Enter God's Throne of Grace Boldly

“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:16

Whenever we are in need, whenever we need help, or whenever we need mercy, all we have to do is to go to the Throne of our Father's grace and we will find help in our time of need! And according to God, we are able to come boldly to this place of His grace because of Jesus, our High Priest.

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

According to our Father we can come to the Throne of His grace boldly, because Jesus has fulfilled ever requirement that was needed for us so that we can. And according to our Father we can come boldly to His Throne of Grace, because Jesus has already been through exactly what we have been through. The Truth that allows us to boldly expect our Father's grace is that Jesus was in all points tempted like we have been tempted! Jesus wasn’t partially tempted when He was on this earth as a man, He was tempted in all points. There was nothing that Jesus did not endure; even those dirty dark secret temptations are included and He overcame them all through the power of the Holy Spirit without sinning! So Jesus is able to fully understand us, because He has been tempted in every way that we have ever been or ever could be tempted! Jesus knows what it feels like and He is touched with the feelings of our infirmities! Jesus knows right now what each and every one of us is going through and since He does know, we are able to come boldly to our Father so that He can help us with His grace!

Take a moment and think about why our Father would say that we are able to come boldly to His Throne of Grace? Would He say come boldly if there was even a slight chance of us not receiving His mercy and help? If there was even the slightest of chance of not receiving mercy and help we could never be bold about it. But our Father tells us to come boldly to the Throne of His Grace, because there is no chance whatsoever that He will not help us in every situation. It’s an absolute done deal for us and the great things about our salvation is that our Father knows what we need before we ever get there. And not only does our Father know what we need, He actually led us there and He has Anointed us with the earnest of His Spirit to insure that we know that we can freely and boldly come there.

Our Father has filled us with His fullness, so that we can come to the place where He can give us joy, pleasure, and delight. Our Father has given us Jesus as our High Priest, so that we can boldly come to the place where He can be mercifully kind to us, the place where He can strengthen us, the place where He can increase our faith, and the place where He is able to exert His influence on our souls, so that we can be used by Him to exercise all of His virtues! We have direct and free access to the place in God where we will always win, and we can boldly go there because there is never a chance of failure!

Let’s look at a couple of verses that confirm that we will always receive our Father's help and mercy to triumph, and verses that will show why we can be bold about it! "Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of His knowledge by us in every place." 2 Corinthians 2:14 Because we have access through Christ to the Throne of God’s Grace, we will always triumph and we will always triumph in every place! And since we always triumph through Christ, the knowledge of Jesus will be made known in every place. Jesus is not made known to the world by our failures. He is made known to the world because our Father always causes us to triumph, and we always triumph because we always have our Father's complete grace! I need to hear this right now, I am definitely preaching to myself!

"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." Philippians 4:13 Christ has strengthened us so that our Father can fully exert His influence in our lives and our Father is now able to use us to do all things through! We will always have God’s help and His mercy strengthening us, so that He will always triumph through us, and the world will believe! We are now strong in the power of God’s might, and His strength allows us to be used fully by Him! How great is that?

“And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to Him that sat on the throne, Who liveth for ever and ever, The four and twenty elders fall down before Him that sat on the throne, and worship Him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.” Revelation 4:9-11

Through Christ we now have boldness to enter this place of Grace and these verses show us clearly how we should act when we do. Notice the elders first cast their crowns at our Father's feet. They took the very thing that represented their power and authority and gave it to God. They showed that the only reason that they had any authority was because our Father had given it to them and then they worshipped Him for it. Our Father knows what we need before we even ask. “Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him.” Matthew 6:8 We don’t need to enter our Father's Throne of Grace and tell Him what is wrong or what we need, He already knows. He knows far better than we know! When we enter the Throne of Grace we need to worship our Father and the first act of worship is to freely cast all of our authority to Him. It’s no longer our will, it’s now only His will! Our Father knows our hearts, so our words aren’t the important thing here, our actual act is. The elders actually cast their crowns at God’s feet, they just didn’t say they would, they actually did it! Then they praised our Father by acknowledging that they were freely given themselves as vessels unto His will! This is how we should act when we boldly go to the Throne of Grace. Jesus alludes to the same thing when He taught us the Lord’s prayer. Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Submission and praise and because of it life abundantly!

We can boldly go to our Father's Throne of Grace! A-men, and the really powerful thing for me is that we can be bold, that through the power of Christ, we have been strengthened to give up our own wills and now only live by God’s will! We can be bold through Christ because we have given up all authority to our own lives and have truly been empowered by the Holy Spirit to give it all over to God. If this were not the case, how could we be bold? We would always go in doubt and there could be no boldness! But our Father is not a man that He should lie and our Father said that we could be bold about it! Praise His Holy Name, He has strengthened us with His Anointing so that we can be bold in the knowledge of His Truth that has set us free!

The Holy Ghost & Christ Now Dwell Within Us

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

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

Jesus was with God from the very beginning! He was One with God and to save us from our weaknesses, He came to Earth as a man, born of a woman. He took on flesh, flesh that could be destroyed, flesh that could be tempted in every way that we can be tempted. “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” Hebrews 4:15 Jesus’ flesh could be destroyed, it wasn’t some supernatural flesh, it was just like ours and it was killed! Think about it, Jesus’ flesh had taken on every sin and every sickness that the world would ever have, and it was destroyed on the Cross, and afterwards it laid dead and lifeless in a tomb. Then after three days the power of God’s Anointing came upon it and Jesus’ flesh was quickened. The dead flesh of Christ was raised and made alive together with God! This is what has happened for us now that we are saved, our dead flesh has been raised up and made to be alive together with God!

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

We are not in the flesh any longer, because we now have the Spirit of our Father dwelling within us. We have our Father's Spirit within us right now; today is the day of our salvation and now is the accepted time. This isn’t some whacked out theology, think about it, all God is saying is that His Anointing has overcome the weakness of our flesh!

"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:11 Christ is now in us and His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, is now life for us and it is life abundantly! The power of our Father that raised Jesus from the dead and that forever eliminated sins ability to even touch Him, is now alive within us. We have been made alive together with the same life force of God, the Holy Spirit, that raised Jesus from the dead and that quickened Him together with God. The wage of sin is death, but the gift of our Father is life eternal through Christ Jesus our Lord! God tells us that we are to consider ourselves to be dead to sin and thus we also should consider ourselves to be dead to the wages of sin.

We are able to think this way about ourselves because God has given us the Mind of Christ. “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 2:16 God’s Mind knows and understands the power of His Anointing and the power of His salvation for us! The Anointed Mind of Christ, that God has given us, knows the Truth that human flesh apart from Him is nothing but sin. And it also knows the absolute Truth that our Father's Strength, provided to us by Jesus’ sacrifice, has overcome the weakness of our flesh! Our Father has given us a mind that knows Who He is within us and a mind that knows we are no longer alone! The mind that God has given us fully understands that we have been crucified with Christ, and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us that lives, it is Christ within us Who lives! The mind that God gives us knows that He can do all things through us by the power of His Anointing that He has given us!

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

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

Is this blessing for now or is it for Heaven? Turn to Romans 6:6, “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin, for He that is dead is free from sin.” Now look at Colossians 3:3, “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” “If then ye be risen with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.” Colossians 3:1 “And hath raises us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:6

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

We Are Perfect & Glorified In One

"That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one. I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me." John 17:21-23

The glory that our Father gave to Jesus, the complete and perfect glory that God gave to Jesus, He has also given to us! Jesus didn’t give us part of His glory, not just some of His glory, He gave us all of His glory! Jesus gave us His exact same glory! We have been given the exact same glory as the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the King of Kings, the exact same glory that Jesus has, is now ours as well!

Not only do we have His glory, but as we studied earlier, Jesus is glorified in us. As if that is not powerful enough, look at what Jesus goes on to say; He says that we are perfect; we are perfect, because of our unity and oneness with God through Him. Glorified and perfect, that is what we are this day in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) 2 Corinthians 6:2

This is what the power of the Anointing of Christ has done for us, it has made us perfect. Look glory up in a concordance, and you will see that it means majesty, dignity, splendor, brightness, and an exalted state. Jesus prayed that God would glorify Him with all of these things, just as He was before He was manifested on this earth as a man, and then Jesus asked God to give the same glory to us! “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:” Ephesians 2:6 Today is the day that our Father has dignified us, today He has made us bright, we are now splendid through Him, and because of Jesus we are now majestic! We are all of these things by the power of Christ, so that the world will believe and be saved!

We so often try to raise God up by talking about how bad we are, we believe that this is being humble. O what a retched man I am, I am weak, I am so bad, I do this wrong, I do that wrong, but thank God He saved me. You ever notice how we will talk for 20 minutes about ourselves, then throw in a 10 second God reference at the end, and then say how humble we are? I get a kick out of it! Jesus said it so differently; Jesus said that He will glorify the Father by glorifying us, by giving us His Spirit, and by producing much fruit through us. Jesus said He will perfect us by making us one with God through Him! Our Father does not receive glory by us talking about how bad we are! He receives glory by being glorious through us! Jesus producing much fruit through us is what glorifies God, and God gave us the best He has, Jesus, to do it! And praise God, Jesus gave us His glory, His power, His faith, His Spirit, His love, and His magnificence to live in! He gave us all of Himself; He gave us His all! And because He has we are now glorious and His glory will never leave us or forsake us.

Why was it so important for Jesus to give us such glory and why does He make us perfect through our unity with Him? Jesus proclaims that He provides these things for us so that all of the world, all of the world mind you, may believe and accept that He is Lord and then receive the exact same things. Jesus provided our Father the way to Anoint us with Himself. Jesus shed His precious Blood, and now because of His sacrifice, our Father is able to be as powerful through us, as He is through Jesus, so that all of the world may believe and have the same thing! No one left out, no nationality, no income bracket, and no gender. We are unified and glorified with Jesus so that all may freely have the fullness of God dwelling within them this day. “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20

So many want to put off this glorified state until Jesus returns, but it is for us this day. We are to be glorified this day, so that the world may believe in Jesus and be saved. People may believe they are being humble by talking about how unworthy they are, how they are just humans, and how they could never measure up. But this message is not what will win the world. The world will be saved because we are all one, God in Jesus, Jesus is in God, and all believers one in them, then the world will believe and be saved. Also take notice of how we will be one, we will be one, and perfected in one, by being empowered with the Holy Spirit to accept and allow the glory that God gave to Jesus to be in us. Then we will be one, even as God and Jesus are one, perfect in the One! God does not receive glory by us demeaning ourselves; He receives glory by being glorious through us. Read John 17:21-23 and ask the Holy Ghost to reveal all of its power and glory to you! He is willing and able and God gives to all who ask!

“That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Romans 8:4 The Truth about our righteousness is this, everything that our Father required for us to be righteous, has been fulfilled for us by Jesus and the Anointing of the Holy Spirit. Jesus has given it all to us! If we continue to talk about our unworthiness, we are actually saying that our Father did not do this for us and we are drawing attention unto ourselves and not directing the attention towards Him. This is actually arrogance not humility! For us to truly be humble, we must accept these awesome Truths of our Father and allow Him to glorify us, so that He may be glorified through us! True humility knows that we can only do this because the Holy Spirit empowers us to accept and allow it.

The Truth is our Father doesn’t consider us to be unworthy, He considers us to be the vessels that He receives His glory through, and we are the ones that He desires to have eternal fellowship with! Our Father has made us righteous and He has glorified us with Himself, and no man and no thing is now able to take us out of His hands. Our Father has perfected us by allowing us to become one with Him, and the world will believe and they will know that He loves them, just as much as He loves Jesus! God has made us righteous, and the price was high, it required Jesus to go to the Cross and die. Now what do you think glorifies that act more, talking about what we have done or not done, or talking about what Jesus has done for us?

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

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

"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can you, except ye abide in Me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in Him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing." John 15:4-5

Father we thank you and praise You for giving us all of these Truths and we thank You for allowing us to be used to bring Jesus glory, by being fully glorified by You! Father it is You within us doing everything, and You turn right around and reward us for it! How awesome You are towards us! We praise You for giving us the Anointed Mind of Christ, so that we can actually know You and all that You are! Hallelujah and A-men!

Jesus Is Glorified In Us

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

Jesus is glorified in us! If that doesn’t get an A-men from the choir, than nothing will! Stop and really allow the glory of this Truth to be ministered to you by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit fully understands and fully comprehends the power of this Truth and He knows how to reveal it to us in all of its fullness! We are taught in church from the very beginning of our salvation to think of our Father's magnificence, His glory, His omnipotence, His miraculous power, His Throne, Heaven and how marvelous it is! We sing songs about Heaven; we dream about Heaven in all of its glory. We sing, “I’ll fly away O glory, I’ll fly away.” Yet as glorious as Heaven is, it is not where the King of Kings receives His glory. Jesus is glorified in you and He is glorified in me. Really grab hold of the fact that Jesus is glorified “in us!” To God we are the grandest place of all and in us He chooses to receive His praise and His glory. Even though this is what our Father has said, there are not many songs reflecting the magnificent Truth that Jesus receives His glory within us! We are that special to God; we are the vessels that glorify Him! We are a chosen generation and a royal priesthood, and we have been raised up together and have been made to sit together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior! We are joint-heirs with Jesus, the King of Kings, and in us is where He is glorified!

Jesus prayed in John 17:1 Amplified, …Father, the hour has come. Glorify and exalt and honor and magnify Your Son, so that Your Son may glorify and extol and honor and magnify You.” We should pray the exact same thing, because the only way that we will ever be able to boldly glorify and testify of God within this earth, is by God doing it through us. “That they all may be one, [just] as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me.” John 17:21 Amplified

Jesus glorified in us, think of what that means, and ask yourself how does it happen? How can the King of Kings be glorified in us, just mere human beings? Turn to John 15:8 Amplified. “When you bear (produce) much fruit, My Father is honored and glorified, and you show and prove yourselves to be true followers of Mine.” And how do we produce much fruit so that God can be glorified? "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can you, except ye abide in Me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in Him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing." John 15:4-5 Without Jesus empowering our lives our Father can never use us to produce His righteous fruit. But through the power of Christ, we now have the strength to be used by God for all things! With Jesus there are no limits and through His power within our lives God can be glorified by our every action, thought, and deed!

Jesus is glorified by us, because He is within us, He is abiding within us, and dwelling within us. We cannot bring glory to Jesus by ourselves or through our own actions. The only way we are able to bring glory to Jesus is by allowing Him to produce much fruit through us! The fruit that Jesus produces through us glorifies God, and by Jesus being able to do it through us brings glory to Him, and as He works through us, we are also glorified by it! The world will see and know that we are one with God through Christ. They will know that there is salvation because no man can produce Godly fruit on His own. The world will accept and believe on Jesus as Lord because of our unity and oneness with the Father, just as Jesus is one with the Father, and A-men the Harvest grows and multiplies! Satan loses and Jesus wins! And since we are now one with Jesus, we win to, and that brings glory to God! Jesus teaches us in Mark 16 that signs will follow us if we believe, the sick will be healed, devils will flee, we will speak in new tongues, and deadly things will not harm us, these are only possible because of our Father within us, He does the works! These are the works that the Vine produces through us and these are the works that bring glory to the Truth that Jesus now abides within man!

Jesus being glorified through us is what will end terrorism, this is what will cure cancer, stop abortion, defeat divorce, end violence, and bring about Godly change within our world! The fruit of Godly love, peace, joy, faith, hope, and patience, produced by Jesus within us; this is the fruit that brings glory! Too many Christians believe that this power of God working through us can only happen when it all ends and Jesus comes back for us. But I believe that the power of Christ has strengthened us so that our Father can now do all things through us! Jesus teaches us in John 17:21 that by our oneness with God through Him, is how the world will believe and be saved. Heaven and earth will pass away but the Truth that God can work through us completely and fully is eternal and its power is for right now. In Ephesians 5 God talks about the glorious church that Jesus is coming back for, a church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish. That is a church that Jesus is being glorified in, and that is the church for right now. Jesus in John 14:12 talks about God doing the works through us that He did through Him and that God will do even greater works through us than He did through Him; this is a Godly Truth for right now that will bring glory to Jesus.

Too many are putting off our glory to sometime in the future; which actually means they are putting off Jesus’ glory until sometime in the future! Jesus is to be glorified right now! Waiting until our future in Heaven is not how Jesus teaches that the world will believe and be saved. Jesus taught that the world will believe when we are one with Him, and when we are one with each other through Him! The world is hurting and they need the Truth that will set them free right now, because now is the day of salvation! Our Father working fully through us brings Jesus glory! Jesus is not coming back to save us from the ill’s and evils of the earth. He is coming back when the harvest is ready and the harvest is ready when the fruit is ripe! And praise His glorious Name that is when we are glorious through Him, without spot, wrinkle, and without any blemish! That is a much fruit producing church; that is the church that God receives glory from, because that is the church that He is fully working through! It’s not in Heaven that this occurs, it’s right now, it’s today, and it is all possible because of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, and He receives His glory by what He has allowed God to do through us because of His sacrifice!

We Abide In Jesus, So We Can Ask

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

In the previous posting we talked about putting our Father first, even before the Bible. Look at John 15:7, doesn't Jesus say the same thing? First Jesus tells us to abide in Him, and then He tells us that the Holy Spirit will allow the Word of God to abide in us. Jesus teaches us that if we do these two things, then we are able to ask what we will and it shall be done for us. Stop and think of the grandeur and glory of this Truth, "ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you." This Truth is so powerful and so far beyond what is typically thought by religion, that without Jesus and God’s Word abiding in us and us abiding in Them, we would think that this verse was a misquote or mistranslation. But it’s not, and we haven’t been given a spirit of fear that will shy away from this Truth.

“For God hath not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7

We have been strengthened with Christ and through the Anointing of our Father, we are able to know and accept all that Jesus has provided for us. And we are able to have peace and joy in believing and accepting it, as we abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit that is within us! “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” Romans 15:13

As we abide in Jesus, we are empowered and strengthened in His Anointing, which allows the Holy Ghost to teach us everything about the glory of our union with God! “But the Anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all things, and is Truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.” 1 John 2:27 When we see and understand who we are in Christ, we will see that asking for our will, actually means that we are asking for our Father's will. We don’t change God; He changes us. Human lusts and unfruitful desires are taken away from us when we are saved. Jesus is the refiners fire and the fullers soap that quickens our mortal bodies, Malachi 3:2. Our Father removes our stony heart and He replaces it with a heart of love that has been created in His image! “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 out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them.” Ezekiel 36:26-27

"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can you, except ye abide in Me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in Him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing." John 15:4-5

There is a Godly Truth and it is this: people who are empowered by the Spirit to spend time in the Word and in prayer, who abide in them, become bold! With what measure we meet it shall be measured unto us and whatsoever things we sow, that shall we reap! Find someone who has truly been empowered to have God indwell them, who is lead by Him in study and in prayer, and you’ll see someone who believes in asking and believes in asking for bold and powerful things. They will ask for salvation for those that the world has abandoned, they will ask for Jesus like moves of our Father in this world. They know who they are in Christ and Who He is in them. They know what salvation means! They know that by asking and bearing fruit glorifies God, and that is the desire of their heart, to bring glory to the One Who glorifies them.

Find someone who is offended at asking and you’ll see someone who spends their time elsewhere! With what measure we meet, it shall be measured unto us again! The Truth is really this, if we have truly accepted Jesus as Lord, then He will lead us into this lifestyle and we can’t help but to abide in Him and ask from Him. “He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His Name’s sake.” Psalm 23:3

Have you ever known a brother or sister in the Lord who continually talks about spending more time with God, yet it never really seems to come to pass? I have heard an awful lot of sermons that condemn people for this, especially when I was growing up. So many preachers and sermons place all of the responsibility on us and there is a great deal of condemnation associated with it, even though the Bible teaches us that there is no longer any condemnation for us. Romans 8:1, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”

Clearly something was missing and while I heard so much condemnation, I never really heard the answer preached. Here is the Truth and the answer for people like this: the reason people fail to walk in a mature relationship with God is because they are looking towards themselves to foster the relationship, and alone it will never happen. There will always be work, kids, whatever it is, and though the reasons will seem legitimate, they will always get in the way and they will always rob us of the fullness that our Father has for us. If we want to experience the unity available to us with God; if we want true unbroken and full fellowship with Him, and to experience the rich full life available to us through Christ, here is how it happens, we must look to God for all things! We must ask Him to lead us in every area of our lives and realize that without Him in every area it will never happen. “I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without Me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5 Without Jesus we can do nothing! If you aren’t studying enough, praying enough, fellowshipping enough, look to our Father for the power to carry out His will in your life, and ask Him to lead you and to guide you.

Ezekiel prophesied that our Father would lead us in the paths of righteousness by putting His Spirit within us. King David wrote songs about it, and Jesus proclaimed it. If we are trying to have a relationship with God based on our own human abilities, we will fail! If we look unto to Jesus to Author and Finish the faith needed to fellowship with our Father, we will succeed! There is no debate; only our Father can give us the desire, the will, the strength, the ability, the faith, and the hope of true mature fellowship. So if we want it, we just ask our Father for it, and it shall be done unto us!

When I was twenty-four, our Father told me to read the Bible three times through. I was by no means a reader, so He really lead me to look towards Him for the strength and ability to do what it was that He had asked me to do! God is the One Who led me to look to Him; I can take no credit for it at all. By the power of the Holy Spirit that is within me, I read from Genesis to Revelation three times, and it took just a little longer than six months. I had never read like that before; there was a power within me, greater than me, it was God!

When we pray, our Father is right here with us. When we need help with our jobs, our Father is right here with us, He is always with us! Our Father has really revealed to me the Truth that there is nothing too great or too small for Him and that He is a part of every action of our lives! I have learned that we are never alone and anything that He has asked us to do, whether a Biblical principle or a spoken Word, He is within us giving us the power, the will, the ability, the desire, the finances, the faith, and the hope to do it. Our Father never gives us a directive and then leaves us alone to solely accomplish it. Our Father never leaves us or forsakes us!

The Truth is that from the very second that we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to make Jesus our Lord and Savior, our Father is involved in every area of our lives. Actually the greater Truth is that He has always been involved in our live's, even before we were. We just grow up and realize it! And I pray that the Church realizes that we can ask our Father for everything, because we are one with Him and He has given us His Anointed Mind and that mind knows how and what to ask for. Our Father has given us His Word and we can clearly see what He desires for us! We have God’s Spirit, dwelling within us, crying out that we are worthy to ask and strengthening us to ask. Jesus was raised from the dead for our justification to ask. We are now strong in the power of our Father's might to ask. Faith comes from us hearing that we can ask and receive and receiving brings great joy to our Father as we are proven to be His disciples. “Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples.” John 15:8

The Keys Of Abundance In Christ

“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10

The first key to an abundant life is to know that it is the will of our Father that we have one! God is so concerned with us living abundantly that He sent Jesus so that we could. Just take a minute and consider all of the scriptures that talk about our Father's desires for us to have life abundantly. Virtually ever Book in the New Testament proclaims that through Christ we will be victorious as God works through us!

One of the first Truths that God ever shared with me is that He wants us to have abundance in our salvation. “Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.” Hebrews 7:25

Our Father also wants us to be abundantly healthy, as a loving Father should. “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” 3 John 1:2

Our Father wants our prayer lives to be abundant. “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:” Mathew 7:7

Our Father wants us to have the gifts of His Spirit abundantly as we wait for Jesus’ return. “So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 1:7-8

Our Father wants us to be abundantly prosperous in our finances so that we may be charitable and so that we may be self-sufficient. “And God is able to make all grace (every favor and earthly blessing) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation].” 2 Corinthians 9:8 Amplified Bible

Our Father wants us to have abundant knowledge and wisdom and He wants us to know all things. “But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.” 1 John 2:27

Our Father wants us to have abundant love. “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” Ephesians 3:17-19

And Finally our Father wants us to have an abundant relationship with Him. “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

These are only a few of the Truths of God, that show us clearly that it is the will of our Father that we have an abundant life. This week God has been dealing with me a lot concerning the fulfillment of His will within our lives. As I look around at most of us I don’t see abundance. I see bits and pieces of the greatness of God, but nothing near what these, and so many other verses have to say about our abundant lives in Christ. And this isn’t our Father's desire for us, Jesus came so that we might have life and have it more abundantly! God is not a man that He should lie and all Scripture has been given to us by His Divine Inspiration. So if our Father had it written, we should all be living it!

So here is what He has shared with me concerning us living in His abundance. “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Galatians 6:7 Whatsoever we sow is exactly what we are going to reap. And what does the Christian sow? “The sower soweth the Word.” Mark 4:14 The Truth of God is that what we sow is what we are going to reap and Jesus taught us that we are to sow the Word! Think about Jesus, He only spoke the Word of God, because He was the Word of God, and look at what He reaped. Jesus reaped abundance in everything. He knew God’s will for every area of His life. He was able to Heal the sick, raise the dead, preach the Gospel, perform miracles, and be raised from the dead Himself as King of Kings and Lord of Lords! “Whoever says he abides in Him ought [as a personal debt] to walk and conduct himself in the same way in which He walked and conducted Himself.” 1 John 2:6 Amplified Bible Jesus lived abundantly because He abundantly sowed the Word of God and the same holds true for us today. We have access to the fulness of God and the full abundance of God. Jesus told us to go into all of the world and preach the Gospel to every creature and whatsoever things we sow, that is what we are going to reap! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Holy Spirit will cause us to sow the Word abundantly.

Now we are talking abundance here. Most of us sow some Word and since we do, we reap some Word back, but through Christ we want and desire abundance! We want our Father to use us completely and we want to experience all that He has provided for us! “For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” Matthew 7:2 If we want the abundance of Christ, than the Truth of God is that we must abundantly sow His Word! This is the key that will bring abundance into all of our lives. This is the will of our Father for each and every one of us! And our Father will never leave us or forsake us, so He is right here with us always empowering us to live a lifestyle of abundantly sowing His Word. He does this so that we may always reap abundantly the blessings of His Word!

The yoke of our salvation is easy to be borne and it is pleasant. “For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good-not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne.” Matthew 11:30 Amplified Bible We now have the Holy Spirit teaching us all things and bringing all of the Words of God to our remembrance. “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26 So we are never alone in sowing our Father's Word! We always have God right here with us making it an easy and pleasant thing to do!

Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth will set us free! The Truth is that our Father wants us to have abundance in everything and our example is Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior! Jesus ever lives so that we may have the abundance of God to the uttermost and He has not given us a spirit of fear in accepting it! All things are now possible for us who love the Lord and God can now do all things through us because Christ has strengthened us! Greater is He that is now within us than he that is in the world and through Jesus we have been perfected, so that we may be the vessels of God’s righteousness. Be blessed this New Years Eve and may the abundance of our Father be all of ours from now and throughout all of eternity, as He leads us and Authors our faith into abundantly sowing His Truth to world!

We Are Now In Jesus And Jesus Is Now In Us

"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can you, except ye abide in Me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in Him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing." John 15:4-5

We now abide in Christ, which means we now dwell in Him, we live in Him, and we remain one with Him. And Jesus now dwells in, lives in, and remains one with us. Consider the branch of a vine, with the vine the branch is everything and without the vine it produces nothing and dies. The branch bears the fruit; the vine gives the branch the life and the ability to do so, and the branch can only bear the fruit of the vine that it is one with. The branch gives the vine life, energy, and purpose. A vine without any branches is worthless. Stop and think about that for a minute. Our Father created us in His own image, in order to have fellowship with us, to have companionship with us, and to love us and to be loved by us. The Word of God boldly proclaims that Jesus ever lives to make intercession for us, "Wherein He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him. Seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them." Hebrews 7:25 Jesus lives to serve us, as a vine lives to serve the branches that are united with it. Parents will know what I am saying here. Can God survive without us, absolutely He can, but that wasn’t His desire! His desire is to spend eternity with us and to have continual unbroken fellowship with us.

To have and enjoy a full and abundant life we need others to be part of our lives, and we are created in God's image; He too needs and wants us. He created us to have fellowship with. If it wasn’t God’s need and desire for fellowship with His own children, those created by Him in His Own likeness, why would He have done it in the first place? I love dogs, I have two of them, and I really enjoy their companionship, yet I need and eagerly desire to have other people in my life. My wife Beth, my kids, my friends, and my family, I need them to live abundantly. That’s just how God has created us, we need others. Put any of us on an island with no one else, and while we may survive, it would not be a desirous life, an abundant life, or a fulfilled life.

Our Father has angels and other created beings, but they are not created in His image as we are. I really believe that our Father needs us for true fellowship. Beth and I could have stopped at one child, but we desired more, and God graced us with the ability to have more. We love the fellowship that we have with our kids. We love experiencing the fellowship that Kennedy and Lauren have with each other; we love providing for them, teaching them, and protecting them, it’s part of an abundant life! There is something overwhelmingly comforting to know that God desires us and that we need Him. Sure God would continue to exist without us, but we are where He receives His glory. "And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine, and I am glorified in them." John 17:10 Never underestimate the joy and companionship, and satisfaction that we provide for our Father. I know it doesn’t sound religious to say God needs us for anything, but History sure has proven one thing, even at our worst, He continues to long for our fellowship! And even at our worst He has continually provided a way for it to occur! Our Father loves us and He will never leave or forsake us. “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” Hebrews 13:5

Together with Jesus we are unstoppable! We are now strong in the power of Jesus’ might and because of His Anointing, our Father can now do all things through us! “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.” Ephesians 6:10 Through the power of Christ that has been freely bestowed upon us there is now no sickness, no demon, no threat, no law, no politician, no court, and no special interest group that can stop us from being fully used by our Father. By abiding in Jesus and Jesus abiding in us, God will produce much glorious fruit through us! We are now in Jesus, and Jesus is in the Father, and Jesus is in us. We are members of His body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone!

We Are In Jesus Today

"At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you." John 14:20 (We shall know, confidence, fully assured, no man able to pluck it away from us, the Holy Spirit will cause us to know!)

There is no greater Truth that will empower the believer than the Truth that once we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus and make Him the Lord of our lives, that we actually become one with God through Him. This Truth will empower our obedience towards the Lord, it will strengthen and permit our abilities to serve, and it will allow us to be the children that God intended for us to be. Unity with our Father brings peace, joy, faith, hope, love, forgiveness, power, wisdom, knowledge, discernment, healings, and miracles, and all of them at Godly levels! Mere human abilities are diminished to obscurity by the presence of God! We no longer walk alone. It is no longer just up to us to try and be a good Christian, it is now by the power of God within us that we are able to be who we should be in Christ! Our Father is now within us and we are now in Him! He consumes us and every fiber of our being is united with God, the Creator of it all!

This is why Jesus went to the Cross, to enable us to become one with God, as He is one with God. “That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.” John 17:21

I will say it again, there is no greater Truth than the one we are about to study: we are now and forevermore one with Jesus, our Lord and Savior! He is in us and we are one with the Father through Him, and the Holy Spirit has been sent to dwell permanently within us. We now enjoy unity with the Father, we are born of Him, His Divine Sperm has conceived us. We are born again from His Divine and Incorruptible Seed! Jesus is in the Father and we are now in Jesus, and Jesus is now in us! We are now one with the Lord and as we will read, Jesus proclaims that we are perfected in One!

Our Father proclaims, through John, that we need no one to teach us, because through His Holy Spirit, He will teach us all things. "But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him." 1 John 2:27 This truth of our unity with God and with each other, can only be taught to us by the Holy Spirit. The magnificence of who we are in Christ and the unity that we enjoy with Him, and the power activated by that unity, will run contrary to most religious teaching. This is why we will use dozens upon dozens of verses to proclaim it. Yet without the Spirit of God revealing His Truth, they cannot be received and accepted! He is the One Who teaches us all things!

So often rely on a preacher, a tape series, a study guide such as this to teach us. But we have a Father Who has the time, the patience, the love, the wisdom, and the desire to teach us all things! I will write and share what He has taught and shared with me, and you will share with others what He has taught you, as we both should. But we should never place a preacher, a tape series, a church, or a book before our Father. Don’t even put the Bible before your one on one relationship with God. I love the written Word of God, it is Jesus, it is God, the Word written in the Bible was with God from the beginning of time and it will be with Him for all of eternity, but it is not all of Jesus. John writes in John 21:25 that all the books in the world could not contain the works of our Lord. Yet we have the complete and total Spirit of God dwelling within us, and He will teach us all things! Don’t ever neglect that precious time spent in fellowship with the Father. “Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all [manner of] prayer and entreaty. To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints (God's consecrated people).” Ephesians 6:18 Amplified Bible

We don't just have to read our Father's love letters and Truth’s to us, we can talk one on one with Him. As we read something or experience something, the Holy Ghost will expound upon it, just as Jesus expounded on it to the Disciples. The Holy Spirit will lead us through our everyday lives in constant and continual fellowship. I have two children, Kennedy and Lauren, and the greatest gift they can give me is their time and their attention. We have been strengthened with Christ, the Anointing of God, and He leads us in the paths of righteousness, and He leads us in our fellowship with the Father. This fellowship and unity gives us the strength, desire, and ability to fully study and walk in the Truth’s that the Bible holds.

"At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you." John 14:20 That day Jesus is referring to is the day when the Holy Ghost comes to dwell within us, I will not write out all of the verses here, but if you read all of John 14 you will see that is the Truth. What I want you to see here is that we will know that we are one with Christ. Make sure you know! I was so blessed when I was eleven to have a complete life changing experience that allowed me to know and I have never doubted it since. I know that this day is the day of my salvation and I know that Jesus is in me and that I am in Him. Too many of us don’t know and we live in a constant state of doubt and fear, fear of loosing our relationship with God, fear of not pleasing God, just plain fear that is contrary to faith. Fear brings torment and condemnation and these are contrary to the blessings of God. We do not have to live that way; God loves us completely, we can have complete assurance of who we are in Christ. And there is now therefore no condemnation to us who are in Christ Jesus, Romans 8:1!

Pray that all who read this study and all who you and I come in contact with will know that they are in Christ and that He is in them! I thank God that we are all vessels of His Anointing, that God uses us to be a great blessing in the lives of those whom we have contact with. I thank God that they see our unity with Him, that they see the Spirit in operation within us, and that they eagerly desire the same thing! When people receive a revelation of who they are in Christ and that He is actually dwelling within them, when they see the unity they possess with the Alpha and the Omega, the world and satan loose! The strength and assurance of God’s Truth consumes them, peace that passes understanding and unspeakable joy flow through and from their lives as never before, it is an awesome revelation that empowers the believer to be used by God to do His mighty works! Plain and simple it is the only way we will ever do any work of the Lord!

A Benefit of Salvation: Joy

“These things have I spoken unto you, that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.” John 15:11

What were the Words that Jesus spoke that would allow our joy to be full? And not just any joy either, Jesus’ spoke Words that would allow His joy, the joy of the Lord, which is our strength, to remain in us! Amen we now have the joy of the One Who was with God from the very beginning and Who is with Him right now, seated in power on the Throne with God. We now have the joy of the One Who knows the full power of God, the One Who was delivered out of Hades and Who has seen all that God has to offer and the One Who is One with it! We now have His joy remaining within us! Don’t just play that off, allow the Holy Ghost to reveal to you exactly what Jesus’ joy is and the power of it, and the Truth that His joy remains with us! Jesus’ joy doesn’t come and go, it remains with us; it never leaves us or forsakes us!

The First thing that Jesus spoke in John 15 that allows His joy to remain in us, is that He is the Vine and that our Father is our Gardener. Jesus taught us that our Father would prune every branch that was within Him that produced fruit, so that He could produce even more everlasting fruit through it. This is the first thing that brings us joy! When we are saved, our Father is right here with us, leading us into the paths of righteousness, so that He can produce more and more righteous fruit through us! As we are used by our Father to produce His fruit, through the power and abilities of Jesus Who is within us, we are continually strengthened to produce even more fruit. As we grow, the glories of our Father and the fruit of our Father will ever increase through us. The love of our Father will increase, the wisdom of our Father will increase, the peace of our Father, the strength of our Father, the gifts of our Father, the faith of our Father, everything of our Father will increase through us. Because He is right here with us, insuring that it does. our Father will take away all of the unnecessary things in our lives, as Jesus, our Vine, is giving us everything that pertains unto life and unto godliness! When we have been called and chosen to accept Jesus as Lord and have become one with Him we cannot help but to be used to produce much fruit.

“I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5 Jesus said we would produce much fruit, so we will produce much fruit! Jesus spoke this Truth so that our joy may be full as His joy remains within us!

The next thing that Jesus spoke, “If ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” John 15:7 Jesus is our Vine, and the Vine gives the branch its nutrients and its abilities to produce fruit; a branch is only able to bear what the vine that it is one with enables it to bear. A grape vine produces grapes, a pumpkin vine produces pumpkins, and the Jesus Vine produces much Godliness! Now we also have our Father as our Gardener and He is pruning away anything from our lives that would hinder the production of His fruit through us. Because of Jesus enabling us and God keeping us, we are able to keep this commandment of abiding in Him and His Word abiding within us. And if there is anything within us that is contrary to the will of God, anything at all that would hinder the production of His righteous fruit, our Father just prunes it out of us!

This Truth brings great joy to our lives, because our Father has placed the responsibility of us being fruitful on Himself. The battle is God’s and the victory is ours! What Jesus is saying is this: if we are truly saved we will produce fruit, and as we grow up in the Lord, we will continually produce more and more fruit! So ask and it shall be done unto you! How great is that, ask for salvation for others, God would that all men be saved, so ask for it! Ask that we may be able to be charitable unto every good work: spiritually, soulfully, and physically and look to Jesus to Author and Finish our faith; it will be done for you as you ask! Ask that our Father does the works through us that He did through Jesus and that He does even greater ones, and it shall be done unto us! Ask that we actually live in the Truth of taking no thought for our own lives and that we have the mind of Christ, and it will be done unto us! Ask and we shall receive because we now abide in Jesus, permanently sealed with the Holy Spirit as God keeps us until the Day of Jesus’ return!

Think about Jesus’ joy for a moment. He ever lives to intercede for us; Jesus lives so that we can be saved to the uttermost. This is Jesus’ purpose and this is His joy! Jesus’ life of service makes Him the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven and we now have His joy within us. We now have Jesus’ joy of serving, which allows our Father to produce much fruit through us. This glorifies God and as this allows our joy to be full. It’s better to give than receive, and giving is the only way that we are able to have full joy, so Jesus gave us His joy of giving! We have the ability to ask as Jesus asks, and receive as He receives! We have the ability to serve others as Jesus serves. Look in the Book of Acts, the believers had the gift of healing, just as Jesus had the gift, God performed miracles through them, as He did through Jesus. They had visions, prophecies, and they did many of the same works that Jesus did. Jesus never said that we wouldn’t do the things He did; He actually said that if we believe than we would. This is the joy that we now have within us! There is a joy in serving, and we have the joy of the greatest servant of all, Jesus!

Finally, Jesus says in John 15 that if we keep His commandments than we will abide in God’s love, as He abides in God’s love, and this is His commandment, that we love one another. Remember what Jesus proclaimed, that we could only produce fruit because of Him. Jesus knew that we must love, so be of full joy, because He is right here with us causing us to love. “But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.” 1 Thessalonians 4:9 We have Jesus as our Vine and His love flows through us allowing us to bear much fruit, and we have our Father pruning away anything that would hinder us from loving, and as we mature in Him, we love more and more and more! That is why we have full joy; because we can’t help but love! We are born of love; the Incorruptible Seed of God, Who is love, has bore us! We are one with love, the Temples of love, and member of loves body and of His flesh! We have the mind of love and the Spirit of love abides and remains within us. And if there is anything that isn’t love within us, God prunes it out! That is simply awesome Truth, Truth that brings full joy that remains in us!

“And now come I to Thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves.” John 17:13 What does Jesus say in John 17 that allows His joy to be fulfilled within us? Jesus says that He gave us His glory. Jesus says that we now have eternal life, and that we now know God. Jesus teaches us that our Father is the One Who now keeps us, that we are sanctified by His Truth, and that we are now one with Him. Jesus proclaims that we are perfect in our oneness with Him, so that the world will believe that He is Lord, and that God loves us just as He loves Him! Now because of these Truths, we have Jesus’ joy fulfilled within us. These Truths are awesome! The children of God should be joyous and we should be happy; a merry heart worketh good as a medicine! People should look at us and desire what we have, just as they looked at Jesus and desired what He had. Look at the crowds that followed Him, they were healed, they were fed, they had miracles performed all around them, it was a joy to be around Jesus! Little children would hang out with Him, they were around Him so much that some of His disciples actually rebuked them, and Jesus turned right around and rebuked the adults and told them to be more like the kids. Think about children, they are happy, they sing, dance, and tell bad jokes and just laugh. They come over and have no reason for it, other than to just hang out. This is how we should be; God has taken care of everything for us, to the point where Jesus says that we should take no thought for our own lives!

Christians shouldn’t be angry, constantly pointing out the faults of the world. We should be of good cheer, our Lord and Savior has overcome the world and He has robbed it of its power to harm us. We are now the salt of the earth; we are a light to be displayed on the top of the hill, a beacon of hope to all who see us. our Father has enabled and strengthened us, He has quickened our mortal bodies, so that we are now able to abide constantly within His love. He has perfected us in our unity with Him. He has glorified us with Himself, and we have an abundant life through Him. He has given us His peace that passes all understanding, and His peace now keeps our hearts and our minds, our Father has given us everything, everything, that pertains unto life and unto Godliness!

“According as His Divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue; Whereby are given unto us great and precious promises: that by these ye may be partakers of the Divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in this world through lust.” 2 Peter 1:3-4

We now have Jesus’ joy, because we are now partakers of His Divine nature. We have Jesus’ joy because we have escaped the corruption that is within the world, and we have been called to glory and virtue through the power of our Savior Jesus Christ! Wow! “Thou shew me the path of life: in Thy presence is fullness of joy; at they right hand are pleasures evermore.” Psalm 16:11

"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." Romans 15:13 The same holds true for us today, may our Father fill us with the joy of believing all that we have studied and all that we will study, may He cause us to abound in hope through the power of His Holy Spirit, A-men!

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!

A Benefit of Salvation: Health

“Who His Own self bare our sins in His Own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness, by Whose stripes ye were healed.” 1 Peter 2:24

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

Let me ask you this as well, did that mother, whose son had died, come to Jesus and ask for a miracle? Did her son ask to be raised from the dead? No, Jesus was just walking by and He had compassion and acted on His compassion. Look at John 5:5-9. “And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, He saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool; but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Arise, take up thy bed and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked: and on the same day was the Sabbath.”

This lame man at the Pool of Bethesda showed no faith whatsoever; he only had doubt and when Jesus asked him if he wanted to be whole, he said that he couldn’t be, because someone else would beat him to it. Did this man’s complete lack of faith stop Jesus? Absolutely not! Jesus just told him to be whole and he was. There are a lot of people that will try to tell you that your healing depends solely on our faith, or our ability to believe that we can be. Well here are two examples where there was none and yet there were healings! Faith can play a role in healings, Jesus told the woman with an issue of blood, Luke 8:43, that her faith had made her whole. But grace and compassion are a huge part of our Father's personality and our Father is not limited!

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

Jesus healed so many people during His earthly ministry that when they couldn’t get to Him with the sick they literally ripped the roofs off where He was, so that they could get to Him, Mark 2:4. We can’t read the Gospels and ever come up with the conclusion that our Father wants us sick; it’s just not the Truth! Not once does Jesus say that He wants someone sick. He never says that He has allowed sickness on a person to teach them a Truth about God, nor does He ever deny to heal anyone. Jesus never said that He couldn’t heal because it was our Father's will for them to be sick! Everywhere that Jesus went He healed, whether they could accept it or not! Even in His hometown where He marveled at their unbelief, the Word says Jesus healed! Now Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He changes not. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and forever.” Hebrews 13:8 So if God acted that way through Jesus 2000 years ago, He is the same way today. If He was healing the sick back then, He is healing them today, He ever lives to intercede for us and that is why we are saved, and healed to the uttermost! By Jesus’ stripes we are healed!

Ask yourself this, when does the Word of God say that we were healed? Our Father had Peter write that it was when Jesus went to the Cross. Now God just didn’t have Peter write this, He also had Isaiah write it hundreds of years before Jesus was born. “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5 Hundreds of years before it happened; God was talking as if it already did.

I have heard it said that our Father allows sickness on us so that we can minister to those who are sick. That’s just foolish, do I need to be gay to minister to a homosexual? Do I need to be convicted of a crime to minister to those in jail? Do I need to murder to minister to a murderer? Let’s say I have had a cold, does that qualify me then to minister to someone with cancer? And what if I have had a curable cancer, does that then give me the ability to minister to those with terminal cancer? It’s absolutely foolish to think this way, but many do. The scripture teaches us that we can minister because we have the Holy Ghost abiding within us teaching us all things. We need not to have endured the specific situation to minister to the person who is in it. We have God; we have His Spirit dwelling within us, and that is what gives us the ability to minister to each and every need! We are born of God; we are of His seed. We are born of the same seed that bore Jesus; we have the same Spirit within us that God gave to Jesus, the Holy Spirit. Did Jesus need to have leprosy to minister to the lepers? Did Jesus need to die to raise the dead? Did Jesus need to sin to minister to the sinners? Well, how did He do it, how did He minister if He had not suffered all of these things? He did it because God’s Truth ministers to all situations and the gifts of God minister to the needs of the people! We have God within us and He knows how to use us to minister to each and every situation!

What are the gifts of God that allows Him to use us to minister and profit those in need? “And there are distinctive varieties of operation [of working to accomplish things], but it is the same God Who inspires and energizes them all in all. But to each one is given the manifestation of the [Holy] Spirit [the evidence, the spiritual illumination of the Spirit] for good and profit. To one is given in and through the [Holy] Spirit [the power to speak] a message of wisdom, and to another [the power to express] a word of knowledge and understanding according to the same Holy Spirit. To another [wonder working] faith by the same [Holy] Spirit, to another the extraordinary powers of healing by the one Spirit; To another the working of miracles, to another prophetic insight (the gift of interpreting the Divine will and purpose); to another the ability to discern and distinguish between [the utterances of true] spirits [and false ones]; to another various kinds of [unknown] tongues, to another the ability to interpret [such] tongues.” 1 Corinthians 12:5-10 Amplified Bible

Our Father never says there is a gift of sickness! There is no gift of disease to educate or allow us to minister, but there is a gift to heal! These are the gifts to profit and the gifts that do good, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and sickness and disease are not one of them!

God’s desire for us is to be in health and for us to be prospering, 3 John 3:2. It is an absolute lie of satan to think anything else! Jesus paid a high price so that we could live righteously and so that we could have health. Salvation means health, it is one of the greatest earthly benefits of salvation. Jesus went about healing all who were sick, and He even gave His disciples the power to do the same. We read that when the Holy Ghost came to dwell in man, one of the results was healing. Jesus marveled when people refused it. Never once do we read anything that remotely resembles a desire or willingness of Jesus for us to be sick. If it were true that sickness was to be used as a teaching or strengthening tool of God, don’t you think there would be a least one chapter in the Gospels that taught about Jesus releasing sickness on someone? I hear it all of the time in Church that sickness is allowed on us by God to teach us to minster to the sick, if it were that true, don’t you think we would read plainly about it being so in the Word? But it’s not in there, the Word proclaims that by His stripes we are healed, He came that we might have life and that we might have it abundantly! Our darkness is as the noonday and glory be to God we are His Temple, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone! Salvation means health, and now is the day of salvation!

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

The Bible teaches us that as God is, so are we on this earth, 1 John 4:17, is our Father sick, can He be sick, does He need to be sick to minister to us? Our Father proclaims that if we are saved than sickness will not even come near where we dwell. “Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.” Psalm 91:9-10 Is God lying here? Did God lie when He said that by Jesus’ stripes we were healed? Did Jesus respect those people He ministered to some 2000 years ago more than He does us? Jesus said it was better that He went away, because if He went away then the Holy Ghost would come. So shouldn’t healing and health be even more prevalent within us, for it to be better for us?

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

Go and read how Jesus healed the Centurions servant, how He healed Peters mother-in-law, how He healed the ten lepers, the man with the withered hand, and the little girl that had died. Read about Lazarus, read how the Apostles would walk by and people were instantly healed, read how Paul anointed handkerchiefs and the people who touched them were healed. Go and read how Paul was preaching and a guy fell to his death during the sermon, and how Paul went down and raised Him from the dead, and went on preaching until morning. Go read how Paul was stoned and taken out of the city, and was raised from the dead. Read all of these and allow God to reveal to you that salvation means health, Godly Health, abundant health, more than needed health, health in excess, and uncommon health! Jesus is Lord and He is a Lord of abundance!

Our Father Leads Us In All Truth

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

“And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” John 8:32 We shall know all of the Truth of God, because our Father will guide us into all of His Truth and His Truth shall make us free! Our Father is not limited by our humanity or by our flesh. Our Father loves us so much that He gave us His Holy Spirit and through Him, God is able to guide us into all Truth. The Holy Ghost will take each and every last thing that our Father has given to Jesus and He will reveal it all to us, and through His Truth, we shall be free!

The Holy Spirit will strengthen us to accept the Truth and the eternal power that is within it! He will go to God and advocate on our behalf and He will empower us to actually live in the fullness of God’s Truth! The Holy Spirit will teach us and strengthen us in the Truth of God’s love and through the power of Christ within us, we will love as Jesus loves! The love of God will set us free and it will cast out all fear from within us! The Holy Ghost, the very Spirit of God, shall teach us of the abundance of God. He will take all that Jesus is and reveal it to us and through the power of the Holy Spirit we shall know our Father, as Jesus knows our Father, and we shall be free! The Holy Ghost shall teach us to be used by God in the ministering of His spiritual gifts, as Jesus was used by God in the ministering of His spiritual gifts, and we shall be free. The Holy Ghost shall teach us to pray, to witness, to forgive, to hope, to love, to live, and to live abundantly in every area of our lives, spirit, soul, and body, as Jesus lives abundantly, and we shall be free, free as Jesus is free!

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

Our Father's ways are higher than mans ways, this is the Truth; God knows this Truth, so He gave Himself to us to guide us in all of His Truth, so His ways can now be our ways as well! “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, Whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26

There is absolutely nothing that our Father does not know and He gave us the Holy Ghost to teach us everything! Our relationship with our Father, Who is God, is so complete and so intimate that He proclaims, “But the anointing which ye received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is Truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.” 1 John 2:27 Our Father has provided a way for us to know all of His Truth, even if we never have a Bible! Even if we were cast out on an island with no other human being around, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we could still be taught everything and know everything and be free! Once we are empowered to say yes to Jesus, we are never alone again; He will never leave us or forsake us. Jesus leads us in the paths of righteousness and A-men, He knows the way! Our Father knows how to teach each one of us, what may be needed for me, may not be needed for you. Our Father deals with each of us individually, as He leads us into all of His Truths that set us free!

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

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

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

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

"So faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God." Romans 10:17 "Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of things we hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality. Hebrews 11:1 Amplified Bible And praise God, “Looking unto Jesus the Authorer and Finisher of our faith,” Hebrews 12:2. We have been given the Holy Ghost to teach us all things; we have Jesus Who allows us to have the faith to diligently seek God, and be rewarded because of it, and we have God’s Word on it. It’s finished! Greater is He that is within us, than he that is in the world and God can now do all things through us by Christ Who has strengthened us!