Who Do You Look Like?

I have to go beyond knowing (God's Word) to believing (God's Word). It's one thing to know something, but it's another thing to believe what you know. Here in lies the difference between receiving from God and not receiving. To step over from knowing to believing is the part that Jesus does in the born again believer's heart. Jesus is the One who will make a believer out of you.
(Look at Heb 12:2 then keep on looking at it until you believe it.) How will you know when you are a believer? When you act like one. What does a believer act like? He acts according to the Word. Whatever the word says, that is what he does, because he believes it. When you act according to the Word, you'll look just like the Word. Do you know what the Word looks like? It looks just like Jesus, for Jesus is the Word made flesh (John 1:14), therefore when you do the Word, you'll look just like Him and that is what He and the Father have wanted all along. So go and act like Him and let's you and me go and turn the world up side down, just like those who have gone before us. Let's go show the world what Jesus looks like!!

My Hearts Desire Shared With You

I have just returned from South Africa and my heart is so filled with God and His purposes for man on the earth. God has captured my heart yet again in a new and fresh way. As I was before the Lord in prayer, a desire in my heart came forth and I want to share that with you, so that you might share with me and gain some understanding of what walking in close fellowship with the Lord will do to your heart. The following is what came forth out of my heart...........

" I not only want to live the rest of my life for You, I want to live it in the way that it pleases You the most. It's impossible to please God without faith, therefore You have declared "the just shall live by faith", for one purpose only, to bring pleasure to You. It is my hearts desire today to be one of Your children that brings pleasure to You in all I do and say. I want to be so consumed with You that there is room for nothing else. Take me Jesus to this place that my heart longs to be at. All I am is Yours Lord and that is the way I desire to live my life. Therefore what I do, We will do, for I choose to do nothing without You, therefore I choose this day to put my life into Your hands, and do with it as You please. But for me to say that I realize I must live my life at all times in a way that it is pleasing in Your sight, and the only way I can do that is to live by faith. Jesus help me with my journey of faith. I look to You, because You've already gone before me and shown me the way. There is no one who has pleased the Father with their life more than You. Help me live that same life before the Father. I long for it, it's my hearts desire. I will keep my eyes on You, Jesus for You said, "I am the Way,the Truth, and the Life". Who else would I follow for these things but You. Take me there Jesus, I am following You with all my heart. Take me to that pleasing place before the Father, the place of faith, where there is an aroma that comes up to the nostrils of God the Father and pleases Him. I desire to be that man today. I can't get there without You, so take me there, for I would have it no other way than me following You, for that is the Father's design for the life of the man He created, and I choose to be that man today. I am following You, Jesus. Let's go, I'm ready, and I'm bust'en at the seams."

This is the fellowship I long for with My heavenly Father and with my Savior Jesus. I've been walking with Them now for 30 years, and I'm hungrier now than I've ever been to live a life of faith that pleases God. I pray you have this same hearts desire, for this is why God made you. Come and join me on this journey, for there is plenty of room, because there are very few who choose to take it, but know that the Father is looking for the one that does. I pray He see you there..............Be Blessed!!!!

Mountain or Mole Hill? It's All In The Perspective

The mountain that stands before me may look big, but it is a small thing in God's sight. Therefore I need to look at the mountain through God's eyes ( spiritual eyes) rather than my eyes. How do you do that? You look at everything through the filter of God's word. Jesus said in John 6:63 "My words are spirit and they are (real) life. Look at something, then put the word of God over it and look at it again. You will see it now through God's eyes and that is the way God's children should live their lives. You will see it through God's perspective instead of yours and things look a whole lot different that way.

The more I look at God's word, the more I will renew my mind, and before long I will be thinking just like God thinks. If I think like God, then I'll see what He sees and things always look better from His vantage point.

If you see things the way God sees things then you'll do what Jesus said to do which is, "I assuredly say to you, whoever says to this mountain (now don't forget, you are looking at this mountain through God's eyes), Be removed and cast into the sea and does not doubt in his heart, but believes those things he says will come to pass, HE WILL HAVE WHATEVER HE SAYS (because he will be saying what God says he has--the right to speak to the mountain in Jesus' Name)...Mark 11:23

2 Sam 7:19 says it all and puts the finishing touch on this word from God. It says to you and me,
"And yet this was a small thing in your sight, O Lord God.........."

What is the biggest mountain you are facing today? Now say, "this is a small thing in Your sight,
O' Lord", then blow the mountain away by speaking to it in Jesus' name. It has no choice but to move. (Oh yea, I forgot to tell you this one thing. You have to believe that it will move before it will. That's just the way faith works, but the good news is, IT WORKS!!)

You'll never look at a mountain the same way again. Be Blessed!!!!!!!!!

Religion or Fellowship, the Choice is Yours

Jesus went to the cross to get God's (the Father) man back to Him. However the devil has challenged and frustrated the recovery process each step of the way and one mighty weapon that the devil has used is Religion. The devil so likes religion for it has a form of God, but no power to it (2 Tim 3:5).

Man has bought into the lie of the devil and substituted religion for fellowship with God. Man was created to fellowship with his Maker. God desired to walk with him and talk with him. God created man for a place for His love, for that is who God is, Love. And man was the intended object of His love. Then satan deceived Adam and stole His man away from Him, and robbed God of the very fellowship He desired with His man.

But Jesus went to the cross and got His man back to the Father once again, and fellowship was once again restored between man and God. Now if we (man/woman) will walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin (1 John 1:7), therefore we can walk hand in hand with God, which was God's original purpose for man.

But satan has introduced religion to man for the purpose of drawing man away from fellow shipping with God (that will probably rock a few boats in the theology harbor). Religion keeps man at a distance from God (the devil claims it will draw you closer). In religion you get a sense of God but you never know Him, because the only way that happens is by walking and talking with God, it's in fellowship with God that you get to know God. (Maybe now you'll understand Matt 7:21-23, especially verse 23). This (fellowship)is where God chooses to reveal Himself to man. He makes Himself known to man, and man is filled with the life of God, and then so chooses to live that way with his God.

There is no better place to be for a man than in living fellowship with God. But satan offers religion as a substitute for fellowship and the only thing man gains from religion is relationship (the legal right) with God and satan causes man to be satisfied with this, therefore he never seeks fellowship. There is no life that is produced in a man through relationship only. (You married folks already know this. The marriage license gives you legal right to be married (the relationship), but it's the fellowship of the married couple that produces life through that fellowship with one another, for this is where you truly get to know your mate).

Relationship is what opens the door to fellowship, where God is calling every man/woman to participate in, but most men stop at the door (relationship) and never continue on to fellowship and in this place (relationship) man is no threat to satan, and satan will continue his dominion over the man who stands in the doorway, but the man who moves from the doorway of relationship into fellowship with God will soon find out that the devil is under his feet and that he has dominion over the devil, and this is the truth the devil so desperately wants to hide from man, so he uses religion to get this accomplished.

Today is the day for you to break free of religion and come and walk and talk with God. When you get there, you'll find me there, and you'll not only have fellowship with the Father, but you'll have fellowship with me as well and I have come to find that I desire this fellowship as much as God does. (Why wouldn't I? His Spirit dwells within me. What He wants, I want).

Now the choice is yours. Turn loose of religion and turn towards God and join Him (and me) for fellowship. Get to really know Him. I'll see you there.

PS
The Lord just revealed this scripture to me today, which is a day after I posted the above message. It so fits into what God laid on my heart yesterday that I wanted to add it to the post today. The scripture comes out of my old Living Bible (not the new version) found in Ps 27:8 which says, "My heart has heard You (God) say, "Come and talk with Me, O' My people." And my heart responds, "Lord I am coming". That scripture so easily says what was on my heart when I wrote the above message. My prayer for you is that you join me in saying, "Lord I am coming."

Are You a Seeker of the Truth? Don't Ever Stop!

I've been led of God to share with you a letter I wrote to an individual that I know and respect very much. This person is seeking the truth about God and His Word, but is challenged by what they already know about God and their willingness to change their thoughts and move on to higher ground with God. There are many who read this blog site that find themselves in the same situation and that is why God wants you to see this. So read on.............

My letter begins;

I've been thinking about last Thursday evening and also about our phone conversation last night and I have asked God to help me explain to you where you find yourself when you are hearing things from other believers (like ----, -----, myself and others) that you don't understand or personally believe. I know it can be an awkward situation for you, but also it's an opportunity for you to grow in the Lord. The devil will do all he can to discourage you from learning more about your Lord, because he knows you will become a tougher opponent the more you learn and grow. He would rather you argue and challenge the messengers God puts before you and keep you right where you are at.

So God has put something on my heart for you that I'm going to share with you and I am believing that you will receive it in the right spirit so that it will be a help to you instead of a stumbling block. Here what the voice of the Lord is saying. I'll be writing by the influence of the Holy Spirit so receive the content of it from Him and not from me. I am just the messenger that God is using to get this information to you. Be Blessed!

When I (Terry) speak while I'm ministering to someone, I am speaking from a position of revelation that I have received from the Lord. (Ex: 1 Pet 2:24 "by His stripes you were healed". What you believe about that scripture and what I believe about it maybe very different because of the revelation, the light of the word, that has been exposed to me verses how much light you have received about that word. It's not that God favors me more than you, it's that I have dug deeper and made myself available to whatever truth God would share with me about it and when He did I received it as truth and just accepted it without fighting it by trying to make it conform to what I thought about it. When God finds an open heart, He pours out His Truth into it.)

Now, the position I am speaking from may be different from the position of understanding that the person I am ministering to is at. This was always the case when Jesus ministered to people when He walked this earth as a Man. The people that heard Jesus said such things as Mark 1:22 states, "and they were astonished at His teaching for He taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes" (ministers of the word in a religious setting, what we call the church). Verse 27 says,"then they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, what is this? What new doctrine is this? For with authority He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey Him".

Mark 4 gives another good example. This is when Jesus spoke to the wind and the waves in the middle of the storm. He first spoke to the storm (how does that make you feel?), then He spoke to His disciples in the boat with Him who were afraid they were going to die. Jesus says to them in Verse 40, "Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have NO faith? (would you be offended if Jesus asked you this same question? How about if Jesus asked you this same question through the mouth of another believer today. Jesus and the Father dwelling in the believer's heart, and that believer steps up and does and says what Jesus does and says, because Jesus is living His life through that believer who is submitted to Him and is directing his steps as well as his mouth, for Jesus is filling his mouth with His words and as the believer speaks he sounds just like Jesus, because that's who is doing the talking. Jesus is using the heart, the mouth and the voice of the believer who is standing there ministering in Jesus' Name, and now it's the Father and Jesus who dwells in the believer's heart that is doing the work.)

Now back to what Jesus said. "how is it that you have NO faith?" Verse 41 (of Mark 4), and they (the disciples, those who walked with Jesus and believed him to the level of their understanding) feared exceedingly and said to one another, "who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!".

When you fear something you don't understand you can become offended at what you see and hear, and you actually turn against it instead of receiving it. That for the most part is the condition of the church (the body of Christ) today. Jesus will be working in their midst through a believer that actually believes what Jesus has said to him through His Word and is willing to do it, willing to act just like Jesus, for he is doing nothing more than acting out the One who lives within him. And many are offended by the messenger, and therefore do not receive the Truth of the Word spoken, nor do they receive the promise of that word.

The man or women who is standing in the midst of Jesus, because they are standing in the presence of a believer who is declaring God's word by the leading of the Spirit that dwells within him, this man or woman has the same choice that every man or woman who has ever come into contact with God and His Glory has ever had and that choice is either to humble yourself and receive from the Lord by believing Him (which is "by faith") through the word that is being proclaimed before them through this believer, or be offended at the messenger and his message because it doesn't look and sound like the Jesus you have come to know through your previous religious training and understanding of Him. So you turn away from Jesus in anger and frustration by turning away and turning off from the believer who is standing before you speaking the very words of Jesus. And just as those same types of people kicked Jesus out of their midst because they were offended at Him, they will kick this believer out of their midst and will not receive what God was offering to them.

God will send His believing ones into the midst of His church (His body), to speak His Truth and to do His Word. Much of the Church responds the same way the Jews responded when Jesus was in their midst. Some believed and received, but many were offended and turned away from the very one who could save them (help them).

The question you must ask yourself today is, "which person do I choose to be?" Believe and receive, or be offended and not believe and therefore not receive.

Be careful not to strike out at the messenger when he says something that on the surface sounds offensive to you, for what you are feeling at that moment is that two edged sword, the word of God, cutting into you and doing what only the Word can do, and that is to make you a believer just like the believing one who brought the word to you.

I pray you hear the voice of God in this message and it's intended mission to penetrate your heart with the Truth. The choice is yours, that is always God's way. You are seeking for the Truth, and that is why God has used me this way and I'm glad He did.

Be Blessed,
Terry

Are You Really Looking At The Truth?

Today I have another word of truth that God deposited on my heart that I want to share with you. If you have been reading this blog for awhile, then you know some of the things I share with you come as a teaching, which I love to do, for God has called me to teach His Word. But sometimes I'm led to just pass on or relay to you what God has spoken to me personally. I do this knowing that God spoke this to me for my own spiritual growth in Him and it's directed at me for where I find myself with Him. He knows just what I need to hear to take that next step up closer to Him and His ways. It's at these times I feel like I don't want to change a thing He said to me by teaching it, but just to share it with you as is and allow the Holy Spirit to minister it to you in the way it would be most helpful to you. So that is what I'll be doing today.........

God spoke the following to my heart. I did not hear an audible voice, but I heard Him loud and clear in my spirit (that is where God communicates with man, Prov 20:27 says, "the spirit of a man is the lamp(the candle) of the Lord" (this is where the Lord turns the light on for you to understand His word and what He says to you)--see, I can't help myself but teach. I'd love to run off in a tangent right now and discuss this subject thoroughly but lets get back to what God has assigned me to do today........

God said to me, "I have told you something, but you choose to believe something else. This is why I call you a faithless and perverse generation (Matt 17:17). I declare Truth to you and you hear Me. But if My Truth does not look like your situation in life, you disown My Word and you accept what you see as truth over what I have declared to you. I have said that My Word is Truth, but you have said, "what I see is truth", but I tell you this day that what you see is not the Truth. My Word is the Truth and that is the only place Truth resides.

Everything you see has been created by Me, but that creation has been cursed because of Adam's sin and transgression. That what you see with your eyes is cursed, but that what you see through your heart (spirit) is blessed. You can only see the Truth through your heart. That is why I have said if you will believe My Word in your heart and confess what you believe with your mouth, than you will see the Truth manifested in your presence. My people know this Truth and desire it, but are not willing to do what it takes to live their lives at this place. You must meditate My Word day and night until all you see is My Truth. What you see in My Word must become more real to you than what you see with your eyes. Everything you see with your eyes is subject to My Word. If what you see does not look like what My Word declares, then hold fast to My Word by looking at it, until that what you see with your eyes now looks like what My Word declares.

My Word is Truth, what you see in this world is not, but My people are not willing to do what I declare to them to do, so they take what they see before them as the truth, and they disregard My Word because it doesn't line up with what they see and therefore what they see directs their steps instead of My Word directing their steps, and their way seems right to them, but the end of that way is death (Prov 14:12), but the end of My way is Life (John 10:10). I have set this Truth before Me, from the beginning of time. Adam lived this way until he took his eyes off My Words, and listened to someone else's words. And those other words changed what Adam was seeing with his eyes. He was no longer looking at things through My Word, but he was looking at things through satan's word. Adam's view became distorted, and he bought into the lie, and the words of the devil took him to that tree that I forbid him to go. What Adam saw through the devil's words became more real to him than My Words. This happened because he took his eyes off Me (My Word) and put his eyes on the devil (his words) and this forever changed the destiny of man.

But I sent My Son Jesus to you, to live among you, to show you how a man lives by looking at My Word only and not being moved by any other word in the land. Therefore Jesus only saw Me, and My Word was Truth to Him over what He saw in the world. Jesus My Son has shown you how to live your life on the cursed ground that you walk upon. I have made a way for you to live on this cursed earth, and I have sent My Son Jesus to show you as an example on how to live My Way. The chose is now yours. How do you choose to live your life? By looking at Me and seeing the Truth through what I say in My Word, or by looking at what you see in the world around you, then hearing the voice of the devil confirming what you are seeing as the truth, then buying into the lie, following it to your death and destruction.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6), no one comes to the Truth except through Me, for the Father you see is the Truth, and My Son is the Truth, and you can look just like Us if you will keep your eyes only on the Truth, that is My Word. And My Word will not only show you the Truth, you will become that Truth just like Me, then what you see clearly will be the Truth.

This is the way My Father (Jesus speaking now) chooses for you to live your life, are you willing to do it? Most aren't, but what about you? Are you willing to live this way? I did, and there is no higher way to live. Now go and live your life My Way says the Lord............. so ends the saying of the Lord.

I have revealed to you my place in my walk of faith with the Lord and I have shared with you His instruction to me to help me grow and move up to a higher place of believing. He always challenges you to take that next step, so where ever you are on this journey of faith, let it be a challenge for you as well, to take the next step to higher ground. Faith, it's the only (right) way to live!!

God's Intimate Word to Me and You

God has spoke the word that follows this introduction to me just minutes ago. He's been dealing with me for quite some time about being transformed into the image of Himself, His dear Son Jesus. Everything He has been speaking to me has been just for me until He spoke to me this morning. When He finished, and I thought He was done with what He was showing me, He said I have one more thought for you but I want you to proclaim it for all to hear, so that is what I'm doing.

God declares, " There is nothing worse (in My sight) than a man who declares My ways and My Word to others but doesn't look anything like Me. They have tried to make themselves look like Me, by what they think that should look like, instead of allowing My Word to fill their spirit which would change them from the inside out to look just like Me. But they fill themselves with men's words, and they look just like those words, but they don't look like Me. And when they see a man that looks like Me, they don't recognize Me, but rather they are offended because I don't look like them. They are forever trying to change what I look like, but I never change. I look just like the Word and they don't know Me, because they don't know My Word. My Word is in the world today, because it lives in the hearts of men who look just like Me. The world and those that live according to the ways of the world hate them, because they hate Me. I need men that look like Me to stand in their midst and proclaim My Truth. I have made you to be that man, so let My light shine brightly before them, says the Lord."

Now I share this truth with you in fear and trembling for I must receive what God has spoken to me by faith, for if I go by my feelings and what I think I look like, I'll turn and run. But God has said it to me and therefore I believe it and therefore I will be that man.

The reason He had me share this with you is because He is saying the same thing to some of you who are reading this and He has brought you to this place to hear the truth, and now He wants your light to shine before men, because you look just like Him as well. You know who you are, because of the One living inside you. He has made you that way, and it's now time for you to reveal Him to the world. I'll see you out there, and I'll recognize you, for as He is, so are we in this world (1 John 4:17).

Be Blessed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!