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).

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)

The High Life. What A Way To Live!

If you are going to walk with God and live by faith, then there is something you must settle with yourself once and for all. You must settle this fact and never allow it to be debated in your mind again, and that is Isa 55:8-9 which says, " For My (God's) thoughts are not your thoughts (did you know that God doesn't think like the world thinks?) nor are your ways My ways (settle this right now), says the Lord, for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts (settle it, before your eyes look at anything else, settle this Truth from God).

If you are going to live by faith, then you are going to live by a Higher standard, God's standard. Whenever you look at something or hear something you must understand that what you are hearing about a situation (H1N1 for example) or what you are looking at, this will always be saying something to you. It will be speaking the world's language and you will naturally want to think about it like the world thinks. But God has already told us in Rom 12:2 that the Believer must renew his mind to a super natural way of thinking, Why? So that we can think like God thinks, and if we will think like God thinks, then we will go and do what God does, and what is it that God does, well, just take a look at Jesus and you will see it loud and clear.

Whatever you or I think about a situation or circumstance that we find ourselves in, always know that God has a higher thought about it. You will find all of God's thoughts and what He thinks about anything and everything pertaining to this life you and I are living on this earth in His Word (2 Pet 1:3). If we will then think like God thinks and do it God's way, then we will receive what God thinks about it, instead of what we think about it. This is, "living by faith"
(Heb 10:38).

Here is an example of what I am sharing with you today. You go to the doctors and he diagnoses a health problem you are having and he gives you the report of his findings. He names the disease and tells you that you have 3 months to live and there is nothing else that can be done. If you act on that report and think along the same level as that report, then you will receive what that report is saying to you. BUT here is what God is saying, " who will believe MY report?"
(Isa 53:1) . First thing you must understand is that God's report is Higher than that doctor's report and here is what God's report says, " By His (Jesus') stripes you were healed (1 Pet 2:24), Jesus Himself took your infirmities and bore your sicknesses (Matt 8:17), all things are possible to him who believes (believes what? God's report!!) (Mark 9:23), you shall live and not die (Ps 118:17).

Now if you and I will step up to this Higher report and believe it instead of that lower report, then we will receive what the Higher report declares. Now I said you must BELIEVE it. Not just know it, but BELIEVE it. If you do, you will be living your life at that Higher place. That is the real "High Life". God has made a way for you and I to live there, but the choice is all ours. Choose this day, the High way or the low (the world's) way, His thoughts or our thoughts. His way is the way of life, the world's way is the way of death. I know which way I'm choosing, how about you? I'll see you on the HIGHway!!

Rightly Discerning Those Stripes On Jesus' Back

Before you read this post, I would suggest you grab your Bible and read 1 Cor 11: 23-31 to hear what the Holy Spirit is saying about taking Communion and examining yourself before you take the Elements, for verse 27 says " therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord". Now I will share the revelation that the Holy Spirit shared with me concerning this subject........

As important as the Blood of Jesus is because it paid the price for our sin, I want to share with you about Jesus' body that was broken for you. To rightly discern Jesus' body is to recognize and see that those stripes that were laid on His body paid the price for my (and your) healing. (Isa 53:4-5 & 1 Pet 2:24). Rightly discerning those stripes leads to the understanding that healing for man's physical body is a finished work, there is nothing else that Jesus has to do for you or me to be healed. He's already paid the price for the healing of your body just like He has already paid the price for your sin. All I must do to be healed now is to receive my healing by faith in those stripes.

Next, I must judge my body according to what I have discerned from Jesus' body. When I look at my body and I see sickness there, then I am responsible to make a judgment concerning it's (the sickness's) right to be there. Therefore as I judge, I determine that if Jesus has already paid the price for my body to be healed, then this sickness is trespassing on my body and I judge that it has no right to be there, therefore I exercise the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus (Rom 8:2) by resisting the sickness and commanding it to leave my body in Jesus Name. I am responsible to make this judgment then carry out the action necessary to fulfill the judgment. I pass sentence on that sickness by commanding it to leave my body and I enforce the sentence by holding firm in my faith as I look at those stripes on Jesus back and continue to look at the Word of God which declares to me from Genesis to Revelation that my God has provided healing for my body. As I look at these things, I know I have judged my body correctly by believing that my body should be healed and not sick. Sickness has no right to be on my body, therefore I judge that accordingly and command it to get off my body.

I now proclaim the truth of this judgment by praising God and declaring with my mouth, "that by His stripes I was healed, therefore I am", then I hold on to this verdict by faith until I see the sentence carried out. I must enforce this judgment and sentence until I see the finished work of healing that has already been done in Jesus' body and now is being done in my body.

If I'll do this, then I'll not be judged by God as one who has not enforced His judgment upon His enemy satan, but if I don't do this then I leave myself open to sickness, disease, and pain that will surely come and remain if the proper judgment is not made against it. God will judge me as one who has heard His Word, but chooses not to do it. Therefore because of my choice, the ruling that comes from God in His judgment of me is guilty of not enforcing His Word, and the result of that judgment is that sickness and disease will remain in my body as a trespasser because I refuse to run it out. If I do it God's way then I'll get God's results which is, I'll not be weak, sickly, or die prematurely (1 Cor 11:30).

Here in lies the truth of Communion. God wants us to take Communion often, so that we will rightly discern the body and blood of Jesus so that we can walk free from sin, sickness, disease, and pain. The next time you take Communion, judge yourself according to what God has revealed to us today, then walk free from whatever the enemy is holding against you. God has made the way for you to be free, the choice is all yours.

So let me close with this summary and try to smooth this out: Jesus' body was broken by the stripes that were laid upon Him so that your body could be whole. When you take communion, you rightly discern and judge those stripes on Jesus' body as full payment for your body to be whole (strong, healthy, nothing missing, nothing broken, fully complete). Next you examine your body to ensure that it is whole. If not (if sickness, disease, pain is present), you judge that sickness as a trespasser. You take authority over it and command it to leave, for it has no right to be there. Now you take the bread, which is the broken body of Christ for you, and you thank God for your healing, then you take and eat believing in your heart that you are healed because of those stripes. Then don't you let go of that thought, and hold fast to your faith until the manifestation of that healing comes to pass. Having done all to stand, just stand!! God is faithful and He will watch over His Word to perform it!!

Be Blessed and Be Whole

What Light Do You Read By?

Ps 119:105 declares this truth, "Your Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my Path".

When you receive a bad report, (now you notice I didn't say IF you receive a bad report, I said WHEN you receive a bad report, because Jesus said in John 16:33, "In the world YOU WILL HAVE tribulation", therefore you will so) what lamp do you turn on to see and read the bad report with? The God of the kingdom of this world's (2 Cor 4:4) lamp or the God of the Kingdom of Heaven's lamp?

The lamp you turn on determines what you will see. If you turn satan's lamp on, you will see death. But if you turn on Jesus' lamp you will see the Father and you will see life. What lamp that you choose to turn on will determine your outcome. Now I hope you notice here that "you" are the one who determines what lamp you are going to turn on. You have to understand that your flesh will reach for satan's lamp, but if your spirit has been born again (John 3:3), it will want to reach for Jesus' lamp. The lamp you reach out for will show you who is in command of your steps. Your flesh, or your spirit.

The light that shines forth from the lamp that you turn on, will determine what you see. If your flesh turns on satan's lamp then you will see what Prov 14:12 declares, "there is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of that way is death", but if your spirit turns Jesus' light on then you will see John 10:10 where Jesus says, "I have come that you may have life and that you may have it more abundantly". So, what lamp do you want to read this bad report by? What light do you want shining on the report you are reading, the one that leads to life or death?

Now the really good news here is that you get to choose which lamp you are going to turn on and read this report by. This is the way God has made it for man. He said in Deut 30:19, "I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore choose life that both you and your descendants may live". Now just in case you are undecided after you hear God's options, He gives you a hint on what to choose. Actually, it is more than a hint, it's a loud cry, "Choose Life".

If you read the bad report by satan's lamp, fear will rise up and direct you to make decisions that will lead you to death. But if you read the bad report by Jesus' lamp, then faith will rise up and direct you to make decisions that lead to life. God has said His people shall live by faith(Heb 10:38) so again He is telling us what lamp to turn on to see the bad report.

So if you are looking at a doctor's report and it says, " we have done all we can for you and there is nothing else we can do for you", the light you are reading this report by will determine your outcome. Satan's lamp will declare, "you will surely die, for there is no hope for you", but Jesus' lamp will declare, "you shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord" (Ps 118:17).

Now, what light do you want shining on your report? Make the choice today to reach for Jesus' lamp and turn the light of God on and live. Not just live, but live more abundantly, that's Jesus' promise and you'll only see that promise come to pass when you turn Jesus' light on.

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!!!!