We Have Peace In Believing, So We May Abound In Hope

“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

God has given us His very Own Spirit to empower us to believe all of His Truth and in believing we will have peace, just as Jesus has peace in God’s Truth. Jesus isn’t fretting about anything, all of His needs are met, and we too are empowered with the Holy Spirit to have Jesus’ lively hope in the Truth! Yet we don’t just hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit that is within us we abound in God’s hope! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, and we have been given the Holy Ghost, so that we may abound in God’s hope, so praise be to God we may abound in His faith! And to insure that we do, we have God’s very Spirit within us! Jesus taught us that if we have faith the size of a grain of mustard seed, that we could tell a mountain to move and it would obey us. It doesn’t take a lot of faith to be powerful. And God has given us all of Himself, so that Jesus may empower us to abound in His Own faith; which is far greater than the size of a mustard seed! God is a God of hope and God’s hope for us is that we abound in His hope. And to insure that we do abound in His hope, God has filled us with all peace and with all joy! Faith comes from hearing the Word of God, so you bet ya; I am going to desire and allow God to preach it through me! I need this Truth, life in this world without Jesus is ruff, and eternity is hell! But through the power of Jesus in our lives we now have lively hope and hope brings powerful faith and faith brings abundant life results!

Through Christ We Can't Help But Have Hope

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” 1 Peter 1:3

Think about Jesus’ hope and think about exactly what it means. Jesus hoped that He would be able to be offered on the Cross, so that we might be saved and have eternal life. His hope was that we might have life and that we might have it abundantly. Jesus hoped that by His stripes we would be healed. God had not done any of these things through man before Jesus went to the Cross, He had only spoken of them, and Jesus had hope that they would be. He had the hope that God would strengthen Him so that He could accomplish all that He was to accomplish, and this hope that Jesus had, came only from hearing God’s Word about it! “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Romans 10:17 This is what and Who we are born of; this is now our hope. The same force within Jesus, the force of hope that allowed Him to come as a man and die on the Cross, is the force of hope that God has given to us. Jesus was able to hope and thus He was able to walk in faith, and faith produced the miraculous works that God did through Him to serve others, and faith allowed Jesus to endure the Cross, which served us all! This same lively hope has been born into you and I! Now stop and actually allow the Holy Spirit to minister to you and strengthen you in the power of this Truth!

When people think of Jesus, they tend to put His hope, His faith, His attitude, and His works in an unattainable category, as if Jesus was the only one that could ever do them. We do this because Jesus is our Lord and Savior, He is our Head, and we believe that by doing so is a way to worship Him. But that’s not what Jesus came to do. Jesus didn’t come to show us that He was superior to us, even though He is! He came to show us and to empower us to live as God desires for us to live, just as He lives. Jesus came to show us that we could have hope as He has hope, that we could have faith, as He has faith, and that God could do His works through us, just as God does through Him. Jesus came to tell us that God could even do greater works through us because He has gone to the Father. That is why God had it written that Jesus Authors and Finishes our faith, that He is the one that gives us hope, and that He is the One performing the works through us. Jesus is Sovereign, He is our Lord, and our sovereign Lord gave us all that He has, so that we could live as He lives. Jesus is hope, and He is faith, and He is love, and He is power, and we are now and forevermore one with Him. “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17 Jesus is a being of hope, and as He is, so are we in this world! We truly worship Him and we truly please God by allowing God to live within us, as He lives within Jesus! We can’t help but be filled with hope; it’s how God has made us!

A Benefit Of Slavation: Hope

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” 1 Peter 1:3

When we were born again one of the greatest attributes that our Father bore into us was a lively hope. Christians are able to hope when the world is unable to even think of hope. When the world has no answers, Christians have hope, and the lively hope that has been born into us is the power behind our faith.

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1

As we have studied, Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith; so Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit is the One Who is Authoring and empowering us to continue in our Father's lively hope. Christians are able to have hope when there seems to be no hope, and the reason that we are able to have such hope, is because we have not been given a spirit of fear.

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

Through Christ we have been given a spirit of peace, love, power, and a sound mind. Now do these attributes sound like anyone that we may know? Jesus has all of these things in abundance and He is now within us Authoring our faith, which has its beginnings in the lively hope that our Father has born into us! Our Father is all of these things. He is the fullness of all of these attributes and He has chosen us and He has birthed us from His Divine Incorruptible Seed. When our Father created us, He created us in His image. He breathed life into us and that life came directly from His life. Our Father didn’t conjure up a different life force for us; He gave us His Own life force, just as He gave it to Jesus. Jesus doesn’t fear, He doesn’t fear failure; He doesn’t fear death, He doesn’t fear sickness, and He doesn’t fear what people think of Him. Jesus has no fear! What He does have is absolute trust; absolute trust in what God has spoken will be done. Absolute Trust that God is willing and able to complete all of the promises that He has proclaimed! Think about when Jesus was manifested as a man, the things that our Father was going to do through Him had just been spoken of, and that was enough for Jesus! Just our Father speaking it gave Jesus complete trust and faith that it would be done and we now have Jesus’ mind, and we now have His Spirit, and we are now members of His body!

The Power Of Hearing God's Word

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

The Word of our Father clearly tells us that we now have Jesus’ actual faith working within us. The Bible teaches us that our Father has given the measure of faith and the Bible teaches that Jesus Authors and Finishes our faith. So if we have been chosen by God and have been empowered with His Holy Spirit to make Jesus the Lord of our lives, we have the ability to believe that our Father is and that He will reward us for diligently seeking Him.  We are now empowered to believe just as Jesus believes that God is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him! Our Father has seen to it through Christ. Our Father has empowered us to be used by Him to do all things!

Everywhere we turn in the Word, we see that God is the One doing His works of righteousness through us, and since He is, we then are able to fully enjoy the benefits of righteousness! There is now no condemnation for us who are in Christ Jesus! Do you see why? There is now no condemnation because our Father has placed the responsibility of faith on Himself and not on us. Our Father is the One Who will guide us into a faithful life, and our Father is the One Who will prune anything out of us that needs pruning. He does this so that He can continually produce more and more fruit through us.

 Jesus is our Refiners Fire and our Fullers Soap! So if there is anything within us that would hinder our faith, Jesus burns it out of us and cleans us with His pure water. Jesus is our Shepherd; He leads us right to where we need to be, to walk in His faith. Jesus is our Vine; He is continually providing the very life giving powers that allow us to be all that God has made us to be. We have it all with God and our Savior Jesus Christ, there is nothing lacking for us, and because of Jesus, we are fully pleasing to our Father. We are God’s children; there is absolutely nothing that He has, that He hasn’t given us through Jesus our Lord and Savior! Faith to serve Him, faith to serve others, faith to love, faith to move a mountain, faith to heal the sick, faith that freely receives and freely gives. We now have and enjoy Jesus' very faith to know beyond any shadow of a doubt that we are God’s kids. We are complete in Jesus, the Firstborn among many brethren! Our Father has given us the faith to live as Jesus lives. We  know that it is our Father, Who is God, within us, doing His works!

Jesus Empowers Us With His Own Faith

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” John 5:24

From the very second that we are chosen by God and empowered by the Holy Spirit to make Jesus our Lord we have eternal life; we have an abundant life, and we have a life that is filled with the fruits of the Spirit and a life that is filled with the very presence of God. We have passed from death unto life, we have passed unto an abundant life in Christ, a life where God is the provider of everything that pertains unto life and unto holiness! Through Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit we now have faith in these Truths, so God is pleased, and we are eternally justified!

Now here is the really awesome Truth of the power of our salvation, we don’t come up with this faith on our own to believe that God is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. Nope, Jesus gives us the faith to believe these things! “Looking unto Jesus the Authorer and Finisher of our faith; Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the Cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2 How great is that? To please God we need to have faith; Jesus knows this, so He Authors and He Finishes our faith, so that we can be pleasing to God! There is nothing that God has not provided with our salvation. Jesus knows the rewards of God. He knows what a life filled with God can be, and we have Him right here with us, insuring that we can know and live these Truths as well. Jesus completely knows the power of God, the will of God, and the desires of God and He has complete and total faith concerning them, and Jesus now Authors and Finishes our faith!

Faith is not a human ability to believe the promises of God, faith is Jesus’ ability working through humans to accept and believe God’s promises. And there is not one believer who lacks faith, not one, that’s why we cannot boast! “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.” Romans 12:3 “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

How awesome are those two verses? We don’t have to take any thought about having enough faith, God has given us the measure of faith to believe and we now live with the power of Jesus’ faith to believe. We haven’t just been given the ability to believe, we have been given Jesus’ ability to believe! Man that is good Truth! Jesus Authors and Finishes our faith, and He doesn’t write a different faith book for each of us. Jesus gives us the One that was written by God for Him, and we now live by Jesus’ faith. Jesus isn’t stumbling when God says all, He doesn’t stumble over a spiritual gift like tongues. Jesus completely and totally understands God and He places within us His ability to believe in all of God’s Truths!

Faith Justifies Us

“He staggered not at the promises of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that what He had promised, He was also able to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.” Romans 4:20-25

Abraham was a hundred years old and his wife Sarah was about ninety years old when they were promised a son. Our Father not only promised them a son, He promised Abraham that He would establish His Covenant through that son. Abraham staggered not at what our Father had promised him. Abraham believed God was willing and he believed that God was able to do what He had promised them. Abraham believed that our Father would reward him for it to and since Abraham did believe, our Father justified him with His covenant!

There is another important Truth here and it is this: our Father did what it would take for Abraham to believe. Our Father actually came down and ate with Abraham. He didn't just show Abraham a dream, He came and allowed Abraham to see His power and our Father exerted His influence on Abraham. Our Father gave Abraham His grace so that he could believe.

“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:” Romans 5:1

We are now justified by Christ and we are now empowered by the Holy Spirit to believe in God. We now have Jesus Authoring and Finishing our Faith, Hebrews 12:2, so that we may be justified in believing that we will be rewarded for doing so. We are rewarded just as Abraham was justified and counted as righteous for believing in the promises of God.

So when will we receive our reward and justification from God? Is our reward reserved for us in Heaven, waiting on us for when we arrive there, or is our reward to be enjoyed right now, on this earth, or is it both?

“(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

Our Father proclaims that now is the time of our reward and justification, as well as in the future! Once we are chosen by our Father and empowered by the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus, we have peace with God. We are rewarded from that point on, right now and forever more! Abraham had Isaac, the son that God had promised him while on the earth; the Covenant that God created with Abraham came into existence on this earth. Abraham didn’t have to wait until Heaven to receive these rewards and we don’t have to wait for the promises of God to be realized and lived. Heaven will be great, it will be better than the earth, and our eternity with God in the New Heaven and new Earth will be stunning! But we have great and precious promises for our lives right now and to please our Father we have been empowered to believe that we have both! What faith Authored and Finished by Jesus really allows us to believe is that our Father is every bit as much a force in our lives right now as He will be in Eternity! This Truth is what Jesus now Authors and Finishes within us, because this is the Truth that He lives in, and we are now one with Him! We enjoy the blessings of God that Jesus enjoys!

What Faith Is

“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

It is impossible for us to please our Father without faith, now here is the question, what exactly is faith? According to the Word of God, faith is believing that God is and believing that God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him! Now a lot of people believe in God, just go and ask them. But when was the last time you heard it preached, that to please our Father, you also had to expect that He would reward you for seeking Him. Well, if we want to please our Father, according to His Word, we have to have both, and that is the glory of our salvation, our Father wants us to have both! Our Father wants a relationship with us and He also wants us to be rewarded with all that He has because of that relationship.

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

Faith that is pleasing to our Father accepts this Truth! And our faith is now Authored and Finished by Jesus Himself. The faith that Jesus empowers us with doesn’t stumble at the blessings of God, blessings such as an abundant life; love, health, peace, joy, hope, wisdom, knowledge, spiritual gifts, and sanctification. The faith that we have been blessed with now diligently seeks out these promises of God. Our faith knows that we have been chosen by God and our faith knows that now is the time of our salvation through Jesus Christ. Our faith authored by Jesus knows that all of the blessings and powers of our Father are for us right now through His Anointing! Our faith is all of these things, because our faith is Jesus’ faith! Jesus is now our head, we are now His body, we now have His mind, and He now Authors and Finishes our ability to believe that God is and that He is a rewarder of those who are empowered to diligently seek Him.

Never be ashamed or afraid of wanting everything that our Father has. Actually we should eagerly desire everything and believe that our Father will reward us for doing so. This is the spirit that has been born into us, a spirit of hope, faith, peace, and a sound mind. We have not been given a spirit that fears the promises of God, but one that diligently seeks them! The Holy Spirit of God Who now dwells within us. The Holy Spirit now strengthens us and He now comforts us. He also now teaches us all of our Father's Truths. The Holy Spirit believes that God is willing to give us everything and He believes that God is able to give us everything. Through Christ we are now God’s children. We are now joint-heirs with Jesus and our Father has created us in His own image, so that we can have fellowship with Him. Our Father has strengthened us with His Anointing, so that just as Jesus has fellowship with Him, so can we. Our Father has accomplished everything needed for us to be eternally in perfect fellowship with Him! This is the abundant life that Jesus came for us to have and this is eternal life!

God's Love Is Abundantly Within Us

“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” Romans 5:5

The love of God, His very Own love that He has placed within our hearts, allows us to never be ashamed. The love of God allows us to abound in hope. The Truth that sets us free and allows us to have life abundantly is that we have God’s love shed abroad in our hearts by the very Spirit of God. And nothing will ever separate us from God’s love. “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” Romans 8:35

“Nay, in all things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:37-39 Wow, nothing, absolutely nothing can separate us from our Lord and the love of our Father, Who just happens to be God! Nothing present and we are in the present, no creature can and we are creatures, not life, and we are life, do you see where I am going? Once we are truly saved, even our own stupidity can’t separate us from Christ. As we need it, God will prune out anything that is contrary to His Truth, and if it needs to be burned out of us, than Jesus is our refiner’s fire and our fuller’s soap! Once we are chosen by God and empowered by the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus, than there is nothing that can ever separate us, including ourselves, because we are no longer our own, that can separate us from Love. God and Jesus are Love, and nothing will separate us from Them! This is such a great gift of salvation; nothing will ever separate us from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I hear people say that they can walk away from God, well that’s kind of hard when God said that He would never leave us! Can we walk away from Omnipotence? Now that is peace, perfect peace, that passes all understanding, and that is perfect love that casts out all fear and all torment. We have been baptized with the Holy Spirit and through Him we know who we are, and we know where we are going, and nothing can separate us from it, including ourselves!

God is love, and we are born of Him, through Christ we are one with Him, we now have His Spirit, and we now have His mind. So when we are chosen and empowered to say yes to Jesus Christ and make Him the Lord of our lives, we too become love! And love is not selfish, it is giving, its kind, its helpful, its powerful, full of faith and hope, and love passes knowledge! This is who we are in Christ Jesus and this is why salvation is so great! Through Christ we can’t help but love!

We Are Empowered With God's Love

“(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)” 2 Corinthians 10:4

To bring down the strongholds of this world that are against us, we are empowered by God Himself to use the weapons of His warfare, and God’s weapons are spiritual, they are not carnal, and God’s weapons are mighty! God has empowered us with His Holy Spirit and God’s weapons are grace, kindness, prayer, charity, faith, hope, Truth, and love! The Holy Spirit uses us to bind the things that are contrary to God’s Truths with the power of the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Name that has been given us, the Name above every Name! We speak the Word of God through the strength of the Holy Spirit that is within us, and the Word is the sharp two-edged sword of God. God uses His greatest weapon through us, His love. He uses the love that Jesus gave us, His perfect love that casts out fear! As our Father is in Heaven, so is He in this world! We love, even when people are against us! “But God, Who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)” Ephesians 2:4-5

It can be preached that we have to love, and that is the Truth, we do have to love! But that is not the complete Truth of God, the Truth of God that will set us free. The complete Truth is this, we can’t help but love, because we are born of it, the only reason we are born again is because of God’s love for us. Love is the seed that we come from. Through Christ we are now one with Love! “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” 1 John 4:16 Jesus is now our Head, He is our Vine, we are His body, we are filled with the Holy Spirit, and since we are, we have Jesus’ characteristics; we love all, even when they hate us. We love those who love us and we love those who hate us, just as Jesus loves! Jesus was on the Cross, they were brutally killing Him, and He cried out for their forgiveness! This is the love that is now within us! This is Who we are born again from and this is Who now abides within us, this is the Holy Spirit that we now have strengthening us and teaching us. Love is not just born into us, it is what we have been born of! God has given us a new heart and a new mind that are capable of operating in His perfect love, and He has placed His very Spirit within us that causes us to walk in His love. That is one of the greatest powers of salvation, we cannot help but to just love, and there is no fear in love. We know God loves us and nothing that the world can do to us will take us out of Love’s hand, we are sealed with it, we are one with it, and we are Love’s Temple! God is Love, and we are more than conquerors through Love. Love leads us into the paths of righteousness, we are new creatures in Love, old things are past away and all things have become new for us. Love is now our Shepherd, and Love is for us, so who can be against us? It can be preached that we have to love, but if we don’t preach that through Christ we can’t help but love, than we haven’t preached the Truth that sets us free!

A Benefit Of Salvation; Love That Casts Out All Fear

100% of the tribulation in this world comes directly from fear. Think about what brings on the torment of tribulation: fear of disease, fear of finances, fear of crime, or fear of failure. Fear causes dictators to kill those who disagree with them. Fear allows people to allow a dictator to gain power in the first place! Fear of failure or being out done causes businessmen to lie and cheat. Fear of getting old causes people to spend millions of dollars needlessly on changing themselves. Fear of not keeping up with the neighbor’s cause’s people to go into debt. Fear of reality causes people to become dependent on drugs and alcohol. There is fear that the world will be devastated if someone is elected who isn’t from a certain political party. Every tribulation has its beginning in fear, and the media and satan play on it all day long! Fear has torment and fear is of the world, it is not of God! God uses His Truth and His Holy Spirit to teach us, He does not use fear!

So what do we do for those who use fear, such as the media, who use fear to sell their wares, which according to Jesus is a very dangerous thing to do! “And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe on Me, it is better for them that a millstone were hanged around his neck, and he were cast into the sea.” Mark 9:42 We don’t hate these people, or lash out against them, we do not use condemnation, just as God does not use condemnation against us, Romans 8:1. We don’t go and create our own media whose sole purpose is to point out the faults of those who are living in the world, or try and use fear of what fear can do to stop people from listening to them! What we do is love them; we love them as God loves Jesus! We pray for them, as Jesus taught us to do, and we ever live to intercede for them in a never ending hope of their salvation! “But I say unto you which hear, love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.” Luke 6:27-28 Whatsoever thing a man soweth, that shall he reap, and through the power of the Holy Spirit that is within us we love those who hate us, we bless those that curse us, and if our enemy hungers we feed him! We sow these things because they have first been sowed into our hearts by God, and we reap the harvest of being used by God to further the glorious Kingdom that we have now become one with!

The Power Of God's Love

“And I have declared unto them Thy Name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith Thou hast love Me may be in them and I in them.” John 17:26

Jesus taught us that in the world there will be tribulations, just turn on the news or pick up a newspaper and you will see that He knew what He was talking about. But Jesus also told us to be of good cheer, because He has overcome the world for us! Jesus has robbed the evil that is in the world of all its power over us, it can no longer harm us, or move us off of our firm foundation of Truth that has set us free! “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 Jesus came and declared God’s Name unto us, and He continues to do so today, and because of the Truth that He gives, we now have love, and not just any love, we have been given the ultimate love, the love that God has for Jesus. This is the love that now abides within us! Remember what Jesus said: that He will continue to declare God’s Name unto us so that we will eternally have love. Jesus ever lives to intercede for us; He is right here with us, He never leaves us or forsakes us!

God’s love for Jesus, the love that Jesus has given to us, is perfect love and God’s perfect love casts out all fear. “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 Jesus gave us the perfect love of God and that love casts out fear! Notice that it’s God’s love that casts out fear. God is the One Who is doing it, He has not left us alone to just use His love to cast out fear, He is right here with us, never leaving us or forsaking us! God does not leave us on our own to love! To become perfect in love does not mean that we will be the ones doing the works; it means that God is the One Who will be doing the works through us, just like it was God in Jesus doing the works. “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father in Me, He doeth the works.” John 14:10 Now if you go on to verse 11, Jesus teaches that it is by the works of the Father that we can believe. If it was just you and I using God’s love, we would fail all of the time! But it’s not us, it’s God in us doing His works through us, and God never fails, and that is why people can believe. People can see God within us, and that is what will bring the hope of an abundant life, a life without fear, and a life of perfect salvation!

The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit: Part VII

“And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.” Acts 9:17

Jesus visited Paul on the road to Damascus. During that visit Paul was chosen by God and he believed and had accepted God’s calling. But Paul had not received the baptism of the Holy Spirit until God sent Ananias unto Him, and as soon as Ananias was used to lay his hands on Paul, the baptism occurred! Also as soon as the baptism of the Holy Spirit occurred Paul received back his sight that he had lost as a result of seeing Jesus! The Truth is that we cannot be filled with the very Spirit of God and not have miraculous things happen through us! Jesus taught us that signs and wonders would follow all who believe, Mark 16:14-18.


Be blessed, the Word of God is Truth, and the Truth will set us free, and God’s Word will never fall void to the earth. The Holy Ghost is the power of our salvation, and together we can walk in the fullness of Him. Together with Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit, we can be used by God to heal the sick, save the lost, prophesy to the needs of the people, ask and receive, seek and find, and through the power of God all things are possible! The Anointing of the Holy Ghost allows God to be fully Who He is within us! We are born of God, we are His offspring, God chose to have us, we are because He is, and we are because He willed us into His eternal life! Through Christ we have passed from death unto life, and God has delivered us out of darkness and has placed us in His glorious Light. God has saved us to the uttermost, and because of Jesus all things are now possible for us. God is willing and able to do all that He has spoken, and He loves us every bit as much as He loves Jesus! You my brothers and sisters are strong in the power of His might, and we are more than conquerors through Christ that loves us!

The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit: Part VI

“And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism. Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on Him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.” Acts 19:1-6

Again we see that people believed and some time had passed before they received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And here again we see that as soon as they were baptized miraculous power followed! Some of us may be baptized with the Holy Spirit right when we are chosen and accept Jesus as Lord, some of us may be filled later, but the important thing is that we will be filled with the Holy Spirit. The common ground is a believing and having an accepting heart. If you don’t know if you have been baptized with the Holy Ghost, than you haven’t! If you can’t testify of the exact moment when it happened, then you haven’t. I am not trying to be mean, you may very well believe in Jesus as Lord, just as these scriptural examples show us, but look at what Jesus said. “He that believeth on Me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive, for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because Jesus was not yet glorified.” John 7:38-39

How can we have rivers of living water flowing from us and not know it? When we are baptized with the Holy Spirit our lives are instantly changed, and as we read in the Book of Acts, when people were baptized with the Holy Ghost, supernatural things happened as a result of the baptism. They prophesied, they prayed in tongues, there were healings, mass conversions; power was always associated with the baptism of the Holy Ghost! God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He changes not, so the same holds true today! “For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” Malachi 3:6 The baptism and indwelling of the Holy Spirit is not an uneventful or uncertain event in our lives! God does not respect the people in the Bible over us, so if He showed His mighty power through them when they were baptized with the Holy Spirit, He will show His power through us! We are all God’s kids and He is able and willing to be all that He is through each and every one of us who believe.

The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit: Part V

“Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (For as yet He was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.” Acts 8:14-17

The people of Samaria had received the Word of God, they welcomed it, they believed it, and they were even baptized in the Name of Jesus, but as Jesus taught, that was only half of the process. Here we see God fulfilling His Truth, the second half of salvation, after believing they were baptized with the Holy Spirit! In the Acts 2 we saw that God just sent His Holy Spirit and the believers in the upper room were baptized, now here we see that God used believers to lay their hands on people and they were baptized with the Holy Spirit. God is God and however He wants to baptize us is fine. But the Truth is this: all who have been chosen of God and who have been saved will receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit! It may occur right away, or it may take some time, but if a person is truly saved then they will be baptized with God Himself! “And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall heed My ordinances and do them.” Ezekiel 36:27

The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit: Part IV

“And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Acts 2:2-4

Now is the time for our baptism of the Holy Spirit, it will occur to everyone who is truly chosen of God and saved, and Jesus is the only way for God to make us one with Himself. Salvation is being empowered by God to believe that Jesus is our Lord and Savior and being baptized is having Jesus make us one with the Holy Spirit of God! Let’s study some scriptures to see exactly how God baptized people with His Holy Spirit. And as we study these Truths over the next couple of sections, remember that Jesus teaches us that there are two distinct things: believing and being baptized!

In Acts 2 Jesus had told the disciples to go into an upper room after His ascension into Heaven and pray and wait, and that He would send the Holy Ghost unto them. These people had already believed on Jesus as the Lord. Many of them had seen Him after He was raised from the dead, but they only had part of the equation filled within their lives, believing, Now Jesus fulfilled the second part, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Notice that as soon as they were baptized, that they were filled with a sign of the power of the baptism. “John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of Whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:” Luke 3:16 The Holy Ghost is the power of God working within us. He strengthens us with God Himself and signs and wonders that go beyond human power follow Him. This is the fire of God!

The Baptism Of The Holy Ghost: Part II

“He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned” Mark 16:16

“I indeed have baptized you with water: but He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.” Mark 1:8

Jesus taught us that salvation is for all who believe and who are baptized. Believing is easily understood, but what does Jesus mean by baptized? Is baptized being sprinkled with water as an infant, is it being dunked in water as an adult, or is it something else? In Mark 1:8 John the Baptist was talking about the power of Jesus. John was baptizing people with water as an evidence of them turning from their sin. It was a testimony to others. As John baptized with water, God began to have him prophesy about Jesus, and what God had him say was that, “He Who was coming after him, was stronger than he was, and that He (Jesus) wouldn’t baptize with water but with the Holy Spirit.” “And I knew Him not, but He that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon Whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, the same is He which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.” John 1:33 The baptism of Jesus isn’t an action by us, or a testimony we provide as an evidence of doing something, it is an action by God. It is Jesus’ testimony that He did something, that He saved us and empowered us to be free from the power of death. “I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive evermore, A-men; and have the keys of hell and of death.” Revelation 1:18

The second Truth about the baptism of the Holy Spirit is that it is Jesus doing it to us! Jesus is the only way to salvation and since He is, He is the only one Who baptizes us with the Holy Spirit!

The Baptism Of THe Holy Spirit: Part III

“I indeed have baptized you with water: but He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.” Mark 1:8

God’s Word teaches us that Jesus doesn’t use water to baptize us with; the Word teaches us that Jesus uses the Holy Spirit of God to baptize us. But what exactly is being baptized with the Holy Ghost? To answer that, let’s first look at the Greek word this verse originally used. The Greek word is baptizo, Strong’s Concordance number 907. The example given in the Strong’s Concordance to explain baptized is a cucumber becoming a pickle. The cucumber is first washed, that is a cleansing from all dirt. The Greek word for that is bapto, then after the cucumber is cleaned, you baptizo, or baptize, the cucumber: submerging it in the pickling spices. This baptism forever changes the cucumber into a pickle. The spices become one with the cucumber and it is changed into a pickle. That is baptizo, or baptized. So if you are baptized with the Holy Ghost, you have become one with God, His Spirit is in you, on you, through you, and you are a new creature in Christ, which is God’s Anointing, old things are passed away and behold all things are new to you!

“At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you.” John 14:20 In the verses right before this one, Jesus is proclaiming that the Holy Ghost was coming. So the day Jesus is referring to is the day of us being filled with the Holy Ghost! The day you will know that Jesus is in you and that you are truly in the Father, is the day that you are baptized with the Holy Ghost, the day that you are filled with Him, the day that He is on you, through you, and one with you! Remember Jesus said for us to be saved is not just believing on Him, but when we believe and are baptized with the Holy Ghost. There are many people who believe in Jesus, think about how many people you know who say they believe that Jesus lived? Yet they don’t trust Him as their Lord and Savior. Man can’t do the things on his own that God has required for a full and rich and eternal life. We could never continue to believe in Jesus throughout our lives without the power of Jesus, the Holy Spirit of God, within us to insure it. We could never even accept Jesus, unless the Holy Spirit empowered us to. The assurance of salvation is the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The power of God that birthed Jesus into this world and the power that allowed Him to serve God and to serve us, is the same power that we have been given, and the same power that we have been birthed of!

The third Truth about the baptism of the Holy Spirit is that it is life changing. Once Jesus has baptized you with the Holy Spirit you become one with God, as Jesus is one with God and you are forever changed! “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 We become new creatures in Christ, old things pass away, and all things become new!

The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit: Part I

“He who believes [who adheres to and trusts in and relies on the Gospel and Him Whom it sets forth] and is baptized will be saved [from the penalty of death]: but he who does not believe [who does not adhere to and trust in and rely on the Gospel and Him Who it sets forth] will be condemned.” Mark 16:16 Amplified Bible

The first step to being filled with the Holy Ghost is to believe in Jesus, to accept Him and to make Him the Lord of our lives. Jesus is the only way, He is the Truth, and He is the Light. Jesus is the only doorway into salvation, and no man can enter in except they go through Christ! “I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” John 10:9 Now the great freedom in this Truth is this, we are only able to accept Jesus and be born again because God chooses us and because God empowers us to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior! “Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:13

“Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.” 1 Corinthians 12:3

The first Truth about being filled with the Holy Spirit is that we must first be empowered by God to accept Jesus as Lord! And all who truly accept Jesus as Lord will be baptized with the Holy Spirit! Faith comes from hearing the Truth that God would that all men be saved and that God will empower all to believe who truly want salvation!

We Have Peace In Our Salvation

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

Through the power of Christ in our lives, the pressure has been removed from us! God knew who we were, and He completely knew what we were. So He did something about it, He sent Jesus to pay the price, and then He sent the Holy Ghost to empower us with His fullness. Notice that God said that He, His Spirit, will cause us to walk rightly! God’s Spirit will teach us all things! Jesus said it was better that He went away, so that God’s Spirit would come. There is a truth here that only the Holy Ghost can teach us, and it is this: God placed the responsibility and burden of us walking uprightly on Himself, not on us! Religion and man have placed it all on us, claiming that if we do what is right than we can have some of the glory that God has to offer. Yet that is not what God has said! God’s Truth is that He will cause us to walk in His statutes and in His judgments. God said that He would teach us all Truth. God said that He would do superabundant things through us by the power of the Holy Ghost that is at work within us. There is so much freedom here! My experience with religion is that the burden is placed squarely and completely on us, and our success or failure is measured solely on our desire and ability to perform. Yet God said that He would lead us into the paths of righteousness, Psalm 23:3. You know we only have one work according to Jesus. “Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent.” John 6:29 We only have to do this one thing, believe on Jesus, and everything else God will perform through us, and God will even assist us in believing on Jesus, He will Author and Finish our faith, Hebrews 12:2. Through the power of the Holy Spirit we are able to have peace in who we are, just like Jesus had peace in Who He was!

Jesus came that we might have life and have it more abundantly, John 10:10. Well, with the Holy Ghost, abundance is measured on God’s level, not on man’s! A life filled with love, hope, faith, service, forgiveness, miracles, and unbroken fellowship, now that is abundance! These things are not limited to what we can think of either, regardless of what we can ask or think of, God can do more, and He can and will do more through us. We are born of God, He is not ashamed of us, because He has saved us to the uttermost. We are a chosen generation and a royal priesthood. Through Christ we enjoy abundance on God’s level, and it’s the Father in us, He does the works! A-men!

Salvation Means That We Will Be Used By God

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

Now you may be thinking, yeah, but He was Jesus! He sure was and here is what Jesus had to say. “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father in Me, He doth the works.” John 14:10 It was God in Jesus Who did all of the Works, the Holy Spirit did the works through Jesus, the exact same Holy Spirit that you and I have been given, and the same exact same Spirit that we have been filled with! And that Spirit now has the freedom to work through us under the power of the New Covenant, a covenant ratified and placed into effect by the Blood of Jesus that was shed on the Cross, the perfect sacrifice of Jesus our Lord and Savior! Remember, Jesus is the one Who said that God would do the same works, and yes even greater works, through us, than He did through Him! That is why it was better that Jesus went away, remember, one of the works that Jesus did while on the earth as a man, was to have unbroken fellowship with God. Through the Holy Spirit, we too have the exact same thing! We are one with Christ, Jesus is in us, we are in Jesus, and everyone is in God, sealed with and filled with the Holy Spirit until the Day of Redemption!

It Was Good For Us That Jesus Was Crucified

“Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you.” John 16:7

The Comforter, the Holy Spirit is the Comforter, will absolutely cause us to walk uprightly. He is the Spirit of our Righteousness, the Spirit of our Sanctification, and the Spirit of Truth, and the Truth has set us free! The Holy Spirit is ours, He will comfort us, He will give us peace that passes all understanding, and He will give us eternal and everlasting joy. And from the very moment that we are filled with Him, yes, even here and on this earth, from today and throughout all of eternity, we will have all of these things! We are eternally filled with the fullness of God!

“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. 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 the Father hath are Mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and shall shew it unto you.” John 16:12-15

The Holy Ghost will guide us into all Truth, He shall teach us all things, and He will do superabundantly more than we can ask or even think! And praise God we can think of some awesome things! The Holy Spirit will glorify Jesus through us. He will cause to walk righteously and He will cause us to do the works of the Lord! The Holy Spirit will cause us to do the works that Jesus did, and even greater works! “Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father.” John 14:12 The healings, the prophesies, the wisdom, the miracles, the forgiveness, think of what Jesus did, the Holy Ghost will allow these things and even greater things to be done through us, because Jesus has paid the price and the New Covenant has been ratified with His glorious sin free blood! “How much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God?” Hebrews 9:14 The Blood of Christ has now allowed God to work through us, with all of His fullness, because the forces of sin that caused our separation from Him have been destroyed!

We Can Know All Things, All

“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

How many things did Jesus say that the Holy Ghost would teach us? Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would teach us all things! Remember this Truth, Jesus said it; Jesus said all, the Creator of everything said that we would be taught all, and He said that we would have His glory and that we would be one with Him. Jesus said that we would be filled with the fullness of God, and that we would be perfect in our oneness with Him! God is never limited; Jesus said all, so expect all, look unto Jesus to Author and Finish your faith to live in all! We have the Spirit of God living within us that desires for us to have all. We are one with Jesus who came and died so that we could have all. We are born again of God, Who has it all! Look at what God said through Paul in Ephesians 3, “unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think,” and how is God able to do this for us? “According to the power that worketh in us,” which is His Holy Spirit! The Holy Spirit causes us to walk in the full power of God, the Spirit teaches us all things, the very Spirit of God is why we have life and have it abundantly! True Godly humility is not denying that man can be filled with the fullness of God and thus be perfect and free from sin. Humility is accepting these Truth’s and giving God all of the praise and glory for them! Humility is truly allowing God to walk fully through us, so that the world can see His greatness and receive His salvation!

Just Like Jesus We Are Glorified WIth The Fullness Of God

“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 perfect in one; and that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” John 17:22-23

Paul controlled by and under the direction of the Holy Spirit prayed that we might be filled with the fullness of God.

“May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,” Ephesians 3:18-20

Our Father had Paul write that His desire is for us to be filled with all of His fullness, which means to be filled with all of His Holy Spirit. Ezekiel prophesied of it, Paul prayed for it, and Jesus taught of it and prayed that we may be made perfect by it. We walk in total power, because our Father, Who is God, walks in total power, and through Christ, God walks fully within us! Our Father loves us so much and so unwilling to be without us that He gave us all of the glory that He gave to Jesus, which is all of Himself! TheTruth is that our Father wants all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of His Truth. We have been made to be perfect in Christ, which is God’s Anointing, just as Jesus was made perfect in Christ! Jesus was born perfect because God bore Him that way. Jesus did no work to earn His perfection, though He was used by our Father to do many works. Jesus was just simply born into perfection by the power of His Father, and through Jesus we too have simply been born again into God’s perfection! And Jesus said that the power of God’s perfection through us would allow the world to believe and be saved!

Our Father will us us mightily to show the world that He is here and that He is active in all of our lives. We have been made perfect in Jesus and we now have all of our Father's glory. We are filled with it and through His power we will be used to produce much fruit! 

Through Christ We Now Have All Of God's Fullness

“May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,” Ephesians 3:18-20

Our Father does not say that He will only place part of His Spirit within us. Our Father does not limit His Spirit to only as much as a man can handle. Our Father is never limited by man; look, a man couldn’t save us, so our Father sent Jesus. Which was God in the flesh, born of a virgin, conceived by the Holy Ghost, and bam, salvation came into the world! There are no limits with our Father, He is the great I Am and He knows how to solve every problem. Our Father will place His entire Spirit within us, and God through His Spirit will cause us to walk in His statutes. Therefore He will cause us not to sin, and He will cause us to do what is right and what will bring life and glory. Remember how the Greek Word for saved, “sozo,” means to be saved from the power, the presence, the pleasure, and the penalty of sin? Well, we have all of this redemption because we have all of our Father's Spirit dwelling within us, and He is able and willing to save us completely!

"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

The things that man has struggled with from the time of Adam, have been removed from us by the power of Christ in our lives. Through salvation our Father has provided an escape for us! God does it for us by His power that is within us. Our old sinful body has been destroyed through Christ, Romans 6:6. God has removed the wage of sin from us, which was death, John 5:24. Our Father causes us to stop sinning by being a refiners fire and a fuller soap for us, Malachi 3:2. Jesus leads us in the paths of righteousness, Psalm 23:3. And our Father causes us to no longer stumble and fall short of His righteousness, Jude 1:24. Our Father is God, and God alone, possesses the power needed for us to not sin. Our Father has given us the complete power of His Spirit, and He has held nothing back from us. Our Father has given us all of Himself! Our Father's Spirit of forgiveness, His Spirit of Love, His Spirit of Power, the exact same Spirit that He has, He has given us! I could write here for pages about the glorious Truths of having God’s whole Spirit dwelling within us, but entire books wouldn’t begin to adequately describe the glory of it! But that doesn’t hinder us for one second; we can know the full glory of it, because all of God fullness now dwells within us through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. We are the Temples of the Holy Ghost, and His Spirit will teach us all things!

We Are One With The Very Spirit Of God

“And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall heed My ordinances and do them.” Ezekiel 36:27

There is so much power for us in this one little verse. The first thing that I want you to notice is that our Father says that He will put His Own Spirit within us. When we are chosen and empowered to say yes to Jesus and make Him the Lord of our lives, we are baptized and filled with God’s Holy Spirit. We just don’t receive a rejuvenated human spirit, or an angelic spirit, we receive God’s very Own Spirit. Stop and allow the Anointing of the Holy Spirit to reveal all of the Truth of what our Father is actually saying here.

“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 things, and is Truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.” 1 John 2:27

Think of God for a minute, think of His power, His wisdom, His forgiveness, His abilities, His presence, His love, His knowledge, all of His glory, and think on the indescribable awesomeness of God. This is the Spirit that our Father wants us to have and this is His Spirit that He gave us. Our Father did not give us a spirit that is like His, that would be awesome in and of itself, but the glory of our salvation is that our Father gave us His very Own Spirit. We now have the exact same Spirit that He has! We have the Spirit of the Living God abiding within us. We are sharing and one with the exact same Spirit as God!

How We Know That We Have Been Saved

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

When I was eleven years old I was baptized with the Holy Ghost. Instantly I was filled with the very Spirit of God. I began to speak in tongues and I was instantly healed. I had a cut on my hand and my jaw would not completely close, but at that very moment both were instantly healed. The great thing about the experience was that it was real. It was not just some poetic words being spoken over me; I was forever changed in one distinct moment. I was born again, not of corruptible seed, but of God’s very Own Incorruptible Seed. The penalty of sin was wiped out for me, and I instantly was accepted and permitted to become one with the Living God! I was forever changed, death had become life for me, old things passed away and all things become new for me. I have since had people tell me things like the Holy Ghost no longer indwells man and that healings have passed away, but I was there, I was filled and I was healed, and no one can ever take it away from me. But I also received God’s Spirit within me, and He has strengthened me to have confidence in His ways. As time passes, if our faith was just based on our own personal experiences, it would fade, but we have Jesus Who now Authors and Finishes our faith, so our faith is now as His faith is, strong and eternal! If you truly desire salvation go and get it, you are having these feelings because God is empowering you to have them. If there is any doubt that you have it, stay until you too have a defining and life changing moment. God is not a respecter of persons, if He gave it to me, if He gave it to Paul, to those in the upper room, and the men of Ephesus, He will give it to you, and you will know beyond any doubt! A man cannot have a fire within his belly and not show the effects thereof! Read about salvation in the Book of Acts, when God truly comes into your life, things change, you don’t just kinda and maybe know you were saved, you know!

You will know that God has chosen you and that He loves you, just as He loves Jesus. “I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in One; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” John 17:23 That is probably the greatest Truth that God has given me, and God has to give this Truth to us, no man can, and most people wont even try to preach about it. But when I was saved and filled with the Holy Spirit, I knew right then that God loved me every bit as much as He loved Jesus. I knew that God had not provided things for Jesus that He had not provided for us. I knew that Jesus loved us so much that He wanted us to have everything that He has! God instantly gave me a spirit that knew, He sent Jesus to die for us, so that He would have the ability to provide for us everything that He had provided for Jesus. I have just always known this; God gave it to me long before I had ever studied it in His Word. One thing is for sure; God is not limited in blessing us based on our study habits! Thank you Lord!

Be blessed in who you are, you are a chosen child of the Living God! You have passed from death unto life and you will never, and God said never, come into condemnation, you have heard the Truth, and you live! Jesus is Lord!

We Are Empowered By God To Ask To Be Saved

"And Phillip said, If you believe with all of your heart [if you have a conviction, full of joyful trust, that Jesus is the Messiah and accept Him as the Author of your salvation in the Kingdom of God, giving Him your obedience, then] you may. And he replied, I do believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." Acts 8:37 Amplified Bible

If you want salvation and don’t have it, just ask, ask God and He will give salvation to you. Because the Truth is that it is the Holy Spirit within you giving you the desire and the ability to ask. “Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.” 1 Corinthians 12:3 There is no process, no long drawn out prayers, just honestly ask God to show you and to give you His complete and powerful salvation. You will know that you have it, salvation will consume you, you will be drawn towards God, your thoughts will turn towards Him, your actions will be redirected, and you will loose all doubt. God will place a new heart within you, one that longs for and desires Him, a loving heart that is able to act in ways of love that will confound the world. You will be able to have trust in things that the world cannot even see. You will love those that hate you, you will bless them that curse you, and you will pray and eagerly desire good for those who persecute you. You won’t be able to help it, it’s what you will have been born of, and it’s the seed that you have come from! God looks at our hearts; so don’t worry about what to pray, if you are truly looking for God, you will be found!

Once we are chosen by God and empowered by the Holy Spirit to truly make Jesus Lord, we pass from death to life in one single instance, and we know that God loves us and we know that we are now His children! Our spirits become one with His and our flesh becomes one with His, and no one, no man, and no spirit is able to steal our belief in His favor and grace that is salvation. Just simply ask; God gives to all who ask! If we believe as Phillip told the Eunuch to believe, than we are born again of God’s Holy and Incorruptible Seed. “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”1 Peter 1:23 We are birthed by the very Spirit of God, the same Spirit that birthed Jesus through Mary, has birthed you and I.

We Are Empowered By The Holy Spirit To Trust God

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live." John 5:24-25

Salvation really boils down to the Holy Spirit empowering us to believe that God loved us enough to do something about our situation. He has empowered us to trust in the Truth that our Father will always be here for us. We are going to study God's Word, most of the Word that we study will be powerful and beyond the carnal’s mind ability to comprehend. Yet for us who are saved, and who have been Anointed with the Holy Spirit, the Words we read and study will be easy to hear and clearly understood. Because we have the Spirit of the living God dwelling within us. The Holy Spirit gives us life, power, and understanding.

"But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My Name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, and bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you." John 14:26 Amplified

Salvation is obtained by being empowered with the Holy Spirit to trust that God loves us. Trusting is believing and believing is hearing and being enabled to accept God's Truth. We are not alone on this journey; our Father has not left it up to us alone to find Him, He is right here, with us every step of the way. He will never leave us or forsake us! Our Father has given us His Holy Spirit and He has strengthened us with His Anointing so that we are empowered to believe and accept what He has provided for us.

We now have Jesus as our Head, Jesus is the Word of God, and Jesus Authors and Finishes our faith, so that we can truly trust in and truly rely on God! I know people who never went to the altar, yet they believe and trust in God's Word. I know many who are not actively involved with a church, yet more than those who go to church, they believe God's Word and believe that Jesus came and died for them. They  have life and have life abundantly. Our Father transcends the world’s traditions and concepts. He looks towards the heart, He discerns the thoughts and intents of a person, and He seeks to covenant with those who truly desire Him.

“And He said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves among men; but God knoweth your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.” Luke 16:15

Being Saved Is Easy

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live." John 5:24-25

Some want to make our salvation a process, something that we are constantly trying to obtain. Some want to make receiving the benefits of salvation a difficult task, which no one is ever really able to receive fully while on the this earth. Salvation and its benefits are anything but these things. Obtaining salvation is easy and salvation is for us right now. All of salvations benefits are completely for us from the very moment that we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to hear the call and accept Jesus as Lord, and they will last and benefit us forever. The hour of complete and total victory through Jesus Christ has come for those of us who have been chosen and who have been empowered to accept God's salvation.

Through Christ we have passed from death to life, and we are now preserved and we no longer come into condemnation; the power, presence, penalty, and pleasure of sin have been removed from us! Now through the strength of Christ, which our Father has applied to our lives, we are removed from danger and evil. Because of the Cross we are now healed and now any obstacle that would hinder our full reception of the benefits of salvation have been removed from us. We are now completely saved! All that salvation means, all of its eternal Truth’s, and all of its benefits are for us right now. Completely and totally provided by the sacrifice of our Savior Jesus Christ! We have passed from death unto life and we shall never come into condemnation again, because through Christ we have everlasting life! We have been empowered with the very Spirit of God to hear the Truth of God’s Word and we now live. Jesus has given us life and He has given us life abundantly!

Salvation is so easy because we have been chosen by God to have it. Our Father is not depending on us, through our own efforts, to receive His grace. He just gives it and His grace overtakes us. It cannot help but be easy, because it is God doing it! 

What Salvation Is: Part V

“For whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall (now be preserved and delivered from danger and evil, shall now be safe, shall now be healthy and free from disease, shall now be set free from the pleasure, presence, penalty, and power of sin) be saved.” Romans 10:13

Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, if you don’t have the hope for this, ask God for the Holy Ghost to give it to you, and He absolutely will! "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

“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 show you things to come.” John 16:13 God has given us His very Spirit so that we can know fully what salvation is and God has given us His own Spirit so that He can show us how salvation will be fulfilled on this earth! “That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word, that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; that it should be holy and without blemish.” Ephesians 5:26-27 This is the Church that Jesus is returning for and this verse shows the complete power of salvation for us: no spot, no wrinkle, no blemish, or any such thing, absolutely holy and glorious through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!

What Salvation Is: Part IV

"Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." 1 Timothy 2:4

Let’s put salvations meanings in this verse. God wants all men to be preserved. God wants all men to be delivered from danger and evil. God wants all men to be healthy and safe. God wants all men to be delivered from the power, presence, pleasure, and penalty of sin. And God wants all men to be delivered from everything that would hinder us from having all of His blessings!

As Christians we love to talk about yesterday, Moses, David, and the Apostles; the Bible is full of great men and women of faith, and we love to tell of their heroic adventures, and we should! We love to talk about tomorrow, Heaven, when Jesus returns, and how wonderful it will be, our glorious future, our redeemed bodies, it is awesome, it’s glorious, and we should talk about these things! Though while our past was great and our future is glorious, we live in today and we tend to shy away from today, yet today is where the needs are. Tell someone that lives in a dangerous neighborhood, with gangs and killings, or someone who is dying, that in the future, Heaven and the return of Christ will be better. Sure you will be proclaiming a truth, but they have an overwhelming need for God’s eternal solutions today. Today is where the need is, and today there is an answer, and the answer is salvation through Jesus Christ. Salvation provides health, safety, and protection! Salvation, offers physical, spiritual, and soulful benefits for this day. The nice thing about this day, is it will always be here. Tomorrows never come, it will always and forever be today, and salvation is always and forever for today. We are eternally blessed in this Truth!

What Salvation Is: Part III

"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

If you want to have a great study, find the words salvation and saved in the New Testament and replace them with their complete meanings and then see how powerfully the scripture reads.

For instance put soteria's meanings in 2 Corinthians 6:2. Behold now is the day of preservation, now is the day of deliverance from danger and evil. Behold now is the day of deliverance from the power, pleasure, presence, and penalty of sin. Now is the day of safety and health: now, this day, on this earth we have all of these things through Christ. When you ask someone are they saved, is this what you mean? Is this what you think, is this how you feel, and is this what you desire for others to have? Is this what you actually believe God wants for us, and do you believe that we can actually live with this freedom and power on this earth? My experience is that most Christians don't think of salvation in this way. Hosea 4:6 teaches us that God's people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. Well no more, in Jesus’ Name, no more! We have been given the Holy Ghost to teach us all things! We now have Jesus Who Authors and Finishes our faith, we have the Bible, and we have a Father Who wants us to know everything about Him. We are now new creatures in Christ and old things have passed away! So with the power and strength of the Holy Spirit, salvation will be fully understood and fully realized by all who have been called and who have been empowered to make Jesus their Lord, and the world will see Him fully through us! “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; And on My servants and on your handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood and fire, and vapor and smoke.” Acts 2:17-19

What Is Salvation: Part II

"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

The Greek word used in the Bible for salvation is soteria {so-tay-ree'ah}. Its meaning can be found in a Strong's Concordance, number 4991. Soteria 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.

The Greek Word for saved that is used in the Bible is sozo, Strong's 4982. Sozo 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.

When God first had me to begin to ask the question: what is salvation, the primary response I received was, "to go to Heaven." The real Truth to grab hold of here, is that while the Greek words for salvation and saved and their definitions mention and include future benefits, they overwhelmingly address salvations benefits for today. Jesus will Author and Finish our faith with this Truth, and through the power of His might, He will strengthen us to take hold of and see that the definitions of salvation include powerful benefits for this day, for this place, and for this time. Faith comes from hearing God’s Truths, and God’s Truths set us free! When I began to ask people about salvation, their response was overwhelmingly directing salvation's benefits towards the future, not for their lives today. After hearing the same response several times, I realized why God had asked me to ask the question in the first place, and I realized the nature of the ministry that God had called me too; allowing Him to use me to teach the power, nature, benefits, freedom, and the timing of our salvation.

What Salvation Is: Part I

"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

To begin to explain salvation, let's first look at the word salvation. The Dictionary and Concordance describe salvation as: preservation, deliverance from danger and evil, and the deliverance from the power, presence, pleasure, and penalty of sin. Now don't just read these meanings of salvation and go on, stop and really allow the Holy Ghost to bring you peace and joy and the fullness of hope in believing the meanings of salvation, and allow the Truth of salvations meaning to sink into your Anointed mind. We now have the mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2:16. The Truth of God’s Word is food for our souls, and the Truth will set us free! Salvation means preservation, deliverance from danger, safe from evil, delivered from, not only the penalty of sin, but also sins power, this is what salvation means! When we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we are preserved, we are delivered from danger and evil, and we are freed from the power of sin, the pleasure of sin, and the presence of sin. God has so many Truths to share with us on His freedom, and we will study them, but not right now. We will first lay the foundation of the house; then we will build upon it with lively stones of God’s Truth, His Word. And God’s Word teaches us that now is the day of His freedom through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!

Now Is The Time Of Our Salvation

"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

If you have been chosen by our Father and empowered by the Holy Spirit to make Jesus the Lord of your life, then now is the day of your salvation. You don't have to wait until tomorrow, or when you get to Heaven, it wasn't yesterday, but right now. Right now you are saved, this very moment, this is the time of your salvation. That is an awesome Truth and when we realize that we don’t have to wait for our salvation, or earn it over time, there is a godly peace and joy that will totally consume and empower us to be used fully by our Father to further His Kingdom! God’s Truth set’s us free and through His peace that passes all understanding and through His love that passes knowledge, we can enjoy and live completely in this Truth. The Truth is eternal and it is for each one of us who have been empowered to accept Jesus as Lord!

But here is a question that I would like to ask you, and one that our Father asked me several years ago, what does salvation really mean? What does it mean to be saved, and why should someone want our Father's salvation, what good is it? How will possessing salvation affect a person’s life right now, as well as in the future?

When our Father saved me and filled me with His Holy Spirit, I was eleven years old. I didn’t think about salvation, I hadn’t studied about it; and I wasn’t searching for it, it just overtook me and consumed me. I knew in my heart, at that very moment when the Holy Spirit called me, that I wanted it. I was enlightened at that moment to know that God had accepted me and filled me completely with Himself. I have never doubted for one second since then that I am saved either! I wasn’t even at an alter call when God called me and gave me eternal life.

Years later, when I was in my mid-twenties, our Father started directing me to ask people what they thought His salvation meant. Even though He had called me and I had come to Him without asking these questions, our Father really laid it on my heart to ask them of others. He also led me into many people’s lives that did have these questions. Now from my experience the Church seems to assume that the world already knows what salvation really means and that they just haven’t accepted it. I certainly assumed that most people did, at least in the circles that I ran in. But when our Father had me to begin to ask people questions about salvation, they really struggled with definitive answers; God even had me asking preachers what salvation meant. And as I heard the answers, our Father quoted this verse to me, “How shall they call on Him in Whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of Whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher.” Romans 10:14

In my family room, on Havens Corners Road, our Father empowered me to be used by Him to clearly show what His salvation through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ means, and why people should truly want it right now! So, here we go, in the power of God’s might, and through the strength of His Anointing, armed with the Truth of His gospel of peace, with the sword of His Word, and in the power of His Spirit, we are going to study through the next several postings what it means to be saved and why we should want it! And we will repeatedly see in our Father Word that now is the Day of our Salvation and now is our accepted time!

Through Christ We Talk Like God

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

I know that we have just begun our studies together on what salvation means and there is so much more that the Holy Spirit is going to anoint us to study about what we have. But right now, this very second, we need to desire in our prayer lives and in our hearts, that our Father begins to speak and use phrases through us just as the scriptures that we study do. Through the anointing of the Holy Spirit we should talk like our Father talks. We need to begin to desire to speak and use the Words that our Father uses! Words like, “today is the day of our salvation and now is the accepted time." Or Words like, “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Our Father wants all men saved and He has given us a new heart and a new spirit so that we are empowered with His desires to want the same! And in Jesus' Name, those who come against us, will be as Paul was and they shall be saved. There is nothing wrong with boldly seeking and proclaiming openly God's Truths! We should talk like our Father talks. We are born of Him and He is alive within us; it’s our heritage, it’s who we are in Him, and it’s Who He is in us! Out of the abundance of our hearts, our mouths will speak our Father's Truths!

Over the next several sections we are going to discuss what salvation truly means. Before we move on though, ask yourself this one simple question, what exactly is salvation? Think about it, pray about it, and ask others about it. If your experience is anything like mine, you will marvel at what you hear. Even though the term is used in virtually every church service, and being used by Christ to lead people to salvation is the purpose and goal of all believers, it is often an extremely difficult question for some to answer: what exactly is salvation? Our Father is not a God of confusion; He wants each one of His children to be fully enlightened with all of His Truth. Our Father wants us all to know Him intimately, and He wants us all to be completely and accurately equipped with the Truth that will set us and the world free! Salvation is awesome; it for everyone, and it is now! We have been given the Holy Spirit to teach us all of the things that pertain to our salvation through Jesus Christ! We are all one in Christ and through Him we should be of one heart, one mind, and one accord!

Be blessed this day in the power of our Fathers might and through Christ, our Father is able to be all that He is within us this day! And hold on, because what we are about to study together will absolutely set us, our families, our friends, our coworkers, and the church, free. A-men!

God Chooses Us

“But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name; Which were born not of flesh and blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12-13

This is such a great Truth; we are born of God, we are born of His will. Our Father knows us, He knows our innermost thoughts, and He truly knows our hearts. We didn’t choose God, He chose us! “Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:13 Yet all who truly believe on Him and trust in Jesus’ Name are chosen, for God would that all men be saved! Remember this Truth: the only thing that Jesus ever did to be the Christ, was to be chosen by God to be born the Christ! Jesus was born to be the Christ, and we have been born of God to be His Children through Christ! Our Father chose to have you and I, He willed us into His Kingdom! Through the power of salvation we are now members of His body, bone of His bone, and flesh of His flesh, as Ephesians 5:30 teaches we are!

The freedom of this Truth is this: if we just chose God, than we could loose Him. But we were not saved by the will of our own flesh, or by the will of another man. We were born again by the will of God Himself! Our Father chose us because He knows us, we can’t fool Him, and because He has chosen us, we are sealed by Him until the day of redemption! “And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30

God's Desire Is For All To Be Saved

"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:13

"Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." 1 Timothy 2:4

"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

The Truth is that our Father wants all men to be saved right now and He wants all men to come to the knowledge of His truth right now. No one is ever left out with our Father. That is the power of the Cross, your nationality does not matter, your age, your gender, your political affiliation, none of these worldly emotions or circumstances matter. God wants all people to be saved and come to the knowledge of His Truth. And through Jesus, our Lord and Savior, He has provided all way for all men to be saved, and through Jesus, God will take all of us. Notice the absoluteness of Romans 10:13, “shall be saved.” There is no doubt there with God is there? Our Father has proclaimed, “shall be saved,” whosoever shall call upon the Name of Jesus, shall be saved! God doesn’t say we need a study course, or a membership in a denomination; no, we call upon Jesus and we are saved! Now our Father knows our hearts, so we aren’t going to fool Him. If we truly call upon Him, we will be saved and the Truth is that only those who are empowered by the Holy Spirit can call upon Jesus anyway, 1 Corinthians 12:3.

Our Father also wants all men to come to the knowledge of His Truth, the Truth that will set us free! God doesn’t want us in the dark about anything and as much as He wants us saved, He wants us to know all Truth. “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 15:26 Our Father wants us all saved and He wants us to know all things, so He gave us Jesus to save us and His Holy Spirit to teach us, and He gave it all to us this day!

Salvation Is For Everyone

"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:13

"Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." 1 Timothy 2:4

"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

Remember how I said to take notice of the awesome power and completeness of God's Word? Just look at what is said in these three verses: whosoever, all, and now! It is absolutely awesome how powerfully God speaks of us! We should talk as God talks, because it’s His Spirit within us that is leading and guiding us. Our Father talks like this, He doesn’t doubt, or question, and through His strength we can be the same way. I’ll let you in on the Truth that will set us free, it’s coming, just as God prophesied through Joel it’s coming! In the last days God is going to pour His Spirit out on all mankind, and watch how the vocabulary of the Church changes! “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; And on My servants and on your handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood and fire, and vapor and smoke.” Acts 2:17-19 Look at how God says His children will speak then!

A Prayer For Power And Strength

“I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers. [For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him, By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones), And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength,” Ephesians 1:16-19 Amplified Bible

Father I ask in You in Jesus’ Name that: "You Father, the God of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto all of us a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. I ask that the eyes of our understanding are enlightened; that we know what is the hope of Your calling, and what the riches of the glory of Your inheritance is in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of Your power to usward who believe, according to the working of Your mighty power."

As Paul prayed in Ephesians 1:16-19, I pray and believe for you, and I ask that you pray and believe it for me. I believe in Jesus’ Name that all of the scriptures that we study together will be fulfilled in each and every person's life who reads these studies. Through Christ we serve a Big God and He rewards those who diligently seek Him. So together, together with each other and together with our Father, let’s diligently seek Him and His Truth. Together lets abide in the quick and powerful Word of God!!!!

God's Word Empowers Us

Our Father's Word is so empowering that Jesus proclaimed: "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 never hesitated in speaking this Truth. He never qualified it, Jesus just flat out said, "Ask what ye will, and it will be done unto you!" There were never any doubts with Jesus. There were no problems or concerns, and no hesitation whatsoever, in His bold proclamation. This verse shows us clearly the power of our Father's Word working within us. It shows us all of the Word's power and glory. Jehovah's, our Father's, Word is absolute and it is defining. God’s Word is sharper than the sharpest sword. It is eternal, it is quick, and if you abide in it, and it abides in you, there is an answer to every situation that will ever come your way! Our Father's Word gives freedom that the world can never provide. No bank, no doctor, no consultant, can even begin to touch the power and abilities of a person who has become one with God’s Word. Our Father is not a respecter of persons, this power is available to all who have been born again!

As we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to study to show ourselves approved unto God, workmen who are not ashamed, I want you to consider the clarity of what we read in the Bible. Look at how our Father so freely uses words like all, every, whatever, whosoever, perfect, holy, powerful, quick, and now. When you read these bold and powerful statements never qualify them with human abilities. If our Father intended for a but, or a maybe, or a word such as sometimes, to be included in the scripture, He would have included them. Man and satan want such words to be added to the Living Word, but not our Father.

Man will say that we are to look at our flesh, our circumstances, others in the church, and only then will we will see what God truly means. Absolutely not, through the power of Christ we look at the Word. The Word of our Father is quick, sharp, powerful, and the Word is complete. We do not add to God’s Word and we do not take away from what it says. We come to our Father's Word as little children.

"Truly I say to you, whoever does not accept and receive and welcome the kingdom of God like a little child [does] shall not in any way enter in it [at all]." Luke 18:17 Amplified Bible.

If our Father said all, He meant all. If our Father said whatsoever we ask, He meant whatsoever we ask!

God's Word Is Fast Acting

"For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of joints and morrow, and is a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart." Hebrews 4:12

If you need an answer in your life right now, well here you go; the Word of God is quick! If you need some power; the Word of God is quick and the Word of God is powerful! If you need some discernment into a situation; the Word of God is quick as a discerner! The Word of God will absolutely and completely cover any situation that arises in your life, and it is complete and accurate, it never changes, and glory be to God, it is for all who come to it! You can absolutely 100% of the time rely on it. The Word is pure, the Word is God, and the Word is for all who desire it!

God's Word is powerful and His Word is living, because He is the Living God. Jesus has Anointed us with all of Himself so that we are able to take it to heart that God’s Word is QUICK! In the power of the Holy Spirit study this Truth, allow Jesus to permeate you with it, allow it to become one with you, and you will never be ashamed. The Word of God will defend us, it will comfort us, it will enlighten us, it will give us strength that is beyond human comprehension, and with faith, Authored and Finished by Jesus, it will take us into a place in God that few have dared to travel. However, all are freely invited to. We have been born from the very Seed of God, and our Father is the Great I Am! Who God is, and what He is, has been born into us, and through Christ we are now one with God in all of His forms: Spirit, Soul, and Body. We were originally created by God to be in His image, and Jesus has brought that power right back to us, taking back what satan had stolen! Wait until you see the verses that the Holy Spirit is going to have us study; if there is any doubt within you about who you are in Christ, the Word of God will quickly remove all doubt! I am not going to take a whole lot of time to try and defend God’s Word in these studies, because if you have been born again and empowered by the Holy Spirit to make Jesus your Lord and Savior, it will just ring true. If you haven’t, God’s Word will not fall void to the earth, it will quickly accomplish what He has intended for it to do!