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

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!!