Do You Know Him?

I've been dwelling on this thought and I wanted to share it with you............

To know the Word is to know Him (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) personally. If you don't know the Word, then you don't know Him. For example; If you are sick, then you must know Him as your Healer (not just God). You'll only know Him as Healer by allowing Him to reveal Himself as Healer to you through His Word. Whatever issue of life you are facing, who does God need to be to you to provide the help that you are seeking (Provider, Wisdom, Guide, Counselor, Protector, Healer, Deliver, etc). To know Him is a personal relationship with Him.
 

In Ps 103:7 the Holy Spirit declares to us, "He (God) made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the people of Israel". Knowing the acts of God is very impersonal. It's like reading a History Book about someone who did something a long time ago. But having God show you His ways comes through a personal relationship with Him and His Word and it is out of that Word that He reveals His ways and the more He reveals, the more you know Him and that is the way you grow up in Him and that's the way you become a man (woman) after God's own heart, one that God likes to be with. (Would you like to be one of those people? You can!)

When you make the Word of God your priority over everything else, that's when you make God #1 in your life, and when you do that, He will gladly show you His ways.

Be Blessed!!

God Alone-- There is no other way to live

The Holy Spirit Has a Word of encouragement for you today and I feel led to share it with you................so be blessed, Terry

Psalm 62:5-8English Standard Version (ESV)

⁵ For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence,
    for my hope is from him.
⁶ He only is my rock and my salvation,
    my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
⁷ On God rests my salvation and my glory;
    my mighty rock, my refuge is God.

⁸ Trust in him at all times, O people;
    pour out your heart before him;
    God is a refuge for us. Selah

There are 2 key phrases that jumped off the page to me this morning; 1) For God alone  2) He only 

We all hear about the "Peace" of God, but we are all more familiar with "anxiousness". Why? Job 22:21-22 is a good answer:

²¹ “Agree with God, and be at peace;
    thereby good will come to you.
²² Receive instruction from his mouth,
    and lay up his words in your heart.

Anytime you take your eyes off God to consider something else or some other way to resolve the challenge before you, you are moving away from being in agreement with Him. When it's only God alone and He only, your life will come into agreement with God's ways and God's promise to you is "Rest" and "Peace". This is the way God always intended for the man He created to live his life. Look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (that is a display of Heaven on Earth) before their fall into sin. And the good news is, God has given that lifestyle back to you and me again through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus on the Cross.

Yours and my anxiety come from considering other ways than God's. I've got a great prophetic word for you, "Stop it!!". It really is that simple.

Now go back and read Ps 62: 5-8 again. That word Selah at the end means "to stop and think about this" with the intent that after you think about it, you'll be smart enough to do it. I'm in, how about you?

I love sharing the Truth with you. Be Blessed!

You Can See The Future And Have It Now

The following word comes out of my heart for you all today.........be blessed, Terry

 

The Word of God is a Visionary Truth. Though what Jesus accomplished on the cross was in the past, it provides for our present needs that will be manifested in the future (though my present condition is sickness, I believe I am healed even before it manifests in the future because the Word of God lets me look into the future and see the end result of what I am believing for, so I declare what I see in the Word, not what I see or feel on my body). This is called living by faith. Believing something that already has been declared in the Word of God as a finished work (before you see it). God declared a Savior long before He came to earth. God said He is coming back again, therefore that is just as true though it hasn't manifest yet. Everything else works the same way. God said, "by His stripes you were healed". Faith says it's already done and by believing that, it will manifest or come to pass in the future (which could be right now). This is called living by faith. While you wait for the promise, look at Jesus, not at the problem. What you look at is what you will believe and what you believe you will become.............

 

I pray God lets you see this how I'm seeing it, for it's rocking my world and I pray that it rocks yours as well.

Are You A Righteous Man? God Says You Are, Believe Him

 

 I was looking at a very familiar scripture today. One we have used at the Healing Oasis (this is where the God Pleasers Ministry ministers to the sick in Columbus, Ohio) many times. James 5:14-15. I was meditating this and then Holy Spirit moved my eyes down to verse 16 and He highlighted " The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much". Why is it so important to know your identity of who you are in Christ? Because if you'll see yourself as God sees you through the blood of Jesus, you'll see yourself as a righteous man/woman for 2 Cor 5:21 says that you have been made righteous and God says if you'll believe He has made you a righteous man, then you'll pray like a righteous man, and God's promise to you is that your prayer will be powerful and effective. In other words, you will receive what you are declaring out of your mouth. Start acting like the man/woman God has made you to be. Jesus paid a huge price for that, what do you say that we give Him what He paid for. Say this, "I am a righteous man and my prayers are effective and powerful and I receive the things I pray for".......... now believe that with all your heart!!..............

 

Here is a different translation of James 5:14-16 from a translation you are not to familiar with, but it's a good one:

 

James 5:16

J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)

^14-16a If anyone is ill he should send for the Church elders. They should pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Lord’s name. Believing prayer will save the sick man; the Lord will restore him and any sins that he has committed will be forgiven. You should get into the habit of admitting your sins to each other, and praying for each other, so that if sickness comes to you, you may be healed.

^16b-18 Tremendous power is made available through a good man’s earnest prayer. Do you remember Elijah? He was a man like us but he prayed earnestly that it should not rain. In fact, not a drop fell on the land for three and a half years. Then he prayed again, the heavens gave the rain and the earth sprouted with vegetation as usual............

 

and one more translation:

James 5:16

The Message (MSG)

^16-18 Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn’t rain, and it didn’t—not a drop for three and a half years. Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again.....

 

That person living right with God is a righteous man/woman. That's you, washed in the blood of Jesus. Now it's time for you and me to act that way and get some of our prayers answered.

 

 

 

How Much Do You Value The Word Of God?

I sent the following message to a group of people that I have the privilege to care for, shepherd, and to teach God's Word and I felt led of the Spirit to post it here on this Blog site for those who might see it here. There is a basic truth here that God wants you to see and understand how things work in the spirit realm..................

I wanted to share with you what took place this morning as I was sitting on my back porch which I do often during the summer warmth and was spending some fellowship time with the Lord. In my backyard I have a Bird feeder positioned fairly close to the porch. I enjoy watching the different kinds of birds that God sends my way. Well, I enjoy them all except for Grackels (big black birds) and Starlings. They are aggressive and take over the feeder and chase everyone else away.
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>For some reason this summer, the Grackles have been a big problem. So I have spent the last couple of months shewing  (I don't think that's a real word but sounds like shoe-ing) or keeping the black birds away from the feeder. So this morning I'm sitting there jumping up and shewing black birds away so the other birds can enjoy the feeder. After doing this many times throughout the morning, as I sat down, I heard the Lord speak to me (from the inside, not an audible voice from the outside, but I knew it was His voice) and He said, "What are you doing?".  Out of my mouth came a phrase that I wasn't expecting to say which was, "I'm protecting the seed". Then God said to me, "that is what I do for you my son", then He opened my spiritual eyes so I could see myself planting the seed of His word in my heart and birds were coming to steal that seed, but God's angels would not permit it as they shewed the birds away and that seed took root and began to grow.
> What was growing was "faith", my ability to believe God.
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>It thrilled my heart even though it was such a simple thing between me and God. Then God said, "Look at Mark 4 and read the parable of the sower sows the word". I did just that, and chapter 4 of Mark came alive to me this morning. This is the kind of fellowship God wants to have with each and everyone of you. I am not somebody special that God has singled out to bless this way. He desires to do this with all His children. Then the question is, "Why doesn't He?"  Because not all His Children value His Word and His presence, they would rather be with someone else doing some other thing. God looks for the man/woman who seeks Him with all his heart, the one who likes to walk and talk with God. If you received Jesus as your Lord and Savior, then His blood has washed you clean and you have been given the right of access into this kind of fellowship with God. I encourage you to seek Him today this way. He won't disappoint you.
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>God loves you more than you know. How much do you really value His Word? How can you tell, you ask? If you value it, you'll be doing it. It's as simple as that. If you find yourself doing something else rather than what the word says, then be honest with yourself and know that you don't put much value on the Word of God and the Word that you do hear, satan will come immediately and steal it from you before it can take root and bring God's life into yours (your ability to believe Him)...........

I pray this word you've heard today will bless you and cause increase in your walk with God.

Be Blessed!!

Getting Established On The Word Of God

You know you don't really learn about the value and truth of the Word (of God) until you don't do it and choose another way and then fail in that way and then return once again to God's Word. In reality, it's your not doing what God said that will validate the value and truth of God's Word, because through your failures of trying other ways, the truth of God's Word will burn brightly in your midst.

This is the process to getting established on God's Word for the firm foundation of your life. The Word many times makes no sense to you, so you try another way and fail or come up short with that way and through this process the Word of God becomes clearer and more truthful in your sight until one day you are established on the Word for life and will refuse to consider any other way.

It takes time to get grounded and firmly planted on the Word, but once you are established there, you'll look nowhere else and that's just what God has been waiting for. Now the life that God has prepared for you and has always wanted you to live stands before you. Now the fun begins because now you become more useful to God because He knows that you will react and respond to every situation of life that comes at you according to His Word thereby glorifying God in the process.

Living the true Christian life is the greatest adventure a man/woman will ever have on this earth, then it just gets better when you enter Heaven. That's why God keeps saying to me, "the best is yet to come".

Don't lose sight of this important fact (for if you do, your enemy, the devil, will come and steal it from you): It's your failures with the Word that will turn out to be the very thing that establishes you on the Word for what the devil meant for harm and destruction, God will use it to reveal the truth of His Word and by doing this, He will establish you on His Word which now opens the Kingdom of Heaven  and your inheritance to you while you live out your life on this earth.

Don't let your past failures with the Word keep you from God's Word, but use those failures to illuminate the truth of God's Word and get yourself established on the Word, for if you do, the best is yet to come!!

What Does The Grown Up Believer Look Like?

I sent the following message to another group whom I have the privilege of teaching in a home group and what I shared with them I'm led by the Spirit to post it here for all those that God wants for them to see, so be blessed with it.............

 

I came across a scripture today that actually startled me. It's not like I have never seen it before, but I never saw it before from the perspective of what God has been teaching us in Life Group over the past few months about growing up in Him and becoming a mature Believer who can go forth and do the works of God according to His leading. So the question for me has always been, what does a mature grown-up believer look like? And I've always answered that question this way, "it looks just like Jesus". Now God is the One who formed that answer in me over the years and that answer is right, for if we grow up in Christ, we are going to look and act just like Jesus. (Side Bar- Religion will never allow you to see yourself this way. Religion maintains a distorted view of what it looks like to be a mature Believer. They say they are just poor old sinners saved by grace, but that's not what your Bible says, that's what men say that the Bible says..........oh my, how did I get here....lets get back on track).............

So I've known for years that that the mature believer looks like, thinks like, and talks like Jesus and I truly love that understanding and I grow in it everyday of my life. But I told all of you that were here last Tuesday about revelation and how God will show you new revelation about something so that you can grow in it. I used the example of turning a rock over and seeing the other side and seeing life on the other side that you didn't see from looking down on top of it. Well, I had that experience today as I am preparing my heart for Healing Prayer tonight and I just feel led to share it with you now while it's fresh on my heart.

So the question is, what does a full grown Believer look like? Jesus!! Yes, that is true. But here is what Jesus showed me this day. It's found in Matt 18:1-5, Jesus says in verse 3, " Assuredly (when Jesus uses this word, you better take good note of it) I say to you, unless you are converted (born-again) and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven." Wow, that shook me. I saw something new. Here is what I saw, I saw that you grow up in Christ and when you are fully mature, you will have become a child. You grow up only to become a child. Now I don't know if that rocks your world but it does mine.

Why a child? Because Jesus is showing us the perfect relationship for a man/woman with the Father. This is the relationship that the Father desires to have with you, why? Well what is the nature of a child. Care free, always having fun, looking for adventure, never really offended because he has such a short memory about things, not worried about his next meal, doesn't concern himself about having cloths to put on each day, and most of all he knows his needs are taken care of by his mom and dad. Now this is the perfect picture of what God wants His full grown believers to look like, just like a child. Not helpless, but totally dependent upon the Father.

I don't know if I was able to share what was on my heart about this, but it's totally turned me upside down. I've suddenly realized that I've spent all these years growing up, only to become a child. But that would be

"God's Child". Fully dependent upon God, but fully prepared to go and do the works of God, for as a child I have my hand in the Father's hand, which now helps me understand when He says, "I will be with you

always".

So here is the assignment.............become a child and be full grown!!!

Be Blessed,

Terry