When the Word (of God) doesn't seem to be working in your situation or circumstance is when you really have to press into it and hold onto it with all your strength (by believing it) for it's at this place the devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy the promise of the Word you are holding fast to.
If the devil can get you to turn loose of the Word, he knows he will overpower you and he will take what he is after, your faith, because he knows your faith is what overcomes the world (1 John 5: 4-5), and if faith overcomes the world (and it does), then that same faith will overcome the god of this world who is the devil. The devil knows that is true, he just wants to make sure you don't.
The way of faith holds fast to the Word until the storm has passed. The devil knows the Word will sustain you and get you through what he is bringing against you, but he also knows your weakness, how easily you are distracted from the Word when the storm is raging around you. The devil knows if he gets you looking at the storm long enough, that Word you are trying to hold onto just won't make any sense to you any more while you are looking at the storm, and if the devil can move you from the spirit realm to the sense realm (physical, material realm), he knows he can beat you there.
Anyone who has ever walked by faith knows what it feels like in the middle of the storm. It always looks like the Word is not working, but in reality it still is (you just can't see it with your physical eyes), and if you'll keep your eye on the Word instead of the storm you'll be able to do what Jesus did when He found Himself in the middle of the storm (Mark 4:38), He was sleeping while everyone else was looking at the storm, freaking out, believing the storm was going to kill them. When Jesus woke up and saw the storm, He didn't believe what the others were believing. Jesus believed He was going to the other side (Mark 4:35) and no weapon formed against Him could keep Him from His destination. (which was the other side. If you are sick, your destination is Healing & Wellness and nothing can keep you from that unless you consider something else, then you have a new destination).
Instead of Jesus allowing the storm to talk to Him, Jesus spoke to the storm and told it to stop (v39) and it did (the answer to why the storm obeyed is found in Heb 1:3, see if you can find it in there, it's right in the middle of the verse) and He went to the other side. Jesus showed us how to do it, and He has enabled us to do the very same thing (Mark 11:23).
Jesus has shown us the way to get to the other side (of whatever we are facing). It's sink or swim time. The Word will get you to the other side if you don't let go of it. Believe it and stay dry, let go of it and get wet.
One last thought. Jesus knew that if the boat did sink, He would of just walked to shore (the other side). The Word of God will enable you to do the same thing. When Jesus spoke to Peter (Matt 14:29) and said "come", Peter stepped out of the boat and walked on the water and it was the word "come" that Jesus spoke, and Peter's faith in it that held him up and defied the laws of nature (or the natural realm). Peter was doing great until he took his eye off the Word (Jesus) and looked at the storm for when he did that, he began to sink. God's Word spoken to you (when you are looking at the Bible, those Words you are looking at is God speaking to you) will keep you afloat and you can walk to the other side with Jesus, if you keep your eye on Jesus and not on the storm. Hold fast to the Word and stay dry and get to the other side. That's God's plan for you and He is faithful to watch over it.
Be Blessed!!
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
Increase My Faith
And the apostles (these are Believer's like you and me who have been born-again. The only thing that makes them special is the Blood of Jesus that recreated them (2 Cor 5:17). The only difference between them and you and me is our calling from God. Every Blood bought Believer is equipped exactly the same. The only thing different among Believer's is what God calls each one of us to. Quit thinking these guys got something you didn't. It's the same thought you have about Jesus. You think He has/had something that you don't have. You think this way because you have bought into the lie of the devil. But the truth is, Jesus, the Son of God laid aside all His Godly rights and attributes, and came to earth as the Son of Man to show you and me how a man lives his life by faith and in fellowship with God the Father (Phil 2:5-8). I know that you have Jesus (and the Apostles) lifted up to a very high place. Actually so high, that you can't obtain it. And you should have Jesus lifted up high because He is sitting at the right hand of the Father in Heavenly places in full power and authority over everything as God. But here is the part most of the church doesn't know or refuses to believe it, that we (us Blood bought Believers) have been (past tense, it's already happened) RAISED UP TO SIT TOGETHER (yes, with Jesus) IN HEAVENLY PLACES in Christ Jesus (Eph 2:6). Jesus is at the right hand of the Father, and you and me (us Believer's) are at the right hand of Jesus in the same place of authority and power that He is in. That's why I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil 4:13). That's why I can do all things Jesus and the Apostles did, because I'm equipped just like they are. Now all I must do is fulfill my calling, like they fulfilled theirs.)
Okay lets start again. When that word Apostle came up, everything else I said next just gushed out of me. Maybe I'm just a bit sensitive to this issue. Do you think? I hate the devil. I hate his lies. I hate what he has done and is doing to the church by convincing the born-again man (the man that has been made just like Jesus) that he is still some low life worm, just an old sinner saved by grace. Just stop it!! If you've bought into that lie, Just stop it!! Step on the devil's head and tell him to shut his mouth. Start acting like who you really are. Do I dare say it? Are you ready for this? Can you take it? Start acting like Jesus and you won't think so highly of those Apostles, matter a fact you won't feel inferior one bit. Now this is the truth of the Gospel. This is the good news the church is supposed to be hearing. How much of this have you been hearing lately?
Okay, let me really start again with what I wanted to share with you. It was really just going to be a short message. Oh well, God wanted you to hear what was on His mind today, so lets try it again:
And the apostles said to Jesus "Increase our faith" (Luke 17:5). How many times have you asked Jesus for that? Those apostles were looking for the big zap from Heaven. They wanted the quick fix. They placed all the responsibility for increased faith onto Jesus. Is that how you think you get more faith? Well, it's not!
God has given you all the faith He is ever going to give you. Rom 12:3 states, as God has dealt to each one (each born-again Believer) "THE" measure of faith". Every born-again man starts with the same measure. The King James Version accurately declares this truth by using the word "the" measure instead of like all the newer versions newer versions that lead you to believe that God gives different measures of faith to different people(that just agrees with what men think about it). That's just not so, but it gives a man a good excuse for him not having as much faith as someone like, an apostle, pastor, the guy down the street, the guy writing this blog, blah, blah, blah. We all get the same measure. How many of you believe that Jesus had a full measure of faith? (I see all your hands up). That's the same Jesus that is living inside of you if you're born again. His full measure is on deposit inside of you. What are you doing with it? That's why Jesus goes on to say:
"IF you have faith (you got to know if you got it or not. You born again? You got it!!) as a mustard seed (that's pretty small, but if it's planted in your heart it will grow) you can say to this mulberry tree, (now here is the problem, not too many church goers want to speak to trees, but Jesus did, are you?) be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea, AND IT WILL OBEY YOU. (just like it obeyed Jesus)......Luke 17:6
Do you really believe what Jesus said here? It's not about asking God for more faith. It's all about using the faith that you already have on deposit within you. But most Believers (I use that word lightly) won't use what they already have. So they ask for more, but Jesus says, use what you have. The more you use it, the stronger in faith you get. Use it or lose it (that's not in the Bible. That more like Terry 1:1). You have enough faith inside of you now to move mountains, but if you think you need more you can get it. Rom 10:17 states, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. You want more faith, just hear more Word. This is the ONLY way it comes. So quit looking for that faith stick to come out of heaven and zap you, it just aint going to happen..
You are a Believer. Now go on out there and act like one!!!!
Be Blessed!!
Okay lets start again. When that word Apostle came up, everything else I said next just gushed out of me. Maybe I'm just a bit sensitive to this issue. Do you think? I hate the devil. I hate his lies. I hate what he has done and is doing to the church by convincing the born-again man (the man that has been made just like Jesus) that he is still some low life worm, just an old sinner saved by grace. Just stop it!! If you've bought into that lie, Just stop it!! Step on the devil's head and tell him to shut his mouth. Start acting like who you really are. Do I dare say it? Are you ready for this? Can you take it? Start acting like Jesus and you won't think so highly of those Apostles, matter a fact you won't feel inferior one bit. Now this is the truth of the Gospel. This is the good news the church is supposed to be hearing. How much of this have you been hearing lately?
Okay, let me really start again with what I wanted to share with you. It was really just going to be a short message. Oh well, God wanted you to hear what was on His mind today, so lets try it again:
And the apostles said to Jesus "Increase our faith" (Luke 17:5). How many times have you asked Jesus for that? Those apostles were looking for the big zap from Heaven. They wanted the quick fix. They placed all the responsibility for increased faith onto Jesus. Is that how you think you get more faith? Well, it's not!
God has given you all the faith He is ever going to give you. Rom 12:3 states, as God has dealt to each one (each born-again Believer) "THE" measure of faith". Every born-again man starts with the same measure. The King James Version accurately declares this truth by using the word "the" measure instead of like all the newer versions newer versions that lead you to believe that God gives different measures of faith to different people(that just agrees with what men think about it). That's just not so, but it gives a man a good excuse for him not having as much faith as someone like, an apostle, pastor, the guy down the street, the guy writing this blog, blah, blah, blah. We all get the same measure. How many of you believe that Jesus had a full measure of faith? (I see all your hands up). That's the same Jesus that is living inside of you if you're born again. His full measure is on deposit inside of you. What are you doing with it? That's why Jesus goes on to say:
"IF you have faith (you got to know if you got it or not. You born again? You got it!!) as a mustard seed (that's pretty small, but if it's planted in your heart it will grow) you can say to this mulberry tree, (now here is the problem, not too many church goers want to speak to trees, but Jesus did, are you?) be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea, AND IT WILL OBEY YOU. (just like it obeyed Jesus)......Luke 17:6
Do you really believe what Jesus said here? It's not about asking God for more faith. It's all about using the faith that you already have on deposit within you. But most Believers (I use that word lightly) won't use what they already have. So they ask for more, but Jesus says, use what you have. The more you use it, the stronger in faith you get. Use it or lose it (that's not in the Bible. That more like Terry 1:1). You have enough faith inside of you now to move mountains, but if you think you need more you can get it. Rom 10:17 states, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. You want more faith, just hear more Word. This is the ONLY way it comes. So quit looking for that faith stick to come out of heaven and zap you, it just aint going to happen..
You are a Believer. Now go on out there and act like one!!!!
Be Blessed!!
Friday, June 22, 2012
Are You Dead or Alive?
If I'm not worried about dying (losing my life) then I can be focused on living. The genuine Christian that the Bible describes has already died, and he has no life of his own to lose. This is the most powerful position that a man can be in as he walks out life on this earth.
When this man/woman was born again, he died (the born again man has done all the dying he is ever going to do) and now Christ (the anointed One along with His anointing) is alive in him. The Christian's focus is on life and not death.
You have to learn how to live and not die. You are already well schooled in dying and you must now learn how to live (Rom 12:2). If you are worried about losing your life, then you are still alive and Jesus is not living His life in you. For you to be dead and Jesus alive, you must be crucified with Christ.
If you'll consider yourself dead, then fear of death will have no place in you, for you will have no fear of losing something that is already gone. Now you can focus on living. When the issues of life come against you like sickness and disease, you won't be focused on on saving your life by giving way to fear, but you will now focus on living your life by faith and being able to boldly stand and fight the good fight of faith and not fear dying, but live.
There is a big difference from leaving your body (physical death of the body) when you and God are done with it then from being evicted from it by the devil before you are through with it. The sad truth is, most Christians get evicted because they never learned how to live their life in Christ. The reason they don't know is because no one taught them. How shall they believe on Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? (Rom 10:14). The Church is for the most part bankrupt in this area of Truth. That's why you have so many Christians fearing for their lives, just like unbelievers. This is sad, and not very pleasing to God.
God has a voice (His Word) and cancer has a voice (doctor's report). Which voice you heed determines whose alive in you. If God's Word is directing your path, then Jesus is alive in you, but if cancer's words are directing your steps, then you are operating from fear of losing something and cancer will reign and rule your life. Cancer says, "I'm going to kill you" and God says, "with long life I will satisfy you and show you my salvation (deliverance, healing)" (Ps 91:16). Which one will you believe? You'll believe the one who is speaking to the one who is alive in you. And what you believe determines which word spoken to you will come to pass.
Hey Christian, it's time for you to die, so that you can really live free from fear of losing something and full of faith for gaining everything. Fear or Faith. The choice is yours (not God's), but to walk in faith, you will have to die. You up for that? The truth is, if your truly born again you have already died. All you have to do is quit crawling down off that cross and living that old dead life of yours. Be crucified with Christ and really live!
Be Blessed!!!
When this man/woman was born again, he died (the born again man has done all the dying he is ever going to do) and now Christ (the anointed One along with His anointing) is alive in him. The Christian's focus is on life and not death.
You have to learn how to live and not die. You are already well schooled in dying and you must now learn how to live (Rom 12:2). If you are worried about losing your life, then you are still alive and Jesus is not living His life in you. For you to be dead and Jesus alive, you must be crucified with Christ.
If you'll consider yourself dead, then fear of death will have no place in you, for you will have no fear of losing something that is already gone. Now you can focus on living. When the issues of life come against you like sickness and disease, you won't be focused on on saving your life by giving way to fear, but you will now focus on living your life by faith and being able to boldly stand and fight the good fight of faith and not fear dying, but live.
There is a big difference from leaving your body (physical death of the body) when you and God are done with it then from being evicted from it by the devil before you are through with it. The sad truth is, most Christians get evicted because they never learned how to live their life in Christ. The reason they don't know is because no one taught them. How shall they believe on Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? (Rom 10:14). The Church is for the most part bankrupt in this area of Truth. That's why you have so many Christians fearing for their lives, just like unbelievers. This is sad, and not very pleasing to God.
God has a voice (His Word) and cancer has a voice (doctor's report). Which voice you heed determines whose alive in you. If God's Word is directing your path, then Jesus is alive in you, but if cancer's words are directing your steps, then you are operating from fear of losing something and cancer will reign and rule your life. Cancer says, "I'm going to kill you" and God says, "with long life I will satisfy you and show you my salvation (deliverance, healing)" (Ps 91:16). Which one will you believe? You'll believe the one who is speaking to the one who is alive in you. And what you believe determines which word spoken to you will come to pass.
Hey Christian, it's time for you to die, so that you can really live free from fear of losing something and full of faith for gaining everything. Fear or Faith. The choice is yours (not God's), but to walk in faith, you will have to die. You up for that? The truth is, if your truly born again you have already died. All you have to do is quit crawling down off that cross and living that old dead life of yours. Be crucified with Christ and really live!
Be Blessed!!!
Sunday, May 6, 2012
God Calls You A Peculiar People, Are You?
How do you overcome a physical infirmity? By exalting a higher level of Truth over what that infirmity is proclaiming. Example: Your body says "I'm sick" and God says (through His Word to you 1Pet 2:24) "You were healed". Who are you going to believe? Your body or God? Your body is proclaiming something to you from the natural/physical realm. You don't deny what your body is saying to you for it is speaking a physical truth to you, but God on the other hand is speaking a supernatural Truth to you. It's super, because it's greater than that natural truth and God's Truth will overcome natural truth. When we walk and live by faith, we never deny the sickness, we deny it's right to be on us, so we resist it with the Word of Truth (God's Word) and overcome it with the Healing that God promised us with..............
WOW! Terry, what planet did you come from? That's to far out for me. Well, you asked me where I came from so here is my answer, I was born again by/through the Word of God, the incorruptible seed of God, I was delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of God, and Heaven is now my home. I'm in the world, but not of the world. I live my life according to the Law of the Kingdom of God, and that Law is the Law of Faith (Rom 3:27, 8:7). I live according to God's will on earth as it is in Heaven (my home). I call myself what God calls me, He calls me healed, even when my body calls me sick. I choose to believe my Father, and what my Father calls me will ALWAYS prevail IF I BELIEVE HIM. This is not far out at all my brother and sister, it just may be farther out than you can believe right now, but you can change all that by looking into God's Word, for it will take you to places you've never been before.
It's always been my hope from the first message I wrote on this blog site, that I could tell you about a Jesus you have never heard about and do not know. You've been to Church all your life, but you don't know this Jesus. I pray you meet Him soon. My whole life now is dedicated to introducing and revealing the Jesus you do not know. This Jesus is a life changer, do you know this Jesus? It's a matter of Life and Death? Let me introduce Him to you................
To walk by faith is a supernatural way to live. You choose to live in a realm that you can not see, but believe is there. You choose to walk (live) by faith and not by sight. You choose to live by what you believe over what you see. God calls you Blessed when you live this way (John 20:29).
You can not do away with the Physical Realm and the natural truth of this realm. But you can overcome it and live in the Supernatural Realm if you choose to live by (spiritual) faith in God's Word instead of living by (natural) faith in what you see.
Faith in God is a lifestyle. Not something you just do now and then when you are in need. Faith is a lifestyle, not a one time event. The just shall live by faith.To live your life according to the Word of God is to live in the Supernatural Realm, a realm that is above the natural realm. Your lifestyle there will look different to those who are living in the natural realm. You will look peculiar (the word used in the KJ version for 1Pet 2:9) to them, just like God said you would, but you don't look peculiar to God, you look just like Him and people will say about you what they said about Jesus when He walked this earth as a Man, "what manner of man is this, that even the wind and the the sea obey Him" (Mark 4:41, Matt 8:27 KJ version of course).
So what can this be? It's a man who chooses to live by faith, in a Jesus that most Christians don't know, and not by sight, and those that live this way will be ridiculed by those that don't, but what they say about us won't override what God says about us and He says, "You are blessed!!" (John 20:29)
Choose you this day how you will live your life, as for me, I choose to live by faith, therefore I am Blessed!
(and yes, I'm peculiar)
How about you?
WOW! Terry, what planet did you come from? That's to far out for me. Well, you asked me where I came from so here is my answer, I was born again by/through the Word of God, the incorruptible seed of God, I was delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of God, and Heaven is now my home. I'm in the world, but not of the world. I live my life according to the Law of the Kingdom of God, and that Law is the Law of Faith (Rom 3:27, 8:7). I live according to God's will on earth as it is in Heaven (my home). I call myself what God calls me, He calls me healed, even when my body calls me sick. I choose to believe my Father, and what my Father calls me will ALWAYS prevail IF I BELIEVE HIM. This is not far out at all my brother and sister, it just may be farther out than you can believe right now, but you can change all that by looking into God's Word, for it will take you to places you've never been before.
It's always been my hope from the first message I wrote on this blog site, that I could tell you about a Jesus you have never heard about and do not know. You've been to Church all your life, but you don't know this Jesus. I pray you meet Him soon. My whole life now is dedicated to introducing and revealing the Jesus you do not know. This Jesus is a life changer, do you know this Jesus? It's a matter of Life and Death? Let me introduce Him to you................
To walk by faith is a supernatural way to live. You choose to live in a realm that you can not see, but believe is there. You choose to walk (live) by faith and not by sight. You choose to live by what you believe over what you see. God calls you Blessed when you live this way (John 20:29).
You can not do away with the Physical Realm and the natural truth of this realm. But you can overcome it and live in the Supernatural Realm if you choose to live by (spiritual) faith in God's Word instead of living by (natural) faith in what you see.
Faith in God is a lifestyle. Not something you just do now and then when you are in need. Faith is a lifestyle, not a one time event. The just shall live by faith.To live your life according to the Word of God is to live in the Supernatural Realm, a realm that is above the natural realm. Your lifestyle there will look different to those who are living in the natural realm. You will look peculiar (the word used in the KJ version for 1Pet 2:9) to them, just like God said you would, but you don't look peculiar to God, you look just like Him and people will say about you what they said about Jesus when He walked this earth as a Man, "what manner of man is this, that even the wind and the the sea obey Him" (Mark 4:41, Matt 8:27 KJ version of course).
So what can this be? It's a man who chooses to live by faith, in a Jesus that most Christians don't know, and not by sight, and those that live this way will be ridiculed by those that don't, but what they say about us won't override what God says about us and He says, "You are blessed!!" (John 20:29)
Choose you this day how you will live your life, as for me, I choose to live by faith, therefore I am Blessed!
(and yes, I'm peculiar)
How about you?
Monday, March 26, 2012
Perfect Fellowship With God
When you are born again, Jesus comes into your heart and lives within you. This is only the first half of the desired fellowship God has for His man. God willingly comes into the man's heart when Jesus is asked to be his Savior.
But there is another half that is needed to make this fellowship between God and man complete. God demonstrated His will by coming into the heart of the man and living in him. Now man must demonstrate his will by making a choice to live in Jesus. The man does this by making Jesus the Lord of his life.
When Jesus is Lord over the man's life, He (God) is the One who reigns and rules the man's life. The man puts Jesus in charge of his life. Now the fellowship between God and the man is complete. God is living in man and man is living in God (John 15:4-7). This is the picture of perfection that God sees as He looks at His creation. It's the way God intended it to be.
It's the way it was with Adam and Eve before they sinned by taking the Lordship God had over them and making themselves lord over their own lives. Then they made a decision that opposed God's way and they sinned and separated themselves from God and His blessings. God was no longer living in them, and they were no longer living in God.
Then Jesus, the Son of God, came to the earth by way of the miraculous virgin birth from Mary, to redeem man and pay the full and complete price for man's sin on the cross making the way for man to be put back in right standing with God once again. Now God and man could have fellowship with each other once again.
Man must make two choices to put this perfect fellowship back in order in his life. First he must make Jesus his Savior and second he must make Jesus his Lord. This is perfect fellowship with God. Many men/women live their lives with only half of the desired fellowship operating in their lives. The man makes Jesus his Savior, but won't give Jesus control over his life, so the man remains lord over his own life.
What you have here is a split personality and broken fellowship. The man's spirit that is born-again will want to do one thing, but the man's flesh (his body) will want to do another, and because the man is Lord over his own life, he will follow his flesh and walk away from the leading of the Spirit.
The born-again man makes God his Father, but to be in perfect fellowship with his Father, he must make the Father's Son, Jesus, the Lord over his life. When the man makes Jesus the Lord of his life, the fellowship between God and the man is perfect and complete, and this is the place where man gets to live his life in the blessing of God where the storehouse of God is located for every need that the man will ever have in life (2 Pet 1:2-4).This man (the man who has received Jesus as his Savior and made Him the Lord over his life) is now totally dependent upon his God, and his God would have it no other way, for this is the way God designed it to work from the very beginning.
The Church's emphasis is always on getting a man saved, but the Church must help this man continue his journey with God and teach him about the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
If you are saved today, is Jesus your Lord as well? If He is not, you are missing out on God's best for your life. Release control of your life by making Jesus the Lord over your life and follow Him. Now you are in that place of perfect fellowship with God. It will be Heaven on earth for you, just like God intended it to be.
Make Jesus Lord (of your life) today and enter that perfect fellowship with the Father and the Son (John 14:21 & 23 make sure you read and meditate this Truth).
Be Blessed!!!!!
But there is another half that is needed to make this fellowship between God and man complete. God demonstrated His will by coming into the heart of the man and living in him. Now man must demonstrate his will by making a choice to live in Jesus. The man does this by making Jesus the Lord of his life.
When Jesus is Lord over the man's life, He (God) is the One who reigns and rules the man's life. The man puts Jesus in charge of his life. Now the fellowship between God and the man is complete. God is living in man and man is living in God (John 15:4-7). This is the picture of perfection that God sees as He looks at His creation. It's the way God intended it to be.
It's the way it was with Adam and Eve before they sinned by taking the Lordship God had over them and making themselves lord over their own lives. Then they made a decision that opposed God's way and they sinned and separated themselves from God and His blessings. God was no longer living in them, and they were no longer living in God.
Then Jesus, the Son of God, came to the earth by way of the miraculous virgin birth from Mary, to redeem man and pay the full and complete price for man's sin on the cross making the way for man to be put back in right standing with God once again. Now God and man could have fellowship with each other once again.
Man must make two choices to put this perfect fellowship back in order in his life. First he must make Jesus his Savior and second he must make Jesus his Lord. This is perfect fellowship with God. Many men/women live their lives with only half of the desired fellowship operating in their lives. The man makes Jesus his Savior, but won't give Jesus control over his life, so the man remains lord over his own life.
What you have here is a split personality and broken fellowship. The man's spirit that is born-again will want to do one thing, but the man's flesh (his body) will want to do another, and because the man is Lord over his own life, he will follow his flesh and walk away from the leading of the Spirit.
The born-again man makes God his Father, but to be in perfect fellowship with his Father, he must make the Father's Son, Jesus, the Lord over his life. When the man makes Jesus the Lord of his life, the fellowship between God and the man is perfect and complete, and this is the place where man gets to live his life in the blessing of God where the storehouse of God is located for every need that the man will ever have in life (2 Pet 1:2-4).This man (the man who has received Jesus as his Savior and made Him the Lord over his life) is now totally dependent upon his God, and his God would have it no other way, for this is the way God designed it to work from the very beginning.
The Church's emphasis is always on getting a man saved, but the Church must help this man continue his journey with God and teach him about the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
If you are saved today, is Jesus your Lord as well? If He is not, you are missing out on God's best for your life. Release control of your life by making Jesus the Lord over your life and follow Him. Now you are in that place of perfect fellowship with God. It will be Heaven on earth for you, just like God intended it to be.
Make Jesus Lord (of your life) today and enter that perfect fellowship with the Father and the Son (John 14:21 & 23 make sure you read and meditate this Truth).
Be Blessed!!!!!
Friday, December 9, 2011
Jesus Always Leads To Victory--ALWAYS!!
2 Cor 2:14 says, "Now thanks be unto God Who ALWAYS leads us in triumph in Christ.
Then why didn't I see the victory when I was believing Him and following Him?
Because you didn't follow Jesus far enough. You quit following Him because you didn't see the answer to your prayer or your confession of faith, so you grew weary by looking at the problem instead of looking at the Promise (Jesus--the Word), and you quit following Jesus and you chose another way.
Jesus ALWAYS leads to triumph and victory. ALWAYS!! If you follow Him all the way, you will see the victory. If you don't see it, then know that you didn't follow Him far enough and quit. Quitters never win and Winners never quit (even the world uses this statement of truth).
The Word of God says you always triumph, you always see the victory. The only reason this would not happen for you is because you quit the race before the finish line. You gave into the contrary evidence that came against you and that evidence became bigger to you then the One you were following, so you stopped following Jesus, and started to follow the natural evidence that was coming against you because you bought into the lie of your adversary the devil. You believed the devil's lie more than you believed God's Truth, so you quit on God and followed His enemy instead.
There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of that way is death (Prov 14:12). When you follow Jesus (John 10:3-4), the end of that way is ALWAYS triumph, victory, and life. But you must follow Him and never quit until you cross the finish line and enter into the victory that God promised you through His Word.
Jesus ALWAYS leads to victory. Are you willing to follow Him until you get there? If you do, you'll enjoy the victory. If you don't, then you'll join that large group of God's children who tried the Word (way), but gave up and said, "the Word didn't work for me", but in reality the problem was they didn't work the Word by following Jesus all the way to the finish line.
It's time to quit bad mouthing faith and those that live by faith, be still, shut your mouth, and know that if you will follow Jesus all the way to the finish line , you will see and experience the victory.
Jesus ALWAYS leads to victory!!! Will you follow Him long enough to get there? If you don't, don't bad mouth God and His Word, and don't bad mouth the guy who is still in the race following Jesus by faith until he reaps the victory. If you have quit following Jesus because you became weary and gave up, then I encourage you today to repent before God, reenter the race and follow Jesus all the way to the finish line and enjoy the victory that awaits you there. God has promised it, so you can know that it's there!
Be Blessed!!!
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Doing Good For A Reason
James 4:17 says, "to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin."
The gospel is the Good News or a good message. The Gospel is the Word of God. To know the Word, but not do it, is sin. If you know that the Word says, "by His stripes you were healed"
(1 Pet 2:24), but your body declares it's sick, then to do good is to confess the Word of God instead of agreeing with your body. This is called living by faith ( the world and the carnal church call it something else, but I only call it what God calls it--TRUTH). Faith pleases God (Heb 11:6), and God watches over His Word to perform it (Jer 1:12).
Rom 2:10 says, "you have to work what is good". It takes effort to walk by faith. It takes no effort to walk by your natural senses. Most people go by the way of least resistance which leads to death (Prov 14:12). Faith leads to life but you have to work it (Phil 2:12).
And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith......Gal 6:9-10
Be Blessed!!
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