Live Your Life the Way God Intended for You to Live

I'm going to share another message with you that was put on my heart for a group of believers I help oversee with God's leading, because once again the truth in this message is so vital for those who call themselves "Believers" today. Let God speak to your heart today through these words:

Hi All,

God had you on my heart this morning. Your Heavenly Father so wants you to live your life on this earth at the abundant level that Jesus bought and paid the price for. So many of God's children live their lives so far below what God has given to them. He wants you to live your life in your rightful place. Jesus' blood paid the price for you to have abundant life, but Jesus won't get what He paid for if you don't know what He did for you and walk in it by believing Him. The Truth God wants to share with you today is practically unknown by the Church (the body of Christ) today, but God wants to reveal it to you:

To the man or woman who has received Jesus as their Lord and Savior, you are born again. You've been born to live your life now, today, not when you get to Heaven, but now, today, in the Kingdom of God. Jesus said you are in the world, but not of the World, so quit living like dead men live their lives in the world around you. Come out from among them and be separate is God's instruction to you (2 Cor 6:17).

So how do you do this? You believe what God has said about you and He says, " I have made you alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and I have raised you up to sit together with Me in Heavenly places in My Son Christ Jesus" (Eph 2:5-6). God wants you to know that He has already raised you up from the dead (Please read Rom 6:3-11 for more understanding of this). Your spirit man, the real you on the inside, has been born again and raised from the dead. Your body of flesh has not been born again and it will die if Jesus doesn't come back first, but your body will be raised up from the dead when Jesus returns from Heaven for His Church and it will be reunited with your spirit man. WOW, just how big and amazing is our God.

Now I shared all this with you because God told me to tell you, "you've already been raised from the dead and you are already sitting together at Jesus' right hand, far above all principality, power, might, and dominion and every name that is named (Eph 1:20-21). You've been given the right (because of the Blood) and the authority (because you have been given HIs name --Eph 3:14-15) to live your life from this Heavenly position and God your Father expects you to live from here.

Unless you know and then believe that you (your spirit man) is born again and already raised from the dead, you will continue to walk this earth as a dead man agreeing with your flesh body instead of your spirit. You'll be a dead man walking even though you've been made alive in Christ. The vast majority of the Church is waiting for this resurrected life style when they get to Heaven (because they can't separate their flesh body from their spirit), but God wants you to live it now, from your spirit, today, and live as that new man raised from the dead.

Now this is the Truth of the Gospel. This is the Truth that will change the quality of your life NOW. It sounds nothing like the man made doctrines that most people hear and that's why you can't see any difference between the man in the Church and the man in the world. Unfortunately the World has influenced the Church instead of the Church influencing the World.

So are you going to walk as a man/woman raised up to new life or are you going to be a dead man walking? God says, choose His way and live life the way a child of God is supposed live...............

 

Be Blessed!!

When Adversity Comes, What Will You Do?

I wrote the following message to a group of people that are connected to a Healing Ministry named God Pleaser's that I have been leading with two other faithful men for the last four and a half years. The truth of what God shared with me in this message for them is now in my heart to share with those of you who read this blog site. So if you need healing in your body or you are experiencing any mental torment in your mind and/or emotions then receive your healing today by applying what you hear in this message:

 

Here is what Rom 15:13 says: "Now may (the Holy Spirit is asking for permission from you. You gonna give it to Him?) the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound (that is always God's will for you) in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit". Now is hope, joy, and peace a part of your life? If not, that doesn't make this word any less true, it means you need to find the way into it.

Now here is what God put on my heart for you today:

The first thing that needs to be accomplished when adversity comes is not releasing faith, but first building your hope up on God's Word and His promises to you. When your hope is built up, then release your faith into that hope for faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen (Heb 11:1). If you need healing, then look at the Healing promises of God until your hope is built up, then release your faith into that hope. Now your faith becomes the healing you are hoping for until it is. Your faith becomes the substance of healing until you see it manifest. That's why if you are really standing in faith, you can call yourself healed for your faith is your healing (the substance of it) until it is manifested. It doesn't matter what you look like to anyone else, it only matters to you and God. This is how faith works. Your believing takes the place of what you are believing for until it is. In God's eyes, what you are believing Him for is as real as the manifestation of it. The world says, "seeing is believing" but the Kingdom of God is just the opposite, "Believing is seeing". If you can't believe it first before you see it it, then you choose not to live in God's Kingdom because that is the way of the Kingdom.

Now lets press in a little further. If you try to release your faith where there is no hope, then your faith has nothing to work with (Here is the reason for faith failures). Hope and Faith are like epoxy glue. By themselves there is no strength or power, no sticking power, but when you mix your faith with hope together, you get a strong bond that will work to bring about what you are believing for. The devil targets your hope, because he knows your faith won't work without hope. If you feel hopeless then you are faithless as well............

These are the Truth's that are hidden from most Christians because they never hear about it. But somehow, God wants you to hear it today. He wants you to hear the Truth, so that that Truth will set you free. That's why God provides Healing Oasis's for those that would like to come and sit by the rivers of living water and receive whatever they need from Him. God has these places everywhere. The one I'm most familiar with is where I hang out on Thursday nights with two other good men who have joined me on this journey and we are joined there by other good folks who come for the living water. The door is always open and you are welcome anytime. (For those of you that are reading this that live in the area, we meet every Thursday night at 6061 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, OH 43231 at

7:00PM where Jesus has commissioned us and directed us to go and heal the sick and we are seeing God doing great things in our midst).

 

I'm ending with a quote from Bob Hazlett that will change the way you interact with God in your relationship with Him if you understand this truth: "The miraculous happens when WE become aware of what God has ALREADY DONE (ex; 1 Peter 2:24 the Holy Spirit says to you, "By His (Jesus') stripes YOU WERE HEALED") and then access it through faith. In most cases, we are NOT waiting on God to act, we are waiting for our reality (YOU WERE HEALED) to align with the TRUTH. Keep Believing!!"

 

Now you have heard some good word today. Go put it to use and be blessed!!

Be Healed!

When you receive prayer for healing, you always receive the Healing. Now before I lose you as you begin to think about all your unanswered prayers and click to something else, I want you to pause for a second, take a deep breath, turn your religious mind off, and be willing to hear the voice of Truth. Who is that? Jesus, for sure. I'm just the messenger and the words that you will be reading are the words that I am hearing from my God, Lord and Savior Jesus.

So let me start again. When you receive prayer for healing, you always  receive the Healing. You'll either receive it through the instant manifestation or you'll receive it by seed. We would all like to receive the instant miracle but God has other ways to get His healing to you and if it comes by seed, it needs time to grow in your heart. You must protect that seed (how? Prov 4:20-27), you must be careful with it, for Jesus said that seed that is sown in your heart can be stolen (Mark 4:15).

If the seed that was sown in your heart is stolen then many will say, "I didn't get it (healed)". When you say this, do you really know what you are doing? You are mocking God. Gal 6:7 says, "do not be deceived God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows that he will also reap", and verse 9 says, "don't grow weary while doing good (what's that? Believing) for in due season you shall reap IF you do not lose heart".

God says, "by His stripes you were healed" (1 Pet 2:24). Are you going to believe God or mock Him by saying your not. It looks a little different from this perspective and this just happens to be God's perspective. Luke 9:11 says, "Jesus spoke to the people about the Kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing" (Jesus demonstrated God's perfect will for all men for all times).

If you have need of healing today, then Jesus will do the same for you. Just don't mock God by saying that you didn't get something from Him that He has already told you that you have (Isa 53:4-5 & Matt 8 :16-17) just because you don't see it right away and then you allow the devil to steal it (that seed of healing) from you. When you receive prayer for your healing, know that you have received it for sure. Now, just hold onto it by protecting your heart that has that precious seed in it.

Jesus says to you and me, " do not be afraid, only believe" (Mark 5:36). So what do you say? Let's you and me do what Jesus said and be healed!!

Be Blessed

I Want My People Well

God spoke the following into my heart as I was spending some quite time with Him and I'm just gonna share it with you the way He shared it with me..........

My people perish for a lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6), not because it's not My will to heal them. I have made a way for them to be healed and to walk in health while they inhabit the earth, but they must choose My way for them and walk in it. When your child is sick, is it your will for them to be healed and well? Of course it is! (I love the simplicity of God, it's man that makes it difficult). Your desire for them to be well comes from Me, so how could I not desire the same thing for My children?

I want My children well and I've made a way for that to happen, that way is through My Son Jesus for He is the Way (John 14:6), the only way to healing and health. He paid an enormous price on the Cross to set My people free, but there are very few who find it, because they believe the lies of My enemy, satan, over over the Truth of My word. My people don't die from sickness and disease because it's My will, they die because of a lack of knowledge of  My will to heal them. Did I not have My Son pray this prayer in your midst, "Our Father in Heaven, hallowed (to consecrate, devote to sacred purposes) be Your Name, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven....". You will find no sickness or disease in Heaven for that is not My will for man, so you'll not find it here in Heaven, and it's not My will for a man to be sick on earth either, but the earth that man lives on is cursed because of sin, and sickness is a part of that curse, but My Son paid the full price for man's sin, and those men who accept that sacrifice of My Son Jesus are now forgiven and redeemed from that curse (Gal 3:13-14) so that they can now walk free from it, but you see My son, this is the knowledge that My people lack and therefore they die because they don't know I made a way of escape for them. I have made a way for man to live free from sickness and disease, but that man must believe Me and believe what I have done for him and walk in the Truth of My Word by resisting the devil and the curse he lords over.

I have set My people free, and they are free indeed, but it will cost them something to live in that freedom. They must be willing to fight the good fight of faith by resisting the devil and watching him flee from them. I want My people well. It's My will for them to be well. Now you go son and tell them, "I want My people well!!"...........

Well, that's exactly what I've done, now the rest is up to you and me. If we lack knowledge, we need to get it. God has more knowledge about His will to heal on the earth today then at any other time. We are without excuse when we stand before God and He asks you, "What did you do with My Son?" For everything the Son did for man, has been made known to man, it's called the Bible. It's up to man to find out what it says and my prayer for anyone who reads this blog post is, "I pray to the Father of my Lord and Savior Jesus, the Father of Glory, that He would give unto you the Spirit of Wisdom and revelation in the the knowledge of Him (Jesus), that the eyes of your understanding be enlightened, that you would know what is the hope of His calling, that you would know what God inherited in you when you became His son/daughter" (Eph 1:17-18).

Be Blessed!!

God's Word or Do You Choose Another?

When we don't agree with God by what He says to us concerning our situation, for example God says, "by His stripes you were healed" (1 Pet 2:24), but you look at your body and it says that it is sick, then if we rather choose to believe and agree with what we see and feel and declare that as truth rather than declaring the Word of God as Truth, we are speaking with a deceitful mouth (Prov 4:24) from the vantage point of Heaven where God rules and reigns. Heaven looks at things on the earth  from their perspective and it looks totally different from Heaven than it does on earth.

If you choose to live your life in the Kingdom of God while on this earth, then you must see things from the Heavenly perspective by looking at things through the eye of faith (or God's eyes) and declaring Heaven's truth over your earthly experiences. Yes, you will look foolish to those around you, but you'll look just right to God and all of Heaven.

I'm a citizen of Heaven (as a Believer) and just passing through the earth during this time that God has given me here, and I choose to live my life according to my Homeland--Heaven, for I live my life in the Kingdom of God where God is King and has dominion over everything else. Am I willing to look like a fool on the earth to bring the Kingdom of God near to those around me? For God's will to be done on Earth as it is in Heaven, I must. I can't live any other way then my Father's way.

Oh dear Father, teach me Your ways and I will do them and live that way on earth as you do in Heaven. There is no other way for the child of God to live on this earth. It's our calling and purpose to reveal Heaven on the Earth. What a privilege I have to be God's Ambassador on the Earth. Help me Father to do this right. Help me to reveal You to those around me so that they can see the power of the Kingdom of God.

Thank you Father for bringing me into Your Kingdom, and now I'll live my life as a King's Kid!

* God's confirming scripture to me concerning what He just had me share with you is Ps 1:1 which says,
"Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly (the wicked, those that speak contrary to what God declares about it). God's Word ends all debate. There is no Truth other than God's Word. To exalt any other word above God's Word, is to exalt your throne above God's, and who is the author of that? The devil. Nothing else needs to be said about it. End of debate.

Be Blessed!

Oh No, The Word Is Not Working

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!! 

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!!