Friday, November 6, 2009

What Is Your Belief System?

2 Timothy 1:12-14-For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.

All people have a belief system, whether they realize it or not. Even those who claim there is no God have faith that He does not exist. What we believe affects every area of our lives and shapes every decision we make, yet few of us take the time to really think about what we accept as true.

All belief systems have a foundation. Some people base their convictions on what fits their lifestyle, reasoning, and desires. However, Jesus calls His followers to adapt life to their faith in Him and the authority of His Word.

Anytime we add other philosophies or ideas to Scripture or pick and choose which parts of the Bible to believe, we create our own version of faith based on personal reasoning. God's Word is the only true and reliable foundation for belief, because it contains the recorded thoughts of an eternal, all-knowing God. All other concepts must be measured against it to determine their validity.

Knowing what the Bible says is essential for developing a sound system of beliefs founded on the truth and wisdom of God. This world will offer you a variety of philosophies which sound good but are laced with lies. Faith anchored in the Scriptures is your protection against deception.

Each time you face a problem or decision, search for the answer in Scripture. Begin your day by reading the Word and asking God to help you understand what He is saying. He loves communicating with you, and as you spend time with Him, He'll open your mind to know His thoughts.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Greatness

Ephesians 1:19-And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power.

Greatness is a result of living and succeeding through the consequences that are brought on by making significant decisions for your life. You do not pray for it. You naturally become friends with it when you embrace the ability to endure the pressures that come with being uniquely different.

Jesus said that not many people will find and seek this life. He said that the Way of this Life is very narrow. It takes confidence and courage to live a life that not many seek after. Oh, they may seek after the Benefits of this life. But they do not seek to become the byproduct of this Life.

Enduring the consequences of Significant decisions will naturally make one an incredible leader and visionary in life. Life changing influence is the result of embracing the power to live in the waves of decision! Great leaders do not seek to be great leaders. Their confidence in the midst of the storms that were created by their decisions will naturally clothe them with the Father's greatness! Greatness is what others see in those who yet stand. It is their testimony, established by confidence in the Spirit, as well as by their faith to endure the storms.

God's Transforming Power of Prophetic Promise

Jeremiah 1:4-10-Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. 10See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

The Spirit of God blesses all of the Father's children with visions of greatness, prosperity, wonder working exploits of power, and ultimate expressions of Dominion. Embedded within your spirit is an incredible download of the Kingdom's Intentions, Revealations, Desires, and the Manifest Presence of God. You are a carrier of Divine happenings, conversations, and purposes, that have taken place BEFORE YOU WERE PLACED IN YOUR MOTHER'S WOMB.

God knows things about you that the earth and people has yet to see or come to pass!

There are some of you who are experiencing a daily dose of Divine Frustration as a result of your Purpose and Assignment. You are experiencing visions, daydreams, and high octane expectations from the Lord. You are seeing all of these incredible things in your mind daily, and the frustration comes as a result of not having yet tangibly placed your hands upon those dreams. You are seemingly ready to live from these prophecies and promises.

Confirmations are nice indeed- BUT MANIFESTATIONS KEEP THE SPIRIT FED!

It is imperative for you to know something. The Father is preparing your Mind to do the things you see from your Mind. He is giving you the Mentality that is needed to do the exploits that are revealed in your mind. It is imperative for you that your nature also reflects the Nature of your Promise and Prophecy. You must become the image of the thing you are waiting so patiently for.

This is why process is so painful, drawn out, and full of inward misery. God's Promises and Prophecies are for a people that God is making. When God speaks, He is not speaking to you. He is speaking to the person that the Prophetic Word is forming you into. He is not speaking to the person that everyone has become familiar with. He is speaking to a person that has yet to be introduced to the world. When God told Jeremiah the plan of his life, he responded by saying, How can this be so. I am just a child. God then replied; do not say that you are a child. Before you were in your mother's womb I KNEW YOU! God speaks prophetically to those that he knows. You don't have to be known by others to be known by God as in the book of Jeremiah 1:4-10.

It is also imperative for you to understand that when you receive a Life Changing Word you have just agreed to a death you must experience. With every Word comes a death. Prophetic Decrees from the Lord will also reveal a death to the Lord. It is impossible to receive a Word from God, and yet maintain the mentalities, opinions, and life practices that you have become so famous for. With every Word from the Prophetic Heart of God comes a sword from God that is designed to cut away years and years of history, relationships, concepts, and perspectives. You can hear a Word from God and live. But you cannot do what you hear UNTIL YOUR SELF/FLESH DIES, TO WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE TO YOUSELF AS WELL AS WHAT YOU WERE TO OTHER PEOPLE.

Did you catch that in the spirit?

The frustrations you are experiencing as a result of hearing the Word of God is not coming from the devil, it is coming from God. The pains you are experiencing are not Warfare from the Enemy. It is a Deathfare coming from God. It is a death to the old things you were and use to be. A necessary ingredient that will empower you to live in the Kingdom. When you in your mind spirit and soul begin to embrace the prophetic promise from God, he will begin to separate you from your own self, thoughts, ways, and comfortable position. He is doing this in order to make you comfortable with Truth in its purest form.

When your nature does not reflect you’re Promise, you will find yourself becoming burned out, discouraged, and compromising yourself as it relates to what God desires for you to be and do. Remember, with every Word from God comes a clause in fine print, committing you to a Nature Change.

Many desire Promises without transformation, benefits without discipline, and reward without responsibility. God indeed, has given us the Free Gift of salvation. But in order to experience the Pre-Ordained Downloads of Power, Authority, and Dominion. We must give away the nature that God never intended for us to possess!"

Disobedience clothed us into coverings of limitation, fear, grief, and religion. But obedience to the Spirit of God, rents away the veils of the fallen nature. When the veils of limitation have been torn away, the Download of the Father's Blessings towards us will MANIFEST!

The Authority to Speak A Decree!

1 Timothy 2:2-For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Authority does not come as a result of being the one in charge, but it comes as a result of you becoming the victim of your prophetic assignment, word, and decree. When you possess the ability to subject yourself to your own Divine Word and Decree, your authority will be revealed. Kings possess this kind of authority.

They will not allow their feelings to transcend the Authority that is spoken from their mouths, they will lead and speak in honesty. You and I were established as Kings and Priests in the earth realm. Inside of every believer, is a Prophetic Word. Seasons come from the Spirit, in order to make us into the very decree that we speak. When you discover the ability to endure the consequences of your own Power, Anointing, Vision, and Purpose, you will also discover the Influence that surrounds your Authority. When the prophet decreed that there would be no rain for 3 years, he too lost his water supply. Authority comes when you can outlast the consequence of your own decree.

Christians Living on Target

Romans 8:28-28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

You are an expression of the Living God. You are a direct byproduct and creation that is composed of His Divine Intention and Divine Nature. Dominion is in your blood, spirit, mind, body and soul. Creative Possibility is all inside of you. You are more than positive thinking. You possess the Mind of Christ himself. Therefore, you have the mentality and the consciousness that sees the Potential and the Possible in all things, simply because all things work together for the Good, to them who love God and are called according to His specific Purpose.

Do not fear your Dominion. It is not a prideful thing to walk in Dominion. It is not arrogant to live an invincible reality. Being invincible does not mean that you are lifeless, emotionless, and painless. It simply means that you will not allow these elements of life to determine, dictate, or dominate, the Principles and Purposes of the Kingdom that are embedded within your inner man.

Choose to remain on your Divine Course. Choose to live on Target, knowing that what you were born to do will soon reflect the Divine Nature from whom you are an offspring.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Light Shines in Darkness

John 1:5-And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Do you know that you are Significant to God?

You are good. God sees you as totally good, totally significant, as well as totally his. The person who was once in darkness is not here anymore. That person that you once knew died a long time ago. As a matter of fact, God never created that person who once was. That person was a byproduct of disobedience. Now, you are standing here as a new creation, and a byproduct of what created you before the world began.
So now, when the Father uses himself through you, don't obligate yourself to feeling like you are an old creature, because you're not an old creature. You are His Glory, Honor, and Precious Child. You are not an unworthy vessel.

You are the righteousness of God, His living peace, in the earth. You are the Light of this world. If you were unworthy there would be no need for Jesus to make you a Light. Lights are valuable iIt naturally removes the darkness from the atmosphere without any apprehension, struggle, or fear. Light never works itself to death in order for it to shine. It simply shines because it simply is. Light naturally removes the darkness from the region, land and atmosphere. No matter how big the light, or how dim the light. Darkness, does not possess enough power to overwhelm or overpower the Light.

You and I are significant earthen vessels. When we experience the power of Reconciliation, we will even experience the touch that the Father had when he formed man from the dust of the ground. Even the touch of God has been reconciled. As a reconciled earth you are no longer a piece of disgrace or disgust. You are truly a reconciled expression of God. You are not trash. You are not sin. You are Holy. You are His Glorious Nature. You are His handiwork, fearfully and wonderfully made to do what you are truly BEING.

By simply being his holiness, your works are also holy. And if you are comfortable in being then you are comfortable with possessing his Mind and Mentality. Your life activities are a direct result of your Divine Mentality in Christ Jesus. It's only when you are not at peace with Peace, as well as at peace with who God really made you to be which is the likeness of Him, that you begin to feel inwardly tormented with yourself, even after the Spirit uses you. We begin to feel the obligation to curse ourselves, feeling as though we must do this in order to not take the Glory away from God. We feel within ourselves that we must affirm our unworthiness, after God uses Himself mightily through us. We are His Body, and if He does anything in the earth, He does it through and in His Body. You need your body to do everything you do. So does the Father. He is our Head and we are His Body. If the Head, who is Christ, is God's Glory and Divine Nature, so is His Body. The Body will always be what the Head is. And if the Head is seated next to the Father, SO IS HIS BODY!

Didn't you know that you were seated next to God?

Do you think that God would allow the profane to sit next to Him in the heavenlies?

Anyone who sits next to God isn't unworthy. They are truly valuable. If you are the Body of Jesus, and He is sitting next to the Father, you are a partaker of His Worthiness. You must put an end of disclaiming yourself after the Father affirms Himself in you.

Jesus said you are nothing without God. Seeing that you are with God, it is safe to say that you are something worthwhile, something worth saving, and something that was so valuable, that it cost the death of the Son of God.

I Encourage You To Continue On

Colossians 1:23-If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

Growth in the Spirit and Life of God will produce many changes, many realizations, and new vocabularies to articulate the substance of the spirit that has been discovered as a result of continuing on in Him. When you continue on in the Lord, your words and views will change. Your commitment to God remains, but in a much deeper and mature sense.

I shares insights from God that may be discovered instantly, or discovered as one continues on in the faith of Jesus Christ. If you continue on in the Father's intentions, you will see things differently than you see them now. So never consider insights that seemingly come from down the road as irrelevant. They prepare you for the growth you are stepping into. Your New Frontiers will not look or feel like your present frontiers.

There is an interstate that runs from Florida to California. It's called I-10. It's a coast to coast interstate highway that runs right through Texas, connecting the southern portion of the United States. There is no need to turn off this highway because it will take you Coast to Coast. Now, if I am giving you the view of Arizona, while you are presently traveling in Louisiana, you will have nothing to equate it to. But if you continue on, you will step into what has already been established before your trip. Many people, however, do not continue on. They stop where they are pleased, instead of moving on to the Finish Line.

Believers can all be on the same Highway, but in different dimensions of the Highway. Believers can all know Jesus Christ, but live in different dimensions of Jesus Christ. If you are a person who has stopped on the highway, even though we are on the same interstate, you will not understand what the Spirit is saying. God does not speak to the place where you have stopped. He speaks from the place where he is presently revealing himself. You must continue on in order to establish your understanding in Him.

As you grow you will know. We all know the same Lord and Jesus Christ. However, there are some who have continued in Jesus Christ, and some who have camped in Jesus Christ. Those who have known a continuing Jesus Christ may possess an insight that is different from those who have embraced a camping ground Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ who is moving will speak differently than a Jesus Christ perspective that has remained still. The Depths of Jesus Christ will differ from the banks of Jesus Christ.

The University of Jesus Christ will reveal a more mature subject matter than the Elementary principles of Jesus Christ. There is no place in God that frees us to end the journey to fullness. You may end your journey because you are tired or you may end it because you feel that this is the spot where the father wants you to stop. But there is no commandment from God that empowers us to set our own finish line in the journey of fullness and maturity. There will be many words that are ahead of you. And if you continue to walk, you will step into the comprehension of those words that seemingly are above your head, and yet speaking to your spirit.

When you allow your growth in the fellowship of Jesus Christ to end, your ability to comprehend the depths of Jesus Christ, will also end. Many hear the depths of Jesus Christ mind and call it error or deception. Growth in Spirit that is aborted, will produce greater ignorance of the things of the Spirit. But maturity that is encouraged, will unlock many mysteries of the Kingdom of God. Truths from God that are misunderstood, are not wrong. They're just unseen. And as you grow, believe me, YOU WILL SEE!