Friday, May 19, 2006

We Are Dead And Free From Sin Through Christ

“Knowing this that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.” Romans 6:6

Our bodies of sin have been destroyed! Don’t you just love the word destroyed? Our bodies of sin have not been broken, they are not just turned off, our bodies of sin have been destroyed! They cannot be rebuilt; they have been crucified with Christ and they are dead and hid in Christ in God! And why did God destroy our bodies of sin? So that from the very beginning moment of our salvation, we could no longer serve sin! Praise God we are now one with Him through Christ and we no longer serve sin! We no longer serve sin because of God, because of His power, because of His glory, because of His Light that has driven out all of the darkness from us! Our Fathers light that now dwells within us is the only power for this freedom! Remember how we studied earlier that God's Holy Spirit that dwells within us has quickened our mortal bodies? With these Truths do you see how God sees us? Do you see who we have really become in Christ? We are no longer on our own, we have been grafted into the Living Vine, Who is Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. This is why we can consider ourselves dead to sin, and this is how we can consider ourselves alive unto God. We die to sin only once and we do it by being chosen of God and empowered to accept Jesus as Lord. And then when we are born again Jesus reveals His glory through us. If you struggle with this, ask for faith, look unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith. There is no great burden here, just ask and receive the ability to fully believe who God has made you. Ask so that your joy is made full, then God will receive all of the praise and glory, and the world will believe and be saved! It’s really just that simple! The burden of Christ is easy and His yoke is light and pleasantly borne!

The force that separated God from man was sin. This is death! We cannot have godliness and have sin as well. Bitter water and sweet water do not come from the same fountain. “Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?” James 3:11 God has given us everything that pertains to godliness, and one of those things is freedom from sin, which is life and life abundantly! “According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue:” 2 Peter 1:3 Since we are dead with Christ, which is God’s Anointing, we now live because of His anointing; we now live united with Him, called unto glory and virtue! Jesus is the Light of the world, and the Light drives out all of the darkness of sin! “Wherefore He saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” Ephesians 5:14

God has much more for us to study on this and through the power of the Holy Spirit within us we will. I don’t know about you, but I just get so excited when I see these types of verses. My whole life, Christians have been so sin oriented. What I mean is this, so many of us are so concerned with the weakness of the flesh, the condemnation from the pulpit, the amount of time that has been preached on human shortcomings! It was always taught, if not explicitly, it was implied, that we as mere men could never rise above our lowly state of the flesh. Our flesh was given so much power and strength in its weakness. The attitude seemed to be that we would just have to live with it, we should fight against sin, but never really expect that we could not sin! And when we did sin, there would be self condemnation and condemnation from others, but praise God’s Holy Name one day, in the sweet by and by, He would come and rescue us from all of ourselves. This is not the Truth of our salvation in Christ! The eternal Word of God proclaims that God has already come to us by the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ! The Word of God teaches us that God already did something, and that we are now alive with and one with, the One Who would keep us from sin! God never says that we have to wait! God always seems to have me gravitate back to this subject, because for me this is the true power of our salvation. Adam was separated from God because of sin, but we now have Christ, and He will never leave us and He will never forsake us, Hebrews 13:5, and that means the separating power of sin has to be done away with for us, and it is, and it only is, by the power of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Thursday, May 18, 2006

We Share In Jesus' Ressurection

"Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection:” Romans 6:4-5

Through the power of Christ in our lives we are now in the likeness of Jesus’ resurrection! Jesus is only alive because of the power of God that is within Him. Jesus only lives by the power of the Holy Spirit that gives Him eternal life, and praise God we are now alive with Jesus through the exact same power of God. Just as Jesus is, so are we, in the likeness of His resurrection. We now have the exact same Spirit and the same life giving Anointing that Jesus has. We are one with and alive with God as Jesus is One with and alive with God! We are now members of Jesus’ body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone! Our old man is crucified with Christ, and behold all things are now new to us! “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new. And all things are of God, Who hath reconciled us unto Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed us the Word of reconciliation.” Romans 5:17-19 The Anointing of the Holy Ghost has destroyed our old man, the old man that was nothing but sin, and we now walk in the newness of life that Jesus walks in! All things in our lives are now of God, just as the Holy Ghost teaches that they are in Romans 5. We have been crucified with Christ, and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who lives, it is Christ within us Who lives. And greater is He that is within us, than He that is in the world! Today is the Day of our Salvation and now is our accepted time, and it is, because today we are one with Jesus’ resurrection and life!

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

We Are Alive In Christ

"Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection: Knowing this that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him. Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him. For in that He died, He died unto sin once; but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:4-11

We are now buried with Jesus by baptism! So what exactly does that mean? “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. But He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:” Matthew 3:11 We are buried with Jesus through the baptism of the Holy Spirit of God. The power of the Holy Spirit’s Anointing upon us has crucified our flesh, and the Spirit of God has now made us alive together with God through our Lord Jesus Christ! We now walk in the newness of Jesus’ life by the power of His resurrection that has been bestowed upon us! Just as Jesus lives through the power of God, so do we! This is why we are able to walk in newness of life, because we have been sealed with the Holy Ghost and we are now strong in the power of His might and we are now more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us! We are now one with Christ, because we have actually shared and been made partakers of His death! Therefore we actually share in His life and are now partakers of His life.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Together Lets Pray To Be Exactly Like Jesus

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

Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.” John 16:24

Pray for me, and I will pray for you, that all of us come to know exactly who we are in Christ and Who He is within us. Ask that Jesus will Author the faith for us all to live in all of these Truths that we have studied so far. And here is the Truth, we are either going to be transformed to the image of Jesus now, or later. If we are truly saved, God has proclaimed that we absolutely will be, so A-men, we will be! Jesus is returning for a glorious Church, without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, and that is a church that has been conformed into His image, a church that is in the full stature and measure of Christ, and the desire of our hearts, the hearts given to us by God, desires for our Fathers will to be fulfilled within us all! I have never met a brother or sister in the Lord who doesn’t desire to be more Christ like, but I have met many who believe that we can’t be as He is on this earth! But the Truth that will set us free is something entirely different. The Truth is that it is God’s will that we be conformed into the very image of Jesus Christ, and to insure that we will be, God has devoted Himself to ever live as one with us so that through the power of His might and through the strength of His Anointing, we will be! The Truth is this, what God desires, He gets!

Father, I ask You right now, in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus, that all who read this study, and all that I come into contact with, and all who they come into contact with, will be conformed into the very image of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Who we are now one with. I pray that we love like Jesus, we serve like Jesus, that You perform miracles through us like You do through Jesus, that we understand like Jesus, that we see as Jesus sees, hear as He hears, and act like He acts! Father I pray that we are conformed to His very image, to the full measure of His stature, as is Your desire. Father I thank You that this goes beyond words, and that it goes into practice and action! I thank You that we are now the glorious Church You have called and provided for us to be. No more infants tossed to and fro. But that we are steadfast in You, mature, and fully accepting and fully united with You, without spot, without wrinkle, and without blemish! I praise Your glorious Name, A-men!

Monday, May 15, 2006

There Is No Condemnation For Us

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

It is God’s will that we are one with Him and that through the power of His Anointing we be conformed into the image of Jesus. God wants us to walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, think like Jesus, act like Jesus, have the glory of Jesus, be delivered from the evils of this world like Jesus, and to do the works of Jesus! To insure that He can do all of these things through us, God has called us, He has united us with Himself, He has justified us, He has glorified us, and what can we say to all of this? Can we brag about our own efforts? Can we glory in our own abilities? No, all we can say is, “God is for us,” and praise His Holy Name, because we are now one with Him, we can be just like Jesus!

Ask yourself this, what if we are not there yet, what if we aren’t as mature as we can be? Does that bring condemnation on us? No, there is now therefore no condemnation to us who are in Christ Jesus, Romans 8:1. So if we aren’t as mature as we can be, what should we do? Well the first thing to know is this, the Holy Spirit teaches us all things and Jesus leads us in the paths of God’s righteousness. We are not alone here, we are never alone, God is our Father, and He abides within us. God shall never leave us or forsake us! God is our Father and He knows better than anyone what He needs to do to fulfill His calling within us! Faith in who we are in Christ comes from hearing the Word of God! We are one with God and our Head knows what each part of His body needs to become as it should be! Our Father is in control and He will never leave us or forsake us, and His love cast out all fear and all of the torment that comes with it!

Sunday, May 14, 2006

The Glory Of Christ Has Made Us

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

Jesus prayed that we would have the same glory that He has and Jesus proclaimed that we are now perfect through our oneness with God. Jesus has given us great and precious promises and through the Anointing of God we have become partakers of His Divine Nature and through Christ we have escaped the corruption that is in this world. These are the Truths of our salvation through Christ, and since these are Truth, it only makes sense that God has given us such great and precious things, and that we should be conformed to the image of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, the Firstborn among many brethren! How can we be anything except like Jesus, He is now our Head, and we are now His body, and we are now one with Him! God has given us an Anointed mind that knows the full extent of who He has made us in Christ! We need to really begin to invite the Holy Spirit to teach us all things concerning this transformation into God’s Divine Nature! We need to stop considering ourselves to be mere humans, because the Holy Spirit of the Living God has quickened our mortal bodies. We are now the children of Jehovah and we have been giving the exact same glory as Jesus, and God loves us just as He loves Jesus. We have been made perfect by our unity with God, the Holy Ghost, and Jesus, and now Jesus is glorified within us. Look at the scriptures below, we continue to lay block upon block on the foundation that we are now and forevermore one with God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. God’s Word is Truth and His Word is the rock that establishes our firm foundation! We are now one with God through Jesus Christ, God now dwells within us through the Holy Ghost, and we now dwell in Him!

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

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

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

Saturday, May 13, 2006

We Cannot Be Corrupted

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

Through the power of Christ we have become sharers of God’s Divine Nature, and just as the rottenness and corruption of this world cannot touch our Lord and Savior Jesus, they now cannot touch us who are one with Him! Nothing can corrupt Jesus and we are now members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bone! God has rescued us from this world and He has allowed us to become one with His Own Nature, it’s our destiny in Christ! These precious and exceedingly great promises are for us right now! Our justification is now, our glorification is now, our calling is now, and we are now the sons of God, because we are one with God right now! “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.” 1 John 3:1-3

We have escaped the hatred of this world. When they wanted to stone Jesus, He just walked away. When they wanted to throw Him over the cliff, He just walked away. When satan tempted Him, He just told him to leave. When it was time to crucify our Lord, He permitted them to do it. They asked who He was, and as He told them, they fell back and to the ground, and He permitted them to get up and He allowed them to do what it is they had to do. And then on the Cross He forgave them all, for they knew not what they had done! Just as our Lord escaped and has escaped all moral decay, corruption, and rottenness, so have we; and we have done it through the free gift of our Fathers Anointing!

Friday, May 12, 2006

We Are Conformed To Jesus' Image, Justified And Glorified

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

Once we truly are chosen by our Father and empowered with His Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus and make Him the Lord of our lives, it became our destiny to be conformed, by the Anointing of God, to the very image of our Lord Savior! God has called us out of the darkness of this world and we are now a chosen generation and a royal priesthood! “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him Who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;” 1 Peter 2:9 God has declared that it is our destiny and our birthright to be conformed into the image of the One whom we are now one with, Jesus. And God has justified us with the Blood of Christ, so that we can be! God has glorified us so that He can fulfill His will of creating us in His own image! This is God’s desire for us, and since it is, nothing will stand in His way of accomplishing it! We are now more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us! “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” Romans 8:37 In every last thing and in every area of our lives, the Anointing of God is victorious through us! God is going to fulfill His desire for our lives and nothing will stand in His way! Since we have been saved, we will be conformed to the very image of Jesus, it is our destiny!

So rejoice in the Truth that God is going to use you to do great and marvelous things! He will use you o preach the absolute Truth that will set the captives free. He will use you to heal the sick, cast out demons, speak prophetic utterances to those in need. Through Christ you will proclaim from the rooftops what Jesus has proclaimed in silence. You will be used by God to do the works that He did through Jesus and He will even use you to do greater works, because Jesus went to the Cross and has allowed Him to. You have a great and spectacular destiny in Christ and today is the Day of your salvation!

Thursday, May 11, 2006

We Now Have Our Fathers Divine Nature

“Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin, for He that is dead is free from sin.” Romans 6:6

Now look at Colossians 3:3, “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” “If then ye be risen with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.” Colossians 3:1 “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:6

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

Today is the day that our Lord has made, and He has empowered us with the fullness of Himself so that we may rejoice and be glad in it!

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Do You Think That You Are Dead To Sin?

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

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

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

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

We Have God's Mind To Know Who We Are In Him

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

Christ is now in us and His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, is now life for us and it is life abundantly! The power of God that raised Jesus from the dead and that forever eliminated sins ability to even touch Him, is now alive within you and I. We have been made alive together with the same life force of God, the Holy Spirit, that raised Jesus from the dead and that quickened Him together with God. The wage of sin is death, but the gift of God is life eternal through Christ Jesus our Lord! God tells us that we are to consider ourselves to be dead to sin, and thus we also should consider ourselves to be dead to the wages of sin. We are able to think this way about ourselves, because God has given us the Mind that He has, the Mind of His Anointing, Christ.

“For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 2:16 God’s Mind knows and understands the power of His Anointing and the power of His salvation for us! The Anointed Mind of Christ, that God has united us with, knows the Truth that human flesh apart from Him is nothing but sin. And it also knows the absolute Truth that God’s Strength, provided to us by Jesus’ sacrifice, has overcome the weakness of our flesh! God has given us a mind that knows Who He is within us and a mind that knows we are no longer alone! The mind that God has given us fully understands that we have been crucified with Christ, and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us that lives, it is Christ within us Who lives! The mind that God gives us knows that He can do all things through us by the power of His Anointing that He has given us! Our mind from God does not fear, it does not doubt, and does not hate. Our mind loves, forgives, has hope and faith, and does not for one second doubt that God loves us. It actually knows the breadth, length, height, and depth of our Fathers love, and it is able to grasp the peace that comes from Jesus, even though His peace passes all understanding. As our Father is, so are we, even while we are in this earth!

Monday, May 08, 2006

Jesus Becme Flesh, So That We Could Become One With God

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” John 1:14

Jesus was with God from the very beginning! He was One with God and to save us, He came to the Earth as a man, born of a woman. Jesus took on flesh, flesh that could be destroyed, flesh that could be tempted in every way that we can be tempted, yet through the power of God He stayed without sin.

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

Jesus’ flesh could be destroyed, it wasn’t some supernatural flesh, it was just like ours and it was killed! Think about it, Jesus’ flesh had taken on every sin and every sickness that the world would ever have.  Jesus' flesh was destroyed on the Cross and afterwards it laid dead and lifeless in a tomb. Then after three days the power of our Father's Anointing came upon it and Jesus’ flesh was quickened and raised up and lived again. The dead flesh of Christ was raised and made alive together with God! This is what has happened for us now that we are saved, our dead flesh has been raised up and made to be alive together with God!

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

We no longer live by the power of the flesh, we now live by the power of the Spirit of God dwelling within us. We have our Father's Spirit within us right now; we are one with it and He is above us, through us, and in us! There is now one body, one Spirit, one faith, one hope, and one love. It is all God and we are one with Him! Today is the day of our salvation and now is our accepted time. This isn’t some whacked out theology, think about it, all God is saying is that His Anointing has overcome the weakness of our flesh!

Sunday, May 07, 2006

What Christ Does To Our Flesh

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

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

One application of Christ and your flesh is forever changed. Christ wipes out every wrinkle, every spot, and every blemish, Ephesians 5:27. Oil of Ole only covers it up, you have to continually buy that stuff and the results are questionable. But man the Anointing of God is free and one application is eternal. And we don’t even have to apply it, God does it for us. You talk about a bargain!

Saturday, May 06, 2006

God Keeps Us From Falling

“Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:” 2 Peter 1:10,

Ask yourself this question; do you have the hope that you will never fall? Is never failing to high of a standard; is it too much pie in the sky? Well we can see what God has to say about it here in 2 Peter. God shows us that there is a way for us to never fall, and that way is Christ in us, doing the works. Faith is the evidence of things hoped for; true godly faith is only Authored and Finished by Jesus. So if you don’t think a life without falling is within our capabilities, then ask God to show you what He was talking about through Peter, and you will see that it is totally available to us, and Jesus’ yoke is not harsh, it is easy to be borne! Through Christ we are now one with God and God is more than able and willing to do all things righteously through us! The Truth that sets us free is that we are one with God and the power of not falling is on God, and not on His body parts! When we look towards God and towards His power it is easy to believe that He can keep us, just as He keeps Himself. The revelation here is on our unity and oneness with God. Faith comes from hearing this Truth and this Truth sets us free!

Through the power of Jesus’ sacrifice we are now new creatures in Christ, and old things have passed away and all things have become new for us. “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 The power and glory of our perfection, the ability for us to never fall lies completely and totally with Jesus, and He is our High Priest Who ever lives to intercede for us so that we may be saved to the uttermost. Jesus has rescued us from our weak humanity and He has delivered us into the strong place of being one with our Father as He is One with our Father! Jesus is that great and through His power we shall never fall and through Jesus our election is sure!

Friday, May 05, 2006

We Now Have Life As God Has Life

“According as His Divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue.” 2 Peter 1:3

We have been given all things that pertain unto life and unto godliness! We have been given all things that pertain unto life and godliness just as God has all things that pertain unto life and unto godliness! Notice that these things are not reserved for us, waiting for us in Heaven, they are for us right now, today, this very second! God doesn’t have to wait for these things, and we are now His body and one with Him. Praise God, we have been strengthened with Christ, the very power that God gave to Himself when He came to the earth as a man. And through our Lord and through the power of His love, we have been made to be partakers of God’s glory and virtue. The power that has been freely bestowed upon us by Jesus, allows God to be Who He is within us, so that we can walk successfully 100% of the time! For us to fail would mean that God had failed, and God never fails. All things now work together for our good, just as all things work together for God!

We are now more than conquerors through Christ Who love’s us! Greater is our Father Who is within us than anything that is in this world! The weapons of our warfare are now mighty to the bringing down of strongholds. And through Christ we have life and we have it abundantly, an abundant life according to our Father riches and glory, an abundant life that overtakes us! Today is the Day of our Salvation and now is our accepted time and our faith to accept all of God’s Truth is Authored and Finished by Jesus, the Alpha and Omega!

Thursday, May 04, 2006

We Now Have God's Great And Precious Promises

“By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises..” Let’ stop here for a minute, who gave us the precious and exceedingly great promises? Whose promises are they? They are God’s promises and they are precious and they aren’t just great, they are exceedingly great! Now back to the verse, “so that through them you may escape [by flight] from moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in this world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and becoming sharers (partakers) of the Divine nature.” 2 Peter 1:4 Amplified

Man that is awesome stuff! We have been given God’s promises, so that we may share and be partakers of His nature. And because of God we have escaped the corruption that is in this world! God’s love is precious and it is exceedingly great, and we are now partakers of it and God’s love now abides within us! We have escaped the corruption of this world through it, as it covers up and destroys a multitude of sins!

We can’t escape lust and greed through our own efforts, with our own faith, or our own anything. We escape corruption because of God, through the power of His Anointing, which is Christ, and we have escaped corruption because it is God’s nature dwelling within us! These are God’s great and precious promises to us! We are victorious because of God, and God is victorious 100% of the time! There is now no weapon formed against us that can prosper because there is no weapon that can prosper against God. And through Christ we are now more than conquerors, just as God is more than a conqueror! As He is, so are we in this world!

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

All That God Has Is Now Ours

And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.” Luke 15:27-31

The point we need to realize from this parable of the Prodigal Son is this, everything that the father of these two sons had, was always the son’s! The power of the father, the wealth of the father, the supplies of the father, all that he had was the son’s. The same Truth that Jesus spoke of in this parable applies for you and I, all that our Father, Who is God, has is ours! We need love, so we now have our Father’s love. We need faith, so we now have our Father’s faith. We need wisdom, so we now have our Father’s wisdom, we need protection, and praise Jesus we now have God’s protection. Love is the greatest thing of all, and praise God, we now have the best love there is! The love that cried out for forgiveness on the Cross is now our love! The love that bore our sins, our sicknesses, and our diseases, is now our love. We have a Godly commandment to love, and man we have been supplied with the most powerful and capable love of all, God’s love! God’s commandment kept and fulfilled, by God Himself through us, and as Jesus said, without Him, we could have never done it! But with Him, praise God with Him, we are one with the One Who can do it all! Hallelujah! The Word of God is quick and the Truth of God’s Word has set us free to be used as our Lord and Savior was used!

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

God's Love Within Us Produces Much Fruit

"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in Him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing." John 15:5

Without God, without Jesus, we can do absolutely nothing righteous! We cannot love, unless God loves through us. There is nothing good that comes from our flesh, there are no qualities of man that can stand up to the righteous requirements of God, but praise God’s Holy Name, we now fully meet the standards of God by the power of God that now dwells within us! There is no fear of failure, because God’s perfect love has driven out all of the torment of fear! There is no question about having the needed faith, because Jesus has Authored and Finished our faith! There is no question about not knowing what to do, because we have the Holy Ghost Who teaches us all things! There is now no question about not having the resources, because our needs are met according to God’s riches and glory in Christ Jesus! There is no question that God has called us, because we have His Spirit within us crying out Father, Father! The love that Jesus had to come and serve, is now abiding within us, and as Jesus is, so are we in this world! “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 Our love has been made perfect by Christ, because our love is now God’s very own love, everything the Father has, has been given to us through Jesus our Lord!

Monday, May 01, 2006

Our Fathers Love Is Shed Abroad In Our Hearts

“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

God’s perfect love that has been shed abroad in our hearts casts out all fear from us. “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 God had no fear whatsoever that Jesus would fail. God knew that Jesus would come and that He would be sacrificed, and then He would be raised from the dead and since He absolutely would be, we would be saved to the uttermost! Jesus knew the exact same thing and this is the confidence of God’s love that now dwells within us! God’s love drives all fear from us!

There is one basic commandment that Jesus has declared to us under the New Covenant; we are to love. "And this commandment have we from Him, that he who loveth God love his brother also." 1 John 4:21 We will see as we continue in this study that God provides everything for us just as He has provides everything for Himself. He can do nothing less, we are His body; we are His flesh! There is nothing that God has commanded us to do, that He is not within us doing! There is never any separation between God and us. Just as we do not remove body parts, God does not remove us! It’s always the Father within us; He is always doing the works through us by the power of Christ which has strengthened us so that He can! God says we are to love, so Jesus has made us one with the exact same love as God has. And we now cannot help but to love as our Head loves! The body acts as one! Jesus has made us one with the very power of God to fulfill His commandments. God places all of the burdens of our eternity on Himself. God says we need faith, (Hebrews 11:6) so our faith is now Authored and Finished by Jesus. (Hebrews 12:2) God says we need to love, so He gives us His love to love others with. God says we need to study to show ourselves approved, (2 Timothy 2:15) so He gave us the Holy Ghost to teach us all things. (John 14:26) God provides complete and total salvation for us! Jesus came and died for us, so that we might have life and have it more abundantly! Our abundance is now God’s abundance! Jesus leads us into the paths of righteousness by making us one with the only Righteous One, God! Jesus causes us to walk in God’s statutes and to keep God’s judgments by making us one with God Himself, so how could we walk any other way? We are not living this life alone, we are united with God through Christ and He never leaves us or forsakes us! God does not give us ordinances and rules that are dependent upon our own human efforts to succeed. No, God gave us Himself, He gave us His love, He gave us His Spirit, He gave us His Son; He gave us all of Himself to carry out the works of His righteousness within this world, and through our Father, and only Him, can we have any level of success! And our Father’s least is mans miraculous abundance!

Sunday, April 30, 2006

We Now Are One With God's Love

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

The love that God has for Jesus is now the love that is within you and I. It has to be, because we are now one with God, how could we possess another love than the love that He has? Now think about the power of God’s love, stop and really consider that this overwhelming love of God is now the love that we are one with and the love that is within us! God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus, to die on the Cross for us so that we might live eternally united with Him! And think about Jesus’ love, which is God’s love. He loved us so much that He was willing to do all of it for us! God and Jesus love us so much that They have never given up on us, They have never abandoned us, and They will never leave us or forsakes us! This eternal love of God, this perfect love of God, is now in us because of our Lord and Savior Jesus! Jesus declared God and He continues to declare Him, and through the power of the testimony of Jesus Christ, we now have God’s perfect love dwelling within us and through the power of the Holy Spirit we are actually one with it! You talk about the power of preaching, right here shows us how powerful it can be, we have God’s love within us because Jesus continues to preach about our Father! There is no better love to be found, there is no more powerful love, there is no more eternal love, and there is no more perfect love than the love that God has for His Son and our Savior Jesus Christ, and that exact same love is now what is alive in us! We have direct and unbroken access to it, we posses it, it works within us, and it lives abundantly within us. We are not limited to mere human love, as born again believers we now united with the power of God’s love working for us and through us! God’s love overtakes us and consumes us because the righteous love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts!

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Jesus Has Fulfilled Our Righteousness

“That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Romans 8:4

The Truth about our righteousness is this, everything that God required for us to be righteous, has been completely fulfilled for us by Jesus and the Anointing of the Holy Spirit. Jesus has given it all to us! If we continue to talk about our unworthiness, we are actually saying that God did not do this for us and we are drawing attention unto ourselves and not directing the attention towards God; which is actually arrogance! For us to truly be humble, we must accept these awesome Truths of God, and allow Him to glorify us, so that He may be glorified through us! Because the Truth is God doesn’t consider us to be unworthy, He considers us to be the vessels that He receives His glory through, and we are the ones that God desires to have eternal fellowship with! God has made us righteous and God has glorified us with Himself, and no man and no thing is now able to take us out of His hands. God has perfected us by allowing us to become one with Him, and the world will believe and they will know that God loves them, just as much as He loves Jesus! God has made us righteous, by allowing us to become one with His righteousness. And the price to accomplish this was high, it required Jesus to go to the Cross and die. Now what do you think glorifies that act more, talking about what we have done or haven’t done, or talking about what our Father has done for us?

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

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

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

Father we thank you and praise You for giving us all of these Truths and we thank You for allowing us to be used to bring Jesus glory, by being fully glorified and united with You! Father it is You within us doing everything, and You allow us to be part of Your glory and holiness. Father thank You for allowing us to be one with Your victory and Your power. And thank You for allowing us to be one with Your lifestyle and enjoying all of Your benefits! How awesome You are towards us Father! We praise You for giving us the Anointed Mind of Christ, the mind that You have, so that we can actually know You and all that You are! Hallelujah and A-men!

Friday, April 28, 2006

And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one. I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” John 17:22-23

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

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

Thursday, April 27, 2006

True Humility

“Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.” 1 John 4:4

People so often try to raise God up by talking about how bad we are, we believe that this is being humble. “O what retched men we are, we are weak, we are so bad, we do this wrong, we do that wrong, but thank God He saved us anyway.” You ever notice how people will talk for 20 minutes about themselves and then throw in a 10 second God reference at the end. Don’t you get sick and tired of it! Jesus said it all so differently; Jesus said that He will glorify the Father by glorifying us, by giving us His very Own Spirit, and by producing much righteous fruit through us. Jesus said that He will perfect us by saving us and making us one with God! God does not receive glory by us talking about how bad we are! That old man has passed away, he was crucified with Christ, and the new man who is one with God through Christ and who is united with God through Christ is now alive. God receives glory by being glorious through us! Being used by God, as a part of His body, to produce much fruit is what glorifies God, and God gave us the best that He has, Jesus, to insure that He is able to use us! And praise God, Jesus gave us His glory, which is His oneness with God, His power, His faith, His Spirit, His love, and His magnificence to live in! Jesus gave us all of Himself; He has made us one with all He is and Who He is; Jesus has given us His all! And because He has, we are now eternally united with His glory and He will never leave us or forsake us. It’s all God, and through Christ we are now one and united with all of God! True humility acknowledges what Jesus has done for us, not what we have done!

Greater is He that is in us today, than he that is in the world. And because God is in us today we have become one with Jesus, Who has overcome the world and robbed it of all of its power to harm us. Through Christ our Father has made us more than conquerors and through Christ there is absolutely no weapon that has been formed against us than will prosper! As our Father is victorious in all things, so are we in His power on this world!

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

We Are Perfect In The Glory Of Jesus

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

The glory that God gave to Jesus, the complete and perfect glory that God gave to Jesus, He has now given to us! Jesus didn’t give us part of His glory, not just some of His glory, Jesus gave us all of His glory that had been given to Him by God! Jesus turned right around and gave it to us, the exact same glory! We have been given the exact same glory as the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the King of Kings, the exact same glory that Jesus has, is now ours as well! And that glory is being one with God as Jesus is One with God! Not only do we have His glory, but as we studied earlier, Jesus is glorified in us. As if that is not powerful enough, look at what Jesus goes on to say; He says that we are perfect; we are perfect, because of our unity and oneness with God through Him. We are now God’s body, so how could we be anything but glorified and perfect?

Glorified and perfect, that is what we are this day in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! “(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)” 2 Corinthians 6:2 This is what the power of the Anointing of Christ has done for us. Look glory up in a concordance, and you will see that it means majesty, dignity, splendor, brightness, and an exalted state. Jesus prayed that God would glorify Him with all of these things, just as He was before He was manifested on this earth as a man, and then Jesus asked God to give the exact same glory to us! “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:” Ephesians 2:6 Today is the day that God has made us one with His dignity. Today God has made us one with His Light. We are now one with God’s splendor and because of Jesus we are now one with God’s majesty! We are now one and united with all of these attributes of God by the power of Christ so that the world will believe and be saved! Today is the Day of Salvation and Now is our accepted time to be used perfectly by our Father to serve His Kingdom!

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Today Is The Day

"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

So many in religion are putting off our glory to sometime in the future; which actually means they are putting off Jesus’ glory until sometime in the future! Jesus is to be glorified through each of us right now! Waiting until our future in Heaven is not how Jesus teaches that the world will believe and be saved. Jesus taught that the world will believe when we are one with Him, and when we are one with each other through Him! The world is hurting and they need the Truth that will set them free right now, because now is the day of salvation! Being one with God through Jesus and having our Father working fully through us, brings Jesus glory! Jesus is not coming back to save us from the ill’s and evils of the earth. He has already defeated them! Jesus is coming back when the harvest is ready and the harvest is ready when the fruit is ripe! And praise His glorious Name that is when we are glorious through Him, without spot, wrinkle, and without any blemish! This is a much fruit producing church; this is the church that God receives glory from, because this is the church that is mature in their understanding of who Christ has made them. This is a church that knows they are truly one with God, as Jesus is One with God. They are not offended at the Truth that has set them free. This is a church that God is fully working through! It’s not in Heaven where this occurs, it’s right now, it’s today, and it is all possible because of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. And Jesus receives His glory by what He has allowed God to do through us because of His sacrifice! Glorifying Jesus goes beyond just singing about Him. Glorifying Jesus is to be one with God through Him and then having God work fully through us, just as God works fully through Him! This is what Jesus went to the Cross to provide! We glorify Jesus by God being a doer of the Word through us, because greater is He that is within us, than He that is in the world! God can do all things through us by the Anointing of Christ that strengthens us and this brings the glory that Jesus deserves through us!

Faith comes from us hearing the Truth of who Jesus has made us, and Who He has allowed us to become one with, and the Truth sets us free to be used fully by God as our Lord and Savior is used fully by God! And the Truth is now is our time through Christ Jesus!

Monday, April 24, 2006

The Power Of Our Glory In Christ

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

And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one as We are One.” John 17:22

Jesus being glorified through us is what will end terrorism. Jesus’ glory within us is what will cure cancer, stop abortion, defeat divorce, end violence, and bring about Godly change within all of our world! The fruit of Godly love, peace, joy, faith, hope, and patience, produced by our being one with God trough Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior is the fruit that brings glory! Too many Christians believe that this power of God working through us can only happen when it all ends and Jesus comes back for us. But the Truth that has set us free is this: the power of Christ has actually made us one with God and the power of Christ has strengthened us so that God can now do all things through us! Jesus teaches us in John 17:21 that by our oneness with God through Him, is how the world will believe and be saved. Heaven and earth will pass away but the Truth that we are now one with God and that we are now as Jesus is, so that we can be used by God as Jesus is used by God, is eternal and it will never pass away. And no weapon formed against this Truth will ever prosper! And the power of this Truth is at work in each and every born again child of God right now.

In Ephesians 5 God talks about the glorious church that Jesus is coming back for, a church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish. That is a church that Jesus is being fully glorified in, and that is the church for right now, for now is the accepted time and today is the day of our salvation! In John 14:12 Jesus talks about God doing the works through us that He did through Him, and that God will do even greater works through us than He did through Him; this is a Godly Truth for right now that will bring glory to Jesus. Through the power of Christ we will be used by God as Jesus is used by God, because we are now one with Jesus and that makes us one with God! We are the body of Christ, so we will be used and act like the body we are one with and that body is God’s! Through Christ we are one with God as Jesus is One with God and the world will believe and be set free from the power of darkness and they will be transformed into the Light, as Jesus is in the Light! We don’t just have access to God’s love, faith, joy, peace, hope, power, and glory, through Christ we are one with them!

The Power Of Our Glory In Christ

"And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine; and I am glorified in them." John 17:10
And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one as We are One.John 17:22
Jesus being glorified through us is what will end terrorism. Jesus’ glory within us is what will cure cancer, stop abortion, defeat divorce, end violence, and bring about Godly change within all of our world! The fruit of Godly love, peace, joy, faith, hope, and patience, produced by our being one with God trough Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior is the fruit that brings glory! Too many Christians believe that this power of God working through us can only happen when it all ends and Jesus comes back for us. But the Truth that has set us free is this: the power of Christ has actually made us one with God and the power of Christ has strengthened us so that God can now do all things through us! Jesus teaches us in John 17:21 that by our oneness with God through Him, is how the world will believe and be saved. Heaven and earth will pass away but the Truth that we are now one with God and that we are now as Jesus is, so that we can be used by God as Jesus is used by God, is eternal and it will never pass away. And no weapon formed against this Truth will ever prosper! And the power of this Truth is at work in each and every born again child of God right now.
In Ephesians 5 God talks about the glorious church that Jesus is coming back for, a church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish. That is a church that Jesus is being fully glorified in, and that is the church for right now, for now is the accepted time and today is the day of our salvation! In John 14:12 Jesus talks about God doing the works through us that He did through Him, and that God will do even greater works through us than He did through Him; this is a Godly Truth for right now that will bring glory to Jesus. Through the power of Christ we will be used by God as Jesus is used by God, because we are now one with Jesus and that makes us one with God! We are the body of Christ, so we will be used and act like the body we are one with and that body is God’s! Through Christ we are one with God as Jesus is One with God and the world will believe and be set free from the power of darkness and they will be transformed into the Light, as Jesus is in the Light! We don’t just have access to God’s love, faith, joy, peace, hope, power, and glory, through Christ we are one with them!

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Jesus Is Glorified By Working Through Us

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

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

Jesus is glorified by us, because He is within us, He is abiding within us, and dwelling within us. We cannot bring glory to Jesus by ourselves or through mere human actions. The great Truth of salvation is that it destroys all of the abilities of our old man, we are now dead, crucified with Christ on the Cross, and yet we live, because we have been born again and raised up together and made to sit together in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior! Just as Jesus died and yet He lives! The only that way we are able to bring glory to Jesus is because it is Jesus producing much fruit through us! The fruit that Jesus produces through us, through the Holy Spirit, glorifies God. And by Jesus being able to produce much fruit through us brings glory to Him, and as He works through us, we are also glorified! The world will see and know that we are one with God through Christ. They will know that there is salvation because no man is able to produce Godly fruit on His own. The world will accept and believe on Jesus as Lord because of our unity and oneness with the Father, just as Jesus is one with the Father, and A-men the Harvest grows and multiplies! Satan loses and Jesus wins! And since we are now one with Jesus, we win too, and that brings glory to God! Jesus teaches us in Mark 16 that signs will follow us if we believe, the sick will be healed, devils will flee, we will speak in new tongues, and deadly things will not harm us, these are only possible because of God within us, He does the works! These are the works that the Vine produces through us and these are the works that bring glory to the Truth that Jesus now abides within man!

Saturday, April 22, 2006

We Are Glorifed So That We May Glorify

“These words spake Jesus and lifted up His eyes to Heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify and exalt and honor and magnify Your Son, so that Your Son may glorify and extol and honor and magnify You.” John 17:1 Amplified

Our prayers should resemble this one of Jesus’, because the only way that we will ever be able to boldly glorify and testify of God within this earth, is by God doing it through us. “That they all may be one, [just] as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me.” John 17:21 Amplified

Now here is the great Truth about this prayer request, it’s answered! Because we now have the power of God within us through our baptism with His Holy Spirit. We now have the exact Spirit of God, not a Spirit that is like God’s, but His actual Spirit within us, Who is teaching us all things, Who is strengthening us in the power of God’s might, and Who is causing us to know Who God is and who we are in Him. Think about it, we actually now are one with God’s Spirit, He now abides within us! We now have the exact same glory that Jesus has to be used to magnify and exalt and honor our Father. We now have the same power that Jesus has to seek first the Kingdom of God and to ever live to serve and love. We are as God is, even while we are on this earth, because we now have God’s Spirit, and He is as He is even on this earth! Through the glorious power of Christ we are now one with God, even as Jesus is One with God and we are now able to be used to serve the Kingdom as our Lord and Savior Jesus serves the Kingdom! The weak have been made strong in the power of God’s glorious might! We have been glorified with the fullness of our Father so that the world may be able to believe that Jesus is the Christ. We have been glorified so that we may glorify.

We are blessed this day, even the least of us is blessed, with the absolute eternal and omnipotent glory of God!

Friday, April 21, 2006

Jesus Is Glorified In Us

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

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

We are not praising our Father enough in church and in our fellowship regarding this Truth! We are not thankfully worshipping our Father for it and it is not being discussed enough. We need to begin to sing songs about it, teach our children about it, and boldly proclaim it from the rooftops: that through the power and Anointing of the Holy Spirit in our lives JESUS IS GLORFIED IN US!

When we understand that it is God within us doing the works, this is actually a very humbling thing. There is no arrogance in professing this, there is only victory, there is healing, there is hope, faith, power, love, and maturity. Our Father has given us such a special gift and purpose, and we have His Anointing empowering us to be fully used by Him! The least to the greatest in the Kingdom of God has this same purpose, to be a vessel that glorifies Jesus to the world! We are now one with God and He is eternally within all of us doing His works of righteousness and as the people of the world see God working through us, with power and demonstration of His Spirit, Jesus is glorified and the world knows that God has sent Him, so that we all might be saved! Democracy, the United Nations, united coalitions, sanctions, bombs, and war will not change the world, but Jesus being glorified through the perfect church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish will, A-men and A-men!

Thursday, April 20, 2006

God Gives Us The Desire To Do Everything

“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them.” Ezekiel 36:26-27

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

When I was twenty-four, God told me to read the Bible three times through. I was by no means a reader, so God really caused me to look towards Him for the strength and ability to do what it was that He had asked me to do! God is the One Who led me to look to Him; I can take no credit for it at all. By the power of the Holy Spirit that is within me, I read from Genesis to Revelation three times, and it took just a little longer than six months. I had never read like that before; there was a power within me, greater than I was, and it was God! When we pray, God is right here with us. When we need help with our jobs, God is right here with us, He is always with us! God has really revealed to me the Truth that there is nothing too great or too small for Him and that He is a part of every action of our lives! I have learned that we are never alone in anything that He has asks us to do, whether a Biblical principle or a spoken Word. We are eternally one with our Father through the power of His Anointing and it is always God within us giving us the power, the will, the ability, the desire, the finances, the faith, and the hope to do it. Our Father never gives us a directive and then leaves us alone to solely accomplish it. He can’t, were His body. Can we leave our lungs behind? God never leaves us or forsakes us! The Truth is from the very second that we are born again and empowered to make Jesus our Lord and Savior, God is involved in every area of our lives. We just grow up and realize it! “Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples.” John 15:8

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

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

There is a Godly Truth and it is this: people who spend time in the Word and in prayer, who abide in them are bold! Because with what measure we meet it shall be measured unto us and whatsoever things we sow, that shall we reap! Find someone who has truly been empowered by the Holy Spirit to allow God to lead them in study and in prayer, and you’ll see someone who believes in asking, and who believes in asking for bold and powerful things from God. They will ask for salvation for those that the world has abandoned, they will ask for and expect Jesus like moves of God in this world. They have the mind of Christ and they know who they are in Christ and Who He is in them. They know what salvation means and the power of it! They know that by asking and bearing fruit glorifies God, and that is the desire of their heart, to bring glory to the One Who glorifies them. Find someone who is offended at asking and you’ll see someone who spends their time elsewhere! With what measure we meet, it shall be measured unto us again! The Truth is really this, if we have truly been born again and baptized with the Holy Spirit, and have been empowered to accept Jesus as Lord, then He will lead us into this lifestyle and we can’t help but to abide in Him and ask from Him. “He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His Name’s sake.” Psalm 23:3

Have you ever known a brother or sister in the Lord who continually talks about spending more time with God, yet it never really seems to come to pass? I have heard an awful lot of sermons that condemn people for this, especially when I was growing up. So many preachers and sermons place all of the responsibility on us and there is a great deal of condemnation associated with it, even though the Bible teaches us that there is no longer any condemnation for us. Romans 8:1, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Clearly something was missing and while I heard so much condemnation, I never really heard the answer preached. Here is the Truth and answer for people like this: the reason people fail to walk in a mature relationship with God is because they are looking towards themselves to foster the relationship, and alone it will never happen. There will always be work, kids, whatever it is, and though the reasons will seem legitimate, they will always get in the way and they will always rob us of the fullness that God has for us. If we want to experience the unity available to us with God; if we want true unbroken and full fellowship with our Father, and to experience the rich full life available to us through Christ, here is how it happens, we must be empowered by the Holy Spirit to look to God for all things! Through the power of the Holy Spirit we must ask our Lord and Savior to lead us in every area of our lives and realize that without Him in every area it will never happen. “I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without Me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5 Without Jesus we can do nothing! If you aren’t studying enough, praying enough, fellowshipping enough, look to God for the power to carry out His will in your life, and ask Him to lead you and to guide you. And remember that the only reason that you are desiring to ask for this Truth is because it is Jesus within you directing you to, and faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free! People who succeed with God do it only because it is Christ in them and who people who fail are those who only have themselves. Jesus succeeds 100% of the time, He has never failed and He never will!

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

We Are Anointed To Know The Glory Of Our Union With God

“But the Anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all things, and is Truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him.” 1 John 2:27

Because we have been chosen by God and born again, we cannot help but to abide in Jesus our Lord and Savior. Because we are now one with God through Christ, we are empowered and strengthened in God’s very Anointing, which allows the Holy Ghost to teach us everything about the glory of our union with God! When we see and understand who we are in Christ, we will see that asking for our will, actually means that we are asking for God’s will; just as our hand doesn’t ask our brain for something that is not the will of the brain to provide in the first place. We don’t change God; God changes us. Human lusts and unfruitful desires are taken away from us, God prunes them out of us, so that He can produce righteous fruit through us. Through the Anointing of Christ old things are passed away from us as all things become new for us. Jesus is now our refiners fire and our fullers soap, Malachi 3:2, ever living to intercede for us so that we may be saved to the uttermost. Jesus is the power that quickens our mortal bodies. When God chose us He removed our stony hearts and He replaced them with hearts of love that have been created in His image! “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them.” Ezekiel 36:26-27

Faith comes for us by hearing God’s Truth and God’s Truth sets us free! And the Truth of our Father is that He is the One that is empowering us to believe all that He is. We don’t believe God and then He acts in our lives. God empowers us with His faith to believe and then He acts! The Anointing of our Father abides within us, and it teaches us all things!

Monday, April 17, 2006

Abide In Christ, And Ask What You Will

"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 tells us that if we abide in Him and if we allow the Word of God to abide in us, than we will be able to ask what we will and it shall be done for us. Stop and think of the grandeur and glory of this Truth, "ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you." This Truth is so powerful and so far beyond what is typically thought by religion, that without Jesus and God’s Word abiding in us and us abiding in Them, we would think that this verse was a misquote or mistranslation. But it’s not, and we haven’t been given a spirit of fear that will shy away from this Truth. “For God hath not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7 We have been strengthened with Christ and through the Anointing of God, we are able to know and accept all that Jesus has provided for us. And we are able to have peace and joy in believing and accepting it, as we abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit that is within us! “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” Romans 15:13

We know the Truth and the Truth that has set us free is that we are now one with God. Just as our hearts are one with our bodies, just as our hands, and eyes, and ears are one with our bodies, through Christ we too are now one with God. We are now members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bone, Ephesians 5:30! So ask yourself this, how does the heart know what to ask for? How does our hands, or legs, know what to ask for? They know what to ask for because the brain tells them what to ask for and we now have the mind of Christ that empowers us to ask and not ask amiss. “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 2;16 We cannot help but to abide in Christ, because we have now been made alive together with Him. And we cannot help but to abide in the Word of God, because Jesus is the Word, and we are now one with Him! We have been given the fullness of God and it is the Father within us, He does all of the works, even empowering us to ask! Today is the Day of our Salvation, and now is our appointed time in Christ!

Sunday, April 16, 2006

We Are Strong In Our Unity With God

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

Because we are now one with Jesus, we are now one with God, and through Christ we are unstoppable in our Father’s might! Through the Anointing of God we are now strong in the power of Jesus’ might and because of His Anointing God can now do all things through us! “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13 Through Christ we are now one with God, so we are strong like God! Through the power of Christ that has been freely bestowed upon us there is now no sickness, no demon, no threat, no law, no politician, no court, and no special interest group that can stop us from being fully used by God to produce much fruit. Because we abide in Jesus and Jesus abides in us, God will produce much glorious fruit through us! We are now in Jesus, and Jesus is in the Father, and Jesus is in us. We are members of His body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone!

“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” Romans 8;37

“Now thanks be to God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of His knowledge in every place.” 2 Corinthians 2:14

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.” 2 Corinthians 10:4

Saturday, April 15, 2006

“And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things in common.” Acts 4:32

To have and enjoy a full and abundant life we need others to be part of our lives, and we are created in God's image; He too needs and wants us. God created us to have fellowship with. If it wasn’t God’s need and desire for fellowship with His own children, those created by Him in His Own likeness, why would He have done it in the first place? I love dogs, I have two of them, and I really enjoy their companionship, yet I need and eagerly desire to have other people in my life. My wife Beth, my kids, my friends, my brothers and sisters in the Lord, and my family, I need them to live abundantly. That’s just how God has created us. Put any of us on an island with no one else, and while we may survive, it would not be a desirous life, an abundant life, or a fulfilled life. God has angels and other created beings, but they are not created in His image as we are. I really believe that God needs us for the same reason that we need others like us. Beth and I could have stopped at one child, but we desired more, and God graced us with the ability to have more. We love the fellowship that we have with our kids; we love experiencing the fellowship that Kennedy and Lauren have with each other; we love providing for them, teaching them, and protecting them, it’s part of an abundant life!

There is something overwhelmingly comforting to know that God desires us and that we need Him. Sure God would continue to exist without us, but we are where He receives His glory. "And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine, and I am glorified in them." John 17:10 Never underestimate the joy and companionship, and satisfaction that we provide for our Father. I know it doesn’t sound religious to say God needs us for anything, but History sure has proven one thing, even at our worst, He continues to long for our fellowship! And even at our worst He has continually provided a way for that fellowship to occur! God loves us and He will never leave or forsake us. “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” Hebrews 13:5
I know that during Easter many of us focus on the brutality of the Cross and the suffering that Jesus had to endure. But do me a favor, go and read John 17, and this Easter focus on why Jesus allowed it to happen and what His desire is for our lives!
Love
Brad

Friday, April 14, 2006

We Are In Jesus, And Jesus Is In Us

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

We now abide in Christ, which means we now dwell in Him, we live in Him, and we remain one with Him, and Jesus now dwells in, lives in, and remains one with us. Consider the branch of a vine, with the vine it is everything and without the vine it produces nothing and dies. The branch bears the fruit; the vine gives the branch the life and the ability to, and the branch can only bear the fruit of the vine that it is one with. The branch gives the vine life, energy, and purpose. A vine without any branches is worthless. Stop and think about that for a minute. God created us in His own image, in order to have fellowship with us, to have companionship with us, to be one with us, and to love us and to be loved by us. The Word of God boldly proclaims that Jesus ever lives to make intercession for us, "Wherein He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him. Seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them." Hebrews 7:25 Jesus lives to serve us, as a vine lives to serve the branches that are united with it. Parents will know what I am saying here. Can God survive without us, absolutely He can, but that isn’t His desire! His desire is to spend eternity with us and to have continual unbroken fellowship with us. God’s desire is to be glorified in us! “And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine, and I am glorified in them.” John 17:10

We are so precious to our Father and through the power of Christ He can have the desire of His heart fulfilled and do more through us than we can ask, pray for, or think of! This is what it means to have Jesus as Lord!

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Today Is The Day That We Will Know Who We Are

"At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you." John 14:20

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

Please join with me in prayer that all who read these studies and all who you and I come in contact with will be chosen by God and empowered by the baptism of the Holy Spirit to know that they too are in Christ and that He is in them! In Jesus’ Name let’s agree that they will know that they are actually one with God through Christ; together we need to desire, as God desires, for all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth. I thank God that we are all vessels of His Anointing, and that God uses us to be a great blessing in the lives of those whom we have contact with. I thank God that they all see our unity with Him, that they see the Spirit of God in operation within us, and that they eagerly desire the same thing! When people receive a revelation of who they are in Christ and that we are actually united with them and that He is dwelling within them, when they see the unity they possess with the Alpha and the Omega, the world and satan loose! The strength and assurance of God’s Truth consumes them, peace that passes understanding and unspeakable joy flow through and from their lives as never before, it is an awesome revelation that empowers the believer to be used by God to do His mighty works! Plain and simple it is the only way we will ever do any work of the Lord!

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

God Himself Will Teach Us Of Who We Are

"But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him." 1 John 2:27

Our Father proclaims through John, that we need no one to teach us, because through the Holy Spirit, He  will teach us all things. This truth of our unity with our Father and with each other, can only be taught to us by the Holy Spirit. The magnificence of who we are in Christ and the unity that we now enjoy with our Father through Him will run contrary to most religious teaching. This is why our Father will lead us into dozens upon dozens of verses that proclaim the Truth that will set us free. Yet without the Spirit of our Father revealing His Truth to us, these verses cannot be received and will not be accepted!

Far to often people will try to only rely on a preacher, a tape series, a study guide such as this to teach them, but we have a Father Who has the time, the patience, the love, the wisdom, and the desire to teach us all things! I will write and share what our Father has taught and shared with me, and you will share with others what He has taught you, as we should. But the great Truth of salvation is that we are never separated from our Father who is the One who teaches us all things. We have the complete and total Spirit of God our Father dwelling within us, and He will teach us all things. He will teach us all things because we are now one with Him! Through Christ we are now one with God and we now have the very Spirit of God empowering us, so that we are incapable of not being in constant fellowship with our Father.

“Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all [manner of] prayer and entreaty. To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints (God's consecrated people).” Ephesians 6:18 Amplified Bible

Today is the absolute day of our salvation and today our Father is greater in us than anything or any situation that is in this world! Today through Christ our Father is able to do all things through us, even greater things than He did through Jesus! Today Jesus has allowed the blessings of God to overtake us by fully meeting all of the righteous requirements of the law so that He can! And today all things now work for our good, as all things work for our Fathers good. Today we cannot help but to be blessed in the power of our Fathers might!

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

We Are One With Jesus Today

"At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you." John 14:20

We shall know, we shall have confidence, fully assured, no man able to pluck it away from us, we will know that we are in Christ and that He is in us! There is no greater Truth that will empower the believer than the Truth that once we are chosen of God and empowered to say yes to Jesus and make Him the Lord of our lives, we actually become one with God through Him. This Truth will empower our obedience towards the Lord, it will strengthen and permit our abilities to serve, and it will allow us to be the children that God intended for us to be. Unity with the Father brings full and perfect peace, absolute joy, mountain moving faith, eternal hope, perfect love, forgiveness, glorious power, godly wisdom, complete knowledge, discernment, healings, and miracles, and all at God’s level! Mere human abilities are diminished to obscurity by the presence of God! We no longer walk alone, it is no longer just up to us to try and be a good Christian, it is now by the power of God that we are one with and that is within us that we are able to be who we should be in Christ! God is now within us and we are now in Him! Our Father consumes us and every fiber of our being is united and one with God, the Creator of it all!

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

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

Monday, April 10, 2006

Salvation Means That God's Will Be Done On This Earth

“Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven.” Matthew 6:10

Jesus taught us that this is how we should pray: that the will of God should be done through us on this earth, exactly as our Fathers will is done in Heaven! Through Christ God has provided a way for us to have everything on this earth as we will have in Heaven. “Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we should walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:4 Through Christ we walk in newness of life, just as Christ walks in newness of life. The glory of God raised Jesus from the dead and the glory of God has chosen to have us born again and through Christ we have been raised up together and made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, Ephesians 2:6.

So through Christ, even while we are here on this earth, we have and are one with all of God’s peace, all of His joy, all of His wisdom, all of His grace, all of His power, all of His faith, all of His hope, and all of His love. And we have them all exactly as we will have them in Heaven! We have been crucified with Christ, yet nevertheless we live, yet it is not us that lives, it is Christ in us that lives. We are dead and are lives are hid in Christ in God. We are now new creatures in Christ. All of the old things of our lives have passed away and now all things are new for us. Everything Jesus has is now ours! “Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He [the Spirit] will take the things that are Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you.” John 16:15 Amplified Bible

Salvation means that through Christ we have actually become one with God, just as Jesus is One with God. So it is impossible for us not to have everything that God has. If we didn’t it would be like saying our hand doesn’t have our eyes, or our nose doesn’t have our heart. We are actually now one with God, so everything He is and everything He has, we are now one with! We are really members of God’s body, flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone! There is no separation between God and those of us whom He has chosen. God has held nothing back from us, He has given us all that He is and He has allowed us to actually become one with it! Just as a branch is one with the vine that it is connected to! “For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.” Romans 11:16

Through Christ God’s will is being done on this earth as it is in Heaven!