FAITH's Blog – November 2023 Archive (27)

It is easy to go to sleep reviewing negative ideas and pictures in our mind and wake up in the morning with a poisoned and negative spirit instead of falling asleep receiving the love of Jesus in your heart and giving it back to Him.

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CONTINUOUSLY DECLARE GOD'S WORDS

We declare truth over any negative…

"You can be sure that the more we undergo sufferings for Christ, the more He will shower us with His comfort and encouragement." - 2 Corinthians 1:5

These sufferings are not sickness and poverty as some religious teaching suggest. These afflictions are described as the "fellowship of sufferings" that the believer will encounter for doing the will of God, or…

 "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." - 1 John 2:1

 When the Holy Spirit shows us an area that needs repentance, we must overcome the instinct to defend ourselves. We must silence the little lawyer who steps out from a dark closet in our minds, pleading. "My client is not so…

Oh, how the Lord longs for His church to receive a revelation of His ravished heart - utterly overwhelmed with delight for us - even though we may not like or believe in ourselves. (Psalm 45:11)

The Scriptures entreat us to go from glory to glory -- allowing us always to sustain the glory released in us so we can proceed further to the greater realms of glory He desires to display in…

What happens in meditation is that we create the emotional and spiritual space that allows Christ to construct an inner sanctuary in the heart.

WE ALWAYS HAVE RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD

Let us always do what we do for God to show our oneness with Him, and never to…

1.I thank you and praise you Father God because you are the Rock, your works are perfect, and all your ways are just. You are a faithful God who does no wrong; you are upright and just. (Based on Deuteronomy 32: 7)



2.I thank you and praise you Father God because to the faithful you show yourself faithful. (Based on 2 Samuel 22: 26)



3.I thank you and praise you…

 The PURITY God requires from us is impossible for us. We must allow Him to produce it in us. PURITY produces in us godliness when we consistently walk in the Spirit.

"...beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into His likeness ....." - 2 Corinthians…

"His disciples came to point out to Him the buildings of the temple. But He answered them....Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down." - Matthew 24:1,2

Jesus said, in effect, 'I am the temple of the new dispensation. I am going to take the place of this old temple and I am going to be ALL that that temple represented, but in a…

The Holy Spirit is WITHIN us for our benefit, and UPON us to help others. (John 20:19-22, Acts 2:1-4)

 God doesn't call us to earn money, but to change lives (disciple others). If we will remain concerned about lives and doing the will of God, He will take care of the finances.

We are the lamp that dispenses…

"Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.  What are you O great mountain...you shall become a plain......amid shouts of 'Grace, grace to it." - Zechariah 4:6,7

The ministry of the Christian is the ministry of the Spirit. Other men have intellectuality, but the Christian is supposed to be the possessor of the Spirit.…

"There were many bones in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. And the Lord said unto me, 'prophesy upon these bones and say unto them, Behold I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.'" - Ezekiel 37: 2,4,5

There are times when Christians get so hopeless and disappointed -- so discouraged because they have become stagnant in their spiritual growth because…

 "Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you...." - 2 Timothy 1:6

Every believer holds a position of authority that comes with God-given talents or gifts and is hidden in Christ Jesus, above all demonic authority. So why are so many of us…

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." - Hebrews 11:1

Faith is stronger than belief. To believe is to give intellectual assent; to have faith is to be inseparable from the object of your devotion. Belief can be changed or lost by a more persuasive argument. True faith is so much a part of the person it can only be taken by…

You know there are things you are doing now that are temporary. You are doing them only until you find the thing God wants you to do, the real work you were meant to do. When the fire reaches your core, you will trash all the vestiges of mundane, tiresome, powerless living.

Our best days are yet to come! God sent us to do a job and we're going to reap because He is the…

When Jesus said, "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand" (Matthew 4:17), it was not a message of judgment and condemnation – "Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand" offers A NEW WAY OF THINKING and being so that righteousness ( the ability to stand in the presence of Father God without the sense of guilt, inferiority or condemnation – since all our sins are forgiven (Romans 8:1,2) can no…

Since the moment we first came to Christ, there has been an updraft of the Holy Spirit, a constant drawing from God lifting us upward toward the fullness of His Presence and heavenly vision.  Let's surrender to this wind of God and allow Him to carry us into our holy future (our DESTINY).

The disciples did not just pray and sit around waiting for God to enter the…

"I am the rose of Sharon, The lily of the valleys. For behold the winter is past, The rain is over and gone. The flowers have already appeared in the land; The time has arrived for pruning the vines." - Song of Solomon 2:1,11,12

The Lord says He is called 'The Rose of Sharon'. For He wants His fragrance to be upon all His people.  You are complete in…

If you are willing He takes you to a place to reposition you – to open your mind and open your eyes and open your ears and open your understanding; to take you out of the land of snare, and traps. He fills the graves of broken dreams, broken promises, broken relationships -- those who have been violated in their mind, their bodies, and their spirit; to where they have felt shame, humiliation; to where they have had the pain of others for their grave…

One of the dimensions of living the way of Christ, besides living a life of love, forgiveness, and service is embracing the spirituality of DOWNWARD MOBILITY. This is a willingness to modify our career, change our location, or whatever other sacrifices we are called to make, for the sake of following Christ's purpose for our life (our destiny).

Jesus came so that His Blood may cover all our sins. His grace and mercy…

Matthew 5:1,2 - "...and when He was set, his DISCIPLES came unto him: And He opened his mouth and TAUGHT them...."

As much as we love, thank God for, and honor the ministries of the saints of the past, we need to reach for the MINISTRY of Jesus in His BODY in the here and now -- in the fullness of redemptive character…