Thursday, December 23, 2010

Unbelief--That's A Dangerous Place To Be

It's not that I can't believe God and what He says, but rather I choose to believe something else because I choose to believe what I see, feel or think over what God has said. I choose to elevate what I see over what God says. I choose to be in control.

The underlying problem of why I can't believe God's word is PRIDE. I choose to exalt what I think, see, and feel, over what God says is true. I exalt my evidence (what I see) over God's evidence (His Word). Faith (believing God) is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Heb 11:1) If I am believing God for healing, then the evidence of my healing is found in His Word. This is the evidence that works for me. If I look anywhere else, like my own body, or the doctor's report, this becomes evidence that works against me, for it will oppose the Word of God. God asks man a question in Isa 53:1. "Who has believed the report of the Lord?". What you choose to believe will determine your outcome.

To not believe God, is to believe something else. Unbelief is to choose to believe one thing over another. Unbelief is not non-belief. Non-belief means you don't believe anything and that is impossible (for you see, whatever you find yourself doing, that is what you believe, because you'll only do what you believe). Unbelief is to choose what you believe over what someone else believes. When Jesus marveled at their unbelief (Mark 6:6) , He was marveling at the fact the people chose to believe what they thought over what God said.

Where there is unbelief, there is no faith and where there is no faith, there is no access into the Grace of God to obtain help (salvation- deliverance, restoration, healing, being made whole) for whatever you have need of. (Rom 5:1-2).

Faith is always present. Faith has been deposited into a man to enable him to believe. God made man this way, for what a man believes, he will do. If a man believes what he thinks, feels, and sees over what God says, then he is believing himself over God. He is in belief towards himself and unbelief towards God.

Whatever a man believes, man will say out of his mouth, for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth will speak (Matt 12:34), and Jesus said you will have what you say (Mark 11:23),why? Because you believe it.

If you look at your body and it says to you, "I'm sick", and you agree with it, then you will be believing that you are a sick man. But if you look at your body and it says "I'm sick" and you say, "God said Jesus bore my sickness and carried my diseases (Matt 8:17) and by His stripes I was healed (1 Pet 2:24), therefore I choose to believe God over what you (my body) are saying to me", then you are agreeing with God and believing that you are a healed man because of what God says over what your body is saying. You are in belief towards God and unbelief towards your body. Does this seem extreme or fanatical to you? The reason for that is you are choosing to live your life in the natural realm, but God lives in the Spirit realm and that is where He is asking you to live your life for He said, "the just shall live by faith" (Heb 10:38) and faith only operates in the Spirit Realm and what I just shared with you in the above scenario does not look extreme or fanatical where God lives. The natural realm is subject to the spiritual realm and the spirit realm can change things in the natural realm (Heb 1:1-4).

I choose to believe God's Word to me over what I think, see, or feel. I exalt God to the highest place in my life, and I choose to bow my knee to Him and submit to Him and I do this by submitting to His Word for God and His Word are One (John1:1). Then I resist the devil (who brought the sickness) and I command that sickness to loose it's grip on my body and then I command it to flee. (James 4:7)

The devil roams about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour (1 Pet 5:8). He needs your permission to devour you and you give it to him when you don't resist him and run him off. He will devour the one who believes what he thinks, feels, and sees over what God says, because the devil knows that this man has done exactly what he (the devil) did, he (the devil) tried to exalt his throne above God's by doing what he thought over what God said (Isa 14:12-15). This is called PRIDE and it originated with the devil and pride defeated him and pride will defeat you also. The devil got kicked out of Heaven, and the man who doesn't believe God gets kicked out of the promises of Heaven.

Whatever part of God's Word a man can not believe, he will not have any access to. To not believe God is to believe something else and you'll have what you believe.

If sickness wants to live in your body and you don't want it to, then you will have to resist it, and run it out by saying what God says over what your body is saying. God has equipped you to do it, but you will have to believe Him over what you think, see, or feel.

It all boils down to, who is going to be God in this situation? Are you going to exalt yourself above God's throne by exalting what you think over what God thinks (Isa 55:8-9), or are you going to trust God and allow Him to rule and reign in your life (Prov 3:5-6), by you believing what God says over what you think, see, or feel.

It's not that you can't believe God, but rather you choose to believe something else. Bottom line, this is sin, and sin separates you from the blessing of God, and exposes you to the curse and the effects of the curse (Ex: sickness, poverty, lack, depression, anxiety, addiction, etc.).

God has revealed this truth to us today so that we would know how dangerous unbelief is. He has shown us the truth behind unbelief which is our choice to worship another God over the One True God. This is serious stuff. You and I are now armed with the truth, and if we choose to believe that truth, it will set us free from the curse. (John 8:32) God says, "I set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, choose life (God even gives us the right choice)" (Deut 30:19).

What choice do you make today?

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Are You Hearing Good News? It's Life & Death

The Word of God, the Bible, is Good News...........not Bad News. (Why do I see so many sad faces at chruch?)

Every issue of life that comes against you, God has Good News in response to it.

Everyday that you wake up, God has Good News waiting for you, but the world has bad news waiting for you. What news are you going to look at and hear and then respond to?

The doctor gives you a report that you are sick and there is no cure, and you will die because of it. Jesus gives you His report that He paid the price for that sickness by bearing that sickness in His own body for you (Matt 8:17) and that by the stripes that were laid on His back you were healed. (1 Pet 2:24) Also in Ps 118:17 God's promise to you is, "you shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord". Which report are you going to believe? The bad news or the Good News? It's your choice. Which ever report you believe will determine your outcome. If you believe the doctor more than you believe Jesus, then you will die. If you believe Jesus more than the doctor, you will live.

God is a good God Who has declared to us Good News!

Jesus said, " according to your faith, be it done unto you." (Matt 9:29) If you believe the Good News, then the Good news will come. If you believe the bad news, then the bad news will come. Life and death are in the power of the tongue (Prov 18:21), because what you believe dwells in your heart (Rom 10:10) and what you believe in your heart you will say with your mouth. The words that come out of your mouth will always tell you and God what you believe.

Fill your heart full of God's report, the Good News, instead of the doctor's report, bad news, and the words that come out of your mouth will sound just like God's report and you will have what you say because Jesus said you would. (Mark 11:23). Do you believe Him? It's a matter of life and death. God's news is always Good News. Good News awaits you everyday. The choice is all yours. Now that is God's will for you. What will you do with it? Because your will and not God's, will be the determining factor for God has already declared His will to you by declaring His Word of Promise to you.

Choose the Good News and live.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to tell you. It takes faith to choose the Good News of God over the bad news. That is why God said, "the just shall live by faith" (Heb 10:38)

Romans 1:1 -- The Apostle Paul was separated to the Good News of God. We that believe in Jesus must separate ourselves to the Good News just like Paul did and live our lives according to that Good News.

Good News or bad news, the choice is yours!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

The Just Shall Live By Faith--How Come?

Why does God say, "the just shall live by faith"? (Heb 10:38) Why does a born again man need to live by faith?

So that Jesus can live His life through that man/woman. When I'm born again, my old spirit died, and Jesus' Spirit came and replaced it. (Gal 2:20, Paul says, "I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me, and the life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me). Terry died and Jesus lives within me.

The only way Terry lives now is by me allowing my flesh body to reign and rule me according to the old man, the old way of being. But if I surrender to the One who now lives within me, the Spirit of Jesus, then it will be Jesus living His life in and through my body. To allow Jesus to live His life through me, requires me to live by faith (in God and His ways that I see in the Word) and not by sight (what I think or feel about it).

To live by faith is to be surrendered to God and His ways. I live my life through the Spirit of Jesus that dwells within me. The way Jesus shows me how He wants to live through me is by revealing His Word to Me. He is the Word and the Word is God (Jn 1:1). When I look at the Word, I see the One dwelling within Me and I also can see how He wants to live. I can see what He wants to do. I see Him as He walked this earth teaching, preaching and healing and that is exactly what He still wants to do now, except He is using my body to do it with instead of His. Jesus said, "Whatever I see the Father do, I do." (Jn 5:19), so I say, "whatever I see Jesus do, then that's what I'll be doing, because it's Jesus who lives within me and He is going to continue to do what He always did. To live by faith is nothing more than to allow Jesus to live His life through me.

Why did the Father call me to Jesus? So that I would be willing to be born again with His Spirit and make a place for Jesus to live His life through me with the benefit of me getting to live my life through Him. When I lay my hands on sick people, I'm doing that out of obedience to the Word of God (Jesus) which tells me how Jesus lives, and the purpose of Jesus' life. Jesus' purpose has now become my purpose. My only reason for living is for Him.

But God has said in His Word that if I would choose to live by faith and allow His Son Jesus to live His life through me, then I would be His son also, and that He would supply everything I need for this life and even give me the desires of my heart by adding those things to my life. (Ps 37:4)

Living by faith is the highest calling of life for a man. It's the reason for man to be here. God created man for fellowship and Jesus put His Spirit in the first man Adam that brought God's life to him. Adam's spirit that was filled with God's life, died when Adam sinned, but Jesus sacrificed Himself on the Cross for sinful man, and now man once again can have the Spirit of God (Jesus) living within him, and God the Father can now have the sons and daughters He has always wanted.

My responsibility as a born-again child of God is to live by faith, which means to let Jesus live His life through me, while I'm on this earth, and if I'll do that, God will be well pleased with me, and I will forever live with God throughout eternity.

My goal in this life on earth is not only to be like Him, but to let Him live through me, for if I'll do that, I will look just like him of course.

Am I willing to let Jesus live through me? If I won't live by faith, then I'm not willing to let Jesus live His life through me. I don't ever want to be found at this place. To live for myself is to keep Jesus hidden from a world that desperately needs to see Him.

Am I willing? Are you willing? The way you and I live will answer that question. To live by faith, is to live by what Jesus believes. Jesus is the Living Word. He believes what He is. That same Word lives in me. I believe what I am also, and bless God I'm going to live that way.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

The Schemes of the Devil--You Better Know Them

Every thought of temptation that comes from the devil is always a thought that is in direct opposition to what God has declared as Truth in His Word. Every thought that the devil brings to you is for the intent of leading you away from the Truth. The devil always waits until you have left your time of fellowship with Jesus and the Father to bring his thoughts to you. When you are looking at the Lord by looking at the Word (the Word is Jesus Himself--Jn 1:1) and fellow shipping with with God by meditating His Word, there is no place available for the devil and his thoughts. You're in that secret place (Ps 91:1) called faith, for faith comes as you hear and look at the Word.



But when you leave the place of fellowship with God, the devil will come and try to steal the Word that you received from God, by giving you another thought that usually will try to generate fear. The devil is after your faith, and he uses fear to get it. The devil also uses one other tactic to steal from you. He uses the very same thing against you that separated him from God and got him thrown out of Heaven. The devil uses pride. Pride is where you think more highly of yourself than you ought to. Pride is what tempts you to exalt your throne above God's (by exalting what you think about something over what God thinks about it), just like the devil tried to do (Isa 14: 12-14). God said, "you'll have no other God's before you" (Ex 20:3), and that includes yourself. When you exalt what you think above what God thinks, you're in serious trouble and most vulnerable to the devil.



You see the perfect example of this as you look at Jesus on the Mount of Temptation (Matt 4:1-11). Jesus had just fasted and prayed, or you can say it this way, Jesus had just spent 40 days fellow shipping with the Father, and with that completed, He realized He was hungry. Jesus knew that His Father would supply the food that He needed because His Father is the Lord God Provider ( Jehovah-Jireh meaning "the Lord will provide". This is one of the seven redemptive names of God). But the devil came immediately and tempted Jesus to look away from the Truth, and exalt Himself in that situation by trying to get Jesus to take care of Himself by having Jesus prove that He was the Son of God by speaking to the stones (see, even the devil knows how the Kingdom of God works) and telling them to turn into bread so that Jesus could take care of Himself by eating that bread. But instead of Jesus taking the devil's bait of temptation, He responded with the Word of Truth (His Father's Word), and said, "man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God" (Matt 4:4).



If you don't have the Word of God abiding in you, then you'll not be able to resist the devil's temptation when he comes to kill, steal, and destroy you. For example, when the devil comes and says, "you are sick, the doctor said so, and he said your going to die, and that's exactly what is going to happen to you", and unless you have the Word of Truth abiding in your heart (your spirit, the real you), you'll give into the fear the devil has brought to you and you'll believe the lie. And when you believe the lie, then that is what you will speak from your mouth. You'll hear those words out of your own mouth and they will produce fear. And if you are in fear, you are not in faith. But, if you have God's Word in your heart in abundance, you will respond to the devil's temptation in faith by saying, " Jesus bore my sicknesses and carried my diseases (Matt 8:17) and by His stripes I am healed (1 Pet 2:24), therefore, I shall live and not die and declare the works of the Lord (Ps 118:17), for God has said to me, because you love Me (My Word) I will satisfy you with long life and show you my salvation (Ps 91:14-16)." With God's Word in my heart, I'll take my stand of faith and resist the devil's lies with the Word of Truth.

Let me say it again, every word (thought) that the devil speaks to you is always in direct opposition to God's Word of Truth. You'll believe the lie if you are moved by fear. But you will believe God's Word if you are moved by faith. Which ever word you believe and act on, that is what you will receive.

Meditate on the Word day and night (Josh 1:8). Keep it in your heart in abundance, so that your mouth can be filled with the Word of God whenever you need it, and trust me, you'll need it, because the devil is always after that Word that is in your heart (because it will produce faith) and he will do anything you let him to get it.

Now Jesus said in Mark 11:23, " he (a man/woman) who believes that those things he says will come to pass, he will have whatsoever he says". Now this scripture has so riled up the Church over these last 40 years. It's caused divisions and splits among Christian brothers. Who does that sound like? Who do you think is behind that? The devil knows the Word of God better than most Christians. He has distorted that truth (believing what you say) by tempting man's flesh with it, and men have carelessly misused this Word to fulfill their own lust. But, nevertheless, the Truth behind what Jesus said is still true (today). It's a spiritual law. It works just like the natural law of gravity. It always works when applied. ALWAYS! And the devil knows this, so he knows if he can get you believe with your heart (the lie) and say out of your mouth what he says (instead of what God says), then you will have what you say and he will kill you with your own words.

If you want to live and not die, then you are going to have to do what Jesus did. He said, "I only do what I see the Father do (John 5:19), and I only say what the Father says (John 8:28).
Whatever situation of life that stands before you, you must say what God says about it and live and have victory, for if you say what the devil says about it, you will lose and be destroyed.

Read Josh 1:8 and Ps 1 and do what it says. The key to strong overcoming faith is meditating the word. If you don't like the word meditate, than I'll say it this way, just spend time in the Word, for that is where the Life of God is hidden. And that God life will come alive in you when you put that Word in your heart. Hold fast to the Word of God and it will hold fast to you.

And remember this Truth as well. "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap (Gal 6:7)". Sow the seed of God's Word in your heart today and when the devil comes to plant his seeds, run him off. Which crop are you going to allow to grow in your heart?

Saturday, September 4, 2010

The Language of the Spirit

The Word of God (the Bible, the one you have and look at) is the Language of the Spirit realm. Jesus said in John 6:63, "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The Words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life.

God's Word is spiritual language. God's Spirit is the only One who understands this language. Many can read this language, and actually know it, BUT they can't understand it.

The only way a man can understand the language of the Spirit, is by having the Spirit of God dwelling in his heart. Jesus said, "unless a man is born again, he can not see the Kingdom of God"
(John 3:3). That word "see" means to know, be aware, behold, consider, look on, be sure, and to understand what you are looking at. You can physically see something, but not know what you are looking at or seeing. Have you ever heard the expression, "that just dawned on me?" That comes from someone who just had their eyes opened to see something they had never seen before even though they have looked at it many times before (this is God's revelation to man. God reveals Himself through His Word). Or have you ever heard someone say, " I've looked at that scripture for years, but I never saw what I saw today?". They just had their eyes opened beyond what they could physically see to understanding the language of the Spirit.

There is a language for the natural realm as well. It's the one that man is most familiar with. The natural language is understood by our physical senses. The knowledge and understanding of natural language come from man, whereas the knowledge and understanding of the spiritual language come from God.

Spiritual language sounds like a foreign language to the natural man. He can hear it and see it, but he doesn't understand it (Matt 13:14-16, please read this) and may even think it sounds foolish. The Spirit of God said through the Apostle Paul in 1 Cor 1:18, "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing (the natural, unborn again man), BUT to us (us born again ones who understand the language of the Spirit) who are being saved, it is the power of God."

The natural man can not understand the spiritual language. The Holy Spirit says, "but the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (1 Cor 2:14)

Now the problem for the natural man to understand God goes beyond the ungodly or unborn again man. It's made it's way into the church (the body of Christ) as well. The Holy Spirit calls them Carnal Christians. They are born again men and women who don't understand the language of the Spirit, because they prefer to stay with the language they understand and are familiar with, the natural language. They don't want to learn the new language of the Spirit. They won't do what the Holy Spirit tells them to do. They won't renew their minds with the Word of God so that they can understand the Spiritual language and begin to think like Jesus thinks (Phil 2:5)

The Apostle Paul said (under the influence of the Holy Spirit), "I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but as to carnal, as babes in Christ . You can't receive what I want to give you
because you are still carnal." (1 Cor 3:1-3)

This is God's voice to the church today; There are too many within the church that don't know the Spiritual Language and the main problem with that is, that God can not speak to His people the way He wants to, because they choose to remain carnal.

One major problem with so many carnal Christians in the church is their condemnation of those who understand the Spiritual Language, speak it, and live their lives according to it. The carnal Christian finds himself at odds with the spiritual Christian and he will fight him every step of the way. Of course the carnal Christian is really not fighting against his spiritual brother, he is fighting against God, and trust me when I say, the carnal Christian will not win this fight, but he can hinder the church in many ways (who does this sound like I am describing? What power or influence is leading the carnal Christian?).

This is why we have so many denominations, splits, factions, cults and whatever. All of which are being led by the spirit of Antichrist to do his work, and to hurt God in every way he can.
(2 Tim 2:23-26 now read this, and really focus on verse 26 until it becomes loud and clear to you)

This is serious business. It's the responsibility of every born again man and woman to learn and understand the language of the Spirit, so that when you hear God speaking His Word to you like,
"by His stripes you WERE healed" (1 Pet 2:24), you will see yourself healed, just like God sees you, instead of seeing yourself sick like your natural man is telling you that you are. Now if that statement I just made riles you up and sounds foolish and stupid, then you've just told on yourself that you are carnal, that you don't understand the language of the Spirit, and that you are not willing to think like God thinks.

It's time to grow up Church. It's time to think and talk like God our Father and Jesus our Lord, Savior and Brother. It's time to learn the language of the Spirit. When you do then the above statement I made will sound normal and right, and you'll walk in that Truth, and the Truth (of the Spiritual Language) will set you free and if it's Healing that you need, then you'll receive it.

It's time to learn a new language. Jesus' Spirit said it was reasonable for you to do this (Rom 12:1) and more than that, the Church is commanded by Jesus to do it for he said so in
John 13:34 and then He said in John 14:21, "He who has My Commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me and in verse 23 Jesus continues and says, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My Word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make our home with him".

Is that promise from Jesus enough to get you to take the time to learn a new language? God's language. The language of the Spirit.

I pray you heed the voice of the Lord today and do what He has shown you. If not, then I would ask you to extend grace to those who speak a language that you don't understand. The Church will be a better place if you can do that.

Now go start talking like God. He is more than willing to show you how!!

Saturday, August 7, 2010

The Religious Mind--It Can Limit You

There are two big Truth's out of the Word of God that the religious mind has trouble with and can not accept, therefore it refuses that truth and is unable to receive the benefit of it. Those two truth's are:

1. That Jesus (God) lowered Himself from the Throne of God (as the Son of God) to the realm of man (as the Son of Man) and walked as a man on this earth and not as God. God became like a man.
2. That man was raised up to sit together with Christ in heavenly places (now in this lifetime, not after we die). That man became like God.

Now, if you are being led by religious spirits, you are already in an uproar and you are ready to fight for your doctrine, but I say, just chill out, relax, put your gun back in the holster, calm down, grow still, and hear what the voice of the Spirit is saying.

Jesus has always been God, but when He came to this earth, He lowered Himself to man's status (Phil 2:6-8) and everything He did on the earth was as a man totally dependent upon God the Father. Jesus walked by faith in God (the Father) demonstrating perfectly to other men (women) what this relationship between God and man looks like.

Jesus was perfect in every way and you and I are not. We are imperfect vessels with flesh bodies that are dead because of sin. But it's our spirit when it becomes born again, that I (and you) become just like Jesus on the inside, but not on the outside. But the real me, my spirit, is just like Jesus, therefore I am like Him on this earth just as He was and still is and will always be. (1 John 4:17)

The problem that now exists for me (and you) is that my flesh body is dead and it wants to act like a dead person, one who is separated from God and doesn't want to act godly. Have you ever heard the term, "dead man walking", well, you are alive and dead at the same time and this perfectly describes the condition of the born again man. Only big difference is that when I lay this dead body of flesh down and my spirit departs, I'll be soaring free from that body of death right into God's opened and welcoming arms in Heaven and those that are not born again will be ushered to the kingdom of death, satan's domain, Hell itself. You see, my spirit has been born again with the Spirit of Jesus, and my spirit (the real me) is alive unto God, no longer separated from God, but now joined with Him, and my spirit now wants to act just like Jesus.

There is a fight that exists between my flesh and my spirit for control over my life. My flesh is dead and it wants to act the devil, or, like a sinner. My spirit is alive with the Spirit of Jesus in me and my spirit wants to act like God (Jesus). The child of God (that's me (& you) with my new born again spirit) wants to be just like his Father, but the old dead flesh wants to act just like the one who controlled it before I was born again. Eph 2:2 calls him the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who works in the sons of disobedience (this speaks to the devil and his family).

Now, which one of these two (God or the devil) are going to control my life? There is only one who can make the choice, and that is me (you). God said, "I set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, (you) choose life, that you may live" (Deut 30:19). I must choose who I am going to follow. Who will I allow to dominate and control me? My flesh body or my spirit man? Do I really have a choice? How can I follow my spirit instead of my flesh?

Well, what is the common denominator between my spirit and my flesh? What dictates who I will follow? It's your mind (which is your soul that houses your mind, will, and emotions). Whatever thoughts reside in your mind the most, those thoughts will dictate to you how to live your life. Your flesh body already knows how to act ugly, or act just like the devil. It's trained to act that way and it will continue to act that way unless it is retrained. That is why Jesus said in
Rom 12:2, that I must be transformed (changed from one way of living to another. From my flesh body leading the way to my spirit man leading the way) and this transformation takes place in the mind and I have to renew it to think like God thinks instead of how the devil thinks, and the way I renew my mind is by looking into the Word of God, meditating it day and night until that Word changes my mind and I start thinking God thoughts instead of devil thoughts.
2 Cor 3:18 says if I'll look into God's Word long enough, I'll be transformed into looking just like what I'm looking at. I'll look and sound just like the Word of God in my old flesh body. Yes, this old ugly dead flesh body of mine will look alive and just like Jesus if I'll keep my heart full of the Word of God, and cast down every thought that comes to my mind that does not line up with and agree with the Word of God (2 Cor 10:5).

If my mind is renewed to think like God, and my spirit is full of His Word, then my flesh body will change to do something new because it will be following my spirit and my mind. My body of flesh will be under control (of my spirit) instead of out of control and led by the influence of the devil.

Now I said all that so that I could say this about the original thought that God gave me about the religious mind. The religious mind (one that has been trained and renewed to man's doctrines instead of God's) can not grasp or accept what I just shared with you nor can it accept what I'm about to share with you.

The religious mind wants to exalt Jesus to a place a man can never get. They make Jesus out to be some super human man that is different from them and of course if Jesus is different, then what Jesus did is unique to Him and no one else can do it. Now who do you think would author a thought like that? It's the doctrine of demons, the spirit of error, for one purpose only, to stop you from acting on the truth and being like Jesus, because the devil knows that if you ever understand this truth, his days of victory over you are over as you place him under your feet where he belongs.

The religious minded man has Jesus exalted so high, that they could never see themselves in that same place with Him. The religious mind can't accept Phil 2:6-8 where it says Jesus lowered Himself to man's place and lived as a man on this earth totally dependent upon God the Father for everything. The religious mind doesn't understand or accept all that was accomplished by Jesus on the cross. The religious mind does not understand about the finished works of Jesus on the cross. The religious mind doesn't understand the victory of Jesus over the devil and it's significance to them. The religious mind will agree that Jesus was raised from the dead, but they don't see themselves raised from the dead. You see, if you can't see yourself raised from the dead to new life, then you'll always act like a dead man.

And finally, the religious mind can not accept and agree with Eph 2:6 which says, man (the born again man) has been raised up to God's status by by God raising man up to sit at the right hand of Jesus (the position of authority and dominion) in Heavenly places. This is the place man was always supposed to occupy. It's the place Adam occupied before his fall from grace because of his sin. The religious mind can't see himself as his Father (God) sees him. If you are God's child, then you have God's DNA in you. That's who you are. (Now get this straight before the devil leads you astray. You and me, we are not God. There is only One God in three Persons. But we are God's offspring, His children, but we are made like God (read Gen 1:26-27). As He is, so are we in this world ( 1 John 4:17).

The religious mind can not accept that he has been raised up together with Christ, therefore the religious mind can not act like or do what Jesus did, because he doesn't believe he has the right to it, but all along he has an inheritance that belongs to him, but he will never take advantage of it and walk in that blessing, because the religious mind can not think like God thinks,and the religious mind will for the most part be easily led astry from the Truth of God's Word by the influence of the devil and his demonic spirits.

So just who do you want to be today? What God has made you to be, or to be what religious man says that you are, " just a poor old miserable sinner saved by grace." I'll tell you, just saying that is pathetic (but it sure is religious) for when you see the born again man's position through God's eyes.

It takes courage to believe God over what religious men say, especially when these men say they are speaking for God, but wouldn't know Him if they walked by Him on the street, because they don't know His Word and they have built a doctrine about God that they understand, but it looks nothing like the God our Bible, the Word of God portrays.

So, who are you going to be like? The God that religious man has defined for you, or the God Who has declared Himself Who He is, what He did, and Who He made you to be like.

Well I know which one I'm following. The hard part is getting past all those religious minds that want to hinder or even stop your walk and growth with the One True God.

Press on my brother and sister and be blessed as you grow up in Him and take your rightful place. Your Father would have it no other way!!............

Side Bar**

Religion--A system of faith or worship.
Religious-- pious, godly, belonging to a religious order, conscientious, faithful (did you know that you can be faithful to man's doctrine and unfaithful to God's?)

Christianity is not a religion. A religion has been made out of Christianity.
Christianity is a relationship with God Almighty through our Lord and Savior Jesus. Are you walking daily hand in hand with God? If you are you are experiencing Christianity. If you are not you are experiencing religion. There is no life in Religion, but abundant life (John 10:10) is found only in an active fellowship with Jesus ( 1 John 1:7).

Saturday, July 17, 2010

The Process of Becoming a Believer

I've written on a lot of subjects over the years that God has placed in my heart for all of you. It's all been good, but there are times when God brings a Truth that just over shadows other truths and this is one of those times. The following message is long but filled with truth that will forever change your life. Take your time with this and let God show you what He says about true believing. Unless you understand the following and do it, your ability to believe God will be for naught. God wants you to believe Him, let Him show you the way......

You know the Word, you agree with that Word as being true, but this is not believing. Believing only comes from meditating on the word ( this is what plants the seed of the word into your heart). Faith (Believing) comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God (Rom 10:17).



Now Jesus calls the Word a seed in Mark 4:3-4 & 14. When the seed of the Word is sown in a man's heart, that seed begins to grow and what is growing from that seed is man's (your) ability to believe (God). You keep meditating upon the truth of the Word until faith grows up to the place where you can really believe the Word. This is a place that is beyond knowing and agreeing that the Word is true, this is the place of real (the God kind of) believing and now it is harvest time (Mk 4:29) for what you are believing for. Now is when you receive what you believe.



You had nothing to do with the believing process other than availing yourself to the Word of God. God's only requirement of you to be a Believer (in the truest sense of this word) is for you to look upon His Word by seeing it and hearing it. That is all that we do. God is the One who enables you to believe. (You can not believe apart from Him). You just can't make yourself believe by choosing to be a believer, you become a Believer by choosing to meditate God's Word day and night (Josh 1:8) until that seed of the Word grows up faith on the inside of you to the point where you can believe the Word you are meditating on. God is the only One who can get you to this point of believing. Even at the very beginning of your walk with God, Eph 2:8 says God gave you the gift of faith (or the ability to believe Him by what you heard Him say about His Son Jesus) and you believed Him and then you received His Son as your Lord and Savior. Now God gave you the gift of faith to get you started with Him, but faith for you now to walk with God does not come by way of a gift, it comes by the seed of the Word of God planted into your heart and God making you responsible to water that seed by continually meditating it until you believe (it).



The source of believing comes from the Word. If the Word does not get into your heart, you can not believe it. You can know it by memory, but you can't believe it that way. Believing comes from the heart, not the mind. This is why the Word of God is the target of the enemy of your soul. You are a three part being (1 Thess 5:23). You are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. Your soul is made up by your mind, will, and emotions and it's your mind that the devil attacks. Truly the battle field is your mind and that is where you fight the good fight of faith, by casting down the ungodly thoughts of the devil, and you bring into captivity by only thinking what God's Word says about it in His Word. (2 Cor 10:3-5) The devil is after that seed that is sown in your heart and he gets it by way of your mind (your soul) if you will believe him rather than God.



Satan knows what enables you to believe, so he comes after the Word you've heard before it gets planted to deep into your heart and starts sprouting roots, because he knows that Word will grow in your heart, and one day you'll believe it and use it against him and he will be no threat to you any longer.



Joshua 1:8 is the key to believing. You can't will yourself to believe. We all start out as born again children of God and the first thing we try to do is believe God. We think that because we have seen a truth in His Word and now we know it and agree with it, we think we are now believing it, but we are not. And when the Word fails for us because we think we are believing it, we become discouraged and open the door to the devil and begin listening to his lies about how the Word of God is not working for you and he (the devil) will take you on a path away from being able to believe (God), and you will become frustrated with God, and blame Him for the failure of the promises of His Word coming to pass in your life because you think that you really believed God's Word, and that it didn't work for you, so you quit considering God's Word by looking away from it to something else that you hope will work. You've allowed the devil to steal what little seed you had growing in your heart.



The real truth of this matter is, the Word is true, but you failed to believe it. Now you thought you were believing it, but you weren't. The Word failed to come to pass, and you blamed God for it, because you were convinced that you were believing Him, but you were not. You were only assenting and agreeing that what God said is true, but you didn't let the seed of the Word that was in your heart grow up to the point of where you could believe it. The devil stole it and he stole your hope right along with it. You got discouraged with God and His Word and then you turned away from it. This is the classic picture of the defeated Christian. God is painting this picture today for you and me to clearly see what a true believer looks like and why so few attain to that place of believing.

A verse out of the Lord's prayer speaks very clearly to what God has shown us this day about believing. Jesus says in Matt 6:11, "Give us this day our daily bread." Jesus reveals to us the one and only true source of believing. We must consume daily the manna from heaven( did you know God's people could only take one days worth of manna to consume. If they took more than that, it would spoil and be unusable. That's why you must consume the Word every day (Matt 4:4) for if you try to store it up than use it later, it will be spoiled, unusable, and powerless). Now this manna from heaven is the bread of life which is Jesus Himself (John 6:32-35), and the way you consume this bread from heaven is by consuming the Word, for John 1:14 tells us that Jesus is the Word made flesh. If you are going to believe God, then you must consume the Word daily.

Believing is a process, don't get in a hurry. You can't force it to grow faster. All you can do is water the seed (the Word) daily that lives in your heart by consuming more of the Word until harvest time comes and you believe that Word and now your believing receives from God what you are believing Him for.

I've given myself way too much credit over the years that I was believing God (the Word), but I wasn't and in the back of my mind I thought God was holding out on me or it just wasn't working so I got frustrated with God and His Messengers who were teaching the Word of God. The devil had me right where he wanted me. A frustrated believer, who wasn't believing, but thought he was. It took a long time for God to get me back on the right track to believing Him again, because I was hurt and offended by what I once thought was "believing God." But now God has opened my eyes to how one becomes a believer. I don't struggle with it any longer, for I know that I can't believe beyond the amount of Word that is on daily deposit in my heart.

I can't make myself believe, I must grow into being a believer and that takes all the pressure off of me for now I know that my part is to meditate the Word daily by hearing it and seeing it, and God's part is to grow my faith up to where I can believe the Word (Heb 12:2). This is the process of becoming a believer. It's the only way to believing. It's all so clearly outlined in Mark 4:26-29.

You might as well start right here with Mark 4:26-29 and meditate this scripture until you clearly see the process of believing God's way. Is it worth it to go through God's way of becoming a believer? Well, I'll let you make up your own mind about that by looking at this scripture. Jesus said in Mark 9:23, "IF you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."

I say that should be incentive enough to meditate the Word daily. That's where you will find me, looking at the Word until I believe it. I pray you join me on this journey to believing God.

These signs will follow those that believe..........(Mark 16:17-18). What signs are following you?

Be Blessed..........!!!

Saturday, July 10, 2010

The Stand of Faith--What's That Look Like

When you are standing in faith believing the Word for what you need, it has the apearance that you aren't doing anything at all and the natural flesh man wants to be doing something. Always trying something. Always considering something because that is where hope comes from. It just might be that next thing that will meet my need. There is hope in that next thing. It's when there is no next thing that hope runs out for the natural man who lives his life by his five physical senses.

But when your hope is established in God alone and in His Word of Promise, your hope will never end. Mark 9:23 Jesus says, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." There is no end to hope in that verse unless you choose to stop believing it. There is always hope when God's Word is present. And when that Word is in your heart and mouth (Rom 10:10), you always have hope, and if you have hope, you have a place for your faith to do it's work. (Heb 11:1)

What is the greatest thing that you could do as you stand before a mountain of adversity? Be still and know that God is Truly God, and that His Word is Truth, and that His Word is all you need. All your hope can be and must be in His Word alone. Don't move from His Word to do anything, until you are directed by the Holy Spirit to do something. The hardest thing for man to do is to "be still". Man's comfort in adversity is his doing something. Anything, but just doing something.

But God's comfort zone for man is totally different. God's comfort zone is a place of waiting upon Him and being still so that you can hear His voice. (Isa 40:31 & Ps 46:10) When you are still, you can keep your focus on God and that is where your help and answer resides.

Man wants to bolt into action, and God tells man to sit at the feet of His Son Jesus and look into his face (2 Cor 3:18) until you receive what it is that you need. What makes a man bolt into action? FEAR! What enables a man to sit at the feet of Jesus? FAITH!

Faith will save (heal) you. Fear will kill you. It's man's choice, not God's. (Not a whole lot of folks like hearing that) Victory or defeat is in the hands of the man who stands before adversity. What a man chooses will determine the outcome. God gave man direction in Deut 30:19. I want you to look at that scripture with your own eyes and receive it from God.

So you make the right choice (God's way), now what do you do? Read Josh 1:8, This book of the law (the Word of God) shall not depart from your mouth................. now you finish it. Don't let anything come out of your mouth and through your lips that does not sound like the Word of God. Always speak the Word in every situation. You want to say what God says about it, not what you think about it. Say what God says about it, and it will come to pass just as He says (if you believe what you are saying--Mark 11:23). When I choose to say something other than what God says, that is when I begin to sink just like Peter did. ( Matt 14:30)

Now stand in faith and be blessed!!!!!!

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

The Word is Truth

The Word is Truth. But the Word won't be truth in your or my life unless you and I believe it. You can be sick, knowing what the Truth says, "by His stripes you are/were healed" (Isa 53:5 and 1 Pet 2:24) and remain sick, for just knowing the Truth won't change a thing. It's what you do because of what you know that changes things. It's believing the Truth that will change things, not knowing it.

The Truth will always be true, no matter what circumstances surround that Truth. Hold onto what is true (God's Word), and it will prevail every time. It has to. It's Truth. And what is the Truth? JESUS!!! (John 14:6)

Whose report are you going to believe? (Isa 53:1) God's or are you going to base your faith on something else? God's report will prevail and it will never change, the others will not.

God says, "I set before you life and death, blessing and curing, choose life" (Deut 30:19). I say, choose life also. How do you choose life? By choosing the Truth. How do you choose the Truth? By choosing the Word? How do you choose the Word? By receiving Jesus as your Lord and Savior and believing what He says, for He is the Word made flesh and the Word is God. (John 1:1,14)

Choose the way of Truth, for as for God, His way is perfect; the Word of the Lord is proven (2 Sam 22:31).

What else could I tell you? Just believe the Truth, and the Truth will make you free. (John 8:32)

Be Blessed!!

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Are You A World Overcomer? (Why Not?)

Now the just shall live by faith (Heb 10:38). Why? So that they can overcome the world !!
(1 Jn 5: 4-5)

I'm in the world but I'm not of the world. (John 17:14-16) I'm in the Kingdom of God and live according to God's Kingdom, not according to satan's rule and reign in this world. God has made a way for me to live in the world and not be overcome by it, but rather He has made me an overcomer of the world by enabling me to live by faith. Faith enables me to live in the midst of the world and not be overcome by it. Though the enemy (the devil) rushes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against it (Isa 59:19--that standard He lifts up is His Word coming out of your and my mouth). Though I'm surrounded by the world, the evil one touches me not ( 1 Jn 5:18).

My faith in God creates a wall of protection around me. I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge, my Fortress, my God, in Him will I trust (Ps 91:2). As long as I'm believing God, my wall of protection is in tact around me. Now, that outer wall (my flesh body) will come under attack,(I said, you will come under attack, your being a Christian doesn't keep you from being attacked, as a matter of fact it puts a bigger target on your back) and I may even be wounded, but my spirit man (the real me) remains untouched and unharmed. Though my body (the wall) may feel pain, if my spirit man remains in faith in God, my body will endure whatever comes against me and my faith (in God) will enable me to overcome the enemy's assault, and I will be victorious, and my body (the outer wall) will be healed and restored to perfect operating condition.

Everybody in the church knows the story of Job, dear God I mean everybody, ( I think the Church knows more about Job than they do Jesus) and for the most part they have heard the story of Job wrong and distorted by the help of satan the accuser of the Brethren. Do you remember where God said to satan, "Behold all that he (Job) has is in your power"(Job 1:12). Everything outside of Job's outer wall (his body of flesh) was in satan's power because everything outside of the outer wall is called the world. Now God did go onto to say in verse 12 that satan could not touch his person, meaning his spirit man (the real Job). As you all know Job came under extreme attack against his outer wall, weakened and almost caved in, but came to his senses after hearing God's voice (His Word), acted on it, and his outer wall (his body) was healed and everything restored to him. God gave Job to us as an example (use God's example, not satan's) and you better learn it well. As long as we are in this world, everything that is outside our outer wall (our body of flesh) is under the influence of satan and he will attack your outer wall with the full intent of stealing, killing and destroying you. But do what Job finally did. Come to your senses, quit licking your wounds, stand up and fight the good fight of faith and prevail over your enemy. (Oh, I'm feeling good now, I've preached myself happy!!).

My faith in God (Mark 11:22) enables me to overcome anything I will face in this world. But in the midst of the battle I must hold fast to what I believe, for if I do, God has assured me that I will overcome. How do I know this? He gave me His Son Jesus as His perfect example to see and imitate. God the Father told His Son Jesus the plan for man's redemption. Jesus believed the Father (Jesus had to believe the Father, just like we have to believe the Son) all the way to the Cross, to the grave, to Hell itself to confront satan head on, and because Jesus believed the Father and would not let go of what He believed, the Father responded to His Word of promise to His Son, and raised Jesus up from the dead (Praise God!!). Jesus' faith made Him a world overcomer and Jesus has given me (and you) His faith (Heb 12:2) to be able to do the same thing He did, and further more, He expects me (and you) to be just like Him in every way and if He expects me to be like Him, then He enables me to do it and the way He does that is through my believing what He says to me. If I will believe Him instead of what I see and feel around me, then I'll overcome just like Him.

That is the reason the Church (the body of Christ) is still on the earth today. We (the Church) are God's witness to the world that God's Kingdom is in their midst. Our witness is clearly seen when we overcome by faith the things that come against us in this world. We've seen Jesus do it, now He says to us, "you go and do what I did and be witnesses to Me (Acts 1:8), and men will be drawn to My Father just like you were. .....prophetic word now from Jesus to you, "I have just told you your purpose for being on this earth today and I've just told you the purpose of faith that I have given you. Are you willing to believe Me so that the world can see Me? If you do, I have promised you that you will overcome this world and be blessed in every way. Did I not declare to you that if you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land?(Isa 1:19) Now do you understand why I said , "the just shall live by faith?" For no other reason than to be a world overcomer. Now go and be that man (woman) today. Let your light so shine before men so that they can see Me and be drawn to My Father. You can do this, because I did it first and overcome the evil one. Now you go empowered by Me and do the same thing. I (Jesus) hear you asking Me, "where is the power?", and My answer to you is, "in believing Me" (not just believing IN Me that I exist, but believing Me, believing what I say and then willing to do it). Now your first step is to believe Me, then go and do what you believe and by doing this you are a "world overcomer" just like Me", says the Lord....end of prophetic message

Okay Terry (that's me, whose writing this under the influence of the Holy Spirit, just in case you're new and don't know my name---it's nice to meet you!). Okay Terry, how (in the world) do I do this? Only one way I know. Read and meditate Joshua 1:8 and Isa 59:21. Now camp on these scriptures for about a week, until the truth of what God is saying gets lodged into your spirit, ( you have to get it (this truth of the Word) out of your head/mind and into your heart/spirit) and then go and do what God has said about it. Whatever situation in this world that stands before you or you find yourself in, God requires only one thing from you. That is to only say what He (God) says about it (in His Word), not one other thing, especially what you are someone else thinks about it. If you will do it God's way, you will be who God says you are, "A World Overcomer!!"

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

You Call Yourself a Believer. Does God?

Here is a truth you must understand if you are going to be a Believer. Your actions will ALWAYS reveal what you believe. If your mind believes something, but your actions don't confirm what your mind believes, then you really don't believe it. If you say that you know the Truth and believe it, but you do something else when the effects of living in this world come against you, then that what you do is what you really believe and what you really believe is the foundation that you are living upon. The goal of the Believer is to be doing what he believes, for when he does, he is truly believing and when you are truly believing, then what you believe becomes your foundation and that foundation will either hold you up (if you are believing God's Word) or break down (if you are believing something that opposes God's Word), depending on what you are believing.

What you "do" is the most critical step in believing, for what you do confirms what you believe. If you say you believe, but do something else, then you really don't believe it, you only "know" it. Most Believers expect God to respond to what they know. They say they know it (the Truth) and because they know it, they expect God to do it. But when they see that "what they know" is not coming to pass, they consider something else and go do that instead. They become frustrated with God and don't understand why God's Word is not coming to pass in their life. They lose confidence in what they know, and they look to something else for the solution to their problem.

You must look upon the Word of God until you are willing to do it. When you are willing to do what you know, that is when you you believe it and God said that when you believe it, you shall have it (Mark 11:24). This is the way God has designed the Spirit realm to work and operate. Until you move into the way of the Spirit and do it God's way, you will not be able to possess the promises of God that He declares to you in His Word.

What man calls believing, and what God calls believing, are two different things. Man believes when he sees it. God believes when He says it, because what He says is established in His heart and He is saying what He believes. God believes before He sees it. ( In Gen 1:3 God said, "Light be" and light was. Why? How? Because He believed in His heart and said with His mouth what He believed, exactly how He expects you and me, His children, to do it).

Now, when you believe the way God believes, you'll go and do it, and when you do it, you'll know that you believe it and when you believe it this way, it will come to pass, for all the Promises of God are "Yes" and "Amen" in Christ (2 Cor 1:20). Then what you are believing, you will see come to pass. If it doesn't, then you didn't believe it and it takes a humble man to accept this truth, but it is the truth none the less.

God's Word will always prevail when it is believed. How do I know that, because God said it would! (Isa 55:11) End of discussion!!

Saturday, April 10, 2010

It Is Finished, Now Go And Do It

The source of what I need is as close to me as my heart and my mouth. Whatever I need can be found in God's Word and if God's Word is in my heart and in my mouth, then what I confess out of my mouth will bring the supply of what I need.

Now I can hear a bunch of you right now saying, "this sounds like that name and claim it, blab it and grab it stuff. Well, that's the way the devil describes a vital truth of God's way for a man to live his life by faith. The majority of the church has bought the lie of the devil and has used the devil's words against the man who chooses to do it God's way. For you see, Rom 10:10 is God's way, " for with the heart one believes to righteousness (or I have been put in right standing with God by the blood of Jesus and now God has given me a right to His Kingdom), and with the mouth (now this is the part that the vast majority of the church doesn't like) confession is made to (obtaining) salvation ( healing, deliverance, restoration, being made whole). Yes, it's what you say with your mouth that will either bring to you what God says is yours, or keep it away from you by agreeing with the devil and saying what he says.

Rom 10: 6-10 speaks to and confirms the finished work of the cross. Jesus has done all that needs to be done for man (/woman) to be saved (healed, set free, delivered, restored, made whole). His work is finished(Isa 53:4-5). I don't have to go get Jesus in Heaven and bring Him down here to meet my need. I don't have to have Him go to the belly of the earth (Hell) again (Acts 2: 25-27) and sacrifice Himself again for my need for Jesus has already defeated the devil for me. All I must do is have Jesus in my heart and in my mouth by having His Word there, and IF I'll believe that Word and confess with my mouth what I believe in my heart, then my faith will be released to obtain or take hold of (this is how you and I touch the hem of Jesus' garment today- Mark 5: 27-28) the very thing I need.

That what I have need of is as close to me as my heart and my mouth. If I'll put God's Word in them, then that Word ( the Word is God Himself--John 1:1) will supply all of my needs according to His riches in Glory by Christ Jesus--Phil 4:19.

The devil calls this truth "name it and claim it, blab it and grab it". God calls it "confession is made to salvation". So I'm going to do all the naming and claiming, blabbing and grabbing that I can and throw it back in the devils face and keep him under my feet where he belongs and I'm going to take hold and possess what God has promised me in His Word. Now this is "walking by faith". Are you up to it? This is God's way. His only way. If you are looking for another way, you'll have to look somewhere else then in His Word, cause you won't find it there. The only thing you will find in God's Word is Truth, therefore you will have to believe a lie to do it another way.

Walk in the Truth that God has revealed to us today and live your life the way God intended you to live--by Faith!!!

Sunday, March 28, 2010

What's Your "Final Authority?"

Prov 7:1-2 (NIV) says, My son (daughter), keep My Words and store up My commands within you. Keep My commands (Words) and you will live; guard My Teachings as the apple of your eye.

To keep the Word is to believe the Word over anything else. You believe it so much, that you do it rather than doing something else.

I have made the Word of God the final authority in my life. I love that term "final authority" because there is power in just saying it. I first heard a well known Bible teacher use that term almost 30 years ago, and I liked it the fist time I heard it and I've liked it every time I've heard it since then.

So what do I mean the Word is final authority? Let me use this illustration to show you: My body may be telling me that I am sick and what it is telling me is true (I don't deny what my body is telling me) however it's not the final truth. There is a Truth that stands greater than what my body is telling me. It's the Truth that my spirit is telling me that is greater, for greater is He that lives within me, than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4). God's Truth lives in my spirit and it speaks to me.

God's Truth (His Word) is greater than physical, natural, what you can see and feel truth. My body says, "I'm sick", but my God says, "by His stripes you were healed (1 Pet 2:24)." God's Truth is greater truth and if you will believe the greater Truth, then it will rule over the lower truth. God's Truth will overcome the lower truth. The problem with man (woman) is that he is to quick to believe the lower truth and ignore God's Higher Truth. The man believes he is sick, and therefore remains that way (usually grows worse), but the Believer will look beyond what his body is telling him as truth, and will look at what God is saying instead, "Jesus My Son bore your sicknesses and carried your diseases "(Matt 8:16-17), and the Believer chooses to believe what God says over (in spite of) what his body is telling him as truth. In the eyes of a carnal man (carnal Christian) this looks completely foolish. But in the eyes of the man who is led by the Spirit of God, it looks normal and right.

As a Christian, I am in the world, but not of it or I don't live according to the world's standard. I live my life here in this world according to the standards of the Kingdom of God (this standard is the Word of God). Those who live in the world( Christians included) laugh, make fun of, scorn, and judge those who live according to the principles of the Kingdom of God (Word of God). Those who live in the world (Christians included) pass judgment on those that don't as being foolish, deranged or worse yet, as deceiving. This is what the true Believer is up against when he chooses to believe God over what his natural senses are telling him. Some of the severest attacks (persecution) against the Believer come from within the Church (the body of Christ) that are filled with carnal Christians who have exalted what they think is true over what God says is True and then they choose to belittle the one who chooses to believe God over what what he sees and feels.

But God is well pleased with the man(woman) who holds His Truth above the physical natural truth of the world. When I choose to act like God (now I know that makes a few of you squirm, but God would have me act no other way) and call things that be not as though they were (Abraham did that, he's our father in the Faith- Rom 4:17), that's when I'm putting a smile on God's face, while at the same time the world (carnal Christians included) are laughing at me. I have tuned out the laughing and the scorn and I'm tuned into God and His Word. I walk healed in light of God's Word no matter what my body is telling me. If my body tells me I'm sick, I tell it that it has no right to be sick because Jesus bore those stripes on His back, His body broken, so that mine could be healed and whole. Jesus paid to big of price for me to ignore this Truth and believe a lesser truth that my body is telling me. I choose to exalt the Word of God over every situation I face (Final Authority). If my body tells me I’m sick, and my God tells me I am healed (Isa 53:5), which one do you think I’m going to believe? For as a man thinks and believes in his heart, so is he (Prov 23:7 KJV). I am going to agree with God and because if I do, His Word will prevail in my life and my sick body will have to line up with God’s Truth.

I’ve just shared with you the life of Faith of the true Believer. Does this sound like you? Or, are you the one who judges and scorns and counts as foolish the man who lives this way? If you are, then even though you might be in the church and saved and Heaven is your home, you’ve chosen to live your life according to the world’s standard and Prov 14:12 says it best, “there is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of that way is death" (separated from God and His promises). What pathway would you rather be on, God’s or the world’s? I choose God’s way, and if I look foolish to you, you should see how you look to me (& God).

It’s time to believe God. Yes, you’ll look and sound different to those in the world around you, but you’ll look just right in God’s sight. Who would you rather please? The beauty of pleasing God and doing it His way is that you get to walk in God’s Blessings now and forevermore and you'll put a smile on God's face because it is impossible to please God without faith (Heb 11:6). Come and join me on this journey. You’ll love it and so will God!!

Monday, March 8, 2010

God's Way Of Receiving, "You Gotta Take It"

In the first chapter of Joshua, God is speaking to Joshua and transferring the responsibility of leading His people into the Promise Land from Moses to him. God gives Joshua a pep talk before he begins. (I highly recommend that you allow God to give you a pep talk before you embark on God's assignment, it's the difference between winning and losing. Until you hear God for yourself, (you know He is talking to you don't you?) just read the first Chapter of Joshua and receive Joshua's pep talk as yours. I do this all the time, especially verses 6-9 with special emphasis on verse 8).

Now lets focus on Joshua 1:3. "Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given you, as I said to Moses". (I want you to notice one very important fact. Though God has given it to Joshua, it doesn't become his until he puts his foot on it. Joshua had to do something to receive from God, and so do you!)

The Word of God (the Bible) is the land of Promise (2 Cor 1:19-20) for the Believer. It is my (and yours) Promise Land. And what God has told Joshua, He is telling me (and you). Every place that I come upon and see in the Word, God declares to me, "that (what you see in My Word) have I given you. My Son Jesus has spoken my Word just as He has heard it from Me and He has said it unto you(John 8:26-29). What He (Jesus) says to you belongs to you. But what He says to you, you must take it for yourself and possess it before it becomes yours."

God spoke the following to me: "Until you take what I have given unto you, it will not be yours even though that is what I will for you to have. When you see in My Word what My Son did for you, you must take it for yourself before you can possess it. When you see in the Word My Son receiving those stripes upon His back from the whip in the hand of My enemy (satan) and yours, and then you see what My Son declares to you, "that by My stripes you were healed (1 Pet 2:24), that My body was broken , so that yours may be whole". Though you see with your own eyes and hear with your own ears what I have given to you, it won't belong to you until you take it and possess it for yourself."

Jesus said, "Whatever thing you ask when you pray, believe that you receive it and you shall have it."(Mark 11:24) Now understand the truth that is revealed here by Jesus. You will not possess what God has already shown to you that belongs to you, until you believe it's yours personally and receive it by faith, by believing God. We are at a place in church history now that many within the present day church don't even believe that Jesus said what He said in Mark 11:24. They think some man came up with that saying to start the Faith Movement. Well I got news for you, God started the Faith Movement in Genesis 1:1 and He showed us how in verse 3. Martin Luther didn't start it, nor did John Alexander Dowie, Maria Woodworth-Etter, John G Lake, Smith Wigglesworh, EW Kenyon, Aimee Semple McPherson, Kathryn Kuhlman, Oral Roberts, Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland and anybody else that you can think of that bothers you and you've classified as some kind of faith nut. Well you can put me in this group, and I'm privileged to stand with them, because they have done nothing more than to imitate their Father and their Lord. It is what it is folks, it's called "Faith". Jesus authored it and if you've got a problem with faith people, then go talk to the author. (sorry I sound so gruff, but I've been wanting to get this off my chest for a long time. The Faith Guys & Gals aren't the bad guys and if you believe they are, then you have been taken captive by satan to do his will, and you will never enter into the Land of Promise, which is God's will for you)..........

Okay, lets get back on track. Now that word "receive" in Mark 11:24 is the Greek word "lambano" and the better definition of this word is, "to take, to get hold of", rather than receiving something offered to you. To take something is a more violent act. To take is an active force. To receive is passive with no force extended. In Matthew 11:12 Jesus says, "the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force." Eph 6:12 says, "we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against our enemy the devil and his forces". The devil is doing all he can to keep you from possessing what God has given to you. To live by faith, you must accept the fact that you will be engaged in violent acts as you take possession of what God has given to you. When you see in the Word, that healing belongs to you, and that you yourself desire to have that healing, then you are going to have to do what Jesus said in Mark 11:24, you are going to have to "take it, grab hold of it and don't let go of it." Be willing to fight the good fight of faith so as to be able to possess what God has given you.

This, "if it be thy will", when you know exactly what God's will is (because He has declared to you in His Word, "by His stripes you were healed"), this is passive receiving and you'll be waiting the rest of your life for God's will to be done.

But, when God shows you what belongs to you, you ask Him for it according to His Word, then stretch out your hand of faith and "TAKE IT". And if you have to fight for it to possess it, then get violent and fight until you have it, because it's rightfully yours and it belongs to you. It takes boldness to take something that belongs to you, when someone else is keeping you from it. The enemy that stands in your way (the devil) has already been defeated by Jesus (1 Jn 3:8), however, he is still standing in your way (of your healing) and you are going to have to kick him out of the way and take what belongs to you by the authority that Jesus has given to you to do that and what He has given to you is"His Name." Do you have the courage to fight this battle? You'll only find that at the feet of Jesus, where you and I must spend our time to get His (Jesus') strength for ourselves for the battle. Then and only then will we go out and take what belongs to us.

Possess what God is showing you today. Yes, you are in for a fight, but it's a good fight, because you win! How do I know this? Because the Spirit of the Living God has said to me in 2 Cor 2:14, "thanks be to God Who always causes me to triumph in Christ." That's where you'll find me. "In Christ", how about you? Now go and take a hold of Jesus' garment and and receive from Him what you need and then He will say to you what He said to that woman who was holding on to His garment until she got what she came for, He'll say, "your faith has made you well, go in peace and be healed of your infliction." (Mark 5:34) Now those are words you can live with!!

Monday, February 22, 2010

Who Are You Listening To? It Makes A Differance

He is quick to tell me how he feels, but more importantly, what does he believe? Have you ever noticed how quick people are willing to share with you how they feel, especially when they don't feel good. How often have you ever had someone share with you what they believe? What about you? What moves you? Are you moved by how you feel or by what you believe?...............

If my body tells me I'm sick, is that the only voice available to tell me how to feel? What about God's voice? What about the voice of Jesus? For He (the Word) says, "for we walk by faith and not by sight" (2 Cor 5:7). What does that mean? It means we can judge or determine how we think we feel according to God's standard instead of ours. We say, "we are sick", because that is what our body is telling us. But the Spirit of God is saying, "by His stripes you were healed" (1 Pet 2:24). Now I have a choice to make. Am I going to believe and agree with my body and what it is saying to me, or am I going to believe and agree with God in what He is saying about my situation?

The voice that you hear your body speaking is real and it is not to be ignored. As a matter of fact, you can't ignore it, because you are feeling what it is saying to you. Your body is telling you the truth from the natural perspective or from the physical/natural realm. But there is a higher Truth that comes from a higher realm, God's realm of the Spirit. The Spirit realm is actually more real than the natural realm. The only problem, you can't see it with your natural eyes. But it's there and it's real. It's where God lives and everything you see and feel with your five natural senses was first created in the Spiritual realm, and everything in this natural realm is subject to or governed by the Spirit realm. So though your body may be telling you that you are sick, God's higher authority is telling you that you are healed, and if you will believe God and what He is saying over what your body is saying to you, then you'll have what God says instead of what your body says because the Spirit realm rules and dominates the natural realm. You see this spiritual law in effect in the the very beginning in Gen 1:1-3. God said light be, and light was. The Spirit realm created the natural realm and therefore the natural realm is subject to the Spiritual realm. Unless you understand this Spiritual Truth, you will always be moved by what you see and feel and you will always be easy prey for the devil and his schemes against you. Your understanding of how the Spiritual realm dominates the natural realm is what enables you to live by faith.

Now if this sounds fanatical to you, then just understand this. You have not traveled to far down the pathway of God's realm of the Spirit, since first entering in when you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior. You might of taken some baby steps, but you are still there in God's nursery and have not renewed your mind to God's way of thinking. I'm talking about growing up in faith in God. I'm talking about getting to the place where I believe God and what He says over what I think and say about it.

Please don't misunderstand what I'm saying to you. When your body speaks and says it's sick, it is. I'm not telling you to deny it or pretend you didn't hear it. What I'm telling you is that if you are going to believe God over what your body is saying to you, then you are going to have to deny the right of that sickness to remain in or on your body, resist it by taking hold or possessing what God has declared belongs to you and what is that you say? Healing! Jesus paid the price for your healing by those stripes on His back. But for you to enjoy your inheritance of healing, you are going to have to believe what God has said to you, over what your body is saying to you. You are going to have to walk by faith and not by sight. But God has already said "His children (that's you and me) shall live by faith" (Heb 10:38), and He expects us to live that way. From God's perspective it is not fanatical for you to believe something He said, over what you can see and feel. No, it's expected of you by God to live that way. And if He expects us to live that way, then He will enable us to live that way and that's exactly what Jesus has done for you, for He is the Author and Finisher (Developer) of your faith (Heb 12:2). Jesus is the One who enables you to believe if you will sit at His feet and listen to His Words. If you'll spend time with Him, you'll have no problem believing Him. But most of God's children try to believe what God is saying, but never take the time to sit at Jesus' feet and be taught by the Master. For you see, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God out of the mouth of Jesus (Rom 10:17).

So if believing what God says over what your body says still sounds fanatical to you, then you must know that you have not sincerely been sitting at the feet of Jesus listening to Him. Oh, you might of been listening to someone else who hasn't been sitting at the feet of Jesus either and what he says makes more sense to you because he is saying, " healing has passed away, healing was just for Jesus to prove that He was the Son of God, healing passed away after the last Apostle died, or you just never know what God's gonna do (however 1 Cor 2:9-14 says just the opposite), or maybe this one, God is trying to teach you something by making you sick", Yikes! I don't even like writing that garbage for that has nothing to do with God and His ways.

God's way is the way of faith. Believing Him over what you see, feel, or think about it. Are you willing to live this way? Are you willing to do it God's way? If you are, there is a whole new way of living for you. Yes it will look peculiar in the eyes of those around you, but it will look just right and very normal in God's eyes and if you'll do it God's way then you'll have what God says, "By His stripes you were healed" (1 Pet 2:24).

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

There Is Only One Way To Believe God. Are You Doing It?

God spoke the following message directly to my heart and that is the way I will share it with you. The first time I heard God say to me, "Your ability to believe Me comes from Me" was about 27 years ago. My original question to Him was, "How can I believe you?", which came from me because I had been walking with the Lord for only a couple of years, but it was obvious to me that I did not know how to believe Him the way God was asking me to, so I asked Him how to believe Him so that I could receive from Him. The revelation to that question is still coming forth to this day, because the more I grow in Him, the more He can reveal. So God said to me just the other day........................


Your ability to believe Me comes from Me. And what comes from Me is My Word. Your ability to believe My Word will always be in direct relationship to the amount of My Word that is on deposit in your heart. You can't believe My Word unless that Word you desire to believe is residing in your heart. You can not believe My Word by just knowing My Word. Knowing My Word is the first step to believing My Word. You can't believe what you know until what you know is residing in your heart, and there is only one way for My Word to reside in your heart and that is by meditating day and night that Word you desire to believe.


There is no other way for you to believe Me, then what I have declared to you this day. Men fail with My Word because they can not believe it, for one reason and one reason only, because they refuse to do it My way. They accuse Me of My Word not being True. They accuse Me of not being faithful to My Word to perform it in their lives, but they accuse Me wrongly. For I am faithful to My Word and it is True and I will perform it in the life of a man (woman) who will believe it My way.


But what man calls believing is not what I call believing. Man trys to believe My Word apart from Me , but this is impossible for I have made only one way for My Word to be believed. It must be first heard, but at this point you only know something, you don't believe it. So many of My people have been hurt at this very place because they thought they were believing Me, but they were only doing what they knew, and what they knew could not hold up under the pressure of the enemy's attack against that Word that they knew. (Now I don't want you to miss what God said here. He said the attack was against the Word, not the Man. Satan's target is always the Word and he comes to steal it from a man before he can believe it). In their eyes they believed My Word failed them, but in reality they failed to believe Me, they only knew what I said, but they didn't believe what I said because believing Me, comes from Me, and what comes from Me is My Word, and unless that Word is alive in your heart (not your head), you can't believe Me.

I have told man plainly how to believe Me, but they refuse to do it. They always look for another way. A short cut, but there is no other way to believe Me. I have hidden this truth in My book of Joshua (1:8) where I declared, "this book of the Law (My Word) shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then (and only then will you be able to believe what I've said) you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success." (in believing)

The only way you can believe Me is by keeping your eye on Me by keeping your eye on My Word. If you take your eyes off of My Word and look at something else that opposes My Word, you will not be able to believe Me. For Peter walked on the water as long as He looked at Me, for as long as he looked at Me he believed what I said to him when I said "Come" and he believed he could walk on the water and he did, but when he looked away from Me and looked at something else, he quit believing Me and started believing something else, and he began to sink. My Word (Come) held him up until he stopped believing it. My Word did not fail him, but he failed to continue believing it and he sank (Matt 14:29-31).

Does this sound to hard to you My son? Does this seem unfair to you? Do you desire an easier way, like all the others? There is no other way to believe Me for I have made it this way. This is the point where many of My children get to, then turn back and refuse to go on with Me for they have counted the cost of believing Me to be to high for you see I am asking for all of them, every part of their life, for it belongs to Me, for I paid a great price for it, by sending My Son Jesus to die on the cross for them, therefore the standard for believing Me is set very high, but the One who went to the cross believed Me this exact way, setting the example for all men (women) and demonstrating that a man can believe Me this way.

Now you have a choice My son. You can believe Me on My terms or you can just fall back to knowing Me like most men do. My Son Jesus declared to you, "take heed what you hear, for whoever has my Word in his heart, to him more ability to believe Me will be given him, but whoever does not have My Word in his heart, even what amount of My Word he has in his head, will be taken away from him." (Mark 4:24-25 with God's revelation given to me). My Kingdom works this way My son. First you Hear the Word, then keep hearing that same Word until it is planted in your heart, and you should sleep by night and rise by day and the seed of My Word should sprout and grow, you yourself won't know how this is happening, it just is. Then your heart will yield a crop that I call "Believing". It will grow in stages until the crop becomes full grown. When it is full grown, now you are able to believe Me, and because you are believing Me, harvest time has come and harvest time is that time for what you are believing Me for comes to pass (Mark 4:24-29).

This is a faithful and true saying to you My son. This is how you believe Me. This is the only way you can believe Me. Are you willing to really believe Me? The cost is high, but the reward is even greater. Your believing Me will put a smile on My face (Heb 11:6) and it will give Me great pleasure to give you the contents of My Kingdom (Luke 12:32). They are waiting here for you today. Believe Me, and I will swing the door wide open for you....................

So ends God's message to me and I'll close with this verse: "Oh how I love Your Word! It is my meditation all the day (Ps 119:97) Why? So that I can believe it!!! (it's the only way)