jesus says that on the earth there is, so where do we stand? We are here, yet we have been raised up together with Christ in Heavenly places, Ephesians 2:6. Think about it, Jesus is here on the earth, as well as in Heaven. So ask yourself, is there any situation in this earth that can stand up against Him? What about our Father, is He moved by any earthly woe or ill? Does the Holy Ghost back down from any force of the earth? No, there in lies our power; as He is so are we on this earth, 1 John 4:17! Tribulations will arise for the Words sake, but be of good cheer; Jesus has given us the power to be used and protected by God just as He is. Through Christ we are unmovable! So as Jesus enjoys the Heavenly blessings, so do we, even though we are here on the earth, just as Jesus is. Our Lord is in both places, and so are we, be of good cheer, Jesus has deprived the earth of its power against us! We are now one with Jesus, we are now members of His body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone, Ephesians 5:30. Nothing can harm Jesus and we are now one with Jesus!

Hey, do I think that I have obtained this all yet, no! But this one thing I do through the power of Christ, I forget the things that are behind, and I press towards the prize of His high calling, and as many as be perfect in Christ, be thus minded! I am telling you the Truth, when Jesus appears we shall be like Him, the Church is heading places before Jesus returns that are far beyond what we can think of, pray for, or ask for, and it is all going to happen by the power of Christ that is within us, the power of the Holy Spirit! The Church will be used by God to do greater works than Jesus did, the Church is going to be as He is, the Church will be glorious and without spot, wrinkle, or blemish! God said it, it will be! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for!

How do I know this will be, our Father has allowed me to taste bits and pieces of it. Our Father has instructed me to lay hands on the sick, and they have recovered, right there, no other reason than God worked through me. I have been praying and my spirit grew beyond the confines of my body. Our Father allowed me to taste a fraction of how He is, it was so small, and only for a moment, yet He allowed me to see that we do have the capacity to be in touch with the Body of Christ beyond our flesh. He allowed me to experience just a little taste of His omnipotence. I never will ask you to believe just because I have written it, shoot I never would, taste it for yourself, ask our Father to come to you and ask your Father to allow you to experience His fullness.  God’s Word to consume you, it will empower you to surrender all and then receive it all. If you still have your will, ask God to give you the power to give it away, take on Your Father’s will, it’s a lot better!

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

God Is Responsible For Us

"Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the Blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be glory for ever and ever. A-men." Hebrews 13:20-21

This Truth is not being taught and preached nearly enough. People are looking to themselves far too much. If things are good in a persons life, than they believe they must be doing something right, and if they are bad, then something wrong. Faith preachers call it faith, others call it living rightly, whatever it’s called, it makes God reactionary to our actions. Our Father is right in here with us and He carries the full load, as our Father, our Shepherd, and our Head! Jesus is not our co-pilot. He is our Head and we are His body!

I asked our Father why He kept saying this over and over to me, and this is what He said. “How than shall they call on Him in Whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe on Him of Whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!” As you may know that is Romans 10:14-15

Our Father told me, “what can be more peaceful than teaching that He alone holds the responsibility in our success?” Man tries to find God with his own power, like do A, B, and C and then God will be found. Bologna! The heart does not respond like the hand, the foot like the eye, the tongue as the kidney, we are members of the body, all different parts. God comes to us where we are and exactly how we need Him! This needs to be taught. Think I am wrong, Jesus said that without Him, we could do nothing, John 15:5. If that isn’t taking the responsibility, I don’t know what is? And as Hebrews 13 teaches us: it is Jesus making us perfect and it is Jesus working within us!

So you see, we are light, we are not darkness. We are light because we are in God and His Light has driven out the darkness. Through Jesus we have everything we need. Our bodies that could sin have been destroyed, Romans 6:6. But what if we don’t feel like it has? Let me ask you this, how often do you hear it preached that our bodies of sin have been destroyed? Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free! Romans 8:1 says there is now therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. There is now no condemnation for us because there is now no darkness in us, because we are now in Christ Jesus! No bragging rights here, only because of Jesus, no works on our behalf can make this happen, it is solely based on Jesus and what He has done and offered for us!

How will the world believe unless we preach it?

"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them." Ezekiel 36:26 This is the message that we have heard from Jesus and declare unto you. That God is Light and there is no darkness in Him and we are now in Him! Through the power of the Light that we now live in, we shall go into all of the world and preach the Gospel of this Truth to every creature and through our unity with Christ the world will believe!

Jesus' Blood Makes Us Perfect

"Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be glory for ever and ever. A-men." Hebrews 13:20-21

Let’s talk for a minute about the Truth of our Father being responsible for insuring that we are redeemed until the day of Jesus’ return. We don’t hear that preached often do we? But when we look at what God has said to us, we see that He is responsible for us. Jesus teaches us that He is our Shepherd. And the Truth is that a shepherd is fully responsible for his sheep. There are other scriptural references of Jesus being our Shepherd, but this is by far the most powerful one! In two short verses we have so many Truths: the Great Shepherd, the God of peace, the Blood, and perfection in every good work that pleases our Father! And we are also shown that it is God working in us that which is well pleasing to Him. This is a great verse to share with a person who still believes that we possess a free will that is separate from our Fathers will.

Wow, you just have to love these two verses! Through them we see so clearly that our Father has taken the responsibility of our walk into His Own hands. Through the Blood of Jesus we are perfect in every good work and through Christ we are well pleasing to God! We are all of these things only because of Jesus! We are pleasing to God because God makes us that way! Jesus Himself makes us perfect in every good work to do God’s will, and Jesus uses us to perform works that are well pleasing to God. Jesus just doesn’t make us please God, He makes us pleasing to Him as well!

Our Father also calls Himself our Gardener and we are the branches, John 15:1. Once again we see that our Father takes the responsibility for us. Jesus says that He is the Head of the Church, Ephesians 5:23. All of this said, the most powerful Truth is that God call’s Himself our Father, so there is great responsibility there. Why am I teaching on this? Because we are not alone, we are never alone! We are not solely responsible for everything being right or wrong in our lives. This is not a solo journey we are on. Our Father is right here with us, He is one with us, He is in us, on us, over us, before us, and behind us. He is willing and able and He is responsible for our fruitful and abundant lives. And because He is, there is therefore now no condemnation for us who are in Christ Jesus, Romans 8:1! The Blood of Jesus has made us perfect!

God Has Given Us His Best

"Now He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." 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 God 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 and the power of His might! The earnest of God and all of His fulness 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 grieve not the Holy Spirit, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” 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 God 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! Jesus has never denied God and He never will, and we are now His body and we have been given His mind. And with His mind comes His thoughts, through Christ we now think like Jesus thinks!

“I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in Him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without Me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5 Our Father began 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!

I think you probably get the picture, it is our Father in all His forms, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Who keeps us and Who now works through us! I thank God that He reveals this to me every day. We live in a world that looks to itself for advancement. So many preach that we are limited by ourselves and by our own abilities and actions. But the Word of God teaches us that our Father is able to do exceedingly abundantly all that we can ask or think! The Truth that allows us to be set free is that our Father is the One Who places the burden of our salvation on Himself. God is the One performing His good works through us, and we just don’t live in a world where that is believed.

I have heard, as I am sure you have, God helps those who help themselves. This is absolutely a false teaching and because it is so widely accepted, we need to daily encourage each other with the Truth. The Anointing of God that abides within us, and which is no lie, will show us that our Father is the One within us allowing us to walk righteously. The Truth is that we are now one with Him, and because we are He can now do everything through us. Through the power of Christ the two of us have become one flesh. Born again, born from God's righteous seed, born of love, this is who we are now in our Father. We are all of this and more through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! God began His good work within us and He will continue His good works through us for eternity!

Nothing Can Stand Against Us

“And He arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.” Mark 4:39

The world claims to have powers and forces that no man can withstand: a tornado, a hurricane, a tsunami, an earthquake, who can stand against such things? Jesus can and He did! Our Lord’s might is able to tell the natural forces of this world to cease and they obey Him, and we are now strong in the power of His might. People say there are only two certain things in this world, death and taxes! Jesus overcame death and He paid His taxes miraculously! “Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for Me and thee.” Matthew 17:27 The glorious Truth for us is that we are now strong in the power of Jesus’ Godly might that did all of these things! How great is that? Jesus was strong on the earth 2000 years ago and He is strong through us in the world today!

What about a fire, can Jesus walk through fire and not be harmed, of course He can and we can be strong in the power of His might. “And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counselors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire. And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.” Daniel 3:23-27

What about a parent who has harmed us, can the power of Jesus’ might allow us to forgive them for that wrong? Absolutely, we are strong in the power of Jesus’ forgiving might. Recessions, terrorism, hatred, sickness, fear, all of these are powers that hold absolutely no ability against Jesus, and we are now one with Him! We have the very presence and power of the Living God dwelling within us and we too are strong in the power of His might. The result of our oneness with Jesus is that earthly things have no abilities to harm us. “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17 There is no weapon: spirit, soul, or body, that can harm us. And this is our peace that passes all understanding, all things now work together for our good through the power of Jesus Christ! “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

We Serve Our Father Through The Spirit, Not Through Laws

“Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” Galatians 3:3

Man made laws are not the tools that unlock the favor and blessings of God! What pleases our Father is for us to serve Him through the power of His Spirit that now dwells eternally within us. We are now empowered by the very Spirit of God to allow Jesus, our Lord and Savior, to Author and Finish our faith in believing that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those of us who have been chosen. We have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to have Jesus leading us and guiding us in the paths of our Father's righteousness!

If we truly want to change the attitudes of the world, it is not accomplished by influencing governments to pass laws. It is accomplished by God using us as lamps on the side of the hills! The weapons of our warfare are spiritual and they are mighty to the bringing down of strongholds. We change the world by showing them Christ and by proclaiming our Father's Word of Truth that does not fall void to the earth. In America we have passed laws that resemble the Ten Commandments and every year the crimes against those laws abound. We need to stop trying to pass laws that attempt to force righteousness and allow our Father to show the world Jesus through us. So that the presence, pleasure, penalty, and power of sin will be destroyed and then people will be truly be set free. Laws didn’t allow the Israelites to become one with God and be free, and laws won’t allow us to either. Why Christians are so concerned with passing laws always stumps me. We weren’t set free and saved by a law, why do we think that laws will now bring the favor and blessings of God into our lives?

Are we so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are we now made perfect by laws? There is no fear for us, and we don’t need laws to protect us; God is for us, who can be against us! Our Father doesn’t pour His favor on us because we have laws that resemble the Ten Commandments. Our Father pours His blessings on us because we are His kids and we have been enabled to believe in Jesus. We are blessed because the Holy Spirit has empowered us to accept Jesus as Lord! Be blessed and where are energies and efforts are, that is where are hearts will be as well!

We Are Sealed With The Holy Spirit

"Now He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." 2 Corinthians 1:21-22

We now have Christ permanently living within us; we are now one with Him, so we can’t help but to walk in His Spirit. We have been sealed by the very Spirit of our Father. We have been Anointed by God, and He can now do all things through us by the power of His Anointing that strengthens us! Our Father has established us with His Anointing. He has sealed us with His Spirit. He has called us. He has chosen us, He has justified us, He has glorified us, and what can we say to all of this? Our Father, Who is God is for us, who or what, can be against us!

“And grieve not the Holy Spirit, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30

We are sealed by the Spirit of our Father until the day of our redemption. Well if we are sealed, that isn’t from the inside, that is from the outside. Think of a plastic baggie, the zip lock kind, that is sealed, think about Tupperware, that is sealed. Well we are sealed, so we can’t help but walk in the Spirit. Once again we see that it is our Father telling us to do something and again we see that it is God empowering us with Himself to do it. We can do all things through Christ that strengthens us! A-men!

We Are Now Members Of God's Body: Now That Is Peace

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

We are born from the peace of our Father! Through the power of Christ we are now members of God’s body and we are now His Temple; we are the dwelling place of God Himself on this earth! Our Father has absolutely no threats, none whatsoever, and He sent Jesus to die for us so that we could have and enjoy the fruits of peace. Not just any peace either, our Father's peace, and that is the peace that now keeps us. 

Our Father doesn’t say that our own peace will keep us. Our Father doesn’t leave the responsibility of such a powerful life force to chance, He takes care of it Himself; we now have God’s very Own peace keeping us. We can see the power of our Father's peace in action with Paul and Silas. They were beaten and cast into the innermost part of the prison and shackled. Even though they were wrongly accused, they were empowered by the Holy Spirit to sing praises to God at midnight, and God delivered them. 

“And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in stocks. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all doors were opened, and all bands loosed.” Acts 16:23-26 

Paul and Silas were beat and shackled, yet they had God’s peace keeping their minds and their hearts, so they were strengthened and able to openly sing praises unto Him, and they were loosed. And if you read on, they were used by our Father to win the jailor and his family to Christ. They didn’t do this on their own, they did it because of God. They did it because our Father's peace kept their hearts and their minds! Remember in Psalm 18 how we studied how God reacts when we are in trouble and call upon Him? Well, here is a New Testament example of the reality of our Father's nature!

Greater is our Father that is within us than anything, or anyone, or any situation that is in the earth! We are blessed beyond expression in the power of His might this day and forevermore!

We Are Now Preserved In Christ

"Jude the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:" Jude 1:1

"Now He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." 2 Corinthians 1:21-22

“And grieve not the Holy Spirit, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30

“I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from evil.” John 17:15

We are not alone any more! We are never in this world alone anymore. Our Father has proclaimed that we are now preserved and sealed until the Day of redemption in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior! God has declared that we are established in Christ, that we have the Holy Spirit within us, and that we are sanctified and preserved. Jesus prayed that our Father would keep us from evil. A-men, these things are done, they are finished; they are as God has declared! When God speaks, it’s eternal! We are now and forever more members of His body, His Temple, and one with the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!

Our Father is not only with us as long as we do what is right. The Truth is that He is ever with us until the day that Jesus returns. Our Father now keeps us from all evil and He will continue to keep us safe until the day that He destroys evil! If we mess up, satan doesn’t get free reign to beat the snot out of us! If that were the case then we would still be in a Covenant that was just like the Old Covenant. There may be a different set of rules, but still our communion with our Father would be based upon our own works. This is not the power of the New Covenant that Jesus has established. God knew that were weak, so He sent Jesus, to ratify a New Covenant that would allow Him to be strong within us. We enjoy a Covenant that is not determined by our own works. We now enjoy a Covenant that allows our Father to be here with us continually, walking with us, and leading us, right here in the thick of things. If there is any disciplining to be done, it will be done by our Father and not by satan! “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten, be zealous therefore, and repent.” Revelation 3:19

We are now preserved in Christ, we are now preserved in the Anointing of God! Because there is now no more fear of messing up. We no longer have to fear things like having a bad thought and then the consequence be that we are no longer in fellowship with God. Our actions no longer limit our Father from being one with us. We are now kept by God until He does away with evil all together!

Sure we repent, but that doesn’t mean that we have been separated from God, it just means that He has led us in the paths of righteousness and allowed us to have the hope and faith to change our ways. Our Father is now continually within us. He never leaves us or forsakes us and if we mess up, and it is if we mess up, not when we mess up, remember 1 John 2:1, God will still remain. “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:” Our disobedience does not cause God to flee from us; it causes Him to correct us and to bring us back into the paths of righteousness! Our actions no longer separate us from God; the Blood of Christ insures it. Through Christ we stand united in God, preserved in Him, and sealed by Him. We are sealed by the actions of Jesus, by the perfect actions of our Lord and Savior! Don’t let people preach to you that if you mess up, than your actions give satan some kind of right to come and reap havoc on you. No way, God is still in control and He still is our Father, and our Father will discipline us, not satan!

Life in Christ is not a craps shoot, if we truly are empowered by the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus, than it’s a done deal! When God talks about our salvation He uses terms like preserved, sealed, dead, yet nevertheless we live, perfect, united, and one with Him. Man uses words like maybe and possibly, but not God. To God our salvation is a sure thing, it is settled, and it is finished! This is why we have boldness, because our Father is Love, and Love would have it no other way. If you are empowered to accept Love, then Love will insure your eternity with Him! Love covers a multitude of sin, and we don’t have so much sin that our Father can’t cover it! Love looks only at the Blood of Jesus and judges that we are cleansed by it and not by our actions!

"Even David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin." Romans 4:6-8

David, the man whom our Father called His friend, the man who stood up to the giant Goliath and slew him, writes about how blessed we are. The Prophets of old, so longed to see our day, no more sacrifices, no more works, just unbroken fellowship and union with God. We are preserved through Jesus and with Him we have access into our Father's rest! The Words that we study will bathe you in peace, and they will consume you with the Truth, and the Truth will set you free!

A Benefit of Salvation: Peace

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

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

We are born from the peace of God! We are now members of His body and we are now His Temple! Our Father has no threats, none whatsoever, and He sent Jesus to die for us so that we could have and enjoy the fruits of peace, and not just any peace, we enjoy His peace, and that is the peace that now keeps us. God doesn’t say that our peace will keep us. He doesn’t leave the responsibility of such a powerful life force to chance, He takes care of it Himself; we now have God’s very Own peace keeping us. We can see the power of our Father's peace in action with Paul and Silas. They were beaten and cast into the innermost part of the prison and shackled, and even though they were wrongly accused, they sang praises to God at midnight, and our Father delivered them.

“And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in stocks. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all doors were opened, and all bands loosed.” Acts 16:23-26

Paul and Silas were beaten and shackled. Yet they had God’s peace keeping their minds and their hearts during it. So they were strengthened and able to sing praises unto Him, and they were loosed, and if you read on, they won the jailor and his family to Christ. They didn’t do this on their own, they did it because of God, and they did it because God’s peace kept their hearts and their minds! Remember in Psalm 18 how we studied how our Father reacts when we are in trouble and call upon Him? Well, here is a New Testament example of the reality of God’s nature!

“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” John 14:27 Jesus gave us His peace, and Jesus’ peace is God’s peace. Jesus is God and God is Jesus and everything that Jesus has, He gave to us. There is nothing in the world that can equal Jesus' peace and we now have it keeping our hearts! Think about Jesus’ peace and the immense power of it. He is God, He has been God from the beginning and He freely gave up His godly state to come to earth as a man. He came to take on every sin and sickness that the world and all of its inhabitants would ever have. He knew that those whom He had created would kill Him and He knew it would be by the horrific act of being crucified on the Cross. Jesus knew that before He would be crucified that they were going to beat Him so badly that He will not even be recognized as a man. He knew He was going to be thrown into Hell. And yet the greatest thing that Jesus knew, was that He had been given the perfect peace that He would be raised from the dead and restored again to His former glory and honor in Heaven with God. “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 also had the peace that He wouldn’t mess up while He was here as a man, even though He was going to be tempted in every way that men could ever be tempted. “For we have not an High Priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” Hebrews 4:15 Now this is some kind of peace and Jesus gave it to us, this is peace that passes all understanding and we now have it! And we have the Holy Spirit within us insuring we grow to full maturity in it!

“These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 This world and all of its systems offer no peace, none, governments cannot give it, insurance cannot provide it, and jobs and family are incapable of securing it. Yet we have the peace of the One Who overcame the world. We have His Holy Spirit within us teaching and strengthening us in all things. We have the peace that we are healed by Jesus' stripes. We enjoy the perfect peace that Jesus came that we might have an abundant life. We have the peace that Jesus rebukes the devour for our sakes, that there is now no weapon that has been formed against us that will prosper, and that our needs are now met according to His riches and glory. Anything and everything that pertains to life and to godliness we now have through Jesus, these Truths are now the peace that keeps us! It doesn’t matter if we understand it. The peace of God passes understanding and the blessings of our Father overtake us, because we have been empowered to accept Jesus as Lord and we are a chosen generation and we are a royal priesthood!

Every bit as sure as Jesus was that He was going to spend eternity with God; we now have His exact same peace. Peter had this peace, read Acts 12:2-7. Herod had killed James and the Jewish masses loved it. So Herod decided that he was going to kill Peter as well. Herod threw him in jail, surrounded him with guards, and Peter just slept. He slept and was at peace even though just the day before James was murdered. Peter slept so soundly that when the Angel of the Lord came to rescue him, he had to strike Peter to wake him up! Now that is an assured peace that only God can give! This peace is for each and every believer, there is no circumstance the world has that can move or shake it, and it’s for us all and it shall keep us! “The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? Psalm 118:6

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” 1 John 4:18 OUr Father is love and we are born of Him. “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” 1 John 4:8 We are born of perfect love and we now dwell in perfect love, because we are born again of God. We now dwell in God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior and God is perfect love. The love that our Father had for Jesus now abides within us, John 17:26, so we have the perfect love of God abiding within us that casts out all fear from us! Fear has torment, so our Father gave us Himself to cast out all torment. God gave us His peace, so that in a world of tribulation, we could stand without fear as He rebukes the devourer for our sakes! Our Father gave us a new heart and a new mind, so that we could accept and walk in these Truths that pass all human understanding! God’s peace passes all understanding and that peace now keeps us! We are now strong in the power of our Father's might!

God is not a man that He should lie, He said these things regarding our peace, so they are Truth. Our Father will lead us in the paths of righteousness. So even if we are immature and not able to fully understand these Truth’s, our Father is right here walking with us, through the valley of the shadow of death. Because we are now born of God and because He is now within us and we are now within Him, we will fear no evil! For we have not been given a spirit of fear, but of love, peace, and a sound mind! Our Father has provided it all for us, and He will Author and Finish the faith needed to walk in and live in His full and complete peace, His perfect peace! We may not understand it all, God’s peace does pass all understanding, but that doesn’t matter, it will keep us. Our Father's perfect love has cast out all fear for those who have accepted His salvation through Jesus Christ!

Consider all of the benefits that we have studied so far about our salvation through Jesus: eternal life, abundant life, health, direct access to our Father, peace, Truth, God’s protection, whatever we do prospers, safety, and all of the other of His glorious benefits. Everything that would bring fear, has been done away with and our Father has taken care of it. God has brought us into a place in Him that we are able to take no thought for our own lives, just as Jesus takes no thought for His life. That is probably the greatest and most peaceful thing of all, just knowing that our Father has us in His hands and that no man and no thing can take us out of them, and knowing that we will be with Him forever! That is the peace that allows us to clearly and lovingly share Him with every creature. The same peace that Jesus had to come and serve is now the peace that we have to serve, and we now dwell in perfect love of God that casteth out all fear!