Live Behind The Veil: Recent Episodes
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"Live Behind The Veil" is an atmosphere created by men and women of God speaking in the Holy Spirit the Father's Word. Spiritual and temporal topics are addressed openly and without respect to political correctness or religious restraint. The underlying question is always being asked; "Are you hungry and open for more of what God is pouring out?"
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation centers on trusting the impartation of the Holy Spirit into our spirit. The Family emphasizes that God often works beyond the understanding of the natural mind. Instead of trying to figure everything out, believers are encouraged to open their hearts, receive from the Spirit, and rest in the Father’s love.The discussion points out that what God imparts may not always be what a person thinks they need or wants to receive. Yet because He is the Father and He loves us, we can trust that what He places within us is good, eternal, and part of what He is creating us to become. As we rest in Him, the Word that has been imparted into our spirits begins to come alive, flow through us, and be spoken by the Spirit.Show NotesThe Spirit bypasses the carnal mindThe impartation of the Holy Spirit does not begin in human reasoning or understanding. God places something directly into the spirit, and over time it filters into the soul, mind, revelation, and walk.Rest comes through trusting the FatherThe Family emphasizes that rest comes when we trust the Holy Spirit and believe that the Father loves us. We do not have to understand everything He is doing in order to receive what He is imparting.The Word becomes a reservoir within usThere is a living deposit of the Word in our spirits. As we rest and trust, that Word comes alive and begins to flow out of us by the Spirit.Impartation is spirit to spiritThe conversation highlights that impartation does not always require many words. A person can become a channel through which the Spirit flows to others.God creates what He wants us to beThe Father may impart something different than what we expected, but it is still good and eternal. He is forming us according to His purpose.Stay focused on today**Rather than worrying about yesterday or tomorrow, the encouragement is to walk in what the Spirit is leading today.Quotes
“All we really need to do is align ourself with His Spirit and allow Him to work in us.”
“God imparted to your spirit, and then you became it in your spirit first.”
“There has to be a trust, a revelation that He loves you, and that He started something. He’s not gonna stop until He’s finished with it.”
“There is a reservoir of the Word that’s been imparted to our spirits that’s very real.”
“We just need to be a channel, spirit to flow through.”
“Not by power nor by might, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord.”
“You’re my Father, and You love me, and You’re going to impart good things to me.”
“You open your heart, you receive it. That’s it. It’s not any harder than that.”
“We just need to trust that what He’s placed within each and every one of us has prepared us for this day.”
Scriptural ReferencesTrusting the Spirit’s workZechariah 4 (6) — “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit” directly supports the theme that God’s work comes by the Spirit, not by human effort.Resting in the LordMatthew 11 (28–30) — Jesus calls His people to come to Him and find rest, which connects with the conversation’s emphasis on resting instead of striving.The Spirit teaching and revealingJohn 16 (13) — The Spirit of truth guides believers into truth, showing that revelation comes from the Spirit rather than the natural mind.The carnal mind cannot receive spiritual thingsRomans 8 (6–7) — The carnal mind is set against God, which fits Ron’s point about God bypassing the natural mind and imparting directly to the spirit.God completing what He beganPhilippians 1 (6) — God begins the work and continues it until it is complete, matching Ken’s statement that the Father started something and will not stop until He finishes it.The Word living within usColossians 3 (16) — The Word of Christ dwelling richly within us connects with the idea of a reservoir of the Word imparted into our spirits.The day star arising in the heart2 Peter 1 (19) — This speaks of the day star arising in the heart, matching Ken’s statement about the day star beginning to arise as impartation is received.Living one day at a timeMatthew 6 (34) — Jesus teaches not to worry about tomorrow, which supports Mike’s point about staying focused on today.TakeawayThe Father is imparting His Spirit and His Word into us, even when we do not fully understand what He is doing. Our part is to open our hearts, trust His love, rest in His work, and allow what He has placed within our spirit to come alive and flow through us.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis conversation focuses on how independence works against the oneness God is creating within His Family. The Family emphasizes that true oneness does not come through human agreement, common ideas, organizational leadership, or intellectual understanding. It comes through hearing the voice of the Lord, submitting to His Spirit, and living in the awareness of His presence.The anointing is described as the presence of the Lord living within each believer. Because Christ dwells within every member of the Family, each person has something important to contribute. Ministry is not simply found in the words a person speaks, but in who that person has become through Christ.The Family also emphasizes that the mind and soul can interfere with oneness when they operate independently from the Lord. As believers submit their thoughts, emotions, and desires to Christ, they are able to express the life of Christ within them. The presence of the Father becomes the strength and lifeblood of the Body, enabling every member to take their place and function together in true oneness.Show NotesIndependence Works Against OnenessThe conversation begins with the clear statement that independence is the enemy of oneness. The Family is not meant to function as separate individuals following their own ideas or understanding. They are called to hear the Lord together and move according to what He is speaking.Hearing the Voice of the LordTrue leadership comes through someone hearing and speaking a word from the Lord. The focus is not on human position or authority, but on recognizing the voice of Christ and following His direction.The Anointing Is the Presence of the LordThe anointing is described as the presence of the Lord living within the believer. It is not something that can be fully understood through the human mind. It is experienced as the Spirit of God lives, speaks, and ministers through His people.Every Member Is ImportantEach member gives their spirit to the oneness of the Family. No person is insignificant or unnecessary. Like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, the Body is not complete until every member is in their proper place.Ministry Flows From Who We AreMinistry is not limited to what someone says or does. The effect of who a person has become in Christ ministers life to the rest of the Family. Christ within each believer is the source of that ministry.Submitting the Mind and SoulThe mind and soul often try to interfere with what the Lord is doing. As believers submit to His Word, Spirit, and love, they enter into humility and become more aware of His presence.The Father’s Presence Is Our StrengthThe conversation closes with the importance of living in the awareness that the Father is always present. His presence gives an inner strength that allows believers to express Christ instead of reacting from the soul or mind.Key Quotes “Independence is the enemy of oneness.” * “The Spirit is what makes us one.” * “You are important because you give your spirit to oneness.” * “The anointing is giving God His voice.” * “It’s not what you say; it’s who you are.” * “Without His presence, we can’t function in this Body.” * “It’s Christ in me, the hope of glory.” * “The presence of the Father is the main thing.” * “He’s always with us. He never leaves us.”
Scriptural ReferencesHearing the Voice of the LordJohn 10 (27)Jesus says that His sheep hear His voice, He knows them, and they follow Him.The Anointing Within the Believer1 John 2 (27)The anointing received from the Lord abides within believers and teaches them to remain in Him.Brought Into His Light1 Peter 2 (9)God has called His people out of darkness and into His marvelous light.Christ’s Prayer for OnenessJohn 17 (20–23)Jesus prayed that His followers would be one as He and the Father are one.Christ Within UsColossians 1 (27)Paul describes Christ within the believer as the hope of glory.The Temple of the Holy Spirit1 Corinthians 6 (19–20)Believers are temples of the Holy Spirit, who dwells within them.The Joy of the Lord Is Our StrengthNehemiah 8 (10)The joy of the Lord is the strength of His people.God Will Never Leave UsHebrews 13 (5)God promises that He will never leave or forsake His people.Every Member Is Needed1 Corinthians 12 (12–27)The Body of Christ has many members, and every member is necessary and important.Sons Through AdoptionRomans 8 (14–17)Those who are led by the Spirit of God are His sons and have received the Spirit of adoption.TakeawayTrue oneness cannot be produced through human effort, shared opinions, or organizational structure. It comes as each member rejects independence, hears the Lord, submits the mind and soul to His Spirit, and contributes the life of Christ within them to the Family.Every member is important because every member carries the presence of the Lord. As the Family lives in an awareness of the Father’s presence, His life flows through the Body and makes them one.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis conversation focuses on entering the kingdom rest that God has already provided through Christ. The Family explains that the Sabbath is more than a particular day; it is a spiritual state of heart found in a living relationship with the Lord. Christ Himself is our rest, and believers are called to recognize that God has already completed the work necessary for salvation and spiritual growth.Rather than striving to earn God’s approval or trying to create peace, joy, love, and spiritual life through human effort, believers can receive what already exists in Christ. This rest does not mean inactivity. It includes worship, trust, obedience, and consciously turning the heart toward the presence of the Lord.The Family also emphasizes that rest removes fear. When believers trust God’s sovereignty and know that He hears them, they no longer need to be controlled by circumstances, feelings of unworthiness, or fear about what is happening in the world. Entering His rest means believing that God is in charge, receiving His provision, and allowing His presence to influence every part of life.Show NotesThe Sabbath Is More Than a DayThe Sabbath rest is not limited to Saturday or to the observance of a religious practice. It is an experience of Christ and a revelation that God has already completed the necessary work through Him.Christ Is Our RestTrue rest is found in relationship with Christ. It is the assurance that He lives within us and that we are accepted in Him without having to prove ourselves through religious works.God Is Completing His Work Within UsBelievers are God’s workmanship. The kingdom rest includes trusting Him to complete what He has begun and to bring forth the life of Christ within His people.Moving Beyond StrivingMany people become caught in the effort of trying to please God. The Family explains that what pleases Him is not anxious striving but a genuine relationship of love, faith, and trust.Rest Is Not PassiveResting in God does not mean doing nothing. There is worship, spiritual activity, listening, receiving, and responding to the Lord. The rest is primarily a rest within the mind, heart, and spirit.Rest Removes FearWhen Christ becomes our rest, fear begins to lose its power. Believers can remain at peace despite tribulation, uncertainty, or troubling circumstances because they trust God’s sovereignty.Praying From a Place of ConfidenceKingdom rest allows believers to approach the Father with the confidence that He loves them, hears them, and cares about every detail of their lives.Everything We Need Already Exists in ChristPeace, love, joy, life, and spiritual health do not have to be created by human effort. They are already available in the Lord and can be experienced as believers turn their attention toward Him.Choosing What We Tune IntoThe conversation compares spiritual focus to turning on a television and selecting a channel. Believers must choose daily whether they will focus on fear, circumstances, and distracting thoughts or tune their hearts to the presence and peace of the Lord.Trusting God’s SovereigntyEntering rest means accepting, receiving, and trusting God’s authority over everything. Believers show up with open hearts, and God accomplishes His work within them.Key Quotes “There is a kingdom rest that God promised for us to walk in.” * “The Sabbath rest is a state of heart.” * “He’s the Sabbath rest.” * “He’s already done the work, and He wants us to receive it. It’s a gift.” * “So many people get caught up in the works, trying to please God. That’s not what God wants. He wants us to love Him.” * “Rest in the presence of the Lord is not necessarily passive.” * “There is no fear when we come into this rest.” * “God’s already given us provisions on every level.” * “We have to choose daily what we tune into.” * “We show up, and He does everything.” * “It just always comes back to believing in Him and believing in His plan.”
Scriptural ReferencesEntering God’s RestHebrews 4 (9–11)A Sabbath rest remains for the people of God, and believers are encouraged to be diligent to enter that rest.Hebrews 4 (3)Those who believe enter into God’s rest and trust in His completed work.God’s Completed WorkJohn 19 (30)Jesus declared, “It is finished,” revealing the completeness of His work on the cross.Ephesians 2 (8–10)Salvation is the gift of God, not the result of human works, and believers are His workmanship created for good works.Philippians 1 (6)God is faithful to complete the good work He has begun within His people.Christ Living Within UsJohn 14 (23)Jesus said that the Father and the Son would come and make their home with those who love Him.Colossians 1 (27)Christ within the believer is the hope of glory.Galatians 2 (20)The believer no longer lives independently, but Christ lives within.Freedom From Striving and FearMatthew 11 (28–30)Jesus invites those who are weary and burdened to come to Him and find rest.2 Timothy 1 (7)God has not given His people a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.Philippians 4 (6–7)Prayer and trust in God bring a peace that guards the heart and mind.Confidence in PrayerJohn 11 (41–42)Jesus expressed confidence that the Father always heard Him.1 John 5 (14–15)Believers can approach God with confidence, knowing He hears prayers offered according to His will.Living in God’s PresencePsalm 16 (11)In God’s presence there is fullness of joy.Isaiah 26 (3)God keeps in perfect peace those whose minds remain fixed on Him.John 15 (4–5)Believers are called to abide in Christ because apart from Him they can do nothing.Trusting God’s SovereigntyProverbs 3 (5–6)Believers are instructed to trust the Lord rather than depend on their own understanding.Romans 8 (28)God works all things together for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.Psalm 46 (10)“Be still, and know that I am God” expresses the heart of resting in His sovereignty.TakeawayGod’s kingdom rest begins when we stop trying to produce through human effort what He has already provided in Christ. Peace, love, joy, acceptance, and spiritual life are already available to us in Him. Our part is to turn our hearts toward His presence, trust His sovereignty, and receive His completed work.We do not have to be controlled by fear, circumstances, or feelings of unworthiness. Christ is our rest. As we choose daily to focus on Him, His presence fills our hearts and begins to influence everything around us.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation centers on resting in what God has already done. The speakers emphasize that believers are not trying to earn God’s promises, blessings, love, justification, or calling. These things have already been given through Christ. The real battle is learning to reject the lies of the soul and mind, accept God’s truth, and walk out what He has already spoken.The discussion focuses on moving from striving into faith, from condemnation into acceptance, and from self-effort into standing in God’s presence. The speakers point to the reality that God has already justified, glorified, blessed, chosen, and prepared His people for His purpose. The believer’s part is to yield the will, believe the Word, and allow the Holy Spirit to unfold what God has already placed within.Show Notes* Main Theme: Resting in the Finished Work of GodThe conversation opens with the idea that prayer is not always about asking God for what we lack, but believing and speaking from what He has already given. * Rejecting Condemnation and AccusationRon points to Romans 8 and the reality that believers have already been justified and glorified. Because of this, accusations and condemnation should not define us. * Soaking in the Love of GodThe speakers emphasize that God’s love must penetrate beyond the mind and into the soul. The spirit receives God’s Word, but the soul and mind often question it. * Accepting What God Has Already DoneDavid shares that believers must accept that they are the temple of the Holy Spirit and that God has already brought them into His purpose. * Created for This DayKen emphasizes that God has already prepared His people for this time. They were created to speak the Word, build up the family of God, and walk in His kingdom. * Entering His RestLois brings in Ephesians, reminding everyone that believers are God’s workmanship, created in Christ for good works prepared beforehand. * The Battle of the WillMike says the true battle is not with outside circumstances or even Satan, but whether we will submit our will and thinking to God’s will and Word. * Belief Must Be Walked OutRon explains that belief is more than mental agreement. True belief is proven by walking out the Word of God. * Seeing Ourselves as God Sees Us**Dale shares that God sees us differently than we see ourselves, and when He reveals who we are in Christ, it also changes how we see one another.
Key Quotes
“All the things that we’re asking God for, we’re asking amiss because they’ve already been given to us.” — Ken
“Begin to bask in the glory that He’s already given us.” — Ron
“We reject the lies and accept the truth.” — Ken
“At this point, we have to accept what He has already done with us and how He plans to use us to further His kingdom.” — David
“You don’t have to work your way into stuff any longer.” — Ken
“We just need to appropriate what’s already done.” — Lois
“The true battle is over our will.” — Mike
“Do we submit our thinking to His Word, and do we allow Him to transform us?” — Mike
“Belief is not something I go, ‘Oh, I believe it.’ No, prove to me you believe it. Walk it out.” — Ron
“He sees me different than I see myself.” — Dale
Scriptural ReferencesRomans 8 (30)This supports the theme that believers have already been justified and glorified in Christ.1 Corinthians 6 (19)David refers to believers being the temple of the Holy Spirit, showing that God already dwells within His people.Ephesians 2 (10)Lois references believers as God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works that were prepared beforehand.Ephesians 1 (3–5)Mike points to the truth that God has blessed believers with every spiritual blessing and predestined them to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ.Hebrews 4 (9–11)This connects with the call to enter God’s rest and cease from striving in self-effort.Romans 12 (2)Mike’s point about submitting our thinking to the Word connects with being transformed by the renewing of the mind.2 Corinthians 3 (18)The conversation reflects the truth that God is changing believers into His image as they stand in His presence.Galatians 2 (20)Monnie’s statement about being identified with Christ connects with the reality of no longer living by the old self, but by Christ living within.TakeawayThe Christian walk is not about striving to become something God has not yet made us. It is about believing, receiving, and walking out what He has already accomplished in Christ. The battle is won as we reject the lies, yield our will, stand in His presence, and allow His Word to unfold in us.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation focuses on moving from striving in the soul and mind into the rest of God that is already available through Christ. The speakers emphasize that believers do not have to work their way into God’s presence because Christ has already opened the way to the Father. The struggle comes when the mind and soul try to understand, control, or produce what only the Spirit can bring forth.The discussion points to a simple, childlike trust in the Father. Instead of constantly striving to know the Lord by human effort, there is also the truth that the Father wants to know us and reveal who we are in Him. Mary and Martha are used as examples of the difference between being distracted by many things and being focused on ministering to what is on the Lord’s heart. The conversation closes with the thought that this is a growth process, where the Father forms us as His workmanship and brings forth the new creation within us.Show NotesLiving from the Spirit, Not the SoulKen opens the conversation by pointing out that the mind and soul life are not where believers truly live now. The real place of life is in the spirit.Christ Has Opened the Way to the FatherMike emphasizes that Jesus’ purpose was to bring us into the same relationship with the Father that He has. Through the cross, that door has already been opened.Rest Is Already AvailableThe speakers bring out that rest is not something we struggle to attain. Because Christ is already in the Father’s presence, believers have access to that rest now.Moving Beyond StrivingRon talks about the long-standing drive to know the Lord, but also points out the other side of the relationship: the Lord wants to know us. True relationship with God is not built by anxious effort, but by trust and rest.The Simplicity of a ChildRon describes relaxing in the Lord like a child. A child does not carry the burden of trying to figure everything out, but simply lives and trusts.Mary and MarthaMike uses Mary and Martha to show the difference between distraction and true ministry to the Lord. Mary focused on what was needed in the moment, while Martha was pulled in many directions.Becoming His Workmanship**Ken closes by describing this as a growth process. The Father works uniquely in each person, bringing forth the new creation as the old nature is laid down.Quotes
“Your mind is not your friend. Your soul life is not your friend. The spirit is where we live now, not on the soul plane.” — Ken
“Jesus’s drive was to get us to the Father.” — Mike
“It’s not a struggling and striving, trying to get there.” — Mike
“We have access to His rest anytime we want it.” — Mike
“The Lord loves us right where we’re at.” — Ron
“There’s a flip side of that coin. The flip side is the one we always ignore, is that He wants to know us.” — Ron
“How do I relax? Like a child.” — Ron
“People don’t know how to rest.” — Ron
“Are we gonna be a Mary or a Martha?” — Mike
“You just have to do the number one thing, is trust.” — Ken
Scriptural ReferencesResting in the Father Through ChristJohn 14 (6) — Jesus is the way to the Father, and through Him the relationship with the Father is opened.John 17 (21–23) — Jesus prays that His people would be brought into the same oneness He has with the Father.Hebrews 4 (9–11) — There remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, and believers are called to enter that rest.The Finished Work of ChristJohn 19 (30) — Jesus declares, “It is finished,” pointing to the completed work of the cross.Hebrews 10 (19–22) — Through Christ, believers have confidence to enter into the presence of God.Not Striving, but TrustingMatthew 6 (25–34) — Jesus teaches not to worry about food, clothing, or tomorrow, but to seek first the Kingdom.Psalm 46 (10) — “Be still, and know that I am God.”Proverbs 3 (5–6) — Trust in the Lord rather than leaning on human understanding.Mary and MarthaLuke 10 (38–42) — Mary sits at the Lord’s feet while Martha is distracted with many things; Jesus says Mary chose the better part.John 12 (1–8) — Mary ministers to Jesus by anointing Him before His death.Being Known by the LordMatthew 7 (21–23) — Jesus speaks of those who did works in His name, yet He says, “I never knew you.”Galatians 4 (9) — Paul speaks of not only knowing God, but being known by God.Becoming His WorkmanshipEphesians 2 (10) — We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works.2 Corinthians 5 (17) — Anyone in Christ is a new creation.Galatians 3 (28) — In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female.Romans 8 (29) — God’s purpose is to conform us to the image of His Son.TakeawayThe rest of God is not reached by striving, struggling, or trying to force spiritual growth through the mind. Christ has already opened the way to the Father, and His presence is available now. As we learn to trust like children, lay down the soul-life, and live from the Spirit, the Father forms us as His workmanship and brings forth the new creation within us.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation centers on the Father’s love as the foundation of true oneness**. The speakers emphasize that believers cannot minister love, understand Scripture rightly, walk in Christ’s lordship, or love one another sacrificially unless they first have a living experience of the Father’s love. This love is not merely a feeling or religious idea, but an active relationship with God that matures, changes the heart, constrains the believer, and enables the Body of Christ to walk in true oneness.Show NotesThe Father’s Love Must Be ExperiencedRon opens by saying that we cannot give what we do not have. To minister the love of God to others, including Israel, we must first personally experience the Lord’s love.God’s Love Is the Foundation of OnenessKen explains that the Father’s love is the foundation of oneness. It is not something believers can manufacture in themselves. True oneness comes from His love, not human effort.Love Changes How We See Scripture and LifeRon points out that without God’s love, we misinterpret Scripture and even life itself. The love of the Father becomes the lens through which His lordship, His Word, and His purpose are rightly understood.The Early Church Walked in Overwhelming LoveKen reflects on the early church and how believers continued to follow Christ even under persecution. Their willingness to lay down their lives came from the overwhelming love of God, not from a mental belief alone.Love Is More Than a FeelingThe speakers clarify that God’s love is not simply an emotional feeling, though it can overflow with emotion and joy. It is an experience with God that becomes a way of life and continues even through trials, testing, and practical daily walking with Him.The Love of God Constrains UsMike brings out the word “constrain,” showing that the love of God draws, compels, drives, and presses believers forward. David connects this to the Holy Spirit driving Jesus into the wilderness after He was filled with the Spirit.Love Matures Through RelationshipCindy and Jenifier discuss how our revelation of the Father’s love grows as we mature. God’s love does not change, but the way He relates to us changes as we grow from spiritual children into maturity.Loving God With All the HeartDale connects the conversation to the great commandment: loving the Lord with all the heart, soul, mind, and strength. This love grows beyond human interpretation and brings believers into a true spiritual relationship with the Father.Receiving Love Before Giving LoveKilyia closes with the heart of the message: God wants to love us, and He wants to be loved by us. As we allow Him to love us, we are then able to love Him and others with an intensity that meets His heart.Key Quotes
“We can't give what we don't have.” — Ron
“This message of love from the Father is the foundation of oneness forever. It is His love, not ours.” — Ken
“We misinterpret the scriptures without His love. In fact, we misinterpret life without His love.” — Ron
“Love is not a feeling… Love is an experience with God.” — Ken
“The love of God is a usable component.” — Bill
“The love of God constrains us.” — Mike
“Revelation is a really key word here. To know His love for me.” — Cindy
“Jesus opened the door to the Father’s heart.” — Ken
“It starts that I let Him love me, and then I can love the people around me.” — Kyla
Scriptural ReferencesGod Is LoveThese scriptures reveal that love begins in God Himself. We do not create divine love; we receive it from the Father and then minister it to others.1 John 4 (8)1 John 4 (16–19)The Love of Christ Constrains UsThe conversation refers directly to the love of God controlling, compelling, and constraining believers to walk beyond themselves.2 Corinthians 5 (14–15)The Great CommandmentThe speakers connect the Father’s love to loving God with the whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and loving our neighbor as ourselves.Matthew 22 (37–40)Mark 12 (29–31)Deuteronomy 6 (4–5)Laying Down Our Life in LoveKen speaks of loving others with the kind of love that is willing to lay down its life.John 15 (12–13)1 John 3 (16)The Holy Spirit Leading and Driving JesusDavid connects the constraining work of love to the Holy Spirit driving Jesus into the wilderness.Mark 1 (10–13)Luke 4 (1–2)Jesus Reveals the FatherThe discussion emphasizes that Jesus opened the door to the Father’s heart and brought believers into relationship with Him.John 14 (6–10)John 17 (25–26)Hebrews 10 (19–22)Growing Into Maturity Through RelationshipThe speakers describe how God relates to us differently as we mature, and how relationship with the Father changes us.2 Corinthians 3 (18)Ephesians 4 (13–16)Hebrews 12 (5–11)TakeawayThe Father’s love is not a doctrine to understand only in the mind, but a living experience that must become our way of life. As we allow Him to love us, His love changes how we see Scripture, how we walk with Christ, how we relate to one another, and how we grow into true oneness with Him and His Body.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis podcast explores the flow of the Word and the anointing that comes when the Body of Christ listens to the Lord and moves together in submission. The Family shares how the Holy Spirit brings the Word to life, creating a flow that is beyond human thought and rooted in Christ being revealed within us. As each member waits, listens, prepares, and submits to what the Lord is speaking, the anointing builds and the Word ministers to the whole Body.The conversation also emphasizes maturity: learning when to speak, when to wait, and how to recognize the keynote of what God is saying. Through preparation before the Father, the prayer of listening, and the recognition that we are sons of God seated with Christ, the Family points to a deeper reality of oneness with Christ, the Father, and one another.Show Notes This episode centers on the spiritual flow that comes when the Word is spoken by the Holy Spirit through a submitted Body. * The Family discusses the importance of finding the “keynote” of what God is speaking and not deviating from it. The anointing is found in that flow, and staying in it requires listening, maturity, and submission to one another. * A strong emphasis is placed on preparation before the Lord. Waiting on the Lord, learning the prayer of listening, and allowing the spirit to be trained are presented as important foundations for flowing in what God is speaking. * The conversation also highlights that Christ is being revealed within His people. As Christ the Word comes forth, the Body recognizes His voice and flows together in the anointing. * The episode concludes with the reality that believers are in Christ, seated with Him in heavenly places, and brought into the presence and anointing of the Father.
Key Quotes* “The flow of the word. It's really a mystical thing in so many ways, but once you're in it, there's such a level of anointing in it that it carries the word into a different realm of oneness.” * “It's taking a stance as a son and declaring the things that, that God wants to declare, frame, or create today.” * “It's finding the keynote and staying in the keynote.” * “Christ is, he's being revealed in us. Once the revelation of Christ the Word begins to speak in us, everything flows out of that.” * “The greatest level of this flow will be in our submission to one another in the Lord.” * “That's how we create the flow is through preparation.” * “It's not difficult. Just listen And your spirit will tune right into the Christ that's flowing.” * “He is in us, speaking the word that goes throughout the family and builds up the body of Christ.” * “We're one with Christ and the Father, and one another.” * “We're more prepared than we realize. We're sons of God.”
Scriptural ReferencesChrist the Word Revealed Within UsThese scriptures support the theme of Christ being revealed within His people and speaking His Word through them.John 1 (1–14)Colossians 1 (26–27)Galatians 2 (20)John 14 (20)Flowing in the Holy SpiritThese references connect with the discussion of the Holy Spirit bringing the Word to remembrance and leading the flow.John 14 (26)John 16 (13)Romans 8 (14)1 Corinthians 2 (10–13)Submission and the Many-Membered BodyThese scriptures support the idea of the Lord speaking through a many-membered Body, with each member submitting to the flow of Christ.1 Corinthians 12 (12–27)Ephesians 4 (15–16)Romans 12 (4–8)Ephesians 5 (21)Waiting on the Lord and PreparationThese references reflect the need to wait on the Lord, listen, and be prepared in spirit.Isaiah 40 (31)Psalm 27 (14)Habakkuk 2 (1)Mark 1 (35)Sons of God in ChristThese scriptures connect with the closing emphasis on being sons of God, seated with Christ, and brought into the Father’s presence.Ephesians 1 (3–6)Ephesians 2 (4–6)Romans 8 (14–17)Galatians 4 (4–7)TakeawayThe flow of the Spirit is not produced by human effort; it comes as Christ is revealed within His people. As the Body listens, prepares, submits to one another, and stays with what the Lord is speaking, the anointing of the Word builds up the Family and brings them into a deeper expression of oneness with Christ, the Father, and one another.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation focuses on the reality of God’s love and how His love brings people into a true relationship with Him. The Family emphasizes that loving God is not just a mental concept or words spoken from the mouth, but an experience of receiving His love and allowing that love to be imparted into the heart. Through obedience, laying down one’s life, carrying the cross, and walking through difficult experiences, believers come to know the depth of God’s love in a way they could never produce on their own. The discussion also points to God’s love for the Jewish people as an example of His covenant purpose and His desire to create a people who love Him and receive His love in return.Show NotesGod Created Man for LoveDale opens by explaining that God created the human race to love Him. God is described as a jealous God who desires an exclusive love relationship with His people.Receiving the Reality of God’s LoveKen explains that God is looking for the reality of love, not just a love that people talk about. True love for God comes by first receiving His love.Love as an Experience, Not Just a ConceptRon points out that there is a difference between knowing about God’s love mentally and experiencing it personally. To love God the way He desires, believers need impartations and experiences from Him.The Cross as the Proof of LoveDale connects love with following Christ, taking up the cross, dying to self, and being resurrected by God. Laying down one’s life becomes evidence of love for Him.God’s Love in Difficult CircumstancesKen and Lois share how God’s love is revealed through hard places, suffering, caregiving, and transformation. These experiences reveal a love that could not be created by human effort.Abraham’s Relationship of LoveKen uses Abraham offering Isaac as an example of love and obedience. Ron notes that Abraham’s walk with God was not based on written scripture but on a relationship of love.God’s Love for His People*Dale closes by pointing to the Jewish people as one of God’s great creations. Their relationship with God shows His love, purpose, and blessing in the earth.Key Quotes “God's looking for the reality of love, not just a love that we talk about, and the only way we get that is to receive His love.” — Ken * “To receive God's love is an experience.” — Ron * “If you take up your cross and you die, and He resurrects you, you have proven to Him that you love Him.” — Dale * “He's creating something in us we could never do by ourselves.” — Ken * “It was a relationship that they had, a relationship of love.” — Ron * “God will go to any means he has to, to get us to understand how much he loves us.” — Dale
Scriptural ReferencesLoving God with All the HeartThese scriptures reflect the great commandment mentioned in the conversation: God created His people to love Him fully, and He offers His love back to them.Deuteronomy 6 (4–5)Matthew 22 (37–38)Mark 12 (29–30)Luke 10 (27)Receiving God’s LoveThese passages show that true love begins with God loving us first. His love is poured into our hearts and enables us to love Him and others.1 John 4 (7–19)Romans 5 (5)John 15 (9–13)Taking Up the CrossThese scriptures connect love, discipleship, surrender, and laying down one’s life in following Christ.Matthew 16 (24–25)Luke 9 (23–24)John 12 (24–26)Galatians 2 (20)God’s Love Revealed Through TrialsThese verses speak to how God uses difficult experiences to teach, transform, and bring forth His life in His people.Romans 8 (28–29)James 1 (2–4)2 Corinthians 4 (7–11)Hebrews 12 (5–11)Abraham’s Love and ObedienceThese passages relate to Abraham offering Isaac and reveal a relationship of faith, obedience, and love toward God.Genesis 22 (1–18)Hebrews 11 (17–19)James 2 (21–23)God’s Covenant Love for IsraelThese scriptures support the discussion of God’s love, purpose, and covenant relationship with the Jewish people.Deuteronomy 7 (6–8)Jeremiah 31 (35–37)Romans 11 (1–2)Romans 11 (28–29)TakeawayTrue love for God is not produced by human effort or spoken words alone. It is born from receiving His love, walking with Him through relationship, and allowing the cross, obedience, and life’s difficult experiences to reveal His love in us.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation reveals the heart of God as seen through Israel and the Jewish people. The family reflect on how Israel is not merely a place to visit, but a living testimony of God’s faithfulness, love, endurance, and purpose. They emphasize that God has worked something deep within the Jewish people through His Word, the Torah, and their continual devotion to it. The discussion also highlights that love, not doctrine alone, is the key to true oneness between Jews, Gentiles, and the Body of Christ.Show NotesThe Heart of God Revealed Through IsraelRon opens by explaining that visiting Israel is not really about the places themselves, but about seeing the revelation of God and His people. He describes the Jewish people as a people who have endured centuries of oppression and still stand strong in the land of Israel.A Deep Love for the Jewish PeopleKen shares his love for the Jewish people and acknowledges that while he may not understand how everything will unfold, he believes the Lord is leading His Body into greater revelation.The Word Made Flesh Through the TorahMike explains that the Jewish people’s continual reading, singing, speaking, and living of the Torah has shaped who they are. He connects this to John 1, where Christ is revealed as the Word made flesh.Memorizing and Living the WordDebbie emphasizes the importance of memorizing Scripture so that the Word becomes part of a person’s life and can be meditated on throughout the day.Training the Next GenerationRon and Debbie point to the children in Israel as evidence of the Word being lived out. They describe young people actively participating with passion and purpose because they are being trained in the way they should go.Love Over DoctrineRon and Ken discuss how doctrine, when separated from love, can become destructive. They emphasize that the love of God is what must control, drive, and bring forth true oneness.Israel Becoming What God Created Her to Be**Dale closes by describing Israel as a nation increasingly standing in the purpose God created for her. He points to Israel’s strength, prosperity, and willingness to live out what God has given them.Key Quotes
“You’re missing everything if that’s what you go for. You’re really missing the revelation of God and His people.”
“When you start getting a revelation of their heart, it’s just, ‘Oh my God,’ there’s no people like that I’ve seen.”
“I intently love the Jewish people with all of my heart.”
“It’s gotta come down to the heart. God’s looking at our hearts.”
“God and the Word are one. They’re together.”
“Then you can mutter it all day long. It becomes so much a part of who you are and your whole being.”
“The proof of the pudding is in the kids.”
“It’s not doctrine. Doctrine’s way down the ladder. It’s heart.”
“It’s the love of God that controls us, the love of God that drives us.”
“They’re willing to take up their lives and live it.”
Scriptural ReferencesGod’s Word Becoming Life Within His PeopleThese references point to the Word of God becoming living reality in the hearts and lives of those who receive it.* John 1 (1–14) * Deuteronomy 6 (4–9) * Joshua 1 (8) * Psalm 119 (11)
Training the Next GenerationThese scriptures connect with the discussion about Jewish children being trained in the Word and participating in the life of God from a young age.* Proverbs 22 (6) * Deuteronomy 11 (18–21) * Psalm 78 (4–7)
God Looking at the HeartThese passages support the emphasis that God is looking beyond outward doctrine or appearance and into the heart.* 1 Samuel 16 (7) * Jeremiah 17 (10) * Matthew 5 (8)
Love as the Foundation of OnenessThese scriptures support the theme that love, not doctrine alone, is the key to true oneness in the Body of Christ.* John 13 (34–35) * John 17 (20–23) * 1 Corinthians 13 (1–3) * Colossians 3 (14)
God’s Purpose for IsraelThese references connect with the discussion of Israel standing in God’s purpose and becoming what He created her to be.* Genesis 12 (1–3) * Isaiah 49 (3) * Jeremiah 31 (35–37) * Romans 11 (25–29)
TakeawayThe heart of God is being revealed through Israel, not simply through its historic places, but through a people shaped by His Word, sustained by His faithfulness, and called to stand in His purpose. The greatest key is not doctrine by itself, but the love of God written on the heart, bringing Jews and Gentiles into the oneness God intends.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryEntering His Presence: The Path to True Oneness** explores how believers are being drawn into a deeper awareness of God's presence through prayer, worship, meditation on His Word, and continual communion with Him. Ron's experience in Israel highlights a lifestyle where prayer and Scripture are woven into everyday life, creating a constant focus on the Lord. The discussion reveals that God's ultimate purpose is not merely to bring His people into agreement with one another, but into oneness with Himself.As believers grow in their relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, true unity becomes a natural byproduct. The speakers emphasize that oneness is sustained by God's love, not human effort, and that the pathway into this reality is through the cross. The conversation concludes with the understanding that spiritual maturity is measured not by doctrine or religious performance, but by love, surrender, and participation in the life of Christ.Show NotesLiving in Continual Awareness of God's PresenceRon shares how beginning everything with prayer continually brings his focus back to the Lord. He reflects on memorizing and meditating on Scripture throughout the day and how this practice cultivates a greater awareness of God's presence.A Living Expression of the Body of ChristRon recounts his experience attending a Messianic Jewish Kehilah in Jerusalem, where worship, Scripture, and participation from people of all ages flowed together naturally. The gathering demonstrated a living picture of the Body of Christ functioning as every member supplied.Walking the Path God Has GivenThe speakers discuss the importance of trusting God's leading in uncertain times. Rather than being consumed by world events, believers are encouraged to remain faithful to the path the Lord has placed before them.Preparing for Eternal FellowshipThe conversation highlights how God is preparing His people for eternity in His presence. Prayer, worship, and communion with Him are not temporary practices but part of the inheritance believers are growing into.Becoming One New CreationThe discussion explores God's purpose of bringing together people from every background into one new creation in Christ. The focus is not on natural identity but on participation in His life.The Foundation of OnenessTrue unity is rooted in loving God and loving one another. Christ remains the center of all genuine relationships within the Body of Christ.God's Love as the Source of UnityThe speakers emphasize that God's love—not human effort—is what enables believers to truly love one another and walk together in harmony.The Cross as the PathwayThe cross remains the doorway into deeper fellowship with God. Through surrender and identification with Christ, believers are brought into greater unity with Him and with one another.Oneness as a Byproduct of RelationshipThe discussion concludes with the understanding that oneness cannot be achieved through striving. As believers pursue the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, unity naturally emerges as the fruit of that relationship.Key Quotes
"Everything is started with prayer."
"This was the congregation worshiping."
"We just have to open our hearts and allow the Lord to really show us exactly what is taking place."
"You're going to be in His presence for eternity. Get used to it, folks."
"We're always growing. We're always changing. We're always becoming."
"The main thing is our oneness."
"Never leave the oneness."
"Just because we're different doesn't mean that we aren't one."
"The one ingredient that enables us to really come into this level of oneness is God's love."
"There is no entering in except through the cross."
"If your drive is into Them, then the oneness is a byproduct."
Scriptural ReferencesPrayer, Meditation, and God's Presence* Joshua 1 (8) * Psalm 1 (2–3) * Psalm 119 (11) * 1 Thessalonians 5 (16–18) * Psalm 16 (11)
The Body of Christ Functioning Together* 1 Corinthians 12 (12–14) * 1 Corinthians 12 (27) * Ephesians 4 (15–16) * Romans 12 (4–5)
Following God's Leading* Proverbs 3 (5–6) * Psalm 37 (23) * John 10 (27) * Isaiah 30 (21)
Living in His Presence for Eternity* Revelation 21 (3) * Psalm 84 (10) * John 17 (3) * Revelation 22 (3–4)
One New Creation in Christ* Galatians 3 (28) * Ephesians 2 (14–16) * Romans 11 (17–18) * 2 Corinthians 5 (17)
Oneness in Christ* John 17 (20–23) * Ephesians 4 (1–6) * Colossians 3 (14–15) * Philippians 2 (1–2)
God's Love as the Source of Unity* Romans 5 (5) * 1 John 4 (7–12) * John 13 (34–35) * 1 Corinthians 13 (1–13)
Entering Through the Cross* Luke 9 (23) * Galatians 2 (20) * Philippians 3 (10) * Matthew 16 (24–25)
Loving God and Loving One Another* Deuteronomy 6 (4–5) * Matthew 22 (37–40) * Leviticus 19 (18) * John 15 (12)
TakeawayTrue oneness is not something believers create through agreement, organization, or effort. It is the natural result of entering God's presence through prayer, worship, obedience, love, and the work of the cross. As each believer pursues a deeper relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, God's love flows through them, producing genuine unity within the Body of Christ. The closer we draw to Him, the closer we become to one another. Oneness is not the goal—it is the fruit of living continually in His presence.
***Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis conversation centers on the importance of living in continual awareness of God's presence and intentionally including Him in every aspect of daily life. Ron shares how his experience in Israel impacted his walk with the Lord, particularly through the Jewish practice of prayer, memorizing Scripture, and keeping God at the forefront of everyday activities. The discussion highlights how prayer is not merely a religious exercise but a way of welcoming God's presence into every moment.The family also reflect on a worship service at a Messianic Jewish Kehila in Jerusalem, where people of all ages participated by singing and reciting Scripture. This experience served as a powerful picture of the Body of Christ functioning together, with every member contributing. The conversation further explores the beauty of Israel, the faith and resilience of its people, the security provided by the IDF, and the fulfillment of biblical prophecies visible in modern Jerusalem. Throughout the discussion, the emphasis remains on recognizing God's faithfulness, cultivating His presence, and allowing His Word to become a living reality in daily life.Show Notes• Ron shares how his trip to Israel changed his perspective on prayer and daily fellowship with God.• The importance of memorizing Scripture and keeping the Word continually before the Lord.• Dale explains how Jewish culture intentionally includes God in every aspect of life.• Discussion of prayer as the gateway to living in God's presence.• Ron describes attending a Messianic Jewish Kehila where worship centered on Scripture, participation, and community.• The congregation demonstrated a living expression of the Body of Christ, with every person contributing.• Reflections on the beauty and fruitfulness of the land of Israel.• Observations of the security and vigilance of the Israeli people and the IDF.• Testimonies of feeling God's peace and protection while in Israel.• The fulfillment of biblical prophecy seen in the children playing in the streets of Jerusalem.• Recognition of God's faithfulness to His promises and His ongoing work among His people.Key Quotes• "When you do that, it really brings the Lord front and center in an awareness."• "I'm trying to memorize, memorize, memorize so that I can mumble all day long the Word of God."• "The drive of our hearts is to be in His presence always."• "The best way to welcome Him into our presence is prayer."• "To me, it was like an example of the Body of Christ moving where every member supplies."• "I never felt afraid at all, not even once."• "A lot of it had to do with the presence of the Lord."• "The children will be playing once again in the streets of old Jerusalem."• "These kids were having a ball. They were just having fun."Scriptural ReferencesPsalm 1 (2)"But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night."Referenced through Ron's emphasis on memorizing and continually speaking the Word of God.Psalm 119 (11)"Your word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against You."Reflects the discussion of hiding God's Word in the heart through memorization.Joshua 1 (8)"This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night."Illustrates the practice of continually speaking and meditating on God's Word.1 Thessalonians 5 (17)"Pray without ceasing."Supports the theme of including God in every aspect of life through continual prayer.John 15 (4–5)"Abide in Me, and I in you."Reflects the desire to live continually in God's presence and awareness.Ephesians 4 (16)"From whom the whole body, being fitted and held together... causes the growth of the body."Illustrates Ron's observation of every member participating during worship at the Kehila.1 Peter 2 (5)"You also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house."Supports the picture of a functioning spiritual community where every member contributes.Isaiah 35 (1)"The wilderness and the desert will be glad, and the Arabah will rejoice and blossom like the crocus."Connected to the discussion of Israel's land flourishing and becoming fruitful.Zechariah 8 (4–5)"Old men and old women will again sit in the streets of Jerusalem... and the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets."Directly referenced in the conversation regarding Rothschild Square and children playing in Jerusalem.Psalm 91 (1–2)"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty."Reflects the testimony of experiencing peace and protection while in Israel.TakeawayLiving in God's presence is not reserved for special moments of worship or prayer meetings; it is a daily lifestyle of intentionally including Him in everything we do. As believers fill their hearts with His Word, cultivate continual prayer, and remain aware of His nearness, they become increasingly sensitive to His presence and His leading. Out of that relationship flows peace, worship, fellowship, and a living expression of Christ through His Body. The more God becomes the center of everyday life, the more His reality is manifested in and through His people.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation focuses on the mystery of God's redemptive plan and the necessity of remaining open to the ongoing revelation of the Holy Spirit. The speakers discuss God's covenant promises concerning Israel, acknowledging that some scriptures appear difficult to reconcile through natural understanding alone. Rather than forcing God's Word into fixed doctrinal conclusions, believers are encouraged to trust what God has spoken and allow Him to reveal His purposes in His timing.The discussion also highlights God's ultimate purpose of creating a new humanity in Christ that transcends all natural distinctions. The family emphasizes humility, spiritual openness, and dependence upon the mind of Christ rather than human reasoning. Through grace, repentance, and daily surrender to the Father, believers are being transformed into His image and prepared to participate in His greater purpose for all creation.Show Notes• The family discusses the mystery surrounding God's covenant promise that "all Israel will be saved."• The family explores how seemingly conflicting scriptures are often a result of human misunderstanding rather than contradiction within God's Word.• God's promises stand because of His faithfulness and His name, not because of human merit or understanding.• Believers are encouraged to resist the temptation to force scripture into rigid doctrinal systems.• The Holy Spirit is the source of revelation and understanding.• God is bringing forth a new creation that transcends traditional distinctions of Jew and Gentile.• Spiritual growth requires remaining teachable and open to fresh revelation.• Ken warns against the danger of the independent spirit that believes it already has all the answers.• Dale emphasizes developing a relationship with the Father and allowing the mind of Christ to replace natural reasoning.• Grace is presented as God's means of transforming humanity into His image.• The conversation concludes with the call to daily surrender and continual openness to God's leading.Key Quotes• "All Israel will be saved. That's a covenant. That's a promise from God." — Ron• "They're not conflicting scriptures. They're only conflicting in our minds." — Ron• "Whether I get it or not is not the point. The point is You said it." — Ron• "Be open, be open, be open, be open." — Ron• "We think we've got the whole thing wired, and we have no clue." — Ken• "When Christ is revealed, we're going to find out exactly what God meant and how it's going to work." — Ken• "It's so important not to snap judge about anything." — Ken• "We keep our spirits open, and we don't lock ourselves into anything." — Ken• "The greatest enemy of the church is the independent spirit." — Ken• "We have to stay open to what the Lord's speaking on a continual basis." — Ken• "The human mind is not capable of being led by the Spirit yet. You can always trade it in for the mind of Christ." — Dale• "You're getting a nature change. We're being created in His image." — Dale• "Lord, show me. Show me what You want today. I'm Yours." — DaleScriptural ReferencesGod's Covenant Promise to Israel• Romans — Paul reveals the mystery that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, and declares, "All Israel shall be saved." He emphasizes that God's gifts and calling are irrevocable.• Ezekiel — God declares that He will restore and cleanse Israel for His holy name's sake, not because they deserve it. He promises to remove their uncleanness, give them a new heart, and put His Spirit within them.Salvation Through Christ Alone• John — Jesus declares, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."• Acts — Peter proclaims that there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.Gentiles Grafted Into God's Covenant Purposes• Romans — Paul describes Gentile believers as wild olive branches grafted into God's cultivated olive tree, sharing in the covenant promises given to Israel.The New Creation and One New Humanity• 2 Corinthians — Anyone who is in Christ is a new creation; old things pass away and all things become new.• Galatians — In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female, for all are one in Him.• Ephesians — Christ breaks down the dividing wall between Jew and Gentile and creates "one new man" through His sacrifice.Remaining Open to God's Revelation• Isaiah — God's thoughts and ways are higher than human thoughts and ways.• 1 Corinthians — Spiritual things are discerned through the Spirit of God, and believers are called to receive the mind of Christ.• John — The Spirit of Truth guides believers into all truth and reveals what is yet to come.Elijah and the Remnant• 1 Kings — Elijah believes he is the only faithful servant left, but God reveals that He has preserved seven thousand who have not bowed to Baal.• Romans — Paul uses Elijah's experience as an example of God's faithful remnant preserved by grace.Taking Up the Cross and Following Christ• Luke — Jesus calls His followers to deny themselves, take up their cross daily, and follow Him.• Philippians — Believers are instructed to have the same mind that was in Christ Jesus, who humbled Himself and became obedient unto death.Transformation Into His Image• Romans — God's purpose is to conform believers to the image of His Son.• 2 Corinthians — As believers behold the Lord, they are transformed from glory to glory into His image by the Spirit.Grace as God's Means of Transformation• Titus — The grace of God teaches believers to deny ungodliness and live righteously while being transformed into a people zealous for good works.• Ephesians** — Salvation is by grace through faith, and believers are created in Christ Jesus for God's purposes.TakeawayGod's purposes are often greater than our current understanding of them. Rather than clinging to fixed interpretations, believers are called to trust His Word, remain open to the Holy Spirit's ongoing revelation, and allow the mind of Christ to replace natural reasoning. As we walk in humility and surrender, God continues transforming us into His image and preparing a people who can participate in His redemptive purpose for Israel, the nations, and ultimately all creation.
***Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis conversation explores the spiritual reality of oneness in Christ and how it becomes the foundation for true relationships within the Body of Christ. The speakers emphasize that oneness is not merely agreement or unity of purpose but a deeper connection that comes through sharing in the life, nature, and revelation of Jesus Christ. As believers trust the Father with a childlike faith, pursue a deeper relationship with Christ, and allow His Word to become a living reality within them, they naturally grow into greater oneness with God and with one another.The discussion highlights that spiritual maturity is not achieved through human effort, criticism, comparison, or self-evaluation, but through becoming increasingly wrapped up in Christ. As believers discover who they are in Him and embrace the truths of Scripture as personal revelation, Christ is unveiled within them. Out of that growing revelation flows love, ministry, and a natural expression of God's life to the world around them. True evangelism becomes less about religious effort and more about Christ being manifested through everyday life.Show Notes• The importance of trusting God regardless of circumstances.• The difference between unity and oneness.• Childlike faith as a key to walking with God.• Sharing in a common revelation of Jesus Christ.• Why intimacy with Christ produces love for others.• Living from the spirit rather than the soul.• The born-again experience and spiritual identity.• Oneness as an atmosphere where God can move freely.• Becoming the living expression of God's Word.• Christ being unveiled within believers.• Natural evangelism flowing from Christ's life within us.• Discovering the fullness of Christ already present in us.Key Quotes• "Oneness is spirit, but unity is soul."• "Oneness actually is forever. That is where we're going to live. That's our destination."• "If we're walking with God, we have to trust Him. He is our spiritual Dad. He is everything to us."• "He is oneness personified."• "You cannot touch the Lord without loving your brother or sister."• "We're going to walk in oneness because we share in a common revelation of Jesus Christ."• "Perfect is just being in God."• "That oneness is not an end in itself. It's a facilitator. It's an atmosphere where good things can happen."• "As you grow in the Lord, as you dive into Him more and more, the oneness automatically happens because He is one."• "You become one because you're one with the Word."• "It's not a reaching. It's an unveiling of Christ that's already in us."• "You had the capacity all along. You just never knew you had it."Scriptural References• John 17 (20–23) That they may all be one, even as We are one.• Ephesians 4 (3–6) One body, one Spirit, one faith, one Lord.• Proverbs 3 (5–6) Trust in the Lord and do not lean on your own understanding.• Matthew 18 (3–4) Unless you become like little children, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.• Mark 10 (14–15) Receive the Kingdom of God as a child.• 2 Peter 1 (1) To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours.• Philippians 3 (8–10) Knowing Christ above all else.• 1 John 4 (7–12) Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.• John 13 (34–35) By this all men will know you are My disciples.• Romans 8(14–17) Sons and heirs of God.• Galatians 4 (6–7) God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts.• Colossians 1 (26–27) Christ in you, the hope of glory.• 2 Corinthians 3 (18) Being transformed into His image.• John 5 (39) Search the Scriptures, for they testify of Me.TakeawayTrue oneness is not something we create through agreement, effort, or religious activity. It is the natural result of becoming increasingly one with Christ. As we trust the Father, embrace our identity as His sons and daughters, and allow His Word to become a living revelation within us, Christ is unveiled through our lives. Out of that revelation flows love for one another, unity in the Spirit, and a powerful witness to the world that is produced not by striving, but by the life of Christ being expressed through us.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis conversation centers on entering into the finished work of Christ and learning to walk in complete trust and dependence upon God. The speakers emphasize that believers are already being perfected through Christ and that God is actively shaping, refining, and transforming His people into vessels through which He can move. Rather than striving through human effort, the family discusses yielding to the Father’s will, allowing Him to prune, mold, and lead them into deeper relationship and rest.The discussion also highlights the transition from the Adamic nature into the life of the Spirit, where believers begin to experience authority, sonship, peace, and contentment in God. Through faith, humility, and surrender, the believer discovers that the true reward is not earthly gain, but an ongoing walk and relationship with the Father.Show Notes God has already completed and perfected the work concerning His people. * Unbelief does not override what God has declared. * Believers are the clay, and God is the potter shaping lives according to His purpose. * The Lord refines His people through fire, pruning, and spiritual growth. * True good works come from God moving through yielded vessels. * The cross represents a transition from flesh into Spirit. * Walking with God requires humility, trust, and surrender to His will. * Jesus entered into rest after completing His work and now intercedes for believers. * Faith is a daily unfolding walk rather than a fully visible roadmap. * Contentment in the present relationship with God is a major step in spiritual maturity. * The greatest reward is simply walking in relationship with the Father.
Quotes* “Your unbelief doesn’t count.” * “I’ve got a finished work for you.” * “We are His workmanship, created in Christ for good works.” * “My only job is to submit to His will.” * “Jesus Christ is our rest. He is the finished work.” * “It’s a walk of faith and trust, and it unfolds daily.” * “Enjoy the path. Enjoy the ride.” * “Can you be content in your relationship with the Lord?” * “There’s only one thing you’re going to receive, and that is that you have a walk with God.”
Scriptural References Philippians 1 (6)“He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion.”God completes the work He starts in His people. * Ephesians 2 (10)“We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works.”Believers are shaped and prepared by God for His purposes. * Jeremiah 18 (6)The potter and the clay.God molds and forms His people according to His will. * Hebrews 4 (9–10)Entering into God’s rest.Christ is the believer’s rest and finished work. * Hebrews 11The roll call of faith.Faithful believers trusted God even without fully receiving the promise. * Romans 8 (14)“As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”Sonship comes through walking in the Spirit. * Galatians 2 (20)“Not I, but Christ lives in me.”The Christian life is Christ living through yielded vessels. * Matthew 18 (3)Becoming as a little child.Walking with God requires humility, trust, and simplicity. * Psalm 37 (7)“Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.”Contentment and trust are part of the believer’s walk.*
TakeawayThe believer’s journey is not about striving to become something through human effort, but about surrendering to the finished work of Christ and allowing God to shape, refine, and live through them. As believers learn to trust Him daily, they enter into His rest, discovering that the true fulfillment is not found in future promises alone, but in walking with God right now.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation emphasizes the critical need for believers to move beyond relying on the voices and interpretations of others and into a personal, living revelation of God. In a time filled with many competing voices, true spiritual direction comes only by hearing the voice of the Lord individually. The Word of God is not meant to be intellectually processed alone but spiritually received, digested, and lived. As believers grow, they must learn to discern between human interpretation and divine revelation, walking in the Spirit with clarity, simplicity, and direct relationship with the Father.Show Notes*** Many voices are present today, but not all are from God * The necessity of personally hearing and recognizing the Lord’s voice * Warning against following positions, authority, or personalities instead of God * The importance of personal revelation over borrowed understanding * Spiritual confirmation comes through alignment with what God has already spoken within * Simplicity in relationship with God—avoiding confusion and complication * The Word must be “eaten” (received and internalized), not just read * Difference between intellectual knowledge and spiritual impartation * The danger of relying on human interpretation instead of the Spirit * Revelation is foundational to a true walk with God * Transitioning from secondhand revelation to firsthand relationship * Living in the Spirit vs. standing on unstable, human reasoning * Moving from occasional “glimpses” of the Spirit into continual habitation * Becoming sons who live, see, and speak from the Spirit realm
Quotes* “Who are we going to listen to? The Lord is speaking to us—My sheep hear My voice.” * “Unless you have a personal revelation, how can you follow that?” * “The minute it becomes complicated, drop it like a hot rock.” * “We’re not supposed to just read the Word—we’re supposed to eat it.” * “There’s been too much human evaluation and not enough impartation of the living Word.” * “Is it a word from God, or is it man’s interpretation of a word?” * “I was basing my walk with God on someone else’s revelation—not mine.” * “If it isn’t of the Spirit, you’re on sandy ground.” * “My words are Spirit and they are life.” * “We’re not meant to get glimpses—we’re meant to live in that realm.”
Scriptural References John 10 (27)“My sheep hear My voice… and they follow Me.” * John 7 (16–18)Teaching comes from God, not self-glory * Matthew 16 (16–17)Revelation given by the Father (Peter’s confession) * Matthew 16 (18)Foundation built on revelation * John 6 (63)“My words are Spirit and life” * Isaiah 30 (21)“This is the way, walk in it” * John 5 (19)Jesus only does what He sees the Father doing * John 8 (28)Jesus speaks what the Father teaches Him * Hebrews 5 (14)Mature believers discern through practice * James 1 (22)*Be doers of the Word, not hearers only
TakeawayTrue spiritual life is not built on what others say about God but on personally hearing, receiving, and living His Word through direct revelation. As believers learn to discern His voice and walk in the Spirit, they move from confusion and dependence on others into clarity, maturity, and a real, living relationship with the Father.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation reveals that God’s ultimate purpose in sending Jesus was to restore humanity into relationship with Himself through a new covenant established by His blood. Through Christ’s perfect sacrifice, believers now have direct access to the Father. The heart of God is not centered on religion or denomination, but on a people who willingly choose to worship Him from their hearts. True worship is not confined to moments but is expressed through a daily relationship of love, humility, obedience, and surrender. As believers come into His presence, transformation and cleansing take place, enabling them to become the very people God has always desired—those who live in continual relationship and worship before Him.Show Notes*** Why the Father sent Jesus: to restore relationship through grace * The necessity of a perfect sacrifice to regain access to God * The new covenant established through the blood of Jesus Christ * God’s desire has always been a people who worship Him * Deliverance from Egypt as a picture of being brought out to worship * Worship is not about denomination but about relationship * God is seeking willing hearts, not forced obedience * The difference between obedience (angels) and chosen worship (sons) * True worship is expressed through everyday relationship with God * Humility and servanthood as key aspects of worship * Loving God begins with understanding who He created you to be * Access to God’s presence is already available through Christ * Transformation and cleansing happen in His presence * Choosing faith to step into worship now, not waiting for perfection * “Taking the elevator” — entering His presence rather than striving
Quotes* “God’s not looking for anybody in a denomination. He’s looking for them to be His worshipers.” * “All God wanted really was us.” * “He’s not just looking for people that obey Him… He’s looking for somebody that out of their own hearts… they’ll serve Him and worship Him.” * “The worship He’s looking for is our everyday relationship with Him.” * “You already have the access into the Father’s presence by the blood of Jesus Christ.” * “In His presence, that’s where you change, and that’s where cleansing comes from.” * “You can take the stairs, or you can get in the elevator.”
Scriptural References John 3 (16)God’s love demonstrated through giving His Son for eternal life. * Hebrews 10 (19)Believers have bold access into God’s presence through Christ. * Exodus 19 (4)God delivers His people in order to bring them to Himself. * John 14 (6)Jesus is the only way to the Father. * Malachi 3 (2-3)God purifies His people to become righteous worshipers. * Revelation 4 (8)A picture of continual worship before God’s throne. * Matthew 16 (24)*Following Christ requires surrender and commitment.
TakeawayGod’s desire has always been simple yet profound: a people who willingly choose Him. Through Jesus, access to the Father is already open—not something to earn, but something to step into by faith. True transformation doesn’t come from striving to become clean; it comes from entering His presence and worshiping Him now. The call is not to religion, but to relationship—to live every day as a worshiper who loves, serves, and walks with Him.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation centers on the revelation that Christ is already present within us, and His coming is not just a future event but an ongoing dawning in the hearts of believers. The family describe how awareness of His presence grows progressively, like the rising sun, bringing transformation and deeper understanding. Rather than waiting for fulfillment through an outward event, believers are called to embrace the process of His life being formed within them now.God’s timing unfolds according to His purpose, often hidden, but always moving toward the manifestation of a people who reflect Him. This work begins within—through a creative, transformative judgment that shapes believers into His workmanship. As hearts remain open and focused on Him, His kingdom continues to emerge, revealing that everything needed already resides within. The call is simple: recognize His presence, stay open, and allow Him to fully manifest His life through you.*Show Notes Christ in you is the hope of glory—a present and growing reality, not just a future expectation * The meaning of hope as “truths yet to be delivered” unfolding within us * His coming described as adawning revelation, like the rising sun in the heart * Growing awareness thatGod has already come and is manifesting Himself within His people * The “Tribulation” as a period of God pouring out His presence on all who will receive Him * God’s timing is deliberate and often hidden, unfolding according to His purpose * Increased awareness of the spiritual realm and His daily presence * Judgment beginning in the house of the Lord as acreative, transformative work * Becoming His workmanship and the worshipers He desires * The importance of returning focus to God and walking out thefirst commandment * Letting go of the need for outward fulfillment and embracing theprocess of transformation * The mind as a limitation versus the Spirit’s unlimited reality * Creating an atmosphere for His presence through openness * Realizing that we are theArk of the Covenant, containing His Word and power * The kingdom dawning rapidly within us—change happening now, not later
Key Quotes* “Christ in you is the hope of glory.” * “The definition of hope is truths yet to be delivered.” * “It’s that dawning… that revelation that starts dawning on your heart, and it grows.” * “I believe that proves He’s already here.” * “He comes in us and reveals Himself to us in such a great measure.” * “God does have a timing.” * “The judgment that begins in the house of the Lord is creative. It’s not destructive.” * “He likes the process.” * “He’s happy with us right now.” * “There is so much more in the Spirit that this thing can’t even comprehend.” * “You are the Ark of the Covenant.” * “His kingdom is dawning on us… we can change by the hour.” * “Just open your heart and let Him do it.”
Scriptural References * Colossians 1 (27)“Christ in you, the hope of glory”→ The central theme: Christ dwelling within believers as the source of glory * 2 Peter 1 (19)“Until the day star arise in your hearts”→ The dawning revelation of Christ within the heart * Matthew 24 (36)“No one knows the day or hour… but the Father only”→ God’s hidden timing and unfolding plan * 1 Peter 4 (17)“Judgment must begin at the house of God”→ A refining, transformative work within His people * Matthew 22 (37–38)The Great Commandment→ Loving God fully as the foundation of transformation * Hebrews 9 (4)(Ark of the Covenant)→ Symbol of containing God’s presence, fulfilled in believers * Luke 17 (21)“The kingdom of God is within you”→ The kingdom as an inward reality, not just external * Romans 8 (19)“The manifestation of the sons of God”→ Creation waiting for the revealing of God’s people * Malachi 4 (2)“The Sun of righteousness shall arise”→ The imagery of dawning and rising light
TakeawayThe coming of Christ is not only something to wait for—it is something to recognize and respond to now. His presence is already within, growing and revealing itself as hearts open to Him. Instead of striving for a future moment of fulfillment, believers are invited to embrace the ongoing process of transformation, trusting God’s timing and allowing His life to fully emerge.Stay open, stay focused, and let Him manifest—because His kingdom is already dawning within you.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis conversation centers on the family of God learning to live in the reality of Christ within them through faith, not feelings or circumstances. The family shares how God is looking for those who trust Him consistently, recognizing that faith, love, authority, and power all come from Him and are expressed through us. As believers grow in their identity in Christ, they begin to see others through His perspective and function together as one body. The life of Christ within becomes the source of everything—guiding, sustaining, and ministering through the family as they walk in unity and trust.Show Notes God is looking for a family that walks by faith and trusts Him in every situation * Faith is not based on feelings, but on trusting who God is and what He has spoken * The challenge is consistency—learning to trust God beyond circumstances * Faith, love, authority, and power are all one in Christ within us * Our walk is not based on our ability, but on His life working through us * The family begins to see others as potential brothers and sisters in the Lord * The gospel is about stepping into sonship and living from the Spirit * God created us in His image and is restoring us to that reality * Free will gives us the ability to choose surrender and alignment with Him * The family of God functions together, sharing life and strengthening one another * Christ within us is the one who ministers, sustains, and leads * Faith does not depend on feelings—it stands on trust in God * God brings people into our lives for His purpose, and we respond with His love * Each member of the family is positioned to be His voice and His channel
Quotes* “Without faith, it’s impossible to please God.” * “God’s looking for those who trust Him and walk with Him by faith.” * “Don’t be moved by what you see or what the world is saying.” * “It’s not even our faith—it’s His.” * “They’re only a revelation away.” * “We don’t have to do anything—we just be who we are.” * “God loves each one of us just as much as He loves Jesus.” * “Not my will, but Yours be done.” * “We’re in this together—we’re not separate.” * “It’s Christ in us that’s doing the ministry.” * “Faith does not require feelings.” * “We just love them and let God reach them through us.” * “We are His voice. We are His channel.”
Scriptural References* Hebrews 11 (6)Faith is essential to a relationship with God and is what pleases Him * Colossians 2 (3)All wisdom and understanding are found in Christ, who lives in us * John 10 (27)Believers are able to hear and recognize God’s voice * John 1 (51)Christ is the connection between heaven and earth, always at work * Genesis 1 (26)Humanity was created in God’s image with His nature and purpose * Luke 22 (42)True surrender is choosing God’s will above our own * Job 23 (10)Trials refine us and deepen our knowledge of God * 2 Corinthians 5 (17)In Christ, we are made new and no longer defined by the old life * Galatians 2 (20)The life we live is now Christ living through us * 1 Corinthians 12 (12)The family of God functions together as one unified body * 2 Corinthians 5 (20)Believers represent Christ and carry His message to the world
TakeawayThe family of God is called to live from the reality of Christ within, not from feelings, circumstances, or personal effort. As we trust Him and walk by faith, His life flows through us—uniting us as one body and expressing His love, power, and purpose to the world.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation reveals that God is not merely loving—He is love in His very nature. His love is not emotional but intentional, always working toward our best interest. Through trials, correction, and even suffering, God is drawing believers deeper into Himself, refining them so they can fully walk in His love. The ultimate goal is to live continually in that love, allowing it to transform, sustain, and mature us into His nature.*Show Notes God’s nature is entirely defined by love * True understanding of God comes through experiencing His love * God’s love = acting in our best interest (not emotion, but intent) * Trials and “fire” are expressions of His refining love * Faith is trusting God’s love even when we don’t understand * Jesus modeled love through obedience, suffering, and service * The Lordship of Christ anchors us in His love * Love is the foundation of all God’s actions * Walking in love brings increasing light, wisdom, and maturity * Believers are being formed into sons through His love
Key Quotes* “He’s not about love—He is love.” * “God’s love is defined as our best interest.” * “It’s got nothing to do with emotion—it has to do with intent.” * “The fire is the love of God.” * “If you’re looking for something other than His love, you’re not looking for God.” * “The greatest realm we’ll ever reach is the fullness of His love.” * “Keep yourself in the love of God.”
Scriptural References * 1 John 4 (8)God is love; His nature defines everything He does * Hebrews 5 (8)Jesus learned obedience through suffering * 1 Peter 4 (12)Do not think it strange concerning fiery trials * Proverbs 3 (5–6)Trust in the Lord and He will direct your path * John 13 (14–15)Jesus washing feet demonstrates servant leadership * 2 Peter 1 (4))Believers partake in the divine nature * Jude 1 (21)Keep yourselves in the love of God * Nehemiah 8 (10)The joy of the Lord is your strength
TakeawayGod’s love is not something He gives—it is who He is. Every circumstance, even difficulty, is an expression of that love working to draw us deeper into Him. The call is to trust, remain, and live continually in that love.
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This conversation centers on the believer’s journey out of the limitations of the past and into the present reality of life in the Spirit. While past experiences serve as important “benchmarks” that reveal God’s faithfulness and establish spiritual foundations, they are not meant to hold us back or define our present walk. Instead, they become reference points that strengthen faith as we continue moving forward.The speakers emphasize that true life is found in the Spirit, not in the soul, flesh, or past experiences. Believers are called to live in the “now” reality of God’s kingdom, where everything He has done remains alive and accessible. This journey is described as a return to our origin in God—an awakening to our eternal identity in Christ.Ultimately, the message reveals that we are being drawn upward into deeper realms of the Spirit, not by striving, but by aligning with God and allowing Him to lead. It is a continual progression toward our true home in Him, where we fully realize who we are and where we came from.Show NotesMain Theme:Living in the present reality of the Spirit while moving forward from past experiences into deeper realms of God. A Greater Heritage in God + Our inheritance in the kingdom far surpasses anything the world offers. + Living in past failures or experiences limits present spiritual life. * The Role of Benchmarks + Past experiences serve as spiritual foundations, not destinations. + They testify to God’s faithfulness and guide future growth. + Like climbing anchors, they prevent falling too far back. * Moving Forward, Not Backward + Spiritual growth creates points of no return. + True progress means continuing onward, not revisiting old mindsets. * Living in the Spirit vs. the Flesh + Identity is rooted in the Spirit, not emotions, memories, or past pain. + Focus determines whether the past has power over us. * God’s Faithfulness Revealed in the Past + Looking back properly brings humility and gratitude. + It reveals God’s guidance and intentional work in our lives. * A Journey of Impartation + Each step forward brings new revelation and transformation. + Believers are continually being drawn into deeper spiritual realms. * Entering a New Realm + A shift from time-based living to “now” reality in the Spirit. + God’s works are not past—they are alive and present. * Return to Origin in God + Believers come from God and are returning to Him. + Identity is discovered through revelation of Jesus Christ. * Eternal Identity in Christ + We are not merely created beings but originate from God in Christ. + Our journey is a return to our eternal home. * Being Led by the Spirit* + Spiritual growth is not self-driven but Spirit-led. + Alignment with God opens the next level of experience.
Quotes* “Do you want to live in what was, or in the light God has brought you into?” * “Benchmarks are not places to stay—they are foundations to stand on.” * “If you fall, you only fall back to the last place you knew God was real.” * “We are not living in the realm of the earth—we are living in the realm of the Spirit.” * “Everything God has ever done is still alive right now.” * “We’re not timeline people waiting for something—this is now.” * “We came out of God, and we are returning to Him.” * “Our identity is revealed as we see Christ.” * “We are not doing this—He is calling us up, and we are aligning with Him.”
Scriptural References Psalm 126 (1)“We were like those who dream.” * Hebrews 7 (3)Melchizedek: “without father, without mother… having neither beginning of days nor end of life” * 2 Corinthians 5 (17)“Old things have passed away… all things have become new” * John 16 (28)“I came forth from the Father… and go to the Father” * Ephesians 1 (3)“Blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places” * Ephesians 2 (6)“Seated us together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus” * Romans 8 (14)“As many as are led by the Spirit… these are sons of God” * Jeremiah 1 (5)implied concept) – Known before formation * Ecclesiastes 3 (11)*Eternity placed in the heart
TakeawayThe past is not your dwelling place—it is your witness.God uses it to establish truth in you, but your life is meant to be lived in the present reality of the Spirit. As you move forward, aligning with Him, He leads you into deeper realms of understanding, identity, and union with Himself.You are not becoming something new—you are awakening to where you came from and returning to who you’ve always been in Him.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation reveals that the Kingdom Passover is the spiritual doorway into God’s Kingdom, made possible through the crucifixion and blood of Jesus Christ. It emphasizes that this is not about human effort, but about receiving what Christ has already accomplished through grace and faith. Through His blood, believers enter into God’s presence, stand in His victory, and participate in the unfolding Kingdom on earth. The message highlights unity, transformation, trust, and the present reality of walking in Christ’s authority as part of His Body.Show Notes*1. The Cross as the Door into the Kingdom Christ’s crucifixion is thekey to the Kingdom Passover * His death opened anew door from one age into another * The Kingdom is entered through His sacrifice, not human works
2. The Blood Covenant and New Covenant Reality The covenant in Christ’s blood iseverything for believers * It is based onwhat God has already done, not what we do * The Passover representsappropriation of Christ’s finished work*
3. Access into God’s Presence Through Christ’s blood, believers: + Enter God’s presence + Receive redemption and grace * Ongoing transformation still comes by believing Him*
4. Inclusion of All Creation God’s plan includesall creation through Christ * The Kingdom removes divisions: + “Neither Jew nor Greek…” * A new creation reality* is emerging through His blood
5. Standing in Victory and Authority Believers stand in: + Christ’s victory + The rest of God * Authority comes through positioning in Him*, not striving
6. Manifestation of the Kingdom on Earth The Kingdom is not distant—it iscoming into this realm* * Christ is being revealed through His people * His Body becomes the vessel of Kingdom expression
7. God’s Appointed Times and Revelation The feasts areappointed times of revelation * God is unveiling things previously hidden * Believers are called to live withanticipation and faith*
8. Grace, Faith, and Trust Salvation and walking in God are by: + Grace + Faith * Trust becomes a deep, unwavering response * Walking with God becomes an automatic reflex of trust*
9. Living in the “Now” of God The Kingdom is not future only—it ispresent (“today”) * Believers must remove delay and excuses * The call is to step intoimmediate obedience and reality*
10. Walking in Openness and Truth* Victory comes through: + Transparency before God + The Word as a sword * Not through worldly systems or duplicity
Key Quotes* “The key to the Passover of the kingdom was Christ’s crucifixion.” * “That door that Christ opened… was so necessary.” * “The covenant that He made in His blood is everything to us.” * “By grace we’ve been saved through faith.” * “I don’t care what’s coming… I trust what the Lord’s doing.” * “We are in Christ… walking in His victory.” * “It’s now. It’s today.” * “You prevail as you stand… before the Lord with the sword.” * “God is our provision… this is a new day.”
Scriptural References Exodus 12The original Passover (foundation of the concept) * John 1 (29)Christ as the Lamb of God * Hebrews 10 (19–22)Access to God through the blood of Jesus * Jeremiah 31 (31)The New Covenant * Ephesians 2 (8–9)Saved by grace through faith * Galatians 3 (28)No Jew or Greek, one in Christ * Romans 8 (19–21)Creation included in redemption * Colossians 1 (18)Christ the head, we the Body * Hebrews 4 (3)Entering His rest * Hebrews 4 (12)*The Word as a sharp two-edged sword
TakeawayThe Kingdom Passover is a present spiritual reality where believers enter through the blood of Christ into God’s presence, authority, and purpose. It is not achieved by effort, but by grace, faith, and trust in what Christ has already finished. As believers stand in His victory and walk in unity, the Kingdom is manifested on earth through them—right now, not someday.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation centers on God’s desire for a people who live in continual worship—not limited to music or moments, but expressed through a life lived in His presence. True worship is a spiritual state of being, rooted in relationship, obedience, and surrender. It involves standing in God’s presence through all circumstances, allowing Him to work through refining processes, and choosing daily to respond to Him. This lifestyle of worship transforms believers into a priestly and prophetic people, functioning in spirit and truth and building up the Body of Christ.Show Notes*1. God’s Desire for a Different Kind of Worship God is calling for more than traditional expressions of worship * He desires a people who live as akingdom of priests and prophets * The journey requires walking with God and allowing Him to reveal the way forward
2. Worship Begins with a Choice Israel refused direct relationship with God out of fear * God originally intendedall His people to be priests* * Entering deeper worship requires willingness to hear God—even when it is difficult
3. From Levites to Melchizedek Priesthood There is a contrast between: + Settling for structured religion (Levites) + Entering relationship-based priesthood (Melchizedek) * God is calling His people into the higher order of relationship and authority*
4. Worship as a 24/7 Lifestyle* Worship is not limited to songs or gatherings * It is: + Walking with God continuously + Living with awareness of His presence + Carrying worship in the spirit at all times
5. Standing in God’s Presence* Standing before the Lord is itself worship * True worship is revealed: + During trials + In devastation + When remaining unmoved and trusting Him
6. Worship Beyond Music* Worship includes: + Waiting on God + Serving others + Living life with a surrendered heart * If worship is only singing, it stops when the song ends
7. Worship in Everyday Life* Worship continues even while: + Working + Thinking deeply + Going about daily tasks * A spirit of worship allows God to speak at any moment
8. Worship Builds the Body of Christ* Serving others = worship * Speaking truth and building others up is worship * Ministry flows out of a life rooted in God’s presence
9. Worship in Spirit and Truth* True worship must be: + Spirit-led + Rooted in Christ (truth) * Anything outside of this lacks effectiveness
10. Refining Fire Produces True Worship* Trials and hardship refine believers * The proper response is: + Gratitude + Surrender * God removes everything that hinders relationship with Him
11. Worship Is a Daily Choice* Every person is given the opportunity to worship * It is not forced—it is chosen * Each day presents the decision to live in His presence
Key Quotes* “God is looking for worshipers on a 24/7 basis.” * “Standing in His presence is a form of worship.” * “If all worship was singing, when you stop singing, you stop worshiping.” * “Our worship is because we’re standing in His presence all the time.” * “It’s not important what the mind understands—it’s that the spirit moves into it.” * “When you stand in His presence and speak what He speaks, it becomes a creative force.” * “No matter the devastation… the first thing should be, ‘Thank you, Lord.’” * “Every day is a choice to worship Him.”
Scriptural References John 4 (23–24)Worship in spirit and truth * Exodus 19m(5–6)A kingdom of priests * Hebrews 7Priesthood of Melchizedek * Revelation 1 (6 / 5 10)Made kings and priests * Revelation 7 (15)Serving Him day and night * Romans 12 (1)Living sacrifice (lifestyle worship) * Ephesians 4 (11–16)Building up the Body of Christ * 1 Thessalonians 5 (16–18)Rejoice always, give thanks * Malachi 3 (2–3)Refiner’s fire * Hebrews 13 (15)*Sacrifice of praise
TakeawayTrue worship is not something you do—it is who you become. It is a continual life lived in God’s presence, expressed through obedience, surrender, and relationship. Whether in trials, daily tasks, or ministry to others, worship flows from a spirit aligned with Him. And at its core, it is a daily choice to stand before God and live for Him in everything.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis discussion centers on the necessity of moving beyond intellectual knowledge of God’s Word into a living, personal experience with Christ. True spiritual growth comes as the Word becomes alive within the believer through direct encounter, not just study or conversation. Faith is developed through experiencing Christ in real circumstances, and the transformation occurs in the spirit—not the mind. As believers cultivate a relationship with the Lord, endure through trials, and remain led by the Spirit, the Word becomes their life, producing maturity, endurance, and a deeper union with God.Show Notes*1. Growth Requires Experience, Not Just Knowledge Spiritual growth is essential—without it, there is no movement forward. * The Word must be experienced, not merely read or discussed. * Faith grows through real encounters with Christ in everyday life.
2. The Word Must Become Alive Within* Hearing the Word is not enough—it must be imparted to the spirit. * The difference between “knowing about” and “knowing” God is personal experience. * A living Word transforms the believer from within.
3. Relationship with God is Central* The goal is not information but relationship. * Encountering God’s presence makes the Word real and personal. * Waiting on the Lord allows the Word to become life.
4. The Spirit Over the Mind* True understanding comes through the spirit, not the intellect. * The mind can resist or distort the Word, but the spirit receives life. * Being led by the Spirit defines true sonship.
5. Endurance and Testing Produce Maturity* Trials and devastation are used by God to deepen relationship and growth. * Endurance is essential to spiritual completion. * Holding fast to God in difficulty draws believers closer to Him.
6. Living as Carriers of the Word* Believers are called to speak a living Word that penetrates hearts. * The Word becomes life—what we think, speak, and live daily. * This life flows from a deep, Spirit-led relationship with God.
Quote* > “The Word must be alive. It must be living in you. It must be an experience to you.” * > “It's not just talking about the Word… it's actually experiencing Him in a reality.” * > “Knowing about the Word is not good enough… it’s about knowing Him.” * > “The Word must become real to you in your own heart… otherwise you really haven’t heard it yet.” * > “Endurance means you hold fast… and instead of pulling away, you draw closer.”
Scriptural References Romans 10 (17)“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” * Colossians 1 (27)“Christ in you, the hope of glory.” * Romans 8 (14)“Those who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.” * Matthew 24 (13)“He who endures to the end shall be saved.” * John 5 (39)“You search the Scriptures… these are they which testify of Me.” * John 6 (63)*“The words that I speak… they are spirit, and they are life.”
TakeawayThe Christian walk is not about accumulating knowledge of God but about encountering Him. When believers pursue a real relationship with the Lord, allowing His Word to be imparted into their spirit, it becomes life within them. Through endurance, testing, and continual surrender, they grow into maturity—living not by the mind, but by the Spirit—and becoming vessels through which the living Word flows to others.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation centers on breaking spiritual bonds—especially preconceived ideas, doctrines, and attachments—to truly know God. The speakers emphasize that bonds, even those formed around God Himself, can become limitations or idols. Through testing, repentance, and even devastation, believers are refined into a deeper, more authentic relationship with God. True knowing of God comes not through comfort or fixed beliefs, but through surrender, transformation, and continual turning toward Him.Show Notes*1. The Nature of Bonds Human nature seeks attachment—to people, doctrines, and systems * These bonds can become spiritual limitations * Even religious structures (denominations, worship styles) can restrict knowing God
2. Bonds Can Become Idols* Anything we cling to for identity or security can replace God * A fixed concept of God can actually block deeper revelation * True relationship requires freedom from these attachments
3. Breaking Bonds to Find God We must let go of ouridea*of God to truly know Him * Questioning our foundation is necessary—not rejecting God, but refining understanding * Fear of losing what we “know” about God reveals hidden bondage
4. Testing Our Relationship with God* Are we willing to have our beliefs shaken? * Resistance to change or correction reveals spiritual bondage * A real relationship with God can withstand testing
5. Devastation as a Path to Revelation* God often uses hardship more than blessing to reveal Himself * Devastation strips away false foundations * Through this process, we see God’s love more clearly
6. Repentance and Turning to God* Repentance is not just sorrow—it’s turning fully to God * God becomes the answer—not circumstances or emotions * His reassurance builds trust: “I’m still here”
7. Becoming God’s Workmanship* God forms His nature within us through repeated dealings * His love and heart are woven into us over time * This process creates a deep determination to walk with Him
8. Walking Through Failure and Restoration* Failure is part of the journey * God remains present through mistakes and confusion * Like Peter, restoration comes through love and renewed calling
Key Quotes* “Bonds are death… you don’t bond—you become alive in Him.” * “The problem with bonds is that they become an idol.” * “You have to break bonds with God in order to find God.” * “Are you afraid of losing your security… can you let the Lord shake it?” * “Through devastation, we come to know God in a greater way.” * “Let God be your answer—not circumstances.” * “I’m still here… you’re just not where you should be.” * “Out of devastation, we’ll find God.” * “Are you going to make mistakes? Absolutely… but God’s with you through it.”
Scriptural References Exodus 20 (3–5)Idolatry and placing anything before God * Isaiah 55 (8–9)God’s ways higher than our understanding * Hebrews 12 (6–11)God disciplines those He loves * James 1 (2–4)Trials produce maturity * Romans 12 (2)Transformation through renewed thinking * John 21 (15–17)Jesus restoring Peter (“Do you love Me?”) * Proverbs 3 (11–12)The Lord corrects those He loves * Philippians 3 (8–10)*Letting go of all to know Christ
TakeawayTo truly know God, you must be willing to let go of everything you think you know about Him. Bonds—whether to doctrine, experience, or identity—can quietly replace relationship. God uses testing, shaking, and even devastation to strip away what is false so that what is real can emerge. In that process, you discover that He has never left—and that kwnoing Him is a continual, living journey, not a fixed conclusion.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation explores how God allows seasons of shaking, testing, and even loss to move believers beyond dependence on security and into a deep, personal relationship with Him. Through trials, God reveals what is truly in the heart and draws His people into a genuine, Spirit-led walk where they hear His voice, know Him intimately, and remain steadfast regardless of circumstances.Show Notes*1. Recognizing the Voice of God There is a clear difference between hearing words spoken intellectually and hearing words spoken by the Spirit. * A true relationship with God brings discernment—believers recognize when something is not from Him. * God is raising sensitivity to His voice and presence.
2. The Need for a Firm Spiritual Foundation* Even a slight deviation from the Lord can lead away from truth. * A consistent focus on God is essential to stay aligned with Him. * The relationship with God is ongoing—there is always “more.”
3. Pursuing God with the Whole Heart* The desire to fully know God goes beyond words—it requires lived experience. * True pursuit brings transformation, not just understanding. * “Where the rubber meets the road” is in daily walking it out.
4. Letting Go of False Security* Many pursue God out of a need for security rather than relationship. * God often removes those securities to reveal Himself. * True knowing of God comes when natural supports are stripped away.
5. The Journey of Job: Testing and Revelation* Job’s life illustrates how God allows testing to reveal genuine faith. * The removal of protection exposed the depth of Job’s relationship with God. * Through devastation, Job encountered a deeper revelation of God.
6. Testing Produces Endurance and Dedication* Trials develop endurance, faith, and unwavering commitment. * God uses testing to form something real and lasting in believers. * True devotion is proven when everything else is shaken.
7. Revelation Comes Through Relationship* God reveals Himself more deeply through seasons of testing. * Familiar words take on new meaning after experience with God. * The foundation of the Body of Christ is revelation from the Father—not knowledge alone.
8. Hearing God Personally* Christianity is not meant to be secondhand—it is relational and direct. * Each believer must hear God personally. * The goal is a real, living relationship with Him.
Quotes* “You recognize immediately—that’s not God—when it’s not spoken by the Spirit.” * “Without that foundation in the Lord, everything can be just slightly off.” * “We’re running after Him—we want to know Him with our whole being.” * “God is not about providing security—He removes it so we can know Him.” * “Only when everything is shaken do we discover what’s really in our hearts.” * “Job would go through anything—but he would not reject God.” * “Revelation comes alive through the experience of walking through the test.” * “We have to hear from God—it has to be real.”
Scriptural References* Job – The testing of Job and his deeper revelation of God * Romans 5(3–4) Tribulation produces perseverance, character, and hope * Hebrews 12 (26–27) Everything that can be shaken will be shaken * Matthew 16 (16–18) Revelation from the Father as the foundation of the Church * James 1 (2–4) Testing of faith produces endurance * Philippians 3 (10) “That I may know Him…”
TakeawayGod allows everything that can be shaken to be shaken—not to destroy us, but to remove false security and bring us into a real, unshakable relationship with Him. In the end, it’s not about what we have, what we know, or what we rely on—it’s about truly knowing God and hearing His voice for ourselves.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis episode centers on the call to fully trust Christ within and enter into a place of rest, where believers stop striving and begin relying on the Spirit of God in them. Through testing and difficult situations, God is proving and deepening that trust, teaching believers to surrender control and recognize His sovereignty in every circumstance.The conversation also reveals that this walk is not meant to be lived alone. The Body of Christ functions as a living organism, where members support one another through trials. True oneness is not something manufactured by human effort—it is a spiritual reality imparted by God, unfolding within His people as they yield to Him.Ultimately, the message emphasizes that transformation, unity, and guidance come from Christ within, not from human reasoning or effort, leading believers into a deeper experience of oneness with God and each other.Show Notes * Trust is being tested + God is proving whether believers truly trust Him in all circumstances + Spiritual growth comes through testing and endurance * Rest in Christ within + Stop striving, second-guessing, and relying on self + Trust that Christ within knows what to do and say * God is in control + Even when situations feel overwhelming or unclear + Trust must remain even when there is no visible answer * The Body is essential + Believers are not meant to walk alone + The Body functions together in suffering and support * The Body is an organism, not an organization + Connected directly to Christ as the Head + Operates by the Spirit, not human systems * Oneness is imparted, not created + It comes from God through a living word + It unfolds within believers, not produced by effort * Transformation happens by the Spirit** + Not through discipline or self-effort + Through yielding, waiting, and listening to God
Quotes* “Be still and let God be God… trust that what you're going through, God is aware of it.” * “Throw all your weight on Christ in you… and quit second guessing yourself.” * “Do you really trust Me, even when you can’t stand?” * “You’re not supposed to deal with it alone… this is a body function.” * “The body is not an organization… it’s an organism connected to the Head.” * “Oneness had nothing to do with us… it was an impartation from the Lord.” * “You are not going to figure this out… it’s Christ in you.”
Scriptural References Psalm 46 (10)“Be still, and know that I am God” * Galatians 2 (20)“Christ lives in me” * Colossians 1 (27)“Christ in you, the hope of glory” * John 17 (21)That they may be one as the Father and Son are one * 1 Corinthians 12 (26)If one member suffers, all suffer together * Ephesians 4 (15–16)Christ as the Head, the Body joined together * Hebrews 4 (9–10)Entering into His rest * Ephesians 5 (21)*Submitting to one another in the fear of God
TakeawayTrue spiritual maturity comes when we stop striving and fully trust Christ within us, allowing Him to lead, speak, and act through our lives. This trust is proven through testing, strengthened in surrender, and expressed through a living connection with the Body of Christ. As we yield to the Spirit, oneness with God and one another naturally unfolds—not by effort, but by His life within us.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis conversation explores the progression of God’s purpose for believers—from being predestined in Christ to ultimately being glorified and walking in the fullness of God. The speakers emphasize that the Kingdom of God requires a spiritual determination, a “violence of spirit,” that refuses to remain on a lower level of life and presses into the presence and purposes of God.Romans 8 is presented as a key passage revealing that God’s work of salvation—from foreknowledge to glorification—is spoken of in past tense. Believers are called to be conformed to the image of Christ in spirit, soul, and body, not merely experiencing inward redemption but moving toward a full expression of Christ’s life.The conversation highlights that this fulfillment is not meant to occur through isolated spiritual individuals but through a corporate Body of believers functioning together in love and unity. As the Body of Christ grows into maturity, faith becomes collective—where one member’s strength supports another. Through this unity, the life of Christ can be manifested more fully.Ultimately, the speakers point to a time when the glory of God will be revealed through His people. As believers step into their identity as sons of God and walk in the fullness of Christ’s life, creation itself will experience freedom through the revealing of God’s children.Show NotesPressing Into the Kingdom The Kingdom of God advances through spiritual determination and pursuit. * Believers must shake themselves free from spiritual ruts and press into the presence of the Lord. * The call is to rise to the level where Christ is and dwell in the Father’s presence.
Conformed to the Image of Christ* Romans 8 reveals that believers are predestined to become like Christ. * This transformation involves the whole person—spirit, soul, and body. * The life of Christ is meant to be manifested through believers.
A Corporate Fulfillment* God’s ultimate purpose is not fulfilled through one spiritual hero. * The fulfillment of Scripture requires a family of believers walking together in love. * The Body of Christ functions collectively, with shared faith and mutual support.
The Atmosphere God Has Been Waiting For* Love, humility, and service toward one another create the environment where God’s purposes can unfold. * Laying aside self allows the Body to move together into the fulfillment of God’s promises.
The Hope of His Coming* The coming of Christ is not only future but is also being completed within His people. * Persistent faith and prayer bring the manifestation of what God has spoken.
Refusing a Lesser Level* Believers are called to refuse living on a lower spiritual plane. * The “violence of spirit” is a determination to walk in the level God intends.
The Glory Revealed Through the Sons of God* Romans 8 reveals that creation itself awaits the revealing of the sons of God. * As believers step into their identity and glorification, creation experiences freedom.
Key QuotesMike:“Sometimes we just gotta shake ourselves loose in the spirit and go after things in the Lord.”Trisha:“We are predestined from Romans eight to be conformed to the image of Christ… spirit, soul, and body.”Roger:“It cannot be fulfilled except in a family of people who really have given their lives one to another, to love each other.”Ken:“We refuse to live on a lesser plane, a lesser level, but insist on being where God is bringing forth His people.”Roger:“Where we're lacking, one is lacking faith that's made up for by somebody else's faith that we can go on into the fullness of God.”Mike:“If we've been glorified, then creation is set free to come into the glory of the sons of God.”Scriptural References Matthew 11 (12)“The Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.” * John 14 (2–3)“In My Father’s house are many dwelling places… that where I am, there you may be also.” * Romans 8 (28–30)Predestined, called, justified, and glorified. * Romans 8 (19–21)Creation waits for the revealing of the sons of God. * Malachi 4 (2)“You will go out leaping like calves released from the stall.” * John 9 (1–3)The blind man healed so that the works of God might be displayed. * Luke 18 (1–8)The persistent widow before the unjust judge. * 1 Thessalonians 5 (23)*“May your spirit and soul and body be kept blameless.”
TakeawayGod’s purpose for His people moves from predestination to glorification, forming a corporate Body that reflects the life of Christ. This fulfillment does not come through isolated individuals but through a unified people walking in love, faith, and determination. As believers press into the fullness of God and become conformed to Christ in spirit, soul, and body, the glory of God is revealed through them—and creation itself begins to experience freedom.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation reveals that true sonship is formed through a deep relationship with God expressed in both His love and His discipline. While many understand God’s love as comfort and affection, the speakers emphasize that His love is most powerfully revealed through refinement, correction, and personal dealings.As believers draw near to God in worship and surrender, He responds not only with comfort, but with transformation—shaping the heart, mind, and nature into His likeness. This process often involves trials, testing, and discipline, which are not signs of rejection, but evidence of acceptance as sons.Sonship is not automatic—it is a choice to walk with God through whatever He allows, trusting that every experience is designed for growth, holiness, and maturity. Over time, what once felt painful becomes understood as love, and even embraced as part of becoming fully aligned with the Father’s heart.Show Notes1. Being Set Apart and Transformed*** Salvation is a transfer of ownership—giving your whole life to God * God begins actively working in the heart to bring change * Advancement in God always produces inner transformation
- Love Expressed Through Relationship* Worship and love deepen intimacy with God
- As we love Him, we become more aware of His love
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Relationship is cultivated through ongoing communion with the Father
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God’s Love Through Discipline* God’s response to closeness is refinement, not just comfort
- Discipline is aimed at making us partakers of His holiness
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Each person’s process is uniquely “tailor-made” by God
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The Path of Sonship Is a Choice* God does not force sonship—He invites it
- Walking as a son requires accepting discipline
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Growth depends on how far we choose to walk with Him
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Learning to Embrace Trials* Trials and testing are opportunities for growth
- Thankfulness in difficulty accelerates maturity
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Looking back reveals God’s purpose in every hardship
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The Fire of God as Love* God’s fire refines and cleanses those who love Him
- Judgment becomes purification for those who receive Him
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His love removes what is not like Him
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Trusting the Father’s Process* Trust is foundational to enduring discipline
- Spiritual maturity produces rest in difficult circumstances
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God uses every situation to reveal His love and build faith
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Becoming the Bride and Sons of God* God’s love is relational and purposeful
- We are being formed into a people aligned with His heart
- Sonship and relationship lead into union with Christ
Key Quotes* “As God thrusts us into a new level, it brings about a change in our heart.” — Dale * “The more we love Him, the more we experience His love.” — Ken * “When you draw near to God, His response is to discipline you.” — Ron * “He disciplines us so we can be partakers of His holiness.” — Ron * “The fire is His love… it’s refining and cleansing.” — Lois * “If you want to be a son, you’ve got to accept His discipline.” — Debbie * “He’ll walk with you as far as you want to walk.” — Ron * “Learn to thank Him in the trial.” — Ken * “There is a trust and rest because you know who you have believed.” — Ron
Scriptural References Hebrews 12 (6, 10–11)“He disciplines every son whom He receives… that we may share His holiness.” * Hebrews 12 (7)“Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as His children.” * James 1 (2–4)Trials produce endurance and maturity * Romans 8 (14–17)Sons of God are led by the Spirit * Romans 8 (28–29)All things work together for good… conformed to His image * Psalm 23 (4)“Though I walk through the valley… I will fear no evil” * Galatians 3 (28)New creation identity in Christ * 1 Peter 4 (17)Judgment begins at the house of God * Hebrews 3 (14)*“If we hold firmly… we share in Christ”
TakeawayGod’s love is not just something we feel—it is something that transforms us.If you truly want to grow into sonship, you must embrace both His love and His discipline. The very things that feel difficult are often the clearest evidence that He is working in you.? Sonship is a choice:To trust Him.To walk with Him.To thank Him—even in the fire.Because in the end, every trial is shaping you into His image—and drawing you deeper into His heart.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis episode explores the reality of Christ expressing Himself through His Body. As believers grow in maturity and oneness, they begin to move beyond striving and into a deeper flow of the Spirit where the Lord speaks through yielded vessels. The cross becomes the pathway into this life, bringing the dying out of self so that Christ can live and minister through His people. Instead of relying on knowledge, religious systems, or personal effort, the Body of Christ is learning to trust the Spirit of God and enter into His rest. In that place of faith and surrender, believers become living channels of the Holy Spirit, speaking a living word and ministering Christ to one another in love, freedom, and unity.Show NotesEntering a Life in the SpiritThe discussion begins with the recognition that believers are being drawn into a deeper experience of knowing the Lord by the Spirit and relating to one another in that same realm. God's purpose has never been centered on isolated individuals but on a corporate Body—a family and a Kingdom through which Christ can express Himself.Maturity and Oneness in the BodyAs the Body matures, there is a growing sense of unity and shared life. Ministry becomes less about individual effort and more about the collective expression of Christ flowing through His people.The Cross as the PathwayThe cross remains central to spiritual growth. Through the process of dying to self and accepting the Lord’s dealings, believers are transformed and brought into true sonship. What may seem like pressure or difficulty is actually God's loving work shaping His sons and daughters.Moving Beyond Religion into SpiritMany believers remain stuck in systems that operate at the level of the soul and flesh. Without the work of the cross, spiritual growth stalls. True life in the Spirit requires leaving behind religious striving and entering into genuine spiritual experience.Freedom From StrivingAs believers learn to trust the Spirit, they stop striving to perform or prove themselves. Instead, they begin to minister from the Lord's presence, allowing His Spirit to speak through them naturally.Christ Ministering Through His PeopleWhen believers serve one another with love and faith, Christ Himself is ministering through them. The Spirit flows through simple acts of obedience, planting seeds, watering hearts, and allowing God to bring the increase.Entering Into God's RestThe conversation concludes with the call to enter into God's rest. This means trusting the Lord rather than relying on personal understanding, past experiences, or religious tradition. In this place of faith and surrender, the Holy Spirit flows freely and Christ speaks through His Body.QuotesDebbie:“We're coming into a place of spirit and a place of knowing the Lord by the Spirit, and knowing each other by the spirit.”Ron:“He wants a kingdom. He wants a family. He wants a body of Christ.”Ken:“You just jump into the water and go with it. The Lord creates something that you look back and you say, who spoke that word?”Ron:“This is what God's doing because He loves me and He wants me to be a son, and He wants me to come closer to Him.”Mike:“That which is spirit is spirit. That which is flesh is flesh and religion is flesh.”Ken:“When things drop off because of the cross, all of a sudden you realize how much lighter you are.”Ron:“We're not asking people to come to the Lord. We're creating an open door in their hearts.”Ken:“We're simply ministering out of the Lord's presence in the Spirit.”Ed:“You're ministering to your brother as if he is Christ.”Ron:“This is gonna be Christ speaking through me.”Scriptural ReferencesGalatians 2 (20)“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.”Matthew 28 (19)“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations.”Matthew 25 (40)“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”John 3 (6)“That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”Hebrews 4 (9–11)“There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.”Proverbs 3 (5–6)“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”Philippians 1 (21)“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”1 Corinthians 12 (27)**“Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.”TakeawayChrist desires to express Himself through His people. As believers embrace the work of the cross, release striving, and trust the Holy Spirit, they enter a place of rest where the Lord speaks and ministers through them. The Body of Christ becomes a living channel of the Spirit—bringing life, freedom, and revelation to others.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation reveals that God is not primarily raising up individual spiritual heroes, but a corporate Body of believers functioning together as one living organism under Christ the Head. Through the many-membered Body, Christ receives His voice in the earth as believers speak and live the Word of God.A true word from God is creative, imparting the life and nature of God into those who receive it. As believers become cleansed and yielded vessels, they function as channels of that living Word.The vision presented is of a corporate people—an anointed family, a mighty army—each member placed by God and functioning in their unique role. Some speak the Word, others build, create, govern, serve, or perform practical works. Together they demonstrate the Kingdom of God on the earth.This corporate functioning fulfills Jesus’ promise that greater works would be done, not by individuals alone but by a unified Body empowered by the Spirit of God.Show Notes1. The Body of Christ Is Corporate, Not IndividualGod does not work through isolated individuals but through a many-membered Body*. Believers help prepare and build one another through the living Word. * Christ receives His voice through His people. * The Holy Spirit speaks through yielded vessels.
Key idea: God needs a people, not just a person.2. God Places Each Member in the BodyEvery believer has a divinely appointed function.* God sets members in the Body according to His will. * No one appoints themselves or judges another's role. * Each person fills a place designed by God.
Realizing this brings humility and unity.3. A Word From God Is CreativeGod’s Word is not merely information—it creates spiritual reality.* It is not aimed at intellect alone. * It forms Christ within the believer. * It carries the same creative power that formed the world.
Receiving the Word requires openness, dedication, and purification.4. God Is Raising a Body That Knows HimThe Holy Spirit is emphasizing a corporate people who know God personally.* Each member can hear from the Lord. * Each member can speak a living word. * Christ is expressed through the whole Body.
This represents a new level of corporate awareness of Christ within.5. Greater Works Through the Corporate BodyJesus’ promise of greater works becomes possible through a unified Body.* One person can accomplish much. * Many functioning together can accomplish far more. * The family of God releases multiplied authority.
This reveals the potential power of the Body when aligned with Christ.6. The Kingdom Requires Many FunctionsThe Body includes far more than speakers or preachers.God raises up:* Craftsmen * Builders * Workers * Creators * Leaders * Servants
The Kingdom operates through anointed people doing God’s work in every sphere of life.7. The Body of Christ Is a Mighty ArmyThe Body functions like an army with many roles.* Not everyone is on the front line. * Each function contributes to victory. * God’s power is revealed through the collective.
The strength of the army comes from God working through His people together.Key QuotesMike
“God needs a people, not one person. Through this many-membered body He functions, and we give Christ His voice.”
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“When you realize you’re part of something greater than yourself, you begin to see the greater works Jesus promised.”
Ron
“When a word comes from God, it is God. It carries the same creative power He used to create the world.”
Mike
“Our prophecies and prayers will do more than any law passed by man.”
Ron
“The Kingdom is not just people speaking the Word. It’s men and women who do God.”
Ken
“What we’re really talking about is a mighty army.”
Scriptural ReferencesThe Body of Christ 1 Corinthians 12 (12–18)“For as the body is one and has many members…” * Romans 12 (4–5)*“So we, being many, are one body in Christ.”
Members Placed by God 1 Corinthians 12 (18)*“God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.”
The Creative Power of the Word Genesis 1 (3)“Then God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” * Isaiah 55 (11)“So shall My word be… it shall accomplish what I please.” * Hebrews 4 (12)*“The word of God is living and powerful.”
Greater Works John 14 (12)*“He who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these will he do.”
The Living Epistles 2 Corinthians 3 (2–3)*“You are our epistle written in our hearts… written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God.”
The Mighty People of God Joel 2 (7–11)“They run like mighty men…” * Ephesians 4 (11–16)*The Body growing together as every part functions.
Kingdom Craftsmen Exodus 31 (1–6)*Bezalel filled with the Spirit of God to craft the tabernacle.
TakeawayGod’s purpose is not fulfilled through isolated spiritual individuals but through a corporate Body that knows Him and functions together under Christ as Head.As believers receive and speak the creative Word of God, each member fulfills their unique role—whether speaking, building, serving, or creating. When the Body functions in unity, it becomes a mighty people through whom Christ expresses His authority and accomplishes His greater works in the earth.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation explores the central truth that love is the only foundation upon which spiritual life and ministry can function effectively. While doctrine, discipline, gifting, and structure all have their place, they ultimately fail if they are not rooted in the love of God. The speakers identify frustration in ministry, especially around the recognition of the fivefold ministry, as often stemming from a deeper issue—the absence of love as the driving motivation.Love is not about position or title. Christ alone holds the position. The Body functions properly not when offices are recognized, but when believers operate in His presence and His love. True maturity is not defined by visible roles but by oneness formed through divine love.As believers press into love and unity, everything contrary to it surfaces—division, pride, self-will, and accusation. These exposures are not setbacks but part of God’s cleansing process. Love sustains, corrects, humbles, and empowers the Body to function as family. Without it, nothing works. With it, Christ prevails.Show Notes*1. Love as the Core Motivation Change begins with motivation. * Ministry, gifts, and discipline fail without love. * Love must be the foundation of everything.
- The House Analogy* Structure alone does not make a home livable.
- Spiritual systems may look perfect but won’t function without love.
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Love is what makes the “house” of God livable.
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Frustration Around Fivefold Ministry* Correct doctrine does not guarantee effectiveness.
- Recognition of offices does not produce maturity.
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The missing element is the impartation and appropriation of God’s love.
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No Positions in the Family* Christ alone holds the position.
- The fivefold ministry functions organically within the Body.
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Grace, not title, brings forth true ministry.
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Love and Oneness* Love cannot be separated from unity or fullness.
- Maturity comes through shared participation in love.
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Oneness emerges as love deepens.
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Love Exposes the Opposite* Pressing into love brings hidden division to the surface.
- Accusations and relational tensions test love.
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Laying down self-will is necessary for unity.
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Love Sustains and Prevails* The Lord prevails through love, not personal striving.
- Love keeps believers steady through backlash.
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Failure becomes an opportunity for cleansing and growth.
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The Example of Moses* Korah operated from position-thinking.
- Moses responded in humility and worship.
- Love trusts God to defend and establish.
Key Quotes* “It’s all about motivation.” * “If the true motivation of the love of the Lord’s not in your heart… things just fail.” * “You can have all your doctrines correct… and yet things don’t work.” * “There are no positions in the family.” * “He’s the only one with the position.” * “Without the love of Christ, you’re nothing.” * “Take up the banner of love and oneness—we’re not going any further.” * “The Lord will prevail—not you—but the Lord will prevail through you.” * “The love of Christ controls us.” * “It’s God’s love in all aspects of who we are and what we’re doing.”
Scriptural References1 Corinthians 13 (1–3)Without love, even spiritual gifts and sacrifice amount to nothing.Ephesians 4 (11–16)Fivefold ministry given for maturity and unity in Christ.Colossians 3 (14)Love as the perfect bond of unity.2 Corinthians 5 (14)“The love of Christ controls us.”Matthew 22 (37–40)The greatest commandments: love God and love others.1 John 4 (8)“God is love.”1 John 1 (9)Faithful forgiveness and cleansing.Numbers 16Moses and Korah — humility before God versus position-seeking.TakeawaySpiritual growth, unity, and effective ministry cannot be manufactured through structure, recognition, or correct teaching alone. The determining factor is love—God’s love imparted, received, and lived out.When love governs:* The Body functions without striving. * Positions fade and grace emerges. * Christ prevails through His people.
The real question is not, “Are we structured correctly?”It is, “Are we motivated by love?”Love is not an addition to the foundation.It is the foundation.
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SUMMARYThis episode explores what it truly means to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. The discussion centers on surrendering to Christ’s authority, aligning with His purposes, and allowing Him to manifest His Kingdom through a yielded people. The family emphasizes that worship is not merely singing, but presenting our lives as living sacrifices. True Kingdom alignment is revealed when believers continue loving, trusting, and walking with God regardless of circumstances. The ultimate question remains: Is God enough?
SHOW NOTES* Seeking first the Kingdom means living under Christ’s authority. * Righteousness is alignment with His will, not self-effort. * The Kingdom has been present since Christ introduced it and is now being manifested. * The Kingdom is revealed through humility and surrendered vessels. * We do not bring the Kingdom; we align with His purposes and allow Him to work. * Worship is the purest expression of seeking the Kingdom. * Worship is not just singing—it is presenting our bodies as living sacrifices. * The greatest worship is loving God regardless of circumstance. * True commitment says, “I will walk with God whether I live or die.” * Overcoming comes through the blood of the Lamb, our testimony, and loving not our lives unto death. * The love of the Lord is unchanging and unfathomable. * God completes what He begins. * The central question: Is God enough in every situation?
KEY QUOTES* “If He's King, then He's in authority, and whatever He speaks, that we do.” * “We don’t bring the Kingdom; we align our spirits with His purposes.” * “The greatest worship you and I can give is when, in spite of everything we go through, we say, ‘Yes, I love You.’” * “Is God enough for you? Worship Him.” * “To love Him is His perfect will.” * “There has to be that thing in your spirit that says, ‘I’m going to walk with God regardless if I live or die.’” * “The love of the Lord is the key.” * “What He has begun, He will complete.”
SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES Matthew 6 (33)– Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. * Matthew 11 (12)– The Kingdom suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. * Romans 12 (1)– Present your bodies a living sacrifice, your spiritual service of worship. * Revelation 12 (11)– Overcome by the blood of the Lamb, the word of testimony, and loving not our lives unto death. * Hebrews 12 (2)– Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. * Psalm 22 (3)– He dwells in the praises of His people. * Jeremiah 31 (33)– I will write My law on their hearts. * Philippians 1 (6)*– He who began a good work in you will complete it.
TAKEAWAYSeeking first the Kingdom is not about activity—it is about surrender. When we worship, yield, and love God regardless of circumstances, we align with His purposes and allow His Kingdom to be manifested through us. The question every believer must answer is simple but profound:
Is God enough?
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis message reveals that divine order is not created by human structure, hierarchy, or position, but by submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. In this “new day,” individual independence gives way to corporate submission—each member of the Body aligned under Christ as Head. Ministries such as apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers are not ranks of authority but expressions of the Holy Spirit moving through different members at different times. No individual receives preeminence; the anointing belongs to God alone. Just as a physical body functions in coordinated harmony under the direction of the head, so the Ecclesia functions when every part submits one to another under Christ. Divine order is not democracy, nor hierarchy—it is Spirit-led alignment under the Lordship of Jesus.Show Notes1. Divine Order Is Not Man-Made Divine order is not someone “setting people in place.” * It is not structural hierarchy. * It flows from submission to Jesus Christ as Lord. * In this day, independence in spiritual life is not sustainable. * The whole family must be aligned together.
- The Holy Spirit Creates the Order* The Holy Spirit is the source of all anointing.
- Ministry roles are not fixed titles but Spirit-led expressions.
- At one moment someone may function apostolically; at another, differently.
- The Spirit is the true Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor, and Teacher.
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God does not share His glory with individuals.
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The Body Functions Through Alignment* No part is more important than another.
- Just as the physical body functions under the brain’s direction, the Body of Christ functions under Christ as Head.
- When one part is missing or out of alignment, the whole body suffers.
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Divine order means the right function at the right time under the Spirit’s direction.
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Submission Is the Key* Jesus washing the disciples’ feet demonstrated mutual submission.
- Leadership exists for equipping the saints—not self-exaltation.
- “Submit one to another in the fear of God.”
- Lordship is not democracy; Christ is Lord.
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Under His Lordship, we are changed and refined.
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The True Ecclesia* The church is not a building but people gathered in submission to Christ.
- Ministries are gifts for maturity in the Body.
- God sets members in the Body as it pleases Him.
- The goal is a mature, functioning Body under Christ.
Key Quotes* “Divine order is centered in the Holy Spirit.” * “It’s not hierarchy—it’s the Holy Spirit expressing Himself.” * “God is not going to share His glory with anyone.” * “No one has to be the outstanding one—we are all equal in the Body of Christ.” * “Submission is such a key point in all of this.” * “He’s the Lord—not a democracy.” * “When we submit our spirits to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, He controls what we speak.” * “There will be order in the Kingdom Ecclesia—and it’s happening.”
Scriptural ReferencesLordship & Submission* Ephesians 5 (21) “Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.” * Philippians 2 (9–11) Every knee bowing to Jesus as Lord. * Luke 22 (26–27) The greatest among you shall be as the servant.
The Body of Christ* 1 Corinthians 12 (12–27) Many members, one body. * Romans 12 (4–5) Members one of another. * 1 Corinthians 12 (18) God sets the members in the body as it pleases Him.
Ministry Gifts* Ephesians 4 (11–13) Given for equipping the saints. * 1 Corinthians 12 (4–7) Varieties of gifts, same Spirit.
God’s Glory* Isaiah 42 (8) “My glory I will not give to another.”
The Ecclesia* Matthew 18 (20) Where two or three are gathered in My name. * Acts 2 (42–47) The functioning early church community.
TakeawayDivine order is not about position, prominence, or control—it is about submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. When each member yields to Him and to one another, the Body functions in harmony, maturity, and power. The Spirit determines expression, God receives the glory, and Christ alone remains the Head.
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This podcast explores the deeper work of God beyond salvation and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The family emphasize that true oneness in the Body of Christ is formed not by gifts or experiences, but by the purifying fire of God that burns away the old nature. Many believers stop after initial experiences with the Lord, but God calls His people into a progressive, transformative journey that requires hunger, submission, and surrender.SHOW NOTES* Many believers move in gifts but lack ongoing hunger. * Gifts alone do not produce oneness—only continual revelation does. * The Holy Spirit gives power but not transformation by itself. * The fire burns away carnality, individuality, and self-centeredness. * The early church was forged in fire—pressure, persecution, divine dealings. * True oneness forms when people face fire together. * When tested, believers can either submit or become bitter. * Trials expose the “chaff”—selfishness, attitudes, and old patterns. * God won’t force surrender. * The key is asking what God desires. * Believers were bought with a price. * Self-will and personal control must submit to the potter’s hands. * Being Christ’s disciple means relinquishing ownership of one’s life. * Christ leads; believers follow. * “This is just who I am” is not truth—God plans to remake His people.
QUOTESKen:“The gift without the hunger leaves something lacking.”“There is more. It’s an exciting, eventful journey into God.”“You’re the one God wants to change and create in His image.”Ron:“You may move in the gifts and still be very carnal.”“The fire is the next step God is requiring.”“If you’re not your own, you don’t get to make the decisions about your life anymore.”Debbie:“To become a son, you must go through the fire.”“To be a Kingdom disciple means I no longer belong to myself—I belong entirely to Christ.”“If Christ leads, nothing is wasted.”Mike:“You are not your own… you were bought with a price.”“We glorify God by letting Him come through the vessel.”Lois:“What is being burned out? Selfishness. All of those attitudes.”SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES- 1 Corinthians 6 (19–20)- Acts 2 – Day of Pentecost- Acts 5 (1–11) – Ananias & Sapphira- Philippians 1 (6)- Malachi 3 (2–3)- Romans 12 (1–2)- Luke 22 (42)- Isaiah 64 (8)- John 17 (21–23)TAKEAWAYThe pathway to oneness in the Body of Christ is formed in the fire of God that burns away the old nature and forms His likeness in us. The fire reveals motives, removes selfishness, reshapes our identity, and brings us into a unity only God can create. Oneness is born when believers surrender their will, humble their hearts, embrace God’s dealings, and allow Christ to fully live through them. The fire is not punishment—it is formation, God’s love forging His sons into His image, together.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis message reveals that the “greater works” Jesus spoke of are not primarily outward signs and wonders, but the inward work of God forming His people into true oneness. Through the breaking of the human nature and the renewing of the mind and spirit, God is creating a people who can see with His eyes, love with His heart, and function together as a fully formed body in Christ. These greater works culminate in the completion of the Body of Christ—living, unified, and expressing God’s heart toward all.Show Notes• The “greater works” include miracles, but go far beyond outward manifestations• Human personality, mindset, and effort cannot produce true unity• Oneness is a work of the Spirit, not agreement of opinions• God is forming a people who are not recognizable by natural or religious standards• Comparison and self-measurement hinder spiritual transformation• A broken spirit allows God to change us more quickly and deeply• The greatest sign is what happens inwardly before it manifests outwardly• Seeing with God’s eyes removes contempt, prejudice, and judgment• Jesus consistently defied human ideas of worthiness• The ultimate greater work is the completion of the Body of Christ• Oneness reveals God’s heart toward every person• God alone receives the glory—this work cannot be credited to human effortKey Quotes“You cannot bring people into one mind naturally, but in the Spirit, God brings us into oneness.”“The greatest sign you’re going to see is the one that happens inside.”“God is creating something so new that it’s not recognizable—even to our own minds.”“Our spirit needs to be broken so God can change us quicker.”“The greater works ultimately turn into the completion of the Body of Christ.”“We can’t take any credit for this—it’s all about what He’s doing.”Scriptural ReferencesJohn 14 (12) – Greater works than these shall he doEphesians 4 (13) – Unity of the faith and the full stature of Christ1 Corinthians 12 (12–27) – One body, many membersJohn 17 (20–23) – Jesus’ prayer for onenessRomans 12 (2) – Transformation through renewing of the mindPhilippians 2 (5) – Having the mind of Christ1 Corinthians 2 (16) – We have the mind of ChristPsalm 51 (17) – A broken and contrite heartColossians 1 (27–28)** – Christ in you, bringing us to completionTakeawayThe greater works are not something we perform—they are something God forms within us. As our hearts are softened, our spirits broken before Him, and our vision purified, God brings us into true oneness. This inward transformation produces a unified Body that sees as He sees, loves as He loves, and stands complete together in Christ—right now.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.SummaryThis conversation explores God’s work in forming not isolated individuals, but a corporate people—a family and a royal priesthood. Through devastation, humility, and submission, God is bringing forth a purified company that exists not for personal gain, recognition, or ministry ambition, but to minister to the Lord Himself.The family emphasize that devastation is not meaningless suffering but a divine process that strips away self-interest and prepares God’s people to walk as sons, worshipers, and priests. This priesthood is not defined by position or title, but by a spiritual state of being—one that fulfills God’s eternal purpose revealed from the foundation of the world.Show Notes God is shifting from individual ministry emphasis to acorporate, family expression * Teaching and ministry flow through thebody, not a single voice * Each believer carries a different aspect of what the Spirit is speaking * Devastation humbles the heart and removes pride and self-ambition * God is raising acompany, not elevating personalities * Worship is offering ourselves fully to God as living sacrifices * Priesthood is aspiritual state**, not an individual role * The motivation of walking with God changes from “what I get” to “what God gets” * God is forming a people for His own possession * Sons of God walk in the earth as Christ walked * True priesthood is formed through submission, not recognition * God is the potter; we are the clay
Key Quotes* “The teaching priest is coming through the family, through the body—not one person.” * “There is a greater purity in the company God is raising up rather than individuals.” * “Devastation is a prelude to the priesthood.” * “The motivation of walking with God changes when it’s no longer about us.” * “God is creating a people for His own possession.” * “Priesthood is not so much an individual thing as it is a spiritual state.” * “We’re not living unto ourselves—we’re dying to ourselves to minister to the Lord.” * “He’s the potter. We’re the clay.”
Scriptural References Romans 12( 1)Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, your true worship * 1 Peter 2 (9)A chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation * Revelation 1 (5–6)Made a kingdom of priests unto God * Exodus 19 (5–6)God’s desire for a kingdom of priests * Philippians 1 (21)To live is Christ, to die is gain * John 4 (23–24)The Father seeks true worshipers * Isaiah 64 (80The Lord as potter; we as clay * Ephesians 4 (15–16)*The body growing together in love
TakeawayGod is not primarily forming gifted individuals—He is forming a people.Through devastation, humility, and surrender, He is shaping a royal priesthood that lives not for itself, but to give God what He desires. When ambition dies and submission is embraced, a family emerges—standing before God day and night, ministering to Him as sons and priests.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryInterdependent By Design: Living As One Body In Christ explores God’s intention that His people grow, mature, and function together—not as isolated individuals, but as a unified spiritual body. Through shared revelation, submission, and love, believers are formed into a living family where Christ ministers through each member to the whole. The discussion highlights how spiritual relationships are established by God Himself, refined through humility and service, and sustained by a revelation of Christ’s love for His body. True oneness is revealed not through preference or personality, but through obedience, forgiveness, and a willingness to open our hearts to one another in the Spirit.Show Notes*** Spiritual growth deepens in seasons that feel like “winter,” producing stronger roots * God designed believers to live interdependently, not independently * True oneness flows from a shared revelation of Jesus Christ * Relationships within the body are formed and established by God * Loving one another begins with understanding how God loves His body * Serving one another is central to walking in Christ’s life * Washing one another’s feet represents humility, openness, and spiritual ministry * Closing our hearts to one another closes our hearts to the Lord * Forgiveness and reconciliation are essential to spiritual fellowship * The Spirit often ministers without words—presence carries life * Every believer is a spiritual being, carrying Christ to those around them
Key Quotes* “We’re never separated. We’re always together.” * “It’s not an individual thing; it’s a collectiveness of the family, the body of Christ.” * “Our oneness is based upon a common revelation of Jesus Christ.” * “It’s the Lord Jesus Christ establishing relationships.” * “We don’t have the right to close our heart and walk away.” * “Sometimes all you have to do is just love one another.” * “Serving is giving what we are and who we are to each other.” * “The body cleanses itself—Christ in me, ministering to you.” * “We are 24/7 spiritual beings.” * “It’s not hard to be what we are—we’re sons of God.”
Scriptural References 1 Corinthians 12– One body with many members * Ephesians 4 (1–16)– Growing together into maturity through love * John 13 (1–17)– Jesus washing the disciples’ feet * John 19 (26–27)– Jesus establishing relationship between John and Mary * Matthew 18 (21–35)– Forgiveness as a foundation of relationship * 1 John 3 (16–18)– Loving not just in word, but in deed * 1 John 4 (7–21)– Loving one another as evidence of knowing God * Colossians 3 (12–15)*– Bearing with one another in love
TakeawayGod never designed believers to walk alone. Spiritual maturity is formed in relationship—through shared revelation, humility, forgiveness, and love. When we open our hearts to one another, Christ flows freely through His body, purifying, strengthening, and uniting us. True oneness is not manufactured by agreement or personality, but revealed as we submit to the Lord and to one another, allowing His love to live and move through us as one body.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryIn From One Voice to Many: God Is Raising an Anointed Family, the family unpack a profound spiritual transition taking place in this present Age of the Spirit. God is moving His people out of leader-centric ministry models and into a many-membered, anointed family where Christ alone is the Head. This shift is not the result of human strategy or failed systems, but a sovereign work of God forming a unified body marked by oneness, shared anointing, and collective revelation.As old structures crumble, God is not repairing what is broken—He is birthing something entirely new. This new life emerges through dying to the old nature and discovering resurrection life together, not individually. The anointing increases as oneness increases, and revelation flows through a hungry, seeking people who are committed to walking together in total discipleship. God is raising up groups around the world who hunger and thirst for Him, learning to function as one body where every member carries life, purpose, and voice.*Show Notes The era of ministry flowing through one dominant voice is ending * God is forming a many-membered, anointed family * This move is initiated by God—not human innovation * The anointing is common to the whole body, not a select few * Oneness produces greater revelation and greater anointing * Old religious structures are being dismantled, not repaired * God is creating something entirely new by His Spirit * Spiritual growth and transformation happen in community, not isolation * Every believer has a function and carries life for the body * Hunger, faith, and seeking God are the doorway into this reality * The body of Christ is designed for mutual impartation and support * Weakness is met with strength through shared life in the Spirit * Christ alone is the Head—ministry flows from Him through His body
Key Quotes* “The ministry is going to come out of the family.” * “This is not human maneuvering—God is creating this.” * “It’s not a few anointed leaders and many unanointed followers.” * “The anointing and the revelation grow as the oneness grows.” * “God doesn’t want to fix what’s broken—He wants to create something new.” * “You’re not going to do this independently.” * “We are all ministries in the house of the Lord.” * “You can’t walk this out alone—you need the body.” * “The connection is in the Lord, not in background or structure.” * “It will be a collective people speaking a living word.”
Scriptural References 1 Corinthians12 (12–27)– One body, many members, each equally necessary * Ephesians4 (15–16)– The body growing as each part supplies life * Romans12 (4–5)– Many members, one body in Christ * John12 (24)– Life coming forth through death * Matthew16 (24–25)– Losing life to find it * John15 (5)– Life flowing from connection to Christ * Acts2 (42–47)– Corporate life, unity, and spiritual impartation * Hebrews10 (24–25)– Exhorting and strengthening one another * Matthew7 (7–8)– Seeking, knocking, and hungering for God * 1 John2 (20, 27)*– The anointing shared among believers
TakeawayGod is calling His people out of isolation and into living, Spirit-led community. This is not about joining an organization or restoring old systems—it is about surrendering to Christ together and allowing His life to flow through a unified body. Transformation, revelation, and anointing are released as believers walk in hunger, faith, and shared discipleship. The future is not one voice—it is many voices speaking one living word, with Christ as the Head and love as the bond.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis conversation explores the end of fixed ministry roles and the emergence of a fluid, Spirit-led divine order centered entirely in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Rather than assigning titles such as apostle, prophet, pastor, or teacher through human designation, the discussion emphasizes that Christ Himself manifests through His body as needed, moment by moment, by the Holy Spirit.Rigid structures often limit spiritual flow, while humility, flexibility, and recognition of Christ in one another allow true divine order to function. Jesus modeled the fullness of ministry, showing that ministry is not a position to hold but Christ to be lived.Show Notes Ministry roles are expressions of Christ, not static titles * Divine order is fluid and Spirit-led * The Holy Spirit determines function and timing * Jesus embodied all expressions of ministry * Humility and flexibility protect against pride * Recognition of Christ replaces formal designation * The fivefold ministry becomes a shared reality * Focus shifts from identity to union with Christ * Love and intimacy with Christ release authentic ministry * Speak Christ, Live Christ becomes the posture of the body
Key Quotes* “Divine order is fluid. A human doesn’t designate it—the Holy Spirit does.” * “Christ isn’t in pieces. He’s all in one.” * “You do not have to have recognition to function in what God puts in your heart.” * “When the emphasis on ministry disappears, Christ flows naturally.”
- “Speak Christ, live Christ—every day.”
Scriptural ReferencesEphesians 4:11–13– Gifts given for the building up of the body 1 Corinthians 12:4–7– Different functions, same Spirit 1 Corinthians 12:27–31– The body functioning together Colossians 1:27– Christ in you, the hope of gloryJohn 10:11– Jesus as the Good Shepherd Matthew 11:28– Evangelistic invitation of Christ John 4:7–26– Jesus flowing prophetically with the woman at the well Genesis 1:26– Humanity created with full divine potential 2 Corinthians 3:17– Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom TakeawayTrue divine order flows from Christ living and speaking through His people. When believers remain humble, flexible, and Spirit-led, ministry becomes a natural expression of love rather than a structured role. As we let go of fixed identities and embrace union with Christ, the body functions in freedom, maturity, and life. Speak Christ. Live Christ. Let Him flow.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary*When Striving Ceases and Christ Remains* explores the paradox of spiritual rest—how God continues His deep, transforming work in us even as our own striving comes to an end. True rest is not the absence of God’s dealings but the assurance that what He began, He will complete. As self is crucified and Christ is formed within, believers learn to trust the process, rest in God’s faithfulness, and walk together as one body. This rest is rooted in trust, impartation, and living from Christ’s life rather than our own effort.Show Notes God’s rest does not cancel His work; it anchors us while He continues it * The assurance that God finishes what He begins brings deep inner rest * Striving harder does not satisfy the soul—rest in Christ does * Spiritual rest coexists with transformation, crucifixion, and inner dealings * Displeasure with self often signals God’s deeper work within us * Rest is not passivity; it is trust in God’s faithfulness and process * True growth comes by*impartation, not information or knowledge alone * Our life is no longer our own—it is Christ living in us * Trust is cultivated through the Word, which connects us to the Father * The Body of Christ grows together; no one walks this path alone * God has already brought us into rest—we are learning to live from it * Focusing on who Christis, not who we are not, sustains spiritual rest
Quotes* “There’s a place of rest we can move into in the Lord Jesus that satisfies us right down to the root.” * “Our energy ceases, but the travail of our heart does not.” * “What He began in us, He is going to complete.” * “The deeper God goes in our hearts, the more displeasure we have with ourselves—and that is His good pleasure.” * “It’s not knowledge; it comes by impartation.” * “When you begin to rest, you trust—and trust is the key.” * “Don’t look at what you’re not. Look at what He is.”
Scriptural References Philippians1:6–He who began a good work in you will complete it * Galatians2:20–I have been crucified with Christ… Christ lives in me * Colossians3:3–Your life is hidden with Christ in God * Revelation6:2–Conquering and to conquer * Hebrews4:9–11–There remains a rest for the people of God * Romans8:10–Christ lives in you * Philippians4:8–Whatever things are pure… think on these things*
TakeawayTrue rest is not found by striving harder, knowing more, or doing more—it is found in trusting that Christ is faithfully completing His work within us. As our effort ceases, Christ remains. In that place of rest, transformation continues, life is imparted, and we learn to live not from ourselves, but from Him—together, as one body.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary*This episode reveals how God uses the fire of His Spirit to purify and perfect His sons. Through trials, sufferings, and divine fire, believers are transformed into His likeness. The conversation unfolds the purpose behind life’s fiery experiences—showing that they are not punishment, but God’s refining process. The speakers emphasize that holiness, sanctification, and spiritual maturity come only through the fire of God’s presence. As the chaff is burned away, what remains is purity, gold, and the image of Christ manifesting through His people.Show Notes The Purpose of Fire: Every suffering and trial is God’s design to complete His work in His sons. * Chaff and the Old Nature: The “chaff” represents the Adamic nature being burned away through God’s refining fire. * Submitting to the Process: Transformation is not achieved through human effort, but by surrender to the fire of God. * God as a Consuming Fire: To walk with Him means to partake of His purifying nature (Hebrews 12:29). * The Fire of Pentecost: The tongues of fire in Acts were the fulfillment of John’s prophecy—baptism with the Holy Spirit and fire. * Rejoicing in the Fire: Trials are not strange occurrences but evidence of being chosen and sanctified. * Faith Tested in the Furnace: Like the three Hebrew children, believers are not destroyed by the fire but transformed in it. * Sanctification Through Fire: God uses the fire to purify His people, making them ready to dwell in His holy presence. * Obedience and Judgment: Once obedience is complete, the purified sons of God will release His righteous judgment and cleansing on the earth. * Transformation and Victory: Through the fire, believers move from victimhood to conquerors, walking in divine authority. * End Result: The fire burns only the wood, hay, and stubble—leaving behind refined gold and silver that glorify God.
Quotes* “All of your sufferings, everything you are going through, is designed by the Lord to complete you.” – Ken * “It’s the old nature, and all of that’s coming off.” – Lois * “Our God is a consuming fire. If you’re going to walk with Him, you’re going to partake of it.” – Lois * “Rejoice that the fire is burning in your life. It’s creating something in you that you can’t do by yourself.” – Ken * “If you’re called and chosen, you’re going to go through the fires.” – Ken * “God is consuming us with fire, but also anointing us with the Holy Spirit to speak His judgment and bring forth His Kingdom.” – Monnie * “When God throws the matches in your life, it only burns the wood, hay, and stubble—it doesn’t touch the gold and silver.” – Lois * “Finish up with us, Lord. Finish up Your fire in our lives.” – Dale
Scriptural ReferencesHebrews 12:29 – “For our God is a consuming fire.”Matthew 3:11 – “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”1 Peter 4:12–13 – “Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you…”Psalm 34:19 – “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.”Daniel 3:25–27 – The three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace—preserved by the presence of God.Malachi 3:2–3 – “He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.”Romans 8:37 – “In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”2 Corinthians 3:18 – “We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image.”TakeawayThe fire of God is not something to fear—it is the very means by which He completes His sons. Every trial, pressure, and purifying flame removes the old nature and reveals the divine nature within. As believers yield to the process, they are being made holy, refined like gold, and prepared to stand in the fullness of His presence. The fire that once burned to cleanse will soon burn through them to bring His Kingdom to earth.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary*Not by the Ear, but by the Spirit centers on learning to hear the voice of the Lord beyond human reasoning, preference, or intellect. The speakers emphasize that true hearing comes by the Holy Spirit and is confirmed inwardly and corporately through the many-membered body of Christ. God speaks through many channels—Scripture, family, songs, children, circumstances, and the presence carried by believers—but His voice always resonates with the spirit, not merely the mind. This conversation calls believers to remain open, discerning, and present-focused, hearing what God is saying now*, walking in divine order, and submitting every thought, word, and action under the lordship of Christ.Show Note* Hearing God’s voice requires waiting, humility, and openness of heart * The Holy Spirit makes the Word alive beyond human understanding * God speaks through many spiritual “channels,” not just one familiar voice * Divine order comes through confirmation in the body, not private interpretation * Hearing in the Spirit protects us from being led by intellect, emotion, or desire * Who we are in Christ ministers more than what we say * The presence of Christ carried within believers changes atmospheres * Growth requires letting go of old thinking, habits, and soulish reactions * The mind must become a servant to the spirit, not a challenger to it * Christ revealed—not human perspective—is the highest form of revelation * KnowingaboutGod is different from knowing Him in the Spirit * The present speaking of God is more vital than past experiences
Quotes* “It’s not about hearing things on a human intellectual level—it’s about hearing in the Spirit.” * “There are many voices, but when the voice of the Lord comes, it identifies with your spirit.” * “Who we are ministers more than what we say.” * “Our spirits speak louder than our words.” * “Divine order is when you hear a word from God and it resonates and is confirmed through your brothers.” * “You can’t iron the wrinkles out—you have to fill the bag.” * “It’s a determination not to be part of the world, but part of the Kingdom.” * “I knew Him by the hearing of the Word, but now I know Him.”
Scriptural References Romans 8 The Spirit bearing witness with our spirit * John 10:7 “My sheep hear My voice” * 1 Corinthians 2:9 -16 Spiritual discernment vs. natural understanding * 2 Peter 1:20 - 21 No prophecy of Scripture is private interpretation * Judges 21:25 Everyone doing what was right in their own eyes * Colossians 1:27 Christ in you, the hope of glory * Proverbs 16:32 He who rules his spirit is greater than one who takes a city * Matthew 6:22 The single eye * Job 13:15; 42-5* Trusting God and moving from hearing about Him to knowing Him
TakeawayHearing God is not a matter of preference, intellect, or familiarity—it is a matter of spiritual resonance and submission. The Lord is speaking today, and discerning His voice requires a yielded heart, a renewed mind, and openness to confirmation through the body of Christ. As we walk in the Spirit, Christ comes forth in us, our presence carries life, and we move from knowing about God to truly knowing Him. The question remains for each of us: Are we hearing what God is speaking to our spirits right now?
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SUMMARY“Aggressive Submission: The Path to Kingdom Authority” explores the foundational truth that spiritual authority flows directly from submission—first to God, and then to Christ expressed within His body. Authority is not something we seize, claim, or declare independently; it is released through a mature, intentional, and ongoing surrender of our will to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.The discussion emphasizes that true submission is not passive or coerced but aggressive—a deliberate choosing of obedience, accountability, and alignment with God’s order. As believers mature, they become personally responsible for maintaining submission in spirit, resisting individualism, and remaining connected to the body of Christ. This shared submission creates a pure spiritual atmosphere where Christ’s authority moves through His people as one, establishing His kingdom on the earth.SHOW NOTES• Authority is given by God and expressed through obedience to what He speaks to our hearts• Submission is progressive; deeper submission brings greater authority• Christ Himself modeled aggressive submission to the Father• Submission is relational and lived out within the body of Christ• Spiritual maturity requires personal responsibility for one’s spirit• Authority in the Kingdom is ordered, not equal• Revelation must be confirmed within the body• Apostolic and fivefold ministries equip the saints• A pure spiritual atmosphere is formed through shared submission• God is bringing His people into chosen maturityKEY QUOTES*** “We move in the degree of authority that we’ve submitted to.” * “Christ was aggressively submitted to the Father.” * “Submission is not passive—it’s a demand you place on your own spirit.” * “If we are truly submissive like Christ was, there’s no limit to the authority that can move through us.” * “Revelation without confirmation takes you out of the body.” * “The kingdom of God is not in the sky—it’s here, and it’s real.” * “A pure atmosphere is created when we submit our hearts to the Lord and walk as one.”
SCRIPTURAL REFERENCESLuke 22-42 “Not My will, but Yours be done”Ephesians 4-11to13 Fivefold ministry equipping the saints toward maturityMatthew 16-16 to19 Revelation as the foundation of the EcclesiaJudges 21-25 – Every man doing what is right in his own eyes1 Corinthians 14-29 – Confirmation through two or three witnesses1 Corinthians 15-24 to 28 – Christ submitting all things to the FatherTAKEAWAYKingdom authority is not claimed—it is carried. It rests on a life that is aggressively submitted to God, grounded in relationship, confirmed within the body, and governed by Christ’s Lordship. As believers mature, submission becomes a continual choice that preserves unity, creates a pure atmosphere, and allows Christ to move through His people with power and authority in the earth.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SUMMARYThis conversation centers on holding a right spirit before God, especially when dealing with people who challenge, irritate, or disagree with us. The speakers emphasize that spiritual maturity is not about reacting from human nature but about remaining open, humble, broken, and led by the Spirit. Rather than relying on personal discernment or strong opinions, believers are called to listen, take matters to the Lord, and respond from love. God’s corrective work—though often uncomfortable—is an expression of His love, shaping His sons and daughters into His nature. True oneness, family, and spiritual growth flow from maintaining a right spirit before Him.SHOW NOTES• God often speaks through people who rub us the wrong way• Keeping a right spirit is a continual surrender to the Lord• Not everything spoken needs to be received—hold it before God• Break bonds with human reactions; stay connected in the Spirit• Strong opinions do not equal spiritual truth• Ask the Holy Spirit what to take and what to leave• Authority comes from recognizing the spirit behind words• Humility, brokenness, and sensitivity are essential• Trust the voice of the Lord over personal discernment• Love without buying into disagreement• God’s love includes chiseling and shaping His workmanship• Trials refine the spirit and form Christ’s nature in us• We are the reward of Christ’s suffering• True fellowship produces oneness, inclusion, and spiritual flow KEY QUOTES“The end result is I’m wrong, and He’s right.”“You have to be able to speak through anyone to me.”“If it’s from the Lord, the Lord’s gonna minister to you something from it.”“Break your bonds on a human level.”“Keep your spirit open and right before the Lord—that’s the key.”“I don’t want to rely on discernment; I want to rely on the voice of the Lord.”“God’s love is not human.”“He’s gonna get the chisel out again.”“We are the reward of His sufferings.”“Love them and be one with the Lord on earth.” SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES*Psalm 51:17* — A broken and contrite heart God will not despiseMatthew 7:1–5 — Removing the beam from our own eyeEphesians 4:14–15 — Not tossed by every wind of doctrineJohn 10:27 — “My sheep hear My voice”Romans 8:29 — Being conformed to the image of His SonHebrews 12:6–11 — The Lord disciplines those He lovesJob 1:21–22 — Maintaining a right spirit under trialJohn 17:21–23 — Oneness in ChristEphesians 5:26 — Washed by the WordTAKEAWAY**A right spirit before God is not automatic—it is chosen daily. When opinions clash, emotions rise, or correction comes through unexpected people, the call is the same: stay humble, stay broken, stay in His presence. God’s love is active, shaping us through every interaction and every trial. As we learn to listen without reacting, love without agreeing, and trust His voice above all else, we grow into true sonship and deeper oneness within the body of Christ.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis episode explores what it truly means to belong to God and to live as vessels of His Spirit. Drawing from Paul’s words in Corinthians, the conversation centers on the profound truth that we are the temple of God and no longer our own. True freedom comes not from external circumstances but from yielding our will to His and allowing the Holy Spirit to dwell, renew, and govern our lives.Through shared insights, the family veils how living as God’s possession breaks the bondage of the soul-flesh nature and brings us into freedom, love, and purpose. The episode emphasizes the power of relationships within the body of Christ, the necessity of prayer for one another, and the reality that no one stands alone—we stand because others uphold us. Communion, humility, and faith become the pathways into transformation and deeper oneness in His Spirit.Show Notes• We are God’s temple.The Holy Spirit dwells in us, not as a theological idea but as a present, active reality.• Submission brings freedom.Yielding our will to His produces the peace, joy, and love that true freedom is made of. God is the potter—we are the clay.• Freedom from the soul-flesh nature“For freedom we have been set free.” We escape bondage only by the Spirit, never by self-effort.• We belong to HimAccepting ourselves as His possession removes fear, doubt, and striving. It frees us to serve His purposes without burden.• The essential ministry of the bodyNo one stands alone. We are upheld by each other's prayers, love, and intercession. Every believer has a ministry of love and edification.• Communion as transformationWe partake of His body and blood not as ritual, but with sincerity, inviting His nature into our present circumstances.• Praying for one anotherA many-membered body comes forth because each part ministers in love, purity, and covering.Quotes• “We are His possession—and in that possession is our freedom.”• “You don’t stand by your strength; you stand by other people’s prayers.”• “He is the potter; we are the clay. Our freedom is in yielding.”• “Freedom is peace, joy, and love. That’s the freedom the Holy Spirit brings.”• “You come to communion not to solve problems, but to change—to appropriate His nature.”• “We are enthroned upon the prayers of one another.”• “No one comes forth unless someone prays for them.”Scriptural References• 1 Corinthians 3:16 – You are the temple of God.• 1 Corinthians 6:19–20 – You are not your own; glorify God in your body.• Galatians 5:1 – For freedom we have been set free.• Zechariah 4:6 – Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit.• Romans 9:21 – The potter and the clay.• Revelation 12:11 – Overcoming by the blood of the Lamb.• Ephesians 4:11–16 – The body of Christ functioning in love.Takeaway**To live as God’s possession is to live in freedom. Freedom comes not from striving or self-effort, but from yielding—allowing Him to work in and through us. As temples of His Spirit, we walk free from the soul-flesh nature when we surrender to His will. And we do not walk this out alone. We stand because others pray for us, love us, and uphold us.Life in God’s family means we belong—to Him and to one another. In that place of surrender and mutual covering, the Lord is free to move through His people.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis podcast explores how God uses the baptism of fire to transform believers from merely human reactions into the expression of His divine nature. Through trials, discipline, and surrender, the Lord burns away dross, purifies the heart, and brings His people into deeper realms of peace, joy, and freedom. As we submit to His dealings, Christ Himself perfects us, creating a pure bride who responds to every situation out of His nature rather than the soul. This process leads us level by level into maturity, oneness, and fruitful participation in the life of God.Show Notes God’s fire finishes the work by burning away dross, chaff, and hidden attachments * The baptism of fire produces peace, freedom, and deeper release in God * Victory comes through submission, not self-preservation * God is preparing a clean bride to stand in His presence without reservation * Transformation comes through yielding, not human effort * Discipline is evidence of sonship and love * The fire produces divine responses instead of human reactions * God is forming His own nature within us * Each level of fire produces greater fruitfulness * Fellowship strengthens us through God’s dealings * The goal is participation in the divine nature
Key Quotes* “The fire finishes the work because it burns away everything that doesn’t belong in our spirits.” * “We’re not going forward by our humanity, but by the grace of God and His anointing.” * “The only thing we have to do is submit—Christ is the One perfecting us.” * “God is taking us from the human to the divine.” * “Discipline proves we are sons.” * “We come out of the fire bearing fruit.” * “Oneness is born out of His nature, not our soul life.”
Scriptural References1.Malachi 3:2–3The refiner’s fire purifying His people 2.Daniel 3:16–25 The three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace 3.Hebrews 12:6–11 Whom the Lord loves, He disciplines 4.Isaiah 53:7 Christ as a lamb before His shearers 5.John 4:23–24 Worshiping in spirit and in truth 6.Ephesians 2:10 We are His workmanship 7.1 Corinthians 10:13 God provides a way of escape 8.2 Peter 1:3–8 Becoming partakers of the divine nature 9.Romans 8:29 Conformed to the image of His Son TakeawayGod’s purpose is not to improve our human response but to replace it with His divine nature. Through the fire of His dealings, He lovingly removes what cannot remain and forms Christ within us. As we submit to His process, we move from level to level, bearing fruit, walking in peace, and responding to life out of His heart rather than our own. This is how God prepares a spotless bride and brings His people into true oneness in Christ.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThe discussion focuses on becoming living epistles—believers whose lives and words embody the living Christ. Using the parable of the wise and foolish virgins as a foundation, the speakers emphasize that maintaining the oil of the Spirit is essential to engage with the Bridegroom. True transformation and ministry flow not from intellect or revelation alone, but from impartation—the living Word of Christ spoken through a heart filled with the Holy Spirit. The group also reflects on building upon the true foundation of Christ, allowing the Spirit—not human leadership—to guide this maturing movement. The conversation concludes with an acknowledgment of God’s love, grace, and free will given to all, highlighting that every person is being drawn to deeper relationship and maturity in Him.Show Notes• The parable of the five wise and five foolish virgins illustrates spiritual readiness through maintaining the anointing (oil).• Revelation is valuable, but the goal is relationship and impartation, not just knowledge.• Living epistles are those who speak Christ—their words create, impart, and transform.• The true Word of the Lord brings fruit; if no fruit appears, it’s time for growth, not condemnation.• Foundation in Christ remains essential—believers must build upon it, not start over.• The movement today is leaderless in human terms but guided by the Spirit of Christ, the true Apostle and Head.• As each person matures, roles shift—sometimes shepherd, sometimes sheep—all under grace.• Even those focused on basic salvation messages have their purpose in God’s plan.• Spiritual growth comes through hunger and choice—a willingness to move beyond the familiar.• God’s plan is inclusive—He gives everyone opportunity to come into the knowledge of the Lord.• We are living in the day of impartation, where transformation happens through the Spirit’s presence and spoken Word.Quotes• “Without the oil—the anointing, the Holy Spirit—there’s no connection.” — Ken• “The true living epistles aren’t revelators or expositors. They are those who speak Christ in the earth.” — Ron• “If a true living epistle speaks to you, you’re going to change if your heart’s open.” — Ron• “Be careful how you build on that foundation.” — Ken (quoting Paul)• “We’re leaning on the Spirit to lead us. The true apostle is Christ Himself, the Head.” — Mike• “It’s because we’re solid in that foundation that we can go higher in revelation.” — Lois• “Every heart has to decide—am I hungry enough to seek out something different?” — Ron• “This is the day of Spirit—the year of Spirit—we are there.” — KenScriptural References• Matthew 25:1–13 — The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins; keeping oil (the Spirit) to engage the Bridegroom.• 2 Corinthians 3:2–3 — You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men... written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God.• John 6:63 — The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.• 1 Corinthians 3:10–11 — Each one must be careful how he builds... For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.• Romans 8:14 — For all who are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.• 1 Thessalonians 2:13 — The Word works effectively in those who believe.• Isaiah 55:11 — My word... shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please.• Revelation 3:20** — Christ standing at the door, knocking—inviting deeper engagement.TakeawayEvery believer is called to become a living epistle—a vessel of the Spirit whose words and actions manifest Christ’s creative life in the earth. Revelation, study, and teaching all have value, but the goal is to speak the living Word that brings transformation. The Spirit is leading a new, leaderless movement rooted in the lordship of Christ, where each believer learns to build upon the true foundation and impart life to others. This is the day of impartation, the time when God’s people move from knowledge to manifestation, from hearing about Him to becoming the expression of His Word in the world.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis episode explores the essential process of spiritual growth for new believers and the importance of being integrated into a living, functioning Body of Christ. The speakers emphasize that Christianity is not an individual journey but a shared walk where believers are brought into oneness, trained to wait on the Lord, and taught by impartation—not just teaching. Small groups, relationships, and spiritual family dynamics are highlighted as the key environment where believers mature, learn to hear God, and develop genuine oneness in the Spirit. The episode stresses the supernatural nature of the Body of Christ and the deep need for relationship, impartation, and the leading of the Holy Spirit.Show Notes The problem of placing new believers into immediate church work.Many believers begin doing tasks before learning to walk with the Lord or being led by the Spirit. * Learning to wait on the Lord.New believers must be trained in waiting on God, His Word, and His Spirit. * The shift from individuality to oneness.God is moving His people from isolated spiritual lives into a connected Body where every joint supplies. * Why small groups matter.Smaller gatherings foster relationship, impartation, safety, trust, and real spiritual growth. * Impartation versus teaching.Growth happens through spiritual impartation, not just instruction. * The supernatural nature of the Body.Structure alone won’t work—only the Holy Spirit brings unity and transformation. * Being set into the Body by God.Believers are placed into spiritual family "as it pleases Him," not through personal choice or human organization. * Challenges of relationships and spiritual dealings.God uses relationships, confrontation, and family dynamics to help believers grow. * The importance of humility and openness.Believers must be willing to receive help, ask for help, and open their hearts to God and others.
Quotes* "You can't be working for God—you need to work with God." — Ed * "Impartation, not teaching, changes a believer's spiritual level." — Ron * "God is drawing people into a oneness, not individual walks." — Ron * "You’re set into the Body as it pleases Him—not as it pleases you." — Ken * "Small groups create a safe place where relationships purify and grow." — Ron * "If you're talked into a walk with God, someone can talk you right out of it." — Mike * "It's all about your heart, not your nominal thinking." — Ken * "If you lose the relationship with the Lord, you've lost it all." — Ron
Scriptural References1 Corinthians 12:18 — God sets members in the Body as it pleases Him.Ephesians 4:15–16 — Every joint supplies; oneness in the Body.Acts 2:42–47 — Early church fellowship and impartation.Romans 12:4–5 — Many members, one Body.John 14:26 — The Holy Spirit teaches all things.Psalm 27:14 — Wait on the Lord.TakeawayReal spiritual growth comes through being set into the Body by God, walking in oneness, and receiving impartation in a safe spiritual family—not through individualism or busyness. New believers mature as they learn to wait on the Lord and open their hearts to God and one another.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. Summary“Creating a Pure Kingdom Atmosphere” explores how purity of spirit shapes the environment in which God moves. Each speaker emphasizes the inner condition of the heart—brokenness, humility, confession, and right motivation—as the essential foundation for maintaining a spiritual atmosphere where revelation, healing, and unity flourish. The episode stresses that a pure atmosphere is not something we enter; it is something we become. By refusing to relate to one another after the flesh, confronting our reactions, embracing God’s dealings, and pressing on to know the Lord, we create an atmosphere where His presence is free to work in and through the Body of Christ.Show Notes1. Purity Creates Atmosphere- A pure spirit purifies the environment around us.- The pure in heart see God (Matt. 5:8).- Jesus could not perform miracles among those who knew Him after the flesh.- We must know one another after the Spirit.2. The Formula for Purity- Psalm 51:17: A broken spirit and contrite heart create an atmosphere God receives.3. Entering a Pure Atmosphere- Humility and contrition open the door to God’s presence.4. Confession and Reactions- Confessing sins cleans the air spiritually.- Hidden reactions obstruct personal and communal growth.- Even small attitudes shape atmosphere.5. Evaluating the Spirit, Not Deeds- True evaluation is the motivation of the spirit.- Past victories or failures cannot define us.6. God’s Loving Wounding- God exposes, heals, and purifies.- Hosea 6:1–3—He tears and heals.7. Becoming the Atmosphere- By God’s grace, we become the spiritual atmosphere for one another.Key Quotes “A pure spirit can purify the atmosphere.” — Dale * “A broken spirit and a contrite heart: there is the formula.” — Pauline * “If I react against someone, I hinder their growth and my own.” — Linda * “All you can evaluate is the motivation of your spirit.” — Pat * “The Lord can lance wounds and heal them—He can hurt you and bind you up again.” — Debbie
Scriptural ReferencesMatthew 5:8 — Blessed are the pure in heart.Psalm 51:17 — A broken and contrite heart.Psalm 51:7–8 — Purify me with hyssop; restore joy.Jude 11 — The way of Cain.Hosea 6:1–3 — He tears and heals; He revives and raises up.2 Corinthians 5:16 — Know no one after the flesh.Philippians 3:7–14 — Forgetting what lies behind.TakeawayA pure kingdom atmosphere begins in the inner life. It is created not by outward actions but by a heart purified through brokenness, humility, confession, and right motivation. When we stop relating to each other after the flesh and allow God to expose and heal our reactions, we become vessels through which His presence flows. The pure atmosphere we long for is not something we enter—it is something God forms within us so we can become it for one another.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. Summary“The Rise of the Prophet-Priest People” unveils a deep spiritual reality: God is forming a remnant of believers who embody both the prophetic and priestly ministries, walking in oneness, love, and divine impartation. The speakers emphasize returning to the original purpose of God—people created in His image before time—to become a functioning Body led by the Spirit rather than religious structures. Like Ezekiel’s dry bones, the Church must be spoken to, revived, and brought into life and unity. This transformation is not based on individual greatness, denomination, or human qualification, but on the lordship of Christ, the creative Word, and a heart of willingness. God is forming a people who walk as one Body, without division, egos, or rank—where His glory alone is revealed through a many-membered expression of the prophet-priest people.Show Notes1. Created Before Time — Returning to Our Origin Ephesians 1:3–6 reveals our identity before creation: spirit beings patterned after Christ. * Walking in this revelation brings urgency and clarity to the present day.
- The Dry Bones Must Live* The Church is like Ezekiel's dry bones—divided, lifeless, fragmented.
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Life must be breathed not only into “the church,” but into all who hunger for God.
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Lordship of Jesus Christ* Access to God is based on relationship, not doctrine or denomination.
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Denominations often create barriers to oneness; God is bringing forth a united family.
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The Emergence of the Prophet-Priest People* Yesterday emphasized preaching; today emphasizes impartation and priestly ministry.
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God Creates His Servants* God does not recruit the qualified—He creates servants by His Word.
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Joel 2’s army represents people who walk in divine oneness, without competition or division.
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Oneness and the Many-Membered Body* Ministry is no longer about individual greatness but Body expression.
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The creative Word is restored through the Body of Christ, not celebrity ministers.
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Simplicity of Relationship with God* God is not complicated.
- The Kingdom is relational, intimate, and rooted in hunger and willingness.
- “It’s not what you do—it’s who you are” in Him.
Quotes* “We were dead in our trespasses—until the Spirit brought us into a new level of life.” —Ken * “Before creation, we stood before Him as spirit beings patterned after Jesus Christ.” —Mike * “The church today is like dry bones—lifeless until the Word and Spirit bring them together.” —Ed * “He doesn’t recruit worthy people. He creates His servants by a word from God.” —Ron * “Denominations oppose oneness. God is forming a family, not organizations.” —Ken
Scriptural ReferencesEphesians 1:3–6Ezekiel 37:1–14Joel 2:1–11Romans 8:14–171 Peter 2:9John 17:20–231 Corinthians 12:12–27Hebrews 6:1; 10:19–22TakeawayGod is raising up a prophet-priest people—believers who walk in oneness, impartation, and relational intimacy with Him. This move of God is about becoming a people through whom Christ can be revealed, walking in simplicity, unity, and the creative Word of the Spirit.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis episode explores the deep spiritual process of hungering and thirsting after the righteousness of God. The family emphasize that righteousness cannot be earned through human effort or religious works, but comes through submission, faith, and a genuine hunger for His presence. The Lord alone performs the inner transformation, removing the old nature (the 'chaff') and filling believers with His Spirit. Through humility, repentance, and faith, we position ourselves before God to receive His righteousness and live as true sons in His presence.Show Notes True righteousness is not attained by works, but by hungering and thirsting after the Lord, allowing Him to fill and transform us by His Spirit. * Jesus Christ alone baptizes us with the Holy Spirit and fire — we cannot make ourselves righteous. * The 'fire' of God burns away the old nature (the chaff) to reveal His divine nature within us. * Our only responsibility is to submit to God with all our hearts and hunger after Him. * Faith is the movement that draws the righteousness of God into our lives — 'You can’t steer a parked car.' * Repentance is simply turning toward the Lord and humbling ourselves before Him. * Many people stop short of sonship, content with partial experiences of God, but the true sons go on to be made perfect before Him. * The greatest reality we can experience is the living presence of God within us.
Quotes* “It’s Jesus Christ who’s doing the doing — He’s the one baptizing us with the Holy Spirit and fire.” — Ken * “There’s nothing we can do to obtain righteousness other than, like Abraham, believe the Lord.” — Mike * “It’s your hunger and thirst. Then the Lord will come and rain righteousness on you.” — Ron * “We do the submitting — He does the removing.” — Debbie * “Without faith, it’s impossible to please God.” — Ken * “People are looking for something real. The reality of God in your life is the greatest reality you’ll ever come to.” — Ken * “If you choose to become a son, you must go the way of the first Son.” — Debbie
Scriptural ReferencesMatthew 5:6 – “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.”Philippians 3:9 – “Not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ.”Romans 10:3–4 – “For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.”Hebrews 11:6 – “Without faith it is impossible to please Him.”John 4:10 – “If you knew the gift of God… you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”Ephesians 1:4–5 – “In love He predestined us before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before Him.”TakeawayThe path to true righteousness is not through striving, but through surrender. When we position ourselves before God in humility and hunger, He fills us with His Spirit and purifies our nature. Our hunger and thirst open the door for His righteousness to reign in us — not by our efforts, but by His grace. Becoming a son means submitting to His process, allowing His fire to remove the chaff and reveal His life within us.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis episode explores how healing, growth, and maturity happen within the Family of God — not in isolation, but through love, correction, and openness to one another. The speakers discuss how Christ works in us and through one another, not “from the sky,” and how true oneness in the Body of Christ requires humility, confrontation, forgiveness, and submission to His lordship expressed through our spiritual relationships. The family becomes the instrument of God’s healing when we let His Spirit bring both correction and restoration in love.Show Notes Blind spots are part of growth — we all have areas we can’t see; the issue is how we respond when others lovingly point them out. * Christ in us — not in the sky. The presence and ministry of Christ flow through the Body of believers. * Confrontation is love in action — correction from others is not rejection but an opportunity for transformation. * Spiritual oneness brings clarity — agreement in the Spirit brings freedom, flow, and the anointing. * Wounds from friends heal — true family love sometimes hurts, but it leads to purity of heart and deeper unity. * The shepherd’s heart — watching over one another is essential as we move forward together in the Kingdom.
Quotes* “It’s Christ in us, not Christ in the sky. He’s put Himself and His presence in us.” — Ron * “We can’t do it by ourselves. We have to do it with each other.” — Ken * “These wounds I received in the house of my friends.” — Lois * “Create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me.” — Debbie * “We’re not going to be deceived because we’re one.” — Ken * “They’re not rejecting you — they’re walking with you through it.” — Ron * “Let them be one as We are one.” — Monnie * “If one hurts, we all hurt. If one’s conflicted, we’re all conflicted.” — Ken * “Give us the shepherd’s heart to watch for each other.” — Trisha
Scriptural ReferencesEphesians 4:15–16 – Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ.Zechariah 13:6 – These wounds I received in the house of my friends.Psalm 51:10–12 – Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.Psalm 139:23–24 – Search me, O God, and know my heart… see if there be any wicked way in me.Amos 3:3 – Can two walk together unless they are agreed?John 17:21 – That they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You.1 Corinthians 12:26 – If one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.Song of Solomon 2:4 – His banner over me is love.TakeawayTrue healing in God’s family comes not from avoiding conflict but from embracing it through love and submission. When we allow Christ to work through one another, our blind spots become places of revelation, our wounds become sources of wisdom, and our relationships become the very means of transformation. The Kingdom of God grows as His family walks in transparency, humility, and love — Christ in us, the hope of glory.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SUMMARYThis episode explores the transformative journey of walking with God — a lifestyle of dedication, obedience, and continual movement into the “next phase” of His leading. The family reflect on how God leads His people much like He led Israel out of Egypt: through seasons of refreshing, seasons of movement, and seasons of deep personal dedication.They emphasize that the walk with God is not casual; it requires listening, obedience, and a willingness to pay the price of discipleship.The conversation also highlights God’s intention to manifest His presence through all His people, forming a remnant who are wholly devoted to Him. Each believer carries a piece of the puzzle, and together they reveal a greater picture of Christ. As the parousia — the presence of the Lord — becomes more real, His glory is being manifested in His saints in a new way.The episode closes with a call to wholeheartedly pursue this lifestyle, to know the voice of God, and to move with Him into the next level of His purpose.SHOW NOTES*Main Theme:Walking with God requires dedication, obedience, and an ongoing willingness to move with Him into deeper phases of His purpose.Key Segments: Delivered From Egypt to Walk With God
Ken explains that every believer is brought out of their personal “Egypt” to enter a real relationship with God. There are times of refreshing and times of movement — and listening to His voice is essential.* God Seeking His Inheritance
Mike shares that we are living in a day where the Holy Spirit and the presence of the Lord are becoming more tangible. We are part of God’s chosen inheritance.* The Old Testament as Our Pattern
Ken emphasizes that the Old Testament is an example for us, teaching us how God leads His people and the consequences of obedience or disobedience.* Greasy Grace vs. God’s Exactness
Ron highlights the danger of “greasy grace,” reminding listeners that God is still exacting in His word and that real relationship requires obedience and reverence.* The Price of the Lifestyle
Ken speaks of the cost of walking in dedication — but also of the joy and fulfillment that come once that price is paid.* Separation of the Remnant
God sets aside certain people because of their dedication. He is forming a bride who is wholly devoted to Him alone.* Each One Holds a Piece of the Puzzle
Mike reminds us that no individual has all the answers. Together, the Body reveals the face and nature of Christ.* God Moving Through All His People
Ron shares the excitement of seeing God expressing Himself through His diverse people — His creativity revealed through each vessel.* Knowing the Voice of God
Ed stresses that knowing God’s voice is essential for direction, especially as He leads us into new phases of His purpose.* The Unveiling of the Lord’s Presence
Ron describes how the parousia — the presence of the Lord — is becoming more real than the physical realm.* Christ Glorified in His Saints
Ken reflects on how Christ is coming to be glorified in His people, not crucified again, and how His glory is being experienced more deeply.QUOTES* “There are times when the water flows out of the rock… and then there are times when He says, ‘Move on.’” — Ken * “This is why we were sent here. This is our destiny.” — Mike * “God’s still exacting in His Word.” — Ron * “Are you set to walk with the Lord no matter what?” — Debbie * “He’s gonna have a remnant… a bride looking only for the Bridegroom.” — Ken * “Each one of us has a piece of that puzzle.” — Mike * “God wants to move through everyone so that He has full expression.” — Ron * “Christ is not coming to be crucified afresh, but to be glorified in His saints.” — Ken
SCRIPTURAL REFERENCESExodus 13–17 — Israel’s journey out of Egypt: seasons of stillness and movement.Hebrews 3–4 — The call to hear His voice.1 Peter 2:9 — A people set apart.Ephesians 4:15–16 — Each joint supplying; each one having a part.John 10:27 — “My sheep hear My voice…”2 Thessalonians 1:10 — Christ glorified in His saints.Romans 12:1–2 — A lifestyle of dedication.John 3:8 — The wind of the Spirit — unseen but experienced.TAKEAWAYWalking with God is a lifestyle, not a moment. It requires dedication, sensitivity to His voice, and willingness to move when He says, “Move on.” God is forming a remnant who will walk with Him wholeheartedly, and His presence is being unveiled in a greater way than ever before. Each believer carries a piece of His expression — and together, we reveal His glory.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryIn this discussion, the family explore the importance of guarding the heart and mind through the Word of God, emphasizing faith, focus, and transformation by renewing the mind. Ken and others share that in times of confusion and anxiety, believers must anchor their thoughts in truth and maintain an atmosphere filled with God's presence. They highlight Philippians 4:8 as a blueprint for keeping the mind centered on what is true, honorable, and praiseworthy. The conversation calls for believers to shift from old patterns of thinking into a new day led by the Spirit, trusting that faith and rest in God will bring inner transformation and clarity.Show Notes• Living in a time of confusion and anxiety – holding the Word in the heart.• Applying Philippians 4:8 to guard thoughts with truth and righteousness.• Maintaining the right atmosphere around yourself through prayer and focus.• Transitioning from old ways of thinking into being led by the Holy Spirit.• The importance of teaching truth and renewal of the mind to younger generations.• Learning to rest in God’s promises rather than struggling in the flesh.• Faith as the foundation—believing God above circumstances or symptoms.• Wholeness in spirit, soul, and body as part of walking in sonship.Quotes• “Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against Thee.” – Ken• “Whatever is true, whatever is right, whatever is of good report—dwell on these things.” – Ken• “I love to do that first thing in the morning—ask God, ‘What do You want for today?’” – Dale• “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” – Mike• “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Ken• “Without faith, it’s impossible to please God.” – Ken• “Christ came to end separation; we live in the fullness of His wholeness—spirit, soul, and body.” – MonnieScriptural References• Psalm 119:11 – 'Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against Thee.'• Philippians 4:8 – 'Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure... think on these things.'• Romans 12:1-2 – 'Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.'• Philippians 2:5 – 'Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.'• Proverbs 23:7 – 'As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.'• Hebrews 11:6 – 'Without faith it is impossible to please God.'• Matthew 6:10** – 'Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.'TakeawayGuarding your heart and mind in truth begins with allowing the Word of God to reshape how you think and respond. Keep your thoughts anchored in what is true and righteous, let faith guide your perspective, and rest in God's presence. When your mind is renewed and set on the Spirit, you create an atmosphere of peace and transformation that reflects the heart of Christ.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryIn this heartfelt episode, the Live Behind the Veil family explores how repentance within the Body of Christ becomes a living expression of oneness. Through open sharing, Ken, Ron, Lois, Monnie, Trisha, and Debbie reveal that repentance is not condemnation—it’s the doorway to unity, healing, and spiritual transformation. True repentance is simply turning to the Lord and allowing Him to do the work in us and through our relationships. Together, the family shows how standing in the gap for one another releases the flow of God’s love and power in this new day of His appearing.Show Notes The enemy seeks to divide, but repentance disarms him and restores oneness (Ken). * Job’s vicarious repentance for his children shows the heart of intercession (Lois). * True repentance is turning to the Lord, not self-effort or guilt (Ron). * The family of God is called to bear one another’s burdens and believe together (Ken, Monnie). * Clarity and freedom come when we open our hearts to one another and rest in the Lord’s work (Ken). * Admitting our weakness and dependence on God brings joy and creativity in His presence (Trisha). * Repentance brings healing and joy—love restoring each member back into their place in the Body (Ken, Debbie).
Quotes• “There’s something about repentance—if we hold that in our hearts for each other because we’re a family and we’re one—anything that tries to come in, we can take care of it just by repentance for each other.” — Ken• “Job repented on behalf of his children. He was one with them, believing for the Lord’s forgiveness.” — Lois• “Repentance is simply turning to the Lord. When I find myself questioning, I can dwell on those thoughts—or I can just turn to the Lord.” — Ron• “We are helpers of one another’s faith. It’s interdependence—we need each other.” — Monnie• “Every time I’ve tried to correct myself, I find out I can’t do a very good job. But when I submit myself to the family, clarity comes.” — Ken• “I don’t know anything, Lord—and I’m happy to say it! Teach me. Create me.” — Trisha• “There’s no greater joy than seeing someone repent and turn back to the Lord.” — KenScriptural References• Job 1:5 – Job made offerings and repented for his children.• Galatians 6:2 – “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”• Romans 2:4 – “The kindness of God leads you to repentance.”• James 5:16 – “Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.”• John 16:12–13 – “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now... the Spirit of truth will guide you into all truth.”• 2 Chronicles 7:14 – “If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways...”• 1 John 1:9 – “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”TakeawayRepentance is not about guilt—it’s about turning our hearts toward the Lord and each other. In this oneness, we find healing, clarity, and the release of God’s love. When we carry one another in repentance, the Body of Christ grows stronger, and the Lord’s presence becomes more real among us.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis episode centers on the spiritual depth of communion — not as a ritual or remembrance of a distant event, but as a living reality of Christ’s presence within His people today. The family share heartfelt expressions of gratitude, reflecting on the coming of the Lord as a present experience within believers. Through prayer, thanksgiving, and reflection, the family emphasizes relationship over religion, reality over ritual, and life over theory. The conversation expresses deep awareness of God’s presence, His love (hesed), and the transformation occurring as Christ’s life becomes their life.Show Notes Communion is not a ceremony from 2000 years ago — it’s a present reality of Christ’s life within us. * The coming of the Lord is happening in us, not as an external event. * God desires authenticity and reality in our relationship with Him. * Gratitude for the freedom and sonship made possible through Christ’s sacrifice. * The family offers personal prayers of thanksgiving for God’s love, grace, faithfulness, and presence. * Communion is described as partaking of Christ’s being, not just His symbols. * The focus moves away from ritual and toward fulfillment and manifestation. * Bill’s reflection encourages living with constant awareness of the breath of life — the presence of God. * Mike highlights the Word as divine instruction guiding believers in this present age. * The family expresses thanksgiving for being part of the unfolding Kingdom now.
Key Quotes* “Christ coming forth in us is a reality.” — Ken * “We’re not looking for another time, another Jesus, another system. You are the answer to every need that we have.” — Ken * “We partake of Your whole being. We become as You are, Lord.” — Debbie * “Lord, You did so much to have a relationship with us.” — Lois * “Let our life, let our world be so aware that we breathe in a big gulp of You, Lord, and everything resets.” — Bill * “You fill us with Your fullness.” — Jennifer * “Those words truly are divine instructions for us in this hour that we live in.” — Mike * “We drink in Your presence, Father… You never leave us.” — Ron
Scriptural ReferencesJohn 6:56 – 'Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.'1 Corinthians 10:16-17 – 'Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ?'Galatians 2:20 – 'It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.'John 17:21-23 – 'That they may all be one, even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You.'Romans 8:10-11 – 'If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life.'2 Corinthians 3:18 – 'We are being transformed into His image from glory to glory.'TakeawayCommunion is not merely a remembrance — it’s participation in the living Christ who dwells within us now. This time of thanksgiving reminds us that the Lord’s coming is continuous, being revealed through His sons and daughters. As we live with awareness of His presence and breathe in His life daily, Christ’s reality becomes our reality, transforming us into expressions of His love, joy, and purpose on the earth.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryIn this episode, the discussion centers on the deep, transformative work of God as He separates the chaff from the wheat within us — revealing the purity of His nature. Through loving discipline, repentance, and the baptism of fire, God removes the old human nature that obscures His divine life. The family share personal revelations and scriptural insights showing that what seems like suffering or correction is actually the Father’s loving process of making us into His sons. As the wheat is flailed to separate the chaff, so are we refined to reflect Christ in fullness.Show Notes• The chaff and wheat both represent parts of us — not the world versus the believer.• God uses fire, pressure, and suffering to remove the old nature.• Christ Himself was perfected through obedience and suffering (Hebrews 5:8–9).• The baptism of fire is a divine process of purification that leads to sonship.• True transformation happens through repentance, humility, and a contrite heart.• Every believer is under God’s hand of preparation — even before salvation.• Through ongoing repentance and surrender, the Holy Spirit can flow freely in and through us, just as it did in Christ.Application:• Submit to God’s dealings without resistance.• Maintain a daily heart of repentance and humility.• Recognize that suffering is not punishment but divine shaping.• Allow the Holy Spirit to remove all that hides the fullness of Christ in you.Quotes• “The chaff and the wheat are us together — our old nature growing up with our new.” — Debbie• “He has to flail us. He has to beat it out of us. It sounds negative, but it’s a loving thing.” — Debbie• “The Lord wants a sweet bread — He wants us to reflect Him.” — Ed• “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” — Ken• “Christ suffered, and through that suffering, His obedience was made complete.” — Ron• “Repentance and a broken spirit are the key to becoming pure channels of God’s life.” — Mike• “All we can do is open up our hearts. God’s got to do the rest.” — Debbie• “Christ learned obedience through the things which He suffered — that’s how the chaff is removed.” — KenScriptural References• Matthew 3:11 – He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.• Hebrews 5:8–9 – Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered.• Psalm 51:10,17 – Create in me a clean heart, O God... a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.• John 5:19 – The Son can do nothing of Himself, but only what He sees the Father doing.• Ephesians 1:3–4 – He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.• 1 John 3:2 – When He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.• Romans 8:29** – For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son.TakeawayThe process of becoming wheat in the Master’s hands is not about punishment — it’s about love. God’s flail and fire are not meant to destroy but to purify. As we submit to His dealings with humility and repentance, He removes the chaff — the old nature — and reveals the pure wheat of His divine nature within us. Christ Himself walked this path of obedience and suffering, showing us the pattern of sonship. Our transformation is not by our own effort, but by surrendering to His work — allowing His Spirit to make us vessels through which His life flows continually.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryIn this compelling discussion, the family explore the deep connection between Christianity and its Jewish roots. Ron, Mike, Debbie, and Ken uncover how centuries of church history have drifted from the original faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They emphasize the need for believers to rediscover the Hebraic foundations of their faith, restoring the oneness that existed in the early church. As the Holy Spirit reveals truth for this present age, the group recognizes that God is blending Jew and Gentile together once again, preparing His bride for the culmination of the ages.Show Notes*** The Root of the Faith: Christianity’s foundation is found in the patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The early church lost its connection to Judaism, leading to centuries of misunderstanding. * Historical Separation: By the second and third centuries, Christianity had distanced itself from its Jewish heritage, contributing to antisemitism and a perversion of the original message. * The Law and Fulfillment: Jesus did not abolish the Law but fulfilled it (Matthew 5:17). The Old Testament provides the framework for understanding the New Testament. * Restoration and Revelation: The Holy Spirit is unveiling truth in this age to bring restoration and unity. Believers must return to understanding God through His original covenant people. * The First-Century Model: Early believers continued observing feasts—Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles—while walking in the revelation of Christ. * Blending of Jew and Gentile: The Spirit is merging both groups into one new man (Ephesians 2:14-16). This union represents the bride being made ready for Christ. * Culmination of the Ages: God is perfecting His people by restoring what was lost. A new era is dawning, not by invention but by revelation of ancient truth.
Quotes* “The root is the patriarchs — Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Christian church left those roots, and that’s why we’ve had 2,000 years of perversion.” — Ron * “If you don’t have the root, you cannot understand the New Testament. It’s the revelation of the Old Testament.” — Mike * “The Holy Spirit is revealing these things now because we’re coming into a time of the end, and we have to know the truth.” — Debbie * “Once they received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, they didn’t drop Passover, Pentecost, or Tabernacles — they blended right in.” — Mike * “This isn’t something new. It’s being revealed the way God wanted it to be from the beginning.” — Debbie
Scriptural ReferencesRomans 11:17–18 – You do not support the root, but the root supports you.Matthew 5:17 – Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.Ephesians 2:14–16 – For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the dividing wall.John 4:22 – Salvation is from the Jews.Romans 9:4–5 – Theirs is the adoption, the covenants, and the promises.TakeawayThe restoration of God’s divine plan involves rediscovering the Jewish roots of our faith and allowing the Holy Spirit to reveal the fullness of His Word. This is not a return to the law, but a return to the life that flows from the root — the faith of our fathers. As Jew and Gentile believers come together in understanding and unity, the body of Christ is being made ready for the culmination of the ages — the unveiling of God’s perfect plan in His people.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SUMMARY:When a believer begins to experience the Lord, they often encounter the Holy Spirit, which may manifest through speaking in tongues. As seen in the book of Acts, tongues of fire appeared over the disciples, and they spoke languages they had never learned. As believers continue to seek deeper experiences in God, the fire becomes a purifying force—one that cleanses and refines them. This baptism of fire is God’s process of perfecting His people and bringing them into true sonship.SHOW NOTES:**
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When a believer begins to reach into sonship and wants to grow in his spirit, he begins to hear about the fire.
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The refining fire that the Holy Spirit brings on a believer who is seeking to move beyond the salvation experience at first may seem to be more on a soulish level than in a person's spirit.
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A relatively new Christian can begin moving in the gifts or speaking in tongues and become excited about areas he is moving in, but it may really be mostly the expression of the soul.
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John the Baptist emphasized that Jesus was coming to baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire, which was superior to the baptism that John had ministered.
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As the Lord begins to put the cross or the fire to a person's life, he feels very uncomfortable and may even try to back out of the pressure on his circumstances.
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There comes a point in a person's life where he realizes he has an Adamic nature that God is trying to refine out of him.
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I think one of the things we're looking at in the restoration, and salvation, and then the baptism of the Holy Spirit, is many people went off on a soulish realm to the degree that they thought the soulish realm was the anointing. And it was not.
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I don't think the understanding was there on what “the fire” meant.
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I don't think I ever realized we were born with chaff. I always felt like chaff came as a development as we grew up, and that's not true.
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A part of the old nature was called chaff, and the chaff had to be burned off. It couldn't remain if we were going to come into the presence of a holy God.
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You have to realize too that God doesn't technically put the fire on us. We are beaten, and that is how you get rid of the chaff. You're beaten, and then it is thrown in the air, and the wind takes it off. But then when it is done, to make sure the chaff is gone, they pick it up and burn it.
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God wants to perfect His people-- body, soul, and spirit. There are stages and times when God deals with us; we don't just stop at the initial experience of salvation.
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I think there's a carefulness, when you talk about the different levels of Christianity. We can become judges, and that is not good. We must let God be the judge, and that judgment can take you out of the game, because God will not allow you to be the judge.
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I think there is a calling for the ones that want to go on with the Lord and allow Him to burn off all the chaff, all of the soul-level stuff that we've lived with all of our lives.
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Malachi 3:3 He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the Lord offerings in righteousness.
I Corinthians 14:12 So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts seek to abound for the edification of the church.
Matthew 3:11 “As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Matthew 3:12 His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Matthew 3:5-6 Jesus answered “Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit.
Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
TAKE AWAY:
As a believer yields to the purging and purifying work of God, they are filled with His divine nature. Through this transformation, they are equipped with God’s love and the qualities needed to fulfill their foreordained purpose in His Kingdom. Across the world, remnants of believers are being prepared to take their place in the unfolding growth of God’s Kingdom.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryIn this episode, the family share how love is the creative force behind everything God does—His discipline, His calling, and His purpose for our lives. Love is not only the beginning of our relationship with Him but also the power that transforms us into mature sons who walk as Christ walked in the earth. Through real examples, heartfelt discussion, and scriptural insight, they reveal how God’s love shapes us, refines us, and flows through us to bring forth His divine nature and unity in the body of Christ.Show Notes• God begins everything in love—His plans, His discipline, and His relationship with us.• Love is the creative power that forms Christ’s image within His people.• True humility is believing and walking in what God says about you.• The maturity of sonship comes through love expressed in relationship with one another.• Christ was the firstborn Son of a new race—life-giving spirits who express the Father’s nature.• We are called to be living epistles—His Word made flesh in the earth.• Revelation of Christ in us moves us from head knowledge to living experience.• Love, not arrogance, gives expression to God’s Word through our lives.Quotes• “Everything God begins, He begins in love.”• “True humility is believing what God says and walking it out.”• “We are not doing things for God—He’s doing His works through us.”• “The love of God is the creative force that changes us and creates Christ within.”• “As He is in the earth, so are we.”Scriptural References• 1 John 4:16–17 – “God is love… As He is, so are we in this world.”• Ephesians 4:15–16 – “Speaking the truth in love, we grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ.”• John 14:23 – “If anyone loves Me… My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.”• Romans 8:29 – “Those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son.”• 1 Peter 2:9 – “You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a people for God’s own possession.”Takeaway**Love is not just God’s feeling toward us—it’s His creative force working in us. As His love fills our hearts and flows through our words and actions, we are transformed into His likeness. Walking in love is walking in sonship—allowing Christ to live, move, and speak through us as His many-membered body on the earth.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis episode explores how the presence of God is imparted—not merely through teaching or words—but through the living anointing within each believer. Ron, Ken, Debbie, and Mike share their experiences of how walking in God’s Spirit transforms encounters, prayer, and ministry. They emphasize that impartation happens as we become the Word and allow His Spirit to flow through us. The conversation reveals how openness, obedience, and love prepare hearts to receive the living Word and how gathering together deepens the experience of His presence.Show Notes Living Example: Ron explains that when others haven’t received the same impartation or teaching, our lives become an example of the living Word in action. * Power of the Anointing: It’s not teaching or eloquent speech that changes people, but the Spirit of Christ working through us. * Prepared Hearts: Ken shares how the Lord prepares hearts to receive before we ever speak; openness is key. * Daily Readiness: Debbie emphasizes praying before every gathering, asking God to show her whom to minister to. * Spiritual Hunger: Every person has a “hole” in their heart only God can fill—no amount of wealth or success can satisfy that longing. * True Riches in Christ: Ken contrasts worldly wealth with the eternal riches of knowing and walking with the Lord. * Vessels of Healing: Mike reminds us that believers are channels of healing when they speak with the right spirit. * Imparting the Spirit: Ron stresses that impartation flows only when Christ’s anointing is real within us. * Co-Laboring with God: Mike and Ken highlight that we work with God, speaking as He gives utterance, and allowing His presence to minister through us. * The Power of Gathering: The group affirms that coming together in unity increases the manifestation of His Spirit.
Quotes* “You just be what the Lord’s doing now, and it imparts if they’re open.” – Ron * “The anointing of the Lord will break people open if they’re really seeking Him.” – Ken * “Before I go to church, I ask the Lord, ‘Show me who to talk to.’” – Debbie * “Every person God has ever sent into this world has a hole in their heart without Him.” – Ken * “We are vessels of healing to people who have open hearts to receive.” – Mike * “It’s not your deep revelation—it’s the Spirit of Christ that pierces their hearts.” – Ron * “We take the steps, we open our mouths, and He comes through speaking His Word.” – Mike * “Sometimes you don’t even have to use words—it’s the Spirit of God that ministers from you.” – Ken
Scriptural References2 Corinthians 3:3 – You are a letter from Christ... written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God.Acts 1:8 – You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be My witnesses.John 7:38 – Whoever believes in Me... rivers of living water will flow from within them.Romans 8:14 – For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.Matthew 10:20 – For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.1 Corinthians 2:4-5 – My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power.Hebrews 10:25 – Do not forsake meeting together... but encourage one another.TakeawayTrue impartation is not about eloquence, intellect, or doctrine—it’s about living in the reality of Christ’s presence and letting His Spirit flow through you. When believers walk in unity and openness, God’s anointing moves powerfully to heal, awaken, and transform lives. The greatest ministry we can offer is to become the vessel through which His presence is revealed.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary“Walking Through the Fire Into Sonship” explores the transformative process of spiritual growth through the baptism of fire. The discussion reveals that this fire represents God's refining work, testing believers and burning away everything not aligned with His will. Through trials, correction, and surrender, we move from mere belief into experiential knowledge—true sonship. The speakers emphasize interdependence within the Body of Christ, where brothers and sisters strengthen and refine one another, and where walking with God means complete submission to His Spirit and will.Show Notes• The baptism of fire represents God’s refining and testing of true believers.• Sonship comes through endurance, discipline, and surrender to God’s will.• Walking with God involves deep correction, not just emotional experience.• True discipleship demands yielding personal ambitions and desires to Christ.• The process of fire burns away self-dependence and produces maturity in the Spirit.• Interdependence within the Body of Christ is vital for growth and perseverance.• Oneness in the family of God is key to fulfilling His divine purpose.Quotes• “You may not define what a baptism of fire is, but you want to walk with God.” – Ron• “Be careful what you ask for; walking with God brings trials and testing.” – Ken• “To be a disciple means to belong—body and soul—to Christ, now and forevermore.” – Debbie• “Our God is a consuming fire; He’s going to burn up everything that’s not Him.” – Ron• “Submitting to my brothers and sisters is submitting to the Lord—it’s one and the same.” – MikeScriptural References• Hebrews 12:6-7 – 'For the Lord disciplines those He loves… God is treating you as His children.'• Matthew 7:14 – 'Narrow is the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.'• Hebrews 12:29 – 'For our God is a consuming fire.'• John 15:13 – 'Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.'• Romans 8:14** – 'For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.'TakeawayThe path to sonship is not a comfortable one—it is a refining journey through the fire of God’s presence. As believers submit their will, ambitions, and independence, they are transformed into true sons and daughters of God who walk by His Spirit. The baptism of fire is not punishment but purification, designed to produce oneness, maturity, and love within the Body of Christ. Through this process, believers become vessels through which Christ can fully express Himself on earth.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Episode SummaryIn “A Living Relationship: From Doctrine to Experience,” the family talks about how truth must become real through experience. Knowledge alone can’t transform lives; only revelation born of relationship can. They reflect on examples like Charlie Kirk, whose life expressed the reality of God’s Word. The conversation contrasts religious activity with Spirit-led action, reminding us that God looks at the heart, not performance. In this day of the Spirit, He is raising up living epistles—men and women who reveal Christ not just through words, but through His life flowing from within them.Show Notes• Moving from head knowledge to experiential relationship with God• The difference between man’s word and God’s Word—it’s life• Religion versus revelation: why the world longs for something real• Living epistles—people who embody the Word• Dead works versus living works: the motivation of the heart• The day of the Spirit: God working through His people• Charlie Kirk’s life as an example of revelation made real• Becoming God’s temple—His hands, His voice, His expression in the earthQuotes• “We can quote the greatest doctrines in the world, but it doesn’t change us—it has to be an experience.” – Ron• “People are looking for something that’s real, not phony. When someone speaks from their heart, it reaches their spirit.” – Debbie• “A true living epistle is a person who’s had an experience with the Lord—His Word spoken through them becomes an impartation.” – Ron• “If it doesn’t come out of a relationship with the Lord, you might as well be picking up sticks and throwing them at people.” – Debbie• “We become His temple—His hands, His feet, His voice in the earth.” – KenSupporting Scriptures• John 6:63 – “The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.”• 2 Corinthians 3:3 – “You are a letter from Christ… written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God.”• James 1:22 – “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only.”• Romans 8:10–11 – “If Christ is in you… His Spirit gives life.”• Galatians 2:20 – “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.”• John 14:17** – “He lives with you and will be in you.”TakeawayTrue transformation comes when the Word becomes alive in us. Doctrine informs us, but experience in the Spirit transforms us. God’s goal is not that we know about Him—but that we live His life, becoming living epistles through whom Christ reveals Himself to the world.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. SummaryThis conversation explores how humility, discipline, and the Word of God form the foundation of a believer’s spiritual maturity. True humility is not self-deprecation but faith that God can work through our limitations. The speakers discuss David’s failure to discipline his sons, using it as a lesson on the importance of structure and responsibility both in families and spiritual life. The group reflects on ambition versus being Spirit-led, noting that self-promotion leads to followers, but humility builds people. Discipline is shown to touch every part of life—from personal habits to time in the Word—and is a sign of love, not legalism. Ultimately, the Word and the Spirit together produce transformation, birthing humility, faith, and love—the true marks of God’s Kingdom.Show NotesMain Theme: The relationship between humility, discipline, and being Spirit-led.Key Discussions: Misunderstandings about humility—real humility involves faith, not unbelief. * The absence of discipline in David’s family as a warning for parents and leaders. * The difference between spiritual ambition and being led by God’s Spirit. * The need for personal and spiritual discipline in everyday life. * The power of combining the Word of God with the Spirit for real transformation.
Reflection Points:* How does humility invite God to work through you? * Are your disciplines born of love or of legalism? * Do your ambitions build your name or God’s people?
Quotes* Humility isn’t weakness; it’s confidence that God can work through even the most ordinary vessel. * Ambition builds followers. Humility builds people. * Discipline isn’t legalism—it’s love in practice. * The Word must be joined to the Spirit; revelation isn’t information—it’s communion. * God doesn’t measure success—He measures hearts.
Scriptural ReferencesJames 4:10 – 'Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.'Proverbs 3:11–12 – 'My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline… because the Lord disciplines those He loves.'1 Samuel 2:30 – 'Those who honor Me I will honor.'Hebrews 12:5–11 – The discipline of God produces righteousness and peace.John 6:35 – 'I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me shall not hunger.'2 Timothy 3:16–17 – 'All Scripture is breathed out by God… for training in righteousness.'TakeawayTrue humility and discipline are not signs of weakness but of spiritual strength. God shapes His sons and daughters through the Word and Spirit, training them to walk in faith and love. When we yield ourselves in humility, allow the Spirit to discipline us, and live by the Word, Christ is formed within us—and through that, His Kingdom is revealed on earth.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary“The Bride Coming Forth” explores the spiritual journey of the Bride of Christ emerging from traditional religious systems into true freedom in God. The family emphasize that while the church birthed the bride, the purity and fullness of the bride emerge only as individuals are freed from religious rituals, legalism, and striving. Through the anointing of the Holy Spirit, believers experience life, rest, and a flow of God’s presence that transforms them from within. This highlights the importance of a personal relationship with God over religious performance, the hunger for deeper intimacy, and the spiritual preparation for the return of Christ, the Bridegroom.Show Notes• The bride emerges from religious systems to experience true freedom in Christ.• Religious rituals and legalism cannot impart life—only the anointing of the Holy Spirit can.• The Bride of Christ is prepared through a process of dying to self and surrendering to God.• God draws His called-out ones through hunger and desire for righteousness.• True ministry flows naturally when believers relate to others out of love and authenticity.• The presence of Christ in a person draws others into life and transformation.• Focus on relationship with the Holy Spirit rather than adherence to doctrines or traditions.Key Quotes• “The letter itself is dead without the anointing. And the anointing is what we're looking for in the bride.” – Ken• “Christ is a Bridegroom. When He returns, He's going to take His bride. He's going to have a marriage—the marriage supper of the Lamb.” – Debbie• “I'm not fighting to make myself pure. I'm not fighting to be better or become something on my own. This is something God is doing. I'm rejoicing at it.” – Ken• “My sheep know My voice. That's how they leave Babylon.” – Mike• “You're just being who God has made you. And when you relate to people where they're at, the Holy Spirit does His thing—'cause really, it's Him anyway.” – Ron• “All of the doctrines, all of the legalism, all of the do's and don'ts—all of that kind of thing limits people from really moving into a relationship with God.” – KenScriptural References• John 10:27 – 'My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.'• Revelation 19:7-9 – Marriage of the Lamb• 2 Corinthians 3:6 – 'For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.'• Psalm 23:2-3 – Rest in the flow of the Holy Spirit• Matthew 5:6** – 'Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.'TakeawayThe journey of the Bride of Christ is one of freedom, surrender, and intimacy with God. True spiritual life and anointing come not through religion or human effort but through yielding to the Holy Spirit. Believers are called to hunger for righteousness, relate to others with authentic love, and allow God to work through them naturally. By doing so, they move beyond legalism, experience rest, and prepare for the return of Christ, the Bridegroom.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary:**This episode explores the transformative power of true confession in relationships and before God. The hosts emphasize that merely confessing to God without relational accountability often leaves sin unresolved, while confessing to a trusted spouse or mentor cultivates humility, freedom, and healing. By creating a safe, non-judgmental environment, individuals can openly share their struggles, confront personal failures, and experience genuine spiritual growth. Through examples like Isaiah’s humility and David’s repentance, the discussion highlights that confession exposes the heart yet invites God’s love and restoration, ultimately preparing believers to stand confidently in His presence.
Show Notes: * Confession is more impactful when shared with a trusted person rather than only internally or to God in abstraction. * Safe accountability fosters honesty, freedom, and spiritual growth. * True humility involves acknowledging sin without rationalizing or hiding it. * Examples: Isaiah’s immediate awareness of his sinfulness (Isaiah 6), David’s repentance after Nathan’s confrontation (2 Samuel 12). * Confession is preparation for encountering God and deepening relational intimacy. * Key principle: “Confess your sins to one another, that you may be healed.”
Important Quotes: * Ron:“You can confess to the Lord in the sky all day long, and nothing happens—’cause you’re really not confessing to anybody.” * Ed:“You should have somebody that actually can say ‘no’ to you—somebody that you can talk with and confess to without condemnation.” * Debbie:“We have to allow that, because if we don’t, there’s no honesty. There’s no freedom to express your heart.” * Ken: “If you can find someone who will not make an accusation against you because of what you just submitted—if they can just hear you… that is the important part.” * Ron:“Lord, help me to be able to be humbled in your presence… If I’m unwilling in my heart to be humble, then I’m gonna be one of those that flee from your presence.”
Scriptural References: - James 5:16 “Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.”
Isaiah 6:5 Isaiah’s recognition of his unworthiness before God.
2 Samuel 12:7-14 David’s confession and repentance after Nathan’s confrontation.
John 3:19 “Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” (on exposure and humility)
Takeaway:True confession is not just a spiritual formality; it’s a transformative practice that requires humility, courage, and relational trust. While it’s easier to confess sin privately or abstractly, genuine growth occurs when believers share their struggles with someone who can listen without judgment. This relational honesty mirrors our relationship with God, allowing us to confront our own failings, experience forgiveness, and cultivate a deeper intimacy with Him. Practicing this level of transparency prepares the heart to stand in God’s presence with humility and confidence.
Furthermore, confession is an act of love—both receiving and giving it. By creating a safe, non-condemning environment, believers help one another process guilt, shame, and failure without fear. Spiritual growth is fostered through accountability, not isolation; through honesty, not avoidance. Just as David’s repentance restored him, and Isaiah’s humility allowed him to serve, modern believers find freedom, healing, and readiness for God’s presence when they engage in authentic confession within trusted relationships.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* INTRODUCTION:**
The Father's plan is for He Himself to come and take up His abode in us. This is not a one-time experience, but it's the development of an ongoing relationship, as the Holy Spirit comes to us and leads us. It's important to develop a relationship with the Holy Spirit by opening our hearts to Him and receiving what He is saying. This voice may come from the “God in the sky” but in this day, it is more likely to come from people who know Him and love Him.
SHOW NOTES:
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Christ is teaching us to function together as we come into oneness as the body of Christ.
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Before we come into a maturity in the Lord, we try things on our own to observe what's available in the world and eventually realize it is pretty dead.
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When a new person begins to search to find life and God's love, he will most likely find help from someone in Christ's body.
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Many people say they're being led by the Holy Spirit, but they may only be led by their minds, their imaginations, their own independence.
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As believers function together, they are being built up into the head—Christ.
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Remaining open and teachable is really important so we don't miss things that the Lord is trying to impart to us.
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Even if you don't get a witness the first time you hear a word, stay open for possible confirmation.
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The Lord in the flesh is knocking on our door; each one of us is Christ in the flesh.
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At times you don't know where you're at, and it helps to have someone walk you into it.
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As we love one another, the Christ in us begins to create these deep relationships of trust and love in one another.
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As we go into this deep oneness of the body of Christ, as we enter into it more and more, I believe we're going to be so open to the Christ in one another, that we will have our wills crossed, and we will be taken to places that we would not.
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Someone comes up with something that you can't handle, put it on the shelf for a little bit and let the Lord deal with you on it.
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I personally do not want to close off or reject something that I either don't understand or that doesn't resonate with me at that moment.
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It's not up to you and I to do it the first time around and get them (young people) on their knees and all this stuff. We're just there to plant a seed, and somebody else comes along and waters, and God will bring forth the harvest in the right time.
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Revelations 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.
John 14:26
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit,, whom the Father will send in My
name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
John 21:18
Truly, truly I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you, and bring you where you do not wish to go.
Matthew 23:39
For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, “blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.”
I Corinthians 2:9
Just as it is written, “things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him.”
John 16:12-13
“I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when He,the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
Ephesians 4:15
speaking the truth in love we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ.
I Corinthians 3:7
So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.
SUMMARY:
Now is the time to expect to hear people speaking beyond their normal ability to speak. We long to hear the words of the Lord that can reveal His will for our lives. It's time to open up to a relationship with the Holy Spirit so that the communication that comes in being with members of His body goes deeper and deeper.
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In this episode of Live Behind the Veil, the family reflect on the legacy of Charlie Kirk, emphasizing how his life, ministry, and untimely passing are being used by God to spark revival, especially among young people. His work, words, and influence are seen as a seed that continues to bear fruit in the lives of those he touched. The discussion points to a season of transformation, unity, and expectation for the Body of Christ as God brings His people from glory to glory.The family also emphasize the importance of forgiveness, oneness in the Body, and the raising up of a mighty army of believers as foretold in Scripture. They call listeners to see Charlie’s passing not as a defeat but as part of God’s greater plan to ignite hearts, empower the next generation, and usher in His Kingdom.Show Notes: * The life, ministry, and legacy of Charlie Kirk as a catalyst for transformation and unity among believers. * Expectation of transformation as we move from glory to glory. * Charlie’s legacy continues through those who carry his impartation. * The importance of forgiveness, even toward those who cause pain. * Unity and oneness as essential to revealing Christ to the world. * A prophetic call for revival among young people, fulfilling Joel’s vision of a mighty army.
Quotes: “We should be expecting to come into His glory because that’s where we’re going to be changed into the same image.” – Ken“What the enemy meant for evil, God is turning and using for good.” – Debbie“Charlie is not gone in what he did in the Lord. Just like Satan thought he won when Christ was crucified, he did not win.” – Monnie“This is a great opportunity. Right now, we are releasing the spirit of forgiveness into the Body of Christ—even forgiveness toward the young man responsible.” – Trisha“We need to be one. Why is oneness so important? Read John 17 and you’ll see.” – Ken“It may look like warfare, but the real vision is not the battles we face—it’s how great God is.” – JimScriptural References: John 12:24 Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.2 Corinthians 3:18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into His image with ever-increasing glory.Revelation 21:3 Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be His people.Romans 8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good.John 17:21 That they may all be one, just as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You.Joel 2:7–13 They run like mighty men... they do not break ranks... Yet even now, return to Me with all your heart.Isaiah 61:3 To give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.Takeaway:Charlie Kirk’s life was marked by bold faith, devotion, and a passion to see young people turn to the Lord. His passing, while tragic, has become a catalyst for revival. Just as the grain of wheat falls to the ground to bear much fruit, Charlie’s influence continues to live on through the many lives he touched. The Spirit of God is using his legacy to raise up a new generation hungry for righteousness and ready to walk in the glory of God.This episode reminds us that God brings beauty out of ashes and calls His people to oneness, forgiveness, and expectation. The Body of Christ is being equipped to walk as a mighty army, moving in unity and carrying His presence. Through this, the world will see the love of Christ, the power of His forgiveness, and the glory of God revealed from generation to generation.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary** This episode emphasizes how believers can become channels for God’s Word, walking boldly in faith and manifesting His presence in the world. It highlights the importance of separating God’s Word from human imperfection, stepping beyond fear, and engaging in effective prayer that leads to miracles. The discussion also focuses on the unity of the Body of Christ and the rising remnant that will retain God’s presence to influence future generations.
Show Notes * Embracing God’s Word within us and speaking from the heart. * How to separate the Word from human imperfection. * Overcoming fear to walk in faith and spiritual boldness. * Powerful examples of prayer and miracles happening today. * The Body of Christ being freed and empowered to manifest God’s presence. * Raising a remnant to retain God’s work and influence future generations.
Quotes * “All they have to do is open up to what God's speaking to them in their hearts and what they're to become and what they're to move in.” * “If you're gonna reject the living word because of the vessels of what they've done, you might as well go home and burn your Bible.” * “The fear is the thing that limits the sons of God… we felt no condemnation because we've been trained by the Lord.” * “We’re touching on something that is effective. Prayer. Very effective, effective prayer.” * “It’s the body of Christ being set free… God’s freeing up his people to be what he’s called them to be.” * “If the remnant that God is raising up is functioning as he raised it up to function, then there’s gonna be those in the world that will be drawn to it.”
Scriptural References: 2 Peter 1:4 “…through them you may participate in the divine nature…John 14:26“…the Holy Spirit…will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.”Colossians 1:27“…Christ in you, the hope of glory.”John 1:14 “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us…”Romans 3:4 “Let God be true though every one were a liar…”Matthew 16:17 “…flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.”Romans 8:14 “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.”Takeaway Listeners are encouraged to open their hearts to God’s Word, speaking it from the spirit rather than human understanding. By overcoming fear, embracing boldness, and engaging in prayer, they can witness God’s miraculous work and walk in their divine purpose. Unity in the Body of Christ and nurturing a faithful remnant ensures that God’s presence is retained and continues to impact generations to come.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. Summary This conversation explores the shift from a primarily “soulish” Christian experience — driven by feelings, fear, and physical evidence — into a mature, Spirit-led life. The speakers celebrate a growing readiness to hear, see, and move in the Spirit, urge believers to pursue wholeness (body, soul, and spirit), and call for spiritual preparation and warfare through the Word (symbolized by “selling the cloak and buying the sword”). The overall tone is hopeful and expectant: deliverance and fuller spiritual living are already purchased and available; now is the time to receive and stand in what Christ accomplished.Show Notes Introduction: framing the “Day of Spirit” and the transition from a soulish age to a Spirit age. * Readiness to receive: Jesus’ promise of “many more things” and the sense that the body of Christ is becoming ready to receive deeper revelation. (John 16:12) * Practical wholeness: the need for body and soul to support the spirit—seeking physical, mental, and emotional health as part of spiritual growth. * Spiritual conflict and preparation: “Sell your cloak and buy a sword” as a call to exchange old defenses for the Word of God and spiritual maturity. (Luke 22:36; Hebrews 4:12) * Deliverance and preservation: contending for preservation of body, soul, and spirit and living in the freedom purchased by Christ’s blood. (1 Thess. 5:23; 1 Peter 1:18–19) * Anecdote/metaphor: “Two little fishes” parable illustrating how those anchored in the Spirit perceive the world differently. * Final exhortation: stand, move forward, expect deliverance now — the finished work is enough and available.
Quotes * “This is a Day of Spirit… God is doing things by His Spirit, and I believe that is what we’re going to experience as we walk into this new day.” * “We’re walking on in the Spirit to do and become more and more capable of ministering in the spirit and receiving things from God in the spirit.” * “Sell your cloak and buy a sword… the sword: the Word of the living God, the sharp two-edged sword.” * “So that my physical body, my brain, and my soul are an absolute, total support of what You are showing us, teaching us, and having us do in the realm of spirit.” * “The Son has already done it all… we have to stand and stay in the position of what He has already done.” * “This day of deliverance has been purchased by the blood of Christ for us.”
Scriptural References John 4:23–24 worshiping in spirit and truth (theme: Day of Spirit / worship in spirit).John 16:12 “I have many more things to tell you, but you cannot bear them now” (readiness for greater revelation).Luke 22:36 “Sell your cloak and buy a sword” (contextualized as spiritual preparation).Hebrews 4:12 the Word as a living, two-edged sword.1 Thessalonians 5:23 pray for whole preservation: spirit, soul, and body.Romans 8 life in the Spirit vs. life in the flesh.1 Peter 1:18–19 the blood of Christ and redemption/deliverance.TakeawayThis conversation is an invitation to advance: not to abandon doctrine or deny the realities of the world, but to change how we live in relation to them. The speakers call the church to move past a limited, soulish Christianity — one overly influenced by fear, appearances, or bodily evidence — and to grow into a Spirit-led posture that is both practical and supernatural. The key idea is integration: spirit, soul, and body working together so that our physical and emotional lives support our spiritual calling.Preparation and warfare are reframed as spiritual maturity rather than aggression. “Sell your cloak and buy a sword” isn’t a literal call to arms but a call to discernment and spiritual discipline: to speak truth, stand in what Christ has done, and walk in the authority the Spirit provides.Finally, the group’s tone is expectant and resolute: deliverance and fullness were purchased by Christ and can be appropriated now. The practical next steps the conversation suggests are simple but profound: seek wholeness (health of body, mind, and soul), practice steadiness (stand and stay in the finished work), and cultivate the capacity to hear and move in the Spirit. As they say: why not now? The invitation is to believe, step forward, and live in the reality already made available by the cross and the Spirit.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary:This Podcast captures a powerful conversation about spiritual awakening, oneness, and resurrection life. The speakers discuss walking in the spirit, trusting in Jesus Christ, and aligning the mind with divine truth. They emphasize the importance of unity among believers, spiritual growth, and the role of faith in navigating life’s challenges. The discussion also highlights the spiritual significance of servitude, exemplified by washing one another’s feet, and the call to ascend into the presence of God.Show Notes:** * The beginning of a new day and a new spiritual season. * Trusting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. * Overcoming fear, doubt, and division. * Walking in the Spirit and using the mind for spiritual growth. * Experiencing Resurrection Life and spiritual ascension. * The importance of oneness among believers. * Practicing spiritual servitude and unconditional love.
Important Quotes: * “Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior, and He is the one creating us and bringing us forth.” – Ken * “The renovation, the fixing of our minds, the utilization of our minds is our responsibility.” – Bill * “If we reach up to the higher levels and come into the presence of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in that oneness, he can’t touch us.” – Mike * “We don’t look out for ourselves; we let somebody else look out for us, and we look out for them.” – Ken
Scriptural References:John 11:25Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life.” Matthew 22:37-39 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart… and love your neighbor as yourself.” John 6:53-54 “Unless you eat of My flesh and drink of My blood, you have no part in Me.”Takeaway: This conversation reminds us that spiritual growth and oneness are foundational to experiencing the fullness of God’s presence. By aligning our minds with His truth and walking in the Spirit, we can rise above fear, doubt, and division. The resurrection life is available to all believers who are willing to trust and follow Jesus Christ wholeheartedly.The call to unity, love, and servitude underscores the essence of Christian living. Through mutual support, spiritual discipline, and ascending into God’s presence, believers can embody the oneness Christ intended, experiencing the transformative power of His Spirit in daily life.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SummaryThis conversation explores spiritual responses to betrayal and spiritual attack, using the Feast of Passover and the biblical example of Daniel as focal points. Speakers describe how an 'excellent spirit'—a posture of right-hearted worship and trust in God—acts as protection during times of betrayal, allowing believers to maintain faith, honor authorities despite hostility, and experience cleansing and renewal through the feasts of Passover and Unleavened Bread.Show Notes*Context: A strong spiritual assault occurred before a recent service, leading some to feel betrayed. Passover described as 'the feast of betrayal'—connections made to Judas and Pharaoh. * Daniel as the model: 'excellent spirit' (Daniel 6:3) provided protection amid powerful opposition. * Practical emphasis: focus on your own spirit before the Lord rather than assigning blame. * Passover/Unleavened Bread: times for cleansing, repentance, and becoming a 'new creation.' * Worship in the presence of the enemy—asking for grace to continue worshiping and serving God. * Action items: identify one or two attitudes/behaviors to remove during Passover season for deeper renewal.
Quotes* “If your spirit is right before God, really excellent, it is the greatest defense you have.” * “The Feast of Passover is the feast of betrayal.” * “Have that right spirit before the Lord, because I think that's everything.” * “We will not only worship in the presence of our enemy, but you will spread a table before us in the presence of our enemy and make our cup to run over.” * “The Feast of unleavened bread was created for cleansing, and we have a purpose.”
Scriptural ReferencesDaniel 6:3Daniel described as having an 'excellent spirit' and elevated above others.Matthew 26 Accounts related to Judas' betrayal occurring at the time of Passover.Exodus 12–14Passover, the Exodus, and Pharaoh's pursuit after the Israelites left.Exodus 12 Feast of Unleavened Bread (cleansing and removal of leaven).Psalm 103:2-5 Verses referenced in Linda's worship (bless the Lord, who forgiveth, healeth, redeemeth).TakeawayBetrayal and spiritual attack are experienced by many, but the most powerful response begins within — an 'excellent spirit' before God. By keeping our hearts focused on worship and allowing God to cleanse what is hindering us (especially in the Passover/Unleavened Bread season), we gain protection, clarity, and the capacity to honor even those who oppose us.Practically, choose one or two attitudes or reactions to surrender during this season, commit to worshiping in the midst of opposition, and expect renewal. The community's testimony shows that when people hold their spirit before the Lord, God responds with blessing, healing, and strength to walk through betrayal intact.
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As the Father brings forth Christ in each one of us, the un-folding revelation and experience begins to release the power and authority of God in us. We simply believe His Word and watch the Holy Spirit direct our paths and lead us into all that God has for us in this new day.
Show Notes:
- It is Christ in us, this is where the power and authority resides.
- Releasing the power and authority of Christ in us starts when we simply believe His Word.
- The release of all that is within us comes not from trying harder, but because of the revelation of Christ to our hearts.
- Christ is our example. We walk out the path that He walked in the earth.
- The Father is the one that is bringing all this forth in and through us.
- It's all about our relationship with Christ and the Father. Without it we have nothing.
- We must get in motion and as we do the Lord will direct out paths.
- It all starts with a focus on the Lord.
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- Christ in us, the hope of glory. It's Christ in us. He's not outside of us. He's in us. His power and His authority resides in us.
- How do we release the power, the authority of Christ in us that we believe is in us?
- I just accept what the Lord's saying. From that point of course, there's all kinds of testings and trials and everything you go through, but it's still holding to that position of belief. You believe.
- When Christ comes within us, when we receive Him, we receive all of Christ. We don't just receive part of Him.
- We're entering a new day, a day that we're going to see marvelous things happen. And it won't be by us trying any harder. It'll be because the revelation of Christ coming forth in our hearts.
- Jesus Christ is an example of who we are to be in the Earth.
- God gives us what we need and then He's the one that bring us forth, bring it forth in us.
- Sometimes it's a little thing. But the example of the power of God coming out or the love of God. There has to be an example of what God has just done in your life.
- The unfolding of everything that we've said is the unfolding of a relationship with Christ.
- You cannot run a parked car. If you're focused on the Lord and you're moving, then He can give you a little nudge here and a little nudge there.
- Our focus must be on Him first, and then all the other things will be added to us.
References:
Colossians 1:27
to whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mysterythat is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Acts 3:1-9
Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer. And a man who had been unable to walk from birth was being carried, whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, in order for him to beg for charitable gifts from those entering the temple grounds. When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple grounds, he began asking to receive a charitable gift. But Peter, along with John, looked at him intently and said, “Look at us!” And he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. But Peter said, “I do not have silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!” And grasping him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened. And leaping up, he stood and began to walk; and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. And all the people saw him walking and praising God; and they recognized him as being the very one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg for charitable gifts, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
Acts 5:15
...to such an extent that they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on any of them.
Acts 9: 1-6
The Damascus Road: Saul Converted.Takeaway:
In this new day of the unfolding manifestation of Christ in His believers, there is a release of His power and authority in had through them. Now is the time when Christ come to be admired in His saints. It's Christ in you the hope of Glory.
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This is different times of worship in the awesome presence of the Lord. Our hearts give HIm all praise, worship and glory!* A special shout out to Elijah Oylade for his contribution of the song "Adonai" and to Donna Ostrander for her version of "In The Presence Of Angels."
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* INTRODUCTION:**
Of all the attributes of God, one of the greatest is His forgiveness. Forgiveness and mercy is something we can yearn for, but we cannot demand. Jesus said, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” How two parties process a problem between them will determine how their hearts are able to be reconciled past that point. Let's seek to minister the mercy and forgiveness that Christ has made available.
SHOW NOTES:
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When we reach an impasse in our relating to someone, it's important to draw on the Lord's attribute of forgiveness.
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The initiative to bring a reconciliation with the party you are having problems with is up to you-don't wait for him.
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A good starting point is the Lord's Prayer: “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
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See that God has called the lame, the halt, and the blind, then realize that even though we have all failed, He has forgiven us all.
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The state of heart is the real issue; we choose to forgive.
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We believe in the forgiveness of God when we need it in times of our own weaknesses and faults; let us also believe in it for others.
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I am responsible to forgive: I give up my right to be unforgiving.
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To be able to just erase things that come up in your brain against your brother, whoever it is, you just erase them.
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Have mercy, love, grace, forgiveness: That's the eraser.
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It was mentioned as an eraser and then as a discipline, and then as a practice. We build that like a muscle, we build that up.
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It is a very good thing to forgive, like our Father forgave us. He is forgiving!
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The Lord says to Zaccaeus (the tax collector), today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. No matter what people thought in their hatred toward this man, Christ saw the heart of this man. Hatred just blinds everything. Christ saw the man's heart, and that's what really mattered.
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He who is forgiven much, loves much.
REFERENCES:
Matthew 6:12
“And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors”
Ephesians 4:32
Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
Luke 19:8
Zaccheus stopped and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much.” And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
Matthew 18:23-35
the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves. When he had begun to settle them, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him. But since he did not have the means to repay, his lord commanded him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment to be made. So the slave fell to the ground and prostrated himself before him, saying “Have patience with me and I will repay you everything.” And the lord of the slave felt compassion and released him and forgave him the debt.
But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and he seized him and began to choke him, saying “pay back what you owe.” So his fellow slave fell to the ground and began to plead with him, saying, “Have patience with me and I will repay you.” But he was unwilling and went and threw him in prison until he should pay back what was owed.
So when his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were deeply grieved and came and reported to their lord all that had happened. Then summoning him, his lord said to him, “you wicked slave, I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave, and the same way that I had mercy on you?” And his lord, moved with anger, handed him over to the torturers until he should repay all that was owed him.
“My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.”
I Corinthians 13:1
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or clanging cymbal.
Acts 9:3-6
As he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him; and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And He said, “I am Jesus who you are persecuting, but get up and enter the city, and it will be told you what you must do.”
TAKEAWAY:
These references from the Scriptures are illustrations of the impact needed and demonstrated for forgiveness. Even though Paul, previously known as Saul, was called to be an apostle by the risen Lord, in spite of the fact that he had been a tremendous persecutor. The importance of forgiving others as we have been forgiven was illustrated in the recount of the master and slave. Our hearts draw from the Lord the quality of forgiveness, We continue to ask that we be forgiven as we forgive other.
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Sons are coming to birth as they find their abiding place in the Father. This deep hunger after Him is creating a relationship with the Lord that brings forth an awareness of who we are as sons of God. Now we manifest His presence as the Lord is glorified in His saints and admired by all who believe.
Show Notes:
- As we come to know the Lord we find He is our abiding place, our home.
- The Lord is everything to us.
- There is this deep ache in our hearts to know Him.
- As we walk on in this relationship with the Lord we come into a deep awareness of who He has made us as His sons.
- As we come to know Him He manifest Himself through us in everything we do and say.
- We have become that part of the Body of Christ that ministers a greater awareness of the Lord to all who we meet.
Quotes:
- When we found the Lord, we found a home. He became our home.
- ... the Lord never grows old in our hearts. He ever lives to make an intercession and He ever lives to be a part of everything we're doing.
- It's just that ache. It's always there to know the Lord deeper.
- There's a dawning awareness that comes to your spirit, not to your mind, but to your spirit that, oh my God, I really am a son of God. I really am one with the Lord. He is done these things.
- If we know the Lord, He is demonstrating Himself through us wherever we go, whatever we're doing.
- That our ministry, who we are in the body, just bring people into something more and make them more aware of the Lord and that all they're going through is not in vain. He's gonna be glorified.
References:
John 15:4-8
Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. f anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit;so you will be My disciples.Matthew 5:6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. Proverbs 4:18But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn That shines brighter and brighter until the full day. I Corinthians 12:27You are the body of Christ. Each one of you is a part of it. I John 3:1-2See how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called children of God; and in fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. Romans 8:19For the eagerly awaiting creation waits for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God.Takeaway:
Our deep longing within us is to abide in the Lord as our true home. Out of this hunger for Him grows an intimate relationship that reveals our true identity as sons of God. As we abide in Christ, His life flows through us, and we manifest His presence in all we do.
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God has been meeting many in this day and making alive the word as found in the Scriptures. Peter wrote in his epistle, “whoever speaks, let him speak, as it were the utterances of God.” The words that a believer speaks need to come out of what has become real in a person's personal experience. As the believer experiences the Word, it becomes part of his being, then he is ready to minister that Word to others.
SHOW NOTES:
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In this new day, we are speaking words that God has imparted to our spirit, not words from man.
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The early disciples were given power to speak the Word of God with great boldness.
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When something God speaks comes alive in us, then it becomes a living word that can bring an impartation to others.
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If you come with Christ in you, people tend to listen, because it sparks a response in them of a hunger.
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Christ is forming His body to be the channels in the earth, to be part of bringing His Kingdom on earth.
QUOTATIONS:
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God didn't raise us up to talk about God; He raised us up to speak God into the earth.
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The consuming desire of the disciples was to speak, to proclaim the Word of the Lord: they believed and effectually demonstrated that the Lord Jesus Christ was speaking through them.
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There's no defined way you can actually say to do this, except simply open your heart and receive the Word, the unadulterated Word of God.
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It is very important that what you are going to speak is real to you; we're imparting what we've become.
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When you're speaking out of an anointing—out of the inner part of you being that's been—the appropriation has taken place and you have Christ there and He's living in you, and you speak that Word.
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There's an anointing that is far greater than a teaching. In fact, teaching doesn't even come close.
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Paul talked about a living Word and a dead word. What does a dead word do? It kills. We don't want to have a dead word. How does a living word come? It come out of the appropriation of Christ in you.
REFERENCES:
I Corinthians 2:9-10
“Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him.” For to us God revealed them through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
Acts 17:6
But not finding them, they dragged Jason and some the brothers to the city rulers, crying out,”They who have turned the world upside down have come here.”
I John 2:27
As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.
Psalm 23 1-3
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
I Corinthians 2:1-5
And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling, and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and power, so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
II Timothy 2:2
The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
TAKEAWAY:
Today we are in the day of the Body of Christ. We're becoming the channels to speak the word of the Lord to those who have open hearts and open ears to hear. Then they receive by impartation from that word the ability to speak as well. It's a process of becoming the Word, and as it becomes a part of you, then you can speak a word that if living to others.
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We are here by the will of God. It is not by our will, and not by our parents' will, but directly sent here by the will of God. We are not to wander but we must know without a doubt who we are--our specific calling and destiny in Him. This revelation of our destiny often comes through our brother's and sister's in the Lord as we humble our hearts to hear what the Lord is speaking by the Spirit to our hearts.
SHOW NOTES:
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It's important that we realize how important our part is in the realm of spirit i.e. where God has placed us.
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This is an unfolding revelation of the how the Lord is moving in this day.
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Discovering the part we play goes beyond the gifts outlined in the New Testament.
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He's coming to be glorified in His saints, so we really need to see where He is appearing.
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When we come together, we need to be conscious of the deposits He has placed in each one.
QUOTATIONS:
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Christ is not coming from the sky; He's coming in a many membered Body.
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We are sent here by the will of God, to be Christ in the earth, but it's not gonna be general; it will be very, very specific.
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He is not coming to be crucified afresh.
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We lift each other up into that realm of Spirit, and the Spirit of the Lord manifests through that individual.
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The key is the humbling of ourselves. As we become a product of His workmanship, there's a humbling that God brings in.
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When we come together, each joint supplying by the love that God has imparted to our hearts, it's the necessity of what every other part needs.
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I think God loves the mixture of the divine and the human. He's bringing heaven to earth. Christ grows within us in stages as we give ourselves to Him.
REFERENCES:
Ephesians 4:15-16
but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
Romans 12:4-6
For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly.
Ephesians 2:21-22
in whom the whole building being fitted together , is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
Matthew 25:40
“the King will answer and say to them, 'truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.'”
John 17:18, 22
As you sent Me in to the world, I also have sent them into the world. The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one.
TAKE AWAY:
Everything that you have as a son of God has been given to you by God Himself. This often comes from your brother and sister in the Lord. As you humble yourself before one another, you can open up to hear how they are seeing His glory in you. The Body is not an accomplishment of the flesh or the soul; it is coming by the Holy Spirit. God has chosen the lame, the halt and the blind, which makes this creation of the Body of Christ a miracle. As you open up in humility to each member of the Body you find your destiny and yourself being drawn in to a closer relationship with the Lord.
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There is a sense that the Lord is opening up a greater anointing in the Spirit. He promised to make all things new. The expectation must be with us to experience things that we have not known before. We stir up our faith to reach into it.
SHOW NOTES:
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We need a fresh anointing and a renewed awareness of His presence.
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We're seeking something that is beyond anything we have known in the past.
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Look for a whole new spiritual experience, which could mean not holding on to what you had in the past.
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Keep knocking, keep seeking and become expectant like children.
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It's the Holy Spirit revealing things that we've been waiting for, but we're so conditioned to keep waiting that we don't reach into it.
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We just open up our spirit and we just receive the Holy Spirit.
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I think this is something brand new; it's making things available that have not been available.
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Lord, discomfort me with the next thing You're going to reveal to me. Please don't let us stagnate where we are.
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The Lord is putting in us this childlike spirit where we're spontaneous; we're reaching for that new thing.
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It means we start here, we start at zero, and we begin to learn and receive of the Lord in a new way.
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Be expectant that all of our other experiences may not just be improvements of what we've already done, but may be so radically different that at first it confronts us.
REFERENCES:
John 14:16-17
I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
Luke 18:8
“I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”
John 14:26
“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you”
Ezekiel 11:19
“And I will give them one heart and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh.”
Revelation 21:5
And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”
Philippians 3:13-14
Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
TAKE AWAY:
The Lord is filling us with Himself more and more. The Father will get what He wants—that we can meet with Him and listen and appropriate and receive a whole new God that we never knew before.
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Hello everyone, and welcome to this time of worship and praise to our King. As I have talked about before, these gatherings of God's people are a mixture of many different groups of His Body coming together to worship their Lord in Spirit and in truth. As you open your spirit to enter into these times of communion with the Lord, our prayer is that you too will experience His presence in a deeper way.
Worship in the Spirit
Father I Turn To You
Father, I turn to You.
Your Word has come like the morning sun, and I turn to You.
Father I turn to You.
As the stars draw nigh in the evening sly, I turn to You.
You have called my name, forever.
When You draw me near, I will not turn my heart away.
Father, I turn to You.
Every hour I pray, I am Yours today, I turn to You.
Wine-skins Stretching With New Wine
Wine-skins stretching with new wine, flowing truth and grace.
Hearts expand and lives unfold, as we see Your face.
Unchangeable God, we are rooted in You. Our eyes fixed on Your glory.
Yahweh, Elohim!
At Your Words we do not stagger, all You say is true.
Drinking deep Your Living Water, plants grown in their youth.
Unchangeable God, we are rooted in You. Our eyes fixed on Your glory.
Yahweh, Elohim!
Unveiled faces clear and new, ready chosen bride.
Word that's hid in earthen vessels, Lord most glorified.
Unchangeable God, we are rooted in You. Our eyes fixed on Your glory.
Yahweh, Elohim!
Unchangeable God, we are rooted in You. Our eyes fixed on Your glory.
Yahweh, Elohim!
Worship in the Spirit
My Eyes Are Set
Our eyes are set upon You O' Lord.
Our hope is fixed and will not be moved.
My heart determines to be transformed.
Your will be done in me!
In truth, clothe me with Your righteousness.
In trust, I lean on Your faithfulness.
To bring, Your purity unto me.
Your will be done in me!
Your will be done in me!
Fill Me!
Fill me with Your Spirit Lord.
Fill me, with Your Spirit Lord.
Truth shall stand and lies are washed away form me.
When You fill me with Your Spirit Lord.
Touch me, then I will be whole.
Touch me, then I will be whole.
Nothing matters, but the hope I have in You.
When You touch me, then I will be whole.
Worship in the Spirit
Bless The House Of The Lord
I was glad when they said unto me, let us go up to the house of the Lord.
As our feet are standing here in the city, we have built upon Your Word.
O' righteous ones, living as brothers.
No one's need is left uni-filled in our midst.
Open our hearts, worship together, as we glorify our King!
Bless the house of the Lord.
Bless the house of the Lord.
Let us pray for peace to reign in our nation.
And to bless all those who hold her so dear.
May the riches of the Lord be our portion.
As His presence calm our fears.
Bring forth the love, bring forth the blessing,
that will fall upon our brothers and friends.
Pray that the Lord, dwells in His people,
and His Kingdom sees no end.
Bless the house of the Lord.
Bless the house of the Lord.
Bless the house of the Lord.
Bless the house of the Lord.
Bless the house of the Lord.
Worship in the Spirit
How Great Is Our God
The splendor of the King, clothed in majesty; Let all the earth rejoice, all the earth rejoice.
He wraps Himself in light, darkness tries to hide, and trembles at His voice, and trembles at His voice.
How great is our God! Sing with me: How great is our God! And all will see how great, how great is our God!
How great is our God! Sing with me: How great is our God! And all will see how great, how great is our God!
Age to age He stands, and time is in His hands; Beginning and the End, Beginning and the End.
The God head three in one, Father, Spirit, Son, The Lion and the Lamb, the Lion and the Lamb.
How great is our God! Sing with me: How great is our God! And all will see how great, how great is our God!
How great is our God! Sing with me: How great is our God! And all will see how great, how great is our God!
Name above all names, worthy of all praise.
My heart will sing How great is our God!
Name above all names, worthy of all praise.
My heart will sing How great is our God!
How great is our God! Sing with me: How great is our God! And all will see how great, how great is our God!
Holy, Holy, Holy
Holy, Holy, Holy
All Thy sons shall praise Thee.
Holy, Holy, Holy
All their tongues, shall bless Thy Holy Name!
For Thou has brought them forth, by Thy Holy grace;
Thou has raised them up, to stand before Thy face.
Holy, Holy, Holy
All Thy sons shall praise Thee.
Holy, Holy, Holy
All their tongues, shall bless Thy Holy Name!
Our God is unchangeable and faithful in His great love for us. Let this time of intimate communion be a blessing to your spirit and may the Lord grant you a deeper relationship with Him each day.
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Thy Kingdom Come!
Worship in the Spirit & Prophecy
We believe tonight, in the time of the latter rain. We loose Your rain Lord! We loose the heavens to open O God! We declare and end to the oppression. We declare and end to the impasses O God that have withstood Your people for so many years. We loose Your presence Lord Jesus! We say it is time for You to come once again to this earth. Inhabit the praises of Your people O God. Inhabit their lives O God. Posses their very spirits. We cast out the usurpers. We cast out that which oppresses Your people O God. Let this be a night of freedom Lord Jesus. Let Your Spirit reign. Let Your Kingdom rule in this place. We declare tonight the Kingdom of God is on this earth as it is in heaven. In the name of Jesus Christ.
Prophetic Psalm
Right here Lord, right here Lord, let Your people go free right here. Right here Lord, right here Lord, let Your people go free right here. Let Your people free. Let Your people free. We cry out, let us free! Let Your people free, let Your people free, right here, right here!
Right here Lord, right here Lord. Let Your people go free right here.
Prophetic Psalm
All honor, all Glory, You reign, You have judgments.
All honor, all Glory, Your judgments Lord, Your judgments Lord.
All power, and authority, in the name of Jesus Christ.
All power, and authority, in the name of Jesus Christ.
All power, and authority in the name of Jesus Christ.
All power, and authority in the name of Jesus Christ.
Let Your Mercy Reign Triumphant
Let Your mercy reign triumphant
To the merciful, You are merciful
Let all nations, turn their hearts to Thee
Holy Father, we bow at Your feet
Lord, Lord and King, rule and reign!
Crown Him King, crown Him Lord
In our hearts, most adored
In Your presence, is great joy
And all nations sing, Alleluia
Lord, Lord and King, rule and reign!
Lord, Lord and King, rule and reign!
Lord, Lord and King, rule and reign!
Prophetic Psalm
It shall be a year of joy
It shall be a year of thanksgiving
Yea, it will be a year that we'll never forget
It shall be a year that we will triumph over the evil
Yea, the Lord is our deliver
He is our strength
He is our voice
He is our song!
Yea, we shall enter in with a whole heart!
Worship in the Spirit
The one who Dwells in the secret place
The one who dwells in, the secret place of the most high God,
Within the shadow of, the Lord Almighty, he will abide.
The one who dwells in, the secret place of the most high God,
Within the shadow of, the Lord Almighty, he will abide.
I'll say of the Lord, (only You are my God)
I'll say of the Lord, (only You are my God)
I'll say of the Lord, (only You are my God)
Amen!
I'll say of the Lord, (only You are my God)
I'll say of the Lord, (only You are my God)
I'll say of the Lord, (only You are my God)
Amen!
Aaaaa,aa, Amen!
Aaaaa, aa, Amen!
I'll say of the Lord, (only You are my God)
I'll say of the Lord, (only You are my God)
I'll say of the Lord, (only You are my God)
Amen!
The Great I Am
Jehovah, the Great I AM
Your Spirit, is in command
Thou shall lead us from here
For Your voice we do hear
And nothing shall we fear
For Your presence is ever before us!
Jehovah, Glory be unto Thee
Jehovah, Oh great Elohim!
Standing In Thy Presence
Standing in Thy presence Lord, when Thy glory is revealed.
Standing in Thy presence Lord, no heart is ever concealed.
Standing in Thy presence Lord, the day of Thy power.
Standing in Thy presence Lord, all the sons of God have waited for this precious hour!
Worship in the Spirit
Standing in Thy presence Lord, when Thy glory is revealed.
Standing in Thy presence Lord, no heart is ever concealed.
Standing in Thy presence Lord, the day of Thy power.
Standing in Thy presence Lord, all the sons of God have waited for this precious hour!
The Lord our God is One
Adonai'el O'e'hayu Adonai'el Shm'ah Yisra'el Adonai'el O'e'hayu Adonai'el ah Yisra'el Adonai'el O'e'hayu Adonai'el O'e'hayu Shm'ah Yisra'el Adonai'el O'e'hayu Adonai'el O'e'hayu
Hear O' Israel the Lord thy God, The Lord thy God is one.
Hear O' Israel the Lord thy God, The Lord thy God is one.
Hear O' Israel the Lord thy God, The Lord thy God is one.
Hear O' Israel the Lord thy God, The Lord thy God is one.
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Thank You Lord!
Welcome everyone to this time of worship to our Lord! We hope that these worship podcast are being a blessing to you. As said before, some of these times of worship are with large congregations while others are small groups of believers in homes. Either way, the heart and worship is real, living, and we believe pleasing to our King. Please join in and open your heart as we give all worship and thanksgiving to the Lord.
Worship in the Spirit
Leaving this realm
Leaving this realm, to move into another. Leaving this realm, to move into another.
Cleaning out this house, to move into another. Cleaning out this house to move into another.
Out of this body of death, into a new body of life. Out of this body of death, into a new body of life!
Abba Father, Abba Father. Abba Father, Abba Father.
Alleluia, Alleluia. Alleluia, Alleluia.
Bless the Lord, O my soul. Bless the Lord, O my soul. And all that is within me, bless Your Holy Name.
Bless the Lord, O my soul. Bless the Lord, O my soul. And all that is within me, bless Your Holy Name.
Bless the Lord, O my soul. Bless the Lord, O my soul. And all that is within me, bless Your Holy Name.
Bless the Lord, O my soul. Bless the Lord, O my soul. And all that is within me, bless Your Holy Name.
Worship in the Spirit
King of all the earth
Ruler of all the ages. Lord of Lords, King of all the earth.
We will worship Thee O Lord, King of all the earth. And He will always be our Lord, King of all the earth.
We will worship Thee O Lord, King of all the earth. And He will always be our Lord, King of all the earth.
We will worship Thee O Lord, King of all the earth. And He will always be our Lord, King of all the earth.
Thank You Lord
Thank You Lord, Thank You Lord, Thank You Lord, I just want to thank You Lord.
Thank You Lord, Thank You Lord, Thank You Lord, I just want to thank You Lord!
Thank you for joining us in this time of worship and praise to the King. We sincerely hope that this has been a blessing to you. Let our lives be a praise and worship to Him always.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SUMMARY:**
Prayer can only be effective as we reach into the Lord and touch Him. Then you have God working through you to accomplish some aspect of the kingdom or to bring change in some way. In real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts, to desire the things He desires, to love what He loves. When you do not have a revelation fro the Lord or confirmation, then it is better that you pray in the Holy Spirit by speaking in tongues.
SHOW NOTES:
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You can voice prayers in tongues, believing to minister the presence of the Lord to individuals or situations and know you are having an impact since you are channeling the Holy Spirit.
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Real prayer prays according to the will of God, which eliminates the opinions and desires of the one praying.
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Intercession is rendered ineffective by self-interest.
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Effective prayer is something we learn by humbly believing and seeking God with an open heart, then listening for His guidance.
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We have to know how to move in the Spirit, so after you've gone through the experience God wants you to go through in your times of intercession, you will know how the release was done.
QUOTATIONS:* I can pray God's perfect will with no reservations, knowing that my prayers are being heard and they are effective 100%, because they are being voiced by the Holy Spirit.
- It's very important that you pray right: that you don't make things up.
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There's many people that they have a situation and they begin to pray out of their own desires; what they think should happen in the situation; and that is the complete wrong way to pray.
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If you're gonna pray something that directed, you better have confirmation—supernatural confirmation from many voices—before you start directing the spirit realm.
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Praying is talking, it is communicating and it's relating to the Lord.
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I really believe that if a heart is open to God and very sincere before the Lord and is attempting to pray, the Lord will show him.
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About the principle of persistence—we know that the Lord taught parables about this, about prayer, about going before the unjust judge...God is not answering you necessarily because He likes you, or you're His best friend, but He's answering, sometimes because you're just plain old persistent.
REFERENCES:Jeremiah 29:11-13 “For I know the plans that I have for you, “ Declares the Lord, “plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”Ephesians 6:18 With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view , be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints.Colossians 4:2 Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving.Romans 8:26 In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.Luke 18:2-7 “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect man. There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, 'Give me legal protection from my opponent.' For a while he was unwilling; but afterward he said to himself, 'Even though I do not fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.' And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge said; now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them? I tell you that He will bring justice for them quickly.”TAKE AWAY:Prayer is very important; nothing happens until people pray. God has chosen the channel of prayer to make things move. Christ gave us the Holy Spirit to guide us and teach us to pray. Effective prayer is set to bring God's will into the earth. We are on a path of constantly learning how to pray in the Spirit.
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We have entered into the day of sabbath rest. All our striving and works must now give way to a complete trust and rest in Him knowing that He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. He has started a good work and He will finish it.
Show Notes:
- We are in the seventh day of Sabbath rest.
- We must stop doing our own work and enter into His rest.
- We are to labor to enter into His rest.
- All of our talents and abilities are to be laid at His feet and He is the one who anoints us to move in these things.
- We enter into this rest by trust and revelation worship.
- We walk with Him many times not knowing where we are going,but just trusting Him to lead us.
- We must dump our thinking and evaluating and put on His mind of trust.
Quotes:
- We're in the seventh day, and that is the year of the Sabbath rest.
- You stop contending for things and you simply put your weight down on the Lord and say, "Lord, you've called us into this Kingdom Sabbath rest."
- It's a labor to enter into that place where God Himself is doing the work and we've entered into a place of rest where we trust what He's doing, and rely on Him to complete the work.
- The Sabbath rest is more than we understand. It is a place in God. It's a level of rest.
- All of the effort and all of the abilities and everything He's given us; if the anointing of the Lord comes upon us, we move in those things, but there is a level of rest.
- We have to be careful in how we think about this, that we don't allow this between our ears to interfere with His moving in the Spirit leading us and guiding us to take the steps.
- This is the day of the fulfillment of every prophecy that's ever been spoken. This is the day that the seals on the book are being opened.
- ...I believe that you enter in through trust, but as we enter in through trust, we come into this revelation worship, because we're a people revelation. And we're to know by revelation, how things are done.
- ...sometimes you walk like Abraham walked, not knowing where you're going. That's kind of where you start out. I don't think that's where we end up. I think we end up in His presence and revelation, worship.
- "I only do the things I see my Father do, and I only speak the things I hear My Father speak." The Sabbath, a day of rest of the scriptures referred to that is ceasing from our own labors.
- Put on His mind so that you know how to think. Get out of your own thinking. Get out of your own evaluating, your own explanation of things, your own understanding. And just trust.
References:
Revelation 22:13
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heartAnd do not lean on your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge Him,And He will make your paths straight.
Genesis 2:2-3
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Mark 2:27
Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
John 5:19-20
Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these,so that you will be amazed.
Takeaway:
Today we must rid ourselves of our own thinking, evaluating and conditioning of the past. There must be a total trust in Him , knowing that He is the Alpha and Omega and what He has begun He will finish; as He leads us into this new day of sabbath rest.
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Welcome everyone to this time of worship and praise to the Lord. Please join with us as we express our deep love and thankfulness for His presence with us today.
I Love You Lord
Standing in Thy presence Lord, Waiting on Thee. Thou shalt renew my strength, For Thou hast promised me! For Thou hast promised me, my Lord. Thou hast promised me. My strength shall be renewed as I wait, As I wait, my Lord, on Thee!
I abide in Thee, my Lord, And Thy Word abides in me, I'll ask what I will and it shall be done, For Thou hast promised me! For Thou hast promised me, my Lord. Thou hast promised me. I'll ask what I will and it shall be done, If I abide in Thee!
When I keep my eyes on Thee, My heart shall know steadfast peace. My trust can be in Thee alone, For Thou hast promised me! For Thou hast promised me, my Lord. Thou hast promised me. My trust can be in Thee alone, For Thou hast promised me.
Amazing Grace
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now I see.
'Twas grace that taught me heart to fear, And grace me fears relieved: How precious did that grace appear, The hour I first believed.
Worship in the Spirit
Amazing Grace
The Lord has promised good to me, His Word my hope secures; He will my shield and portion be, As long as life endures.
Thru many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come;
'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.
When we've been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun. We've no less days to sing God's praise, Than when we'd first begun.
I Love You, Lord
I love You, Lord, and I lift my voice. To worship You, O my soul, rejoice! Take joy, my King, in what You hear; May it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ear.
I love Your Word, and I lift my voice. To praise You, Lord, O my soul, rejoice! Take joy, my King, in what You hear; May it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ear.
I love Your Church, and I lift my voice. To thank You, Lord, O my soul, rejoice! Take joy, my King, in what You hear; May it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ear.
Psalms
I lift my voice O Lord. We lift our voices in one accord today. Cause we love You Lord. And we thank You Lord. There's a rejoicing in our voices. We are free and rejoicing in You. We love You Lord. We love You Lord.
Like a river our voices flow. Like a river we hear You Lord. We respond. We love You Lord. We love You Lord. Thank You Lord. We love You Lord.
Our hearts can't be quite Lord. We cannot be quite Lord. We have to sing. We have to rejoice. We have to open our mouths and sing to You. Our hearts sing to You Lord. Open our hearts to sing to You Lord. We love You. We love You.
We are together Lord in Your presence. There is fullness of joy. We melt together Lord. We love You with all of our hearts. We love You Lord. We love You Lord. We love You. We won't be restrained. We love You Lord. Ah! We love You!
Thy Glory Lord, is upon us now. Thy presence Lord is upon us now. Thy love O Lord is on us now. We bow to Your love. We bow to Your love.
I Love You, Lord
I love You, Lord, and I lift my voice. To worship You, O my soul, rejoice! Take joy, my King, in what You hear; May it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ear.
I love Your Word, and I lift my voice. To praise You, Lord, O my soul, rejoice! Take joy, my King, in what You hear; May it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ear.
I love Your Church, and I lift my voice. To thank You, Lord, O my soul, rejoice! Take joy, my King, in what You hear; May it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ear.
May this time be pleasing to the Lord and a blessing to support you worship to Him today.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* INTRODUCTION:**
One of the main needs we have as believers is a real, interactive relationship with the Lord. The Lord views prayer as a way of creating a relationship with each of us. Unfortunately, a lot of the teaching on prayer does not give enough emphasis to God's desire for the relationship, so prayers reduce down to our own personal needs. There is nothing wrong with seeking God for our needs; prayer is really an opportunity to expand beyond that.
SHOW NOTES:
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We need to seek a relationship with the Lord, if we want to truly be able to talk with Him,
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You can have a connection, as with a father, where you can present a situation before Him in order to learn what is His perfect will in that situation.
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Reciting the Lord's Prayer can be a very effective way of praying, if done thoughtfully as in worship.
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As we mature in our relationship with the Lord, our prayers can be led by the Holy Spirit to pray more for others and the kingdom of God.
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The Lord answers us when we seek Him...as we listen for His voice.
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People think that prayer has everything to do with receiving something from God, and I don't think that's the truth....I think prayer actually is an avenue of creating a deeper relationship with you and Him.
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The whole prayer that Christ taught isn't all about you or about you receiving; it's basically worship to the Lord, creating a relationship with Him, then you receive.
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As you develop your relationship with Him, you find out you don't have to ask for things because He already knows what you need before you even ask.
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I think our prayers change too. They get off the self-centered prayers and they begin to pray for your brothers, your sisters, for His kingdom, for things that He, the Holy Spirit, leads you to pray for.
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As we approach God in prayer, Number One, we submit our hearts to Him, we give Him our hearts,
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Think about how Jesus prayed in the garden: He absolutely had a relationship with the Father and when He was praying, He said,” Is there another way, Father” He had enough of a relationship that He could say, “dad, I know that's what You want Me to do, but is there another way? Nevertheless, not what I will, not what I want.”
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Sometimes He says “no” and are we willing to accept the no? Are we willing to accept His perfect will in our lives?
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It's really all about the relationship. That's where it starts. And all the steps you take in between when you first started giving God praise and worship and entering into His courts to pray. That relationship ends up with the joy.
REFERENCES:
Matthew 7:7
Ask and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.
Psalm 118:5
From my distress I called upon the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me in as large place.
John 16:24
Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.
Matthew 6:9-13
“Pray then in this way: 'Our Father, Who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. (For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen)
James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective payer of a righteous man can accomplish much.
SUMMARY:
When you have a relationship with the Lord, you talk to Him. We have the promise that Christ is standing at the door of our hearts, knocking, if we respond and open up to Him, He will relate with us. Now is the time to ask, to seek and to find Him. Our prayers go to Him to get that deeper relationship with Him.
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RAM HORNS HERALDING HIS PRESENCE
The Great I AM
Jehovah, the great I Am. Your Spirit, is in command. Thou shall lead us from here, for Your voice we do hear. And nothing shall we fear. For Your presence is ever before us.
Jehovah, glory be unto Thee. Jehovah, the great Elohim!
I Bow Down
I bow down before You, Father, Father. Words don't approach You, only a broken heart. Forever I'll worship, Father, Father. Live here within me, my heart can be Your home. O Father I am Yours.
Psalm 91
The one who dwells in the secret place of the most high God, within the shadow of the Lord Almighty, he will abide. The one who dwells in the secret place of the most high God, within the shadow of the Lord Almighty, he will abide.
I'll say of the Lord, Only You are my God. I'll say of the Lord, only You are my God. I'll say of the Lord, only You are my God. Amen.
I'll say of the Lord, only You are my God. I'll say of the Lord, only You are my God. I'll say of the Lord, only You are my God. Amen.
Amen
Amen!
Worship in the spirit
I'll say of the Lord, Only You are my God. I'll say of the Lord, only You are my God. I'll say of the Lord, only You are my God. Amen.
Fill Me
Fill me with Your Spirit Lord. Fill me with Your Spirit Lord. Truth shall stand and lies are washed away from me. When You fill me with Your Spirit Lord.
Fill me with Your Spirit Lord. Fill me with Your Spirit Lord. Truth shall stand and lies are washed away from me. When You fill me with Your Spirit Lord.
Standing In Thy Presence
Standing in Thy presence Lord, when Thy glory is revealed. Standing in Thy presence Lord, no heart is ever concealed. Standing in Thy presence Lord, the day of Thy power. Standing in Thy presence Lord, all the sons of God have waited for this precious hour!
Worship in the Spirit
Standing in Thy presence Lord, when Thy glory is revealed. Standing in Thy presence Lord, no heart is ever concealed. Standing in Thy presence Lord, the day of Thy power. Standing in Thy presence Lord, all the sons of God have waited for this precious hour!
Ram Horns!
Thank you for joining us in this time of worship to our King! May the Lord bless you and keep you, may His face shine upon you and give you peace!
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I Can't explain
I can't explain, the beauty of Thy Name. The words escape my mind. I can't contain, all the blessings of Thy love. It's more and more each time.
I can't refrain, from giving all my love. It's more than I could ever express. I'll always stand, in the palm of Your right hand. Your touch has made me so blessed.
My proper place, is to fall before Thy face. And to worship with all That form Thee I will not depart. my heart. My hope shall be, to be always lost in Thee.
I can't explain, the beauty of Thy Name. The words escape my mind. I can't contain, all the blessings of Thy love. It's more and more each time.
Fill Me
Fill me with Your Spirit Lord. Fill me, with Your Spirit Lord. Truth shall stand and lies are washed away from me. When You fill me with You Spirit Lord.
Touch me and I will be whole. Touch me, then I will be whole. Nothing matters but the hope I have in You. When You touch me then I will be whole.
Fill me with Your Spirit Lord. Fill me, with Your Spirit Lord. Truth shall stand and lies are washed away from me. When You fill me with You Spirit Lord.
Touch me and I will be whole. Touch me, then I will be whole. Nothing matters but the hope I have in You. When You touch me then I will be whole.
Worship in Spirit & Psalms
It's a cry, it's a cry Lord. It's a cry, it's a cry O' Lord. In our heart O' Lord. It's a cry, it's a cry,it's a cry to You. Hear our cry O' Lord. We love to know You in a greater way Lord.
To be filled with You, in a greater way. To be touched by You, in a deeper way. Touch our cry, touch our cry, touch our cry.
Hear our cry Lord, hear our cry.
With Each Breath We Breathe
With each breath we breathe. Our hearts' deepest cry; To see You, to know You O Lord, we draw nigh.
The end of illusion, old things passed away; to see You, to know You today is the day!
Darkness now is breaking, Clouds flee from the sky; Sons' bright light explodes, Bursting forth in one cry.
With each breath we breathe. Our hearts' deepest cry; To see You, to know You O Lord, we draw nigh.
The end of illusion, old things passed away; to see You, to know You today is the day!
Darkness now is breaking, Clouds flee from the sky; Sons' bright light explodes, Bursting forth in one cry.
Today is Your appearing, O wondrous most High, Almighty, Magnificent El Shaddai, El Shaddai, El Shaddai.
I Love You Lord Forever
I love You, I love You. I love You, I love You.
I love You Lord forever; my heart is set upon You. For nothing that's before me moves me like You do.
And from morning until evening the feeling is the same. I love You, I love You. I love You, I love You.
In all Your love is greater; Your grace is un-restrained. You find Your joy within us, and always will remain.
And from morning until evening the feeling is the same. I love You, I love You. I love You, I love You.
Like streams of living water, that flow from shore to shore. I dwell within Your presence, and will forever more.
And from morning until evening the feeling is the same. I love You, I love You. I love You, I love You.
Thank you for joining us in this deep time of worship. May our hearts never stop pursing this deep cry to know Him each day!
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Worship
He Comes and Speaks to Us
He comes and speaks to us, when we seek Him in the morning. He comes and meets with us, when we worship in the evening.
He is our highest joy, we will praise Him hallelujah. He is the King of kings, we will praise Him hallelujah. We will praise Him hallelujah. We will praise Him hallelujah.
He is our bread and drink, we will live on Him forever. He is our rock and strength, we will go to Him for shelter.
He is our highest joy, we will praise Him hallelujah. He is the King of kings, we will praise Him hallelujah. We will praise Him hallelujah. We will praise Him hallelujah.
He comes and fills our cup, it is always over flowing. He is the air we breath, in His presence is refreshing.
He is our highest joy, we will praise Him hallelujah. He is the King of kings, we will praise Him hallelujah. We will praise Him hallelujah. We will praise Him hallelujah.
He is our highest joy, we will praise Him hallelujah. He is the King of kings, we will praise Him hallelujah. We will praise Him hallelujah. We will praise Him hallelujah.
Worship in the Spirit
INTRODUCTION:
Jesus Christ is opening up to us a relationship with the Father. Even though we may only have a limited relationship up to this point, the believers are having revelations in their worship that are breaking through to a deeper awareness of the Father.
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The Lord is leading us into a greater relationship, which is out of our comfort zone, or how we know Him in the past.
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This is a journey that we may not know where we are going.
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Though we have had revelations of Him, they may give us an incomplete picture of where we are going.
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As Christ opens up new revelations to us, it will bring us into greater understanding of the Father.
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It's a relationship with the Father that Jesus Christ is opening up to us.
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You're not gonna know the next step until God reveals it to you.
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Realize this—you're in the land, and you're taking possession of the kingdom, but it may not happen all at once; you may have to reach into one level after another level.
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We do have revelation, and it may not be complete yet, but we have to follow what we do have.
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This worship is gonna take us all the way on through.
REFERENCES:
Hebrews 11:8
By faith, Abraham being called obeyed to go out into the place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out, not knowing where he was going.
John 14:20
In that day you will know that I am in the Father , and you are in Me, and I am in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself t him.
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love Me; and those who diligently seek Me will find Me.
TAKE AWAY:
This is a day when the experiences with the Lord are very personal. Jesus Christ is leading those who truly seek Him to proceed into uncharted territory—where we can get to know the Father, perhaps for the first time, or possibly in a greater way. He has promised that those who diligently seek Him will find Him. The door is open for each one of us to get deeper revelations of the Father.
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Hello everyone and welcome to the podcast. This episode is another time of the family coming together to worship the Lord. Come gather with us at the foot of His throne and worship in Spirit and Truth.
Prophetic Declarations
We ascend to the Father this mourning with our hearts. And You are gathering Your remnant, You are gathering Your people to worship You.
We just enter in with our heart to love You to lift You up today. You are everything to us God. We loose the anointing on us Lord, to bless You – to just be a throne that You sit on today. In our worship to You – Lord we love You. Amen.
Worship in the Spirit
The one who dwells in the Shelter of the Most High
The one who dwells in the shelter of the most high God, in the shadow of the Lord Almighty he will abide.
I'll will say of the Lord, only You are my God. I'll say of the Lord, only You are my God. I'll say of the Lord, only You are my God. Amen
I'll say of the Lord, only You are my God. I'll say of the Lord, only You are my God, I'll say of the Lord, only You are my God. Amen
Amen!
Amen!
Worship in Spirit
Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Psalm
Praise You Lord, we praise You with our song. Praise You Lord, with Your new song.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
Amen, Amen,Amen.
Amen,Amen,Amen.
Your Our God And Father
Your our God and Father, Your my everything
I will sing forever, of the love You bring
You're my hallelujah, as I seek Your face
I give thanks Yeshua, You're the God of grace
You pour out Your treasure, and it flows through me
Giving without measure, through eternity
I need more of You Lord, I receive Your love
Your strength moves me forward, with faith from above
Your my hallelujah, as I seek Your face
I give thanks Yeshua, You're the God of grace
You pour out Your treasure, and it flows through me
Giving without measure, through eternity
I need more of You Lord, I receive Your love
Your strength moves me forward, with faith from above...
Father, we give You this time of worship and adoration. May it be what You are looking for in Your people in this day.
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Water baptism is to be a total experience in Christ. We are baptized into His death and then raised into His life. Our expression of faith and anticipation in Christ's provision is a key to unlock the great experiences of forgiveness and cleansing of sin, the total eradication of the sin nature, and the resurrection life of Christ in us.
Show Notes:
- Baptism is to be an experience like salvation is.
- Baptism is another major advance in a walk with God.
- Baptism is your expression of faith and anticipation of a meeting with God.
- Baptism is a provision from Christ of cleansing and forgiveness of sin.
- Baptism is a provision to see the total eradication of the sin nature in us.
- Baptism is linked to the receiving of the Holy Spirit.
- I am baptized into His death and into His life.
Quotes:
- Water, baptism supposed to be an experience. You are immersed, baptized into the death of Christ. You come up out of that, risen as a new person actually having an experience of it.
- What we're talking about here is major experiences in our life. If you're going from one level to the next, major advances in your walk with God.
- Can you be baptized one time, two times, three times, four times, five times six?Yes. You can be baptized as many times as the Lord leads you to be baptized because you are expressing and you're entering into a new level of relationship with the Lord.
- You're not approaching it as just a thing to do because you're a Christian or it's a sacrament. You're approaching with faith and with an anticipation 'cause you're expecting an experience with the Lord.
- We can use baptism as a cleansing from sin, a forgiveness from sin, like the blood of Christ too.
- I'm being baptized for the eradication o f the sin nature. Not just the forgiveness of sin, but the literal eradication of the very nature of sin within me. Believe that when I come out of that water, my sin nature has been crucified.
- Christ's baptism in water. He came up out of the water and the Father said, this is my son, and who am I well pleased. But the evidence of the importance of baptism and the Holy Spirit comes out right there.
- I'm totally in His death. I'm totally in His resurrection. Each thing that we're talking about. Salvation Immersion. All this is being baptized into Jesus.
References:
Romans 6:3-5
Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
Acts 2:38
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 3:13-17
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented. As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”Mark 1:8 I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” Takeaway:
Today believers are reaching into the great provision of water baptism with a faith and anticipation to experience the total release from the sin nature and the impartation of the resurrection life of Christ in them. Baptism does not have to be a one time event, but can be an unfolding experience that you can express your faith in Christ provision today.
***Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. Hello everyone, I'm Ron your host and welcome to another podcast from Live Behind the Veil. This episode is another gathering together of a few of the family members in a time of Worship. Even though these recordings are raw and not the best quality, we feel compelled to share these times of His presence with you. Our hope is that you can join in the Spirit of this Worship and give to the Lord what He is looking for from His people.
God of the open heart
We come very humbly and open our hearts, without bonds to live there inside. We escort each other to Your throne room oh God, neath Your scepter of love to abide.
Your the God of the open heart, You are all and in all as we blend into one. By Your Word of grace You have brought us to this place, and by that Word You'll lead us on.
We see each other by only Your eyes, we create by only Your hands. Seers and sons, a kingdom of priest, in Your worship we ever will stand.
Your the God of the open heart, You are all and in all as we blend into one. By Your Word of grace You have brought us to this place, and by that Word You'll lead us on.
Your the God of the open heart, You are all and in all as we blend into one. By Your Word of grace You have brought us to this place, and by that Word You'll lead us on.
Worship in the Spirit & an individual psalm
Lead us today oh Lord, lead us today Father. We're Your children, and we follow You with all our hearts. Lead us today – Father.
We bow down to honor You. We bow low to worship You. You put a song in our heart – Father. We love You.
Worship in the Spirit & Prophetic declaration
Our hearts are given to You Father. Our hearts are open to You. Our hearts are crying out to be those worshipers. We bow our hearts before You. We humble our hearts before You. We give You everything within us. We worship You Father.
Prophetic Declaration
Thank You Father for knocking on our door. We open our hearts and we invite You in. You are our Lord. You are our Master. Yo are our everything. We lay it down. We lay our wants and our desires down – that You come forth, and You be all You are in us. Thank You Father.
Worship in the Spirit & an individual psalm
Our hearts give praise to You Lord. Our hearts give praise. We glorify Thee. We magnify Thee. We glorify Thee with all our hearts. We praise and worship You. We love You Lord. Our hearts love You Lord. We open our hearts, we open our hearts . We open the door to our hearts.
My eyes are set
My eyes are set upon You O Lord, my hope is fixed and will not be moved. My heart determines to be transformed, Your will be done in me.
In trust I lean on Your faithfulness, To bring Your purity unto me. Your will be done in me.
Worship in the Spirit
Amen. Amen
Amen, Amen, Amen
Amen, Amen, Amen!
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary:**
It is important that we honor the Holy Spirit in us. The Father sent the Holy Spirit to help us and unveil Christ to us. There is great power and authority in the Holy Spirit, who serves as our connection to both Christ and the Father. The Holy Spirit reminds us of what Christ said and how we are to respond to the Father. Every day, we develop our relationship with the Holy Spirit, and it is important that we learn to listen to Him. The Holy Spirit is the gift that the Father has given us to help us hear His voice, as it is indeed His voice.
Show Notes:
- The significant point is that the Holy Spirit provides access to Jesus Christ and the Father, and we must not bypass this. The Holy Spirit leads us into all things, acting as a direct link to the Father, since He comes from the Father.
- We need a helper. The Holy Spirit, sent from the Father, enables us. He shows us, leads us, directs us, and reminds us of what Christ spoke. He also reminds us of who the Father is and how to respond.
- The is great power and authority in the Holy Spirit.
- Our relationship with the Holy Spirit is something we develop over time. As we cultivate this relationship, we may see many things speed up because we have learned to wait on Him and to listen. It is, without a doubt, the most fantastic gift that God has ever poured out on His people.
- The Holy Spirit embodies many qualities, but fundamentally, He is the channel of God to us."
Quotes:
- I think there's a divine order in God. And I think that when you bypass that divine order, you have a difficult time.
- You see that when Christ said, I'm gonna send you a helper. He didn't say, just talk to Me, or just go to the Father. But He goes, no, I'm gonna send you a helper. And He's going to unveil Christ to us.
- ...we see the real explosion, if you wanna say, or the real outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the day of Pentecost. We have a glimpse of the power and authority that is in the Holy Spirit.
- That's the point I think of what He was saying is I'm giving you the Holy Spirit so that you do have access to Jesus Christ and to the Father. You just simply do not bypass that.
- The Holy Spirit is the one that's gonna lead us into all things. It's like having a direct contact to the Father because it came from the Father.
- We need a helper. The Holy Spirit was sent from the Father, and He enables us. He shows us, he leads us. He directs us. He reminds us of what Christ spoke. He reminds us of who the Father is and how to respond.
- In the Holy spirit resides all the gifts, all the wisdom and knowledge, all the revelation. It all resides in the Holy Spirit. We don't have a shortage of God.
- The Holy Spirit is simply the voice of God.
- The relationship with the Holy Spirit is something that we develop.
- And as we develop a relationship with the Holy Spirit, we'll see so many things you might say speed-ed up,because we've learned to wait on Him. We've learned to listen.
- It's the most fantastic thing that God has ever poured out on His people.
- The Holy Spirit is many different things, but He's one thing. He is the channel of God to us.
References:
John 14:26But the Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all that I said to you.
Acts 2
(The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost)1 Corinthians 2:10-11
For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among people knows the thought of a person except the spirit of the person that is in him? So also the thoughts of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians 6:19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and thatyou are not your ownActs 1:8 but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and as far as the remotest part of the earth.” Romans 8:26
Now in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;
1 Corinthians 12:11
All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Ephesians 1: 13-14
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of the promise who is a first installment of our inheritance, in regard to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.
Takeaway:
It is very important that we honor the Holy Spirit within us. The Father sent the Holy Spirit to help us and unveil Christ. The Holy Spirit holds great power and authority, serving as our connection to Christ and the Father. He reminds us of Christ’s teachings and guides our responses to the Father.
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Hello everyone and welcome to a very special time of Worship. This podcast is a recording of some of the family simply coming together to worship and exalt our Lord. This recording is raw and unpolished and is simply our attempt to share with you an experience in His presence. Much of the singing is what the Word talks about of worshiping in the Spirit and is the worshipers singing in the gift of tongues. Whether you have received this gift of the Holy Spirit or not you too can simply open your heart and flow along with us as the Holy Spirit leads us into a time of Worship and experience in a small part what Christ talked about in the scriptures how the Father is seeking those who will worship Him in Spirit and in truth.
Exalted Christ, exalted Christ, We bow and worship before Thy throne. Exalted Christ,
exalted Christ, We bow and worship before Thy throne. Shepherd, Father, All sufficient
One, And our great High Priest.
Exalted Christ, exalted Christ, We bow and worship before Thy throne. Exalted Christ,
exalted Christ, We bow and worship before Thy throne. Shepherd, Father, All sufficient
One, And our great High Priest.
(Singing in the Spirit)
(Psalm sung by one of the family)
(This song was hummed and a few words sung of that last few verses)
We will always know Your love, we will always know Your love. We will always know
Your love, we will always know Your love.
(Singing in the Spirit)
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but
now am found, Was blind but now I see. 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And
grace my fears relieved: How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed.
(Meditation on the Lord)
Love You, I love You. I love You, I love You. Love You, I love You. I love You, I love
You. That nothing that's before me moves me like You do. And from mourning until
evening the feeling is the same, I love You, I love You. I love You, I love You. I love
You, I love You. My heart is set upon You, That nothing that's before, moves me like
You do. And from mourning until evening, the feeling is the same. I love You, I love
You. I love You, I love You.
Hi everyone. This is Ron your host from Live Behind the Veil. I truly hope that in this
time of Worship the Lord has met you as He has met us. These time with Him are so
precious and so we hope to continue to share with you these times of just loving Him
from our hearts.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary:**
God's promises are timeless and can be appropriated and walked in as we truly believe them. We must not be bluffed out by Satan's lie that says; “Hath God said?” Christ gave us a perfect provision and there is now no more delay! We live on the belief and appropriation of His Word.
Show Notes:
- God's promises have a timeless quality that can be appropriated and walked in now.
- How long do you have to wait for the fulfillment of His promises? When you believe.
- When will the kingdom of God be manifested? It's now!
- Everyday we reach into His Word to walk in it.
- Don't listen to Satan when he whispers in your ear “Hath God said?”
- The human nature will put things off. If you believe His promises then voice your appropriation of them and walk in them.
- Our declaration is that it is done in me now!
- His provision is perfect and we can claim it now and receive it forever!
Quotes:
- It would be so easy for us to miss God because our faith does not anticipate this timeless quality of fulfillment. God does not intend for things to take as long as they do - not at this period in time.
- How long will it take? Does not have to take any time at all, depending upon the faith and the prayers of the saints.
- The kingdom of God is now. That's the key.
- Every day we're appropriating what He's done, what He's fulfilled. We appropriate it. And as we appropriate it, we're reaching into more.
- Satan will go, oh yeah, you can definitely have that sometime in the future. It's easy to accept that, yeah, I believe it, and yeah, someday I'm gonna have it...
- No more delay. Especially when we are believing for the appropriation of a perfect provision of Christ that is clearly stated in the scriptures.
- There's a tendency to to put things off. I believe by faith I've got it. Well then why are you putting it off? Why don't you appropriate it and voice that you have it? And why don't you walk in it? We will voice things and create it by voicing it, and then there's no more delay.
- I want to win this race, not come in second, or third
- We live on the belief and the appropriation to make this Word work.
- It's done in me. That's appropriation because you no longer have that lie in your ear that says, hath God said.
- By one offering, He has accomplished it. The provision is perfect. Something that we can claim just one time, and we will receive it for all time.
References:
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Luke 17:20-21
Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed, nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.
Hebrews 10:14
For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but onlyone receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
Philippians 3:3
For we are the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.
Takeaway:
Christ is our perfect provision and the Father's promises are timeless. We declare and stand on His Word and put no confidence in our flesh. We live each day in His faith and appropriate His provision to walk out His promises today.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Introduction**
Hello everyone, I'm Ron your host and welcome to another episode from Live Behind the Veil. I am very excited about what the Holy Spirit is opening up for us to share with everyone. This is a whole new category that we have titles “Come Worship With Us.”
These podcast will be recordings of groups of believers getting together to Worship in the Spirit. Altough the term Worship in the Spirit may be unfamiliar to you, it is simply a term used in the scriptures to define what true worship is as far as God sees it. God is looking for those who will worship Him in Spirit and truth.
To try and define worship in a short time would be very limited and would not even scratch the surface of what true worship to the Father is. Instead, I would like to invite you to experience some of what we are talking about first hand. Listen to these worship times with an open heart and in your own way enter into the flow of Spirit.
In these recordings you will hear a variety of expressions; from congregational singing, small groups in homes worshiping, individuals singing psalms, people singing in the gift of tongues and more. It all comes from an open heart to the Lord to give to Him what He is looking for.
We have copied all the words of the songs and have placed them in each podcast so that you can enter into the Spirit and have a wonderful experience with the Lord.
I hope these times of worship will be a foundation in which you can enter into a deep worship and relationship with the Lord.
Looking For Your Presence
Looking for Your presence, it is You I want to know, the mystery of Christ in me, alive! Clinging to the Holy Spirit, for He has come to show the way You will appear to me today.
Would that my heart is willing to find you where You will be found now; Would that my eyes are looking to see You where You are appearing now.
Would that my heart is willing to find you where You will be found now; Would that my eyes are looking to see You where You are appearing now.
Would that my heart is willing to find you where You will be found now; Would that my eyes are looking to see You where You are appearing now.
Text & Tune: Diana Kniefel 1987 & 1995
Praise To Our Lord And King
All our voices singing; we will raise together our song, Praise to our Lord and King!
We declare our love to our Father, and we live our lives to bring honor to Him, Aleluia! Loudly we sing, Praise to our Lord and King!
As we gather in our Lord's house, reaching out to love Him; We will bow and kneel at His feet, crying to be His sons.
We declare our love to our Father, and we live our lives to bring honor to Him, Aleluia! Loudly we sing, Praise to our Lord and King!
(Instrumental)
We declare our love to our Father, and we live our lives to bring honor to Him, Aleluia! Loudly we sing, Praise to our Lord and King!
Text & Tune: Charles Beckman
Father, I Turn To You
Father, I turn to You. Your Word has come like the mourning sun and I turn to You. Father I turn to You. When the stars draws nigh in the evening sky I turn to You. You have called my name forever. As You draw me near, I will not turn my heart away. Father I turn to You. Every hour I pray I am Yours today. I turn to You.
Father, I worship You. On bend-ed knee I bow to Thee, I worship You. Father, I worship You. With lifted face my hands I raise, I worship You. I will build Your throne with my songs to You. When You take Your place, I will not turn my heart away. Father, I worship You. From my heart I sing, let Your praises ring, I worship You.
(Free Worship In The Spirit)
Tune & Text: Chuck Beckman
Psalm
Stretch out Your hand over the waters of my mind. Stretch out Your hand over the waters of my mind. Ready me for change! Ready me for change! Stretch out Your hand Lord, over the waters of my mind.
Stretch out Your hand Lord, over the waters of my heart. Ready me. Ready me. Stretch out Your hand, of the waters of my heart. Ready me to hear, Ready me to hear.
Stretch out Your hand. Stretch out Your hand. Stretch out Your hand over me Lord. Stretch out Your hand Lord.
Forever The Same
Give glory and honor, give praise everyone. To the One who is holy, to the One up-above, with all that's within you, give Him all of your love.
Alleluia, Alleluia, let His name be praised. King eternal, great Jehovah, He's forever the same. Alleluia, Alleluia, bless His holy name. King eternal, great Jehovah, He's forever the same.
The love of the Father, and the blood of the Lamb, can heal all His people in every land. In the fields and the meadows, in the hills and the streams, let all of God's people proclaim He is King!
Alleluia, Alleluia, let His name be praised. King eternal, great Jehovah, He's forever the same. Alleluia, Alleluia, bless His holy name. King eternal, great Jehovah, He's forever the same.
Run to the Father, lay your crowns at His feet. Let all of God's people bring Him incense so sweet. For we know He is able, He is faithful and true. Come sit at His table, He has set it for you.
Alleluia, Alleluia, let His name be praised. King eternal, great Jehovah, He's forever the same. Alleluia, Alleluia, bless His holy name. King eternal, great Jehovah, He's forever the same.
( Free Worship in the Spirit )
Meditation Instrumental Worship
This is a instrumental piece that you can just meditate and worship Him in the Spirit.
Synopsis
A walk with God begins with a revelation of the Lord, and it is the worshiper who will come into that revelation. With each deeper step in revelation there is a corresponding step into deeper worship. Those who will walk with God are those who set themselves to follow on to know the Lord with undistracted devotion. It is this worship that takes us beond the veil into His very presence.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary:**
God is working His will out in those who open up to Him and totally give over their will to Him. This spiritual balance between God's working and the intuitive of faith and willingness in us produces an atmosphere that God can create His will in us. In all that He allows us to go through, we give back to Him a deep worship and thankfulness knowing that He is working out His perfect will in our lives.
Show Notes:
- God is the beginning and the end in our lives.
- There is a balance between God working in us and our initiative to do His will.
- We allow Him to work in our lives to accomplish his will.
- He is faithful to finish His work in us.
- In all He lets us go through good and bad, we are commanded to give thanks.
- When we give thanks in all things we are saying You are the Lord and I submit to your working out Your will in my life.
Quotes:
- God starts something and He's gonna finish it. He's the alpha and He's the omega. He's the beginning and the end. Yes, He is that, but what He does in us is the same thing.
- There's a balance in this because if, if we say that He is the, Alpha and the Omega, we're His workmanship, but we take an attitude I don't have to do anything and He's gonna do it all.
- There is an initiative on our part that we have to open the door so that He can become in us what is necessary to bring us totally into the presence of the Father.
- It's about allowing Him to come into our lives and be that part of us that we are constantly in, in a relationship with. He can actually lead us by His presence and direct us by His will.
- His will is to complete the work in us. The initiative on our part is to give Him our will to do that.
- And so if we live in the spirit, walk in the spirit and love each other in the spirit, we're reaching into that realm and all things give thanks.
- It's not easy to give thanks into all things, but I'll tell you what that is a perfecting your spirit.
- ...when you give thanks, you're saying, Lord, I am your son, and what You do with me is your business, not mine.
- I can reach into this relationship with You and love You with all of my heart, with all of my soul, with all of my being. In spite of what I'm going through, it doesn't matter because what You're doing is what You're doing to perfect me and bring me into a place I've never been in before.
- Thanksgiving in all things, worship in all things. This brings forth His perfect will in me.
References:
Revelations 22:13
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
John 14:6
Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.
James 4:8
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse yourhands, yousinners; and purify yourhearts, youdouble-minded.
Jeremiah 29:13
And you will seek Me and find Mewhen you search for Me with all your heart.
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.
Colossians 1:13For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son...
1 Thessalonians 5:18
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Takeaway:
Our walk with God is a balance of God working out His will in our lives and our submission and willingness to give our will over to Him. An attitude of worship and thankfulness in us produces the atmosphere that He can move freely to accomplish all that is in His heart and see His perfect will done toady in our lives.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary:**
God loves us in a total way. He loves us in all our weakness and problems, and because of His faithful love we begin to receive His love in our hearts. As His love transforms us we begin to love Him back with His love and one another with that divine love.
Show Notes:
- Today we accept that we are so loved by the Lord.
- As we know His love for us we find we each have something from Him to give to one another.
- God loves us just the way we are in all of our problems.
- Even though we vacillate about how He loves us, He remains faithful in His love to us.
- God is the one bringing forth His love in us – He is the Potter we are the clay.
- As we express His love back to Him, it opens up a Flood tide of His love back to us.
Quotes:
- Today I accept that I am so loved by the Lord.
- Each of us have something to give to each other that the Lord has given us, that the Lord has placed within us.
- You love us just the way we are - with all of our limitations, and our struggles.
- I didn't feel a love, an emotional love. I still don't most of the time, but yet I know it's like a thing in the back of my mind, knows that God loves me and knows who I am.
- The thing of God that sets this whole thing apart is His commitment to us in spite of all of our feelings and emotions that would want to deny His love for us.
- That's the secret about this whole thing. It doesn't require emotions and feelings and sensations initially, but you can get excited when you see Him manifest Himself through each and every one of us, including yourself.
- It's Him bringing it forth in these vessels that open themselves up to His love, to the awareness of who He is.
- Tell him how much you love Him and you'll find out you just pulled the cord on the waterfall, His love back to you.
References:
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.
Romans 5:10
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Matthew 28:20
teaching them to follow all that I commanded you; and behold,I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Isaiah 64:8
But now, LORD, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter, And all of us are the work of Your hand.
Takeaway:
Today we rejoice in knowing that God loves us. It is this unfathomable love that has touched our hearts and that we give back to Him and share with one another.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary:**
Today as Christ's many membered Body comes together, there is a deep revelation of Christ dwelling in each member. Each one is unique and manifest Christ in a different way, yet in the oneness of the Body a great synergism is created that releases a greater awareness and manifestation of His presence to all. In all of this the Lord is magnified and gloried through His saints.
Show Notes:
- Seeing the Lord and touching Him each day as we come together is amazing.
- The deep relationship with the Lord comes from an impartation form one another.
- Because we are a living Body of Christ we can impart to our brothers and sisters the touch from the Lord that we have experienced.
- We carry His presence in us.
- Each member of His body is unique and ministers to one another in a different way.
- As we come together our oneness in the Lord creates a synergism that is more than the individuals.
- There is great expectation and excitement as we come together to see the Lord manifest in one another.
Quotes:
- We are touching the Lord in each one of us, and as we do that together, it just creates something in the atmosphere that's just amazing.
- The intimacy in our relationship with the Lord, I feel like it's gonna come by an impartation through the brethren.
- It just takes one of us to touch Him in a new way, and then because we're part of, part of one another, we can impart that.
- This meeting with God is in each one of us. Each one of us carries this spirit of the Lord, and as we engage together, it's amazing how it's so impacting.
- By faith, we can just expand our tent pegs, open up, stretch our hearts, reach in in our spirits, and touch the Lord in one another.
- God ministers through each one of us in a different way, and yet in a very beautiful way.
- Together, we become something more. There's something of a synergism of our relationship with the Lord and with each other that comes together and ministers such a release and such a blessing and such a, an anointing and an availability to reach into more.
- How carefully we ought to reach into what we can really be in Christ to one another.
- We have a, an expectation, an excitement and eagerness to, to have encounters with the Lord all day. And we look for Him in our, in our brothers and sisters, even in ourselves and myself.
- No one person or group of people have it all.
References:
Colossians 1:27
to whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is,the mysterythat is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Matthew 18:20
For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.”
I Corinthians 12:12-27
(The Great Body of Christ)
Takeaway:
Today in His family there is a growing excitement and expatiation of seeing the Lord in one another. Through this vast and multifaceted family, Christ is being revealed in a very intimate way to each one as the family grows into His image.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* INTRODUCTION:**
Starting a relationship with God is very simple. It's simply a matter of opening your heart to talk to Him and listening for Him to speak to you. The Holy Spirit will show you your need in how to relate to the Lord. It starts with the awareness that the Lord loves you; He has given Himself as a sacrifice so that you may know Him.
SHOW NOTES:
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Starting in a new life in Christ can begin by you simply asking Him to know Him.
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This is not about performance, where you try to “do things” to please the Lord.
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Ways to open the door for His presence can include praying, or talking to Him, reading the Scriptures, reaching into a teaching from someone who has a walk with God.
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Surround yourself with people who love you and have a walk with God.
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Realize that you grow in a progression as you expose yourself to Him, but you start simply like a child.
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When you come across things that you don't understand, let Him know. Ask Him to reveal to you someone that can help you to understand.
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When a person starts out in their walk with God, they need to know that their sins are forgiven. They need to know that the Lord loves them and He gave Himself for them.
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Just express your heart--”Here I am, Lord, take me, use me, show me.”
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Always keep in front of your mind that He's the potter and you're the clay.
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Talk to the Lord about all the things that you're concerned about. Talk to Him openly about it, but keep an open heart.
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Entering into the whole concept of really knowing the Lord—make it so very simple. The more you add to it, the more complicated it gets.
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Start with the Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Starting there you get the basics of what a walk with God is.
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When you open your heart for the first time to the Lord, you are totally dependent upon Him.
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Connecting in with people that love the Lord, that have a mature relationship with the Lord and that you trust is important.
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The whole idea is getting a person who accepts the Lord to realize that now you have a relationship and in that relationship you can talk to God.
REFERENCES:
Matthew 6:9-13
“Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. '”
Matthew 6:31-33
“Do not worry then, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or “What will we wear for clothing?' For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things ; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
Matthew 13:10-11
And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?” Jesus answered them, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted.
Matthew 22:37-39
And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 6:47-48
“Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.”
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
John 15:7
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you.
John 14:23
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.”
TAKE AWAY:
Coming into a relationship with the Lord is simply a matter of exposing your heart and asking him. A new life in Christ starts by being aware He is knocking on you door. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.” (Rev 3:20)
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* INTRODUCTION:**
There's a cry coming from hungry hearts, who want to know the Lord Jesus Christ in a greater way. The salvation experience, though it was wonderful, can only be the beginning. It's by His grace that we can have more as we seek Him.
SHOW NOTES:
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The Lord wants to be the most important relationship in our lives each day.
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When we embrace each day like a child, then we are humble enough for the Lord to impart His kingdom.
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God completes His work in us by renewing our mind and bringing a fresh awareness of Him to our hearts.
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Even though the Lord is capable to do everything Himself, He has chosen to move through us, the Body of Christ.
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Christ gifted His people with the Holy Spirit, so we can have a fresh and alive experience with Him every day.
QUOTATIONS:
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He has to make it simple in us moment by moment in telling us who He is and how He's bringing us forth. And so we have to become like those children who know moment by moment.
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It's God doing all of this and we're just these humble vessels here that He's doing it through. We have to remind ourselves that it's by His grace and His kindness.
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We cannot do it without Him, but you know what? He has elected to not do it without us.
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The very purpose of Him sending His Son was to create a people for His habitation.
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There's many that'll be just like Him. He's the first.
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Be Christ in the earth. Let Christ have arms and legs and walk in the earth.
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We are His body functioning in the earth, being led by His Holy Spirit.
REFERENCES:
Luke 8:10
An He said, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
Philippians 1:6
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
Jeremiah 1:4-10
Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Then I said “Alas, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, because I am a youth.” But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, 'I am a youth', because everywhere I send you, you shall go, and all I command you, you shall speak.
Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares the Lord.
Then the Lord stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me, ”Behold I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.
Matthew 23:39
For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
Matthew 18:1-4
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And He called a child to Himself and set him before them and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
I Corinthians 2:12
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God.
TAKE AWAY:
As part of His Body, we open up to accept how God is moving today. It is not complicated, we simply believe to be childlike and give our focus to Him every day. In our daily lives, as we accept the workings of the Holy Spirit, Christ becomes more real, and He is revealing the Father.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* INTRODUCTION:**
A person can find a lot of teaching and revelation on the times when Christ was on the earth, walking with His disciples. The Gospels are full of the teachings and summaries of the signs and wonders. What would be exciting is to know is what He did after His resurrection, and the power that was revealed to those that He appeared to.
SHOW NOTES:
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Over a period of three and one-half years, the disciples walked with Jesus, witnessed many signs and wonders, and were taught many things, but they didn't seem to understand in many ways.
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After He arose, He sent them to the upper room, some 120 believers, saying, “You are not ready.”
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Receiving the Holy Spirit was the turning point when the disciples were enabled to receive what Christ was saying.
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His appearings over those 40 days after He rose reached thousands, and it empowered the disciples to become dynamic witnesses.
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He (the Father) wants to bring us into His likeness by virtue of His Son, the firstborn of many brethren.
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Most people when they talk about Christ, always talk about the time before the resurrection—His three and a half year ministry and the disciples walking with Him.
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For me personally, I would rather be there that 40 days after His resurrection and sit before a resurrected Lord: sit at His feet and receive the impartation and teaching from Him—must have been tremendous.
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Honestly, I think the day of Pentecost wasn't for the disciples; it was for the multitude. It was like an explosion of the Holy Spirit; there was a power in what they were moving in, which obviously they did not have before.
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They were eyewitnesses to Christ's resurrection. He appeared to them over and over again. Those appearings set in motion the great thing we know as the Church.
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The key to the salvation is His resurrection. Without resurrection, no power. There's no glory. There's nothing but death. The resurrection was the key to Him being the Son of God and to Him fulfilling everything that He had come for.
REFERENCES:
Matthew 28:6-7
He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said. Come, see the place where He was lying. Go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead; and behold, He is going ahead of you into Galilee, there you will see Him; behold I have told you.
Luke 24:49
And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.
Acts 1;3
To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.
John 14:16-17
“I will ask the Father , and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth , whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
Acts 2;17
“ And it shall be in the last days, “God says, “that I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.”
Acts 2 :41
So then those who had received His word were baptized: and that day there were added about three thousand souls.
TAKE AWAY;
The power of the resurrected Lord was demonstrated over 40 days. In that time He taught keys about the Kingdom of God and opened up a new level of life for us who believe. Christ prayed for us to be able to follow Him in His ascension, where He is, we are to be also.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SUMMARY:There is a dawning in the sons of God, that there is a level of maturity being created by the Father to bring them into the hope of their calling. The agency is the Holy Spirit, who is leading and guiding these ones into being one body and one spirit. He is in the process of coming within His people and bringing forth the Kingdom on earth.SHOW NOTES:*** In this day the believers who love God and believe that they have been called for His plan and purpose, are waking up to the process of becoming conformed to the image of His Son.
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One pitfall that these believers are facing is trying to do things for God outside of their relationship with God.
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The main emphasis is still to know God, but the awareness is shifting to more of a reality that He is coming forth in us.
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We—Christ's body-- are the kingdom of God. He is sitting at the right hand of the Father, making intercession until we bring His enemies under His feet.
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Just as the Holy Spirit came on the gathering at Pentecost, we need the power of the Holy Spirit leading and guiding us as we focus on bringing His kingdom onto this earth.
Quotations:* Look at Christ as He was born a baby. He was not just a Son of God; He was the Son of Man. He went through the same identifications with things and places and people that we do.
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The way it works is we do everything in Him, because it's in Him and through Him that we will see this work completed.
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The changes come almost imperceptibly.
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Our walk with Him comes from the life of Christ in us. He's walking in us. The goal is for His purposes, whatever that is, and we know His purpose is to redeem all of creation.
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There must be a willingness to do everything possible, to be alert to the times and the seasons, for God does not intend for us to put our heads in the sand like an ostrich...but neither does God want these things to choke out the Word until we are no longer listening to His Truth and following it.
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We always talk about how the early disciples walk with the Lord before the crucifixion, but we never talk about how they walk with the Lord after the crucifixion. A resurrected Christ appears before these guys and teaches them about the Kingdom of God for 40 days, and He does amazing things.
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Christ couldn't walk the way He walked without the fullness of the Holy Spirit, and neither can we.
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We have the prescription for coming into the fullness of the kingdom of God. It's through Jesus Christ and His embodiment within us.
REFERENCES:Matthew 26:63-64But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest said to Him, “I adjure You by the Living God, that You tell us whether You are the Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus said to him, “You have said it yourself; nevertheless I tell you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven,”II Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves.Luke 21:34-36Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap; for it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of all the earth.Galatians 2:20I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.Romans 8:20-21, 28-30For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.Acts 1:3To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.Acts 1:13When they had entered the city, they went up to the upper room where they were staying.TAKE AWAY:Jesus Christ is coming forth in us individually and as a body of believers. He came forth as a man, and exemplified the priority of having a intimate relationship with the Father. Now He ever lives to make intercession for the plan of the Father to to have a people. The Father is the great creator and He has been bringing His kingdom in a people. He sent the Holy Spirit to teach and lead each believer to follow after the pattern Son. His working is at our initiative—all we have to do is ask. Just say, “Spirit, fill me.”
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* INTRODUCTION:**
What does it mean to be saved? The meaning of salvation can seem vague and unreachable. Or it can seem like a one-time event that introduces a person to Jesus Christ. A person can realize he has broken through a barrier and life will be more complete. Are you choosing to find more? A cry can come out of a person to find more to life. If you're looking for more, begin to ask God, seek Him and you can receive that salvation into a new life!
SHOW NOTES:
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If you ask God to make Himself real to you, all you have to do is simply open up and ask.
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You will know He is real, because you will sense it in your heart as something you've never experienced before.
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When the salvation experience begins to unfold, you may become more aware that it is a progression of steps in getting to know Him.
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Salvation is a growth experience as He walks you through being saved in various aspects of your life.
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God wants to save you to the uttermost.
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As we choose to follow Him, He will lead us into all the truth.
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If you accept Christ that His death on the cross for you, that it was for you, and that you just accept His love and sacrifice for you, then you will begin to know that the Lord is very real and the Father will be very present to you.
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Having a real experience with the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, because it's an experience with the living Savior, It's and impartation to you; He becomes a living person.
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When you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, He saves you to Himself; you become His possession.
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You understand that you have a s purpose: you become a son as He is a Son, and that starts from the very beginning. His Son paid the price that you might have a relationship with the Father.
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Salvation is an unfolding process. You have an initial experience, but then every day you can be saved a little more and a little more, and a little more.
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You need to be with others that have a relationship with the Lord as well, because without that, you don't have the support, but if you drive to the center of the flock, draw around others that have a relationship, then there's a covering.
REFERENCES:
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me: and those who diligently seek me will find me
Matthew 7:7
Ask , and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Romans 8:27
He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to His purpose.
Luke 2:11
for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Exodus 19:5
Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine.
John 21:18
Truly, truly I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walked wherever you wished: but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you, and bring you where you do not wish to go.
TAKE AWAY:
When you hear your heart saying, “Lord, I want to know who you are,” you realize that you're ready for a salvation experience. It's good to know that this is so simple—all you have to do is ask.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SUMMARY:**
In this day, the sons are called to be one, as the Father and the Son are one. Since the first-century church Christ has provided the way for oneness. To the extent that we are open in our hearts to one another, the fullness of Christ creates the oneness. Every part of the Body of Christ is needed to contribute to that flow of oneness. We open our hearts to be perfected in this oneness.
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The will of God for us is that we all may be one.
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When Christ said, “It is finished,” He was pointing to the fact that everything had been given for His believers to become one.
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The provision of Christ's presence to be one has not been perfected or the world would have believed in Jesus Christ.
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The Scriptures reveal that the provision for oneness is in the earth, we just need to believe by faith and make the commitment to become one.
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Our relationships should be the practical application of this oneness as we relate and function in our families, churches and other connections.
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The first-century church was an example, as they were of one heart and soul. (Acts 4:32). Thousands were brought into the church, because they witnessed the fullness of oneness in those believers.
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In every instance that we see barriers to the oneness, we need to determine to break down those barriers in ourselves and in our brothers.
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Christ's final prayer before His resurrection was that we be one—let us answer that call with all our hearts.
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The fullness of Christ is already in the earth—in the Body of Christ.
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To the extent that we are open in our hearts to one another, that creates the oneness.
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God has already put His fullness the Body of Christ, but because of schisms, division, or whatever, we're not receiving.
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The hard hurdle is to be open to your brother with all his faults, “problems.”
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If we're not walking in it—not by theory, not by faith, but by actual experience—we have to look to ourselves, because the problem is not in Christ; the problem is within us.
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I want to voice my oneness—my trusting the Lord—to give me the ability to reach into your heart and allow you to reach into mine.
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Whatever God is giving you to do that is a little diverse from the rest of us, exercise it; but make sure you exercise it in a sense that it is a part of the whole thing that we're doing.
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The keys in this—the practical keys—are the oneness and the love.
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JOHN 19:30
Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
JOHN 17:4
I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.
JOHN 17:22-23
The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as we are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the work may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.
ROMANS 10:6-8
But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “Do not say in your heart, 'who will ascend into heaven?' (that is to bring Christ down) or “who will descend into the abyss?' (that is to bring Christ up from the dead) “ But what does it say? “the word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”--that is, the word of faith which we are preaching.
JOHN 1:16
For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.
EPHESIANS 3:19
to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
EPHESIANS 4:12-13
for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the Body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
TAKE AWAY:
Oneness is more than what we can do on an individual basis. This s the day for the Father's family. In the whole time since the first-century church, the oneness has fallen short of the manifesting the flow of oneness that brought forth the thousands into believing in Jesus Christ. The fullness of Christ is already in the earth as a provision, we need to commit to hearing Christ speaking in each one of His Body. By His grace, we open up to participate in Christ coming forth in His oneness.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SUMMARY:**
Jesus said, “no man comes to the Father , but through Me.” He is our connection to the Father. The Father is the One with the plan. He is drawing us into His love through Christ. It's not complicated; we just open up to the Body of Christ.
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The Father sent His Son into the world not just to give the lost a salvation experience, but to enable a people to be His family.
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Christ is maturing within a body of believers as they hear His voice and open up to a fresh revelation of Him.
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The presence of the Lord is breaking down the misconceptions and deceptions that would keep us from knowing Him.
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The love of the Father is completing His plan in a people.
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This experience is so simple; just open up.
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This relationship with the Father through Christ liberates us to really love each other.
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The Lord Jesus Christ and His completion in us, gives way to a revelation of the Father.
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Everything that's been in the Father's heart from the beginning was to be to us what He's becoming now.
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Now there's many sons coming to glory.
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Jesus Christ is in us, revealing the Father to the world.
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It is unfolding in the heart; it 's just His love.
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He's not doing it from the heavens; He's doing it through us.
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The Father's love is coming through, because of the relationship I'm having with my Lord and my Father and the Holy Spirit.
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If you're moving in Jesus Christ and you're expressing Him, there's those aspects of the Father that are coming through to people already, because they're expressed through Christ.
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It's just not anything that you have to strive for; you don't have to do anything. When He is your source and He is your everything, you don't need anything from anyone else.
REFERENCES:
Matthew 11:27
All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
Philippians 1:6
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
John 10:27
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
Daniel 2:35
the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
John 6:44
No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.
Jeremiah 31:3
The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.
I John 4:16
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Matthew 5:14-16
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
TAKE AWAY:
In John 15 we have the kind intention expressed by Christ to us: “You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. He is completing unto maturity the work He started in the Body of Christ. Today we ask—be who you are through us. Make us the Father's family.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SUMMARY:**
“That they may all be one” (John 17:21) –This was Christ's prayer to the Father. This was His prayer for his disciples, but also for us. This was Christ's cry—that the interpenetration between Christ and the Father should also be evident in His sons.
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From the time when Christ was on earth, He has been bringing His sons into a oneness.
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The key to the oneness with one another is to penetrate into one another's hearts and spirits.
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The Holy Spirit welds us together by the words we speak and the daily practical things we do with each other and for each other.
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We believe to be brothers and sisters in the Father's family, but we cannot produce this depth of relationship ourselves; He must complete this.
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We cannot wall off our brothers and sisters, but need to believe that God can speak through them.
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It's the grace of God that enables us to become the Father's family.
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God is looking for a family, and He is looking for that family to melt together by His Spirit.
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We're releasing one another from the inability in our personalities, in our spirits, whatever, in our being from being one.
- What is the relationship that Christ had with the Father? He had oneness.
- It's as if you walk in the Light as He is in the Light, then you have fellowship.
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We'll have all the family spirit that we want to see as we focus on Him, and He becomes all in all.
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It's the Lord Christ in one another; our oneness may start with our personal relationship with the Lord in the sky, but that transitions to Christ in the earth.
- He's manifesting Himself as Christ in His many-membered body.
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Our disagreement is evident in many cases of lack of the cross or lack of finishing the cross, because when you finish the cross, you are a different creation.
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Grace, Lord! Make me into that person who is totally Yours!
REFERENCES:
Ephesians 4:15-16
but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
John 17:21
that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in you, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
I John 2:7
but if we walk in the Light as He himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
I Corinthians 1:10
Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Philippians 3:18
For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ.
Galatians 6:14
But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
John 15:16-17
You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name, He may give to you. This I command you, that you love one another.
TAKE AWAY:
God is one, but He expresses Himself as three—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They are so one that we cannot see one without seeing the others. This is the oneness that the Lord is in the process of creating in His sons, so that when we look at each other, we see Christ. The cross experience as we come into His lordship, will bring forth the many-membered body. By His grace, God is getting His family.
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Through tragedy and devastation God draws the human heart unto Himself. Out the chaos of their lives comes the voice of the Lord “will you walk with Me.”
Show Notes:
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God puts people through many things so they will reach into Him for life.
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Through catastrophe and tragedy people grasp for many things, but the most valuable thing to reach for is a relationship with God.
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Temporal possessions are not what we are reaching for. It's the eternal possessions that we desire.
- It's not only people's lives that are being shaken, but whole nations are finding everything that was their stability taken away from them. So that they have an opportunity to turn to the Lord.
- Each day we should wake up with a thankfulness and a drive to pursue the Lord.
Quotes:
- God loves His creation He'll go to any anything that is necessary to wake people up and turn them to Himself.
- God causes the disruption in people's lives because of the status quo. Because of their never getting around to pursue their walk with God, that now that moves into the forefront of so many lives
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The things that people are looking at on a human level are called tragedy, are called catastrophe, and people are grasping for this and that. His presence is way more valuable of a relationship with Christ. A relationship with a Father.
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I think God brings chaos to people's lives. They're just torn down to nothing. And that's the perfect state that God can move. Because now they don't have, they don't have anything and God can speak and create a new path for their lives - something new.
- ...God's just kind of pulling the rug out from underneath nations because the Lordship of Jesus Christ is right there.
- In the midst of what looks like terrible tragedy and terrible loss, out of that loss there is a spiritual awakening that's happening in the hearts of people.
- So many things have happened but how much does it take for us to wake up?
- Help us Lord. Then we wake up in the morning, thankful and grateful with the potential of each new day that you've given us and with an intense desire, pursue that and to adjust our lifestyles as - as necessary .
- People are turning right now and God's going to have a great fruit. Millions are turning.
References:
Genesis 1
(The Creation)
Romans 10:13for “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
1 Thessalonians 5:18
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Takeaway:
People's lives are being shaken through great tragedy's. God is drawing their hearts to Him, and out of the ashes of their life they are finding a relationship with their Creator. Now is the time, this is the day, will you open up to Him?
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As God's bond servants we have access to His love 24/7. As we become aware of His love dwelling in us, we grow and manifest that love until we become His love in this earth.
Show Notes:
- We can draw on the love of God any time we want.
- Showing love in the simple things can be an expression of God's love.
- We are bond salves to the Lord and in that place we serve one another.
- We minister the love of God 24/7 out of who we are.
- We must become the fullness of the love of God in the earth.
Quotes:
- We have such tremendous access to the Father's heart 24 /7 and all we need to do is just avail ourselves of it.
- Wait before the Lord and draw upon His love. Draw upon Him. Because it's not in your strength.
- Showing respect for one another, being polite to one another. Just simple things like that is loving people.
- How do you grow in the love of God? Exercise it!
- Our challenge is to be aware , that who we are ministers.
- We're love slaves to the Lord. We're bond servants with the Lord.
- We never stop going up into His presence. We never stop becoming who He is. We never stop this love that He's imparting to our spirits.
- We want His love to grow in us. Until we become the love of God in the earth, completely.
References:
Colossians 1:13
For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son.
John 13:1-17
(Jesus washes His disciples' feet)
John 14 – 17
(Coming into the love of God)
Hebrews 7:25
Therefore He is also able to save forever those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
Ephesians 3:19
and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
Takeaway:
God's love must dwell in us and we must become that love and express it to the earth. As the scripture states so simply; we must know the love of Christ and be filled up to all the fullness of God.
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As God shows His loving-kindness to us we begin to express that love. As we exercise this love each day towards our brother and sister, it becomes the more excellent way as we grow in Him everyday.
Show Notes:
- We can start to love people by being kind to them.
- We must exercise our love daily.
- God wants to express His love through us.
- As we learn to love with His love we move into that more excellent way.
- His love is seen in us and it grows greater each day.
- As we see how much God loves us we find ourselves loving more.
- We are a part of our brother and so we melt in love for him.
- It is ultimately all about His loving kindness.
Quotes:
- Your love must exceed your submission, that love exceeds everything else.
- And love will overcome any of our failures, our shortcomings. Love will cover all that.
- Be kind to one another, and that will open the door to being able to love.
- He loves us and He wants His love manifested in the earth.
- That depth of love that can look at and see all the things that are wrong and see all the things that are right and put them one pile and say, God so loved me that He gave His only begotten Son for me .
- ...if we're loving and learning how to love more and love each other more and love those people out there more, that's just getting up into a higher level in the Lord.
- When we are walking in true love of the Father that comes through Christ, who's in us, it's an ongoing process.
- The love of God is so inclusive and so detailed and so free to express His love in everything.
- His love is so great. And we see it in one another because He's in us.
- I bless everybody to have an experience of how much God so loves . . And maybe it'll change your mind as to how you behave towards people.
- We are a part of Christ in one another. We're so melted in His love and we're growing and changing every day.
- He's touching us and we're touching the world with His love.
References:
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Corinthians 16:14
All that you do must be done in love.
1 Corinthians 12:31
But earnestly desire the greater gifts.
And yet, I am going to show you a far better way.Psalm 85:7Show us Your mercy, LORD, And grant us Your salvation. Takeaway:
As God reveals His loving kindness to us we are transformed and begin to express that same love to one another. This love is expressed in many ways of kindness, respect and sacrifice towards one another. In the true words of the scripture this love has become our more excellent way.
*Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. INTRODUCTION:Christ came to earth to reveal the Father. When He taught us to pray, He started out with “our Father,” revealing the point that God is our Father also. (Matthew 6:9) But He also expressed that the Father directs our attention to Jesus, whom He sent. (John 6:29) Christ is showing that their relationship was a two-way street. When Jesus was baptized, the Holy Spirit descended upon Him and the Father's voice proclaimed, “You are My beloved Son, in you I am well-pleased.” (Luke 3:22) Thus, we have the third being of God—the Holy Spirit. When Christ sent the Holy Spirit to those gathered during Pentecost, once again He was opening the door for us to know another aspect of God who is available to us. (Acts 2:4)SHOW NOTES:*** Jesus Christ must be real to us by revelation. * The Words which Christ spoke were not words from man, but they came from the Father. * When we seek the wisdom of the Father, He reveals His kind intention toward us. * Whether we pray to Christ, or our Father, or we ask of the Holy Spirit to lead and teach, we can have the Truth revealed to us. * The Spirit writes the Word of God on human hearts. * He makes known the mystery of His will as we earnestly seek Him.
QUOTATIONS:* Jesus said to Peter, “Flesh and blood did not reveal that to you. That was a revelation from My Father.” * He who has the Son has the Father, and he who does not have the Son, does not have the Father. * No one knows the Father except the Son, and whomever the Son wills to reveal Him, and no one knows the Son except the Father. It is a back and forth relationship, so precious and so deep that it has to live for us. * If you started out walking in Christ's footsteps and you continue in those footsteps, each step we take in His footsteps brings us closer to the Father. * We're following after the pattern of the Son of God, the firstborn Son. We're learning to become sons, and as sons, we should be reflecting and painting this beautiful picture of the Son, Christ Jesus. * The Father and Christ work together in a oneness that brings all these wonderful things that the Scriptures reveal to us. * Whether you're speaking to the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus Christ, or the Heavenly Father, It's all the triune nature of God.
REFERENCES:Matthew 16:15-17 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.”Matthew 17:2 And He was transfigured before them, and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light.Ephesians 1:18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe.John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My Word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make our abode with him.Ephesians 3:16-17 That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth.I John 2:24 As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him and he with Me.TAKE AWAY:As we set our minds on the Spirit, we gain life, increasing in the indwelling of the triune nature of the Father, son and Holy Spirit. With the revelation of the Lord, He brings His presence and abides with us. This becomes the desire of our hearts as we seek to know Him in the many aspects that we find in the Scriptures. Our cry is for His presence and infilling.
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Today, people don't want to have someone quote scripture and verse to them. They are looking for something alive and real. There must be a people who become the scriptures, so that when they speak it is Christ coming out of what they say. Now is the time for those living epistles read and known of all men to emerge.
Show Notes:
- When we speak we must be the scripture, not just quote it.
- Those believers in new testament times were writing the new testament in how they walked with God in their time.
- Can we create a new age, and new testament?
- We are sons of God and He has set us free to walk as Christ waked with the Father.
- This walk with Him must always be exciting and new.
- We must break out of the box of our limitations and fears.
- We started out as babes and had th9se over us who guided us. But then we matured and grew out of the childish state and flowing together with the brethren.
- We must read and eat the scriptures until we become those scriptures.
Quotes:
- I am so convinced that God wants us to live in the scripture realm, in our heart, in the spirit.
- This is what happened to the first New Testament church. They didn't have a New Testament, they were the New Testament.
- They were forming a new age,they were creating the Bible, the New Testament.
- Why can't we form a new age? Why can't we write a new Bible?
- Who's going to speak the new revelations? Who's going to frame an age?
- Most movements, if not all movements, start out that way. It's exciting, everything's new, there's no solidity, everything can be just, it's just movable, anything can happen, you don't know what's going to happen, what's going to be said.
- Everything that we've ever learned becomes a perimeter about what we believe. And the fear of going outside of that .
- We can't believe everything that everybody's ever said to us. We have to have our own personal relationship with God.
- When I was a child, I was taught as a child. I did childish things. I listened to my people that were over me, and I took that, and I ran with that. But then there's a time for growing up, a time for coming into maturity...
- God's saying come up higher. Come on, guys. I need you to come up in My mature sons, I need you to grow into the presence of the Lord because I have many things for you yet to do. Many things yet for you to become.
- Read the scriptures, eat the scriptures, but when you deal with others, be the scriptures. They don't wanna hear you read a bunch of words. You become it.
References:
2 Corinthians 3:2-3You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all people, revealing yourselves, that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. John 10:36are you saying of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?Galatians 3:26For you are all sons and daughtersof God through faith in Christ Jesus.Proverbs 3:5-6Trust in the Lord with all your heartAnd do not lean on your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge Him,And He will make your paths straight. Revelation 21:8But for the cowardly, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral persons, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part will bein the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” Galatians 5:1It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. 1 Corinthians 13:11When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. Takeaway:
People who have eaten the scriptures and become them is the answer for the cry in the hearts of men today. No more empty religion and a bible that people don't understand. Living epistles are in the earth again speaking a Word that is living and powerful sharper than any two-edged sword able to reveal Christ to hungry hearts.
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The door was opened to resurrection life on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2). The Lord sent the Holy Spirit to those who had gathered in the upper room, and they received power. The spirits of those believers were born again, that day. The Holy Spirit is Christ's Advocate to give life. Anyone who has been born again has the resurrection life of Christ in him.
SHOW NOTES:
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Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. What life? Resurrection life.
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Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead after he had been in the tomb for four days.
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What is resurrection life? It's going to be so simple; it'll be like walking through one door into the next.
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We are to follow in Christ's footsteps. The Holy Spirit is to guide us into all the truth.
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The potential for resurrection life has already been imparted to those who have been reborn and have experienced their personal cross experience.
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Resurrection life is coming first in the spirit, but the promise is that He will give life to our mortal bodies.
QUOTATIONS:
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Christ opened the door for our spirits to be in resurrection life before He went to the cross.
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If you've been born again, you already have resurrection life; the life of Christ is in us.
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You have resurrection life—it is something that you have to claim and believe that the Lord has already put that life in you.
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Do you have it in your physical body? I don't know how to answer that. All I know is in the spirit, we have resurrection life.
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When the Holy Spirit was given to those believers on the day of Pentecost, they were filled with the Holy Spirit.
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If we go through the cross, resurrection is up the Father, because we have done everything we can.
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Without the cross experience, we can't be resurrected, because we haven't “died” , but once the cross experience is complete, you move on without fear.
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I believe in the whole realm of the worldwide body of Christ, God has imparted it to His people already. We don't have to wrestle with God to bring it down on the earth.
REFERENCES:
John 14:16-17
I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
John 11:43-44
When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth.” The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him and lit him go.”
Romans 8:29
For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren.
John 11:25-26
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never dies.”
I Corinthians15:20-22
But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
II Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled fave, beholding as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
TAKE AWAY:
Since the Holy Spirit is in us, He can lead and teach us about our spirits and what He is imparting to us day by day. We can reach in to receive all that He teaches and about life and godliness. If you've been born again and have the Holy Spirit in you, you have resurrection life in your spirit.
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God loves us and wants a simple relationship with us. This relationship is not based on what we are or what we have done, but is based on His love and the salvation He has provided through Jesus Christ. Will you open us to His love for you today?
Show Notes:
- God loves us and we must have a revelation of this.
- God is in us and in all of His creation.
- We open up to a walk with Him because He loves us and we receive His love.
- Men and women walked with God before there was a bible, they just had a relationship with Him.
- Abraham & David had a deep relationship with the Lord even though they weren't perfect.
- God wants a living relationship with you too!
Quotes:
- The first thing we understand is God loves us.
- ...we come to realize that God is in everything, in everybody, He is everywhere.
- You open up to the Lord because someone's told you that He loves you, that He'll accept you, that Jesus Christ died for your sins. He's the one that's going to do the enabling and the creating in your heart.
- Enoch walked with God to a point where he was translated, and he didn't have a Bible or scriptures, he just had a relationship.
- God wants that kind of a relationship with us.
References:
Romans 8:35-39
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or trouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? Just as it is written:“For Your sake we are killed all day long;We were regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.Jeremiah 23:23-24
“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away? Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.
Genesis 3
( Adam's fall from the garden)
Genesis 4:26
To Seth also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then peoplebegan to call upon the name of the Lord.
Hebrews 11:5-6
By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Isaiah 41:8
But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
Psalm 51
(Penitent Psalm)
Acts 9:3-6
Now as he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him; and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” And He said, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting, but get up and enter the city, and it will be told to you what you must do.”
Takeaway:
Enoch walked with God without a bible it was all about a relationship. Today God is bringing a people to a pure relationship with Him through the guidance of the Holy Spirit and a Living Word spoken by a many membered Body. God is drawing you to have this type of intimate relationship with Himself. Will you open your heart to Him today?
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Worship is a state of heart, not a program. A true believer has lost a lot of his interest in “things.” He puts his focus on the realm that is higher than the senses—the realm of spirit. What emerges in a believer's spirit is the seeking to be in the Lord's presence. He learns that the real thing the Father is seeking is a people who worship in spirit and truth.
SHOW NOTES:
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Believers are coming to know by revelation that their main purpose in life is to worship the Lord.
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Worshiping the Lord means walking away from a love of the world that exalts itself above Christ and enthroning Him in all that you do.
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The Lord brings forth the worship in a believer who has a relationship with Him'
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It's important to be diligent to break out of ruts and develop an awareness of the Holy Spirit leading each day.
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Drawing His presence into everything you do is freeing and can be creative.
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A big part of the heart of worship is being thankful.
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Christ was worship to the Father; the Body of Christ is to follow His example.
QUOTATIONS:
- Worship is not singing songs; it is absolutely coming into His presence with that in our hearts and giving Him the honor, giving Him the glory, giving Him the praise.
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When you worship, or you respect somebody, you usually lay down your thoughts and your ways when you come in their presence, because you're honoring them.
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You can get up in the morning, set your spirit in worship, and it will affect everything you do all day long.
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I believe that as spiritual beings, if we start our day the way that He intends for us to start it, we will live in the Spirit continually throughout the day.
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When you're crazy in love, who do you talk about? The one you love!
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Worship is who I am, not what I do, and so, if that 's true as we go through our days, everything can be worship.
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We have the true worship residing within us.
REFERENCES:
Psalm 34:1-3
I will bless the Lord at all times;
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul will make its boasts in the Lord;
The humble will hear it and rejoice.
O magnify the Lord with me
And let us exalt His name together.
I John 2:27
As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.
Luke 3; 21-22
Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus was also baptized, and while He was praying, heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form lie a dive, and a voice came out of heaven, “You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased.”
Matthew 17: 2,5
And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light...While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold a voice out of the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased, listen to Him.”
John 4:23-24
But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.
TAKE AWAY:
The sons of God are coming into a new day of a deeper awareness of their relationship with the Father. He is creating them to be His worshipers. In the depth of their hearts, they are finding a love for Him. It's walking through life, crazy in love!
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The Lord is beginning to invade all the different realms of humanity. In this He is drawing all people unto Himself and the grass roots people are responding to Him. People are coming into a relationship to the Lord in many different places and ways. Is the Lord speaking to you, “COME FOLLOW ME?”
Show Notes:
- God is moving on the people of the World and they are rising up to see change.
- God is drawing people unto Himself and they are finding Him in may different ways and places.
- Is it the time when the Lord is telling His servants to go out and compel everyone to come itno a relationship with the Lord?
- God never turns away those who come unto Him.
- Opening up to a relationship with the Lord is simple. Not Church or doctrine, but just simply opening your heart up to Him.
- We don't strive to have a relationship with God, salvation is a free gift.
- A relationship with the Lord is simply opening up your heart to Him.
Quotes:
- We're living in the day when the Father is reaching out and collecting all creation, and drawing it under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
- The change that God is bringing in America - in this world - starting in America, will be at the grass Roots . The people are going to rise up and say, enough is enough.
- This is a day where He's drawing people unto Himself.
- Could it be it's a time when the Master is saying to the servants go out into the highways the hedges the byways and compel them to come in.
- God's not going to refuse to receive whosoever comes unto Him.
- Doesn't have to be complicated or a lot of doctrine. It's not church. It's a real relationship with a real living God.
- ...there's a hole that needs to be filled in their heart with the presence of God. That's how simple it really is.
- If you're striving to have a relationship with God, you're on the wrong path.
- A relationship is just opening up and learning to know who the person is. Opening up your heart to the Lord and just saying, Lord, here I am.
References:
Luke 24:13-35
(On the Road to Emmaus)
Luke 14:23
And the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the roads and the hedges and press upon them to come in, so that my house will be filled.
Matthew 11:28-29
“Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and You will find rest for your souls.
John 6:37Everything that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I certainly will not cast out.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:8-9
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.
Takeaway:
The end time move of God has begun and the Master has began to invade every aspect of human life. The grass roots people are responding to Him and there is a cry in the land for change. His salvation is available to anyone who will call on His name. Can you hear His call “COME FOLLOW ME?”
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Standing in the presence of the Lord brings true worship. It's not the sense of feeling good that motivates, but it's the yearning of a person's heart to love Him.
The revelation from the Lord reveals that He wants to be more than anything else in a person's life. His command expresses it: “to love Me with all your heart, all your mind and all your strength.”
SHOW NOTES:
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The worship of this new day is not necessarily lifting our hands and singing, but a revelation of Jesus Christ coming forth in the earth.
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The Kingdom of God is not a reasonable concept; it has to be revealed by revelation.
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Just as in the Old Testament times, the high priest washed before going into His presence, we need to prepare our spirits by receiving the blood of Christ.
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Spending time to wait on the Lord and to get into His Word are practical steps to prepare to be in His presence.
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Let the Word wash over your spirit, believing for His revelation to come beyond your understanding.
QUOTATIONS:
- The revelation worship is coming by a revelation of Jesus Christ; He is
revealed to us, in us, that we're becoming worship to God.
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This revelation worship is a state of being more than it is a mechanic.
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The goal in our worship is to stand in His presence.
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The high priest never came into the presence of the Lord until he first washed—by the blood of Christ.
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We are washed by the water of the Word, then you can come into His presence.
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This worship that we're talking about is the most personal thing that can ever be, because it's completely related to our relationship to the Lord. It's a revelation of Jesus Christ in us and out of it, flows worship. It's not only in us, but also in His body.
REFERENCES:
John 4:24
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.
John 16:13
But when He, the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is the come.
Hebrews 13:15
Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips, that give thanks to His name.
Psalm 107:21-22
Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness, and for His wonders to the sons of men! Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of His works with joyful singing.
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Revelation 5:9
And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are You to take the book and break its seals; for You were slain and purchased for God with Your blood, men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.”
Matthew 22:37
And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.”
TAKE AWAY:
Revelation worship really can't be explained; it has to be experienced. Now is the time to have an expectation and and anticipation in our spirits to have this meeting with the Lord. Out of this time in His presence, we can have a deeper relationship with Christ and His body.
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God has brought a people to a place of faith and trust in Him. This also requires a total rejection of unbelief. Faith is not in promises or things, but it is a faith directed towards God Himself. Today we step out into things that we have never dared to believe before!
Show Notes:
- God has brought His people to a place of faith and the total rejection of unbelief.
- God has committed to us His authority to do His will in the earth.
- We should stretch our faith and believe for things that are totally impossible.
- In the Lord's presence all things are possible.
- We are to speak His Word and create His will in every situation.
- We must exercise faith in God and then step out and do His will.
Quotes:
- God is bringing us to a point and a place where we are not accepting unbelief.
- I'm not praying anymore that the Lord will do this and I'm going to stand up and start creating and proclaiming as a son.
- Have faith towards God, because He's the only one that can do it.
- Start having faith toward God. When He thinks you're ready, He will bring them forth. Open your heart to something that you have never done before, that God has never made available, and try not to limit it to the things you want. Let it be something, as the Abraham story, that it's impossible for you to do except through faith toward God.
- When we believe in Him it's like a vacuum we're sucked up into His presence . And in His presence we can do anything.
- So I have faith toward God, and then He turns around and He goes, yeah, but I gave you the keys. So speak My word into every situation.
- In the kingdom, we're not going to be able to just sit back and watch TV and, and see God do all the work. He's going to say, get up and get started. So you may as well start practicing right now.
References:
Matthew 16:19I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.”
Genesis 18
( Abraham is promised a Son)
Genesis 21
(The birth of Isaac)
Mark 9:23
But Jesus said to him, “‘If You can?’ All things are possible for the one who believes.”
Matthew 7:21“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
Takeaway:
We have faith towards God and not in any other thing. Our faith is very aggressive and active to step out on what He speaks to us today. As our Lord said: “If you can? All things are possible to one who believes!”
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Today the Lord has chosen to manifest Himself in and through His people. This is where you will find His Word, leading and Lordship. Walking with Christ is simply walking with a revelation of Christ in your brother and sister as you submit to one another in the fear of Christ.
Show Notes:
- The Lordship of Jesus Christ is manifested through people.
- The Word and leading of the Lord many times comes through your brother and sister.
- The Lord has placed Himself in His family and that is where He is being manifested.
- We must have spiritual eyes to see the Christ in our brother.
- We must trust in the Lord and not lean on our understanding of things to enter into this walk with Christ.
- We must stay connected to those that the Lord has placed in our midst.
- We walk with His Lordship in our spiritual family.
Quotes:
- The Lordship of Jesus Christ, the enemy of it, it's the headship of man versus the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
- The Lordship of Jesus Christ comes through people.
- ...that word you're looking for, that direction you're looking for, is going to come through your brother or your sister.
- If you're saying that you're submissive to the Lord, then what you're really saying is, I'm submissive to my brothers and sisters...
- The lordship of Jesus Christ is gonna come through men and women of authority.
- Don't go looking for Him somewhere else when He's placed Himself in His family.
- You must have a spirit of revelation and knowledge from Him so that you can see Christ in yourself and Christ in your brother.
- ...it's important we stay connected in with the body of Christ or with it with the family.
- Jesus is called Savior in the Scriptures only 16 times. Jesus is called Lord - and in my preference - sovereign over 700 times.
- ...there's such a drive that the Father had throughout the scriptures in understanding what we're talking about in the family with Christ as the head.
References:
Colossians 1:27
to whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mysterythat is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Ephesians 5:21
and subject yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
Ephesians 1:18-19
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the boundless greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heartAnd do not lean on your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge Him,And He will make your paths straight.
Hebrews 10:25
not abandoning our own meeting together, as is the habit of some people, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.
Matthew 7:21-23
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
Takeaway:
The Lordship of Jesus Christ is being manifested through His many membered body. This is where we walk with our Lord, and find our relationship with Him as we submit to the Christ coming forth in one another in the fear of Christ.
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The way to keep progressing in a walk with God is to seek Him for revelation. A person can come to times which seem to be “dry” or lack a spark, but the important thing is to seek the Lord for a fresh revelation. The Holy Spirit leads into all truth; all you have to do is to ask for it. When we ask, He will reveal to us the next aspect of our relationship with Him.
SHOW NOTES:
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The Lord relates to us as He did to Peter, when He asked, “who do you say that I am?” When Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God,” he was revealing the revelation that the Father had given him.
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A revelation does not come by analyzing and reasoning; it comes from God.
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The mind of a person can go into reasoning that is not the mind of Christ and can cause us to miss the revelation God is trying to show.
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The flow of revelation comes after a person lays aside his own understanding and lack of trust in the Lord and totally relies on whatever God might say.
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Getting a revelation from the Lord is creative; it develops something in your relationship with Him.
QUOTATIONS:
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There is a personal revelation that we must have to walk in the walk with God and to really reach into a level of really knowing Him.
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It is a revelation of the Lord that He is with us, that He never leaves us, that He is the one who directs our path.
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Knowing that you have a relationship with God by revelation is the most important thing that you can have in the day that we are living.
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If you don't have this, then it's something that you should seek with all your heart.
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This revelation is Him in us is a secret in our journey with Him, in our walk with Him, in our relationship with Him.
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When we come together and we all have this revelation of Christ in us, the connection we have creates something greater than you are by yourself.
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You simply can't walk with the Lord in any effectiveness or any depth at all without a continuing unfolding revelation of Him.
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To really get the foundation, to really get the real depth of who the Lord is and to stay on track with what the Holy Spirit is speaking, your revelation really needs to come from the Word.
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Even reading the Word, you have to have a revelation. Otherwise, it's just a book with stories.
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You have that knowledge by revelation, and every word that you read leaps off the page and ignites our hearts, because it is alive.
REFERENCES:
Matthew 16; 15-17
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.” And Jesus said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
Philippians 4:6
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Proverbs 3: 5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
I Corinthians 8: 2
If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know.
Galatians 1:12
For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
TAKE AWAY:
When Jesus ascended to the Father, He said He would send an Advocate to walk with us and to lead us into all the Truth. This is very important in order to keep us pressing in to know the Lord and see what He is doing. The Holy Spirit can help us to have a revelation and take steps to grow in our relationship with the Lord. It's important to get a foundation in His Word and ask Him to make that Word real—to get an unfolding revelation.
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The priesthood of Christ is coming forth as a ministry different from the priesthood described in the Scriptures. This anointing will manifest through the Body of Christ, a people who have been purified until they have a true submission and humility to do God's work.
SHOW NOTES:
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As the Body of Christ transforms out of the Church Age into the beginning of the Kingdom, the functions of the various parts changes, In the Church Age, you have apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. With the emergence of the Kingdom, God brings forth a priesthood.
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The person who is entering into the priesthood may go through things in the Lord that he does not understand, but he can do as Mary did (hide it in your heart—Luke 2:51), and seek to get a revelation of what He wants you to submit to.
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The priesthood of the Kingdom will have worked in their lives submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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God will refine the priesthood of the Kingdom after the example of Christ, having a humility to do the Father's will.
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This remnant will manifest His love as humble channels created to establish His people to love and worship Him.
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This word of submission comes by revelation, because I do't think that you can submit to the Lord, or even to the Lord in your brother and sister, without a revelation of Christ.
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Submission is a thing of heart, not the mind.
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We've come to a day of total submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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These principles—something that you can't escape, and you can't hide from, and you can't fake it for sure.
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One of the keys to submission is humility, and that is a very important key.
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The apostolic ministries in Ephesians chapter 4 created in them a level of love and humility that enabled them to be the kings and priests.
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Many times God will teach us humility, and from that we learn love and from that we learn submission.
REFERENCES:
I Peter 2:9
But you are a “chosen race, a royal priesthood. A holy nation, a people for God's own possession”, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Ephesians 4:11-13
And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
Ephesians 1:22
And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church.
Hebrews 4:14-15
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.
I Peter 2: 5
you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Matthew 23: 11-12
But the greatest among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.
Matthew 25:20-21
The one who had received the five talents came up and brought five more talents, saying, “Master, you entrusted five talents to me. See, I have gained five more talents.” His master said to him, “Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.”
I Corinthians 15:28
When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.
TAKE AWAY:
We prepare our hearts for this new level. In the Kingdom Age, we will learn humility and love as the Holy Spirit guides us, then experiences of submission so that we can become that holy priesthood that the Scriptures have promised. This new relationship in the Body of Christ can manifest the truer worship that the Father has been seeking. He is to be all in all.
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The five fold ministry of Christ was to bring forth the Body of Christ into a maturity, into the fullness of Christ in the earth. These gift ministries are not a position but a commission to servitude to the Body of Christ just as their Lord and Master came to serve the Father's will in the earth.
Quotes:
- There's a lot of people out there today that say we don't need apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. But the problem is we do.
- We need these apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, they all serve a purpose.
- The whole point of apostles and prophets is to build up the body. And basically they're servants.
- ...as we go on into this kingdom manifestation within His body, there will be many apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, but you won't even know who they are.
- There will be no identifiable positions in the kingdom .
- The flow of the family, the flow of the body, is going to be for the building up of the body of Christ, not the identifying of certain ministries.
- An apostolic ministry was sent .
- ...the ministry of an apostolic ministry is to build up, to minister to, to shepherd the flock.
- A prophet has a shepherd's heart.
- Evangelist, he works within the body, within the church, as an encouragement.
- The shepherd leads the sheep into the place where they can partake of the best meadow, the best of the food. And they watch over these people, they watch over these sheep, and bring them forth into the fullness .
- All of them were for that purpose, to build up the body of Christ.
References:
Ephesians 4:11-16
And He gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors an teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of people, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, that is, Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
John 13:4
He got up from supper and laid His outer garments aside*; and He took a towel and tied it around Himself.
Takeaway:
Christ gave the five fold ministries to the church. These gift ministries are servants to the Body and bond servants to Christ until we all attain to the knowledge of God, into a mature man, into the fullness of Christ in this earth.
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Finding and accepting the Lord is not a one-time experience. There can be so much more than the salvation experience. Believe that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him and tell Him you want to know Him. Submitting your life to the Lord can be a turning point.
SHOW NOTES:
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Developing a relationship with the Lord is an unfolding experience.
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A person must empty out to life on one level in order to open up to life on a new level.
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Many believers have a mental acceptance of Jesus Christ, but in order to get out of the reasoning process, they must enter into a flow of revelation.
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The growth and development of a believer who is hungry for a walk with God, must come to a point of giving his focus to know Him.
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He is your creator. He wants to know what is in your heart, what is in your mind. Talk to Him.
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If you want to walk with God, “you must take up your cross daily and follow Me.” So there's a dying out to self that's required in your coming into the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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I think another key to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, the beginning of it anyway, is revelation. You must have a revelation of the Lord.
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The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not a one-time experience. It's a beginning.
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It goes from experience to experience where we realize how deep Christ being our Lord really is.
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Every experience in God is expandable.
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The Lordship of Jesus Christ will be there to inhabit those that cry out to Him.
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A lot of our time that we spend before the Lord, He wants you to open up to Him, to talk to Him.
REFERENCES:
Luke 9:23
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
Hosea 6:3
So let’s learn, let’s press on to know the Lord. His appearance is as sure as the dawn; And He will come to us like the rain, As the spring rain waters the earth.”
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
TAKE AWAY:
The Lordship of Jesus Christ is a growing process of one who is submitting his will to the will of the Father. Discovering that will comes in the interaction of a believer with the One he accepts as his head, Jesus Christ. This is not simply an individual experience, but it contributes to the bigger goal of manifesting Christ as Lord over the whole earth.
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The family enters into a prophetic flow of the Holy Spirit as they speak God's Word and frame a new age.
Quotes:
- Sons are come to birth and travail is in the land.
- The son's realizing this it's going to resound forth in the earth.
- Do we believe in life? Yes, we believe in life.
- This is a day when the Lord is calling us up higher into a realm of spirit that He has provided for us. It's already been provided through His death on the cross.
- Now the commission that rests upon us is to see this gospel of the kingdom to go to the earth ends of the earth for a witness.
- O lord, the cry that we come in to know You.
- Heaven has come to earth, and it's dwelling in His people in a many membered body. And it's being expressed in the earth.
- We say even so, come Lord Jesus. Come make Your presence known to us. Make Your presence known to the earth.
- It's time for every need to bow and every time to confess the lordship of Jesus Christ in the earth.
References:
John 10:34Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law: ‘I said, you are gods’? 2 Corinthians 2:16to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things? Isaiah 66:8
Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be given birth all at once? As soon as Zion was in labor, she also delivered her sons.
Romans 10:6
But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down),
Matthew 24:14
This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
2 Corinthians 3:2-3
You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all people, revealing yourselves, that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Matthew 6:10
Your kingdom come.Your will be done,On earth as it is in heaven.
Psalm 18:19
He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.
Philippians 2:10-11
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth an that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Haggai 2:9
The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.
Takeaway:
This has been another experience of the Holy Spirit moving through Christ family as they speak His Word in this earth and frame the new age of the Kingdom.
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Salvation is the beginning step in our relationship with the Lord. As we reach into that relationship we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit and begin a process of giving up our life as we begin to submit to His Lordship in our life. This leads us into the greatest joy anyone can know – to know Him.
Show Notes:
- Salvation is the beginning step in the Lordship of Jesus Christ in your life.
- You must give your life over totally to Him.
- We must lay down our thoughts, ways and understanding and take on His thoughts, ways etc.
- We receive the gift of the Holy Spirit that leads us into His Lordship in our lives.
- As we grow in our relationship with the Lord our experiences deepen with Him and we begin to know Him.
Quotes:
- It seems that the lordship of Jesus Christ begins with salvation. That step of salvation is the beginning of a walk with God.
- When we first accept the Lord, we believe that He was raised again and that He's living. So we come into a walk with God. Do you have a relationship with Him yet? No, because that has to be developed.
- You really don't know the Lord until you come into the place where you accept Him and relate to Him as the Lord of your life.
- We're set apart to Christ becoming our head, Christ becoming our Lord.
- Being under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, one of the first things that happens is the dethroning of your carnal mind, the dethroning of your thinking, your ways, and everything that you would choose you're laying down .
- When you've accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, He gives you a the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Show me, lead me, direct me, and let me come into your presence. Let me know you. Not just about you, but to really know You.
References:
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.
Galatians 2:20I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the lifewhich I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came so that they would have life, and have itabundantly.
Philippians 2:12
So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Takeaway:
The Lordship of Jesus Christ in a believer's life begins with his salvation experience. With the gift of the Holy spirit the believer begins a lifelong process of experiences with the Lord as he begins to really know Him in truth.
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The words we speak are to be Spirit and life. Anyone can put ideas together, so people comprehend on a human level; but the goal is to appropriate on the divine level. We are learning to draw more of the Lord, to penetrate into Him even more, and then to focus in faith as we speak. Skip the term, “oneness” and use the word “interpenetrate.” As we apply this, we experience His presence-- we are abiding in the Lord and He is abiding in us.
SHOW NOTES:
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Jesus spent a lot of time waiting on the Lord. He was penetrating into the Father as a man.
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We are coming into a time of the Body of Christ, when a person thinks less and less as an individual and more as being part of the Body of Christ.
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We are learning to draw more of the Lord, to penetrate into Him even more, and then to focus in faith to the needs of others.
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The best example of interpenetration is the relationship of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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How do we penetrate into Him? By waiting on Him, by listening to His word, worshiping Him.
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We are in a day of the leading of the Holy Spirit, as He penetrates into our spirit and we penetrate into His Spirit.
QUOTATIONS:
- He is creating a oneness in the Family where even our individual pursuit of the Lord is swallowed up in the oneness of the organism of the Body of Christ.
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The melting together in our spirits, the oneness, and that releases the power of God, the authority of God in ways that we don't even—will never—reach into individually.
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That is an all-inclusive thing, to where our success is based upon what we do together.
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We are all taking that unique ministry of a part of the Body of Christ, and we're coming together making it work.
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As we open up to the interpenetration of God into us, it comes in and penetrates our whole being, penetrates our thinking, and it becomes His thinking.
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Look at the way the Holy Spirit, the Son, and the Father function. You can't separate them.
REFERENCES:
John 14:17
He is with you and He shall be in you.
John 14:8-9
Philip said to Him, “ Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, 'show us the Father?'”
I Corinthians 12:26
And as one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
Acts 2:44
And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common.
John 17:20-23
I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.
John 15:7
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
TAKE AWAY:
The things that we as believers are experiencing is less and less as isolated individuals. In this interpenetration of the spirit, we are joining in with those who are focused on the Word of the Lord, on the Father's Family and the coming forth of the Kingdom of God. The interpenetration of God and man comes about by the Holy Spirit. He is in the process of invading our spirits and our thinking, as we draw on Him.
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As gentiles we have been grafted through Christ into the root of Israel. This deep revelation of where we fit in God's overall plan shows us that all the promises and covenants in the the scriptures are ours, as we are one with God's family in the earth today.
Show Notes:
- Finding out how God looks at Israel is simply done by looking into what He has said about them in the scriptures.
- Israel is our older brother in God and as we pray for and they receive the fulfillment's if God we also receive those same fulfillment's, (Because we are a part of the family.)
- We are grafted into the rich root of God with Israel.
- Everything in the bible is our heritage as we are grafted into what already exists.
- Antisemitism is in our schools and everywhere in the World. We must not have any of that spirit in our hearts.
- We are grafted in through Christ.
- The feast are the cycle that God has set-up to bring salvation to it's fullness to His creation.
- We must find where we fit into God's plan today.
Quotes:
- All the hubbub that we've been through lately for the last, I don't know how many years, about Israel. All you need to do, if you want to clear it all up, is just read the scriptures about them.
- We all love Israel and love the Jewish nation. How all of that fits, how it all works, I want a revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ in the whole scenario.
- We are not replacing the Jews They are called of God there They have been formed and called by God from the from day one through Abraham.
- Everything in the old Testament is our heritage. Everything. And how do we get it? We get it by being grafted into what already exists.
- Being grafted in is an experience . You can be grafted in now, if you so choose.
- When you claim your inheritance to Israel and you're grafted in and you come to an understanding of what God wants you to be as one of His chosen people. God is trying to make us into worshipers.
- The ultimate possession that I have is my lineage in the Holy Spirit that qualifies me to receive this inheritance.
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It seems like God is trying to include everybody that take the initiative. Christ is leading us to be grafted in. It's through Him that we're grafted in.
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They're blessed. God has blessed His people. And we do give honor to the Jews as our root today.
References:
Romans 11:1-8
( The Remnant of Israel)
Ezekiel 36:24-27
“‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
Revelation 7:1-8( Israel is saved)Genesis 12:3I will bless those who bless you,And I will curse him who curses you;And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”Romans 11:11-31( Grafted into the root with Israel)Takeaway:
Israel is our older brother and therefore our hearts reach out to love, bless and pray for them. As realize that we have been grafted into the root of Israel through Christ, we become obedient to God's Word that says to love, bless and pray for Israel. Our hearts reach out to our older brother to see them enter into all that God has for them in this day.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary:**
As we recognize our deep need for the divine nature we cry out in a hunger that appropriates His nature. Through the provision that Christ won on the cross we then become those overcomers and are able to walk as Christ walked in this earth.
Show Notes:
- We cry out to the Father to receive of His divine nature.
- As we worship we are in a place of appropriation.
- As we move into the divine nature we overcome the things within and without.
- The principles of waking with God we don't discard, but they are what we walk in as we grow in Him.
- We give our selves to the Lord which opens the door of appropriation.
- Our appropriation starts at the foot of His cross.
- There should be an expectancy and anticipation within us that at the end of each day we have more of God in our lives than ever before.
Quotes:
- ...you start crying out for the divine nature in every aspect.
- First thing in appropriation is a thanksgiving out of my mouth.
- You're positioned in worship and appropriation, because worship is appropriation.
- He's trying to put you in a corner so that you'll reach into the divine nature and become something and you become it, you overcome it.
- God is giving you choices. It's up to you to take them. It's up to you to appropriate them.
- You commit your spirit to Him. That opens the door for appropriation, and it opens the door to everything.
- Worship, communion. Those are two major places we can appropriate.
- This whole thing about the blood of Jesus Christ and that provision is the foundation of appropriation.
- We've grown spiritually all of our lives, and we should still be growing, and we should still be appropriating, and anticipating, and declaring, and requiring that at the end of the day, you know what, I am richer spirit, soul, and body, and tomorrow I will be even more richer.
References:
Philippians 4:6
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and pleading with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
1 John 4:4
You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
Hebrews 4:3For we who have believed enter thatrest, just as He has said, “As I swore in My anger, They certainly shall not enter My rest,” although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn That shines brighter and brighter until the full day.
Hebrews 6:12
so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and endurance inherit the promises.
Takeaway:
Christ opened the door through His cross for us to cry out to the Father and receive of His divine nature. It's this appropriation of the nature of God that enables us to walk as His overcomes in this earth.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SUMMARY** The following are excerpts from prophesies regarding this new day:
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Just a whole new day for us—something of life—life to our physical bodies, regeneration to our spirits and our minds.
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God sets us free to become, to prophesy, and to be those sons He has raised up by His power.
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We enter in to a whole new intensity of appropriation for what the Lord has said.
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We come together as one man in this time of His appearing and taking up His abode in us.
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We're not expecting something to happen in the future; we are creating what happens right now.
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The victory for today comes out of the Word that's already written on our hearts.
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We are those ones born from above, a new creation on this earth.
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The release for Israel is taking place right now.
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We declare the lordship of Jesus Christ over the whole earth.
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God, the Father,is getting His people, standing at the foot of His throne worshiping.
REFERENCES:
Romans 8:11
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Joel 2:28
It will come about after this that I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions.
John 14:23
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.”
Jeremiah 31:33
“but this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Ephesians 4:23-24
that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
Psalm 48:10
As is Your name, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth.
TAKE AWAY:
The Lord has a purpose with a remnant of believers, who search out the promises of God and believe to prophesy them into existence. Their cry is, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.”
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary:**
The family enters into a creative prophetic flow of the Word of God. As it is spoken in the Word “By faith we understand that the world has been created by the word of God so that what is seen has not been made out of things that are visible.” Today the Lord is speaking His Word through His family and framing this now Kingdom age. Quotes:
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We have the authority. We have the agreement. We have the word written on our hearts and we have the faith to declare it.
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Everything that we already have, that is already functioning, put it together to change an age and bring the kingdom forth. If you want the kingdom on this earth, you bring it.
- You are the Word, Lord. The Word is God, and the Word has always been God, and forever will be God, and the one that was with God is Christ, who is the Word made flesh.
- I just prophesy a level of worship to just flow out to the Lord from our hearts because he's looking for living sacrifices, which is who we are.
- ...father, we bow before You so that we enter in by Your blood, stand in Your righteousness to be Your worshipers.
- We are the fruit of God in the earth. We cause things to happen.
- The word has become flesh and we are walking it out wherever we are.
- We are the ones who execute His victory.
- We can stand and begin to do that which God raised us up to do. It is two fold. The judgment of the prince of this world and seeing him cast out. Second, loosing creation from its futility and entering into the fullness of our victory, which is the fullness of Christ's victory coming through us.
References:
Romans 10:6-10
But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down), or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, ]resulting in salvation. Jude 3Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all timehanded down to the saints. Isaiah 55:11So will My word be which goes out of My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the purposefor which I sent it. John 1(The Word Became Flesh)Psalm 97:1-6The Lord reigns, let the earth be glad;let the distant shores rejoice.Clouds and thick darkness surround him;righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.Fire goes before himand consumes his foes on every side.His lightning lights up the world;the earth sees and trembles.The mountains melt like wax before the Lord,before the Lord of all the earth.The heavens proclaim his righteousness,and all peoples see his glory.Romans 12: 1-2Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 16:20The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.John 12:31Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. Hebrews 11:3By faith we understand that the world has been created by the word of God so that what is seen has not been made out of things that are visible. Takeaway:
The family gathers together to speak the Word of God. A prophetic flow of the Holy Spirit begins to create those things that are not and frame this new age of His Kingdom.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary:**
As God's people we must know that He who has started a good work in us will finish that work. There must be within us a trust and faith in Him and yet a deep hunger within that creates a cry that drives us on to know Him. In all this we must know His deep love for us as His creation in this earth.
Show Notes:
- We must stand before the Lord in faith knowing that He is doing the work within us and completing what He has started.
- Many people have turned their hearts away from God.
- Our hope in in Him and what He has done in our lives.
- We reach in to Him, being dissatisfied of how much we don't have of Him, and at the same time perfectly satisfied with all that He has done within us.
- We must know how much we are loved by God. If this is in us, we will carry His love within us for all mankind.
Quotes:
- Open your heart and just stand still in His presence and allow Him to complete what He started.
- ...we're standing before the Lord in a level of faith we've never been to before.
- Many have left. Many have turned their backs on God. We refuse to be affected by the things that are coming upon the earth.
- The only hope we have is the hope that we have based upon how He has It met us, created us.
- “Lord, I love You, and I love what You're doing in my life, but I want more. I want to reach into another level of knowing You. I'm dissatisfied with the level I'm on in one sense and yet I'm perfectly satisfied with You and where I'm at.”
- God's, He's always calling, come up here, come up higher. Hunger after Him.
- This must be so real in me, He loves me so much.
- It is about my love affair with the Lord and your love affair with the Lord and us living in this day by day.
- God is ordering our steps and it's all a preparation to answer your cry for Him.
References:
Matthew 24:12
And because lawlessness is increased,most people’s love will become cold.
Matthew 25
(The Parable of the Ten Virgins)Zechariah 4:6
Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of armies.
Psalm 42:1-2
As the deer pants for the water brooks,So my soul pants for You, God.My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;When shall I come and appear before God? Ephesians 4
(Unity and Maturity in the Body of Christ)Takeaway:
God has started a deep work in our lives and we trust and have faith in Him to finish that work. This is all about our deep love affair with the Lord and the cry that has come up out of our hearts to know Him.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* SUMMARY:**
Christ died on the cross and it was a provision for all mankind to walk in His footsteps and to die out to the Adamic nature. How do we respond to that? What do we do in order to see the cross experience fulfilled in our lives?
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A believer will be brought to the point where he knows he is falling short and is living too much in the flesh.
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A devastation can come where you can't even do the things that are in your heart.
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It's important to remember that the Lord is the One who is doing the work.
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We may think we know what He is doing and try to accomplish the experience our own way, but it won't work.
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The Apostle Paul was really expressing the submission and obedience that he lived by, when he summarized it: “I die daily.”
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An example of how difficult this cross experience can be was exemplified by Abraham when he was given a word to take his son, Isaac, up the mountain and sacrifice him. Even though God stopped Abraham from completing that act, that truly was a cross experience for Abraham.
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Religion always wants to take the cross and say, okay, I've got to identify with this cross and let it crucify me.
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We have to remember that He's the One doing the work, not us.
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We don't go forward at all until we continue to die out, because it's all about Him moving through us.
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I don't really think that we have the ability to do the work God is asking to be done, because I think He has to finish the work.
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What is the cross, you know, that God brings? It's often a thing that you don't want to hear.
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In other words, you submit to His will, to His Lordship, and allow Him to complete the work.
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I submit my spirit to the death process of the cross daily, but I don't do the work, because that's God's business, not mine.
REFERENCES:
Romans 6:6
Knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we no longer be slaves to sin.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Galatians 5:24
Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 6:14
But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Ephesians 2:13
But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 2:8
Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross.
Philippians 3:10
that I may know Him and he power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.
II Corinthians 4:11
For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
TAKE AWAY:
Today we are reaching into the submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. You cannot force yourself into this. You cannot perfect what God wants you to bring to the cross by your own efforts. You have to submit yourself to the cross experience and allow Him to complete the work.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary:**
The Spirit of God is moving in our midst. The oneness He is creating in us causes us to function in a deeper level of spirit than before. It's a realm of His Spirit that we can lean on and trust. As long as we stay connected, we have a freedom to flow together and rest. Out of that rest comes a ministry in the Spirit of peace.
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The Lord is working out His life in each one of his believers, and in that process He is connecting us into the Body of Christ.
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Because of the “born again” experience, we begin to function and flow together in the spirit.
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The relationships in the Spirit go deeper than the human level, so we begin to have more of a freedom of expression.
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The Lord is the life line we can minister to each other, so we do not live in fear and worry, but we experience a family atmosphere where we can strengthen one another.
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Each one of us has a unique gift given by God, but also a likeness that only he can put together to form His special creation called the Body of Christ.
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Out of this oneness comes a rest where believers can cease the striving and the separateness that is empty and futile.
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We open up to trust what God is doing in this new level of oneness.
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How wonderful it is to flow in the Spirit and have the reality of God in our midst and know that we're all just living in a realm of spirit where the evil one, the wicked one, cannot touch us.
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There's a rest that we have in Him, and when you have that rest, meaning you know He's there, it's something that carries you through the day.
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Out of that rest comes moving in the Spirit.
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The oneness that we've moved into is the greatest gift God has given us to function and go forward in the things of God.
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God's calling us into a level of oneness and it is a marvelous, wonderful place, because when we rest in the Lord, that means we're trusting what God is doing in everything.
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Our combined functioning as a unit, as one, we are truly the most effective that we can be before the Lord.
REFERENCES:
JOHN 3:3
Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
I CORINTHIANS 12:13
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
JOHN 17:20-21
“ I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.”
MATTHEW 11:28
“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.”
HEBREWS 4:1
Therefore, let us fear if while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.
HEBREWS 4:10
For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.
PSALM 37:5
Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He will do it.
TAKE AWAY:
We don't want to come short of the rest that the Lord has promised us. We cry out to Him to make us one in the Spirit, so we can flow together in a deeper level. We take the initiative in our own hearts to seek Him to write this oneness on our hearts. If we ask Him, He will do it. We pray, Lord, we trust You; you will do it.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* Summary:**
Many believers today are finding a rest in the Lord. Through worship and trust a door seems to be opening in their hearts to realize that He is God and that He is in charge of everything that concerns them. An age of His rest is opening up and those who are reaching in to walk with Him can now enter in.
Show Notes:
- Today we enter into His rest in our worship and in our relationship with one another in the Lord.
- In our rest we trust Him.
- God has put us through everything that we have went through to bring us to this place of rest and trust.
- When we are exhausted and don't know where to turn, we just rest and trust in Him.
- We must see that He will bring about everything that concerns us in His timing and way. We must rest in that.
- We must come to the place of being still and knowing He is God.
- When your in His rest a smile is on your face.
Quotes:
- I enter into His rest with worship. I enter into his rest with acknowledgment of who He is in my life and in your life, and thanking Him for you. And I enter into saying, God, it's all about what You want. It's where we live in His rest, and it's where we live in the relationship to one another.
- ...where is He going to perfect us? Not in our striving. He'll perfect us in our rest in Him.
- Why is rest so important? Because rest is trust.
- Take a deep breath and just rest in all that You are and all that You're doing in and through us individually and collectively.
- Everything we've learned, everything we've been through, everything that God has allowed to happen to us in our lives. You know, we're looking right at it, and it's because of all of these things that we're here.
- When we've come to that point of exhaustion, He's there saying, come on, I'll lift you up to My right hand.
- When we're exhausted, I think Debbie kind of hit on it, it's when we come to that point of exhausting everything that we can do, coming to the end of that, and then letting God.
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I expect every day for some big change in my life, not necessarily my life, but my walk with Him. My relationship with Him to be something different something greater. I can't do that It's okay, because I know that God's in control I know that what He has for me he'll bring about in the timing that suits Him I have to be happy with that.
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...the world would probably not consider what we consider peace. There's such a hunger and a drive reaching for the Lord and for His kingdom, that it doesn't seem like peace to the world. For us, it's, it's the only food, the only, life we have to see Him revealed,
- Just rest. Be still and know that He is God. Be still and know that I'm in charge.
- You can smile when you can't say a word. You can smile when you cannot be heard. You can smile when it's cloudy or fair. You can smile anytime, anywhere.
References:
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.
Matthew 11:28-30
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Psalm 46:10
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
Takeaway:
In this World of turmoil and strife, there is a people that are finding a resting place in God. Their hearts are opening up to believe and see that they truly are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus. In this they worship and trust in Him as they rest from their labors and enter into the works that He has prepared for them to walk in.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* INTRODUCTION:We are coming into a relationship with one another. What kinds of things can we do that create a deeper relationship? We know that Christ emphasized our relationship to one another, when He taught the second commandment to love one another. We are only able to love as He commands, when His love is moving through us. Then we begin to seek a unity of Spirit with the brethren. It's Christ's being Lord in our lives that brings the oneness in the Body of Christ.SHOW NOTES:**
- The Book of Acts begins with the collective experience of the disciples being gathered in one place for Pentecost. They had been directed by Jesus to go to the upper room and wait. After many days, they were filled with the Holy Spirit.
- There are many accounts in the Scriptures of the brethren entering into spiritual experiences simultaneously.
- Many sons of God are coming forth as they cry for the Lord Jesus Christ to rule and reign in their lives. It's a cry that brings a unity.
- God is bringing His people into a new level of awareness where the will of God is being revealed for the Body of Christ more than for each individual.
- There is coming an advanced attitude of “we and ours” in place of the attitude of “me and mine”.
- Body ministry does not automatically happen when members come together and claim they are one; there must be a dedication to become one.
QUOTATIONS:
- If you agree on something that is a spiritual entity that God is directing you to reach into, and you reach into that with somebody who has the same cry in their heart, and you touch that together, there's power that's loosed.
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We actually discover it in one another—the same depth, the same cry, the same drive.
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The challenge is not in combining what we think to come into unity, but it's laying down what we think and taking on the Father.
- There has to be in us the willingness to say, “Lord, I hear what You're speaking , and I am willing to drop what I think out of the equation, because It's Your will that I'm believing for, not mine but Yours.”
REFERENCES:
Psalm 133:1
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity.
Ephesians 4:12-13
for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the statue which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
Acts 4:23-24
When they had been released, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them, and when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God with one accord and said, “O Lord, it is You who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them.”
Acts 2:1
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.
Matthew 18:19-20
“Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.”
Romans 12:10
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor.
TAKE AWAY:
Oneness can be a deeper experience than the normal human bond or friendship. There can be a level of relating that brings a dropping of the individual in order to blend with another person or group of people. The experience of lifting up our voices in one accord, as the Scriptures talk about, reveals Him in His greatness. He is creating His many-membered Body that truly walks in His lordship.
**Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.* INTRODUCTION:**
The Body of Christ is beginning to move differently. How are we going to relate? There needs to be a diligence to open our hearts to the Lord to create oneness. We have never seen a united body of believers such as is coming in His Kingdom.
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Know your calling. Be aware of what He created you to be, and stand on that.
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Avoid being critical or judgmental. The best approach is just to put people in the hands of the Lord.
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The diversity of the Body, as the Word describes, will bring us into a greater appreciation of each other.
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Bless people. Then God will grow each one into what they are to be.
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We may not agree with what someone is doing. David is an example. He certainly made mistakes, but God called him “a man after His own heart.”
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Diversity and division are two different things. People try to make them the same thing. Diversity comes with the blood of the Lamb. Division does not.
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I know what the Lord is doing—He's teaching us to love those who are walking a different path.
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Be aware of the other people out there that are doing the will of God where they're at.
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We learn to love those who are walking towards the same destination with the same Lord, and being led by His Spirit.
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Our job is to love people.
REFERENCES:
Ephesians 4:15-16
We are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
I Samuel 13:14
(to Saul) but now your kingdom shall not endure. The Lord has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people. (David).
Joel 2:7-8
They run like mighty men, they climb the wall like soldiers; and they each march in line, nor do they deviate from their paths. They do not crowd each other, they march everyone in his path.
I Corinthians 12:14
For the Body is not one member, but many. If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.
Matthew 22:37-39
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all you mind.” This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Romans 12:9-10
Let your love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor.
TAKEAWAY:
As the Body of Christ begins to manifest more and more, we may not always understand that it is the Body. There will probably be more opportunities to be “fitted together” that we've not ever experienced before. The Lord will be creating this new Body, because we will not be able in our own strength. We want to love and bless and believe that by His grace we will move in that brotherly love that He commanded.
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Christ died on the cross to be the provision for everyone to be able to receive salvation. As a person opens his heart to Christ as his Savior he begins a whole new life and relationship with Him in the Spirit.
Show Notes:
- Salvation is the open door to a whole new life in the Spirit.
- The cross of Christ was God's provision for each person to be able to walk by the Spirit.
- Christ did not come into the world to judge but to save.
- Our salvation is always expanding and growing.
- There comes a heart cry in people that says; “I don't know but there has to be more!”
- When God prepares a person's heart to receive something from it is is the right time.
Quotes:
- Would you say, when you open up to initial salvation, you walk into a whole new life, a whole new realm in life?
- Salvation, the beginning of salvation was just an open door to walk with God in the spirit.
- Christ was God's provision for me.
- He's just so full of love, and grace, and compassion, and you find that all through His Word
- I don't think we ever stopped growing and coming in to salvation. We're saved, but we're always being drawn into a greater relationship in salvation.
- ...If they cry out to know, they want to know the truth. I don't know, but there's gotta be more.
- ...when their hearts are open and prepared to receive something from God, it's the right time. That's the beginning of salvation for that person.
- ...when you're broken, when you're at the end and you can't do anything and you have no answers. And that's when, you cry out...
References:
Galatians 5:25
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
John 12:47If anyone hears My teachings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
Hebrews 7:25Therefore He is also able to save forever those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
Jeremiah 29:13
And you will seek Me and find Mewhen you search for Me with all your heart.
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Takeaway:
This experience of initial salvation is but the open door to many experiences as the Lord continues to deepen this salvation experience in our lives as we grow in our relationship with Christ and the Father throughout eternity.
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After a person has received Christ, he can go into a determination to grow in God and find how he is to relate to the Body of Christ. The challenges can occur in knowing how to communicate and relate both to believers and unbelievers. One of the stumbling blocks in communicating can show up when you discover you do not necessarily agree with the beliefs of other people. This does not need to end up in divisiveness, but there can be an attitude of heart where a person grows in the spirit and learns how not to break oneness.
SHOW NOTES:
- Everyone is included in His Body; no one is excluded.
- There may be things that we have believed in the past that we may need to drop.
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When we have been brought into a level of oneness and we hear something that we may not agree with, we can hold that thought before the Lord in order to get a revelation of that thing.
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When a group gets into a discussion and they don't agree, they don't need to get into a debate or determine to prove a point.
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Everyone is able to state their beliefs, but can determine not to “push” those beliefs. If everyone does this, then you can have disagreement without division.
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Competitiveness is related to immaturity. Every one of us comes through a stage of getting out of your immaturity to drop the individual focus and come into a being a part of the Body.
QUOTATIONS:
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Oneness is not a human ability. The oneness that we're talking about is a oneness of spirit.
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If I am with a people who love the Lord also, then there is a oneness commanded to maintain by the scriptures,: “Be diligent to preserve the oneness of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
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Hold it in your spirit that you don't have to defend what the Lord is showing, whether it is right or wrong.
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God brings the deliverance from competitiveness.
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The reason you have all these competition and comparing is because you really don't know who you are in the Lord.
REFERENCES:I CORINTHIANS 12:13 “For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.”EPHESIANS 4:23 “with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”I CORINTHIANS 13:4-5 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered”MATTHEW 20:21 And He said to her, “What do you wish?” She said to Him, “command that in your kingdom these two sons of mine may sit one on Your right and one on Your left.”JOEL 2:7-8 “They run like mighty men, they climb the wall like soldiers; and they each march in line, nor do they deviate from their paths. They do not crowd each other, they march everyone in his path; when they burst through the defenses, they do not break ranks.”EPHESIANS 2:14 “For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall.”TAKEAWAY:By one Spirit, we all have been baptized into one Spirit. It's our spirits that are one. This quality of spirit enables us to hear and speak by the Lord's Spirit, and also be able to preserve the unity. When we don't have a point to prove, when we lay down our own tendency to “be right”, we are learning how the Lord is working a maturity in the Body of Christ.
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God loves His creation and wishes that none be lost. He is giving us His heart to love with so that His provision can be made manifest in everything. By His Word and love we walk in the very footsteps of Christ to finish what He is creating in this new age.
Show Notes:
- God loves His creation and wants none to perish.
- God is giving us a new heart.
- It's today that He is giving us a new heart.
- We are saved by His provision of love for us, and nothing from ourselves.
- It's this love from the Father that we walk in to finish what He is creating in this new age.
Quotes:
- Mercy triumphs over judgment. That's His heart.
- God came to seek and to save that which was lost.
- We are going to walk righteous in His law; have the ability to walk righteous in His law because of what He's going to do in our hearts. He's giving us a new heart. He's taking the heart of stone out. He's giving a heart of flesh.
- We're talking about today. It's a provision that we can receive just by opening our hearts and saying, yes, Lord, come in.
- Am I to keep myself by doing anything? No. I'm going to be kept by the provision that He has provided. By His love...
- We're living upon every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
References:
James 2:13
For judgment will bemerciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
Jeremiah 31:31-4
“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. “For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord: “I will put My law within them and write it on their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. They will not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their wrongdoing, and their sin I will no longer remember.”
Ezekiel 36:26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Isaiah 55:1-3
Come, all you who are thirsty,come to the waters;and you who have no money,come, buy and eat!Come, buy wine and milkwithout money and without cost.Why spend money on what is not bread,and your labor on what does not satisfy?Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,and you will delight in the richest of fare.Give ear and come to me;listen,that you may live.I will make an everlasting covenant with you,my faithful love promised to David.
Takeaway:
By His great mercy we are walking in the footsteps of Christ. As the Father creates within us His love for His creation, we in turn become those channels of His love and walk out what He is creating in this new age.
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The Body of Christ is a concept that is very timely for what is happening today. As Paul said, “Now you are Christ's body, and individually members of it” (I Corinthians 12:27). We need to understand that the Lord created the Body of Christ to function as a unit, and what He created the individual parts to contribute.
SHOW NOTES:
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There are basic qualities in the human nature that take away the strength and effectiveness of human effort. They include division, and competition.
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On the Day of Pentecost, a group of disciples showed a quality that demonstrated great strength.--unity.
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As long as the Body of Christ channels division, and competition, their ministry will have no strength or power.
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The city of Babel tried to attain unity on its own, but they did not include the presence of God, so God actually destroyed what unity they had.
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Denominationalism can be one example of division on the human level.
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The Body of Christ must come together, as in the book of Acts, “they lifted up their voices to God with one accord” (Acts 4:24). That is what makes things work.
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Going through the cross of Christ in our lives, and thus dying out to the human nature, is the only way we're going to come into unity.
QUOTATIONS:
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Without the cross of Christ in our lives, and the dying out to the human nature, there will always be division and competitiveness.
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I don't think human nature can change itself.
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The whole thing of division has to do with , first, our openness to it, in our nature, and two, recognizing that there is an enemy out there. There are spirits of division and they're a real threat.
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I don't see where disagreement, and voicing it, solves anything, because my relationship with the Lord, and my walk with God is all based on revelation, not on human understanding and reason.
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In other words, we don't make a point. We don't get into a discussion or argument...and so you avoid that by laying down your life....you just simply love.
REFERENCES:
Luke 9:23
If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.
Matthew 10:39
He who has found his soul life will lose it, and he who has lost his soul life for My sake will find it.
I Corinthians 15:31
I affirm, brethren, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus, I die daily.
Matthew 22:37, 39
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Ephesians 4:15, 16
Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the Body for the building up of itself in love.
TAKE AWAY:
How will the Body of Christ come into the destiny that God has intended? We know that we need to lose our focus on individuality and become a part of the whole unit, called the Body of Christ. God has spoken over and over that the only way we can be effective is by functioning in a oneness—being in one accord. Now is the time to change, which requires help from the Father. We draw the revelation from Him in what He wants. He will change us into that united entity that pleases Him.
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In this day God is bringing His family into a deeper level of His love. This is the same love that Christ had when He laid down His life. Now with a broken spirit, we walk in the footsteps of Jesus as we too lay down our lives for one another to see His will created in his family.
Show Notes:
- God is bringing His family, the body of Christ into a deeper expression of His love.
- It's this deep love that holds His family together.
- As we see our brother and sister's in need, we hold them up in prayer.
- As Christ laid down His life for the sheep, we too must lay down our life for one another.
- We have the authority to lay our lives down for one another.
Quotes:
- The love that God is bringing to us is going to be the only thing that's going to hold us together.
- It's the body of Christ. And that's the one thing that we need to reach into, is to find the body of Christ wherever God has put it, and to become one with it.
- It's only going to be by the love of God that we can forgive each other, that we can walk in His presence as one.
- t's going to be about the Lord Himself speaking through the family. The family loves each other, and that's what holds us together.
- When I see a brother in need and they have problems, I want to be on my face before God for him. Because somebody was on their face before God for me. That's His love.
- Lord, thank you for Your love, for Your grace, for Your understanding, for Your compassion, for Your brokenness for us, because without that, we couldn't go on.
- I was thinking about the, the shepherd . And how the shepherd would go after this little lamb that had lost its way. You're so inclusive, Lord, you're so inclusive.
- We exercise our authority, invested in us by His love to lay down our lives. We take the authority to take up our lives again and manifest His love in the earth to all of His creation.
- There is a love of such great magnitude through Jesus Christ from the Father to love. It's not a question of understanding. It was conveyed to us on the cross.
References:
Ephesians 4:3
Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
1 Corinthians 12:12-27
(Read about the Body of Christ)
John 3:17
For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
Luke 15:1-7
(Read about how Jesus goes after the lost sheep)
John 10:14-17
I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me—just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again.
Takeaway:
Christ was our example as He laid down His life in love for the sheep. Today we walk in His footsteps and with a broken spirit we lay our lives down for His family to see Christ's love manifested today.
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Salvation is the initial step into our relationship with the Lord. This opens the door for us to accept Him as Lord over our lives, and begins a life long process of us giving our selves to Him in every area of our lives. As we walk on in the footsteps of the pattern Son, we begin to die out to our old nature and take on His nature. As the firstborn son, we too must be pleasing to our Father.
Show Notes:
- The very purpose of our being saved was to bring us into a relationship with the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
- As we die out to the old nature we become alive to the Christ nature that is within us.
- We must remember that we are not the one in control, but it is God in us to work out His good pleasure.
- Once you accept the Lord into your life, ownership changes hands and He now owns you.
- We must walk in the footsteps of the pattern son, (Jesus Christ) to become just like Him.
- This walk with Him is not complicated. We must not let our minds or other things complicate our walk with Him.
Quotes:
- The purpose of your salvation, the purpose of being set apart, is that we can be introduced, and be a part of the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
- ...we look what He did in His time here on the earth. He showed us through His life the kind of life that we have to lead, if we're going to answer His call.
- ...the more you become alive in the Christ in you, things begin to disappear of your old nature.
- Salvation was great, but the Lordship of Jesus Christ coming in to know Him , and to walk with Him in an every moment experience is a real, real experience.
- I have accepted the Lord, now what? Now the Lordship of Jesus Christ becomes something of a relationship - and every day, every moment, every part of your being relationship.
- You may be giving Him permission, you know, by your yielding your spirit to Him, and submitting your heart to Him, but He's the one doing the work in you and creating you into His image.
- You're no longer your own when you open up to accept the Lord.
- We have to get a revelation. We find out that Yahshua Messiah, Jesus Christ, is the pattern Son.
- ...I'm going to walk today is in His footsteps. You're led by the Holy Spirit, and that's the key.
- ...it's a fun thing because it's not complicated. It's only our human minds and, and all these things that complicate a walk with God, complicate us following in the footsteps of our Messiah.
References:
John 3:30
He must increase, but I must decrease.
1 Corinthians 15:31
I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
Isaiah 30:21
Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” Whenever you turn to the right hand Or whenever you turn to the left.
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Romans 8:29
For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
Matthew 3:17
And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Ephesians 2:8-9
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.
Takeaway:
It is all about the Lordship of Jesus Christ in our lives and us walking in the footsteps of the first born son. We submit to Him as Lord in our lives, die out to the old nature and receive from Him His nature. We refuse to complicate what God is working out in us as the Holy Spirit leads us each day to proclaim Him Lord!
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It's about us walking out the Lordship of Jesus Christ in our lives today. As we walk in His Lordship, we minister His Lordship in all we speak and do. We are entering into that priestly ministry with Christ at the Father's right hand to see all things come into subjection to Him.
Show Notes:
- Our walk with God is about the Lordship of Jesus Christ in our lives.
- We bow at His feet in worship.
- Our relationship with the Lord is the most important thing in our lives.
- We minister His Lordship in all we do and speak.
- We also enter into that priestly ministry with Christ.
- We must walk in the principles that are laid out in the scriptures.
- Our works were per-ordained before the foundation of the world that we should walk in them.
- We are walking in Kingdom relationships, first with the Lord and then with one another.
Quotes:
- It's about the lordship of Jesus Christ. It's about knowing Him. It's about walking with Him, It's about believing Him,
- The Chosen: Mary came, and brought the ointment, she pours it over Him, it's just worship.
- And that's exactly where we need to be at. Is in our hearts and spirits, we bow before the Lord at His feet, and worship Him.
- It's just our relationship to the Lord is the most important thing in our lives.
- Every morning we wake up, we're in the presence of the Lord when we minister the Lordship of Jesus Christ over everything that we do, everything that we are, and everything that we speak.
- ...That final step that we're being led into is the final step of Christ's ministry, and that was the prophet priest of the kingdom.
- The story of Mary and the ointment, I try to take that and say, how do I duplicate, how do I walk in that level of love, and that level of caring today?
- Give us the ability to take those scriptures, and those principles, and function in them today to His glory.
- The kingdom is relationships. And the first relationship is the Lord. And then the communication with the Lord to the Lord in each one of us, we're coming into a place. We're realizing the unlimitedness of a spiritual connection with Him, and with each other.
References:
Matthew 22:44
“‘The Lord said to my Lord:“Sit at my right handuntil I put your enemiesunder your feet.”
Daniel 7:13–14
(The Lord Jesus Christ given His kingdom and authority)
Philippians 2:5–11
(The Lordship of Jesus Christ)
Romans 8:34
(Christ ever lives to make intercession for us)
Ephesians 1:3-12
(We walk in the works per-ordained before the foundations of the world)
Takeaway:
Our walk with God today is first about the Lordship of Jesus Christ in our lives. Each day we reach into that relationship with the Lord and minister His Lordship in all we do and say. As we are faithful to walk out His Lordship we find ourselves walking in those works that were per-ordained for us to walk in to bring forth His Kingdom to this earth.
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Your worship comes forth by a focus of faith upon Him. You are a worshiper because you set your will to be a worshiper. There are other aspects besides faith that we can exercise in order to come into a deep worship of the Lord. As long as we don't bog down in the mechanics of laboring to do a production, but truly open our hearts to the Lord, we can go deeper into His presence and bring a special anointing that knows Him more and more. In addition to faith, we can express thankfulness, our love for the Lord, feeding on His Word, and growing revelation of Him that reaches that anointing of worship.
Show Notes:
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The worship that the Lord is drawing us into is uniting us into one unit, Which is deeper than any worship we have been able to do before.
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Faith. We are the instrument that the Holy Spirit uses to bring us into His presence. Everything we do brings us to a focus of what we believe.
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Thankfulness. The flow of worship often starts with our thanking God for what He has been doing in and for us, on a daily basis.
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Love. We are loving Him where we are at; it is loving what He is doing in every aspect of our lives.
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Revelation. This worship brings an unfolding revelation of His nature, His ways, all that is unfolded of Him in our relationship.
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Feeding on God's Word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. As we feed on His Word, it increases our focus to worship.
Quotations:
- There's nothing that you can do in a mechanic to bring the presence of the Lord, if it is not filled with faith.
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Your will is a trigger to your faith.
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I think we're coming into a new level where worship is becoming a reality to us in our walk with God, because it's not dependent upon any outside source.
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It's an ache in your heart; “ Lord, I want to know You!”
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It's a heart to heart relationship. You do not need an instrument; you are the instrument.
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It's a moment by moment relationship with Him, about how we approach Him, how worship Him, how we thank Him.
References:
Hebrews 11:6
Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brethren by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
John 4:24
God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.
Revelations 15:3-4
Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God the Almighty, Righteous and true are your ways, King of the Nations!
Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy:
For all the nations will come and worship before You; For Your righteous acts have been revealed.
Takeaway:
How is He going to appear to you today? There are many aspects of the worship as we reach for a greater experience with the Lord. That anticipation can draw us deeper into our relationship with the Lord. He is looking above anything else for His worshipers.
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As we are realizing who God has made us by His Word, we begin to establish His Lordship by what we do, how we relate, and how we answer the call of prayer. All things will be reconciled under Jesus Christ as Lord, as His people rise up and move in His authority and power being His body in the earth.
Show Notes:
- Christ nature is being formed in His believer's today.
- We die daily in our soul life to come alive in our spirit.
- It is time to reach into areas that we have not moved before.
- God can do all things through us.
- As we are realizing who God has made us we begin to move.
- We walk out our destiny under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
Quotes:
- The fulfillment is being Christ in the earth, and to know the Lord.
- There is an expanding of every relationship, everything that we've ever received from God. It's an expanding; it's becoming more and more.
- He that tries to save his soul life will lose it.
- I really think we've come to a place where the things that we see, that are passing away, we're glad to see pass away. And the things that are becoming eternal in us are becoming our reality.
- It is time for us to start functioning in areas that we are not comfortable in.
- We should have the aggressiveness to move beyond functioning the way that we're comfortable with.
- Is there anything too big for God? Is there anything He can't do? He lives within us, and He wants us to begin to function as the sons that we have become.
- We declare it's time to engage in the realities of who we are as sons.
- It's His Lordship to a people who were called to walk it out.
References:
Colossians 1:26-28
the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people. To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.Matthew 16:25
For whoever wants to save their life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
1 Corinthians 2:16
“Who has known the mind of the Lordso as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Isaiah 54:2
“Enlarge the place of your tent,stretch your tent curtains wide,do not hold back;lengthen your cords,strengthen your stakes.
Philippians 4:13
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
John 14:12-14
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
Joshua 10
(Read about Joshua commanding the sun to stand still)
1 Corinthians 15:27
For he “has put everything under his feet.”[Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ.
Takeaway:
Today a people are beginning to see who God has made them and are taking their place in His body. By faith they are moving into those greater works with one drive – to see Jesus Christ's lordship fill the whole earth.
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Salvation is the initial step into our relationship with the Lord. This opens the door for us to accept Him as Lord over our lives, and begins a life long process of us giving our selves to Him in every area of our lives. As we walk on in the footsteps of the pattern Son, we begin to die out to our old nature and take on His nature. As the firstborn son, we too must be pleasing to our Father.
Show Notes:
- The very purpose of our being saved was to bring us into a relationship with the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
- As we die out to the old nature we become alive to the Christ nature that is within us.
- We must remember that we are not the one in control, but it is God in us to work out His good pleasure.
- Once you accept the Lord into your life, ownership changes hands and He now owns you.
- We must walk in the footsteps of the pattern son, (Jesus Christ) to become just like Him.
- This walk with Him is not complicated. We must not let our minds or other things complicate our walk with Him.
Quotes:
- The purpose of your salvation, the purpose of being set apart, is that we can be introduced, and be a part of the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
- ...we look what He did in His time here on the earth. He showed us through His life the kind of life that we have to lead, if we're going to answer His call.
- ...the more you become alive in the Christ in you, things begin to disappear of your old nature.
- Salvation was great, but the Lordship of Jesus Christ coming in to know Him , and to walk with Him in an every moment experience is a real, real experience.
- I have accepted the Lord, now what? Now the Lordship of Jesus Christ becomes something of a relationship - and every day, every moment, every part of your being relationship.
- You may be giving Him permission, you know, by your yielding your spirit to Him, and submitting your heart to Him, but He's the one doing the work in you and creating you into His image.
- You're no longer your own when you open up to accept the Lord.
- We have to get a revelation. We find out that Yahshua Messiah, Jesus Christ, is the pattern Son.
- ...I'm going to walk today is in His footsteps. You're led by the Holy Spirit, and that's the key.
- ...it's a fun thing because it's not complicated. It's only our human minds and, and all these things that complicate a walk with God, complicate us following in the footsteps of our Messiah.
References:
John 3:30
He must increase, but I must decrease.
1 Corinthians 15:31
I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
Isaiah 30:21
Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” Whenever you turn to the right hand Or whenever you turn to the left.
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Romans 8:29
For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
Matthew 3:17
And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Ephesians 2:8-9
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.
Takeaway:
It is all about the Lordship of Jesus Christ in our lives and us walking in the footsteps of the first born son. We submit to Him as Lord in our lives, die out to the old nature and receive from Him His nature. We refuse to complicate what God is working out in us as the Holy Spirit leads us each day to proclaim Him Lord!
Summary:
The presence of the Lord is the most important thing we have in our lives. There are many aspects of His nature and as we come humbly before Him crying out for more His nature to come forth within us, we find that He is exceedingly abundantly more than we could ask or think.
Show Notes:
- The presence of the Lord is the center of our lives.
- Being in His Word is key to His presence.
- It is His Spirit within us that makes everything happen.
- It's our reaching into His presence in our worship and speaking the Word that releases God in our midst.
- You can't put God in a box. He is whatever He wants to be in any moment.
- God is pouring out Himself on us.
- We must humbly ask the Father for His nature to be imparted to us.
- It's Christ in us that reveals the heavenly Father.
- God the Father is ever unfolding His presence and who He is to us.
Quotes:
- The presence of the Lord is the most important thing that we have in our lives.
- To be in His presence, I relate with being in His Word.
- ...not by power nor by might, but by My spirit, saith the Lord. It only happens when we're in His presence.
- ...the whole aspect of who our Father is comes through these earthen vessels.
- Reach up into more of God. Recognize that He's with you and worship Him. By faith, lose your will to speak the word that you move into the presence of God with.
- There's an unformed substance within our being, and it's called the Father. The undefinable is the presence of the Father.
- You can't say God is this or God is that you can't say He's just faith. You can't say He's just love. You can't say He's just this or that. He's all of it.
- What we have to learn to do is how we tie together His attributes. Because that's what He's trying to pour out upon us.
- ...every one of His aspects of His nature is open for us to appropriate, put into practice, all we have to do is ask Him.
- ...Christ in us so alive, and so real in His fullness that reveals the Heavenly Father.
- God wants to show us the expansion of who He is. He is not limited.
References:
Matthew 18:20
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
John 1:1-5 (God is His Word)
Zechariah 4:6
Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
Ephesians 3:20
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Psalm 139:14
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Takeaway:
The awesome presence of the Lord is everything to us. God is unlimited so we stop trying to define Him and reach in to experience His presence in our lives everyday.
Summary:
Christ experienced the human nature that we have and suffered the discipline to become our Savior. We too must walk in His footsteps and lay aside this human nature, walking in that same discipline from the Father, giving our wills over for Him to make us those living sacrifices of worship, sons that are pleasing to the Father.
Show Notes:
- Christ had to lay aside all the things in His human nature as we do.
- We too must lay aside our human nature and become that living sacrifice to God.
- We must give over our will to the will of God.
- God is the one doing this. This is not a self-help program.
- We submit to His will and working in our lives.
- We trust in Him to finish the work that He started in us.
Quotes:
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It's about the suffering that Christ went through in doing the will of God. He had to put to death the things in the nature He was born with.
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Lord, am I where you want me to be?
- Have I offered myself as a living sacrifice to You, which is my reasonable service of worship?
- This is about giving our will to the will of God, to be completed by Him.
- When we give our hearts wholly to the Lord, that's the pure way of change. It's the pure way of cleansing. If we go any other route, it's a self help program.
- It's the preparation of the Holy Spirit just ministering to you, and the submitting to staying, waiting for Him to complete the work in us.
- I know nothing else to do, but to stand in the presence of the Lord, be still and know that I am God. That's where my completion comes from.
- Just trust in the Lord with all your heart. Stop leaning on your own understanding. Don't even give it a thought. In all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He will direct your path.
References:
I Peter ( Putting off the old self)
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Philippians 2:5-8
Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
Hebrews 2:17-18
For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Galatians 5:24-25
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
Hebrews 12:2
looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Psalm 46:10
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;I will be exalted among the nations,I will be exalted in the earth.”
Proverbs 3: 5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,And lean not on your own understanding;in all your ways acknowledge Him,And He shall direct your paths.
Takeaway:
Christ suffered in the flesh as a human being and learned obedience through the things that He suffered. He gave over His will to become the will of His Father and became our Savior. We too must walk in His footsteps and give over our will, trusting in Him to accomplish the work that He has started within us. We are becoming those those living sacrifices of worship, sons that are pleasing to our Father.
Summary:If you have been born again, you will know it. You may not know exactly when it happened, but the impartation will be very real. If you have been introduced to the possibility of being born from above, it isdefinitely something to seek the Lord about. Show Notes:
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When a new believer receives a salvation experience, he may also be introduced to the possibility of being born again.
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This time of being born will not be anything like a person's first birth. It will be entirely new.
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Being born from above is not something a person works at; it is an endowment from your Father in heaven.
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This experience is unique for each individual and it opens up a whole new life of provisions from the Lord, especially a deeper relationship with Him.
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The changes that happen to someone who is born again could include receiving His divine nature, loving yourself as the new creation He is making you, and flowing in deeper relationships with other believers.
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You may now be given a sense of who He created you to be, and your eyes are opened to see His Kingdom.
Quotations:
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Being born again is something new and totally different. What is being established is a direct impartation of His nature.
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One of the first things that happens is you fall in love with yourself.
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Being born again has to be an experience, but it will be different for every individual.
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One of the things it does is bring a instantaneous connection with each other in the spirit.
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We're being His workmanship; He's creating us into what He wants us to be in order to work the works of God.
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It's the Lordship of Jesus Christ. It is about us giving our will to the will of God.
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The outcome of that experience of being born again is to see the Kingdom of God.
References:
Mark 12:30-31 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: you shall love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no other commandment greater than these.
I Corinthians 2:9 “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for these who love Him.”
I Corinthians 15:51-52 “Behold, I tell you a mystery, we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump...”
Romans 8:28 “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
Takeaway:
Being born from above is an amazing promise. It comes under that Scripture of “eye has not seen and ear has not heard.” Since this is an experience that cannot be worked out by man, but is created by God, we find that the part that a believer contributes is his will. The first step is loving the Lord with all your heart, all your soul, your mind and your strength. We can change, but we must be born again into this life of Spirit.
Summary:
In this new day God has brought drastic changes to the lives of His believers. There is a deep determination arsing in the hearts saying, “I want to go on into what God has for me!” As each day unfolds we find that the things of the lesser level that we have lived on begin to be “put away” as we reach into the dawning of this new day within us.
Show Notes:
- As God dries up one level He draws us into a new level and we determine to go on into what He has for us.
- As we grow in God the lesser things (childish things) are done away with.
- As we read the scriptures we find that they begin to open up to us with new meaning and revelation as we walk in the new level He brings you to.
Quotes:
- It's about the determination in our hearts that God has put there to go on.
- God takes you out of something, and brings you into something new. He brings you into a new level.
- In those scriptures from 1 Corinthians 13, shows how we go from one level to the next. The childish matters - those things, they're done away with.
- If you're going to grow up, you got to change the way you think; the way you do things. I can see that those things become inactive in my life, and that they are matters that I put away.
- So as we grow in grace, and in the knowledge of the Lord, don't you think the Spirit gives new input, new information, new revelation, new understanding in that aspect of moving from realm to realm...
- I have never seen so much a flow of the Word coming out of revelation in the Spirit.
References:
I Corinthians 13:11-13 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.Takeaways:
As God brings deep changes into our lives we find that He is drawing us up into a new level. This new day of Spirit has opened and with a deep determination we reach in to walk in it. Each day we lay aside the “childish things” as we grow in His grace and knowledge to become all that He wants us to be.
Introduction:
You may be seeking to get a clear revelation of what His perfect will is for your life. Being filled with His presence and love becomes the answer for everything we are seeking. He wants to live in our heart's and we will live in His.
Notes:
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We can be searching for answers. Meanwhile, He is seeking to know us and to live in our hearts.
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It's a 2-way street. We want to know Him and live in His heart, and He wants to know us and live in our hearts.
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We prioritize our relationships so He is absolutely first. Then we receive what He is creating in us, so we can minister to others.
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Questions emerge in the Scriptures: When did we see You naked? When did we see You hungry? (Thirsty? Sick? Etc.)
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When we are filled with His presence, and we minister His presence to each other, then we are walking in the Kingdom.
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When we are exercising our free will to worship Him, that deep love is being expressed.
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As we are washing each other by the Word, His love is being created and coming alive.
Quotations:
- It's at our initiative to show up that gives me a chance every morning when I rise up, and I take the initiative to knock on His door and He opens the door and says, “come on in , son.”
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When He appears, we shall be like Him.
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Each day God makes available His appearing.
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We're supposed to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect. That's why we have to have that relationship first with Him.
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Since God is the Word, it was God that put it (His love) in us. It's all the Father coming through Christ, and it's all Christ coming through the body.
References:
Matthew 19:27 Then Peter said to Him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?”
Matthew 25:35-36 For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger and you invited Me in; naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.
Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.
I John 4:19 We love, because He first loved us.
Takeaway:
The Lord presence and love is the very source of everything we are and need. He desires to fill us and make His presence available to us every day. As we come to know Him we realize that is is a two way street. He lives in us and we live in Him.
Summary:
The maturing process brings us to the point where we have a response to people that is not our own thinking. We realize we have received an impartation of God's Spirit, which flows out to others. Instead of responding with the human mind, the words come from deep within in what He has made us. Now it is possible to begin to recognize each other as that new creation in the Body of Christ.
Show Notes:
- The reality of having Christ in our heart can come through at any time showing us how much He has created us. It is not just for yourself in your relationship with Him, but also for an outflow to give to others.
- We can begin to discover the amount of preparation He has given us, so that we can minister from that flow of living water that He has given us.
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As we reject the human mind and draw on Him for the mind of Christ, we are receiving His thinking. It draws that “knowing Him” that unveils His many qualities that become part of the flow of Spirit.
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Rather than speaking from the intellect, there is a flow of the Spirit, being open for the Lord to transform us.
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This is not about dissecting why we are or how we function, but participating in the many membered body in an opportunity to see how perfectly knit together we are becoming.
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What comes out of this participation is that each one begins to learn who they are themselves and who each other is.
Quotes:
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There is a response that comes out of you that is not your thinking on a human level, but it's the thinking that comes out of knowing Him and having received impartation of who He is.
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The human mind is enmity against God and that is why the Scripture says to put on the mind of Christ.
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God created each one of us just exactly the way we are.
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God chooses the lame, halt and blind because He is not interested in our great abilities for scholarship or any of that. He is interested in our hearts being open to Him so that He can impart His Spirit.
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Are you willing to be Christ in the earth?
References:
John 7:38 “He who believes in Me,” as Scripture has said, “from his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.”
John 16:12 “I have many more things to say to you, but they are too much for you now.”
John 7:37 “If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink”
Matt 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
I Cor 4:3 “It is a very small thing that I should be examined by you or by any human court, in fact, I don't examine myself.”
Matt 4:19 “Come follow Me” Jesus said, “ and I will make you fishers of men”
Takeaway:
The day is upon us when we can truly experience Christ being in our heart and the reality of our becoming rivers of living water. This inspires us to give over for our minds to be transformed. We reach into the Spirit for Him to speak through us, until we grow in our awareness that He is living in us more and more every day.
Summary:
When God saves us, we have the promise that He brings in our families with us. This is a covenant from the Lord that we can believe and stand on. We can trust what He is doing—how He leads you as well as the things that happen to you and around you. He is creating the perfect family to be what He called us to be.
Show Notes:
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We have a cry in our hearts for the members of our family, believing that the Lord will do whatever He sees is necessary to minister to each one.
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Another name for the Kingdom is the Father's family. He is connecting us together to be His family.
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Our connections are based on our relationship with the Father first.
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As the Father creates His love in us, we are equipped to minister to the members of the family.
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We have been given His life, and we will begin to see that He is pulling the family even closer together.
Quotations:
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We're a family built on coming together as Christ in the earth, as His sons.
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The life we're living is a spiritual life first, and then everything else follows.
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We're walking out the footsteps ordered by God, walked out by His Son, that we might walk in those same footsteps.
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If somebody is critical of you, open your heart and listen to what they say. Because what you just did is you turned around and set them up that God can help them.
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He will do it through a many membered body.
References:
Acts 16:31: And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household.”
Romans 8:14-15: For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”
Romans 12:4-5: For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.
Takeaway:
God is in the process of creating His family. He helps us grow by being a part of every aspect of our lives. When He saves us, then we begin to cry to Him for all those we love. He has given us the promise that He will include our heritage, our household. We need to trust Him that He knows best how to pull us all together into His perfect family.
Summary:
As we walk with the Lord in our daily lives we are fulfilling the scripture “He must increase and we must decrease.” As we decrease in ourselves, God tells us to reach into His love so that we may be filled and able to express that love to others. It is this love moving through us that will be the force that will touch people's hearts and bring His Kingdom to this earth.
Show Notes:
- As we continue to walk with the Lord we must decrease and He must increase in our lives.
- We must continue to reach into this deep love of God and express it to people around us.
- In our daily walk we must see that people around us live on many different dwelling places with many different expressions in God.
- We must not criticize or judge our brother just because they are different.
- We are to love people with His love.
- God's love is what is going to rule and reign in the earth.
- The Kingdom of God is all about His love.
- We must not eventuate people, but simply love them.
- God's love is available for us to love people with.
Quotes:
- As we're reaching into Him, and we're decreasing in ourselves, that's where the life is at. That's exactly where we're going to receive our sustenance, and have this ability to live and walk in the spirit.
- God is, He's drawing us up short in our love factor. There is a level of love that we have not yet attained in God. And it's a pure love for people.
- God loves His creation. He's not willing that any perish. And there are all different places, all different abiding places in the Lord. Different levels, different people, but they're all functioning as a part of what God has created and brought forth.
- It's so important that we don't look and judge. There's only one judge. There's only one that's going to judge, and that's God.
- We simply have the right to love as He loved. We'll be involved in the kingdom in His love.
- God is drawing His people to Himself.
- This love is going to control, it's going to rule, and reign in the earth.
- This is what the kingdom is. It's all about, it's about His love coming forth. It will envelop the entire world.
- I was thinking of Jonah, and I was thinking of did Jonah love Nineveh? Do I love the people I'm with? Am I going to evaluate those people that I'm with?
- We need to understand that the love of God is available for us to minister to other people.
- We will move in the love of God without even knowing how we moved in the love of God. Because it doesn't work with our brains.
References:
John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 14: 2-4 (There are many different dwelling places)
Matthew 7:1-2 (Judge not)
Revelation 18:4 (Come out of Babylon My people)
Luke 10:9 Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.
I John 4:8 (God is love)
The Book of Jonah (The story of the prophet without God's love)
Takeaways:
In this day when there is so much criticism and hatred of people, we must be filled with God's love so that His love is expressed and is what people experience. This is the driving force that will bring forth His will and Kingdom to this earth.
Summary:
God is challenging our hearts to move into His love. His love is not human love, but is unconditional - full of mercy and grace. We must have this love in our hearts so that we can share it with others. With a child like spirit we must run to our heavenly Father crying to Him for His love.
Show Notes:* The challenge is do we have the love of God in our hearts? * We must hate the sin nature, but have the love of God in our hearts for every man. * We not only must love those who love us, but also those who do not love us. * We must trust the Lord that He will impart this love to us. * God’s love in us will change the earth. * As a God’s family we can reach in together and appropriate His love. * We feed on His love for our daily bread. * There are avenues that God has given us to appropriate His love. * There is a deep cry to the Lord, Meet Us! * We may not understand how God can love the sinner. * We are to have this love in us and be able to share it will everyone. * We must have a childlike spirit and run to our Father.
Quotes:* You can say I have the love of God, but do you have all of it? Or do you just have enough to get you by and to walk with God in this place that we're in today? * We can hate to sin, but we must have God's love if we're going to complete the mission that He's called us to complete. * It's not enough just to say I know the love of God because I love my brother. If you love your brother who loves you what good is that? Even the sinners do that. * It has to be unconditional love. Who has unconditional love? Only the Father has unconditional love. * We have to believe, and trust the Lord that He's going to impart it to us. * With that love, we will change the earth. * ...today that as the family of God is the kingdom of God that's come into the earth, we can have the love of God invading all of our hearts. together. * We're feeding on the love of the Father as a necessity. We have to have that every day. * ...there's a thing about the communion. There's a thing about worship. He's given us avenues. That we can have it imparted to us. * I don't want to hear an answer. I don't want to hear a method. I'm trusting my spirit unto the Lord. He started this. And He's the only one that's going to fix it. * I don't get it. I don't understand how the Lord can love when people turn their backs on Him, go to idol worshiping, do all the things He told them not to do. * ...God is love. He can't help Himself. That's who He is. * ...we're supposed to reach into this love and be able to share what it is the Father's all about with whomever we come in contact with. Enemies, friends, loved ones. * I don't think that a child has to think about how to love God. If we have a childlike spirit, we go to the Father.
References: I Corinthians 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.II Corinthians 5:15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. Luke 5:32I have not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.” Luke 6:32If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. Matthew 6:9-13(The Lord’s prayer)Proverbs 3:5-6(Trusting in the Lord) Takeaway:God’s unconditional love must be in our hearts is we are going to have soethng to give to others. Our cry as His children is GIVE US YOUR LOVE!
Summary:God’s love isn’t human love and therefore we don’t understand many times the things He leads us into to grow us up. He doesn't pamper our adamic nature and yet as a good Father He disciplines us for our good so that our hearts are prepared to receive His righteousness. Show Notes:
- God’s love removes any withdraw in our spirit’s to Him.
- Everything about God is love – He is love.
- God does not pamper our flesh nature, but is concerned that His nature is formed in us.
- We must learn to hate the adamic nature that will not follow Christ.
- We must know God’s love for us in every circumstance and relationship we find our selves in.
- God devastates areas of our lives so that He might fill those areas.
- God must prepare our hearts to receive His love.
- God doesn't love or meet you the way you want Him to.
- God’s plan for us is hidden and He will unveil it in His timing.
Quotes:
- As we begin to move into this new realm of knowing the love of the Father. It completely removes any propensity for withdrawal.
- God's love is something that is the human condition and the adamic nature will never understand.
- God is love. His Word is love. Everything about God is love. His patience, and the way He deals with us is all love.
- He does not pamper our flesh. And He does not show sympathy to it.
- We learn to hate the thing of Adam that we see in us, that we know down deep does not open up the way that it could or should.
- We're going to have to be strong in our faith, knowing that God does love us, and that what He's doing is for our own good, because He's bringing us into conformity to His Son.
- How the love of the Father just devastates what we are after the flesh. But we're talking about being emptied out, so that He can fill us in a greater way.
- So we get to share the holiness of God. And we get the peaceful fruit of righteousness, all because of the discipline that we endure…
- We can't receive the unselfish power of God's love until He's created in us the capacity to receive it.
- He's not going to love you the way you want Him to love you. He's not going to appear to you the way you want Him to appear to you, because it's to your detriment. It's not growing you up into what He wants you to be. It never makes sense because we are not there yet.
- ...we don't get to see the work in progress so much. The day will come, when the covers taken off and we'll see it in its completion and we'll marvel.
References:
Genesis 3 (The story of the fall)
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the worldto condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Luke 14:26 If a person comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife, and children, and brethren and sisters, and moreover his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Hebrews 12:11 For the moment, all discipline seems not to be pleasant, but painful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
Takeaway:
God is love ,and although we recognize God’s love is a mystery to us and His discipline is very painful sometimes, yet as we submit to His dealings in our lives it prepares our hearts to receive His love in a grater way, and yields the peaceful fruit of His righteousness.
Summary:
Christ wants to speak and move through His people. As we humble ourselves and take on His will we find that through His discipline we are decreasing and He is increasing in our lives. It is in this deep relationship with Him that we begin to speak and move as He did on this earth.
Show Notes:
- As we humble ourselves before the Lord and speak His Word, we become channels for Him to speak through.
- As we give our will over to do His will we become a channel for Him to move through.
- As we reach into a deeper relationship with the Lord and appropriate His nature, we move into more of His authority.
- Christ within us is what is speaking.
Quotes:
- When you come together, you're creating one another. That's what prophecy does, is creates one another.
- If you're aware and you know that Christ is within you, our conversation is prophecy.
- ...we humble ourselves to the point where we open up and then He's able to come in and minister through that prophecy to us and to one another.
- We're reaching into that place, it's no longer us. But it's Him, functioning together in a way we've never expected this to ever happen, but it is happening.
- And I was thinking about the Lord when He was on the earth. The way he expressed Himself, He expressed Himself with authority.
- ...the unveiling of Christ within us brings forth everything.
- What's going to flow out of me. Because what was imparted to me by Christ.
References:
John 7:38 (Becoming channels of the Word of God)
John 3:30 (We must decrease, He must increase in us)
Takeaways:
God has always moved through people to accomplish His will. It is no different today as He is raising up channels to speak His Word to this age. Just as the Lord was perfected through the things that He suffered, those who are channels of His Word go through like sufferings as they walk in the steps of their Lord.
Summary:
We are called to love our enemies with God’s love. We must not judge our brother, but instead be that channel of love to him in his need. The motivation of our heart’s must be to please our heavenly Father as we become His love in this earth.
Show Notes:
- We are called to love our enemies with God’s love in us.
- God loves all His creation.
- We are not to judge or to take sides against people.
- We are not to judge right or wrong, but to reach into the Lord for His thinking.
- We are to be a channel of God’s love for people when they are in need.
Quotes:
- The love of God is the motivation of our hearts. We will not be against, we will be for.
- ...unless we love our enemy, we're still missing what God is calling us, in to accomplish, because it's only by loving them with His love, that we're going to see the outcome of what He's looking for.
- God loves all of His creation. He's not against people. He's for them.
- Many of the circumstances He brings us into are to drive us deeper into Him, instead of stopping what we're doing and trying to decide the difference between right and wrong.
- As people start looking for the Lord that they can find the Lord in us, and we can be to them what God created us to be…
References:
Matthew 5:43-44 (Love your enemies)
Matthew 7: 1-3 (Judge not)
Matthew 11:28-30 (God’s rest)
Philippians 2:13 (God’s good pleasure)
Matthew 5:48 (Be perfect)
Takeaways:
God’s love must reside within our heart’s so that we can even love our enemies. This is the perfect love that judges not, but draws in and reveals the Father’s heart to all those around us. As Christ has commanded us; “Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
Summary:
Our growth in God must be a very real experience for each of us. We must trust the Lord in each new level He brings us into and lean totally on His love for us. As we each reach in to express our unique calling and destiny in Him we supply what His Body needs, as we grow in our love for Him and for our fellow man.
Show Notes:
- In this new level God is bringing us into, it’s all about our love for God and the brethren.
- We must trust the Lord to bring us into this new level of love;it must be a personal experience for you with God.
- As God deals with us to bring us into a new level, our Adamic nature always resists what He is doing even though it is for our good.
- As we each move into God, we are all very unique and diverse in our giftings and callings, and are needed in the collective body.
- We are all called to love Him and one another with His love.
- In all of this, we change and are ushered into new levels by the Word of God that comes through our brother and sister.
Quotes:
- Two things will prevail, the Word of God, and the love of the brethren.
- It's about loving what He's created, loving each other without an agenda.
- He has to be number one in our life. There could be no other God before us.
- He has to work the trust, He has to work the faith, He has to work everything in us for us to walk with Him.
- This has to be something that, that God makes so real to you that you can't deny it.
- The Lord turns something loose. He opens a new realm, a new level for us. And from that point, God begins to deal with us, not just individually, but collectively, to bring us all into the same revelation of Himself.
- There's something in our nature, Adam's nature, it always kicks against the things that God has turned loose for really our benefit.
- We are so different, diverse, if you want to say, and each one of us have that very unique gift that God put within us. And how God is blessing you, and creating you according to that unique calling, is a very personal thing.
- It's just to be a conduit, to be a channel of His presence and His love to one another. How do I love you? I love you with His love.
- So many times, we'll just be going along, and the Lord will be speaking through different individuals. And all of a sudden, never heard that before, never realized that before. That was never a part of my life before. That's change.
References:
Mark 12:30 and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Acts 9:4-6 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Romans 12:4-5 For just as we have many parts in one body and all the body’s parts do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.
Mark 12:30-31 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[a]31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] There is no commandment greater than these.”
Takeaways:
We are to love the Lord our God will everything within us and our brother as our self. This commandment is what we are reaching for in each new level that our Father brings us into. In all this we are becoming Christ functioning body in this earth as we each walk out the unique destiny He has for us to fulfill.
Summary:
Today our oneness in the body of Christ is crucial in seeing God’s kingdom established in this earth. We must lay aside everything we have ever known as we reach into our relationship to the Father through the glory that Christ has already given us. By this oneness with our Father we can walk as one Body of Christ in this earth doing the will of our Father.
Show Notes:
- Oneness first starts with our oneness with the Father.
- In our drive to seek the Father we enter into this oneness with Him.
- Our oneness is not created by connecting with each other, but with our individual oneness with the Lord.
- We break bonds with everything we have known to enter into this oneness with the Father.
- We are being delivered out of the thinking and ways of this present age, and into a new Kingdom age.
- Jesus has given us His glory that we may be one.
- We have been given all that we need to become one. We must just seek Him with all our heart.
Quotes:
- Our oneness truly does come in the kingdom, in our connection with the Father.
- In seeking Him, we create the oneness that He's looking for.
- Our priority of oneness is the Father.
- The oneness is not us connecting with each other, but connecting with the Lord, putting Him first.
- He intends for us, as His people, as His servants, to break bonds, with this earth and our earthly thinking, our earthly conditioning's.
- We're breaking bonds with our earthly existence as it was up to this point.
- ...being delivered out of the human way of thinking and the way we think, and being delivered into a new way of living in a new age.
- Getting rid of the old thinking for the new thinking, ending old paradigms, and really hearing the real truth, what God is speaking in the Word, by the Word, through the Word.
- He has already given you His glory. Understand that He's already given you the provision. Seek Him with all your heart.
References:
John 13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own that were in the world world, he loved them unto the end.
Philippians 13:13-14 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
John 17 (Jesus prays for our oneness and gives us His glory to become one)
Takeaway:
As members of Christ Body we must lay aside all that we have known and reach into our relationship with our Father. By the glory that Christ has already given us comes the true oneness, first with our Father, and then with one another in His family. This is the oneness that the Father is looking for and the answer to Christ's Body becoming one in this earth.
Summary:
God has more of Himself for us, if we just continue to reach into Him. This reaching in comes from a realization that God is working His love in you in order to reach the world. It is a dying out to self, which is not pleasant, but the result can be a moving like Christ in amazing ways.
Show Notes:
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There is a term in the Scriptures, called “perfect love,” This quality of perfect love is being worked in us every day as we open up to His love for us.
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Take time to examine: where have I moved in the earth as Christ moved in the earth, not in my own initiative, but by His initiative moving through me?
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God has moved through people with tremendous flaws. Look at Moses—at one point he was a murderer. The Sons of Thunder wanted to call down fire from heaven on someone.
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We need the love of God to increase in us so we can minister that love to a depth that it changes lives.
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It's about what is in your spirit that God is creating in you.
Quotes:
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It is a tremendous responsibility to minister His love in a maturity and humility that ministers life to people.
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God looks at the big picture and when He says He loves the whole world, He looks for opportunities to move in a big way.
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It's about us decreasing, and Him increasing. Stop looking at the flesh life and start looking at what is happening in the spirit life.
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I am there to impart a Spirit to those whose hearts are open.
References:
Matthew 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” ( from the Beatitudes)
John 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.”
Mark 3:17 and James, the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means “sons of Thunder”)
Exodus 2:12 He (Moses) looked this way and that and when he saw there was no one around, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
John 13:34-35 “A new command I give to you: love one another. As I loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
Takeaway:
God is loving us with a tremendous patience and understanding. It's the kind of love that we have to have for one another. This love can come as we appropriate more of His love from Him everyday.
Summary:
The very foundation and walk with God must start with an individual revelation, relationship, and awareness of Him. Out of this relationship we mature and become childlike in our faith and obedience to His Word. Out of the reality and overflow of this relationship we are enabled to bless and love those in our midst.
Show Notes:
- A walk with God begins with an individual relationship with the Lord. You can’t walk in an-other's revelation or relationship with the Lord.
- Word’s that are spoken to you from another person may be real and living to you, but it is only adding to your own foundation in Christ.
- As we mature in our relationship with the Lord, we must become become as a child in our walk with Him.
- Our walk with the Lord and His Word dweling within us must be real to us and out of this we speak and minister love to one another.
Quotes:
- A walk with God is only real and exciting if you're walking with Him in your own shoes.
- It's about our individual relationship to Him and who He has created us to be.
- What that person spoke was a living word and it has a resonance in your life, but it's not who you are.
- It's about each person having their own Relationship with God, their own walk with God, their own Revelation.
- Don't you think that part of the maturity on the parent's side, and on the child's side is a time that you're free to make mistakes?
- It's that childlike spirit, and acceptance of what God is speaking to their heart.
- Be sure it's working in your heart and you say, I, I love you.
References:
I Corinthians 13 (Growing up into all aspects in God)
Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
Matthew 18:3 and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you change and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Takeaway:
Our walk and relationship with the Lord cannot be based on someone else’s revelation and relationship with the Lord. It Must be our own persona; revelation and relationship with Him. Out of this personal relationship comes the enabling to bless and love those who the Lord has put in our midst.
Summary:
There are many issues on the table today. We must know the mind of the Lord. We must know what God is speaking. Otherwise, we hear so many conflicting voices and wonder what one is right? We are not left in the dark, but we the availability of the voice of the Lord to direct our paths.
Show Notes:
- Lord, how do you want me to think about all these things that are going on?
- Don’t be taken off into something that the Lord is not saying.
- The most valuable thing that we posses is that relationship, and that ability to hear His voice. How do we get that? It’s by knowing His Word.
- Hearing what He’s speaking is not about following a program or finding our what people want you to do.
- Anything that takes us away from our consciousness of the Lord Jesus Christ has some element of deception in it.
- Is this taking me deeper into a revelation of Jesus Christ or is it really pulling me away from Him?
- It’s all about the Lordship of Jesus Christ, knowing Him, and listening to hear His Word.
Quotes:
- It’s like Joshua says, “are you for us or for our enemies?” And the Lord says, “No” I’m not for you or for your enemies. I’m for My Word.
- God is in the process of causing everything in our lives and our focus to fade, until we’re just seeing Him.
- His grace and love is with us as He prefects us, until we can hear everything He wants to say.
- He’s going to show you things you never dreamed of.
References:
John 16:12 “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.”
Isaiah 28:23 Give ear and hear my voice, listen and hear My words.
Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.
John 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
Takeaway:
In a day when there are so many voices saying so many things, we need to be able to hear the voice of the Lord telling us how to look at things and how to know His perfect will.
Summary:
He first loved us. The revelation of that scripture has always provided a drive in His sons to return such a wonderful gift. As we realize that His love must be the very foundation of our lives, a cry begins to come up out of our hearts; Lord, I tie this sacrifice to the horns of Your altar! Show Notes:* The love of the Father in our midst is the very foundation of the way we love Him. * The dying out to ourselves is very much involved in coming into the love of the Father. * He loved us while we were yet sinners. How patient He has been and long suffering because He loves us. * Out of God’s love for us He revels things to us that need to be changed. * God’s love must be a revelation to us. * We must have the love of God in our hearts because human love always fails. * Christ is being faithful to show us the Father’s love. * We bind our old nature as a sacrifice to the horns of the altar. * We are confronted by the love of God and it begins to empty us out of our wrong motivations. * As we lay down ourselves and our motivations we come to the place of truly loving our brother and serving him. * The altar of God’s dealings in my life and everything that He takes me through; He is creating something more in my life. That is knowing Him in a greater way.
Quotes:* The love of the Father manifested in our midst is really what it's all about. It is the root; it's the foundation of everything. * The real laying down and emptying out of our-self is involved. * Out of His love, and goodness for us; He shows us where things might not be the way we thought they were. * The love of God has to be a revelation of His heart to us. * His love in us never fails. Our love will fail every day of the week. * I don't believe there can be any walking in the love of the Father, without the continued emptying out of self. * God is really moving us into this business of knowing the Father's heart through Jesus Christ. * We know that what He started He will complete unto the day of the Lord, and we just say, “just tie us to the altar to be Your sacrifice.” * You always think it's done until you find out it's not. And the only way we find out it's not quite done is because the Lord reveals Himself to you. * Everyone of us have cried, “Lord I want to know Your heart, Father I want to know you.” * All I can see is, lay down your life for your brother. Pray for your brother and your sister. Serve. * There's great joy. There's nothing more liberating and freeing than just moving in His love.
References:Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
I John 4:17 By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, we also are in this world.
I Corinthians 13 (God’s love never fails)
Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
Psalm 118:27 The LORD is God, and He has given us light; Bind the festival sacrifice to the horns of the altar with cords.
Philippians 1:6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work among you will complete it by the day of Christ Jesus.
Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Ephesians 5:26,27 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.
Luke 6:32-36 (We must love our enemies)
Revelation 1:5 ( The faithful witness)
Takeaway:
We know we must have the love of the Father in our hearts. As we draw close to Him, His love confronts and reveals everything in our hearts creating a cry within us to see the self life crucified and His love imparted to us. We cry out today, Lord, we bind the sacrifice of our life to the horns of Your altar!
Summary:
We are walking in a new day. We cannot live on what we received from the past, but we waken to look for new food in this new day. The new thing coming in this hour is the family, created by a deeper love relationship with the Father. He is imparting to us His love, which we can then give to our brothers and sisters in the Lord, thus creating the Father’s family.
Show Notes:
- It’s a new day we are moving into. We are living it right now. He is coming in us.
- We are members of one another in Christ.
- We are really staring to hone in and tune in to our destiny.
- With humility we come before the Lord and He begins to open up the scriptures to us and help us to see what it is that we are to be about in this hour.
- Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your strength, with all your mind. And then the second part comes – so easy – love your neighbor as yourself.
- God gives you that kind of love and what’s created is family.
- Love is the goal; it’s the glue that puts everything together.
- When we get into the relationship with the Father, then the rest of the family comes together.
Quotes:
- It’s this Father that we have that is driven to walk us in to this magnificent thing of His presence.
- I just want to declare for each of us more of an ability to receive today His love.
- He wants us to love Him, so that He can transfer His love to us.
- When we love Him, He loves us back with that same love that He has.
- He’s love. And so when you fall in love with that love, that love becomes transmitted to your own spirit, and you can love Him more than you ever imagined.
- The first relationship that’s necessary in the relationships in the kingdom is our oneness with the Father.
References:
Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all our soul and with all your might.
Hosea 6:1-3
(Return to the Lord)
Matthew 22: 34-40
(The greatest commandment)
I Corinthians12:27
Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.
Ephesians 4:15-16
(Speaking the truth in love for the growth of His body)
Takeaway:
This new day of His kingdom opens the door to a greater relationship with our Father and one another. The Father wants us to love Him, so that He can transfer His love to us. When we love Him, He loves us back with that same love that He has. This deeper love relationship with the Father then enables us to become His family. We are being created as those kings and priest with Jesus Christ our high priest.
Summary:
Walking in the footsteps of Jesus begins with learning obedience. The things that we go through mold us into what God wants. Suffering is used by the Father to develop us into His sons. The result is a relationship in His presence and God pouring out His holiness on us.
Show Notes:
- Do you believe God feels pain? He feels pain when He sees what has happened to His creation, especially the miserable plight that the human race has manifested.
- Why do people suffer? It may not have been the plan for individuals, but some seem to open up in a deeper way through suffering. This is a mystery.
- As a forerunner, Christ experienced suffering as he matured, not just when he was crucified.
- As Paul wrote, it's a privilege to help fill up the sufferings of Christ.
- He disciplines for our own good so that we may share in His holiness. It’s our choice.
Quotes:
- We see in the gospels how Jesus thought and reacted.
- Matthew 23:37
“How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. * Suffering has a way of either opening your heart wide, or it closes it. * He allows you to go through it because you're going to open up to His love in a deeper way. * The pain and sufferings we go through are allowing us to touch a part of God that is real too, that nobody wants to talk about or even acknowledge. * We're becoming more like the Lord, who became more like His Father. * This is what we're in this process of. We're becoming more like our Father who created us after His image.
References:
Hebrews 5:7-8
Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.
Colossians 1:24
(Fill up the sufferings of Christ)
Isaiah 6:5
(The Lord appears to Isaiah)
Philippians 3:10
“That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.”
Romans 8:16-17
“The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children heirs also heirs of God, and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.”
Isaiah 53:3
“”He was despised and forsaken of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.”
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
Hebrews 12:9-11
(The Father's discipline)
Takeaway:
Part of our growing process with the Father can be quite painful. Sometimes He uses the things we go through to mold us into what He created us to be. We are following after Christ who is our pattern Son who learned obedience by the things He suffered.
Summary:
A part of the spiritual armor of the believer is the sword of the Spirit. As the we speak God’s Word by the Holy Spirit, the anointing in that Word divides between soul and spirit, joints and marrow and brings forth that word in the power of God.
Show Notes:
- The sword of the Spirit is wielded by the Holy Spirit not us.
- It’s the anointing through the Holy Spirit on the Word of God that you speak that becomes the sword of the Spirit.
- The sword of the Spirit divides between soul and spirit.
- The Holy Spirit activates the Word of God.
- We must hunger after God’s Word.
- The Word of God must be our meditation and our source of victory.
- As we read and meditate on God’s Word it will come alive to us and we will be changed.
- I know the Word of God is thorough as the sword of the Spirit is being applied. I won’t have to go this way again. He’s capable of doing it the first time if you’ll submit to it.
- We must be filled with the Holy Spirit to speak the Word of God with power.
Quotes:
- The sword of the Spirit is not our sword to be used. It's the Holy Spirit's sword, and He draws it out when He chooses.
- There is a time and an anointing when the Word of God you speak absolutely becomes the sword of the Spirit.
- You'll never be defensive against the word It'll cut through all of the flack all of the things that you put up all your ideologies everything else, because the Word of God is eternal.
- The sword of the spirit comes in and divides soul and spirit.
- ...when the word is executed by the spirit of the Living God it breaks through every barrier and creates something that you could never create any other way.
- ...what you're saying is the Bible was never meant to be a book that was understood by human wisdom.
- ...the word of God itself is something that God says that you must hunger and thirst after it in order to have it, in order for it to be effective in your life.
- The carnal mind will never come to the conclusion of what is in the Word. Only the Spirit of God reveals to you, by the Spirit, what God is talking about.
- Let the word be your meditation. Let the word be your portion. Let it be your guide. Let it be your source of victory. Your source of overcoming.
- That sword of the Spirit, run it deep, Lord, because Father, I want not to fight, what You're doing. I want it to work to its fullest extent.
- ...there's coming a time when, as you're seeking the Lord with all your heart and reading the Word, that will penetrate your very being and cause something to come alive in you that was not alive before.
- It's not just reading a scripture or quoting a scripture, that doesn't have anything in it. But it's when it's filled with this Holy Spirit. That's when the power comes.
References:
Ephesians 6:17
And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
John 4:24
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Matthew 18:3
And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Psalm 19
(Hungering after God’s Word)
Psalm 119:9-16
(Hungering after God’s Word)
Joshua 1:7-9
(Meditate on the Word)
I Corthians 4:20
For the kingdom of God is not in words, but in power.
John 5:39-40
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
Acts 2:14-41
(The Word of God spoken with power by the Holy Spirit)
Revelation 2:16
(Holy Spirit activation the Word))
Takeaway:
As we give ourselves wholly to God’s Word, it penetrates our hearts, dividing from soul and spirit, joints and marrow and judges the issues in our hearts. This same Word then becomes within us His sword that the Holy Spirit can bring forth in the power of the Spirit as we speak it forth to do His will in the earth.
Summary:
A new realm of oneness has opened up to the family of God. The very foundation of this oneness is the Lordship of Jesus Christ and our love for the Father and one another. In this oneness our individuality is swallowed up as we function as His family in His love. Show Notes:* A realm of oneness has opened up in which we all participate together in something bigger that ourselves. * This realm of oneness is not based on all of us believing the same doctrine or teaching. * This oneness is based on the Lordship of Jesus Christ and our open hearts to one another. * As we function in this realm all our differences fade away as we are aware of our love for one another. * This is a new day, the day of Spirit. It’s a day that our Father is perfecting our spirit. * Any personal issues and battle is not your battle, but something coming against the oneness of Christ in His family. * As we function as a family in this oneness, we stop thinking of ourselves and are totally engulfed in our love for one another. * It’s all about the love of God in us. * That’s what honors God. You shall love the Lord your God with all of your mind, your heart, and strength. That’s your individual relationship with God. That;s where it begins. * As we enter this realm of oneness we begin to love our brother with the same love as we love God. * It’s this grace for one another flowing back and forth. We freely been given, and we freely give this life for one another.
Quotes:* God has opened a realm of oneness where we participate together in the love of Christ. * We walk with as an individual, then we begin to walk with God together. * There's a consciousness of participating in a bigger thing than ourselves. * We've come to this level not because we all believe the same exact doctrine or teachings about any given thing. * It's a oneness that we're experiencing that I don't think we've ever experienced to the degree it's happening right now, and I think it has a lot to do with the day we're living in. * Our oneness is the most effective way that we can function and we are family. * We stand together and we see the authority and the anointing and the power of God function through us because of our oneness. * The thing that under-girds it all is the love of Christ for one another. That is the foundation of this oneness, this realm that God has brought us into. * I'm going to have an open spirit, I'm going to have an open heart, I'm going to be submissive to Christ's Lordship. Those are very specific things that are worked into us so that we can abide in this realm. * ...when you stand in it, all you can know is your love for your brother and your sister. What other differences you would have they seem to fade away because we're in this realm together. * ...if we recognize personal issues and personal warfare coming up, right then, that it's not your battle, it's the battle against Christ and His oneness among us. * You get lost in the fellowship of the believers and loving each member so much, you can't even think about yourself. * We are functioning together to be a release for each other. You start doing it and you lose sight of your own things that are going on in your life and you get caught up in the reality of how this body functions and it is a Beautiful thing. * I think it all has to do with the love of God. * We come into a realm where our love for one another is the same as our love for God. * It’s a whole new creation and we choose to live as a new creation. We are not bound by yesterday.
References:John 14:2-3(There are many dwelling places)Philippians 3:20(The colony of the kingdom) The Passion translation. John 17:21-25(Our oneness in God and one another) John 3:17For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him. Matthew 22:37-40(Love your neighbor as yourself)Philippians 2:3Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves. Takeaway:We find our dwelling place that was prepared for us by following “I prepared a place for you.” In the footsteps of Jesus Christ He opened the door and led the way that we all dwell in His house.
Summary:
Our relationship with our Father deepens as we hunger and thirst after righteousness. The Holy Spirit brings the answer of our seeking Him with a whole heart. True communication, answer to prayer and a relationship that has no end. Show Notes:
- People cannot be “taught” into the kingdom of God, it must come by revelation through the Holy Spirit.
- It’s our hungering and thirsting after the Lord that opens up that deep relationship with Him.
- As we enter into this one on one relationship with the Lord, the Holy Spirit begins to make the Word come alive to us.
- Our hungering and thirsting after God starts with our human initiative.
- Because our relationship with the Lord is on His terms and not ours, our human initiative turns into spiritual initiative as we mature in Him.
- Everything has changed, and the way I look at things is different now because I am hearing from God.
Quotes:
- Two people can be in a room, and they can be hearing the same words. One can open his heart to the Lord and hear what God is speaking to him, and the other one never get it, never understand it.
- It's about existing by the relationship you have with Him in the Spirit.
- I know that a lot of people will tell you how to get there But the only way you're gonna get there is to hunger and thirst after God.
- When you have a relationship; you develop that relationship with the Lord, come to know who He is, then the word becomes alive to you.
- It's a simple thing. It's simply opening up your heart to know who the Lord is. "Lord, I want to know you."
- That's why we were saying spirit, soul, and body, because so much of this actually starts in human initiative.
- ...as we grow and mature, that human initiative turns into spiritual initiative.
References:
John 16:13
(Bringing life)
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Jeremiah 29:11-14
(Seeking Him with all your heart)
Matthew 5:6
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Takeaway:
If you want a personal relationship with the Lord, you must hunger and thirst after Him, there are no short cuts. It’s through this relationship with Him that the Holy Spirit begins to reveal His Word and we begin to see by revelation His kingdom. You begin very simply, just cry out to Him with all of your heart.
Summary:
The gift of God’s grace is extended to everyone. As we humble ourselves to receive His unlimited grace, we realize that it is God working in us His nature. Through His grace we are enabled to become and to do of His good pleasure.
Show Notes:
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Grace is a gift from God.
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God’s love and grace extends to everyone and as we see this we cease from our striving and enter into His rest.
- We cannot judge the amount of grace that anyone is walking in.
- We must be responsible to walk out the words from God as we receive His grace each day. It’s grace to become and to do.
- By His grace He is clothing us with His nature.
- As we walk in His grace we become aware that everything we are and do is all Him working in us for His good pleasure.
- We must humble ourselves to prepare to receive His grace.
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The humility that you walk in is by the grace of God. He walks you through that experience, that impartation. He’s creating in us the humility, the love, the authority that He wants to move through.
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In all this we are becoming His sons that walk in His joy and fulfillment.
Quotes:
- We're entering into a level of rest; of the Father's rest. Rest from our own works and striving and enter into His rest.
- I'm learning that God's love and grace extends to everyone…
- I look at grace as something personal, very personal between me and the Father.
- ...if you're walking in grace, how responsible are you because you receive that grace? That's the other side of grace. What are you doing with the grace that was shown to you from God?
- Faith, or grace, or love, it's not us. . It's God working in us for everything. When you start seeing that, more and more you relax because you know the whole thing was God.
- How do I prepare to receive His grace? If I say, Lord, give me Your grace, I've got to humble myself.
- There's no limitations on what God can do. It's up to us to give Him a voice. It's up to us to give Him a, an abode, a place where He can live.
- This is a day of understanding that God has created us into who we are and what we are becoming.
References:
Matthew 11:28-30
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”John 14:2“In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. Ephesians 2:8-9"For by grace you have been saved through faith and this not your own doing; it is the gift of God – not the result of works, so that no one may boast." Zechariah 3: 3-5(Joshua clothed in filthy rags) Ephesians 4:6One God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. Philippians 2:12-14(God working in us for His good pleasure) Romans 7:18For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. Romans 14:17(God gives peace and joy) Takeaways
As God moves among His creation He moves with love and expectation toward those He has poured out His grace, peace and joy on. Those who choose to enter His rest are rewarded with a greater portion of His nature imparted to them.
Summary:
In this new day of Spirit, the Holy Spirit is imparting through each member of the body, one to another. This impartation unfolds differently for each person as they feed upon His Word and are learning how to use their spiritual faculties so that they can walk in the Spirit with the Lord.
Show Notes:
- The Holy Spirit may speak and reveal things differently to each person because we are all unique.
- Each member contributes his part of what is going on in the flow of the Holy Spirit.
- We are learning to use our spiritual faculties.
- We don’t stop but we stay in motion so that the Lord can guide us into these new realms.
- The renewing of your mind has been by an impartation by the Lord through many people.
- As we feed upon the Word that He speaks to us from our brother and sister, we grow and mature.
- We are determined to appropriate all the God has for us today.
Quotes:
- Walking in the Spirit may be entirely different and how the Holy Spirit or the Lord speaks to me. In the Spirit. Yes. By the Spirit. Yes.
- Just be yourself because everyone else is taken.
- We're going to be speaking words of Spirit as individuals out of our own individual personalities. And it'll be added to and be a part of everything that's going on.
- We still have teachers, but those teachers aren't teaching us the way human teachers teach. Their imparting, the unveiling of that impartation for you specifically is totally different.
- We've got to learn to use our spiritual faculties. That's where we grow and mature. We can see. We can hear. We can communicate. We can impart. We can receive.
- I get up every morning and live life more excited than ever before because there's so much that is unfolding to us. There's so many ways we move in the Spirit.
- You can't steer someone who stops, but when they keep moving, that's what God does. He steers us into new realms. new places, new things, new understanding, new revelation.
- I don't want to hear this coming from a nominal understanding on a human level. I want to hear the words of Spirit and life that are drawing me into this next place…
- All these wonderful gifts of the Holy Spirit come because we feed upon the Word. The ability to see things and then to know how to respond to what God reveals to us.
- God has raised all of us up to be a family that partakes of the gifts of each other.
- ...I am set to partake of everything that He has made available to me by revelation.
References:
1 Corinthians 12:21-27
(The many facets of the body of Christ)
Proverbs 20:12-13
(When can see and hear)
1 John 2:26 – 27
These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you. 27 And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him remains in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you remain in Him.
John 14:26
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all that I said to you.
John 16:13
(The Leading of God)
John 6:51
I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats from this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I will give for the life of the world also is My flesh.”
John 6:54
The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
Mathew 4:4
(We feed upon the Word)
Takeaway:
It is a day of Spirit and as each unique member of His body walks in the Spirit they become a source of impartation to every other member. The many faceted body of Christ speaks, feeds and is transformed by the Word of God that they have become as they follow their Lord day by day.
Worship is where we go into the presence of the Lord and appropriate the Word that we heard, made available to us by revelation.
Summary:We have to have a revelation to really know the Lord. If you are depending on somebody else's revelation, then you are not depending on your personal relationship to the Lord. In this new day it is so important to reach into a level of revelation—of “knowing.” “Knowing” is different than “knowing about.” Show Notes:* When you receive something from the Lord, when there's a revelation, you enter into a deeper relationship with Him. Your life will change, and it will express this new revelation, this new depth. * The pure evangelism is not what we say, but what we are and what exudes from our life. People see God in you, you changed, you were transformed.
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When you enter that realm, the Lord begins to reveal to you different things that you did not know or you were not aware of.
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Today the door is open for you to walk in this new realm of revelation.
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As we become more and more spiritual people, we're going to communicate and relate by revelation.
Quotes:* If you say, “I think I know the Lord”, seek Him with all your heart to know Him.
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He's sharing Himself with you. You are His son.
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We change; we move into authority; we move into responsibility (correctly), if we move in by revelation. If not, we're moving by the flesh.
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Somehow we think this is way too mystical for us. We're talking about the spiritual realm that you can't see, you can't feel, you can't hear. This is a new day.
- As a body reaches in, we say, “I never saw things I'm seeing. I never understood the things I'm understanding, Don't make it difficult, because the door is open.
References:Galatians 1:11-12 “For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.”Ephesians 1:17 “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him.I Corinthians 2:9 “things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him.”Revelations 3:8 “Behold I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.” Takeaway:In this new day, the door is open to know the Lord on a deeper level. As His sons, we can reach in for a revelation of things we have not seen or heard. This will enrich your personal relationship with the Lord until your relating and communicating with others will reveal a deep sense of knowing who He is.
Summary:
As this new realm is opening up to God’s people, they must each experience Christ in themselves and in one another. Christ is speaking in His family as each member speaks what Christ within them has revealed. In this atmosphere the true revelation of Christ is appearing and being imparted. In all this Christ continues to intercede for us as He is ushering us into the presence of the Father.
Show Notes:
- This new realm is opening up by revelation.
- As we enter into this realm, we stand on His promises and He answer’s us.
- As Christ is revealed in us we are aware that He is the Word in us.
- Christ is being revealed in His many membered body.
- Christ in you must be an experience to your heart.
- God has said He'll drop everything that we've ever learned that's registered on a human level, and it'll become an old day that we have to discard.
- These new experiences that we are to receive will be imparted through our brother’s and sister’s.
- We want to walk humbly and hear His voice through one another.
- As we are moving as the Christ in the earth, Christ our head is interceding for us that we may come into a new relationship with the Father.
- As Christ brings us into this relationship to the Father, our relationship changes in how we are now relating to the Father.
- How is God expressing Himself to you, or to us right now?
- God is one and He expresses Himself through His triune nature, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Quotes:
- What I see happening is a deeper level of revelation is called the voice of the Lord.
- All we have to do is call upon God and He has to answer us and show us great things. We can come to Him and know that we will receive an answer.
- When the Lord Jesus is revealed in us, and we're aware, He is the Word, and His Word is always a sure thing, because He has been revealed, in us, not to us from the outside.
- We have come to the day Where Christ revealed in His body, in his People - in us.
- Everything is moving, moving, moving to bring us into the revelation of Himself in us.
- This is a mystery and you don't get a mystery with the human mind. It has to be a revelation. It has to be an experience to your heart.
- ...I think those revelations, those experiences, I have to believe are imparted through one another.
- I believe that Christ in us is speaking, and if we're open to hear His voice, we're going to move in together into this new realm.
- I want to walk simply before the Lord. Hear His voice in a many membered body.
- Where we're at right now is Christ is taking us, and He's giving us back to the Father as the fulfillment of His ministry.
- What is Christ doing? What's He doing right now? He's making intercession for us, day and night. Why? We're in that process of being turned over to the Father, and He's praying that we make that step into the Father to complete this.
- ...He is the door that we walk through into the spirit realm, into the kingdom, into the presence of the Father.
- Christ delivers the kingdom up within us to the Father, and we begin to come into this relationship that we call our Father.
References:
Jeremiah 33:3
Call upon Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know.
Colossians 1:27
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
1 Corinthians 12:12-13
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
Philippians 3:13
Brothers and sisters, I do not regard myself as having taken hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,…
Romans 8:34
Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, but rather, was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
I Corthians 15: 23 -25
But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming, 24 then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to our God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power. 25 For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
2 Corinthians 5:19namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their wrongdoings against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Genesis 1:26( Let Us make man in our Image) Takeaway:
In this new realm of Spirit that we are living in, we are coming into the revaluation of Christ with in us speaking. As Christ speaks through His many membered body it reveals and imparts His nature and brings the completion of His lordship within each member of His body as He hands us over to the Father. A whole new realm of relationship to God opens up to His family.
We believe in a triune being, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is one, we are one. That is the introduction in the mystery that we are moving into. The mystery is being unveiled.
Summary:
Today the family is reaching into a new realm, and a new anointing is resting within them. This anointing comes by the Holy Spirit and is manifesting in the laying of their lives down in love for one another. They are following in the footsteps of the Master as He laid down His life for us all.
Show Notes:
- We each have received a special anointing of the Holy Spirit to function with in His family.
- He is drawing us into what we looked for our whole lives, a relationship with God. He creates in us a walk with Him in this realm.
- With this anointing we are speaking the Word of God to one another.
- This is a new realm in God and we will lose our soul life and yet it will be our greatest joy.
- In this new realm we are laying our lives down in love for one another.
- As we walk on in this new realm, the Father works in us His nature so that we walk in the same way Jesus walked.
- Only as we see our brother through the Father’s eyes, can we truly serve and love our brother.
Quotes:
- This is a very unique anointing that actually makes it possible for you to flow to one another in the Spirit. Because the anointing is there not only to speak, but to hear, to receive, so we're giving and receiving.
- We have come to a new day. We have come into the day of Spirit.
- We've been washed by the water of the word as it has flowed out of our mouths to one another …
- As we walk on and we mature in the Lord, we find out that He requires us to walk the way He walked. Yeah, there's a requirement to walk in the selflessness. In the giving of your life, in the love, all these things.
- God is freeing us to understand by revelation to give your life and lay it down for your brother when you perceive the Father's heart toward them.
- ...we're really serving Him to the extent that you did it to them the least of My brethren. You did it unto Me.
References:
Matthew 25: 1-13
(Parable of the ten virgins)
John 3:30
He must increase, but I must decrease.
Matthew 10:39
(Losing your life)
John 15:13
(We lay down our lives)
Chronicles 15:2
(Seeking Him)
John 15:9-16
(abiding in God’s love)
John 13:34
(Love with the Father’s love)
Takeaway:
To the extent that you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it unto Me. This is becoming a reality to those who are pressing into this new realm of His love today. His anointing comes to release us into a flow of His love one to another as we lay our lives down for the family.
I’m no longer calling you servants, because servants don’t understand what their Master is doing. Everything I have received from My Father, I give to you.
Summary:
Our Father offers simple solutions to the complex and impossible situations our human mind produces. He opens the door when asked for His solution; the mind of Christ is His provision.
Show Notes:
- The Lord takes us to a place of utter devastation so that we don’t trust in anything except Him.
- God saying, “I want to give you a new mind, a new heart, and a new spirit.”
- Our mind and our emotions are probably the greatest access the enemy has to us. How do we appropriate the mind of Christ?
- This utter devastation produces within us a broken spirit and a contrite heart which God does not despise.
- We must come to the place of total trust in Him as He is giving us His mind.
- We must persist in our putting on the mind of Christ.
- I wished it happened overnight and it does as much as I can handle.. To me there is a tremendous amount of grace involved.
Quotes:
- ...the Lord takes you through a place of utter devastation, utter abandonment to anything that you would rely on in yourself. You rely totally on Him.
- God's saying it's not enough that you just do what you do because you've learned what you've learned. I want to give you a new mind.
- You have a broken spirit and a contrite heart. And what that does is that opens you up for His solution. And His solution is your initiative. To take the mind of His Son.
- You've got to come to the end of yourself. That's a principle that applies to so much in our walk with God.
- He will cover you with His love and His grace and let you come to the end of yourself.
- Trusting and believing Him, that He will give you His mind.
- We can only trust what the Lord is speaking to us and bringing that mind and really making Him the Lord of our life. He is the Lord.
- ...just call out to the Lord and ask Him for His mind or His thinking for His heart…
- I'm taking my mind, and I'm getting rid of it, and I'm taking His mind.
- ...God is faithful to His Word. And our persistence in doing what the Lord is showing us to do is truly the answer.
References:
Romans 8:5
(the carnal mind vs the mind of Spirit)
1 Corinthians 2:16
For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.
I Corinthians 15:51-52
(Changed in a twinkling of an eye)
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, God, You will not despise.
Jeremiah 33:3
Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
Hebrews 13:5
Let your conversation be without covetousness ;and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Takeaway:
As God deals with our carnal mind He takes us to a place of utter devastation in our life. This produces within us a broken and contrite spirit as we learn not to trust in anything of ourselves but to put on the mind of Christ and wholly trust in every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
Summary:
To become effective as a spiritual warrior we must put on the armor of God. The helmet of salvation protects that which we have appropriated and become in God by His Word. This piece of armor not only protects us form the assault of the enemy, but it houses all the living promises that God has made real to us and becomes the lordship of Jesus Christ in our lives.
Show Notes:
- You don’t go into battle without proper training and without proper armament.
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The helmet of salvation is one of the most important parts of our armament because of what you have underneath it.
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After God has given you something, how do you protect it?
- We are not protecting the carnal mind. We are protecting what we have from God and opening up to receive more.
- We must keep asking, keep seeking, and keep knocking in regards to what the Lord has said pertaining to the helmet of salvation because it is progressive.
- We put on the helmet of hope which is God’s promise’s to me.
- The helmet of salvation protects me from all that assails me from the enemy.
- The armor of God is His Word that we assimilate and become.
Quotes:
- ...we're putting the helmet of salvation around the mind of Christ that's in you.
- What you're doing is you're covering what you've got and you're opening your heart and your mind to receive more.
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So putting on the helmet of salvation could be progressive as well.
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Keep on asking, because what you're saying to the Lord is, I trust You, and I believe what You're saying. I trust You, and what's happening in all that is, first off, you're getting a relationship with the Lord.
- ...put on the helmet of the hope of salvation. What is hope? Hope are promises yet to be fulfilled.
- What am I hoping in? My hopes are coming from the Word of the promises of God.
- A living hope that God has given me, this my hope this is what protects me from the assault, from the doubts, from the fears, from the, from all these things that are assailing my mind. I can repel those things with the hope that God's given me in my heart.
- ...what is the armor? It's the Word.
- As you eat the Word, and you assimilate the Word, as the Holy Spirit makes alive to you the words that you read, it becomes your armor.
- God has got more for me and it says after the hope of Salvation and the peace of God which surpasses all comprehension shall guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
- What is the helmet of salvation? It's the Lordship of Jesus Christ over us.
References:
Isaiah 59:17
(Put on the helmet of salvation)
Ephesians 6: 17
(Put on the helmet of salvation)
Philippians 2:12
So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
Matthew 7:7-8
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
1 Thessalonians 5:8
But since we are of the day, let’s be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not see, through perseverance we wait eagerly for it.
Takeaway:
We’re getting the divine nature of God and God is protecting that through the armor that we are appropriating. That divine nature has come to us through the Word of God, through the impartation through the Holy Spirit.
Summary:
Everything that God is doing in fulfilling His Word and purposes in His kingdom is being done within a people. The kingdom of God is within us and we must continually be reaching in to be filled up with the fullness of God. This is our high calling in Christ Jesus to know Him in His fullness within us.
Show Notes:
- Jesus Christ and the fulfillment's of His Word are coming forth within us not outside of us.
- Although Satan is raging, God is in complete control of everything.
- We choose to be obedient and follow His Word.
- We were chosen before the foundations of the world to walk with Him.
- We should be thankful to the Father for all that He is doing.
- There is only one calling and that is to be filled up to the fullness of God.
Quotes:
- Jesus Christ has come forth in us to one degree or another. Christ the Word is in us. Jesus said, if you've seen Me, you've seen the Father. All these things are in us.
- I believe that God is continually hammering at us to get us to understand that the fulfillment's of His Word are not taking place outside of us, taking place in us.
- Satan is raging and trying to destroy the earth. How can you believe that anyone but the Lord is in control of what's happening in the earth? He is the Lord!
- You can choose to follow God in His word and be obedient and humble and Love Him and serve Him or you can choose not to.
- I think Thanksgiving is huge. Because He just wants you to be thankful, because He's already accomplished it.
- There's only one calling, and that's this oneness with the Lord, and it's the only, there is no other calling.
- His purpose is that we'd be filled up with Him, His fullness.
- Come up into a higher realm. Come up in the spirit to know the Lord.
References:
Colossians 1:27
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Psalms 2
(He who sits in the heavens laughs at the nations)
John 14:10
Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.
Romans 16:20
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
Ephesians 1:4-6
(Chosen of God before the foundations of the world)
John 17
(Jesus prays that we will be where He is)
Revelation 21:3
And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them,
Ephesians 4:4-6
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you also were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.
Takeaways:
There is a high calling for every believer in Christ. We must not settle for a lesser goal in our walk with the Lord. Each day we reach in by the Holy Spirit to know Him more and to be filled to all the fullness of God.
Summary:
True believers are on a path of experiencing and knowing God in this new day of Spirit. Even though the carnal mind wars against God’s work within them, the believer must refuse those thoughts and put on the mind of Christ that comes from the impartation of His Word through the Holy Spirit. We have entered into the age of the grace to become and to do.
Show Notes:
- We are on a path of experiencing and knowing God.
- We must put on the mind of Christ.
- When we look at all the circumstances of our lives, what we’ve gone through – God has created within us a miracle.
- True faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
- We are being transformed by the Word to be the body of Christ in the earth.
- We are beginning to lay our lives down for each other.
- The Word is becoming alive to us.
- It’s a new day with Him every day!
Quotes:
- We are becoming the Word. It's being imparted to our spirits.
- Wake up, house of God, believe what the Lord has already brought you through, and what He will continue to bring you through, and what He's created in you to become.
- Because our mind is not Spirit, it's part of this soul flesh side of our life.
- The mind is the enemy of God. And that's not what you listen to.
- ...despite all of that's going on or what I might be thinking in my mind. You just hold on to that belief and that faith, that's His faith in your spirit.
- My carnal mind is being dealt with, but my spirit is set on the Lord.
- Faith is something in our spirits, not what the eye sees. Our eyes can deceive us.
- Faith begins in our spirit, like Mike was saying, based upon the Word of God.
- This is the age of the grace to become and the grace to do. And that's where we reach in to the hidden treasures that God has placed within His Word.
- We are becoming Christ in the Spirit. What does that mean? A willingness in our hearts to lay down our lives for each other.
- It’s about the Word of God having it’s fulfillment. If we love His kingdom, if we love Him, we want to please Him, we are going to walk as believers.
- ...this is about His presence. This is about overcoming. This is about becoming something more than we could ever become in our flesh.
- When we hunger and thirst after righteousness – we’ll find it.
- ...begin to just wake up to the newness that's right there with you every day. Wow, I never saw that before. Almost like a wake up every day.
References:
I John 3:2
Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Job 42
(Job knows God)
Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
John 20: 24-29
(Christ confronts Thomas for his unbelief)
Romans 10:17
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Matthew 5:6
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Ephesians 1:23
(Expression of His fullness)
Takeaways:
In this new age of Spirit, we are finding that our faith comes from hearing the Word of God from our brother’s mouth. We are miracles created by a Word from God. When we hunger and thirst for righteousness we will find it.
Summary:
Our growth spiritual being depends on His grace. As He leads us we are dedicated to the means as we keep our focus set on His promises and provisions to bring forth His will on this earth.
Show Notes:
- God is bringing us into a new realm of Spirit.
- In this new realm of Spirit we recognize the openness and oneness we have with people, no matter what they say or believe.
- A level of perception and openness to God is the capacity to hear their spirit.
- This new level of Spirit consist of oneness and power, not just words.
- As Christ comes forth within us we enter into the world He lives in.
- The kingdom of God is in power, not about agreement mentally.
- As this new day unfolds we are finding that we believe more, we impart more, we appropriate more, and walk in more grace.
Quotes:
- God is bringing us into another realm, where all of the sudden, you just recognize the openness in people's spirit, and you're one with them.
- ...we're done stumbling over what other people might believe different from us. Or see a different slant on some things. Does not matter. The only thing that matters. It's coming into this realm of Spirit together.
- What's effective is when you hit this realm of Spirit, it's the oneness and the power that comes out of it.
- As we are moving into this realm, and I'll call it oneness, the fruit will be the evidence.
- We stop listening to what people say And we listen to what's in their spirit.
- All of this is wrapped up in Jesus Christ and Him coming forth in us and opening us up to His world, opening us up to the realm He lives in.
- I think the Lord's causing us to wait and listen differently. Not what they're saying, but what's going on. Really what's behind it.
- ...all of the awareness that God's bringing us into has always been right there within us. We're coming into the awareness. Of who He is. What He is doing in us and what He's revealing to us in the Spirit.
- Each day we believe more, we impart more, we appropriate more, we walk in more grace, because each day it's the grace to become the grace to do as a gift from God.
- I tell you this is a marvelous day. It is. If the apostles and prophets, I think they, they would marvel at the day we're living in right now, because that's what they reached for.
References:
I Corinthians 4:20
For the kingdom of God is not in words, but in power.
John 6:63
It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
I Samuel 16:7
(Man looks on the outward, but God looks in the heart)
Ephesians 2:20-22
(We are God’s temple)
John 16:12-13
(God has many more things to speak to us, but we cannot hear them now)
1 Thessalonians 5:21-23
(Prove all things)
Isaiah 35:8
And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but is shall be for the redeemed : the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err therein.
Takeaways:
A new age of Spirit is opening up to God’s family. Through their oneness and love the power of God is beginning to be made manifest as they walk out the grace of God and become the housing of God in the earth.
Summary:
We have many fine examples to lead us into a closer walk with God. We have from Abraham to Job to John the beloved to Paul, and they all point to walking in the footsteps of Jesus Christ right into the heart of the Father.
Show Notes:
- In our walk with the Lord we must come into a complete trust in Him.
- Job was a perfect example of a man who trusted God with his whole heart.
- Because of Job’s focus on the Lord, he had victory all the way through his testings.
- As we put our trust in the Lord it positions us in His presence.
- God first brings us into the realm of faith and real trust. Out of that comes the deliverance’s He has promised.
- He’s with us 100% of the time. He’ll allow our faith to be tested. He wants it to come through as refined pure gold.
- We go through many testings and trials, and it works in us a total faith and trust in Him.
- We must not complicate the promises of God. They are all fulfilled in His presence.
- It is His work not ours. We must trust and abide in Him, keeping our focus on Him as He goes after things that He want’s out of our spirits,
- The secret in our walk with Him is our focus and trust in Him.
Quotes:
- This is what we really cried for, is a closer walk with God. And how do you get one without faith, without trust, without trusting Him? That you really believe that every aspect of your life is in His hands.
- ...I can have authority and control of what I choose to believe. And of course, this is the foundation of a closer walk with God.
- Job had victory over everything that he was facing before he went into it, because of his focus on the Lord.
- Where does trust position you in relationship to the Lord? It positions you in His presence.
- Everything we're going through is His design. Because he's creating something greater than you and I have ever known.
- He's working with us. He's making me eternal like Himself.
- We have complicated every promise that God has given us, and made it conditional. It's not conditional; it's His presence.
- God is working in us that the end result is the promise: Spirit, soul, and body complete in His presence.
- The Father comes and He'll prune you. That's a very real experience as we, He goes after different things, but it's not us going after it.
- Focus on the vine, and the life flow that comes, and how we minister life to one another. That's everything to us.
- What is repentance? Yes its turning to the Lord. Its turning away from your soul flesh, yes its turning to God.
- We're just learning how to move into God, to a depth where these things operate and have a completion in us.
- This is a day that the Lord is ushering us into a new level, a new day, a new beginning, a new place.
- ...the secret of our relationship with God is putting Him first.
References:
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heartand lean not on your own understanding;6 in all your ways submit to him,and he will make your paths straight.
Isaiah 49:16-18
(Your life is in HIs hands)
Book of Job
(A man who wholly trusted God in all he went through)
Philippians 3:10
...that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death..
Revelations 12
(the way we over come)
John 17
(Jesus has given us His glory which is His presence)
II Corinthians 4:17-18
(Eternal weight of glory)
Isaiah 55:8-9
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,neither are your ways my ways,”declares the Lord.9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,so are my ways higher than your waysand my thoughts than your thoughts.
John 15
(Abiding in the vine)
Takeaways:
As the Lord is drawing us into a closer walk with Him, we go through many testings and trials. All these things are to create in us a total faith and trust in Him. As we come into this place of complete trust in our Father, we find that He has worked all things after the counsel of His will to bring us into a closer walk with Him.
Summary:
The Holy Spirit is leading us through a process of growth. God’s purpose for us is to obtain His nature – taking up His abode in us. Truth, knowledge, and love is the pathway to His eternal purpose in us.
Show Notes:
- As we grow in God do we get stuck in a ministry that we have identified ourselves as.
- Could an Apostle, Prophet, evangelist, Pastor and Teacher or any other ministry be just an expression of Christ in us as we grow into the fullness of Christ?
- If we hold on to the past, if we try to minister from that place , we’ll never see the completion of what God brought us forth for.
- We lose our individual identity as it’s swallowed up in His great family.
- The partial will be done away with. That’s what we are moving into. Christ in me is the hope of glory.
- It’s the manifold wisdom of God being manifested through His family that is accomplishing His eternal purpose.
Quotes:
- As we grow in God, we grow past things that we thought were the cat's meow. We put them away. They have to be let go of. It's a different day.
- Christ in me is the hope of glory, so I don't have to rely on all these other things.
- There's always another level, and it's a constant process of bringing us up. into that realm of spirit where we can function the way God wants us to function, not the way we think we're going to function.
- God can use us in any order He needs. If you're in a situation where you need to be an evangelist, God can use you there. If you need to be a preacher, He can use you there. But it doesn't mean that's what you are.
- We are a family. We know that. And we share with each other and we reveal ourselves to each other because we know we're family, because we have this call.
- It's our response. It's our acknowledgment. It's our humility. It's our bowing down. It's our awe and our fear and our love. All those responses. They're doing something in proving that God is true, that God, his purpose is true, and what he's doing is revealing to the heavens and the earth that he's going to do this.
- Trust Me, take My hand, and I’ll walk you through this chaos because you are part of the answer. You are My family.
References:
I Corithians 13:11-12
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
I Corinthians 13:8-10
Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
Romans 8:8-9
(Christ in us)
I Peter 2:9
(God is determined to have a people)
Proverbs 3:5-6
(He’ll walk with you through the chaos)
Takeaways:
As we grow in our relationship with our Father, we lose our individual ministry and identity as we are swallowed up into His family. Our expression becomes part of the family’s expression and this all is beginning to reveal the Father’s eternal purpose to reveal to the heavens and earth that He is true and He will have a family.
Summary:
Christ our Lord came to this earth as a servant and taught His disciples the importance of serving one another. Our Father is creating perfect copies of His son out of you and me, that we would be those who carry out His will in the earth today. It’s all creation coming together to serve our Lord and King, ruler of all creation.
Show Notes:
- The servant’s ministry has come forth with the expression of all the gift ministries combined.
- People have taken the gift ministries and exalted them to a place they were never to be. They are all servants.
- Christ was the perfect example of a servant.
- Our servant ministry to each other is the riches of the kingdom that we can share.
- As people with a free will, God wants us to humble our selves and serve Him.
- We don’t look for rewards, or what I can get out of it, or any kind of recognition. It’s simply a service we are offering to the Christ in each other.
Quotes:
- Right now, one of the greatest ministries is the ministry of a servant. That ministry contains all the definitions of an apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher.
- There's something about serving that is the ministry that we are to each other that's really pure.
- Unfortunately, people have taken apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers and exalted them where they shouldn't have never been. All they were was a servant walking in the ministry that God had given them.
- That's what Christ showed us when He was here on the earth, to minister as a servant, where He said, become the servant of all.
- We're receiving and understanding that the ministry of each one to us and ours to them is of great importance. It's the riches of the kingdom that we can share.
- So we as the body of Christ, if we all take on that mantle of servant, which is really the spirit of humility then we're right there functioning as the Lord would, because that's the greatest part of Himself that manifests is that spirit of humility.
- We are free moral agents, given a will. And He wants us to freely choose with our will, humble ourselves before Him, and serve Him.
- You are lead by the Holy Spirit and you are walking out the Word of God for your life. Keep a score card; find out today who did you serve?
References:
Mark 9:35
And sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”
Phillipians 2:8
(Spirit of humility)
Isaiah 6:8
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
Deuteronomy 15:17
...then you shall take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your servant permanently. You shall also do the same to your female slave.
I Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become all things to all people, so that I may by all means save some.
I Corinthians 11:1
Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.
John 13:1-17
(Christ washes the disciple’s feet)
Takeaways:
As Christ came in the humility of a servant to do the Father’s will, we too must walk in His footsteps and humble ourselves as servants of God and one another if we are going to be His will in this earth.
The Lord of Lords, and King of Kings actually is on the throne. We as human beings aren’t. We have to come to the place that we renounce our human arrogance and submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
Summary:
In the family God’s love comes creating life everlasting for all. This is the plumbline we measure up to that we might return that love to Him.
Show Notes:
- As we touch everyone with God’s love, their lives are transformed.
- His love must control our lives.
- Everything that we do and say must line up to the plumb line of God’s love.
- True perception comes as we are filled with God's love.
- We draw from God His love and minister it to others.
- As we speak God’s Word to one another, we are building up His family.
- His love and His life are synonymous.
- The atmosphere created in small groups of believers lends itself for every person participating in God’s love.
- A cry is coming out of God’s people to be His love in the earth.
Quotes:
- Whatever we do and whatever we say, the Lord's love should be infused into it.
- Success in the eyes of the Lord is touching somebody with His love, transforming their lives.
- ...the creativity of God only flows through His love.
- If you love someone enough you could say anything to them no matter how strong and they would receive it.
- The plum line for everything is the love of God.
- Only the love gives us the clear perception to see things the way they really are.
- One of the things we can do is freight everything we do with love.
- You reach into the Father, draw His love, and you send it out.
- As we come in to this place of recognizing who we are in the Spirit, and then speaking the Word that God puts in our hearts, we're building up the body of Christ.
- And the atmosphere that you have in these small groups, I would say that you have much more of a tendency to feel God's love, to participate in God's love, and to be God's love to one another.
- God needs a family. He's wanted a family.
- And I am so thankful that there is so much participation in these groups, because that's where the life is in the body that participates, where each and every joint speaks, each and every joint gives that which the Lord has given them.
- ...this is what we're saying, pour out all these things, because Your love is such a manifestation in the earth, and it's so desperately needed.
References:
1 Corinthians 16:14
Let all that you do be done in love.
Psalms 139:14
(The creativity of God in love)
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised
1 Thessalonians 5:11-18
(Building up one another in love)
Isaiah 61: 1-3
(The Spirit of the Lord upon us)
Takeaways:
As we walk on in His family His love controls us. As we continue to speak His Word to one another in His love, we are filled to overflowing and begin to pour out His love to the whole earth.
Summary:
In these last days when the Satan is trying to wear out the saints, we must put on the full armor of God to be able to stand. The shied of faith is a piece of this armor which enables us to extinguish all the fiery darts of the wicked one and manifest Christ victory in this earth.
Show Notes:
- The assault that is coming against us, hits us in our strength, in our focus and in many different ways. The piece of armor that we haven’t talked about is the shield of faith.
- In times of spiritual warfare when we don’t feel we have what we need, the Lord says to take up the shield of faith which is able to quench all the fiery darts of the enemy.
- As we each take up the shield of faith, we become a protection and covering for the rest of the family.
- When we move in spiritual warfare it must be motivated by God’s love.
- The battle has already been won by Christ, and we are commissioned to execute that victory here on this earth.
Quotes:
- I think of all the times that we feel like we don't have enough strength, or we don't have enough might, or we don't have enough faith, but then the Lord says to just draw on Him. He'll give us what we need.
- One of the main objectives, if you want to call it that, of the satanic realm is to wear out the saints of the Most High.
- One of the pieces of armor that we haven't talked about is the shield of faith. The stronger our belief, the more effective that shield is.
- In all these pieces of armor, I feel like we need to keep uppermost in our mind that these are expressions of Christ in the flesh.
- All the manifestation of the pieces of armor that we're talking about, there has to be, there must be the underlying spirit of God's love, the Father's love coming through that; even in judgment.
- How can I love you if I did not prepare for the battle by putting on His attributes and putting them to work.
- The battle has already been won. We have been given the commission. And the privilege of manifesting it to the earth.
References:
Ephesians 6:10
Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
Daniel 7:25
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Revelation 19: 11-21
(Christ portrayed as a warrior)
Ephesians 6:16
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Luke 9:51-56
(James and John wanting to call fire down of the Samaritans)
I John 5:4
For whoever has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
I John 4:4
(The battle already won)
Takeaways:
God’s provision of His armor in this day of spiritual battle is to make us into overcomers; those who enforce His victories on the cross.
Summary:
As the age of the Kingdom unfolds, we see that the prophet of the kingdom will exhibit all the qualities of the old and new testament prophet and will have the heart of the Lord as a shepherd. Prominence and position will not be in them, but they will be submerged into the Body of Christ as it comes forth in maturity.
Show Notes:
- The Kingdom prophet will be different than the prophet of the church age in that he will have all the qualities and gifts of the old and new testament prophet and more.
- As the kingdom unfolds, all the designations that we have used to distinguish the different ministries will fade and each person will just flow together in the family.
- The Prophet is not a position, but a father to bring forth the people into what God has for them.
- Because of the deep love relationship that the people have with the prophet they will know what he is speaking is a Word from God and therefore will not be led astray.
- The prophet will help bring God’s people into all that they are to become.
Quotes:
- The kingdom prophet will not only speak a Word, he will have the quality to be able to hear the cries like the Lord hears. And so he'll hear the unspoken cries of the people and be able to minister to that.
- There's Like a blurring of lines between the five fold ministries as they make the transition from the New Testament age into the Kingdom age.
- ...I think in the church age, the apostles, prophets, those designations were necessary so that people would take notice, listen, open up.
- And it's not a ministry that is a position. It's simply a ministry that's crying out to the Father for the people and having that father ministry with the people.
- I believe it's very significant when we're talking about the ministry of the prophet in the kingdom because he's going to be more than just speaking a word from God out to the earth. He's going to be a ministry that functions as a father and as a priest, and as a prophet.
- ...if you're in the family and you have relationships with the men and women of God, you're not deceived. Because you know these people, you know them by the Spirit, you know their hearts.
- When the Body of Christ will be mature, what does that mean? They will be grown up into one Body.
- They know and understand and they love me to the point where they lift me up to become something, to become who I'm supposed to be.
References:
Ephesians 4:11-13
(Body of Christ built up)
Ephesians 4:12
(Depth of relationship)
Jeremiah 3:15
“Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding.”
Matthew 24:24
For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will provide great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
Takeaways:
In the unfolding of the kingdom of God, we are seeing the ministry of the prophet evolve into what God wants today. Prophets are one of the gift ministries of which there are many are for the perfecting of the ministries who build up the Body of Christ.
Summary:
As we absorb the scriptures, worship, and wait on the Lord, we find that this becomes the very preparation in us that creates the armor of God. We are coming with the answer, the gospel of peace, not further conflict. The battle has been won, Satan is a defeated foe.
Show Notes:
- The armor of God is all about preparation.
- Getting into the Word of God in a constant way is a way of preparing you to be what God wants you to be.
- As we reach into the scriptures, worship, and waiting on Him; this becomes the preparation to us that enables us to walk in those things He has prepared for us to walk in.
- We put on the full armor of God and then we become a protection to our brother.
- What we are facing spiritually in the world on every level; if you haven’t been preparing your heart by the Word of God, you’re probably going to have a difficult time.
- As we walk in the fulfillment of all that God sets before us today; this become the preparation of tomorrow’s fulfillment.
Quotes:
- This thing of the armor is all about preparation.
- I think that there is a way that the man of God, the child of God, is continually in a mode of preparation.
- ...getting into the Scriptures, getting into the Word of God; it's preparing you beforehand so that when you run into situations spiritually, physically, emotionally, mentally, you're prepared by the Holy Spirit.
- I know the Word of God is very, very important, and it's important that we are in it daily, absorbing by the Holy Spirit what He wants to show us through the Word.
- Get into the Word. Get into worship. Get into waiting on Him. Do the things that you know to do, and He'll fill them.
- All those hours and times that you spent alone, was that preparation? Were you listening to the Father? Were you solidifying and growing in your relationship?
- The days are growing short and He is preparing His body for war.
- It's about the Lordship of Jesus Christ and how He prepared my heart to walk in this earth where I was never prepared before I am today.
- I'd say that by the time we put on the full armor, We're prepared, and we're invincible.
- We become that covering that protection that enables them to walk into battle and into His presence.
- The fulfillment of today is the preparation of fulfillment for His next step in your walk with God.
References:
Philliapins 4:7
(Gospel of peace)
Hebrews 12:14
(pursue peace)
Matthew 10:19
But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given you in that hour.
I Peter 4:8
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
Acts 26: 1-29
(God fills your mouth)
Takeaways:
The preparation of the gospel of peace becomes all those hours and times that you spent alone with Him. Getting into the scriptures is preparing you before hand, so that when you run into situations spiritually, physically, emotionally, and mentally you are prepared. Are you spending time in His Word each day? Are you listening to the Father and growing in your relationship to Him?
Summary:
In the body of Christ there are many different expressions and ways of fulfilling God’s will. How are we to know the things that God is speaking to us and not be divided from our brother that is doing something different? We know that we must not use our carnal minds to try and discern what God is speaking, and that it is only by the Spirit of God within us that we can see what He is doing in each person. We all have something to contribute so that His family will be built up and complete.
Show Notes:
- We must not use our human brains to try to discern the things of God. It is God’s Spirit within us that reveals the truth of what He is speaking.
- When we revert to using our carnal mind, we open ourselves up to deception and division.
- Will we lean upon what God has placed within our spirit, or our soul flesh and carnal mind.
- If we lean on our mind to figure things out we will always wonder if this is the truth – we will be confused.
- When I don’t understand something, I’m simply going to it on the shelf for God to interpret it to my spirit.
- Because there are many different expressions and paths in God, we must reach in to His Spirit to understand and love what He is doing in our brother.
- What we have to give to the body of Christ is so important – it supplies what the whole body needs.
Quotes:
- Our human brains are not meant to discern the spirit of God in understanding.
- It’s God's spirit in us that interprets or brings us into the truth of what God is speaking.
- The minute you rely on human thinking, and then it causes dissension, or it causes us to divide; you've allowed the enemy to come in.
- When they received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, now they have available to them the ability to rise up in the Spirit, tap into the Holy Spirit, and see the truth, not the lies and deceptions and things that come through the brain.
- Things in the spirit, love, peace, joy; all those things come to our heart. The unbelief, the questioning comes to the mind.
- ...we turn to Him, and say “Lord you lead us ,You give us the direction, You show us.” Then we're not relying on our human thinking.
- So the challenge is always, am I going to believe my soul flesh or am I going to believe my spirit?
- The Spirit always brings the truth, without exception.
- This is the Lord speaking to us about the different paths that different people will be walking on, that doesn't make them less, and it doesn't make them not a part.
- We have to keep our spirits right before the Lord. And in doing that, when we come across people that not doing the things that we think that they should be doing, that we take it and hold it before the Lord.
- Each part supplies something different, something that's necessary. You have no idea how important that really is. It adds to the whole.
- So important that each one of us may say what I have isn't important. It is so important. It just ministers life. And that's how our oneness comes. We minister life and loose the Christ in each other.
References:
Romans 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Romans 8:14
(Led by the Spirit)
Acts 1:6
So, when they had come together, they began asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time that You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
Galatians 5:15
But if you go on biting and devouring one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.
Galatians 5:17
For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, in order to keep you from doing whatever you want.
Galatains 5:22
(Things of the Spirit – love, peace, and joy)
I Corinthians 12:21-27
(The many membered body of Christ)
I Corinthians 12:8-20
(the Spirit in us is the truth)
I Corinthians 12: 4-12
(Many different functions doing the will of God)
I Corinthians 12: 22-24
(More abundant honor)
Takeaways:
Today God’s family has many expressions and ways of accomplishing God’s will. Christ victory on the cross released the gift of the Holy Spirit that we might be set free to be led by the truth. He has put His Holy Spirit within us so that we might all flow together in His oneness to do His will in the earth.
Summary:
Our vision of the body of Christ grows and expands as we function together. The day of the individual ministry is over and now each member of His body adds his unique part to the whole so that everyone is built up and the body of Christ is complete. Our interdependence becomes an element of divine order pleasing to our Father.
Show Notes:
- We walk together in this walk with God. It’s not about an individual and longer. It’s about us doing this together. The provision is in the family.
- We reach into maturity by walking together in the family of God.
- We each bring what we are to the family.
- We must have a revelation of who we are in Christ’s body.
- There is no one that is not important in the body of Christ.
Quotes:
- Individual ministry that stands out, that has this incredible following, does all these signs and wonders, that day is gone. It's about the body of Christ, and it's not about individuals.
- I came into the body of Christ - I began to function with other people who had the same heart.
- ...we're shedding that light into each other; the Christ in us is beaming out His light toward each one of us in the group; and that's being manifested in the whole.
- ...you can't really come into a maturity in your walk with God without having the family.
- What we bring to the family is what we personally have in a relationship with God.
- ...we can't bring anything to the family, unless we get it from the Father.
- It's all being just that one thing in the body to help the rest of the body to function in what it has to be.
- ...there are different expressions. This is why it's so important that we actually have a revelation of who we are in Christ.
- Lots of traps that the enemy sets for you are being shut by this revelation of the different parts of the body of Christ and who you are.
- Thank you, Lord, that we are not unimportant in Your sight.
References:
I Corinthians 12: 4-7,12-27
(The many membered body of Christ)
I Corinthians 12,13
(The vision of the body of Christ)
Romans 15:5-6
(Encouraging each member in His body)
James 1:17
(Everything comes from the Father)
Takeaways:
A vision of the many membered body of Christ is coming forth as each member supplies their unique expression and the body is being built up by that which every joint supplies. In His body there are no unimportant parts, but more abundant honor is bestowed and help is supplied so that His body is made complete.
The golden rule, what we bring to the family is what we personally have in a relationship with God. We can’t bring anything to the family unless we get it form the Father.
Summary:
In this end-time battle that we find ourselves in, we must put on the whole armor of God if we are going to be able to withstand all the fiery darts of the enemy. The breastplate of righteousness protects the Word of God in our hearts that we have stored there. It is the Christ nature coming forth within us that is the expression of the breastplate of righteousness because He is our righteousness.
Show Notes:
- The breastplate of righteousness protects the believer’s heart from all the attacks of the enemy.
- Each part of the armor of God has a specific purpose and a very important function in our protection.
- We don’t defend ourselves, we put on the breastplate of righteousness which defends us – an action that we take.
- The most valuable thing that we have, the Word of God is stored in our hearts.
- Satan wants to take away the Word of God stored in our hearts.
- We take an action to put on the breastplate of righteousness.
- Are these pieces of armor appropriated by faith? Yes, they are put on by faith. They become a permeate part of who we are.
- Christ in us is that breastplate of righteousness.
- You must have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ to have these expressions of His armor because they are Him.
Quotes:
- One of the greatest gifts form God that we have is the armor of God.
- The righteousness is His righteousness. We're putting on His righteousness. But it's putting it on by the assimilation of the Word….
- What does Satan want to take away from us more than anything else? The Word of God that leads us. Without that, we have nothing.
- It's a breastplate that allows us to hold on to the Word. We hold on to the Word with everything that's within us.
- Christ is the Word. The Christ in us is the word.
- Putting on the breastplate of righteousness is an action that we take.
- This breastplate of righteousness is an enabler. It enables us to withstand all the fiery darts of the wicked one, and it's a provision that God has given us to overcome.
- And we know as we wait upon the Lord, and as we give ourselves to Him, we are clothed with power from on high. And that clothing, that power, can be broken down into the armor of God.
- It is so important that we understand by revelation that we have received Christ, who is that breastplate of righteousness to us.
- As we're talking about these pieces of armor, to me, what they are, are expressions of Christ within you.
- You put on the breastplate of righteousness. Basically, what you're saying is you're appropriating, by the blood of Jesus Christ, His righteousness.
References:
Ephesians 6:11 / 6:14-17
(The armor of God)
John 14:26
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
Psalm 119:11
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Colossians 1:27
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to it’s lusts.
John 16:7
But I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I am leaving; for if I do not leave, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
I Corinthians 1:30
But it is due to Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption.
Take Away:
In this end time conflict, God has given us spiritual armor that we must put on. The breastplate of righteousness protects our hearts from the enemy’s fiery darts, and is the expression of Christ’s righteousness coming forth within us.
Summary:
Christ’s many membered body today must put on the full armor of God to withstand all the tactics of the enemy. Each part of His body may supply a different aspect of this armor and be a unique expression in His body. God has put together the body so that there should be no division in the body, but that each part should have an equal honor and expression to help complete the full manifestation of His body today.
Show Notes:
- We must change our thinking from being individuals to a part of His body.
- Each person may have a different expression and supply a unique thing to the whole of His body.
- As individuals we can accomplish very little, but as a part of His body we are unlimited.
- God did not make us to be all sufficient in ourselves. We are a part of His body and as every member comes together and supplies what it is suppose to supply the body begins to function.
Quotes:
- each joint supplies or could supply a specific attribute, or a specific manifestation of that armor.
- maybe you're just a part of the armor of God, and you're not sufficient in yourself to have the whole armor of God because God doesn't want you sufficient in yourself. He wants you part of the body of Christ.
- Individually, we can do very little, but together. We can accomplish the will of God together because every joint provides or supplies or is a part of the answer.
- ...if you're not prepared, and that's what's been wrong with people that are absolutely just spectators. And not participants that did not work and will not work. God will have a body that is functioning.
- I'm not the whole thing and I don't have to be the whole thing and God didn't make me to be the whole thing, but He made me to be a part of this armor, a part of the attributes of Christ.
- I think we're talking about one of the most important parts of our functioning together; is the revelation of the Christ within us; in each individual part, participating. functioning together, and being a provision for each other.
- What is the body of Christ? We're all connected in to the head and out of that the body function each individual part ministers what they have that they've received from the Lord for each other.
- We are completed by each other.
References:
I Corinthians 12:21-27
(The many membered body of Christ)
Ephesians 4:16
from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
Thessloinians 5:23-28
(Made wholly and complete)
Colosians 2:10
( Complete in Christ)
Take Away:
In this day when Satan is raging against God’s body, we must learn to put on the whole armor of God. As Christ body matures and every joint supplies it’s unique expression, we find that we are each other’s covering within this armor and we become invincible through that which each joint supplies.
Summary:
We are born from above, born as a spiritual child with the seed of our Father’s nature within us. As we grow day by day, this Christ nature within us begins to grow and mature as a living hope is turned into belief and we go on from glory to glory by His Spirit within us.
Show Notes:
- As we are born again, (born from above) we have implanted within us a piece of our Father’s DNA.
- As the spiritual child grows and matures, the true nature that was implanted at his birth comes forth.
- Hope turns into a realized belief as this child walks out the nature within.
- The simplicity of a little child that just believes is a the root of the spiritual implant given by the Father.
- The unfolding of this “born from above” experience is the unfolding revelation that we were foreknown before the foundations of the world.
- That child like nature that can lead can always be without the encumbrance if having grown up. This little child in me, is capable of leading an army.
Quotes:
- What the scriptures is trying to say is, you're born from above. You are, as a child, you have a Lineage and inheritance that comes from above…
- As that thing that is born from above matures, what causes it to mature? Hope is turned into belief. And that's how we grow.
- God implanted Himself within us. Just like He put His Son in Mary. He put His son in us. He's the firstborn of many brethren.
- His parousia is Him being formed within us.
- ...the little child in us, is that simplicity of just believing, of just laying hold of the Lord, and laying hold of the Word.
- It's a piece of immortality that exists within us that when we're born again, it really is being born again, back into the memory of that, back into identifying with that divine DNA that exists within us.
- The Word is uncovering whats already there. It’s like peeling an onion. When you get down to the center you find out what is really there.
- So maybe we're talking about the predestination that is mentioned in Romans 8? Predestined to be sons.
References:
John 3:3
Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone may not be born from above, he is not able to see the Kingdom of God”;
John 3:7
(The Truth)
I John 5:18
(Born from above)
Isiaha 61:1
(Christ set free in our brother)
Colosians 1:27
...of whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Romans 8:29
For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;
I Peter 1:23
...for you have been born again [that is, reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose] not of seed which is perishable but [from that which is] imperishable and immortal, that is, through the living and everlasting word of God.
Take Away:
We are born from above and have that Godly DNA with in us. Inside of you there is something that is growing and is what God feed within us. Our Father foreknew us before the foundations of the world and now as that spiritual child grows and matures within us, we too are beginning to realize who we are in Him and walk out our eternal destiny.
Summary:
God’s love for us is eternal and complete without fail. His greatest show of His love is the sending of His Son as the way, truth and life. As we follow in His footsteps the Father gets what He wants – sons for His own possession.
Show Notes:
- His methodology to meet humanity is His love.
- We first receive His love and then we reflect that same love back to Him and to one another.
- His deep love that He has changes everything. He loves us beyond human understanding and really beyond our belief.
- We don’t just love in words only, but we put an action behind our love.
- Receiving His love is not complicated. We just simply ask Him for more of His love.
- God spoke His Word and He sends out His love. What does He want back? He wants His love and Word back.
- Are we aware of the many ways we can give out His love to others?
- Our greatest mission if life is to receive God’s Love and then give it out to others.
Quotes:
- He loved us when we hated Him. He loved us when we despised Him. He loved us when we totally rejected Him. That was His answer.
- We receive His love and we reflect His love to one another.
- It’s God’s very heart being created in your heart trough impartation and appropriation. So it is actually a spiritual living thing in you.
- ...I don't want to say I love you anymore. I want to have an action connected to that love, to where I walk out that action.
- Is there something that expresses my love that you can feel? Love has to have action or it's not love.
- To me the provision is there and all we need to do is have the faith to appropriate it. All we need to do is ask for it - it's no more complicated than that.
- You gotta have the revelation of it. See, God is love. And it takes a revelation to understand that He is what He says He is. He is love.
- What gift can God give me, that is any greater than His eternal love?
- Am I aware of how much I can express that love to others and through different avenues, through different ways?
- We should live right at the brink of where nothing, nothing else matters in this life, except living in the presence of God and His love.
- That's the mission of the kingdom of God. Live in His presence right here, right now.
- I think that's the clearest, purest channel that we can have is that relationship of His love and us giving back to Him that love.
- Everything that w are talking about originates from God. The Father is the creator and we’re the clay.
- There's never a stranger in our midst because of the love of the Lord that comes through.
- We're on this earth to be open doors for people, to create open doors – to be open doors, so that people can have a relationship with God.
References:
Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.
John 6:44
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day.
I Corinthians 4:4-13
(Love is an action)
I Corinthians 13:12-13
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
I Corinthians 12:31
But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show you a still more excellent way.
Matthew 22:37
And He said to him, “‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’
Psalms 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Numbers 13:1-30
(Moses intercedes for Israel)
Psalms 19:1
(Glory of God and His handiwork)
Isiaha 55:11
(Word will not return void)
Take away:
God so loved us that while we were His enemies His love melted our walls and we opened up to His love. Now we reflect His love back to Him and to those in our midst. This is the more excellent way!
Summary:
The believer today must build his life in the Lord if he is going to be able to stand in the spiritual warfare that comes against him. Girding his loins with truth is an essential part of this amour which will protect his emotions from all the fiery darts of the wicked one. Each day we gird our loins with His truth as we build our life in the Lord.
Show Notes:
- The believer girds his loins with the truth of the scriptures, worship, and waiting on the Lord to be able to resist all that the enemy would throw at him.
- The full amour of God is made up of several different pieces. Each piece has a specific purpose.
- ...your loins are the seed of your emotions, and there's a great deal of creativity connected to the loins.
- The purpose of these pieces of amour is to protect us in areas of our vulnerability.
- We react to situations in ways that is pleasing to the Lord because we have the amour of God on.
- We take the time to gird our loins with His truth each day.
- We are building the army of the Lord that can turn back anything that Satan would throw against them.
- Reading the scriptures, Worship, waiting on the Lord and being in fellowship with other believers will build this amour of God into our lives.
Quotes:
- ...being in the Scriptures, spending time with the Lord alone, Worship all those things, to me, is building your life in the Lord.
- That's what Christ did. He built his life in the Word.
- the purpose of the armor of God is to cover areas of vulnerability.
- Emotions are so intensely united with this area of the loins. It's all about our emotions. We are such a people of emotions.
- My emotions get hit and I almost double over with anxiety about it until the Lord reminds me of the word.
- Trust in the Lord, be not under your own understanding . It’s not just words, it’s life – it’s life to me.
- ... we suffer the most, the deep wounds, are in our emotion, in our loins.
- And example, how would you react? You'd react in a way that's pleasing to the Lord because you already have the armor of God on.
- I'm believing in your word, being so filled with the scripture that it comes automatically.
- And I like that word gird. It means that you take the time to put on something. But if you have girded your loins with truth, nothing can go through that truth and separate it.
- As part of the body of Christ, we are not to be tossed here and there by everything that's going around and everything that we hear and see out there.
- ...revelation, your relationship with God, what you believe, and that being a bulwark, a wall against the fiery darts.
- The army of the Lord that can turn back anything that Satan can throw against us because we have been prepared.
- Each day we put on the armor of God. Each day we grow. Each day when Satan comes, let Joshua Messiah answer the door.
References:
Ephesians 6:11-13 Put on the full armor of God that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. Therefore, take up the full armor of God that you may be able to resist the evil, in the evil day and having done everything to stand firm.Ephesians 4:14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of people, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; The book of Job. (A story of a man that built his life in God.) Psalms 119: 11
(Our strength is in the Lord)
ake Away:
Our strength is in the Lord. With the Word hid in our hearts, having put on the full armour of God, our defenses cannot be broken. As the fiery darts fly, deception runs rampid and physical and emotional attacks come, let our Messiah answer the door.
Keys to the Kingdom:
* Our strength in the Lord.
Summary:
We are clothed with the love of the Father for us. We in turn with that love, love one another. We are made complete, clothed by the love imparted to us for one another.
Show Notes:
- The nature of Christ is coming forth within us now.
- As His love is perfected in us we begin to clothe our brother and sister in that love – in that oneness of Spirit.
- We must not forsake our gathering together in His love.
- In this oneness of Spirit and love, we are laying our lives down for one another.
- We have committed ourselves to see Christ come forth in one another.
Quotes:
- It's Christ in you, that comes forth and matures.
- We're speaking about what we're entering into right now, These are present experience revelation right now.
- ...the reality is what we're clothing ourselves with is one another. I will not be found naked if I'm immersed into this oneness. The thing that I clothe myself with is you.
- One of the greatest sins in the organism of the Body of Christ is independence.
- I lay my life on the line to help each one of you, to know who you are. I honor that in each one of you because you each come with a different facet of His glory on you.
- ...we cannot forsake our gathering together, or coming together, for sake it not It's coming to this place of laying down that self life to be part of something greater.
- We have bought the revelation of the Body of Christ, we have bought the revelation of oneness.
- We've given our lives to the body of Christ, to the oneness of a people.
- God's getting what He wants a bride without spot or wrinkle. He's getting that, now.
- I'm dedicated to Christ that’s coming forth and everyone's life. I'm committed to that which God loves, and that's you. God loves you.
- We helping one another to keep our eyes fixed. There is a prize not just for us, but there is a prize also for all creation.
- Christ went through everything that was necessary to be returned to the right hand of the Father on our behalf. Pattern Son clear to the end.
References:
Colossians 1:27
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
I Peter 5:10
(Christ is being formed in us)
Hebrews 10:24-25
(Forsake not your gathering together)
2 Corinthians 5:1-2
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.
1 Peter 4:8
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins.
Acts 5:1-11
(The story of Ananias and Sapphira)
John 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
I Peter 5:4
(Dedicated to see Christ come forth in each one)
Hebrews 10:25
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Ephesians 5:27
that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.
Take Away:
As we see Christ coming forth in one another, our love reaches out and we begin to lay our lives down for each other. As never before Christ’s bride is coming forth with out spot or wrinkle and the first and foremost commandment is beginning to be fulfilled; “To love the Lord your God with all you heart, mind and strength, and your brother as yourself.”
Summary:
Believing a Word from God, you have accepted His Son as a pattern to be formed in you. As this collective Christ comes forth, each member ministers to the whole of His body. Once again Christ is manifesting Himself in the earth, and accomplishing what the Father wants done through the living organism called the body of Christ.
Show Notes:
- God has brought forth by the Word of His power a collective Christ in the earth.
- Through the oneness of the collective Christ comes the power and authority of Christ.
- You start realizing that what’s formed in you is not the old you. It’s Christ coming forth in you.
- Every joint must supply so that the collective Christ is healthy.
- Our individual relationship with Christ ministers to the whole Body.
- We as His body stand. We are the victors. Christ is increasing that victory everyday.
Quotes:
- ...I believe that the Lord has come forth by the Word that's been formed in us.
- I think the oneness is the ticket to the authority and power being manifested through His body.
- I cannot imagine what I'm believing, not also occurring in the rest of us. That's what this revelation of a body, a oneness means.
- My insistence to have something in God also means my insistence that my brethren are gonna have it in God.
- And every joint must supply for the organism to be healthy.
- We are a living organism, the strong bear the infirmities of the weak, that's just an organism.
- My relationship with Christ, my breaking through to His presence, my understanding Christ in me and believing for Christ in me, it ministers to you, and it ministers to the whole body.
References:
I Cortinthians 12:12-27
(The many membered body of Christ)
I John 4:9
(We live through Christ)
I John 4:15
(God abides in us)
Romans 8:37-39
(The victory of Christ in us)
Ephesians 4:16
(every joint must supply)
Take Away:
The body of the great high priest is beginning to rule and reign in His kingdom today. Through the collective Christ He is accomplishing all that He wants done as God’s kingdom comes forth within us.
Summary:
Our Father has invested His Word in us. It is what has brought His kingdom to the earth. We stand and speak His Word and complete His creation.
Show Notes:
- We are to speak God’s Word to see His kingdom established on the earth.
- Christ proclaimed the Word of the kingdom in Is earthly ministry.
- We must hold fast to the Word that has been implanted in us.
- We are the habitation of God, where He wants to dwell.
- The Word going out is going to be hindered by who? Satan, the evil in the earth. Who wins out? The Father, the son, the sons.
- We become the living channels of Christ in the earth.
Quotes:
- We are to speak the Word of the Lord, to see the Earth changed, to see the atmosphere around us change.
- The Word that God's bringing to the earth today, is all about His kingdom.
- What Christ said was just perfect. He didn't defend himself. He didn't put himself out there, He didn't justify Himself or qualify Himself. He just said it is written.
- Throughout His ministry, He was leading us and leaving us with a Word from the Father. I only do what I see the Father do.
- The only way we are defeated is by giving up that Word.
- When we hold fast to the Word, and we don't let it go, and we honor that Word, it will explode in us and will explode through us and will be our answer and be the answer to the earth.
- We're giving God a live habitation like He had when His Son was here. Isn't Christ within you the hope of glory? Isn't Christ in you speaking the Father's Word, the hope of the gospel of the kingdom going to the ends of the earth?
- The Word, first off, it's a revelation. It's a living being that's being imparted and has been imparted to His worshipers, to His people. It's just becoming Christ in the earth.
References:
Matthew 9:35
And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction.
Deutromity 8:1-11
(God’s commandments, statues, and ordinances that we keep)
II Timothy 4:2
(Speak the Word)
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Psalm 119:11
(The Word in your heart)
Colossians 1:27
to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Acts 4:31
(Speak the Word with boldness)
Acts 27:25
(I believe God)
Take Away:
Christ is once again speaking in the earth through His believers that have become that Word. The implanted Word of God within them is the source of destroying all of Satan's activities and creating God’s kingdom on this earth.
Summary:
In a world steeped in passivity, lukewarmness, and indifference towards the things of God, His people are coining forth with an intensity of Spirit to worship and to speak His Word. Day in and day out a people are faithful to speak His creative Word to see His kingdom established on this earth.
Show Notes:
- In this day of passivity and lukewarmness towards the things of God, He is requiring of His people an intensity of Spirit.
- There is a perverse violence that is satanic in nature which has one purpose, to destroy the world.
- The intensity of our worship displaces everything else except His presence.
- As we speak His word with an intensity, there is a persistence required to see that Word manifested in the earth.
- God chooses to use a people to release the potential of all His promises as they speak them into existence.
Quotes:
- ...the intensity, that's going to move the Earth is not something you do in one day, you know, a day a week or two days a week. It's a 24/7 intensity towards the Lord, and towards the things of the Lord.
- We reach into a depth of intensity in worship where nobody can speak. Nobody can even stand. His presence is so powerful, so intense, that it displaces everything else.
- How do we get this? It's a gift. God will impart it to your heart. You have to ask Him. You have to humble yourself. If you come before Him, you actually have to ask within intensity.
- That's another another aspect of this intensity and prophetic utterance; is day and night, weekend and week out, we're crying out, we're proclaiming the Word of the Lord, into the spirit realm.
- All the promises, all the power, everything of God has potential. And He always uses human beings to release that potential.
- Your mouth is releasing, or it's the detonator of the power and the authority and the promises of God.
- Cry unto Him, not in repetition or begging prayers. With a violent proclamation of the Word of God that brings results.
- ...they'll be there forever, unless a people rise up with the intensity and the violence to begin to proclaim those things and release that power and that authority those promises into the earth into the spirit realm, or they'll never happen.
References:
Revelation 3:15-17
(lukewarmness)
I Peter 5:8
(Satan to destroy this world)
Romans 8:37-39
(Not fearing Satan)
Matthew 11:12
From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent are taking it by force.
Luke 11:9-10
So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
II Corinthians 4:7
(God uses human beings as channels)
Take Away:
The spiritual makeup of God’s creation in the earth today are human men and women who 24/7 are focused on God with an intensity that releases a violent creative Word form God to this earth.
Summary:
Today our world is filled with complacency, laziness, and a perverse violence that comes from a hopelessness. To combat this, the simple attributes of God that He imparts to us, focus, intensity, and violence of spirit enables us to speak His Word and be His channels in the earth.
Show Notes:
- Because of the passivity and perverse violence that has filled the earth, God’s people must have an intensity and violence of spirit to speak His Word.
- What is violence? It is something out of our spirit, out of our heart that is very focused and intense.
- To stand as Christ did before those who are against you and not back down in who you are or what you believe is the violence of spirit we are reaching in for.
- We must cry out to God to give us this intensity of spirit so that we can be those who speak His creative Word to see His Lordship established in this earth.
Quotes:
- If you haven't learned the difference between Spirit and soul, the tendency is to be very soulish, and call it Spirit.
- What is the opposite of violence? Complacency, laziness, I don't care - ness. And our world is filled with that. But our world is also filled with violence. And that violence grows out of complacency.
- ...to stand firm where you are in your walk with God, not be pushed away or caused to back down from what you believe. That is violence, of Spirit that we're reaching in for.
- ...God's men and women that are coming up now, when they speak, they're speaking a creative Word, that literally is framing or creating God's will in the earth…
- We have to ask the Lord the Holy Spirit to give us that violence of Spirit. That intensity of Spirit that brings down the enemy but also creates the kingdom on this earth. Creates in the hearts of men, the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
References:
II Samuel 16:12-23
(David dances before the Lord)
Matthew 11:12
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
II Kings 2:23-25
(Elisha and the story of the two bears)
I Kings 18: 1-40
(Story of Elijah and the battle with Ahab and Jezebel)
Mark 14:53-62
(Christ stands before the Sanhedrin)
Matthew 22:37
And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind."
Take Away:
The Kingdom of God suffers violence and violent men take it force. This violence Christ manifested as He stood by Himself before the court, that is violence. He stood there standing firm, not to be pushed away or caused to back down form what He believed. That is violence of spirit. Are we to be any different with the creative Word that He has placed in our hearts?
Summary:As we change and grow in all things in a relationship to our Father, our love for Him and our hunger only increases. There are steps that a worshiper can enter into to help them into this new age of Spirit. As we hunger and thirst to be those worshipers, we find that He is faithful to lead and create us into His prefect will. Show Notes:* The Beginning step for a worshiper is to have a hunger to be His worshiper. * Sometimes the Lord will test you to see how hungry are you, how serious are you in your love relationship towards Him. * We must “dig in” through all the testing and trials to enter into that deep worship that He wants. * We must be careful in choosing the people who we fellowship with with regards to our walk with God and our worship. * We are born into that with those who are around us, and grow as we worship. * You ask the Lord to show you to lead and direct you to where your to be. * As we give ourselves to where the Lord has placed us, He begins to refine our worship by His fire and those who He has placed in our midst. * You can be hungry and seeking, “Lord, where are You?” He’ll begin to lead you to a different expression that He wants to meet you in. Don’t try to box God in. * If we hunger and thirst for God, we will find Him.
Quotes:* The beginning for a worshiper would just simply go before Him and cry out to Him to be His worshiper, to have that pure heart; that's the beginning step. * ...He's making you dig in, and really making you hungry, or testing you even. How serious are you about a relationship with Me? * Be selective, be searching, don't get caught up in the first church, or the first group of people that you run into, but be hungry enough to really seek out and find a group of people that are truly hungry, and reaching in to worship the Lord. * You ask the Lord to make it clear to you where you're to be. Where does He want you to be so you can grow. So you can become the worshiper that you need to become before the Lord. * ...because you want to be around people that are hungry, and thirsty. That's more important than, all their knowledge than their great doctrines. It doesn't hold a candle, to a group of people that are hungering and thirsting for the Lord. * There are groups of people out there; not easily found maybe; but there are groups of people out there that are really hungry, and not settling for a certain level, in God. * I believe that when you find the atmosphere that the Lord has set up for you you will know. * What you're doing is you're looking to worship God, where He's at, and where He wants you. You'll pick it up. * If you're never satisfied, and you're always hungry for the Lord, you will seek Him and you will find Him. * ...as we grow, either through the refining of fire, and / or the refining of who we hang out with. We grow as we worship. * I think He’s very pleased with somebody that just met Him and loves Him, and loves to be in His presence.
References:Romans 10:13 (Going before the Lord)Luke 11:5-13 (A Friend Comes at Midnight)Isaiah 55:6-7(where God wants you)Matthew 5:6(Hungering and Thirsting for righteousness) Proverbs 3:5-6(coming up higher)Matthew 22:37-38(You are everything to me) Take Away:As God’s worshipers we enter into this new age of Spirit, as we have this deep hunger and thirst after the Lord. As we go through many test, and trials, it’s this drive to be His pure worshipers, those who worship in Spirit and truth. How do we move forward into the presence of the Lord? It’s a choice we make to say “Lord, You are everything to me.”
Summary:
As the church age is disappearing, a whole new age of Spirit is opening up. The Holy Spirit is bringing forth a level of pure worship unto the Lord through the refining process that we are experiencing. As our focus is stayed upon Him, everything that we are and do becomes that sweet incense of worship that is pleasing unto the Lord.
Show Notes:
- We are entering into an age of Spirit.
- The Holy Spirit is moving through believers to bring forth a pure worship before the Lord.
- Worship can take the form of helping our brother in his need.
- Worship and be our intercession and prayer before God.
- God is purifying the spirits of His worshipers so that they can offer to Him a worship that is pleasing.
- A pure worship is purely unto the Lord. It’s a thing of Spirit. Standing in His presence and just worshiping Him.
- God just wants us to spend time with Him. This is also a worship to Him.
- What ever we do through out our day can be a worship to God if our focus is on Him.
- Wholly and completely set upon Him, that release a deep loving worship from us to Him.
Quotes:
- At the end of this whole Church Age, which is now, is a time when the Spirit of the Lord is bringing forth a pure worship unto the Lord.
- It's a thing of spirit, we get in the presence of the Lord. It's a form of blessing the Lord and ministering to Him, what's the Lord want, what's in His heart?
- Worship is also when you're walking down the street, and you decide to help your brother, because that's the thing that the Lord wants us to do is to help one another.
- Intercession also and it can be a worship to God…
- the Lord's coming , He's refining His worshipers, which means the worship changes, not because it's some new form that we've created. But because of what He's created within His worshipers is a whole new level of Worship.
- Whatever you're doing through the day, can be a worship to Him, if your focus and priority of focus is to serve Him in worship to Him.
- What do I do Lord? What is in Your heart for me to do? Just stand and worship Me.
- Your whole being can be a worship to the Lord.
References:
John 4:24
God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Gensis 3:8-10
(God relates to Adam in the garden)
Matthew 25: 35-40
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ 37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40 And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
Revelations 8:3-4
3 And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, 4 and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.
Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
Matthew 22:37
And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
Take Away:
In His presence we express out thankfulness for all He has done on our behalf. As we move closer to Him our voice disappears as we are swallowed up by His Spirit.
Summary:
As we are born from above we are set on a path of Christ coming forth in us. We are made complete as His worshipers, spirit, soul, and body.
Show Notes:
- In this day Christ is coming forth in His believer’s.
- Creating an image or teaching someone about the Lord falls short of what He is after.
- We have a lineage and inheritance that is ours. We have been born from above and have the divine nature placed within us.
- As our spirit becomes the dominate part of our being, the Christ within us begins to change the rest of our being, (our soul and body.)
- As Christ’s nature comes forth in us, our old nature begins to decrease.
Quotes:
- This whole thing about Christ coming forth within us, what we're becoming is everything, to the kingdom to the Lord, to the earth.
- Let us put the most important thing first, to be worshipers of the Lord, and to love Him with all our hearts and soul.
- Our greatest concern should be to give God what He wants, that worship and praise. Second to become the witness to the ends of the earth.
- You worship the Lord your God with all of your heart, your mind, your soul and your strength. Problem with that is, you can't do that without transformation of nature.
- It's about Christ coming forth, in us. Anything less than that, is an attempt to try make an image of or teach.
- I have a lineage, I have an inheritance. Because I'm born from above, everything within me is created above and placed within me. How can I be anything less than pleasing to my Father?
- Christ in you is beginning to change your mind, your emotions, your decisions, and that's going to obviously affect your physical being.
- Your suppose to be complete spirit soul and body, totally complete n Christ.
- Paul, the apostles made a statement that I think is very appropriate right here. He must increase; I must decrease.
- I want his new nature, I want his nature to take over my nature. And I think that's the increase of Christ in me.
References:
Genesis 11:1-9
(The story of the city of Babel)
Collosians 1:27
To whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mystery that is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Deutromny 5:6-21
(Giving God what He wants)
John 3:30
He must increase, but I must decrease.
I Peter 1:23
(We are born from above)
I Thessalonians 5:23
(The Spirit dominates our being)
Malachi 4:2
But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and frolic like calves from the stall.
Take Away:
Your spirit is born from above and comes alive to Christ and to the Father. As Christ nature is coming forth in you, He is increasing and you are decreasing each day. This is the will of the Father so that Christ is all and in all.
Summary:
In days past men of God like David created Psalms of Worship as an expression of their heart before the Lord. Today God is looking for that same deep expression of Worship from our hearts. As we stand before the Lord in His presence and He purifies us, we give back to Him a free will offering of thanksgiving and Worship which is well pleasing in His sight.
Show Notes:
- The Psalm’s that David and other’s created were the expression of Worship to the Lord in their day.
- Today God is looking for that same pure deep expression of Worship from our hearts.
- Being thankful is something we can do to express our Worship to the Lord.
- Expressing our thankfulness to the Lord opens the door for the Lord to pour out His inheritance on us.
- As we Worship Him, He begins to purify us so that we can offer to Him Worship pleasing to Him.
- Another aspect of our Worship is our obedience to Him from our free will.
- In all that we give back to the Lord, we are looking for Him to say; “Well done good and faithful servant.”
Quotes:
- We have such a wealth and such an inheritance in the Psalms, because the Psalms, are worship.
- The Psalms are a great source of instruction, of the Holy Spirit moving through the prophet David, and many others, on what just is pleasing to the Lord.
- ... the Psalms are directed specifically one on one, in a relationship of the Father, that is our Psalms of our worship today.
- I think that's what's the Lord's looking for, He's looking for this pure worship out of our hearts, and it can manifest itself in lots of different ways.
- It seems that worship comes down to one simple thing, and that's being thankful.
- When God hears the word thank you Father, He considers that an open door, to pour out His inheritance on you. That can be an open door for you to give more to Him in thanksgiving.
- Well, some of this worship we're talking about would be very well defined as sitting in the furnace, and having the Lord purify you like silver.
- THE DAY THAT I’M MAKING IT’S GOING TO LIKE A FIRE THAT BURNS, AND IT” S GOING TO PURIFY WORSHIPERS. IT’S GOING TO ALSO BRING JUDGMENT ON THE EARTH.
- One of the greatest forms of worship is obedience.
- When we obey Him, even in the small things, that quickens a relationship, it gives back to Him what He wants. He wants us to obey Him out of our free will.
- You enter into the worship that He's looking for, when you offer Him your free will through obedience.
References:
Malachi 3:3
And He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the LORD offerings in righteousness.
Ephsians 5:18-20
(Spiritual sons and singing)
Malachi 3:17
(My own precious possession)
I Thessalonians 5:18
(Give thanks in all things)
I John 2:5
(Freewill through obedience)
I Samuel 15:22
Samuel said, “Has the Lord as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.
Matthew 25:23
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’
Take Away:
God is creating Worshipers in this day who will Worship Him in many different expressions. Out of purity, obedience, thankfulness, and love, we offer to Him a free will offering of Worship - well pleasing in His sight.
We love Him in many ways. As His worshipers, our expression of our love for Him, is found in all that we do.
Summary:
It’s out of our worship that we become the agents of giving back to the Father His gift to us. In this day God has created His worshipers that are offering themselves in many different expressions of worship to Him. Show Notes:
- One of our expressions of worship to the Lord is our dedication to serve one another in the Body of Christ.
- We give ourselves as living offerings of worship to God in everything that we are.
- There are many different expressions of worship that we give to the Lord in our lives.
Quotes:
- If we dedicate ourselves to the service of one another in the body of Christ, that's a form of worship to God.
- What am I doing to please him? What does God want from us?
- How do I please God? You please God by being what He created you to be, His worshipers.
- The centurion had received and was practicing something that was very pleasing to God.
- When you look at how Paul presents this thing of spiritual service of worship, that worship takes on the form of doing something for or with your brother, instead of doing something with an invisible God.
- I offer myself as a living example of what God is doing in the earth.
References:
Romans 12:1
I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.Hebrews 13:16(Pleasing to God) Acts 10:1-4( The story of Cornelius – the roman officer )Genesis 15:6 Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness. Romans 12:2And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.Romans 12:10-18 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13 Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. 1 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. 18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Take Away:
You please God by being what He created you to be, His worshipers. God’s saying, “isn’t it reasonable for you to give Me what I created to be.”
Summary:The feast of tabernacles is the beginning of God creating what He is going to do in the coming year. Worship on a whole new level is being presented before His people. A level of worship where we stand in His presence and are aware of Him as He unfolds new revelations of Himself and we are changed into His likeness. Show Notes:* This feast of Tabernacles opened up a whole new level of worship. * The celebration of the feast of tabernacles is an experience that changes and grows every year. * We are changed as we stand in His presence and He unfolds Himself to us. * As we stand in His presence He imparts to us His heart and mind. * He first loved us, how do we return that love? We thank Him for loving us when we didn’t even know You. * We give God the only thing we have to offer Him, us. * We come to give to God what He is looking for, not what we can receive. * In the whole scope of God dealing with man, His main objective was that we were to be His worshipers.
Quotes:* He's showing up at this Feast of Tabernacles, to spend time with us, to tabernacle with us, that sets us on a course of a new level of worship. * He's always reaching in for His inheritance in the saints, and His inheritance is those who can stand in His presence in worship in spirit and truth. * I'm looking for this level of I will call it revelation worship, where you're not just standing in this presence by faith, but you're standing in his presence with an awareness and a revelation, as he unfolds himself to you. * Our drive is Lord, let's go deeper. That comes through exposing yourself to Him through worship. That exposure to Him causes the experience to deepen to where you go from glory to glory. * As He visits us in His presence, He's leaving His heart, His mind. * The only thing you and I have is us. That's the only thing we have to offer Him. * ... you can change from day to day, and even within a day, you can change... * What worship means is you come to give to the Lord, you're not coming to see what he's going to do for you, or transform you, or anything like that. * There is a level of just coming and adoring Him and worshiping Him, because you want to please Him. You want to give to Him. * you just come saying I'm coming to give my heart to the Father, and I'm going to come with something in my heart. * What were we created for what is our purpose in this whole scheme of things? Were to be worshipers.
References:Lev. 23:33-44(The tabernacles experience) John 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 14:23He has taken up His abode in you. II Corthians 3:18But we all, with unveiled faces, looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.Romans 12:1-2Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.Phillpinas 2:13(To do His good pleasure) Haggai 2:9The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, saith Jehovah of hosts; and in this place will I give peace, saith Jehovah of hosts.Psalm 16:11In His presence is the fullness of joy.Take Away:The feast of Tabernacles is the starting point in what God wants to do in His people throughout the year. Worship on a new level has been the key focal point this year and as we enter into this new level we are finding His presence transforming our lives into His likeness as we go on from glory to glory.
Summary:
As we run the race that God sets before us, we want to give everything within us to the Lord. As we position ourselves there is a yearning, a searching by the Holy Spirit that is only satisfied in our trust and worship of our Father. He is working out within us His good pleasure.
Show Notes:
- Today those who are seeking the Lord with all their hearts are learning how to position themselves in His presence so that He can create within them what He wants.
- Waiting on the Lord is not a passive thing, but an intense focus of you spirit on Him.
- Everyday our focus increases on Him.
- It’s not looking for answers. It’s a trust and a worship knowing that He’s creating my spirit.
- As we give ourselves in worship, the Lord takes over in our lives and creates us into His perfect will.
Quotes:
- We're in a day where those who are running after the Lord are finding their hearts open in a greater way than ever before to him. There's a yearning in your heart, to give all, there's a searching of the Holy Spirit, by our initiative to make sure we have no areas in our heart that are not given.
- It's a choice to position yourself in the presence of the Lord, and just worship Him. Just be still and know that He is the Lord. He is in control.
- I'm waiting on Him. And as I wait, I'm running after Him.
- Our focus increases on Him every day. Our love for Him increases every day. And as He increases, everything else decreases.
- He's looking for somebody that will say, Lord, I believe your word. I believe that and help me believe more. It's a very positive thing that we do that we turn to Him.
- Lord, I believe you. I opened my heart to your Word, I opened my heart to you and you worship in that Word, and the Lord takes over.
- Our walk with God is based upon His desire to have a people that will follow Him, worship Him, and adore Him.
- You don't have the answers, but He does have the answers. Nothing in my hand I bring only to Thy cross I cling.
References:
Phillipians 1:6
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work among you will complete it by the day of Christ Jesus.
Ephsians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let’s rid ourselves of every obstacle and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with endurance the race that is set before us…
Isaiah 40:31
(wait on the Lord)
James 4:8
(Position yourself before the Lord)
Romans 8:5
( nothing in my hand I bring)
Take Away:
Today a people are driving in to run the race that God has set before them. There is one key that gives and assures them the victory and that is that they don’t stop. They’re focus increases on Him everyday. They’re love for Him increases everyday. And as He increases everything else decreases.
Summary:
In this day, Christ’s body makes increase of itself in love by speaking the Word of God to one another. This washing of the water by the Word is the purifying work of the Holy Spirit. Christ’s footsteps are for us to follow. The Father’s intention is to have a family of sons. He is finishing what He started at the beginning.
Show Notes:
- Today Christ family is speaking His Word one to another.
- The Holy Spirit is leading us to be a participating family.
- The word of God out of our mouth is what cleanses and creates us.
- The family grows by speaking and hearing His Word from one another.
- The relationships in His family are created by His Word.
- These relationships are what brings forth His presence in Is family.
- As we grow in these relationships, God pours out His fire which burns up that which needs to go.
- We begin to live the life of Christ as Christ is created within us by His Word.
- How do I become? I enter into His presence, I thank Him, I rejoice with Him and all that He is doing in the earth.
Quotes:
- The Body of Christ makes increase of itself in love because we wash one another by the water of the Word.
- ...we're finding that as, as the Holy Spirit's leading us to be a participating family, we grow not just by hearing, but we grow by giving.
- In New Testament Church they were meeting daily, they were talking about what Christ was doing to them on a daily basis. And that is one of the things that actually builds faith.
- And as we minister to one another, as we speak the word to one another as we, as we worship together, as our hearts are together as one, the Lord ministers through us to each other, and uses that to bring us into a place of maturity.
- We've heard forever that the kingdom of God is relationships. Not any relationship, relationships that God has created by a Word…
- ...there is no way we are going to grow without the fire.
- ...when we're filled with the Holy Spirit, it comes with fire. We all know the principles, the chaff is burned. What's left is the pure wheat.
- Those who follow in a walk in the Spirit have a mark on them. You can see how God has purified them like gold and sliver they have been purified by fire.
- I think that there is a life of Christ that we live, but it only comes out of what He's created within us.
References:
John 15:3
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
Ephsians 4:16
from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.
Matthew 9:37-38
(Sheep begat the sheep)
Acts 5:42
And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus.
Matthew 25: 42-46
I was hungry, and you didn’t feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn’t give me a drink. I was a stranger, and you didn’t invite me into your home. I was naked, and you didn’t give me clothing. I was sick and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’
44“Then they will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?’45“And he will answer, ‘I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.’46“And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will go into eternal life.”Matthew 3:11-12(The Fire of God) Take Away:
In this day the Lord is bringing forth His family by the Holy Spirit and fire. As the family speaks the Word of God to one another, they grow and mature into what He is looking for.
Summary:We are living in the day of Christ second coming. As promised, He is bringing judgment both to create and to destroy. He is moving through His family that have been raised up to speak judgment in the earth. Show Notes:* Today we see war breaking out on the natural level and war in the heavens. * As we take up our cross and follow the Lord, we become His voice in the earth. * God’s people are speaking His Word that is tearing down that which opposes His will. * We speak His Word to bind the enemy. There is a spiritual warfare that is taking place. * Our speaking creates what is emanating out of our spirit. * As we wait before the Lord and reach in to know Him, we maintain that correct balance in all that we do. * The deeper we penetrate into God the more effective we are in speaking and manifesting His will in the earth.
Quotes:* It's Satan's attempt to kill all flesh. And he started with Israel. * There's a spiritual warfare that's taking place, and there's a physical warfare that's taking place. They're both happening at the same time. * ...we are those raised up to speak judgment. The judgment we speak, is the punitive judgment that brings down what's left of Satan's angels. * ...if we are willing to take up our cross and follow Jesus, we're going to be the element of giving God His voice on the earth… * We've got a big job in front of us. That is giving God a voice in every possible place that He wants to speak. * Wait before the Lord, draw upon Him, and then be assured that He's with you and begin to speak His word in the earth, whatever he puts in your heart. * ...the more we hunger for Him, the greater is His Word, through us.
References:Ezekiel 38 & 39(The Lord’s great victory over the nations)Amos 3:7Certainly the Lord GOD does nothing Unless He reveals His secret plan To His servants the prophets.Hebrews 6(Leaving the elementary teachings and going on with God)Mathew 5:17 Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfill.I John 5:20We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding in order that we might know Him who is true. And we are in Him who is true in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. Take Away:We are going to stand up and speak the judgment that corrects and the judgment that is punitive, that destroys. As His Word cleanses the earth of evil, it also is a source of cleansing to His people so that they may stand in His presence. We are going to be pressing to places where no man has been before.
Summary:
Who’s heart do you have? Do you have a heart of stone, or do yo have a heart of flesh? In this day you are being created by His Word. You are growing in the Word. It’s unfolding to you. As the Holy Spirit brings that anointing into our lives, that anointing breaks any hardness within us and makes His Word real to our hearts. It’s a transformation, you are His workmanship.
Show Notes:
- Today we are walking in a day that the Father is creating our hearts.
- Just as Christ did, we spend the time alone with our Father as He creates us.
- We’re becoming the Word. We’re hearing until it pierces us and we become.
- Are there areas in your heart that have been calloused over and you can’t hear the Word He is speaking?
- By the anointing that resides in the Body of Christ, the Holy Spirit begins to rub that oil on you so you can hear His Word again.
Quotes:
- Do you have a heart that has been imparted to you, that you have appropriated?
- We take the Word, it’s not a matter of understanding, it’s a matter of hiding it in our heart.
- Were walking in a day that He's creating us.
- ...all those hours and hours that Christ spent off by Himself. That's an indication of how our relationship with the Father has to be also…
- In your heart of hearts, you know the truth, when it's a word from the Lord, it becomes alive to you first.
- We're becoming the Word. We're hearing, We're hearing, we're hearing until all of a sudden, it pierces us and we become.
- Are there areas in us, maybe big areas that needs more oil?
- ...there's some rough areas here Ron we need to kind of put some oil on that is smooth that out so you could stretch and so you can hear the Word that I'm speaking.
- I might be one of those five virgins, but I don't have the oil in me enough. Unless I have the oil that comes in the organism like somebody was talking about earlier. The organism has all the oil we need.
References:
Ephsians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
II Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled faces, looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
John 8:32
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Mark 2:22
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”
Psalm 19:14
"let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart. be acceptable in Thy sight. Oh Lord, my strength and my Redeemer."Psalm 139:23-24"search me O God, know my heart, try me and know my thoughts and see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me and the everlasting way." Take away:
Today as we walk on with the Lord we find that there are ares within our hearts that have been hardened and unable to hear His Word. As the Holy Spirit through the many membered body of Christ begins to minister an anointing to our hearts, we find that once again we can hear His Word and we find that we are truly His workmanship created in Christ Jesus.
Summary:How should a family relate with one another?Does the extended family have a part in raising one another’s children?What are some things that have created the demise of a functionalfamily?How is success for everyone attained?How do you learn? Practical, reading, by example?Let us break the misconceptions that exist for families. Show Notes:• “I don’t want to do what dad does for work.”• There is probably someone in the family at large that can helplearn a different job.• Because in family, can trust one another• How do we provide a successful life for everyone in the family?• How does each individual learn? Provide atmosphere where allcan learn.• We are believing for a whole new foundation of learning thatworks for everyone.• Learn from books and then the practical understanding of howand why it works.• How are relationships affected by others wrong thinking?• How do I relate to other people’s relationships?• How do we eliminate misconceptions of starting relationships? References:1Samuel 3:7-107 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, nor had the word of the LORD yet beenrevealed to him.8 So the LORD called Samuel again for the third time. And he arose and went to Eliand said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Then Eli discerned that the LORD was calling theboy.9 And Eli said to Samuel, “Go lie down, and it shall be if He calls you, that you shallsay, ‘Speak, LORD, for Your servant is listening.’ ” So, Samuel went and lay down in hisplace.10 Then the LORD came and stood and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!”And Samuel said, “Speak, for Your servant is listening.”iJohn 14:16, 2616 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another aHelper, that He may be withyou forever;ii26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He willteach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.iii2 Timothy 1:55 For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in yourgrandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.ivJohn 17:2121 that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that theyalso may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.vGalatians 5:22, 2322 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,faithfulness,23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.viGalatians 5:19-2119 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: aimmorality, impurity,sensuality,20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes,dissensions, dfactions,21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you,just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit thekingdom of God.1
Summary:Be creative as to how to make the scriptures fun Sing together songs that the family enjoys Engage with family. Show notes:• Read the Word with your children, make it a fun time.• Let them choose what scripture to read.• Read as a family together, be creative.• Reading or singing of the scriptures helps the scripturesbecome real or alive for the family.• As parents we can lay a foundation for our children like noone else. Include their friends.• This all has to do with the family of God. References:Mark 9:36, 3736 Taking a child, He set him before them, and taking him in His arms, He said to them,37 “Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receivesMe does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me.”iPsalms 59:16, 1716 But as for me, I shall sing of Your strength;Yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning,For You have been my strongholdAnd a refuge in the day of my distress.17 O my strength, I will sing praises to You;For God is my stronghold, the God who shows me lovingkindness.iiPsalms 66:44 “All the earth will worship You,And will sing praises to You;They will sing praises to Your name.”iiiPsalms 51:1414 Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.ivIsaiah 52: 8, 98 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.9 I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it,And I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.vRomans 10:1717 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.viEphesians 3:1515 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,viiProverbs 22:66 Train up a child in the way he should go,Even when he is old he will not depart from it.viiiMatthew 18:2-63 and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you willnot enter the kingdom of heaven.4 “Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom ofheaven.5 “And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me;6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would bebetter for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned inthe depth of the sea.i Quotes:• " Sing , it was so beautiful to do it together"• "Anything to do with God make it fun"• "You are relating with your family and there is a connectionthat will never be forgotten" TAKE AWAY:Read the scriptures together and find a way to make them fun, itwill create a love for the Word.
Summary:
The importance of hearing what God is speaking right now by revelation cannot be over emphasized. Without the ears to hear His voice we walk in deception. God’s people today need a predetermination in their hearts to hear His word. Our faith in His Word is not based on our understanding, but we say in our hearts, “I believe Your Word Lord.”
Show Notes:
- Today, more than ever, it is very important that we have the ability to hear what God is speaking.
- When we stop hearing what God is speaking right now, we have taken a step into deception.
- To hear what God is saying we need a predetermination to hear His Word.
- We can’t interpret the Word by the reasoning of our minds.
- We refuse to let satan rob us of God’s Word whether we understand it or not.
- We voice our belief in God’s Word even without our understanding
- He who is of God hears the Word’s of God. We want want to be of God fully and completely. To be those who are always hearing God is speaking by revelation.
Quotes:
- How important it is, that our hearts are really open to hear the truth, on whatever level, the Lord is speaking.
- And the minute we stop hearing what God is speaking right now, at that moment, we've taken a good step into deception.
- How important it is for us, to be those who are always hearing what God is speaking. To really hear it by revelation, because something in our spirits is open to hear...
- If we're going to stand still and believe what God has already said and live in that. Eventually it's going to dry up.
- When God begins to speak to us, we need that predetermination to receive a living word.
- How do I prepare myself, I predetermined that I'm going to believe it.
- I will not let Satan rob me of this Word, whether I understand it or not. I believe this Word, whether I understand it or not. I don't have to understand it, I just voice that I believe it.
- It’s not hard, it’s simple. It’s hearing His Word, hiding it in your heart and believing and resting in that Word.
References:
John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
John 8:43-47
Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I say the truth, you do not believe Me. Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me? The one who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.”
Numbers 13: 25-33
(The spies bad report & Caleb and Joshua’s good report)
Luke 2:19
(Hiding the Word in your heart)
Philippians 2:5-11
(We will not understand with our mind what the Word is saying)
John 14:26
(The Holy Spirit bring back to your remembrance)
Ephesians 2:10
(We become His workmanship)
Take Away:
Today God’s people need a predetermination to hear and believe His Word. As Caleb and Joshua came back with a good report from spying out the land. We too must have that faith and trust in His word. God has spoken and we believe.
Summary:
God is speaking in the earth today and we must have the ears to hear what He is speaking right now to His family. This is the test on God’s people because there are many voices that claim to be speaking His Word. Is Christ being revealed to you from the Word you are hearing?
Show Notes:
- God’s Word is everything to us, it is our very life.
- We must be hearing what God is speaking to His family today.
- There is a level of maturity that we come to that enables us to hear His word.
- Is Christ being revealed to your heart through the Word you are hearing?
- If you have a set of heart and the determination and understanding what the Word of God is to you. It just keeps bringing you back to His perfect will.
Quotes:
- I believe that the Word is life; it's everything.
- The reality of the Word is when it's living. And a dead letter is as good as a lie.
- Are we hearing what He's speaking right now to us individually and as a body?
- ...we must be led of the Spirit, by the Holy Spirit, to hear what is God speaking to us right now?
- Jesus says My Word will judge. So when the Word begins to come, it becomes an issue of those who hear it, and those who don't.
- Are you hearing a Living Word? To me what that means is when you hear a Word is Christ's being revealed to your heart?
- I think there's a level of maturity. And that's how you know, it's a Word from God.
- The key to making the Word alive, is believe it.
References:
Gensis 3:1
(Hath God said)
Provebs 4:22
(The Word is life)
Romans 8:12-14
12 So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—13 for if you are living in accord with the flesh, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons and daughters of God.
John 12:48
The one who rejects Me and does not accept My teachings has one who judges him: the word which I spoke. That will judge him on the last day.
John 1:1-5
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
I Cor. 2:10-16
(When you hear a Word is Christ being revealed to your heart)
Isaiah 28:17
(The Word becomes the plumb-line)
Take Away:
God is speaking a Word that is living and specific for us today, but are we hearing it? Is Christ being revealed to your heart as you hear His Word? His plan for restoration and the completion of creation is available now.
Summary:
People through out the ages have carried the mantle of the Word of God. We follow Jesus Christ as a pattern of what the Father wants from His sons. Today God has raised up a people who have the Spirit of Christ within them and have taken up this mantel of the Word of God as a key part of Christ coming again in a many membered body.
Show Notes:
- The mantle of the Word of God has been carried by many people down through the ages.
- Through a spiritual genealogy, certain qualities of spirit have been imparted and passed down in God’s family.
- Today a people are picking up the mantle of Christ and are walking it out.
- Many mantels exist it the world today; all are Christ. There are different expressions, anointing s and groups; all are Christ.
- Each person must decide to pick up this mantle out of their free will.
- Because God is raising up the Body of Christ, this mantel is beginning to rest on groups of people as they walk together. It’s not about just one person or a couple. The anointing is resting on God’s family.
- It is the responsibility of God’s people to take up this mantle and walk it out.
Quotes:
- We've chosen to live under the mantle of Christ, by virtue of our relationship to the Father.
- There were people all through the ages, that were examples of the mantle, of carrying the mantle, the mantle of the Word of God.
- God has raised up His family, who are the product of their ancestry.
- When you're born from above, you were born into a genealogy that included Ruth, David, Zachariah, Elizabeth, there was a genealogy.
- ...there's a spiritual genealogy of impartation, that's went down through the ages, and it's never stopped.
- Do we believe it? Do we believe that we have the mantle, do we believe we have the authority? Do we believe that we can walk in these things?
- ...most recently, He raised up a people who picked up that anointing. And guess who that is? Go look in the mirror.
- The anointing is beginning to rest on a body, or maybe lots of little bodies of people out there.
- What is my responsibility? Lord, put that mantle on me.
References:
Song of Solomon 2:4
He brought me to the banqueting-house, And his banner over me was love.
Romans 11:29
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
I Corinthians 2:12-31
(The Body of Christ has many members)
Jude 1:3
( Earnestly contend for the Faith once delivered to the saints)
I Peter 1:23
(Born from above)
Take away:
Down through the ages God has imparted Christ Spirit through the ancestry of Christ. These men and women have taken up the mantel of the Word of God and have walked it out in their lives. Today, God has raised up a family that have the Spirit of Christ within them. They too have picked up the mantel of God’s Word and are walking it out to see His will and kingdom come forth in this earth.
Summary:
God has created a people before the foundation of the earth with an incorruptible seed, the Word of God. As they discover the Word implanted within them they are beginning to realize that this is What God is working on and they simply believe and trust Him to lead them into this new day of His kingdom.
Show Notes:
- Today God is creating something new and He is doing it in a people.
- These people were created by the incorruptible seed, the Word of God which liveth and abideth forever.
- We are talking about the new creation. God is creating in us the greater works.
- They have become His workmanship.
- As we go through God’s process we must remain flexible and pliable.
- What does God work with? Appropriation. All you have to do is say “I believe it.” He can work with that.
- We learn to simply turn our hearts to Him in everything and trust.
- Our trust in Him is a key in all that we go through.
Quotes:
- ...the creation that God is creating is the greater works in us.
- If you're trying to work your way into a greater work that God says, you have already been given, better question that.
- We were created at the foundation of the earth with incorruptible seed. That’s what is alive in you.
- He's put us up on the bench, and we become His workmanship.
- When you're the potter and you mess around with that clay, the worst thing that can happen is that that clay to harden up. Religion is hardening. Seeking your own way is another form of hardening.
- Where the opposite to me is humility and the Word washes you. You're washed by the water of the Word that water keeps you moist and flexible. That humility keeps you low.
- I think we're coming to a place when we're going to take out the hardness and the difficulty of walking with God, going forward, and bring it into a simplicity of faith and believing God.
- Trust is huge. Do you know that God puts things in your way just to see if you will trust Him?
- When you get into the deepest, despairing places in your life. And you simply trust God, that pleases the Father.
- God wants us to know Him. He wants the same relationship that He had with Adam and Eve. He wants the same relationship that He had with the Lord, with Christ.
References:
Psalm 127:1
Unless the Lord builds a house, They who build it labor in vain; Unless the Lord guards a city, The watchman stays awake in vain.
I Peter 1:23
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Galatians 3:28
(The New Creation)
Isaiah 64:8
(God as the Potter)
Ephesians 5:26
...so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.
Job 1:20
Then Job got up, tore his robe, and shaved his head; then he fell to the ground and worshiped.
Daniel 2:44
(The day of His kingdom)
Take away:
God is bringing forth a new creature , born from an incorrigible seed, that was created at the foundation of the earth. Brought forth by His workmanship, and totally given to Him.. Walking with Him in His wonderful new day of the Kingdom.
Summary:
God has created a people who believe His promises and are turning to Him everyday. The scriptures are filled with what has been done, what He is doing now and will do to bring forth His Kingdom on this earth. By our believing His promises as reality we enter His rest as co-creators.
Show Notes:
- Voicing the promises of God out loud can be an action of your faith. Your struggle is for the faith to lay hold upon His willingness and His provision for you.
- If you believe something, then you will voice it and walk it out.
- We believe in the process that God has us in to become something in Him.
- Every day we get up looking to Him, turning to Him.
- As we get caught up in the river of His blessing, we turn to Him with a greater intensity of our focus.
- It’s not what we do that is the greater works that Christ spoke of, but what we are becoming in Him that is the greater works.
- This is all about believing and resting in Him. Knowing He will accomplish what He has started within us.
Quotes:
- I believe in voicing the scriptures voicing these promises out loud.
- When you believe that you have received it from the Lord, then you can begin to claim it.
- And if you believe something, you're going to voice it. And you're going to walk it out.
- Once that you proclaim it, once you say that you have it, nothing can come and take it away from you.
- And so it's it's really up to your faith. Can you be talked out of it? Will you back down because you don't get it right away?
- ...to become something requires faith.
- Are you a person who gets up in the morning and say, Lord, let's go to work.
- When you get up in the morning, and God's blessing is just rolling over you like water, you're caught in a river. That's the time that we turn with greater intensity to Him.
- Now's the time to cash in on every Word that God has spoken from the beginning, and walk in them. The provision is there.
- We fail to realize that the greater works are right here in the midst of us right here right now.
- It's more about resting. It's more about believing it's more about the knowing that He's leading us and all of the things that He's promised us.
References:
Genesis 5:21-24And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: 22 and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23 and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years 24 and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
II Kings 2
(Story of Elijah being taken up to Heaven)
Hebrews 11
(Story of the Men and Women of faith)
II Peter 1:3
for His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
John 5:19
(only do what I see the Father doing)
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
John 14:12-14
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.
Take Away:
Today the greater works of God are being wrought within a people as they simply voice their belief in His promises and rest knowing that He is willing and able to do exceeding more than they can ask or think. When you believe you have received it from the Lord then you can begin to claim it. He is standing there with His hand’s stretched out saying” Come on, come up higher.”
Summary:
Walking in the overflow of the Holy Spirit is a key to a overcoming life. Our hungering and thirsting after the Lord opens the door as the Spirit of God within us makes the Word living in our hearts and then we begin to overflow as fountains of living water. You are giving God His voice to all the world.
Show Notes:
- We can't play with a walk with God and expect to walk in a overcoming life.
- Our overflow is perfected by God through the Holy Spirit; His voice speaking through us.
- Communing with the Lord is the answer to ministering out of the overflow.
- Christ made this principle so easy by being our example.
- Hungering and thirsting after the Lord opens the door to the overflow.
- Words are either empty or freighted with the Holy Spirit.
- As the Spirit of God makes the Word living within us, we become the fountains of the overflow of His Word.
Quotes:
- Think you can play with this walk with God, that you can sing along in the spirit and prophesy and have experience now and then, and you will overcome the world by that; you are badly mistaken.
- Communing with the Lord is the answer to the fullness, to receiving the fullness.
- Ministering out of the overflow of what God's doing in your life is so easy. God designed it that way. And Jesus was the example. We look to the Lord, and we draw.
- ...you have to hunger and thirst after it. And then the Lord is faithful to supply the overflow.
- The flow of His life, the anointing, whatever you want to call it. It issues from the Word living in us and being alive in us.
- The Living Word only becomes living, if the Spirit of God makes it living.
- Words, your words. It's what those words are freighted with. That makes all the difference in the world, the overflow. That's what the Holy Spirit is doing.
- What is the overflow? It's an overflow of what God has transferred to you. You are now filled and you're ministering out of the overflow.
- The overflow, you could say it's the Holy Spirit. But you could also say, a man that has been thirsty and hungering for the Word of God. It becomes so living within him that it overflows.
- The greater works come out of the overflow, the greater works are to become a way of life for us.
References:
Jeremiah 29:12-14
Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.
John 7:37-39
On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” 39 By this he meant the Spirit whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
Acts 1,2
The upper room and day of Pentecost)
Take Away:
Being filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit in our lives is the key to walking an overcoming life. As His Spirit overflows in us it makes His Word living and sharper that any two edged sword. As we speak that Word out of the fullness of God within us, we have entered into the greater works that God predestined for us to walk in today. This becomes a way of life for us.
Summary:
Today God has brought forth shepherd's after His own heart. As we grow and mature we find that we all are shepherd's and we are all sheep. We are to build one another up in love and put a foundation under each one so they can stand. The heart of a shepherd will cry and intercede to see God's people come into all that He has for them.
Show Notes:
- As God brings forth shepherd's after His own heart, they must know their relationship with Him.
- We find that we are all shepherds and we are all sheep. We shepherd one another.
- We refuse to criticize one another, but instead we build a foundation under one another in which we can stand.
- There is something about laying down our lives, it is what Jesus said. We lay down our lives for each other.
- We are to build one another up in love so that everyone feels they are important in His family.
- A shepherd cries and intercedes for the people.
- A true shepherd feels the responsibility for the people.
- The great shepherd is creating shepherd's after His own heart.
Quotes:
- God brings forth shepherds after His own heart, they have to know who they are. They have to know their relationship with God, and how He's relating to them.
- And see, the truth is, we're all shepherds. And we're all sheep.
- We're those who absolutely care for each other in the family.
- I think the worst thing you can do is criticize somebody. The minute you criticize, that puts up a wall, in that person's thinking about himself.
- We're here to build each other up in love. And that, to me, is the greatest tool we have.
- ...if you have a shepherd's heart, you react with your heart. Now, where did you get it? God gave it to you.
- Lord, is it time to do what it takes to bring them back? Is it time to enter into intercession on their behalf?
- When you start feeling the responsibility, that's the beginning of a shepherd's heart right, there.
- I think we're in the most creative, wonderful time of our lives now where we have this ability to create those brethren, that are going to be a part of the thing that makes up the family, the body of Christ.
- Doesn't the scriptures say that we are co-creators with Him?
- We should be worshiping, and thanking Him forever, for doing what He's done in our lives, because He is the Great Shepherd, who's creating shepherds after His own heart.
- You know whom makes the most effective Shepherd, the sheep. What did What did Christ say? My sheep know my voice. Those sheep follow the shepherd.
- When the time comes that God puts you in a place of being a shepherd. You've been taught very well, because you've been taught by His Son.
References:
Jeremiah 3:15
“Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you knowledge and understanding.”
Matthew 23:11
But the greatest of you shall be your servant.
I Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, as indeed you do.
Revelations 18:4
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
John 21:15
Now when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, sonof John, do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My lambs.”
Romans 8:25-27
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. Take Away:
God has brought forth a family of shepherd's after His own heart. As they love and care for one another, they are fulfilling the heart of the Great Shepherd as He echoed in the scriptures. “Do you love me? Feed My sheep.”
Summary:
Jesus Christ is the door to the Father. He entreats us come follow Me. Our Father sent His son as a pattern for us to follow to be created as worshipers and believers in our Father.
Show Notes:
- The very purpose of Christ coming to earth was to reveal the Father to us and to make a way for us by His body and blood that we would have access in relationship to the Father.
- People make Christ the end-all. He didn't say “our Christ” He said “our Father who art in heaven hallowed be Thy name.”
- It was the Father that sent us the Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth.
- To be one with the Father is only possible through the blood of Christ.
- The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit all work together to bring us into a deep relationship with all three, which are one God.
- We must not stop with our relationship to Jesus, but realize that He is the open door for us to have a deep relationship with our Father.
Quotes:
- That's what Christ came to do is reveal the Father. That was His whole purpose was to bring people and the Father together.
- The interesting thing is, is the Holy Spirit is sent from the Father. Christ said, the Father will send you a helper.
- That's a key Ed is that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,. they are one God.
- The biggest thing that the Father used His Son for was to create, to recreate Himself the Son, in a people that would worship Him.
- He showed us the way to relate to the Father, because He knew the Father, because He is the Father's Son.
References:
John 14:7-11
If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.I Corinthians 15:288 And when all things have been subjected unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subjected to him that did subject all things unto him, that God may be all in all. John 14:26But the Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all that I said to you. John 4:23But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers. John 10:9I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me. John 17:11-15Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. Take Away:
Christ's very purpose in coming to earth was to be the sacrifice for our sins and open a door of access to the Father. Through His body and blood, we now can have a deep relationship with our Father. The Father gave us the Holy Spirit which points us to Christ and Christ points us the the Father. We now worship a triune God which is one.
Summary:
Our experiences with Jesus Christ's appearing's, parousia cause us to grow. This creates us into a witness of Christ in you the hope of glory.
Show Notes:
- Christ return is happening now in a many membered body.
- As Christ returns in our brother's and sister's we are changed as we behold the Christ speaking in them.
- We are being transformed everyday and Christ nature is coming forth in us.
- As Christ speaks through each person, we recognize it is Him who is speaking.
- Living Epistles are being created as the Word of God is being made flesh again.
Quotes:
- Christ is coming into many member body. And the Parousia is Christ is coming, and He's coming, and He's coming.
- The appearing of the Lord is happening, we just have to have eyes to see, and ears to hear.
- I think the seeing is seeing in the Spirit, Christ in our brother, appearing and speaking His Word.
- When you talk about seeing, it's perceiving the Word of God in a person.
- This thing about seeing Christ every day, the point of that is we're being transformed. The point of that is Christ nature is coming forth within us.
- When I hear Christ, His Word comes out, and that's Him. And it makes you love, whoever that that Christ is speaking through at that moment, you can't separate them.
- This realm of Christ in the flesh is a lifetime of the Word has been worked into us and been imparted that makes the word flesh.
- I am a witness. I was there, I saw Him. And what He has established now is a people who can say the same thing as the disciples said, we are and we are becoming in the Spirit, I witnessed.
- Jesus Christ, the Word has appeared in us. You see, and that becomes the witness that we carry into the earth, that Jesus Christ has arisen. He's arisen in a people.
References:
Matthew 24
(Christ Return)
Colossians 1:24-29
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church; 25 whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfill the word of God, 26 even the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints, 27to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ; 29 whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Matthew 18:20
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Revelations 22:7-8“Look, I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy written in this scroll.”8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me. 9 But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll. Worship God!”I Samuel 3(The Lord calls Samuel)Revelations 19:13And He isarrayed in a garment sprinkled with blood: and His name is called The Word of God. John 10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 2 Corinthians 3:1-3Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.Galatians 4:19My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you 2 Peter 1:16For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. Acts 1(Christ talking to His disciples about the Kingdom) Take Away:
Today Christ is speaking again in and through His people because of the impartation of the Word of God. As Christ appears within them, they become witnesses of His return. Once again, Christ is manifesting Himself in living epistles, the Word made flesh in the earth.
Summary:
We are one with Christ and are the creators of that worship that the Father desires. As teaching priest we impart to God's people and shepherd them into His presence. Just as Christ our great high priest, we walk in His footsteps giving our lives to see His kingdom come forth in the hearts of all God's people.
Show Notes:
- God is raising up a priesthood to minister to Him and stand in the gap for the Body of Christ.
- The teaching priest put the Word of God into practice, they walk out the Word and shepherded the people into His presence.
- Do you care enough to give your life to see God's kingdom come forth in all of His people?
- There is a divine order and that starts with us being who we are suppose to be.
- These priest are intercessors, they're intercession is for the Body of Christ.
- God is looking for a pure priesthood that will love with His love and lay down their lives for His people.
Quotes:
- You're here because 2000 years ago, Christ was interceding for you, and birthing the Body of Christ, by giving His own life, walking it out, from the cross, to resurrection.
- The prophets spoke the Word of God, but it was the priesthood that put it into practice - the teaching priest.
- We are to be a kingdom of priests going into His presence. And from His presence we, gain that strength, we gain the ability to minister to the Body of Christ.
- That we're concerned enough, and we care enough that we want to see Christ's Kingdom established in in the hearts of people. Do you care enough? Are you concerned enough to see the body of Christ become the thing that God ordained for it to be?
- I think the heart of the priesthood is more sensitive, and is more full of the love of the Father, than any function or ministry that's ever been in the earth.
- The love of the Father in us is the mark of the priesthood of Christ.
- He's looking for the pure priesthood.
References:
I Peter 2:9
But you are A CHOSEN PEOPLE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR GOD’SOWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
Hebrews 4:14-16
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven,[Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. 16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Hebrews 7:13-17
He of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever served at the altar.14 For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.15 And what we have said is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears, 16 one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is declared: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.
John 13:1-30
(The last Supper)
Matthew 25:40
And the King shall answer and say unto them, ‘Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.’
Revelation 1:6
and he made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto [a]his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion [b]for ever and ever. Amen.
Isaiah 40:3
but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
2 Corinthians 3:2-3
Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men; 3 being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables that are hearts of flesh.
1st Chapter of Samuel
John 10:11
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.
Take Away:
Today God has raised up a priesthood that stands before His face in worship. As they follow in the footsteps of Christ, they minister His love to His family to see His Kingdom established in their hearts. This is our heritage and our linage.
Summary:
In our daily walk with our Heavenly Father, we have many opportunities to express our thankfulness and love. As He disciplines us and we turn to Him in our deep repentance, we begin to mature in our eternal relationship with Him. As we mature we begin to express back to our Heavenly Father our deep thankfulness and joy knowing that He is working all things in our life after the counsel of His will.
Show Notes:
- Our daily repentance and turning towards Him is just another opportunity to express our thankfulness and love to Him.
- As we mature in our relationship with our heavenly Father, we begin to see that the momentary discipline that our Father puts us through, is working in us an eternal relationship with Him which produces great thanksgiving and joy in our hearts.
- In our time of need and repentance we turn to our first love.
- God enables us to repent and to turn to Him to receive His joy.
- He wants to give us life more abundantly, give us joy more abundantly. It's not about the things that we have to turn away from. He has this unfathomable love for us to experience.
- He is trying to lead us into a state of joy, a way of life.
- The reward for many things in God is His joy.
- Joy runs through out the scriptures.
Quotes:
- And it hit me that in our turning away, that's an opportunity to express our heart in thanksgiving to the Father.
- As we continue on in the lifestyle of repentance, it turns to Thanksgiving and joy.
- I think the reason we go through a lot of the sorrow and the negativity is because we fight what He's doing. Because we don't believe it's for our good.
- I can't create myself, we think we can. Society and culture teach us you can.
- do we want to say okay, God, I was wrong this time and I'm gonna do better, or do we say, God, I pour my flesh out to be killed. And I turn to you to fill me with Your heart.
- Repentance is the turning of your heart, to your first love.
- if you have the heart of thanksgiving, and you have the perception of I'll call the mature, I think the things you go through are shortened considerably.
- It's not about the things that we have to turn away from. He shows you those things, simply because He wants you to turn away from them because they are weights, they're sins, they're weights that keep you out of His presence and keep you out of His joy.
- How do you know that you've reached God? All of a sudden you have His joy, because now your heart is lifted higher, and the joy of the Lord is your beginning.
- Don't you think that the Lord can enable us to repent, to turn to Him and receive that joy?
- The whole thing about the Bible is joy.
References:
I Thessalonians 5:18
...in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God for you .
II Corinthians 4: 17-18
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Revelation 2:4-5
But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Therefore, remember from where you have fallen, and repent, and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and I will remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.
Luke 2:10-11
And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.Romans 8:28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose.Hebrews 12:6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.Hebrews 12:2looking unto Jesus the [a]author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.Ephesians 3:20Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Take Away:
Throughout the scriptures we see that people have experienced God's joy. Today in our walk with Him we too want to experience His joy in our lives. Our deep cry and turning to Him in thankfulness in all that we go through, creates in us a eternal mature relationship that begins to produce within us His joy as we worship Him in all things.
Summary:
The biblical feast are not Jewish holidays but were set apart for specific purposes by God. Many of the great manifestations of God's promises happened on the feast. The feast are seasons that God has appointed to bring forth His purposes in the earth and they last the whole year. They are to be a part of the very roots of a believer's faith and the foundation on which we stand.
Show Notes:
- The feast are not Jewish holidays but Biblical commandments of God to all believers.
- The feast are set seasons set apart by the Father that last the whole year.
- The feast is where God manifested His promises.
- Christ was born on Tabernacles.
- Christ went to the cross on Passover.
- The feast of Pentecost was the release of the Holy Spirit to all believers.
- The rich culture of the Word and bringing forth of the kingdom message comes out of the feast.
- As we keep the feast we enter into God's cycle of the year and His plan for His people.
Quotes:
- The times for the feast are set apart for a specific purpose.
- Passover is built all around the coming out of Egypt in the sense of coming out of captivity.
- Pentecost, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and it's something that you can have.
- ...Tabernacles the appearing of the Father being with us...
- God kept His promises at the feast.
- Christ Himself, kept the feasts.
- the rich, rich culture of the Word, who God is, as it is portrayed, and experienced through the feasts, brings closure. To me, in regards to my practice of Christianity
- The feasts bring forth the kingdom gospel, and promote the Kingdom that Christianity talks about, but doesn't reach back into its roots from where it came.
- It's man's way or it's God's way.The Feasts keep reminding us, it's God's way.
References:
Deuteronomy16:1-17
(The feast commanded by God)
Leviticus 23: 1-44
(The appointed Festivals of God)
Luke 2:40-43
(Christ kept the feast as a child with his parents.)
Luke 22:7-8
(Christ kept the feast as an adult)
Acts 2:1-4
(The day of Pentecost a fulfillment of a feast)
Matt 5:17-18
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Take away:
The feast, the ten commandments all came before the Jews. God commanded that His people keep the biblical feast. These feast are His cycles in which He fulfills many of His promises and brings forth what He wants through out the year for His people. As we keep the feast we discover the roots of our faith and the rich culture that we have in Christianity. By keeping the feast we get a broader view of the Kingdom.
Summary:
We are God's workmanship. He want's to create you according to His plan. We start with opening our heart and letting our prayer be,”Lord I turn away from what I am not. I turn to You to be what You want me to be.” As we turn to Him in thanksgiving, we simply ask Him for His nature to be created within us.
Show Notes:
- Our daily walk with the Lord includes a persistent asking, Knocking and seeking His face.
- In our repentance we come too another step of turning away from what we are not, and turning to Him for change.
- We stop defending our nature and open up to the Lord to ask Him for a new nature.
- As we turn to the Lord, our first step is to thank Him.
- This new level of repentance is so positive and creative. We simply open up and ask the Lord to change us.
Quotes:
- It's a daily getting up, Lord, I'm open to You today. And I ask, I keep asking, I keep knocking.
- There's another step; and that's turning away from what we're not.
- You are His workmanship. And He wants to do the job according to His plan. What you do is you say, “Father, create in me what I am not.”
- So you quit defending your nature, quit defending who you are, and you simply ask the Lord, “Lord, change me.”
- Lord, it's your choice, not mine. I turn to you, and repent for what I am not, I turn away from what I am not. And I turn to You to impart to me, to give me, put it in my heart, put it in my spirit, what You want.
- The first step of receiving something from God is saying, “Thank You, Lord.” And then He'll help you with the rest of receiving it. You will be His workmanship every step of the way.
- We change in worship. When you come before the Lord and say “Lord fill me, Lord make me Your son.” When we address Him face to face we say “it's You Lord I want to love.”
- The new level of repentance. It's called turning to. It's that creative faith I guess you call it creative, open heart. “Just ask Me. Open up to Me. I'll displace all the other stuff.
- That's a wonderful place to be, because if you can experience just one time in changing something in you. Wow! From that point on, the universe is yours.
References:
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Revelation 3:20
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
I Thessalonians 5:18
in everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-ward.
Take Away:
The next step in our relationship with the Lord is coming into a awareness of what we are not in our very nature. As we simply turn to Him in thanksgiving and worship, He begins to replace our nature with His.
Summary:
The first century church moved in the Holy Spirit because the Word was living in them and they had become living epistles read and know by all men. Today the Word must be a revelation to your heart. All religion's has doctrines that they have created . The most important thing is a deep relationship with the Father. He gives us His heart as our heart of flesh passes away. We become men and women after God's own heart.
Show Notes:
- The first century church moved in the Holy Spirit and the world was turned upside down.
- A deep revelation and relationship with the Word of God is all important if we are going to move in God.
- A simplicity of heart that doesn't lean on one's understanding or knowledge, but clings to a relationship with the Lord and His Word is key.
- We have such a compassionate God and He looks at people's hearts, He doesn't look at their doctrines.
- We have established a relationship, giving ourselves to the Word is a very important part of our worship.
- Today as we hide His Word in our hearts, that Word is creating again in the hearts of His people a living Word.
Quotes:
- This first century church was a colony of the kingdom of God. And they were living that present time in the kingdom...
- After the baptism of the Holy Spirit came the fruit of that walk in the Spirit began to manifest itself and everybody was affected around them.
- True Religion is one and unchangeable. Its language is nothing in my hand, I bring simply to thy cross, I cling.
- The way of Cain or man's way, now the key differences here with the false religion vs the true religion. The one is faith, the other is works, The one is grace, the other is human merit. The one is the path of life, the other ends in the second death.
- I always go back to revelation. If it's not a revelation to you, it means nothing...
- All the things that I know. It's not important. The important thing is knowing Him. The important thing is having a relationship a deep relationship with Him.
- We've established a relationship, giving ourselves to the Word is a very important part of our worship.
- It seems that our worship has to be coming out of the Word that we receive the Word we walk in.
- I'm assured that as I cling to my relationship to the Word, he will lead me and He'll guide me and he'll open up doors.
- Our love for the Lord and our love for the Word, we put it where it's safe. Nobody can take it away form you because you hid it in the right place.
References:
Philippians 3:7- 8
But whatever things were gain to me, these things I have counted as loss because of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them mere rubbish, so that I may gain Christ...
Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
Psalms 119:105
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."
Jude 1:11
(way of Cain)
James 2:14-26
(faith and works)
Romans 6:23
(life everlasting)
Revelation 20:6,14
(The second death)
Isaiah 55:11
(the Word coming back to God)
Acts 13:22
(Davids heart)
Revelation 12:17
(the remnant coming forth)
Take Away:
For the church to move the world today, they must throw off man's religion's and reach in to have the same deep relationship with the Word of God. We must cling to our relationship to the Word. We too must become living epistles read and known by all men.
Summary:
When you are in the presence of the Lord there is great joy. We are to walk in that overflowing joy 24/7, not just have an experience now and then. When we are overflowing with the Spirit of the Lord, all our restraints are gone and we find our selves full of His joy. We must stop just talking about these experiences and by faith walk in it today. In His presence is fullness of joy!
Show Notes:
- We are to live in the overflow of the Holy Spirit.
- When we live there His joy fills our hearts.
- The Holy Spirit helps us with this, in that He brings back to our remembrance our experiences of being in His presence.
- We must be in motion for the Lord to direct us into the appropriation of these things.
- By the provisions that the Lord has given us of appropriation, (The Communion and Worship) we appropriate the overflow of the Holy Spirit today.
- This is the way of life, the culture that He is creating in His family.
Quotes:
- ...When you get that overflow of, of that type of joy, you're so; you're uninhibited you, you lose all your self consciousness; you just spill over on everybody.
- I believe that's the way we're supposed to be is an overflowing vessel of His joy.
- You talk about rattling the earth, you will rattle the earth. And everybody around you if you walk in what I'm talking about is the overflowing joy and love.
- I say let's do it, Lord. My statement to the Holy Spirit is okay. I'm eating of the body that makes this capable. I'm drinking the blood that has the life to make this capable. And then I open my heart and I worship Him.
- It's a way of life. It's a part of the expression of the culture that we're a part of.
- We send this podcast out with a heart that believes God's people are turning to Him.
References:
II Samuel 6:14-15
And David danced before the Lord with all his might, wearing a priestly garment. 15 So David and all the people of Israel brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouts of joy and the blowing of rams’ horns.
Psalms 16:11
You will make known to me the way of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
John 14:26
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
Hebrews 11:40
because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.
Nehemiah 8:10
The joy of the Lord is your strength
Matthew 5:6
(Hunger and Thirst for righteousness)
John 14:12
(Greater Works)
Romans 15:13
(Joy)
Collisions 1:13
(Salvation experience)
Take Away:
Today God has raised up people that are moving into that overflowing joy and love of the Holy Spirit. This deep joy is breaking the restraints and hindrances of the past. This is becoming a lifestyle and is beginning to affect everything around us as the joy of the Lord is our strength.
Summary:
As we trust God and believe His Word, He walks with us through all that we go through. As Christ's nature and this deep relationship with the Lord come forth within us, we come to a place that He keeps us and we are sealed in to our relationship with Him for eternity.
Show Notes:
- As you trust God and believe what He says, He walks you through the hard times.
- The is a level in your relationship with God that He will not let you leave Him.
- Your eternal destiny begins to manifest as the Word begins to mature you in your relationship with the Lord.
- There is a “Eternal Security” for those who have Christ formed in them. The Father will no longer allow His sons to be “crucified” again.
- We are totally dependent on the Father to finish what He has started in us.
Quotes:
- It would be harder to leave this relationship with the Father, than anything I can think of.
- I would rather not live, then not be bonded to the Father.
- God does hold, hold us in there. And He will not let us go. If He's predestined us as sons, we're going to make it through.
- We're beyond the point of losing out. It's not a possibility. It won't happen. And it's because God won't let it.
- God has taken up His abode. Because the last breath of my flesh is coming very rapidly. To where I truly say it is no longer I but it's Him.
- The joy of the Lord is the most precious place you can be.
References:
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding.
Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he left, not knowing where he was going.
Hebrews 11:15
And indeed if they had been thinking of that countrywhich they left, they would have had opportunity to return.
John 6:66-68
Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.Jesus said therefore unto the twelve, Would ye also go away? Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
Romans 8:29-30
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Revelation 7;3
saying, “Do not harm the earth, or the sea, or the trees until we have sealed the bond-servants of our God on their foreheads.”
Revelation 9:4
And it was said unto them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the lifewhich I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
II Thessalonians 1:10
when He comes to be glorified among His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed—because our testimony to you was believed.
Take Away:
As we walk with the Lord in this deep relationship of trust and believing His Word, we come to the place in our relationship with Him of recognizing our eternal destiny and sonship. Being justified and glorified by Him we are sealed in an eternal relationship with Him as His bond servants.
Summary:
As we go deeper in our walk with the Lord, we come into an awareness of what we are not and this produces within us a cry for change. This hunger to know Him and to have His nature, drives us into His presence and brings forth a fruitful repentance.
Show Notes:
- As we press into the Lord we realize that the only true change comes when we stand in His presence.
- We must ask the Holy Spirit to help us with this, to lead us into His way of change.
- Our hunger after Him drives us deeper and deeper into His presence.
- As God puts His finger in the things of our lives, we cry out to Him and drive into His presence for change.
- As we open up to Him in a new place that is where we will find the fruit.
- Our Reward for repentance and driving into Is presence is His joy.
Quotes:
- The only effective change is in the presence of the Lord. The only effective change is when you have a meeting with the Lord.
- It has to come out of a meeting with God, because He's the only one who can make this work.
- I need help with this, I do not know how to do it myself. I do not know how to turn from everything that I've grown up with that I've been conditioned by. Lord help me...
- You have to have the attitude to go after it, to get this deep repentance.
- This has got be working in my heart, I'm tired of being less than what God wants me to be.
- We can go a long time, and then all of a sudden, God puts His finger on something. And when He puts His finger on something, okay, that's when we have to move.
- If you have a desire to know the Lord, if you really want to know the Lord, and you really want to be a ministry, for Him, be a channel for Him, then you have to be willing to open up to who you have been, and who He wants you to be. But the Holy Spirit has to reveal that to you.
- With sin comes separation.
- Repentance, stops the separation. I want to get closer to you, God, where do you start? You start with repentance. It's getting you so that you can get closer to God by getting rid of something that you didn't even know you had.
- ...you humble yourself before the Lord. That is an action that you take.
- The reward that we get from being in His presence, doing His will on the earth is joy.
References:
II Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Samuel 11-12
Psalm 51
Take Away:
Today as we reach in to know the Lord we cone face to face with the awareness of what we are not. This produces a drive in us to change. As we hunger after Him we find that fruitful repentance and change can only come as we stand in His presence and are changed from glory to glory by the Lord. Is there any greater joy than turning to the presence of the Lord?
Summary:
As God matures us, He gives us the opportunity to reach the depth of our spirit. The things that hinder or block the flow of His Spirit through us is being removed. As God speaks His Word ,He test that Word in us until it is refined. This daily lifestyle creates a child like spirit that is open, teachable, and creates within us the joy of the Lord.
Show Notes:
- God is digging deeper in the lives of His sons to create a perfection in them.
- As we mature in the Lord, He opens the door for us to see the things that are deeper in our spirits.
- After God speaks a Word to you, He will come to test that Word in you.
- The deep repentance exposes us to God and we change.
- God's attributes are imparted to us as we repent and are exposed to Him.
- In the depth of this repentance, our flesh nature is gone and Christ's nature comes forth in us.
- This deep repentance becomes a life style of a open spirit before the Lord.
- The overflow of this deep repentant lifestyle is His joy.
Quotes:
- Repentance is something that as we grow in the Lord, God goes deeper. The depth that He goes to, is the desire of His heart that you are perfected in His sight.
- You need to be pure in your way of relating, so that He can use you as a channel...
- As God matures us, He gives us the opportunity to reach the depth of our spirit.
- It's this deep repentance that exposes us to God. That's going to be the thing that's going to change us, is the exposure to God.
- As you expose yourself, then all of a sudden you start taking on God's attributes.
- Your flesh is gone. The only thing that is left is the Christ in you the hope of glory.
- In repentance, there's a state of heart, is a state of being that you can come to every day, by a decision that you make. And that is, Lord, I open my heart, and I keep my heart open.
- By His grace, His mercy, Him sticking with you till it's finished. That's the drive of a mature Christian. Our approach to repentance is you shall be pure as your heavenly Father is pure. Weren't you created in His image?
- I actually think repentance is an open spirit, before the Lord every day.
- I think our repentance is going to be so full of joy.
- ...a great definition of repentance. A childlike spirit, a child's heart. That's why God loves the little children.
References:
Matthew 5:48
Therefore you shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Psalm 139: 23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart!Try me and know my thoughts!24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,and lead me in the way everlasting!
II Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Genesis 1:27
So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Romans 8:1
Therefore there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Take Away:
As God matures His sons today we are driven by the Holy Spirit to go deeper in the perfection of our spirit's before Him. When you have turned away, in that deep, deep, deep repentance you won't remember what you did. Your flesh is gone and the only thing that is left is the Christ in you the hope of glory. Out of the depth of our hearts begins to flow the purity of His Word as His joy fills our lives.
Summary:
In this day we must have a deep relationship with the Lord and one another that is without the bonds of obligation and oppression. Giving the greatest gift God has given us, our free will, back to Him, and not to anything else is what He is after. It's all about the Lordship of Jesus Christ over our lives.
Show Notes:
- God is raising up sons who know who they are.
- We must walk with God without bonds and obligations to anything if we are to please Him.
- You cannot have a walk with God if you got bonds. That's not just with people, it's religious concepts, ideas, and obligations.
- The less we are bonded to anything the freer we are to express our hearts.
- We must decide where we are going to give our free will. What are we going to be bonded too? Will we give it to other things or God?
- Being bonded to one another in relationship through the Holy Spirit is a bond that creates life.
- We are losing all our concepts, ways of thinking and things we have been bonded to other than Him, as we all come into His Lordship.
Quotes:
- Knowing that you have this relationship with the Lord, you're not concerned about losing out with God, not doing enough, we have to come out of that whole arena of being obligated.
- You cannot have a walk with God, the way He wants you to walk with Him, if you've got bonds.
- It's really a foreign concept to Americans because we are free and we are independent. That's not God's sons. By His Spirit, He is setting us all free to be something that we could never be by our own will, our own attempts.
- It's all about your heart, being free and expressing or being who you are, in the Lord.
- What are you going to do with your freedom? Are you going to give it to the Father and become bonded to him? Or you're going to give it to a career? A man or a woman? Ideas? A government? Or are you going to take the greatest gift you have from God that free will, and you're gonna give it to Him?
- We can either get poisoned through bonds, or we can get the flow of life through bonds.
- I can't walk with you in the Spirit unless I'm bonded to you. And how am I bonded? Because we're listening to the same Holy Spirit.
- We're bought with a price? And we're not our own? And from that point, if you're His and you're submissive to Him, then the relationships that you make from that place should be under His Lordship.
- We're free to serve the Lord. We're free to submit to Him. And in our submission to Him, He orders our steps. I think it really is that simple.
- That's the message we've heard, the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We grow up into the head, the Lord Jesus in us, His lordship. That's Christ speaking through us.
References:
Exodus 21:5-6
But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not leave as a free man,’ then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.
I Corinthians 6:20
for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.
Ephesians 4:11-13
And He gave some asapostles, some asprophets, some asevangelists, some aspastors and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ: till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a full grown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:
John 14, 15, 16, 17
Take Away:
Today we must be free from everything that would be a negative influence in our relationship to the Lord. As we mature in Him we are finding that our freedom is to serve Him and His people.
Summary:
On the day of Pentecost Christ bumbling disciples became those who turned the world up-side down. Today, there is a people that God has raised up that once again will turn the World up-side down and bring the gospel of the living Word of God to the earth.
Show Notes:
- Before the day of Pentecost, Christ disciples were moving as mere humans, but after Pentecost they became those doing the exploits, signs and wonders as they turned the World upside down.
- Today God has a people He has raised up to speak His Word in the Earth and bring forth His Kingdom.
- God is doing a deep work in the spirit's of His people.
- You must know who you are and know that the Word you speak is a Word from God.
- God is doing a quick work in the earth today.
- Now we are in the age of Spirit.
- You can walk in His Word as you open your heart to it today.
- God is unconditionally faithful to His own Word.
- We have become those with a heritage of all the promises of God resting on us.
Quotes:
- We're speaking the gospel of the living Word of God into the earth.
- He's doing a deep deep work. Because he's not worried about the fruit as much as he was worrying about the work He's doing in a people's spirits, because he knows the fruit is gonna come. This is eternal.
- You have to believe that the word that you speak is the word of God. You have to believe in your relationship with the Lord. And you stand on that.
- His Word, you can hear it in the morning and you can walk in it as soon as you receive it into your heart, into your spirit and it becomes a part of you.
- Just how much do you believe God? How much do you believe His Word?
- God is gonna get out of me the worshiper that he created at the beginning. He's gonna get out of me that son that he wanted, he's gonna get out of me His word being returned back to Him. That's what He wants.
- We're a generation that lives with a heritage of I Am, with a strong knowledge of I Am right now. And we also live with the promises of I Am.
- What's in your heart? Unconditional love for my brother. Unconditional love for the Word.
References:
Acts 17:6
When they did not find them, they begandragging Jason and some brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have upset the world have come here also;
John 4:23
But a time is coming, and even now has arrived, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to beHis worshipers.
Ephesians 4:11-13
And He gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
Take Away:
We must not compare what God is doing today with the early church. You must be seeking the Lord for what He is doing today. On the day of Pentecost the church was born by men and women speaking a Word from God. In this day a people are speaking a gospel of the Kingdom which will change this age and bring forth God's Kingdom to this earth.
Summary:
Today many Christians are looking for the return of Christ. His return is happening now within His many membered body. Everyday Christ is appearing to His people through the Living Word He speaks through His people. They are changed from glory to glory as they behold Him today. Are you aware of Him? Are you aware of His appearing today?
Show Notes:
- Christ appearing in this end time is not way off in the future, it's happening now in His many membered body.
- As He appears everyday we are changed into His likeness.
- As His transformation is happening within us, we recognize that this is all His doing and nothing of ourselves.
- We are no longer putting off His appearing as some big event in the future. He is appearing right now in our midst.
- We don't know the day or the hour. I'm not going to miss it today.
Quotes:
- Christ is something that we're all looking very hard for.
- I realized that His coming, and His appearing and us being like Him, as He appears, is not off in the future.
- He's appearing to me right now. And I'm like Him right now.
- He's the potter and we're the clay.
- Him appearing in the clouds or He appears in your room or whatever. That's a rapture theory. When God's appearing in our midst, right now.
- It's like you wanted to slap your spirit – wake up! Your not going to live more than your living right now. Don't take for granted today.
- The Word says that we'll see Him when we're looking for Him. And I do know that if we're looking for the Christ to appear in our brother, we'll see it.
References:
II Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled faces, looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
I Peter 1:23
Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we are the work of thy hand.”
Zechariah 4:10
For who hath despised the day of small things? for these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; these are the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Jeremiah 29:13
And you will seek Me and find Mewhen you search for Me with all your heart.
Colossians 1:27
to whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mysterythat is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Take Away:
The appearing s of Christ are happening today in His many membered body. As His family gathers together, Christ appears in their midst through the Spirit of Christ within them. Today we are being changed from glory to glory and are being transformed into His likeness.
Summary:
The Spirit of forgiveness must be in the hearts of God's family. When you stand to pray the first thing you do is forgive. It's the heart of forgiveness that opens the door for God to forgive and transform you into His likeness.
Show Notes:
- Forgiveness is one of the key aspects of God's nature that we must have.
- Forgiveness opens the door to God transformation in our lives.
- In the place of vulnerability and weakness we find our greatest strength and protection in Him.
Quotes:
- Without forgiveness, how could the family even function?
- Forgiveness positions us in a place where God can minister to us, He can impart to us; it puts us in a place of appropriation.
- When God brings everything together by His Spirit, we're granted the opportunity to chose. That's where we say “yes Lord.”
- ...the whole revelation of forgiveness, that you forgive, so that the other person can have enough freedom to change.
References:
Mark 11:25
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you for your offenses.
II Corinthians 12:9
And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
Take Away:
For God's family to exist today we must live in the place of total forgiveness. In our weakness, and vulnerability His power is being perfected as our hearts simply live in that place of forgiveness.
Summary:
How have the things that you have went through in your life affected your attitude towards life and God? Are you aware that even the hard things that you have gone trough God was in creating and shaping your spirit? Even your ancestors have had God's dealing in their lives to bring forth a linage of spirit that would walk before Him with a humble and contrite heart. Today we take on the Father's heart of forgiveness and love so He can have what He has always wanted, sons that love Him with all their heart.
Show Notes:
- God puts us through many things as we grow up and they are all for our good.
- Through everything we go through, God is creating a broken, humble people.
- God is our Father and He is real to me. He never leaves or forsakes me.
- Even our ancestors have had God's dealings working in their lives to bring forth a lineage that would walk before Him humbly.
- Today we appropriate the Father's heart of forgiveness to be pleasing to Him.
Quotes:
- I think God is making us in to really a broken humble people.
- I think we've got to really admit that we need to open our eyes and see where God has been very active in our lives when we didn't even know it.
- I'm a result of God dealing with my ancestors...
- Why do I forgive? Why do I want to reach into the righteousness that comes with forgiveness? Because I want my father to be happy.
References:
Romans 8:28
All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, God, You will not despise.
Psalm 27:10
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
Hebrews 13:5
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Take Away:
God has been working through out many generations in the lives of people to bring forth a broken and contrite heart. This heart of forgiveness and love is now being expressed back to Him as we humbly stand in His presence. We are confessing “Yes, Lord I have Your heart.”
Summary:
Man does not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Today the Word of God is being spoken by little groups of people throughout the earth. Their continual proclamation has deep significance. It sweeps away deception and brings them into the inheritance of God. This flow of His Word is the agent of change in the hearts of His people as Christ manifest Himself in their midst by the Word.
Show Notes:
- Today God is manifesting Himself through the Word that is being spoken by His people.
- Little groups of believers are coming together to speak His Word in a creative flow of the Holy Spirit.
- The flow of the Word that is created in these little groups becomes the very purifying work of the Holy Spirit within them.
- This process of becoming by His Word through us is where we enter into His rest as we just focus on Him.
- It is happening before your eyes, that impartation is happening.
Quotes:
- God give us a revelation of how much of that Word we can eat and partake of that enables us to become the sons You desire to be this day and walk pleasing in Your sight.
- As you speak it, you will become it, as you speak it, it will happen.
- And He can only fill you up so far to overflowing, and then you've got to give out so He can fill you up with more.
- We're moving into life, on a level that people have never experienced. It's a greater work, because it's not in the individual. It's coming forth in his many member body.
- His victory will be manifested through us when we walk in His rest, and as we're walking now ministering life in the Word ...
References:
Matthew 4:4
But He answered and said, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes out of the mouth of God.’”
Ephesians 5:19
Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your hearts to the Lord;
Ephesians 5:26
Summary:
“You'll hear a voice behind you, this is the way walk in it.” I would call that the Abraham walk. Just as Abraham the father of our faith went out not knowing where he was going, being obedient because God made it real to is heart. We too must leave everything we have ever known to enter into this new realm of walking with God in the now.
Show Notes:
- As Abraham our Father in the faith, we too must leave all that we have known to enter into what God has for us today.
- All God's promises are unfolding before us today.
- In this new day we must walk in revelation to see what He is doing and saying.
- A new Age of Spirit has opened up and people are being drawn into it to know Him now. It's already happening.
Quotes:
- It is a now experience, moment by moment that God is bringing us into. And He's revealing to us moment by moment, the things that He will do, in us, if we just trust Him, and keep standing and believing and walking with Him.
- Everything that God's ever done, will do, is already in motion in the realm of spirit. It's just a matter of us coming into it, walking into it, as we live there. All those promises are before us.
- Every Word that God has ever spoken, it's taking a revelation by the Spirit to see it and understand it. If it's not a revelation to us, then we're not seeing it right, plain and simple.
- It has to be that expectation of futuristic things, disappears. And we are walking in the now with the Lord on a moment by moment basis.
- Do we really know what God is going to speak to our hearts on a moment by moment basis, unless we are walking with Him in the now?
- Enter into that relationship with the Father, where when He speaks to you, hear His voice, and you just simply say. “OK Lord, that's what I will do.”
- ...this age is opening before us, is not just for a few weeks, months, or years, but an age that's opened of Spirit, and people are going to come and walk with God. Like the scripture says and join himself to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will not be broken. ...
Summary:
The Word of God with in us is happening everyday, before our eyes. We have moved into the realm of the Father being real to us now. We are aware that what the Father is doing today and as we walk with Him in the now, we are finding the unfolding revelation of Christ within us .
Show Notes:
- We have entered in a new realm where we are reaching in to behold our Father in the now.
- All God's promises to us are unfolding now as we are aware of Him today. They area perpetual fulfillment.
- In this new realm, we must learn how to walk with Him in a new way. There is an awareness, and abiding now in the Lord.
- In this new realm we must trust in what He is doing daily.
- The unfolding of Christ within us is happening now.
Quotes:
- Living in the realm of now. Then we're beholding Him, and He's real to us, and we are aware of Him in us. And that is a perpetual fulfillment going on.
- I do know Your promises towards me. And so maybe those are just kind of like Him going; “well, here's what I'm going to do for you now, and tomorrow, and the next day.” It's like He gives you a snapshot. Here's a snapshot; now don't wait for it, it's already happening.
- As we just open up and are aware how He has come forth in us. And we abide in that and live in that. That is the fulfillment, that is the promises.
- I know that He is continually speaking now and I'm learning a fresh what it means to walk with God and to know Him in a new way.
- How can you go into something you've never been to before? You simply allow the Lord to speak that into your spirit, and you move step by step. And you trust what God's doing.
- We are abiding in Him. In the Spirit, in the realm of eternity, there is a revelation of the Lord that's being revealed to us now; and it will increase, and it will keep increasing.
Scriptural References:
Summary:
It's God's nature to forgive. When God forgives it's a total thing. He not only forgives us but He forgets the offensive as if it never happened. As we try to forgive others, we find we cannot forgive and forget to the depth that He is requiring. He gave His only begotten Son as the path of forgiveness for us. This all is in the design of God to drive us into Him to appropriate His nature.
Show Notes:
- We are to forgive each other as God forgave us. To do this we must appropriate His very nature.
- There must be a willingness in our hearts to take on His nature as we lay down our lives.
- We should be looking for the fruit of the divine nature in us.
- This should create a cry in our hearts that says like David; “Create a clean Heart in me O God.”
- Forgiveness drives you into the place of humility.
- This is a way of life that God imparts His nature to you.
- We must reach into God's nature which is perfection.
Quotes:
- It is the very nature of God to forgive, it's His nature.
- He wants us to reach out for a revelation that we can receive His nature.
- Forgiving is not as difficult as forgetting. And yet, I'm wondering if forgetting isn't apart of forgiving. You can't really totally forgive, until you have forgotten. It takes an impartation from the Father.
- Are we willing to put it on? Are we willing to lay down our lives and take it up again, that He offers us.
- ...are you willing to forgive those so that you can love them? So you can minister to them?
- I'm looking for the fruit of the divine nature in me.
- Think about those people you forgiven. Are you one with them? Are you really able to literally melt into that person with no walls?...
Summary:
Moving in the Spirit realm means nothing without His love moving through us. God has limited Himself out of His love for us to make us His channels of love. God gives us the gift of love. God is His Word and many times God imparts His love to us through the Word He speaks. Through this impartation of His nature in us, we find His nature being established and His love flowing through us. He is calling us to love.
Show Notes:
- Without God's love moving through us, moving in the gifts means nothing.
- God loves us and imparts His love to us.
- We love others with the love God has imparts to us.
- Love has to have an action. Love has to have an expression. It's the way we live.
- He is the Word that He speaks and when we receive His Word we receive His love.
- We spend time with the Lord because we love Him.
- There is a place that His nature is established in us and then no matter how we feel, His love begins to flow through us.
- While your in His presence, the impartation of His love just flows.
- With Your heart Lord, you are establishing Your nature in us.
Quotes:
- In the Spirit realm, and our function in it, and talking about it, it's just meaningless; if it's not being driven by a very practical down to earth, love of the Father in us.
- God has limited Himself, out of His love for us, He wants to include us
- without the ability God gives us to love, we can't truly love the way He's calling us to love.
- He doesn't speak the way humans speak. He puts His very nature, His very being into everything that He speaks.
- ...you cannot be in His presence without experiencing that love.
- And many times He'll touch you when you most need it. And other times He won't touch you when you most need it. And that's when you cry out, Lord, I need you.
- Just spending time with with Him. And however you want to do that worship, waiting on Him, because you want to be with Him. You, you want to be in His presence. I just don't think we ever leave that place.
- We can determine, “I am going to love, and I am going to love my brother or sister with all Your...
Summary:
Walking in the invisible realm of Spirit today is being made visible by the open door of the Word of God. This avenue is a portal into the realm of Spirit where we can truly know what we are doing and how it's being accomplished. Mature men and women have a focused faith in the Word and are seeing the fulfillment of the scripture; “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
Show Notes:
- As men and women mature in this day, they will draw from what they have learned from the past, and reach into what God is saying today.
- Although the Spirit realm is invisible, it is not to be invisible to us. God has given us His Word to be the open door to learn how to move and understand the realm of Spirit. By His Word it become visible to us.
- Just like Joshua, we must eat, meditate, and live in the Words that we have received so that God will open up to us these things of Spirit.
- It's a focused faith in His Word. It's a dedication to be in that Word.
- When we go through our “dry” times in the Word, we humble our minds and hearts and return to His Word.
- As we dwell in the Word, the Holy Spirit opens up to us the mysteries of the Spirit realm.
Quotes:
- A mature man will draw from the old and yet reaches into the new. He draws from the old, he draws from the Word that he heard, and the Word that he's entering into now.
- The Bible,the Word of God, that has been spoken by many men and women, are, for a better word, a portal, into the fulfillment of walking and becoming in this age of Spirit.
- Joshua, he just meditated on the Word. And God opened up realms to him, that he would have never figured out, he would have never gotten. Well, that's no different for us today.
- I don't have to go find some new Word to hear to tickle my ears. I need to reach in to the Words that have been spoken to me in faith, listening for the Holy Spirit to open something up.
- The Word is such a key to the Holy Spirit moving and ministering and teaching us how to move.
Summary:
This is an age of Spirit, the age of walking out every word we have heard from living epistles down through the ages. Hebrews 11 talks about these men and women who were commended for their faith. None of them received what had been promised because God had planned something better, so without us they would not be made perfect. Today we speak and walk out those Words we have heard. Now is the time to see the last leg of this relay race finished up and see His Kingdom established on this earth.
Show Notes:
- This is the age of Spirit.
- We have made the transition and we are becoming those who walk these Words from God.
- We are in the age of Spirit and have become mature in all manners of the truth.
- We must eat, meditate and give ourselves totally to the Word we have heard.
- Joshua reaction to the captain to the Lord of Host was instant; “As for me and my house...”
- We never leave the foundations, but build upon them as we walk out our destiny in God.
- The creative Spirit in the earth today, is speaking through a people through what they say.
Quotes:
- God has raised up a remnant that is very capable of carrying out His will in the earth, by His grace.
- Today, we like Joshua, eat, meditate and live out our lives on the words that have been spoken so that our way will be made prosperous, and we will have success.
- These foundations that have been laid by many men and women of God throughout the ages, and also in recent years we never leave.
- That which we've heard we're responsible for being and doing. We have to be part of a company of people that are mature sons that walk in the word.
Scriptural References:
Joshua 1:8
Summary:
God is speaking His Word through a many memberd body. As each member speaks His Word it is the very catalyst that brings forth the Word in another member. The family has entered into a fulfillment of His Word on a level that was only a dream in the past. Now as the family enters into this flow of His Word it opens the door to a deep relationship with the Father as they each see and Hear what the Spirit is speaking in this day.
Show Notes:
- As we speak God's Word to each other in the family, it becomes the catalyst that brings forth the flow of Spirit that builds up and creates each member.
- It's about this, right at this moment, this time when God is speaking to us. We reach into something that we never heard before.
- The dreams and promises of God are unfolding to us, and we are walking in them today.
- As the family speaks and moves in His Word, we see the diversification of expression in His family. The impartation of what God is bringing forth in all of us is just amazing.
- The family is moving into a deeper relationship with the Father as this flow of the Word comes forth by the Holy Spirit in their midst.
Quotes:
- I never saw that before. I never heard that before. Because now it's been created in us to hear and to see.
- I don't think I ever dreamed in my wildest dreams of ever coming to this place where I would know the Lord was speaking through me, and I was hearing my brethren, and yet I was hearing the Lord in my brother.
- We've reached a level of growth in maturity that we're doing things that like you said, Ken we never dreamed of doing.
- That's the the thing that's a driving force in all of us, we hear the word we speak the word because God gave it to us to speak. And so we speak that word, and it becomes a catalyst that ignites the family. And as one speaks, the other one speaks, and then it flows into a crescendo, really into the presence of the Lord.
- Is the Yahusha Messiah, the Jesus Christ I am following; is it yielding a relationship to the Father?
- There is a ministry of giving ourselves to each other that's greater...
Summary:
The provision of the Father that is already laid up for us is so vast. As we hear or read the promises and provisions of God, we immediately appropriate them and walk them out in our lives. The Holy Spirit is in agreement with the Lord; He is creating it in us. As we humble ourselves, we stay open, teachable and aware, the Holy Spirit can minister through us and to us. This is the difference between living on the soul level and living in the Spirit.
Show Notes:
- As the Father rains down upon us the Holy Spirit, we are learning to think and do things differently than we ever have before.
- As we realize the great provision of God that we have, we begin to pray and read the promises of God with faith and action.
- Christ and the Father are waiting for us to simply appropriate the provisions and walk them out today.
- It's what you are; you only become what you appropriate.
- He just wants you to believe and appropriate.
- We have left the age of soul and entered into an age of Spirit.
- We are entering into a age of Spirit, where His presence is to be established in this earth.
Quotes:
- We're learning how to do things different than we ever did before, because that's what He came to do. He came to create the Spirit realm for us to walk in.
- When I read now, or I listen to a promise, I'm immediately appropriating that.
- My humaneness says, Oh, but I I have to do something, I have to be something. No, you don't have to do anything or be anything. You just have to be who the Lord's created you to be.
- The soul puts it off to the future. Someday, if I pray enough, if I wait on God enough, if I hold my mouth just right, I'm going to get more of Him. See all those statements are in the future.
- He's sitting at the right hand of the Father going, come on, guys, I've already given you everything pertaining to life and godliness - move into it, become.
- As we humble ourselves, He just pours Himself upon us. This is the age, this is the season, this is the time of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit; that exceedingly, abundantly beyond what we can ask or think.
Scriptural References:
Ephesians 3:20
Now to Him who is able to do...
Summary:
God loves His creation and, we are to love it too. By His love and with His love we are co-creators with Him to bring forth His Kingdom on this earth.
Show Notes:
- God loves all the creatures that He has made and we are to love them too.
- God made this creation, and in order for us to redeem all creation we will be loving it too. God's love is in the earth.
- As we love His creation we begin to speak His word which releases it from futility. We've got to have a heart for His creation.
- He is opening up to us something very unique and unusual.
- God is getting ready to set all creation free.
- God is releasing His gift of creativity to us.
Quotes:
- God made this creation. He made them and He loves them. And in order for us to redeem all of creation, we'll be loving them too.
- The Lord is releasing the initiative of creativity upon us now...
- We do everything by His love.
- There's a new gift. It's the gift of creativity.
- I think a lot of it has to do with what we say what we speak. We have that authority. All's we need to know is is this what God has filled our mouths with and we speak it.
Scriptural References:
Ephesians 3:20-21
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Romans 8:19-22
For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the...
Summary:
We are ushering in the age of Spirit, the age of His rest through our relationship with Him. As we grow and mature in the Lord, we find that He gives us more responsibility, which in turn creates within us a greater cry and appropriation of His nature within us.
Show Notes:
- His kingdom manifest more as we appropriate more of God in our lives.
- His kingdom is made up of relationships. These relationships are purified in the house of God.
- Right relationships in the Body of Christ usher in the kingdom of God throughout the earth.
- As we walk with the Lord daily, His kingdom unfolds before us.
- As we mature in the Lord we take on more responsibility to walk in our calling and destiny each day.
- With the demand of more responsibility comes the need of a greater appropriation of Him in our lives.
Quotes:
- Its that Sabbath day that were ushering in the day of His rest, the day of Spirit.
- There's a level of the manifestation of His kingdom that's already happening in the earth.
- You got to see in the spirit that the kingdom of God is relationships.
- So the more of God in the men and women of God, the more His kingdom manifest.
- ...the kingdom of God is not going to come until we're ready to possess it.
- His kingdom is unfolding, as we walk with Him.
- If you believe, and if you know, your calling and destiny in God, then there is a responsibility that you have to walk a certain way before the Lord.
- Are you willing to appropriate the answers when you are faced with the questions.
Scriptural References:
Revelation 19:1
And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
Luke 12:48
Summary:
We walk with God today, not in some distant future time. This life that we are living is very important in reaching into a deep relationship with Him. We can determine what level or place of residing in Him we will have in His kingdom now. The Father has so much more to give us; will we humble ourselves and walk with Him today?
Show Notes:
- We reach into a deep relationship with our Father today.
- We walk with Him in the Spirit right now.
- There is no limitation on what we can have right now in our relationship and awareness of the Lord.
- There are many levels of abiding in His kingdom.
- The Father is wooing us into a deeper relationship with Himself today.
- The Father is purifying a people's spirits now so they can stand in His presence.
- We must humble ourselves before the Father so that we can receive what He has for us today.
- We come to mount Zion, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect. That's happening for us now.
uotes:
- We're not looking for something way off, when we die, that's going to be so much greater. Some event in the future of Jesus coming or whatever. We walk with Him in the Spirit right now, we know Him.
- There's nothing that we can't have right now, in our hunger to know the Lord.
- The desire to please Him, to know Him, God put in there. That is His working in us both to will and to do His good pleasure.
- Are you going to humble yourself before Him so that He can minister this to you? Live right now!
Scriptural References:
Colossians 1:27
to whom God willed to...
Summary:
The Father is perfecting a people's spirits so that they will respond with His nature. As we decrease and He increases, we find His lordship increasing in our lives and we walk in the Spirit and not on the soul level. As we give over our wills to do His will, we find that we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which He beforehand created for us to walk in.
Show Notes:
- God is perfecting a people's spirits for His own possession.
- We are decreasing and He is increasing in us.
- The Father is creating us to be His sons.
- You are in the relationship with the Lord because you have been bought with a price.
- Everything that has transpired in our lives has had His hand on it.
- Now we ask ourselves – are we living in the Spirit or on the soul level.
- This is all in His plan and His purpose which He reveals to you.
- Be open to enter into this process of becoming just like Him.
Quotes:
- God is perfecting our spirits, in the way we relate and respond to Him.
- The more we're out of the way, the more we have laid our will down unto Him, the greater is His presence and awareness of it in our spirit.
- I think that as we go along here, the more we find that our submission to His Lordship, and are yielding to Him, that is Him increasing in us.
- The revelation is I decrease and He increases.
- As we live our lives, are you living in the spirit; Or are you living in the soul? If I'm laboring, I'm not His workmanship, I'm trying to be my own workmanship. If I open my heart to Him, and He can change me, just that quick.
- The deeper we go in Him, the more we appreciate the grace of God, and we realize how much we needed it.
- But it's according to His plan, and His purpose. That's where we fit in.
Scriptural References:
Hebrews 12:23
to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the
Summary: How confident are you that you are where God wants you? Do you know who you are? Do you know His voice? It is very practical and easy to connect with Him where He is. Ask the Lord if “this” is where He wants you, get confirmation Ask God for that confirmation.
Show notes: God is very practical and easy, not afar off, He is right here.
Connect with Him where He is, you do not need to travel a thousand miles because you heard of someone speaking something about God.
If in a “dead” church, then find where you can find life.
Ask God to reveal where He wants you, our feelings do not matter as our feelings will not always be correct.
How does one find the will of the Father for them?
What is the process? How does one find the “proof”?
Like Gideon, ask God for confirmation, He will give it.
References: 1 Kings 19:11,12 11. So He said, “Go forth and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord was passing by! And a great and strong wind was rending the mountains and breaking in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind and earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. 12. After the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing.
Genesis 1:2 2. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
John 17:20,21 20. “I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; 21. that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
1 Corinthians 12:18 18. But now God has placed the members, each one of them in the body, just as He desired
Jonah 1:2,3 2. “Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.” 3. But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. So, he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
Hebrews 13:17 17. Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.
1 Corinthians 2:10 10. For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
1 Peter 1:12 12. It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
Acts 13:1a, 2 1a. Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers: 2. While they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Galatians 5:15, 19-21 15. But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another. 19. Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: Immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20. idolatry, sorcery, enmities strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, 21. envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Judges 6:17, 39 17. So Gideon said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who speak with me. 39. Then Gideon said to God, “Do not let Your anger burn against me that I may speak once more; please let me make a test once more with the fleece, let it now be dry only on the fleece, and let there be...
Summary: What are the little things the Holy Spirit is asking of us? By being obedient, the Holy Spirit reveals the Christ is us. Disobedience is sin, the wages of which are death. “He who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven, will enter.”
Show notes: • The simplicity of obedience , the small acts of obedience to the Holy Spirit brings the awareness of Christ in you. • What are the little things? • Put the scriptures up to your life as a plumb line. • If the Holy Spirit speaks to you even small things, do them, It is simple, be obedient when the Holy Spirit speaks. • The father chastens every son whom He receives. • When you are obedient in the small things, more will be entrusted to you. • Christ will reveal more of Himself to you. • It is the helper, the Holy Spirit who will help you into all things.
References: Matthew 7:21 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
2 Kings 5:13 13 Then his servants came near and spoke to him and said, “My father, had the prophet told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”i
Matthew 12:50 50 “For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.”iii
Romans 6:23 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.iv
Romans 16:26 26 but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith;v
1 Peter 1:22 22 Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart,vi
Colossians 1:27 27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.vii
Hebrews 3:7, 8 7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, 8 DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME, AS IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS, viii
1 John 2:17 17 The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.ix
Hebrews 12:9 9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?x
Hebrews 12:6 6 FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.”xi
Genesis 24:27 27 He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His lovingkindness and His truth toward my master; as for me, the LORD has guided me in the way to the house of my master’s brothers.”xii
Luke 24:16, 31 16 But their eyes were prevented from recognizing Him.xiii
31 Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight.xiv
Philippians 3:10 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;xv
2 Corinthians 5:16 16 Therefore from now on we recognize no one aaccording to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer.xvi
John 14:26 26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.xvii
Hebrews 11:6 6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.xviii
Quotes: • "It is the small acts of obedience to the Holy spirit that bring forth the awareness of Christ with in us". • "The wages of sin is death and sin are simply disobedience". • "Ask the Holy Spirit to...
Summary: Yesterday is gone, nothing can be done to “change” anything from then. Let go of what was and reach into today.
Show notes: • There is a place where you need to realize that your attitudes and your actions are not producing the positive. • We disconnect from yesterday and it's thinking. • Pour out the glass and let the Holy Spirit fill it up for us. • How can I express my faith? by repenting, by turning away gives an expression of my faith. “Search me oh God”.
References:
Amos 9:13 13 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “When the plowman will overtake the reaper And the treader of grapes him who sows seed; When the mountains will drip sweet wine And all the hills will be dissolved
Exodus 20:8 8 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.ii Matthew 6:34 34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.iii
Exodus 16:20 20 But they did not listen to Moses, and some left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.iv Philippians 4:6 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.v
Hebrews 3:15 15 while it is said, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME.”vi
Matthew 13:8 8 “And others fell on the good soil and *yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty. Romans 8:7 7 because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, vi
Colossians 1: 27 27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.viii
Galatians 2:20 20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.ix
Psalms 62:8 8 Trust in Him at all times, O people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us.x
Joshua 5:12 12 The manna ceased on the day after they had eaten some of the produce of the land, so that the sons of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate some of the yield of the land of Canaan during that year.xi
Exodus 20:8 8 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.xii
Matthew 6:11 11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread.xiii
Matthew 6:34 34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.xi
Revelations 12:10 10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night.xv
Isaiah 45:22 22 “Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.xvi
1 Peter 3:11 11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,xvii
John 14:6 6 Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.xviii
James 4:10 10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.xix
Romans 8:1 1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.xx
Philippians 3:10 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;xx
1 John 5:18 18 We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.xxii
James 2:20 20 But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?xxiii
Quotes: • You begin to have an awareness that what your doing is very...
Summary:
There are different phases in our walk with God. Many of God's people have experienced a dying out to the soul level in their life. Through this process of purification and emptying out, the Lord begins to take up His abode in them until He is all and in all.
Show Notes:
- There are many phases in our walk with God. Dying out to our soul and flesh expressions to come into a expression of our spirit is a common experience of many true believers.
- There are those who have went through the process of purification to the place that no longer is their expression coming out of their soul or flesh nature, but the word they speak is the very Word of God.
- Many believers are coming to a place that they can find nothing to say in His presence; it is just a deep groaning of spirit.
- As we stand in His presence we are being transformed from glory to glory.
- As we are emptied out, He begins to take up His abode within us until we are no longer there, just Him.
- Ezekiel talks about the levels of water. Wading in water unto our ankles, knees, waist, until it is waters that cannot be crossed. We become one with the water, there are different levels of His presence.
- When He appears to us each day we will be like Him, because we will see Him as He is that day.
Quotes:
- There are different phases in our walk with God, and the first phase was a focus on our spirit, to reach into our spirit, to recognize our spirit - so that we weren't just floating along in some religious thing.
- ...you probably would not have liked Jesus, you probably would have not liked, Paul, probably would not have liked him seriously would not have liked them because there was something in their spirits that was confrontive, and explosive...
- We're coming into that place where we have that much control of our spirits, that we can open our mouths and it won't be our flesh and our soul coming out, It will be the very, Word of God, His way, not our way.
- I can't find any way to express to the Lord what I'm feeling. It's like it's in my gut. And there's no words.
- All I can do is pray in tongues - I can't do anything else.
- I don't have to say anything to Him - I can feel coming out of me. And He knows me better than I know me.
- I guess that's what He means when He says, Be still and know that I'm God.
...
Summary:
God is bringing on the earth a mighty people. He is creating them in His likeness, to take up His abode in them. He is ruling and reigning over His creation. With a broken spirit and contrite heart they minister the Father's will and love throughout the earth.
Show Notes:
- A deep intensity of spirit is coming up out of their hearts to serve in any way that they can to see Christ come forth in each one.
- We lay down our crowns at His feet to see our brother come forth in Christ.
- We trust in the Father, believing that He is bringing each person forth in His will.
- With a broken spirit this people minister to all His people.
Quotes:
- I just want to see people the way you see them, want to love them the way you love them.
- We serve one another, we prefer one another, we love one another. There is an intensity in our spirit, to just be something to our brother, whether it's listening, whether it's sharing whatever it is.
- There's a humility that is being worked in our hearts. It's coming on a company of people who have been prepared, prepared to have and receive all that He is doing with a broken spirit and a contrite heart.
- I think there is a principle about letting Jesus move through us and really, really being Christ in the earth.
- God brings forth a bride for His own possession.
Scriptural References:
Matthew 20: 26-28
It is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave; just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.
Psalm 23
Isaiah 62:3
You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
Take Away:
There's a humility that is coming on a company of people who have been prepared, to have and receive...
Summary:
We learn to live in the realm of our spirit's not our soul lives. A lot of the things that we felt driven to do in the past become un-neccsary, because we are in communion with the Lord. He is moving in our spirit's. We're learning to leave behind a whole realm of relating to God. Now we are moving into a lifestyle where we are constantly being taught and aware of Him.
Show Notes:
- On this new realm of spirit we are leaving behind the soulish expressions that we once used to reach into God.
- God is creating within us the very ability to be aware of Him 24/7.
- Our walk with God is not something we switch on and off, but it becomes a lifestyle.
- We are aware of our connection to the Father and He is constantly talking to us.
- There is a dedication that we have to this relationship with the Father.
- The Father is imparting His wisdom and abilities to people throughout the earth. He is raising them up to bring forth His kingdom.
Quotes:
- That we're learning to leave behind a whole realm of relating to God as far as the soulish needs that we feel compelled to do. Because we're moving into another realm where we don't have to do those things to hear from God.
- ...so when we hear what He's saying something penetrates our hearing ability in the Spirit, and we began to share that, then that becomes something that becomes a thing of a focus, and we will dwell on it and talk about it and share it with each other.
- There's a gap there between our spirit and our consciousness. But I think God's even removing that gap, so that we can walk in a perpetual awareness of the presence of the Lord.
- ...there's this dedication to this relationship to develop; to tune in, and just doesn't happen automatically.
References:
II Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be ready in season andout of season; correct, rebuke, andexhort, with great patience and instruction.
John 6:45
It is written in the...
Summary: God is our Father, and He wants to relate with us. Take your will and set it on the Lord. He wants our all from a freewill offering. Invite Him into what we are doing at; work, play, family etc.
Show notes: • If you are going to walk with God, you are going to spend time with Him. • Tithe your time the same as you would tithe your money. • The cry of our hearts is to give Him our all. • It is out of a heart of love. • It is not a duty or an obligation. • Take your will and set your spirit to be doing what God is leading you to do. • It is our whole life walking before God. • There is a balance, He understands you have other responsibilities throughout your day. • Take short or small times to contact the Lord. • It comes from Loving the Lord with all your heart. • He will never waste a minute of your time. • He will bring you to a balance , to a maturity.
References: Genesis 49:18 18 “For Your salvation I wait, O LORD.
Psalms 147:11 11 The LORD favors those who fear Him, Those who wait for His lovingkindness
1 Peter 4:2 2 so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
Malachi 3:10 10 “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the LORD of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until d it overflows.
Luke 6:10 38 “Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure— pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.”
Deuteronomy 14:22 22 “You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year.
Matthew 19:27 27 Then Peter said to Him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?”
Deuteronomy 6:5 5 “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Galatians 5:22 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 4:4 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
Hebrews 12:2 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the aauthor and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
2 Corinthians 3:3 3 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, a cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of ehuman hearts.
1 Peter 3:15 15 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;
1 Peter 4:11 11 Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving cby the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Samuel 14:26-30 27 But Jonathan had not heard when his father put the people under oath; therefore, he put out the end of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened.
Revelations 21:5 5 And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”
Hebrews 10:14 14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
Isaiah 45:18, 22 18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited), “I am the LORD, and there is none...
Summary: To understand the humanity of Jesus Christ is to know His example which allows us to become just like Him. Since He is the pattern Son, then that means there will be others after that pattern.
Show notes: • We must come to know the humanity of Jesus Christ. • He was the pattern Son so that we could be just like Him. • He had to live through all of what we experience as humans or it would have been useless for Him to die on the cross.
References: 1 Peter 2:21 21. For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps.
John 13:15 15. “For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.
John 1:14 14. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth
Ephesians 1:23 23. which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
1 Corinthians 13:12 12. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known.
Matthew 13:11 11. And He answered and said to them, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them is has not been granted.
1 Corinthians 4:1-5 1. Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2. In this case, moreover, it is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy. 3. But to me it is a very small thing that I should be examined by you, or my any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself. 4. For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord. 5. Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of man’s praise will come to him from God.
Takeaways: Christ learned obedience through the things He suffered. He became our example.
Summary: Does God in the sky meet us? Or is it in our brothers and sisters? It says, “Christ in you, the Hope of Glory”, do we believe this? Where is Christ? Is He not in His creation, all around us? It is our minds that limit how we perceive the Christ. We need to stop going around the mountain and climb it.
Show notes: * We thought that it was God in the sky that should come down and meet with us. But we are finding that it is Christ others that He chooses to meet us today. * If we become to familiar with someone, then we know them after the flesh and probably will not hear Christ from them. * It is “Christ in you, the hope of glory” that I must open up to, it so real and practical and not so much ethereal but through faith. * He chooses imperfect human vessels to minister. * Our minds are what limit how Christ can minister to each of us, if we are attuned to His word and are paying attention then we will hear Him speak to us. * As we seek Him, He will be known by us. * We need to stop “going around the mountain” and restore mankind’s relationship with the Father.
References: Hebrews 1:13 13. But to which of the angels has He ever said, “Sit at MY right hand, until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet”?
Hebrews 10:13 13. waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet.
Romans 8:9-11 9. However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of god dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. 10. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
2 Corinthians 4:7 7. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;
Numbers 11:23 23. The Lord said to Moses, “Is the Lord’s power limited? Now you shall see whether My word will come true for you or not.”
Job 11:7 7. “Can you discover the depths of God? Can you discover the limits of the Almighty?
Numbers 22:28,30 28. And the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” 30. The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden all your life to this day? Have I ever been accustomed to do so to you?” And he said, “No.”
Jeremiah 29:13 13. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
1 Samuel 14:6 6. Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, “Come and let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps the Lord will work for us, for the Lord is not restrained to save by many or by few.”
Colossians 1:27 To whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory
Ephesians 4:16, 29 16. from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. 29. Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear.
Exodus 15:17 17. “You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, The place, O Lord, which you have made for Your dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
Zechariah 3:3,4 3. Now
Summary:
How do we view the cross of Christ in our life? Is there a difference between the cross of Christ in our life and the discipline that the Father puts every son through? Christ was disciplined by the Father through the things that He suffered and then finished the cross once for all and now we too are to have that same discipline and cross experience in our lives as we walk in the steps of our Lord.
Show Notes:
- How do we view the cross of Christ in our lives?
- The cross must be a real and living experience in each believer's life.
- The cross is a one time experience, but it is expandable.
- There is a discipline that the Father puts each of His sons through to do the will of God.
- Our approach to one another is to be connected, to have a greater fellowship, to do the will of God in our lives.
- We have claimed the fullness of the cross of Christ in our lives and now we walk in the steps of our Lord as our Father disciplines and scourges every son whom He receives.
Quotes:
- You can look at the cross and say, oh, man, I'm dying. Or you can take a look at the cross and say, I'm coming alive because of the cross.
- It has to be an experience, a real living experience that no one can talk you out of. It's not a doctrine.
- Do you want something that you can never lose? We can have an altar call right now. And as you walk down that aisle, and you accept salvation, walk down that aisle and say, Lord, I accept your cross...
- I think after the cross, there comes a discipline, in our own spirit, to do the will of God.
- We're still in need of a greater revelation of it is finished. Are we walking in what's been finished? Are we becoming fully what's been finished? Do we realize how far down the road we are?
Scriptural References:
John 19:28-30
Summary:
As we focus on the Lord individually, and become one with Him, we enter into a oneness with our brother and sister in Christ. Our loving relationship with Him opens the door for us to know and love one another. As we become those new creatures that He is creating, we are able to fulfill the great commandment to love the Lord our God with everything within us and to love our brother as our self.
Show Notes:
- The beginning of oneness starts with our individual relationship and oneness with the Lord.
- The true basis of knowing one another is first our knowing Him and having a relationship with Him.
- When we see things differently, that is not necessarily the breaking of oneness. It may be just the diversity of Christ's body.
- As we become those new creatures in Christ, we enter into this oneness with the Lord and one another.
- There is no division or competition in Christ. The answer to every disagreement is what did Christ say?
- As we fulfill the great commandment to love the Lord our God and to love one another, we find that in that relationship of oneness with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit we are also one with our brother.
- As we are one in the Lord we begin to melt together and find that we are His Body functioning together.
Quotes:
- If our focus is on the Lord, and I'm one with the Lord, guess what? We're one.
- When you think differently, or you move differently, that's called diversity.
- Oneness is something that you walk into. It's an atmosphere that is already created.
- The truth is, if you're open to the Lord, you're reaching into Him to be one with Him, to love Him to worship Him, then those that are doing the same thing - you're gonna gravitate together.
- That new creature is what we're being created to, that's where we find our oneness - that you're neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, bond or free.
- Each one of us has a very unique gift that is totally unique to us. And what oneness does is oneness brings those unique gifts together into a total truth, that there is not one part of the body can survive without the other.
- So you might say, we're not necessarily diversified. We are now a body of parts that make the one work. It's one body functioning together.
Summary:
The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. God gave it to us to help us enter into His presence. The Lord is wooing us and saying come into My presence and wait upon Me and be at rest.
Show Notes:
- The Lord is opening up the sabbath rest to His people.
- The Lord is saying, “come into My presence and worship and rest.
- The sabbath already exist and we should simply enter into it.
- The Holy Spirit is leading us into this rest. It is a overflow of His Spirit in us.
- This is all about our relationship with the Father.
- The sabbath rest in not a day, but a new age of the kingdom.
Quotes:
- God gave it to us to be a blessing to help us enter into His presence, to lay aside every other thing, be in His presence in worship, and wait to on Him and know Him.
- This has to be something that comes from your heart - and it's something that the Holy Spirit works in you...
- We should let the Sabbath keep us instead of us keep the Sabbath. The Sabbath already exists. If we're looking to enter into something that already exist, that changes our approaches to it.
- His Sabbath rest is for us; and it contains all He can be to us.
- The Sabbath rest has to do with a greater flow of the Holy Spirit; in us and through us.
- ...if it's His spirit, it's going to automatically putting us in a place of peace and rest If that's what He's doing...
- It all comes out of a relationship with the Lord, You have to have that time of coming into His presence and just drawing on Him.
- The Sabbath is an age. It's the Age of the Kingdom.
Scriptural References:
Mark 2:27
Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
Matthew 11: 28-30
Summary:
Hunger drives us into all things in God. Our purpose to be alive is this cry of know Him. Doctrines, teachings and knowing about God falls short in the deep anguish of heart in each true believer. This podcast expresses the deep wrestling and travail of heart in His sons to know Him personally today. This drive in us is what it takes to please Him.
Show Notes:
- There is a deep cry in the Father's sons to know Him personally.
- Knowing about Him or hearing about other's relationship with the Father will never be enough for His sons.
- Individually we wrestle and travail with God to know Him.
- God is increasing our capacity to know Him in a greater way.
- We go through times of everything drying up. Things that worked before don't work now because He is drawing us into a deeper relationship with Him.
- There is a paradox in this hunger after Him. You must also be at peace, knowing what He has already created in you and that He will finish His work.
- Will we stop in our pursuit after God?
- God could have abandoned us, but He has not. He put this unceasing cry to know Him in our hearts and we thank Him and Worship Him for this.
Quotes:
- There is no other purpose for me to be alive than to have this drive in my heart. Because there's only one thing I want, I want to know Him.
- And knowing Him was more than just knowing about Him, I almost detest knowing about God, I really do. Because it indicates the fact that if you just know about Him, you don't have to become who He is.
- I think it's an individual wrestling match with the Lord.
- It's about God increasing our capacity to know Him, increasing our capacity to see Him - and God works that out in our lives.
- what you were saying about feeling dried up, and this, that, and the other. If we don't feel that way, if we don't
Summary:
Christ is the pattern son. He opened the door to a relationship with the Father. Now we begin to abide in His love. As the Holy Spirit begins to overflow in us, we lose our limitations in His love.
Show Notes:
- Today the Father is manifesting His presence in and through His people.
- His sons are beginning to lose their limitations in His love.
- The Father is setting His sons free so that they can be in His presence and worship Him.
- The great commandment is beginning to be fulfilled by His sons.
- Now as in the garden, we can stand in His presence and commune with Him.
Quotes:
- What I feel is coming on the earth is a level of the presence of the Father.
- And as we abide in His love, more and more and more, pretty soon that love begins to overflow, the Holy Spirit overflows in us, we lose our limitations in His love.
- We enter into His rest, we don't struggle in our flesh any longer, we enter into His presence, in the fullness of what He has done for us; without limitation.
- It brings us back to the great commandment, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul with all your being, and your neighbor as yourself.
- There's no greater force on earth, or in the universe or in creation than His love.
- God's getting what He wanted, because His son walked the pathway, and we have walked in those same footsteps; and the fruit of those footsteps is I can look at my brother, my neighbor, and I can say I love you. And I can look at my God and I can save Father, I love you, and not know there's a difference.
- ...what's the purpose of setting me free from all my human nature, and leaving it back on the cross somewhere, and setting me into all this? So I can worship him!
- The one thing that God loved to do was to commune with man. And that's what I believe He's looking for in us today. I want you to worship Me, to adore Me to commune and talk with Me.
Scriptural References:
Matthew 22:37 – 40
And He said to him, " 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOU GOD WITH ALL YOU HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' This is the great and foremost commandment. THe second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets."
Take Away:
A new level of the presence of the Father in His love is being manifest in the earth through His people. As they are filled with His love they are losing their human limitations and through His love that is being poured out the great commandment is beginning to be fulfilled.
Summary:
As we grow in our awareness of Him, and how He is moving in and through us, He is always surprising us.
Show Notes:
- The Lord is moving very quickly in this time and doing many things. Instead of trying to figure out all that He is doing, we are to come before Him in worship and just enjoy who He is.
- A new day of worship is before us and we will see this by His revelation to us.
- There is a whole new expression of Christ revealing Himself for us today.
Quotes:
- I think God is doing so much. It's happening so fast. We sit down and try to figure things out. And about the time we got things figured out, God's moved on, and it's a whole new ballgame.
- Everything just keeps coming back to this focus upon knowing the Lord, let Him fill our hearts. And it will happen.
- There's a whole new expression of Christ revealing Himself for us today, and we don't want to be so busy looking back at how He did things once that we miss what He's doing right now.
- If God walked into this building with a hat on and walked down the aisle, you wouldn't recognize it.
- I want to come with an expectancy that He's going to appear in a way that I'm not even expecting.
- I believe honestly that the Father is making His presence known. God is with us.
Scriptural References:
John 4:23
But the hour cometh and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.
Matthew 24:44
Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
Take Away:
Today God is moving in the earth and doing so many things that we are not aware of. He is simply asking us to focus on Him and worship Him as He comes to us in ways we have not experienced before. We want to see it and walk in it.
Summary:
Passover is the beginning of change in our relationship to our Father. The Lord is setting us free from the way we have related to Him in the past. This is an opportunity for Him to transform us into what we were created to be. No more this drive to do something, to produce something, but instead we are learning how to abide in God.
Show Notes:
- We are experiencing the rolling off of the oppression of Babylon and the realization of who we are in God.
- God is freeing us from that taskmaster concept of having to do something or be something. He is bringing us into a deeper revelation of Himself.
- The Lord is trying to reveal Himself as our friend.
- In this new relationship with the Lord, there is a sense of rest, just abiding in Him.
- We are finding in our spirit's, in our way of thinking, and the way we relate to people, a depth of revelation of who we are in Him.
Quotes:
- Egypt, Babylon, however, you want to say this is being rolled off of us, this Passover...
- Abraham was called the friend of God. Think about that one. He was the friend of God. He was not his taskmaster.
- What are you today? Are you broken and contrite before the Lord? Is your heart open to receive Him? Are you willing to open up and be made new?
- It's all about delivering you into what God has for you next.
- Every step is important because we're now walking out the word that's for us for this day.
Scriptural References:
James 2:23
And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it wasaccounted to him for righteousness.'And he was called the friend of God.
John 15:14-15
You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
Book of Joshua ( the Passover of Gilgal.)
Take Away:
Today the Lord is delivering His people from the taskmaster spirit and the way His people have related to Him. A new relationship is opening up that is all about rest, trust, and abiding in Him. Now He will have a people that He can call His friends.
Summary:
Today we are losing the separation between the Father and us. Just like His firstborn son, the Father is bringing forth many sons today through their relationship with Him. As we enter into this deep relationship with the Father, we find that we are decreasing and He is increasing. It is all about the Father and His expression through His sons.
Show Notes:
- There is a unique manifestation of the Father's nature in each son He has created.
- Christ was our example and we follow in His footsteps as sons.
- Each day we must drop our per-conceived ideas and simply let the Father define who we are.
- The more we move into this confidence of our relationship with the Father, we simply don't need to worry about who we are because it's all about Him.
- Titles and positions mean nothing to His sons. He is all and in all.
- We know who we are in Him. The more we lose whatever the importance of who we are, the more He is going to move through us.
Quotes:
- The importance of who we are is the importance of who He is.
- What we're doing at this Passover, is we're submitting ourselves to be drawn closer into the creation that He calls His sons.
- God created so many different aspects for us to receive of His nature. He put within each one of us a unique part of His nature.
- God has created His worshipers to be like Him. God created so many different aspects for us to receive of Himself. He put within each one of us, a unique part of His nature.
Take Away:
Christ was the first-born son of many brethren. Today the Father is raising up His sons and through their relationship with Him they are finding their expression in the Father. Are you aware of His calling and destiny in you?
Summary:
The promise is that this generation, this race of people that God has created, is not going to pass away until we see the culmination of all that He has spoken. God is unfolding His promises in and through His people and they are becoming those new creatures, that chosen race, a people for God's own possession. Yes, God is completing His creation.
Show Notes:
- We walk out all that God has spoken as we just trust Him to unfold it through us.
- We are shedding our past and walking into something new.
- We were created at the foundation of the earth. God is now stripping away everything that we have picked up that is not really us.
- We are being transformed as we stand before Him and worship.
Quotes:
- The culmination of the ages would that not be us, and the cloud of witnesses coming together?
- No generation has been called to do something like this before.
- We're shedding so much of yesterday, we're being thrust into something new every day, if we're willing to accept it.
- How do I take upon me the life of Christ? I eat of His body and drink of His blood and His life is in me. How do I be to the Father what He wants? Worship Him, and worship Him, and worship Him.
- I am the light of the world, you are the light of the world. Why? Because the light that God created through His son is in you. I am dressed with a light in order to go out and do the will of God on the earth.
- One of the things that's most exciting to me, is seeing God take this new creature and add to it. That's the day we are living in.
Scriptural References:
I Thessalonians 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.
Galatians 3:28 There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond or free, there can be no male or female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 1:3-6 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
I Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Take away:
The Father created a people before the foundations of the earth to worship Him. He is now unfolding His will in and through them as they believe what He has spoken about them and throw off the lies that have been put upon them. Does the Word say something about you that you are not believing? Start accepting what His Word says about you because it is His truth that sets you free to be His new creation on the earth today.
Summary:
Today, God is gathering His people together. He is looking for a relationship with them. We can simply relate to Him, have that fellowship with Him through His family, and know that He loves us. There are no high or low positions in His family, but we all just sit at His feet to learn from Him. This is how His family functions in this day of His kingdom.
Show Notes:
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I think God is looking for a relationship. A relationship in knowing that He loves you, that you can relate to Him; and can have that fellowship with Him.
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When we are relating in a simplistic honesty in what we are saying and there is no offense in it, that is an ineradicable place to be.
- The church has never been able to really be honest about how this relationship really works which is how the Christ in each of us relates to one another.
- Those who try to Lord it over others and try to hold a position of influence find that the Spirit of Christ resist them.
- God has scattered His people throughout the World. He has broken up man's organizations that have hemmed His people in. Now He will gather them together as His many-membered body on the earth.
- Get these plaques out of religion and into reality in our lives.
Quotes:
- The kingdom of God is relationships, which means people, which means God's trying to dwell in us. He's trying to bring Himself in us and through us to one another. And that is the kingdom.
- The more we are relating like this, we are getting the religion out of our relating
- .We've heard the grounds all level at the cross. And it's a great saying, but it really is the truth that there's no, we're all just sitting at His feet; learning.
- If you are honest by the Spirit, the purpose is to deliver, not to put anyone down.
Scriptural References:
Jeremiah 23:3 And I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries whither I have driven them, and will bring then again to their folds, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.
Psalms 127:1 Except the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; except the Lord keeps the city, the watchman watches but in vain.
I Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Take Away:
We have entered into His rest. He is directing and guiding us. We are listening to the voice of the Lord. We are truly functioning, becoming what God called us to be.
Summary:
God's plan for us after salvation is clear and very exciting. Salvation is just the first step in a deep walk and relationship with the Father. Christ's resurrection opened the door to a relationship with the Father and now we are walking in the footsteps of the pattern son,(Christ). Now as sons, we become engaged in those works that He predestined us to walk in before the foundation of the World.
Show Notes:
- Salvation was the initial step in a deep relationship with the Father.
- Christ opened the door for our relationship with the Father, and now we are walking in His footsteps to become sons like Him.
- Walking out our destiny in God and bringing Christ's kingdom to this earth is the drive of His sons.
- Today the Father is unfolding things that have been hidden before the foundations of the earth for us to walk in.
- When Christ was on the cross He said “It is finished.” When He gave up His Spirit, that was our salvation. There the veil was rent, thus opening a door to the kingdom of God.
Quotes:
- The church still comes up to the cross, and that's where they stay. Everything is for salvation. But it doesn't take you much farther. It doesn't take you beyond that, in the sense that you know, what's beyond the cross. It's a walk with God.
- He loves us so much. He has so much for us to get and to become, and to create, He wants us to be co-creators with him. You know, He doesn't want just little children, thankful for his love and His cross.
- Beyond the cross, beyond the initial thing of salvation, we're coming into a relationship, that ministering the life and the love of the Lord, and the release, of all creation.
- We're walking in the fulfillment of what Christ was put on the earth for - and that was to be a pattern son, that we walk in His footsteps.
- The work of the Father is trying to bring forth Christ's kingdom on this earth.
- We're talking about seeing the things that have been hidden for this day.
Scriptural References:
Romans 8:29
For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Ephesians 2:6
and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Luke 24:13-35
The road to Emmaus...
Matthew 6:9-14
In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
John 5:19
Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
John 19:30
When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Luke 23:45
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
Take Away:
Salvation is your first step in an unfolding relationship and walk with your Father. Today as a son are you realizing who you are and your destiny in Him? Are you hearing His cry to walk in the inheritance that Christ won for you on the cross? As a son, you too must walk in those works that were prepared for you to walk in before the foundations of the earth.
Summary:Satan is jealous of God, the Father, and wants to take all of His gloryHe has painted a false image of God to make Him out to be “mad at us”and afar off where we are unable to reach Him.We are learning to become aware of just how much God loves us, howclose He is and wants a relationship more than we can comprehend. Show Notes:• Satan has created an illusion of who God the Father is and ourunawareness of God is Satanically contrived• His drive is to discourage us from having a relationship or evenwant one with the Father, the veil Satan has created is very thin,but has prevented our seeing Him• Since the beginning, He is our Father• He, God, is the most loving Father• He wants to give more than we can ask or think.• He wants a relationship more than we are aware of. References:Matthew 23:3737 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent toher! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicksunder her wings, and you were unwilling.Luke 13:3434 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent toher! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her broodunder her wings, and you would not have it!1 John 4:8, 168 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has bfor us. God islove and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.Matthew 18:19,2019 “Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that theymay ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.20 “For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in theirmidst.”Ephesians 3:2020 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask orthink, according to the power that works within us.Matthew 7:9-119 “Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give hima stone?10 “Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?11 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how muchmore will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!John 1:1, 2, 141 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word wasGod.2 He was in the beginning with God.14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory asof the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Summary:
The gift of tongues is the source of prayer. Are your prayers, what you desire? Or is the Holy Spirit speaking to you saying, "This is what I want you to pray for."
Show Notes:
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A lot of times I don't know how to pray for somebody. How do I pray? I pray in tongues.
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You can speak in tongues, and you will create awesome things because it's the Holy Spirit speaking through you.
- We have to go before the Lord in intimacy and have Him speak to our hearts and hear His voice.
- We do not speak what we think God wants. We speak what He's speaking. It takes perception and intimacy with the Holy Spirit.
Quotes:
- When we have that focus on what God wants, and it's God's kingdom. That's a wonderful thing.
- It's not important to understand with your mind. What was important is you take the gift of His Spirit in you, and you connect that to His spirit. And that's what He's looking for.
- I like to envision when I pray in tongues, or when we're praying in tongues, as a group, that we're holding up a person, or a group of people into the throne room into His presence, and creating the atmosphere for them.
Scriptural References:
John 5:19 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say into you. The son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father doing: for what things soever He doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner.
The Day of Pentecost...
Takeaway:
Tongues is a gift of the Holy Spirit in us that brings down the barriers of communication between us and the Father. Tongues may be in different forms. It is always a form of communication in the spirit.
Show Notes:• What is a blessing?• How do we spend time with Him?• Become a conduit of God’s blessing to others• “Bless and curse not”• We are here so that God can have his way on this earth. References:Romans 6:11, 1311 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments ofunrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, andyour members as instruments of righteousness to God.Romans 8:1010 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alivebecause of righteousness.1 Corinthians 15:2222 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ, all will be made alive.Genesis 2:16,1716 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden youmay eat freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall noteat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”Genesis 3:23, 2423 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate theground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove the man out; and at the east ofthe garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turnedevery direction to guard the way to the tree of life.Acts 1:4, 54 Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but towait for what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me;5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit notmany days from now.”John 14:2626 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He willteach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. Romans 12:1414 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Take Away:What is God’s will or purpose for each of us? How do we bless another? God usespeople to do His will.
Summary:
We're connected to His family, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who is abiding in us. The deity we worship is a tr i-une being, and we are becoming one with them. He has placed Himself in human flesh and today if you want to have a meeting with God, you will meet Him in your brother and sister because that is where He's at.
Show Notes:
- I think we're learning the mysteries of what oneness really is.
- the Lordship of Jesus Christ is coming through a many-member body. This is the way He moves through His family.
- God fills the universe and He also fills us.
Quotes:
- You could just talk to Him, have a conversation with God.
- Do you believe that you carry Him where ever you go?
- The spirit in me is Christ. I recognize that, but I also recognize the Spirit of Christ in you.
- He can rule and reign in you, He can relate to you on a one to one basis if you believe that He is there.
Scriptural References:
John 15:4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye except ye abide in Me.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself up for me.
Romans 12:5 So we, who are many are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.
Colossians 1:27 To whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Takeaway: If you have a need, why not go to the Christ in your brother? It's Christ in you the hope of glory. This is how the family of God grows and matures. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one, and they are ministering through the many-membered body of Christ.
Summary: Adam, the first son, learned disobedience through his experience in the garden. Jesus Christ learned obedience through the things he suffered. Jesus opened the door for us to return to that relationship as sons to the Father. Show Notes: We can learn from Creation as God can use anything to teach us if we are open. God was teaching Adam and Eve and would have taught them about the tree of good and evil when they were ready. God created man with a free will and after eating the fruit, realized that they made a mistake. We now have a struggle to make the right decisions. Adam and Eve walked with God in the cool of the evening, Christ died so that we could have that relationship with God once again. Those who have the revelation of the Father and of the Son and that have the revelation that they are a Son are the ones that see the big picture. Why did God give us free will? He wants us to love Him because of our choice or else it would be a false worship. God is bringing forth His Sons, bringing them forth by their free will, not forced to do it.Reach into the Spirit and find out what we need to be doing, feel the heart of the Father. References:Gen. 2:15-20 15. Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.16. The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;17. but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”18. Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” 19. Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20. The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. Gen 3:3:8-19 3. “but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.”8. They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.9.Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”10. He said, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”11. And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”12.The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.” 13. Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”14. The LORD God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this,Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field;On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life;15. And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.”16. To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth,In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you.”17. Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life.18. “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field;19. By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.” Gen 3:24 24. So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.Job 1:6 6. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.John1:1, 141. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.14. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 5:1919. Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.Mark 9:3535. Sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”John 3:1616. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.I Peter 1:44. to obtain an inheritance which is* imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you.
Summary:
The final steps of God's creation are unfolding today. He's creating new creatures that are neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, bond nor free but are coming forth in His image. These are His children, His sons, His worshipers in the earth.
Show Notes:
- This relationship we have with Yashua Messiah, with the Father, and with the Holy Spirit is all coordinated for us to become what He wants in the earth.
- This new creature comes He's with a child-like impartation from the Father.
- Are we going to hide from God like Adam and Eve did? Or are we going to come out of the bushes and say, “Here I am Lord, create me into what you want.
- You have to become as a little child, to become simple in your understanding.
Quotes:
- Every day we become more like Him. Every Day He becomes more to us than ever before.
- We are not on this earth for us. We are on this earth to please the Father.
- What He has for you is far beyond anything that you could ever accomplish. Any joy, and fulfillment, anything that you could possibly imagine.
- He just wants my heart to express that heart the He's put within me to others.
Scriptural References:
Philippians 2:13 for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
Matthew 18:3 and said, verily I say unto you, Except ye turn, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven,
James 4:10 Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord, and He shall exalt you.
Galatians 3:28 There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female, for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.
I Corinthians 2:9 as it is written, Things which eye saw not and ear heard not, And which entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God has prepared for them that love Him.
Genesis 2 (story of Adam and Eve.)
John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be His worshipers.
Take Away:
God unveils His plan of creation for us. He is unfolding glorious mysteries we couldn't even imagine until now. Christ came to make a pathway back to the Father and we are to follow in His footsteps. His destination is to get us to that place of simplicity, that childlessness, that new creature.
Show Notes:
• Jesus went to the cross for “the Joy set before Him”
• We are in a transition between two ages
• We can tap into His Joy • His Joy is rest and peace
• “The joy of the Lord is our Strength”
References:
Hebrews 12:2
2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Deuteronomy 10:17
17 “For the LORD your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe.
1 Timothy 6:15
15 which He will bring about at the proper time—He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
Ephesians 2:22
22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
Psalms 16:11
11 You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Nehemiah 8:10
10 Then he said to them, “Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
John 3:16
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
Take Away:
His Joy is more than just being happy, more than just feeling good We are able to appropriate His Joy to be our strength.
Summary:
As we are being enveloped in His love, we are finding that there is a relationship to the Father beyond the cross. He is not relating to us as He did in days gone by. He is relating to us in a new way and it therefore requires us to relate to Him in a new way.
Show Notes:
- God is enveloping us in His Love.
- There is a life with God beyond the cross.
- We are changing not by the dealings of God or the cross of Christ in our life, but by the Father's love.
- Is it easier for us to believe in the cross of Christ than in His love that He is beaming toward us?
- Because of being nailed to the cross, we can now move into the Father's love. By standing in His presence by exposing ourselves to His love we are changed.
- We are being surrounded by so great cloud of witnesses. We are being surrounded by the love of the Father and the saints of God here and there.
Quotes:
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We change. I mean, we're transformed, we're changing in His love. We're being enveloped in his love, we're changing daily.
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There's a scripture that says, for those who are looking for Him, He will appear again, without a focus on sin, meaning that there's a relationship with Him beyond the cross.
- His love is the refining fire. His love, gets out all of the imperfections, all of the dross, so that we become the pure gold, that pure thing before Him.
- We can move deep enough into God's love. The cross can be imparted thoroughly, and completely. The people and His work would be done - that it does not have to be a process that it has been with us through the years.
- I believe so much in providing an atmosphere and this exposure to the Father. That's how people are changed.
- But I honestly believe the thoroughness of the cross can be imparted. It can be imparted to people, and they can die and be resurrected right then. It doesn't have to be the process that we've known it to be.
Scriptural References:
Hebrews 9:28 So Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him, unto salvation.
Hebrews 12: 22-23 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Hebrews 12: 1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Matthew 11:30 “For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.”
Matthew 20:1-16 Parable of the vineyard...
Take Away:
As we move into His love in a deeper way, we are finding that the Father begins to relate to us differently. Now it is not the dealings and the cross of Christ so much that is the emphasis for change in our lives, but His deep love is what changes and controls us. As we are transformed by His love we are then able to impart this deep transformational love to others.
Summary:
It's out of our love for our Father that we draw nigh to Him. Our whole drive, everything we do is based on our relationship to our Father. If I can love the Lord, I can begin to walk in the second part of the great commandment to love my neighbor as myself. This true love is the foundational stone we stand on.
Show Notes:
- There is a foundation of love being created in the hearts of God's people.
- This love is the new divine order that is coming forth for this present day.
- We must forget the things of the past in order to enter into this new thing He is bringing in the Kingdom.
- I'm going forward, I'm trusting you, Father, to lead me today. I think He wants me to walk with faith in Him and trust in Him.
Quotes:
- ...We're moving into the Father's order. We're moving into an order of love thy neighbor as thyself...
- The foundation of the entire kingdom of God is the love of the Father.
- God's bringing an order to that new creation because you're willing to walk off the ark and let Him lead you.
- we've always wanted to have a purity of completeness, a closeness in our relationship to our Father.
- There's a shift going on from the church to the kingdom. Instead of being a congregation that needs and moves by guidelines and rules, you'll become a family.
Scriptural References:
Luke 10:27 He answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and love your neighbor as yourself.”
I Corinthians 13:1-3 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
I Corinthians 13: 8-13 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now, we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.And now these three remain faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Isaiah 43: 18-19 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
II Corinthians 3:6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant – not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Galatians 5:16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
Take Away:
The foundational stone we stand on in this new day of His kingdom is this deep love for the Father and for one another. This is the new divine order that He is creating in the hearts of His people.
Summary:Just how big is the God you believe in?How much do you want to experience or know about God? Show Notes:• We must be willing and have a desire to know about God• How hungry are we to know God in all His vastness?• A person will receive as much as they are hungry for• There are experiences based on our hunger to know Him. References:Matthew 7:77. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, andit will be opened to you.(In Greek: Ask and keep asking, seek and keep seeking etc.)Philippians 2:12, 1312. So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as inmy presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out yoursalvation with fear and trembling;13. for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work forHis good pleasure.2 Corinthians 5:1717. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the oldthings passed away; behold, new things have come.
Summary:
As we continually expose ourselves to God, we find that many of the things that we have struggled with are simply wiped away. This continual focus on the Lord enables us to give back to God what He has always desired from us; a people who worship Him in spirit and in truth.
Show Notes:
- As we see our salvation grow, you have to answer who's my master? Who am I going to serve?
- Without the cross of Christ, without the fire of the Holy Spirit, it doesn't matter how much outpouring we have, man will always pervert it.
- The more I seek You, the more I find You, the more I love You. I want to sit at Your feet, drink from the cup in Your hand, lay back against You, feel Your heartbeat. This love is so deep.
Quotes:
- I need to be totally focused on the Lord, and then these other things will fall into place...
- How do I focus on the Lord? One of the things you can do is just simply expose yourself to Him.
- All these things that we go through in our flesh can be wiped away by keeping our focus on the Lord.
Scriptural References:
Matthew 6:26 Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they?
Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee.
John 5:19 Jesus, therefore, answered and said unto to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner.
Matthew 6:3 But seek ye first His kingdom, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Take Away:
As we stand at His feet and love Him and Worship Him, we find the place that He has reserved for those who are continually focused on Him. “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee. Because he trusteth in Thee.
Summary:Relationships start with God’s love. Everything in God is based on relationships.He wants people to love with His love.Friends and acquaintances are important, a simple smile can create a lifelong relationship. Show Notes:Do we want to create relationships? Do we tend to be arrogant and make others feel inferior? ThePharisees knew the scriptures, and we learn that “The letter kills but the spirit gives life”.Right relationships start with receiving God’s love. He wants people to love with His love. God Freightsour words with His Spirit and we are to just speak and/or make eye contact with a smile, which aremeans to impart His love. Relationships are what matter; they are far more important than having all the answers. The age and or experience level are irrelevant, it is the relationship that ministers.Expect to hear God speak through another, God flows through people. Right relationships are created by a word from God. References:1 Cor. 3:6-96. I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.7. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes thegrowth.8. Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each will receive his own reward according to hisown labor.9. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.2 Cor. 3:66. who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for theletter kills, but the Spirit gives life.1 John 4:9-139. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the worldso that we might live through Him.10. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiationfor our sins.11. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.12. No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love isperfected in us.13. By this we know that we abide in Him and He is us because He has given us of His Spirit.1 John 4:1919. We love because He first loved us
Summary:
Our relationship with our Father is created by experiences. By voicing “You are my Father, I am your son.” He abides in us and we abide in Him. The words He speaks are spirit and life. His presence is everything to us.
Show Notes:
- “He really loves the names He gave Himself. Call Him call Jehovah Jireh, call Him Yawei, call Him Father, call Him Elohim.
- He holds all things by the word of His power. He permeates your thinking, your emotions, everything. (Acts 17)
Quotes:
- “I'm used to saying God, and I'm a believer, I'm a Christian. But it makes a lot more intimate to say, You are my Father, we are Your family.”
- We abide in Him and Him in us. And we function in Him.
- Everything of God that He is beaming at us, 24/7 is turned loose by simply saying “Lord I believe.”
Scriptural References:
I John 4:16 And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love, and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.
Acts 17:28 For in Him we live, and have our being; as certain poets have said, for we are also His offspring.
Matthew 6:9 After this manner, therefore, pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.
Romans 10: 6-8 But the righteousness which is of faith saith thus, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down:) or, who shall descend into the abyss? (that is to bring Christ up from the dead.) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach...
John 6:63 It is the Spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life.
Takeaway:
Our walk with God is based upon our experiences with one another, with the Holy Spirit, and with the Lordship of Jesus Christ in our life.
Summary:Are we going to obey? When the Nature of Christ is worked us, itis no longer a thought as we have the mind of Christ. Show notes:• The Golden Calf was built out of disobedience.• Moses hit the rock out of disobedience.• The importance of what God is doing in each of us, is findingHim in one another.• I am finding it easier to obey God because I know you.• Start wherever you are at.• The ending point is the nature of Christ worked in you.• We are talking about metamorphosis from a worm to abutterfly. References:Exodus 32:4,54. And he took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a gravingtool, and made it into a molten calf; and they said, “This is your god, OIsrael, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”5. Now when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaronmade a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.”Numbers 20:11, 1211. Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock twice with hisrod; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation and theirbeasts drank.12. But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you have notbelieved Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel,therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I havegiven them.”2 Samuel 11:4, 154. And David sent messengers and took her, and when she came tohim, he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from heruncleanness, she returned to her house.15. And he had written in the letter, saying, “Place Uriah in the frontline of the Fiercest battle and withdraw from him, so that he may bestruck down and die.”John 5:1919. Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly,I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is somethingHe sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these thingsthe Son also does in like manner.John 16:7, 12-15,277. “But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; forif I do not go away, the Helper shall not come to you; but if I go, I willsend Him to you.12. “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bearthem now.13. But when He, the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into allthe truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever Hehears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.14. He shall glorify Me; for He shall take of Mine, and shall disclose itto you,15. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore, I said that Hetakes of Mine, and will disclose it to you.”27. for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me,and have believed that I came forth from the Father,John 17:21-23, 2621. that they may all be one; even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and Iin Thee, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe thatThou didst sent Me.22. “And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given Me I havegiven to them; that they may be one, just as We are one;23. I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected in unity,that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and didst love them,even as thou didst love Me.26. and I have made Thy name known to them and will make itknown; that the love wherewith Thou didst love Me may be in themand I in them.”Romans 6:1616. Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someoneas slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey,either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting inrighteousness?Philippians 2:1212. So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as inmy presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out yoursalvation with fear and trembling; Hebrews 13:1717. Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they keep watch overyour souls, as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joyand not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.John 7:1717. If any man is willing to do His will, he shall know of the teaching,whether it is of God, or whether I speak from Myself.Matthew 19:16-2216. And behold, one came to Him and said, “Teacher, what goodthing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?”17. And He said to him, “Why are you asking Me about what isgood? There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life,keep the commandments.”18. He said to Him, “which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall notcommit murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; Youshall not bear false witness;19. Honor you father and mother; and You shall love your neighboras yourself.”20. The young man said to Him, “All these things I have kept; whatam I still lacking?”21. Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be complete, go and sell yourpossessions and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure inheaven; and come follow Me.”22. But when the young man heard this statement, he went awaygrieved; for he was one who owned much property. 1 Corinthians 2:14-1614. But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit ofGod; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them,because they are spiritually appraised15. But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself isappraised by no man,16. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instructHim? But we have the mind of Christ.Hebrews 5:88. Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the thingswhich He suffered. Quotes; "I hear Gods voice coming out of you"
Summary:Are we interpreting what the scripture says? Or are we gettingRevelation?It is the Holy Spirit that reveals Jesus and all that the Father has givenHim.Without hunger, there will be no reaching into to get a revelation.“Today if you Hear my voice…..” Show notes:• Christianity as a whole has gotten away from trusting in theleading of the Holy Spirit as seen in the scriptures.• It is up to us to open up and receive that same word that iscoming by the holy Spirit.• The breaking down of resistance, walls, is the beginning ofopening up and hearing from the Holy Spirit.• I loose the Spirits of the people to come alive in a drive towant to know who the Father is, who Jesus is, Who the HolySpirit is to teach us who they are. References:Romans 8:1414 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.John 14:2626 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He willteach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.ii2 Peter 1:2121 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by theHoly Spirit spoke from God.iiiEphesians 1:1313 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of yoursalvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,ivMatthew 5:66 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall besatisfied.vHebrews 3:1515 while it is said,“TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME.”viGenesis 1:2626 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; andlet them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and overall the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”viiMatthew 5:1515 nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand,and it gives light to all who are in the house.viiJohn 10:17-1817 “For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take itagain. Quotes:The Holy spirit speaks one word to everybody, it is available 24/7Our prayer is Holy Spirit speak to them.You have to have a hunger in your heart for more of God."Today if you hear my voice do not harden your heart"God wants to have an experience with you everyday. Take awayThere has to be a hunger and an openness to reach in andbelieve that the Holy Spirit can speak to us, to impart a revelationto us.
Summary:Where is our focus?Everything comes at all of us to cause distractions and draw our focusaway from what the Holy Spirit is saying.Many millennia have passed and no one has made this world unified or a“Paradise”There is one thing we are instructed to do: Seek first His Kingdom. Show Notes:• There is such confusion in Christianity about what is the truth.• What is our focus to be on?• What is the Holy Spirit speaking today.• Each person is deciding in their own heart.• God's Kingdom is not coming from a human realm.• The Kingdom is coming from the Spirit realm.• “Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness".• Tomorrow has its own issues, do not worry about it.• The only effective way to change is through Jesus Christ.• It is so exciting to see God get what he wants References:Hebrews 3:77 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,Genesis 33:13, 1413 But he said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds which are nursing are a care to me. And if they are driven hard one day, all the flocks will die.14 “Please let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will proceed at my leisure, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”iiMatthew 3:22 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”iiiActs 28:2828 “Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will also listen.”ivMatthew 6:31-3431 “Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’32 “For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.vJohn 5:1919 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself unless it is something, He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.viActs 13:2222 “After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘I HAVE FOUND DAVID the son of Jesse, A MAN AFTER MY HEART, who will do all My will.’viiEphesians 5:2626 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,viiiRevelations 3:88 ‘I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.ix Quotes:• "what is the Holy Spirit speaking today"?• "Where is your awareness"?• Where is your focus"?• "God in his grace is perfecting us"• "It's better, to be honest, and humble ourselves." Take away:We are letting God develop us and create us according to His will.God's Kingdom is not coming from a human realm.
Summary:God is moving by His Spirit without observation inmany areas. He reveals Himself to His family and all creation. Show notes:* Gift ministries, gifts of the Holy Spirit, so much was releasedand so much without observation. * I have never heard of individual parts because He is alwaysswallowing them up in the body of Christ. * You can’t say, “Christ is here, Christ is there,” for Christ is inour midst.
References:Eph4:11-16And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some,evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 for the perfecting of thesaints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body ofChrist: 13 till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of theknowledge of the Son of God, unto a full grown man, unto the measureof the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14 that we may be no longerchildren, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine,by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; 15 butspeaking truth in love may grow up in all things into him, who is thehead, even Christ; 16 from whom all the body fitly framed and knittogether ]through that which every joint supplieth, according to theworking in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of thebody unto the building up of itself in love.Luke 10:1-20Christ sends out the seventy.John3:30He must increase, but I must decrease. Quotes:* “What did Christ do on the Cross? His resurrection releasedall these fantastic gifts: gift ministries and gifts of the HolySpirit.” * “We must have a relationship with the Lord first then He usesus to minister to others. This comes without observation, it isnot for our glorification, it is for Him.”
Take away:* The words that our coming today are for the people to bringthem into God
Summary:Do we know God the Father’s voice?Are we willing to hear what He has to say?Do we know what He is saying today? Show Notes:• We give our spirits and whole life to hear His voice andspeak His Word• His Word has authority and power behind it, we are onlyvessels or servants• We do not know as we ought, ask Him to show us• Jesus only spoke what He heard the Father speak• We are being refined as we wait on Him to speak His Word• We are going to know God’s will beyond anything else• It is my freewill to be obedient to His voice• Do we trust Him? Yes, we have learned He is• Do not conjure up a “Word”• Do not tell God “what to do”• How do we relate to circumstances that do not necessarilygo our way?• We serve a right now God. References:Deuteronomy 6:4-74 “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!5 “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with allyour might.6 “These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.7 “You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in yourhouse and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.1John 10:3-5, 163 “To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheepby name and leads them out.4 “When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow himbecause they know his voice.5 “A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not knowthe voice of strangers.”i16 “I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hearMy voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd.iiJohn 18:3737 Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctlythat I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify tothe truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”iiiHebrews 3:1515 while it is said,“TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME.”ivRevelations 3:2020 ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, Iwill come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.vJohn 5:1919 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Soncan do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever theFather does, these things the Son also does in like manner.viPsalms 37:99 For evildoers will be cut off,But those who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land.viiIsaiah 40:3131 Yet those who wait for the LORDWill gain new strength;They will bmount up with wings like eagles,They will run and not get tired,They will walk and not become weary.viiiLamentations 3:2525 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him,To the person who seeks Him.ixMatthew 6:1010 ‘Your kingdom come.Your will be done,On earth as it is in heaven.xLuke 1:44 so that you may know the exact truth about the things you have been ataught.xiLuke 8:1010 And He said, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God,but to the rest it is in parables, so that SEEING THEY MAY NOT SEE, AND HEARING THEY MAY NOT UNDERSTAND.John 7:1717 “If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God orwhether I speak from Myself.xiiMatthew 7:2222 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and inYour name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’xivActs 26:1919 “So, King Agrippa, I did not prove disobedient to the heavenly vision,xvHebrews 2:1313 looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of bour great God andSavior, Christ Jesus,xviRomans 3:33 What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness ofGod, will it?xvii1 Corinthians 1:99 God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christour Lord.xviii2 Corinthians 1:1818 But as God is faithful, our word to you is not yes and no.xix1 Thessalonians 3:33 so that no one would be disturbed by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that wehave been destined for this.xxMatthew 24:3636 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son,but the Father alone.xxiMatthew 25:1313 “Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.xxii
Summary:How do we relate to the Lord?What is a relationship with the Lord?God wants a relationship with us more than we want one with Him. Show Notes:• It is talking to Him, a relating to Him, communicating, andsharing before the Lord.• The Lord may not answer right away.• You have to start and stay with it.• He will not be real to you if you cannot be real to God.• God wants to impart to you an honesty and integrity.• Ask and keep asking, knock and keep knocking, because Hewill intentionally act like He does not hear you.• Continue until He responds to you.• He wants a relationship also.• He wants us to be with Him.
Summary:Both Adam and Jesus were “Sons” of GodHis desire is to be our Father, “Our Father, who art in Heaven...”God’s love is far above anything we as humans understandGod’s family is a truly functional family,We want to eliminate the “religious” thinking of who God is andfind the experiential relationship with our Father Show notes:• When a person accepts Jesus as their Lord and savior, thisbegins the relationship of the Father, Jesus, and the HolySpirit in our life.• We reach the Father going through Christ. He is the onlydoor.• Your relationship with the Father is so special, so precious ,so inviting, peaceful, it ministers the fruit of the Spirit.• We come just as we are, believing that He will receive meand love me because I am His son.• Human relationships and love dry up without a connection tothe source of love.• Our hopes, aspirations, and dreams will turn to asheswithout the foundation of the Lordship of Jesus, and peoplewill argue with this statement but look at the world today. References:Romans 1:7 to all who are beloved of God in Rome, called as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Matthew 7:26 “Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be likea foolish man who built his house on the sand.John 14:9-13Jesus *said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come toknow Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show usthe Father’?10 “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The wordsthat I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me doesHis works.11 “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise, believebecause of the works themselves.12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will doalso; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.13 “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorifiedin the Son.Luke 3:38 the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.Matthew 6:9 “Pray, then, in this way:‘Our Father who is in heaven,Hallowed be Your name.Matthew 10:40 “He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him whosent Me.Luke 11:11-13 “Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not givehim a snake instead of a fish, will he?12 “Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he?13 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how muchmore will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”Matthew 12:50 “For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother andsister and mother.”Matthew 10:30 “But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground and breathed into hisnostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.John 17:Jesus prayer that we may all be oneColossians 1:27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of thismystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.Matthew 22:37,39 And He said to him, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, ANDWITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’39 “The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you,And before you were born, I consecrated you;I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”Hebrews 3:7, 13, 15 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,13 But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” sothat none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.Matthew 11:28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.Galatians 5:22,23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.John 14:26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He willteach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.John 15:26 “When the aHelper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is theSpirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me,Judges 14The story of SamsonActs 13:22 “After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerningwhom He also testified and said, ‘I HAVE FOUND DAVID the son of Jesse, A MAN AFTER MYHEART, who will do all My will.’2 Samuel 11:14,15 Now in the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.15 He had written in the letter, saying, “Place Uriah in the front line of the fiercest battle and withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and die.”Revelations 3:8 ‘I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no onecan shut because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have notdenied My name.Matthew 13:20 “The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man whohears the word and immediately receives it with joy;Luke 2:10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good newsof great joy which will be for all the people;John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is bornagain, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what wewill be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Himjust as He is. Quotes:• "The whole purpose of Christ coming, so He [the Father]could have a relationship with us."• "There has to be a way for us to break into a livingrelationship that is alive" Take a ways:• He is going to hold you in His arms, like no one has everbefore• He is so loving and covering, so willing to help you• Just by receiving the son you come into a relationship to theFather
Summary:We are entering into a new time of pursuing Him, following Him, toknow Him where He is.Faith, willingness, and initiative are important to knowing Him and Hiswill for us. Show notes:A new level of willingness to pursue, follow, and to know HimWe are entering into a new relationship with God.Initiative is a trigger as He cannot steer a parked car.You will hear and see as much of God as you are willing to do His will.We are being trained to know the voice of Lord.Everyday exercise your spirit towards the Lord. References:2 Corinthians 5:1717. Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the oldthings passed away; behold, new things have come.Revelations 21:55. And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making allthings new.” And He said, “Write, for these words are faithful andtrue.Isaiah 43:1919. “Behold, I will do something new, now it will spring forth; willyou not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,Rivers in the desert.Jeremiah 31:2222. “How long will you go here and there, O faithless daughter? Forthe Lord has created a new thing in the earth. A woman will encompassa man.”Isaiah 30:2121. And their leader shall be one of them, and their ruler shall comeforth from their midst; and I will bring him near and he shall approachMe;Romans 10:1717. So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.Numbers 22:3030. And the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey onwhich you have ridden all your life to this day? Have I ever beenaccustomed to do so to you?” And he said, “No.”Revelations 22:66. And he said to me, “These words are faithful and true”, and theLord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show toHis bond-servants the things which must shortly take place.Revelations 17:77. And the angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I shall tell youthe mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has theseven heads and the ten horns.(some other scriptures where the angel spoke. Luke 1:13, 30; 2:10, Acts12:8)John 10:26, 2726. “But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep.27. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they followMe;”John 7:1717. “If any man is willing to do His will, he shall know of theteaching, whether it is of God, of whether I speak from Myself.”John 8:31, 3231. Jesus therefore was saying to those Jews who had believed Him,“If you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine;32. and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”Romans 1:1111. For I long to see you in order that I may impart some spiritualgift to you, that you may be established;Galatians 3:2121. Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? May it neverbe! For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, thenrighteousness would indeed have been based on law.1 Thessalonians 2:88. Having thus a fond affection for you, we were well pleased toimpart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, becauseyou had become very dear to us.Luke 22:4242. saying, “Father, if Thou are willing, remove this cup from Me;yet not My will, but Thine be done.”Psalms 119:108108. O accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and teachme Thine ordinances.Matthew 9:13, 3613. “But go and learn what this means, I desire compassion and notsacrifice, for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”36. And seeing the multitudes, He felt compassion for them, becausethey were distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd.Matthew 12:77. “But if you had known what this means, I desire compassion, andnot sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent.Matthew 14:1414. And when He went ashore, He saw a great multitude, and feltcompassion for them, and healed their sick.Matthew 15:3232. And Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, “I feelcompassion for the multitude, because they have remained with Me nowthree days and have nothing to eat; and I do not wish to send them awayhungry, lest they faint on the way.”Matthew 18:2727. “And the lord of that slave felt compassion and released him andforgave him the debt.Matthew 20:3434. And moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, andimmediately they regained their sight and followed Him.John 5:2020. “For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all things that HeHimself is doing; and greater works that these will He show Him, thatyou may marvel.”John 14:1212. “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works thatI do shall he do also; and greater works that these shall he do; because Igo to the Father.”Luke 18:18, 2318. And a certain ruler questioned Him, saying, “Good Teacher,what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”23. But when he had heard these things, he became very sad; for hewas extremely rich. Quotes:“Willingness and initiative are very much the same.""God can't steer a parked car." Take Away:Our worship is based upon exercising our free will and returningthe gift He gave us to HimJesus was moved by compassion that comes from knowing theheart of the father.
Summary:In our reaching into have a relationship with the Father, we find that first, we must have a relationship with Christ and the Holy Spirit. As we reach into a relationship with Christ through the Holy Spirit, we are led into a deep relationship with our Father.Show Notes:* All that Christ is in us has done is to lead us to the Father. * Christ is the open door to the Father and to a relationship with Him. * The deeper our relationship with Christ the more we come to know the Father, * If you want a relationship with the Father, you must come to a deeper relationship with Christ, the Word, and with one another.
Scriptures* John 1:18 No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, who is in the Father. He has explained Him. * John 1:1, In the beginning, was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. * John 14, 15, 16, 17
Quotes:* We become sons and that is what the Lord is looking for. * People stop and never have a relationship with the Father because they have never grown in Christ. * It is the nature of Christ to reveal the Father to us. * Keep reaching into Jesus Christ and you will see the Father. * Christ was the Word made flesh, He is the one who explains the Father.
Summary:The Body of Christ is not just in one denomination or another.By the diversity of each individual part, this makes up the entirebody of Christ, and Jesus is the head.Christ is not divided.All parts make up the whole. Show Notes:• Christ is coming forth in a many-membered body.• God wants to give us all things.• I am learning to enjoy the diversity that exists in others.• Love is more important than being right.• God has given a gift of other people. Scriptures:1 Corinthians 12:14,14 For the body is not one member, but many.iEphesians 4:16,16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every jointsupplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of thebody for the building up of itself in love.iiMatthew 24:23, 2423 “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘There He is,’ do notbelieve him.24 “For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show greatsigns and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.iiColossians 1:2727 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of thismystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.ivJohn 14:2626 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He willteach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.vEphesians 3:2020 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask orthink, according to the power that works within us,viMatthew 28:1919 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the nameof the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,viiEphesians 4:88 Therefore it says,“WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH,HE LED CAPTIVE A HOST OF CAPTIVES,AND HE GAVE GIFTS TO MEN.”viii1 Corinthians 3:66 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.ixMatthew 6:2828 “And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the fieldgrow; they do not toil, nor do they spin,xPhilippians 3:2121 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the bodyof His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.xi1 Corinthians 13:1313 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.xiEphesians 4:1313 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son ofGod, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.xiiiMatthew 25:4343 I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me;sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.’xivRevelations 4:1111 “Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power;for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed and were created.”xvJude 1:55 Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that theLord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did notbelieve.xviJohn 17:2121 that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that theyalso may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.xviiEphesians 4:33 being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.xviii1 Corinthians 9:2222 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all thingsto all men, so that I may, by all means, save some.xixGenesis 1:2626 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; andlet them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and overall the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”xx2 Corinthians 3:33 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, a cared for by us, written not withink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of humanhearts.xxiHebrews 4:88 For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another dayafter that.xxiiQuotes:• Christ in you is the hope of Glory.• Love is the like blood [of Christ] that flows among us, givesus life.• Because we are free there is more of a diversity expressed.Christ is not divided He is one.• The thousand faces of God could be a thousand people. Take Away:God wants to give you all things.The things we call division never was division, it was just adifferent manifestation of Christ in the earth.The answers are already here, it is just that God requires us to beinterdependent.
Show Notes:How can one fall in love again? Act like you love one another and seerelationships restored.Fall in love afresh each day, each hour.Love comes from the Father, God is Love. Who is the Father? A livingGod, a living love.Relationships built on the love of the Lord will grow. References:1 John 4:8,168. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.16. And we have come to know and have believed the love whichGod has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides inGod and God abides in him.John 3:1616. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life
Summary:
Confirmation is like gathering faith.
Confirmation is not what comes from what one thinks.
If He spoke it, He will confirm it.
Integrity is a part of confirmation.
Show Notes:
• Let the Word be confirmed by the mouth of two 2 or three.
• The Holy spirit is speaking, how do we learn His voice?
• Act on what you hear, or He will quit talking with you.
• It is a ministry to the body.
• The Lord will be faithful to get you the confirmation you need.
• Lack of confirmation is not a necessarily a “no”.
• His word has within itself the ability to see it fulfilled.
References:
Matthew 18:16 “But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY FACT MAY BE CONFIRMED.
Mark 16:20 And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed.
2 Corinthians 13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. EVERY FACT IS TO BE CONFIRMED BY THE TESTIMONY OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES.
Ephesians 4:16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
Hebrews 3:7, 15 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, v 15 while it is said, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME.”
Hebrews 4:7 He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS.”
John 14:26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
Judges 6:37 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I will know that You will deliver Israel through me, as You have spoken.”
Matthew 7:24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.
John 1:1 In the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Jeremiah 23:28 “The prophet who has a dream may relate his dream, but let him who has My word speak My word in truth. What does straw have in common with grain?” declares the LORD.
Quotes:
• "Confirmation can be like gathering faith."
• " If you feel like the Lord is speaking to you act on it."
• "You have to a heart of integrity before the Lord."
• " That Word has everything in it to see it fulfilled."
Take away:
I have to be faithful to what God is saying.
Find out if the Lord is speaking to you.
Summary:
What is Faith?
“Faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ” Romans 10:17
Fear is the opposite of faith Faith is not the product of ones thinking or emotions
Show Notes:
• Have you had a word from God, a sure word from God?
• Disappointments are believing in something that is not faith.
• Remember Satan uses the Word of God to deceive or distract us.
• What is god trying to say to us? “Today if you hear my voice do not harden your heart”.
• The truth out of time is as good as a lie.
• The Holy Spirit has to confirm it to you.
• Find what you are believing for in the Scriptures.
• "Witness" of the word is your experience of that word.
• I open my heart to listen and wait for Him to speak.
• Faith is imparted to you by the Holy Spirit.
• You should be having experiences with the Lord; You should be having somefulfillmentt in your life.
References:
Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
Luke 4:9-12 And he led Him to Jerusalem and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here; 10 for it is written, ‘HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU TO GUARD YOU,’ 11 and, ‘ON their HANDS THEY WILL BEAR YOU UP, SO THAT YOU WILL NOT STRIKE YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE.’ ” 12 And Jesus answered and said to him, “It is said, ‘YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD TO THE TEST.’ ”
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”r
Numbers 14:43-45 “For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there in front of you, and you will fall by the sword, inasmuch as you have turned back from following the LORD. And the LORD will not be with you.” 44 But they went up heedlessly to the ridge of the hill country; neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses left the camp. 45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and beat them down as far as Hormah.
Hebrews 3:7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,
Hebrews 11:1 1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
James 2:17, 18, 20, 26 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. 18 But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” 20 But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? 26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
John chapters 14, 15, 16, 17
Quotes:
• "What is God trying to get through to you”?
• “Today, If you hear my voice, do not harden your heart."
• "Have the Holy Spirit confirm to your heart that it is a word from God".
• "I have had an experience in God".
• "True Faith comes from God "
Take away:
Get down to the real depth of your heart in what you believe. Start looking at each thing that you believe, one by one, and ask yourself; what am I going to do as an action to express faith in what I believe what has been spoken to me by the Holy Spirit?
Show Notes:
We who believe, He has given us everything pertaining to life and Godliness. He has already provided everything to have a revelation and an awareness of that provision, change your attitude of the way you pray and approach the father.
There are actions that we must do to appropriate the provision. How much do we miss because of our unawareness of the Lord and the provisions that are ours?
The Holy Spirit will show us the things that we can do. The little things snowball, a little here, a little there.
We want to live by the promises in the scriptures, and the only honest way to do that is know what the scriptures give us as promises.
References:
2 Peter 1:3 seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
Proverbs 23:23 Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Matthew 6:25-34 “The Cure For Anxiety”
Matthew 4:4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.’ ”
Luke 15:11-32 Parable of the Prodigal Son
John 14:9 Jesus *said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
2 Peter 1:4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.
Hebrews 6:12 so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
2 Corinthians 1:20 For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us.
2 Corinthians 7:1 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Jeremiah 15:16 Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
John 14:16-17 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Psalms 51 “A Contrite Sinner’s Prayer for Pardon.”
Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.
Ephesians 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,
Ephesians 3:9 and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things;
Quotes:
- He has given us everything pertaining to life and Godliness.
- We need to know who our father is, who Christ is and know who we are in that relationship because we have more than we think we they do.
- There are acts of Faith that you have to do to appropriate the provision.
- The Holy Spirit Leads us into the acts of Faith.
Take away:
The provision of the Fathers isall-encompassingg, that provision is already provided, how much do we miss in our relationship to the Lord because we are unaware.
Summary:
Are there disappointments with God or situations?
Is there a legitimate cause for these disappointments?
How do we end disappointments?
How do we get faith?
Show Notes:
Let’s talk about disappointments, and how we can help people get past disappointments by eliminating that deception that is creating them.
Many times we are believing something or for something that god has not spoken.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing from a Word from God.
Faith is a gift; How do we receive this gift? When god speaks a Word that creates faith
Faith never dies it is eternal as long as that faith is in your spirit and you are feeding it and caring for it and walking in it.
Do not try to do something on a human level.
Take the time to write it down, what you believe, go through each point and find out what Word from God gave me that Faith.
It has to be an experience where God meets you in the Word. Then take action on that Word
References:
Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:4, Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
James 4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
1 Peter 2:24 and He Himself abore our sins in His body on the b cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.
Isaiah 53:5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.
John 16:13 “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. 17 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, 18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
James 2:17, 18 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. 18 But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”
James 2:14-16 What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith, but he has no works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?
Matthew 16:22, 23 Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen to You.” 23 But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s.”
Matthew 13:3-9 Parable of the sower
Matthew 11:15 “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Matthew 4:1-11 Temptation of Jesus
Take Away
Faith comes by hearing and hearing from a Word from God. you cannot manufacture it by yourself, you can't say I want to do this thing and work up faith for it, It is so important to get confirmation
Summary
How do we respond to everything around us? Are we responding from what we
know or past experiences, or are we responding by the Holy Spirit within us?
Who do we reveal when we respond to those around us and to the
circumstances we are confronted with in our daily lives – ourselves or Christ?
Show Notes
• How do we respond to life's circumstances and those around us?
• Our human nature must be gone so that we respond with the nature of
Christ.
• Christ resounded to His circumstances and those around Him by the Holy
Spirit.
References
Genesis 3: 1-6
Expulsion from Eden.
John 8:1-11
A Woman Caught in Adultery.
Matthew 5:17
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come
not to abolish but to fulfill.
I kings 3:16-28
Story of two women and the baby.
Quotes
• When Satan went to Eve and asked her about the apple, “hath God said,”
he got an opinion out of Eve. And that right there is the thing that we
cannot have.
• Our human nature has to be so gone from our soul and our flesh, as God
inhabits us, that when a question comes our response, our response is
mute. Because it's by His appearing, the answer comes.
• Not responding to doctrine, not responding to your conditioning's.
• He became the fulfillment of the law by taking it into a Kingdom Principle,
or how the Kingdom functions.
• He was king. It was His kingdom. His response was to bring the kingdom.
Take Away
We die to our human nature and take on Christ's nature. We like Christ must
respond to our everyday circumstances and those around us with His nature
Summary:
As we humble ourselves and open up to the Holy Spirit, we become His
channels and carry Him into every aspect of our daily life.
References:
Romans 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.
Acts 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other
tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 13:52
And the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.
Quotes:
• “The Holy Spirit will fill our mouths and hearts.”
• “there are times that the Holy Spirit will specifically lead a person.”
• “...That wasn’t me that was the Holy Spirit.”
Take Away:
What makes a walk with God so fun and exciting, is that as we walk each day
filled with the Holy Spirit, He leds us into situations and we met people that
He wants to minister too.
Summary:
Can you be a servant without a revelation of Jesus Christ in your life? As you
set yourself to serve the family of God, God creates within you a heart of a
servant.
Show Notes:
• God establishes within the hearts of His people a bond servant's heart.
• A bondservant doesn't forget the hours of prayer and intercession over
people.
• A servant ministers from a broken spirit the healing that people need.
References:
I Corinthians 13:1-3
Luke 10:27
And he answering said, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy
neighbor as thyself .”
Quotes:
• Without a relationship with the Lord, who are you serving?
• What we are talking about is; “why are you here?”
• If you want to be a servant, I'm going to find all the things I can do.
Take Away:
God is establishing within the hearts of His people a bond servant's heart, that
serves them on many levels. Through a deep brokenness of spirit, His bond-servants
servants will fulfill the second great commandment; “Thou shall love thy
neighbor as thy self.”
Summary:
How many people today aspire to become a servant? God gave apostles, prophets,
evangelists, pastors, and teachers to be the servants of the Body of Christ; to equip them
for the work of service. Everyone in Christ's family is to have a servant's heart.
Show Notes:
• God is laying a foundation of a servant's heart within His people.
• David was a man after God's own heart because he has a humble servant's heart.
• It's the heart of a servant that is in tune with the heart of God.
References:
Acts 6:1-6
Ephesians 4:11-16
Acts 13:22
22 And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king; to whom also he
bare witness and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who
shall do all my will.
Deuteronomy 15:17
17 then thou shalt take an awl and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be
thy servant forever. And also unto thy maid-servant, thou shalt do likewise.
Quotes:
• How many people do you know that aspire to be a deacon, a servant?
• God moves in the humble heart of a servant.
• He has taken his mind, his thoughts, his ideas, and got rid of them; and he
says,” I'm here to serve.”
Take Away:
God is bringing forth in this day a true heart of a servant in His people. It's the humble
heart in the servant that knows the will of God today and is walking it out.
Summary
In this day, God is creating in His sons a servant's heart. Christ is our example
and out of His obedience and love for His Father; He served Him and those who
the Father gave Him. This is the heart of a servant and is to be our heart also.
Show Notes
• We submit to the servants.
• How do you submit to a servant?
• Anyone can be a servant. Ask Him for a heart of a servant.
• It's all about relationships.
References
Philippians 2: 5-7
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, existing in the form
of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but
emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant...
Matthew 25:14-30
Parable of the talents.
John 5:19
Jesus answered and said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, a son cannot do
anything on his own, but only what he sees his father doing; for what he does,
his son will do also.
Luke 22: 39-46
The agony in the garden. (NARBE)
II Corinthians 5:17
So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away;
behold, new things have come.
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is
not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Quotes
• When you're truly serving with a servant's heart, there's something that comes through that honors the people that you're serving; you make them feel lifted up. It honors the Christ within you.
• What is the greatest reward of a servant? The joy of serving the Lord.
• You don't have to do anything to become a servant, except submit yourself to the Lord.
• I do what my Father does, I see what my Father sees, I speak what my Father speaks.
Take Away
Our Father is creating a new creation in this day, and that creation is called a
servant. As we follow on to know the Lord we too will say as He did when He
was on this earth; “ I only do what I see My Father do, I only speak what I hear
My Father speaks.
Summary:
Peter, do you love me? Tend My lambs, Shepherd My sheep, Tend My
sheep from John 21 gives the heart of Jesus for Peter to be a servant.
The seven chosen in Acts 6 are examples for us also.
Show Notes:
• Humbling ourselves and knowing His love is the beginning of
being a servant.
• “We were born to serve Your servants Lord.”
• It is not in our human nature to be a true servant, we need help.
References:
Philippians 2:7 NASB
but emptied Himself by taking the form of a
bondservant and being born in the likeness of men.
John 13:4, 5 NLT
- So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel
around his waist,
- and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the
disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him.
Deuteronomy 15:12-18 NKJV
The story of the awl through the ear.
1 John 4:19 ASV
We love because he first loved us.
Acts 6, 7, 8
The Seven deacons chosen; Stephen and Philip
Romans 1:1 WNT
Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, set
apart to proclaim God's Good News,
1 Samuel 16:7 NIV
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance
or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at
the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance,
but the LORD looks at the heart.”
Quotes:
• Humility is a key to a servant
• It takes a lot of love to serve
• The Father sent His son to lay down His life
• They don’t have anything really driving them except for their love for the Lord.
Take Away:
Would you like to take care of the lions, the bears and Goliaths in the
lives of those around you? Ask the Father to show you how to love
with His love, to be that servant that can give that same love that was
given to you for others.
Summary:
Is it possible to be a shepherd and a sheep at the same time?
Let’s look at Jesus as our example: washing the feet of the disciples, he
was as a sheep to the Father and a shepherd serving the disciples.
Show Notes:
• We could be a sheep one day and a shepherd the next, then a
sheep again.
• Everything stems from being led of the Lord
• There really is no positioning in the Lord, no one is greater than
another.
References:
Romans 8:14 KJV
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of
God.
Isaiah 11:6 BSB
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with
the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a
little child will lead them.
John 10:27 NAB
My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
1 Corinthians 15:24 NASB
then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to our God
and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and
power.
John 13:5 ESV
Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the
disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped
around him.
Quotes:
• We can change daily
• One day you’re a shepherd, the next day you are a sheep
• Sometimes you are the leader; sometimes you’re the ones being led.
• Sometimes some little child could be a shepherd to you.
Take Away:
Even Jesus was submissive to His Father, and so should we be to those
whom He has given us to minister with. Let’s create a synergistic flow
that shows the Father that we are being obedient to John 15:12:
“This is My commandment, that you love one another, jus as I have
loved you.
Summary:
Do you think that anyone can have a shepherds heart?
A true shepherd does not have a position, yet has given all for the sheep.
Show Notes:
• One cannot shepherd God’s sheep without having His heart
• There is a balance that is not so easy to see without that heart
• A good shepherd will lay down his life for his sheep
References:
Psalm 51
A sinner’s prayer for pardon.
Hebrews 13:20 ESV
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our
Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the
eternal covenant,
John 13:4-12
Jesus washes the disciples feet.
Jeremiah 3:15 NLT
And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will guide
you with knowledge and understanding.
Luke 15:4-7
The Parable of the Lost Sheep.
John 16:12 NKJV
“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot
bear them now”.
Romans 8:34 BLB
Who is the one condemning? For it is Christ Jesus,
the one having died, now rather having been raised up, who is
also at the right hand of God, and who is interceding for us.
Quotes:
• Jesus is considered our Great Shepherd
• Jacob, one of the great shepherds of all time
• The shepherd is responsible to find the greenest pasture for his
sheep
Take Away:
There are few who come to know how to balance everything needed in
a sheep fold, the milk for the babes, the meat for the mature, how fast
to lead them so that no one lags behind, and no one is jumping way out
front. God bless those with a true shepherds heart.
Summary:
Can a prophet be a woman? Consider Deborah in Judges 4
How can one tell if another is a prophet or not? Try or prove them.
Next to their relationship with the Lord is the compassion for the
people they carry in their hearts.
Show Notes:
• First and foremost a prophet has a close relationship with the
Lord, knows His voice and spends most of their time in His
presence.
• A true prophet hears and speaks only what the Lord says to them.
• The prophet carries the presence of the Lord with them.
References:
1 John 4:1 KJV
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they
are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the
world.
Ephesians 4:11 NASB
And He gave some as apostles, some as prophets,
some as evangelists, some as pastors and teachers,
Judges chapters 4 and 5
The story and song of Deborah
1 Samuel 16:7 ISV
The LORD told Samuel, "Don't look at his appearance or his
height, for I've rejected him. Truly, God does not see what man
sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD
sees the heart."
Quotes:
• Do they really care about the people?
• He is imparting the heart of the Father
• The prophet sees what natural people do not see
• He can’t help but change everybody just because of who he is.
Take Away:
Try and prove those who say they are prophets; do they care for the
people? Is there compassion? You will know them by their fruits.
Summary:
How does a true prophet function in this day?
What are some of the requirements of a prophet?
We discuss this briefly in this podcast.
Show Notes:
• A prophet hears what God has to say to the people and hears the
cries of the people as God did when the Children of Israel were in
captivity in Egypt.
• A true prophet has died to self and their only drive is for God’s will
to be done on this earth and in people’s lives.
• There is a difference in the gift of prophecy and the ministry of a
prophet.
References:
Ephesians 4:10-13 NIV
- He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than
all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.
- So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the
evangelists, the pastors and teachers,
- to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of
Christ may be built up
- until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the
Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure
of the fullness of Christ.
Hebrews 11:3 NASB
By faith we understand that the world has been created by the
word of God so that what is seen has not been made out of things
that are visible.
John 14:12 NASB
Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes in Me, the works
that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do;
because I am going to the Father.
Matthew 6:10 BLB
Your kingdom come. Your will be done as in heaven, so also
upon earth.
1 Corinthians 12:13-27
The Body of Christ
Matthew 7:12-16 NKJV
- “Therefore, however you want people to treat you, so treat
them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
- “Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide, and the way is
broad that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter by
it.
- “For the gate is small, and the way is narrow that leads to life,
and few are those who find it.
- “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s
clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
- “You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered
from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they?
Quotes:
• I think it’s important that we define a prophet’s heart.
• The heart of a prophet aches for the cries of the people
• A real prophet has no pride...no desire to be a position.
Take Away:
There are no selfish ambitions nor pride in a true prophet. Their desire
is to do the will of God and to see the people free to also do the will of
God in the earth.
Summary:
Do we limit God in how He chooses to move?
Can we accept that God moves through human vessels?
Let’s give God His voice on this earth and see Him glorified.
Show Notes:
• Through our weakness, He is strong, He is glorified
• We are His mouth pieces; we are to speak His word.
• Because of our relationship with Him, we can be ready in season
and out of season.
References:
Romans 8:20 - 23 NKJV
- For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but
because of Him who subjected it in hope;
- because the creation itself also will be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of
God.
- For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with
birth pangs together until now.
- Not only that, but we also who have the first fruits of the
Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting
for the adoption, the redemption of our body.
Matthew 6:10 NAB
your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
Numbers 6:24-26 BSB
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‘May the LORD bless you and keep you;
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may the LORD cause His face to shine upon you and be
gracious to you;
- may the LORD lift up His countenance toward you and give
you peace.’
1 Corinthians 2:14 KJV
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned.
Matthew 11:25 NIV
At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and
learned, and revealed them to little children.
2 Corinthians 12:9 NASB
And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power
is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather
boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may
dwell in me.
Quotes:
• You start blessing everything.
• If we take that potential and make it kinetic...
• Where is your faith? He knows what we have need of.
• God Clothes us with all these things.
Take Away:
Futility is a lie and we do not have to buy into it, we can bring the
blessing of the Lord into people’s lives, situations and circumstances
just by speaking Him into them.
Summary:
Are you satisfied with your life and relationship with the Lord?
Just how far is the Lord from us? How close is the Lord to us?
Is there a hunger to know more about who the Lord is?
Show Notes:
• When He imparts to us or leads us, are we obedient?
• Do we have a drive to be obedient in order to get more from Him?
• He gives us His nature as we seek Him.
References:
1 John 4:16 NASB
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for
us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God
abides in him.
Acts 1:2-4 NKJV
- until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the
Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He
had chosen,
- to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by
many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and
speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
- And being assembled together with them, He commanded
them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of
the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me;
1 John 3:2 ISV
Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we will be like
has not been revealed yet. We know that when the Messiah is
revealed, we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.
Romans 8:14 NIV
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
Ephesians 3:19 BSB
of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses
knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Quotes:
• I want the truth, I’m not afraid. I’m hungry for the truth
• We hunger and thirst after what He is bringing
• One of the drives of hunger is: we want to be like Him.
Take Away:
In hungering after Him, we loose our own drives and ambitions. We
want to be like Him, we want to know him in the fulness of God
(Ephesians 3:19).
Summary:
Have you received a word, or a revelation from God? What are you
doing about it?
How did Abraham trust the word so much that when he was told to, he went to
sacrifice Isaac? That word was more real to him than death itself.
Show Notes:
• Abraham is our example, considering his own body and not
wavering regarding the word given to him.
• There are many in scripture that took the word given to them
without considering circumstances and believed that word
intensely.
• We must not be afraid to make a mistake, take the initiative and
do something about it.
References:
Romans 10:9, 10 NASB
- that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in
your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved;
- for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and
with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
Colossians 2:8-23
“Do not handle, do not touch.”
1 Samuel 16:7 Scriptures Bible
But YHWH said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the
height of his stature, because I have refused him, for not as man sees,
for man looks at the eyes, but YHWH looks at the heart.
Romans 4:19 KJV
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead,
when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of
Sara’s womb:
Genesis 22:1-19
Abraham is told to sacrifice Isaac.
Genesis 16
Hagar and Ishmael
Quotes:
• We have a habit of making rules out of everything.
• Their faith wasn’t in circumstances, or how they felt
• Abraham didn’t waver in his faith, because it was from God
Take Away:
We should search the scriptures and let the Holy Spirit speak to us a
word that we can get a hold of and believe with all of our hearts.
How can we take the initiative to move in the promises that God has
given?
Summary:
With a small extension of our family, we are sharing what we are
believing for the Ten Days of Awe
It is only by turning to Him and exposing ourselves to Him that He
reveals our needs.
Show Notes:
• Why would we need God, if we did not need answers?
• We can only be a new creature by eliminating the old one.
• We become His workmanship as we submit to His will
References:
James 4:8 ASV
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your
hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
Zechariah 3:3-7
Joshua before the Angel
1 Corinthians 10:13 NKJV
No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to
man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted
beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make
the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
Ephesians 2:10 NASB
- For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in
them.
Psalms 103:22 NASB
Bless the LORD, all you works of His, In all places of His dominion; Bless the
LORD, my soul!
Jeremiah 3:14-16
God Invites Repentance
Quotes:
• It is a time where the Lord allows us to see ourselves and what we
lack
• The only true change is seeing Him
• We Love the Lord the best we know how
Take Away:
We expose ourselves to Him as best as we know how, then He can
remove the filthy garments and clothe us with righteousness.
Summary: In learning to love our neighbor, do we allow a difference to cause us to then not love our neighbor? Does that person love the Lord with all that they know how to do? Let us relate simply with the Love of the Lord for one another. Show Notes: • There are “proofs” that the rapture will take place in the scripture, does it really matter as to when? • Relationships are more important than doctrines. • The Centurion knew more principles than many even today. References: 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 NIV 19. Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. 20. To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. 21. To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. 22. To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. 23. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. Matthew 8:5-13 The story of the Centurion Romans 14:5-12 NASB 5. One person values one day over another, another values every day the same. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind. 6. The one who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and the one who eats, does so with regard to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and the one who does not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not eat, and he gives thanks to God. 7. For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself; 8. for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living 10. But as for you, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or you as well, why do you regard your brother or sister with contempt? For we will all appear before the judgment seat of God. 11. For it is written: “AS I LIVE, SAYS THE LORD, TO ME EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, AND EVERY TONGUE WILL GIVE PRAISE TO GOD.” 12. So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God. 1 Samuel 16:7 NKJV But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
Quotes: • To wrangle about words, is useless • Arguing doctrine always causes confusion and division • He was a Centurion by the will of God • It is the guy that is walking in all the revelation that he has
Take Away: The second great commandment is to Love your neighbor as yourself, Is it loving another when we argue and create deeper divisions because of the differences that we believe from another? Are we able to open our heart to even listen to their perspective?
Summary: The cross of Christ is not a dreary, devastation, miserable thing. It comes with grace and a joy that sets us free from this Adamic nature that separated us from God and returns a fellowship with Him. Show Notes: • No one can just say, I am going to have a cross experience today • It is all about the Word, and it is by that Word that one will experience the cross. • There are some who will refuse to experience the cross. References: John 1:1, 14 NKJV 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 14. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 1 John 3:2 NASB Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.
Ephesians 5:26 NASB 1977 that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Philippians 3:18 ESV For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ.
Hebrews 12:1, 2 NIV 1. Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2. fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Psalms 51:4 DRB To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words and mayst overcome when thou art judged.
Mark 9:24 BLB Immediately the father of the child, having cried out, was saying, "I believe; help my unbelief!"
Quotes: • God's taking what we have and going deeper with it • the only way of effective change is by seeing Him • this has to be a walk of grace and mercy from the Lord
Take Away: The purpose of the cross is to remove all that will hinder one from running the race, as mentioned in Hebrews, He wants to have a close relationship with each of us and removing the deeds of the flesh is a method this happens.
Summary: Why do we want to teach our children to pray for their teachers? Are the choices of our children important? What does it mean that you teach a child when they are young and they will not depart from it? Show Notes: • How do we help children conquer their fears? • A child can be an example to others • The brain cannot relate to what “do” and “do not” means References: 1 Timothy 2:1, 2 KJV 1. I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2. For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. Deuteronomy 6:7 NLT You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Ezra 3:11-13 AB in PE 11. And they knelt in thanksgiving and with hymns to LORD JEHOVAH, “Because he is good and his grace over Israel is for eternity!”, and all the people shouted with great jubilation with hymns of praise to LORD JEHOVAH, because of the completion of the house of LORD JEHOVAH. 12. And many of the Priests and the Levites, Chiefs of the elder fathers, because they saw this house in its first glory when this house was finished, they wept with a loud voice, and there were many who were lifting up their voice with the horns and with joy. 13. And there were no people who heard the sound of the horns, because of the sound of the great weeping of the people, because the people were sounding with the horns with a loud voice, and the sound of the weeping was heard for a long distance.
Quotes: • It is simple living everyday life with your children • Teach them: This is the way to do it. • Learn who they are • We need to teach them humor
Take Away: A child begins to learn as a baby and continue to learn, we are to “bring them up in the way they should go”, teach them to know how to be an overcomer.
Summary: What is and how do we speak God’s word? How do we read the bible? Is it just a story book? We need an experiential relationship with the Father, and it is the job of the Holy Spirit to reveal what we are to speak. Show Notes: • With the heart a person believes • Only when God reveals His word can we speak it with authority • It cannot be just words we read on a page, it must be real and alive. References: Matthew 6:10 KJV Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 1 Kings 17 and 18 The story of Elijah and no rain for 3-1/2 years.
Romans 10:6-10 Who will go up?
John 5:19 BSB So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
Luke 12:12 NLT for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what needs to be said.”
Ephesians 6:14 NASB 1977 Stand firm therefore, HAVING GIRDED YOUR LOINS WITH TRUTH, and HAVING PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
1 Peter 4:11 NKJV If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
John 1:1, 14 NIV 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 14. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Mark 12:30, 31 CSB 30. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. 31. The second is, Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other command greater than these.”
Luke 24:13-35 The two on the road to Emmaus
Romans 10:14 NLT But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?
Quotes: • I didn’t meet the Lord as in pie in the sky, I met the Lord through others • Christ was and became the word of God. • Okay Lord, show me yourself
Take Away: It is the Holy Spirit that reveals to us what is in the Word or Scriptures and He will let us know when to speak what the Father is speaking to His people.
Summary: The Shofar/trumpet was blown 100 times during the Feast of Trumpets so that no one would miss the announcement, the arrival of the King, the time to gather together. Show Notes: • Do not miss the call, Listen to what the Holy Spirit is speaking. • There is a constraining or a compelling of the Holy Spirit, the time is now References: Isaiah 56:1, 2 NASB Psalms 51 Psalms 98 Scriptures Bible Joel 2:1, 2, 12-14, 18, 19 NIV Psalms 100 Scriptures Bible Psalms 149 NASB Matthew 6:10 KJV Quotes: • We need to open our hearts and change our thinking about ourselves • Our whole hearts are to return to Him • There is no question whether the Lord will Love His people Take Away: From many voices comes the cry of the Holy Spirit: Turn unto the Lord set your heart on Him, Let Him mend the broken bones, hearts, and spirits and give all His heart.
Summary: Many voices gather to speak and create the new year ahead The Feast of Trumpets begins a new year, a calling of people to gather and announcing the arrival of the King. Those who have been prepared, speak and frame the next year. Show Notes: • Numbers 10 gives us 7 functions for “blowing the trumpets” • 1 Corinthians 14:7, 8 talk about a distinct sound in various instruments. The bugle if indistinct, how will one prepare for battle? • The trumpet relates to prophetic utterance. References: Exodus 19:16 Leviticus 26:2 Romans 12:1 Psalms 118:22-24 Joshua 1:3-5, 8 Ezekiel 34:11-13 Joel 2:1 1 Peter 2:9 Joel 2:11, 12 Joshua 5:13, 14 Malachi 3:3, 2 Acts 2:17 and Joel 2:28 Psalms 91:1-6 Matthew 24:31 and Mark 13:27 Jeremiah 31:34 and Hebrews 8:11 1 Thessalonians 5:5, 8-9 Joshua 6:5 2 Peter 3:9 Psalms 98:1-3 Isaiah 61:10, 11 Take Away: Matthew 9:29 “Be it done according to your faith.” Take this opportunity to speak and create the new year ahead for you and your family.
Summary: How much do our words create or destroy our ability to overcome? Jesus overcame by the word He spoke Being an overcomer has nothing to do with our emotions, or feelings. Is there an expression of what one has overcome? Show Notes: • In voicing the word of God, it creates the ability to overcome. • When we overcome something, we do not have to do it again. • God does not have anything negative to say about us, why should we? References: Genesis 32:22-32 Jacob wrestles with God John 16:33 NIV “I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
1 John 5:4 KJV For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
Matthew 24:35 ABPE Heaven and Earth will pass away, and My words will not pass away.
Matthew 12:36 NLT And I tell you this, you must give an account on judgment day for every idle word you speak.
Psalms 103:12 NASB As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our wrongdoing from us.
Revelation 12:11 DRB And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto death.
1 Corinthians 14:32 NHEB The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,
Proverbs 25:28 NKJV Whoever has not rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls.
Quotes: • The blood of Christ makes us capable of doing these things. • We overcome because we subject ourselves to the Lord • The minute you give voice to something, you’re creating it. • We establish ourselves as overcomers
Take Away: Our words never die, they create who we are and many of our circumstances, Jesus spoke only what He heard the Father speak and He overcame sin and death for our sakes.
Summary: How many ways do we have to be overcomers? We should not “cross out” the good we create How do we “Love not our lives unto death”? Show Notes: • We have a choice in all things to live in faith or as a victim • Getting our focus on the Lord knowing that He is handling everything. • What does overcome really mean? References: Revelation 12:11 KJV And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Romans 10:17 NASB 1995 So faith comes from hearting, and hearing by the word of Christ James 3:10, 11 ISV 10. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. It should not be like this, my brothers! 11. A spring cannot pour both fresh and brackish water from the same opening, can it?
1 Thessalonians 5:16, 18 NIV 16. Rejoice always, 18. Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God ’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
John 14:12 ESV “ Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.”
Quotes: • We are going to accept one of two things; faith or futility. • If you do not have something to overcome, you will not become an overcomer. • So, the choice you have is either being overcomer or a victim • Overcome, what do we do now?
Take Away: There are some simple steps that we all can take to be overcomers; speak the word positively/creatively, and give of what we value like our time in showing another that we care.
Summary: What is the Joy of the Lord? Does discipline bring joy? Is the Joy of the Lord an all or nothing type of thing? Show Notes: • There are various experiences and expressions of joy • Joy is tied into Love • In His presence is fullness of joy References: Nehemiah 8:10 KJV Then He said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for the joy of the Lord is your strength
Psalms 16:11 NASB You will make known to me the way of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever. Psalms 51:8 Amp Make me hear joy and gladness and be satisfied; Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.
Ephesians 4:13, 14 NIV 13. until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. 14. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Hebrews 12:11 NLT No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening-it ’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.
Romans 9:28 KJV For He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. Quotes: • The Lord is putting us through the things to create us into sons • I want to coin the term: Mature Joy • As we mature the process gets shorter Take Away: As an immature child, discipline is not joyful at all. As we mature in the Lord the process is shorter as we do not run from it so much and realize the Joy set before us.
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Summary: There is no working up a joy in the human nature So, how do we get joy, or the joy of the Lord? When you have His joy, share it with everyone you meet Show Notes: • Why did the angel say: “good news of great joy”? • Can we suffer and still have joy? • If we are not joyful, what should we do? References: Luke 2:10 KJV Then the angel said unto to them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
Hebrews 12:2 HCSB Keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before him endured a cross and despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of God’s throne.
Galatians 5:22 NLT But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Acts 16:22-32 The story of Paul and Silas in prison
Nehemiah 8:10 ESV Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
1Thessalonians 5:16 NIV Rejoice always,
Romans 15:13 NASB Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 12:5-9 A father who loves his children will discipline them
James 4:2, 3 NASB 1977 2. You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. 3. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Ezra 6:21-23 The Lord cased them to rejoice.
Quotes: • The whole of the New Testament is about joy • The word joy is used almost two hundred times in the New Testament • Ask the Lord to give it to you
Take Away: In His presence is fulness of joy so let us strive to be in His presence continually and let His joy exude from our being to others.
Summary: How do you see your neighbor? How do you see your family? Show Notes: • We want to see as the Lord sees • Are we able to create another person? • “Lord, show me what to speak to that person” References: 1 Samuel 16:7 NIV But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
1 John 3:1 BSB Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
Romans 5:8 ESV But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Judges 6:11, 12 CSB 11. The angel of the Lord came, and he sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the winepress in order to hide it from the Midianites. 12. Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, “The Lord is with you, Valiant warrior.”
Ephesians 1:4, 5 NASB 4. Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5. He predestined us to adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
John 1:12, 13 NLT 12. Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God- 13. They are reborn-not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.
Matthew 22:39 NASB The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Quotes: • Don’t tell me where I am wrong, I already know that • Human nature is negative • Lord, show me who this person is
Take Away: No one is how we see them in the natural, Let ’s ask the Lord to open our eyes to see how He sees and how He loves us enough to send His son to die for us.
Summary: The Lord is speaking, are we listening? My sheep know My voice, and a stranger they will not follow. Show Notes: • God can and does speak through a host of various vessels • When someone is speaking and there is condemnation in it, that is not the word of the Lord • Jesus spoke what He heard the Father say, so should we. References: John 10:27 ESV My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Matthew 13:16 KJV But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear;
John 5:4, 5 ASV 4. When He hath put forth all His own, He goeth before them, and the sheep follow Him: for they know His voice. 5. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
1 John 4:1 NLT Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You Must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world.
2 Corinthians 13:1 NIV This will by my third visit to you. “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”
Romans 8:1 BSB Therefore there is now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.
Revelation 12:10 NASB 1977 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
Luke 14:10 KJV But when thou are bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
Hebrews 12:5, 6 NASB 1977 5. and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “My Son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by Him; 6. For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives.”
Isaiah 40:31 JPS Tanakh 1917 But they that wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings as eagles; The shall run, and not be weary; They shall walk, and not faint.
Psalms 46:10 BSB “ Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
Quotes: • It is crucial to have experiential knowledge with His word • It is obvious when one is speaking a word from the Lord • Your circumstances can talk to you, I know that voice... • There must be confirmation
Take Away: Get someone to pray for you to have ears to hear, then listen. Ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you when reading the scriptures, listen to a five year old child and “perhaps the Lord would speak through that child to you”.
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Summary: What happens when we pray together? Just what does it mean to “confess our sins to one another?” We do not need to know specifics to a problem to take it to the Lord. Show Notes: • How do we overcome the fiery darts of the enemy? • Some things cannot be overcome as an individual • Our prayer is: Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. References: Ephesians 6:10-18 The armor of God
Philippians 4:7 ESV And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
1 John 3:20 BLT That if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things. James 5:16 NASB Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.
Matthew 6:10 KJV Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Philippians 4:6-8 ASV 6. In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. 8. Finally brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Isaiah 26:3 ISV You will keep perfectly peaceful the one whose mind remains focused on You, because he remains in You
Quotes: • You just can’t overcome it and you’re not meant to. • God knows what you are going through • Because it keeps their minds out of it
Take Away: When we have issues or circumstances, let us call on those who will pray with us to see the victory over them.
Summary: Being thankful is not always easy, it is a learned response Giving thanks places God in control over your life Thanksgiving to God shows that you trust Him Show Notes: • “He is enthroned upon the praises of Israel” • Do not forget to give thanks for what you have already received • Being thankful is a form of worship References: Grace After Meals is a Jewish tradition and here is a link to only one site of many for information: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/grace-after-meals
Deuteronomy 8:10 NASB When you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.
Ephesians 5:20 NIV Always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Proverbs 29:18a KJV Where there is no vision, the people perish
Matthew 26:26 ESV Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”
Hebrews 11:6 NKJV But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Proverbs 3:5, 6 NLT 5. Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. 6. Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take.
Revelation 6:1-8; Zechariah 6:1-8 The “4 horsemen” of the apocalypse
Luke 21:28 BLB “ And of these things beginning to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”
Philippians 4:6 NASB 1977 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Quotes: • In giving thanks it gives Him control • But even greater should our thanksgiving be when we receive it • You cannot really have a thankfulness for everything unless you really have learned to trust in the Lord
Take Away: Being thankful in all things is an expression of our worship to the Father, he is directing our paths more than we are aware of usually.
Summary: Rules do not have grace in them and there is no earning grace. What happens to the initial salvation where joy and love are so real? Rules, without grace, create condemnation which are not in Christ Show Notes: • It is through grace that we can approach Him with boldness • We are saved by grace, yet there is so much more • As we grow in grace, we get grace to become and to do References: Hebrews 4:16 ASV Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need.
Ephesians 2:8, 9 KJV 8. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9. Not of works, lest any man should boast. Psalms 16:8 ESV I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. 1 John 4:16 ESV So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him
Quotes: • He is so willing to be graceful and give grace • They all made mistakes, but their heart was set before the Lord • Love and grace are interwoven • God loved the guy just the way he was
Take Away: Grace and love are not a one time “shot”, they are living and expand beyond our abilities to understand. They give us the means to become and do more and more as we grow in them.
Summary: Each of us have jobs or talents, how can we use them in serving one another for God’s glory? It is not about our faith nor abilities; it is about His faith and His abilities. Show Notes: • God looks to the heart, not a position nor ability • When helping others, what is our focus? Is it on the Lord? • It is the relationship with the Lord that is the goal References: Colossians 3:23 NKJV And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men,
Ephesians 6:7 NIV Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people,
1 Corinthians 12:14 ESV For the body does not consist of one member but of many. 1 Samuel 16:7 NLT But the Lord said to Samuel, “don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
John 13:4, 5 NASB 1995 4. Rose from supper, an laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself about. 5. Then He poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. Acts 6:1-15 Choosing the 7 for service
Genesis 37:5 KJV And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
Genesis 41:38-49 Joseph becomes second only to Pharaoh
Quotes: • My work was a form of worship • I knew that is was just God • That’s the fun of walking with the Lord. • The thing that you are doing to serve one another are the things that God just treasures
Take Away: When we do to others as unto the Lord, then we find a closer relationship with the Lord in what we do.
Summary: Do we stop our worship just because we go to “work”? To fulfill the greatest commandment, we must Love the Lord our God (or worship Him) with our whole being and in everything that we do. Show Notes: • Put God first in all that we do • Even in our work, it is to be an expression of worship to Him • The older generations are to impart to the younger generations • We can help eliminate much of the frustrations of the young people by giving them a vision and practical help in what they can do. References: Deuteronomy 6:5 NASB You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Colossians 3:23 NRSV Whatever your task, put yourselves into in, as done for the Lord and not for your masters. Proverbs 22:6 ESV Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Quotes: • one of the things that people separate is their life at church and their life at work • He gives gifts to men so that we can express our worship using the gifts that He gives to us. • you’re opening a door for children or young adults to learn or to try different things and to find out what they like • You’re imparting to them the ways of the Lord Take Away: Whether at work, play, church, in all you do, do it as unto the Lord.
Summary: As we hear the Word of the Lord, then we can speak that Word Paul was Pharisee of the Pharisees, yet it took Jesus meeting him on the road to Damascus for him to honestly hear the Word. Show Notes: • If there is no hearing, then there will be no Word of God spoken • We voice that there are ears to hear the word of the Lord • Scriptures are not about head knowledge, but a living entity References: Ephesians 4:15 NASB But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,
Acts 2:14-16 NIV 14. Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crown: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. 15. These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! 16. No, this is want was spoken by the prophet Joel: Joel 2:28-32 and Acts 2:17-21 The promise of the Holy Spirit
Acts 2:41 NASB So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls.
Romans 8:29 KJV For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many brethren.
Ezekiel 37:4 TSB Again He said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and you shall say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh!
Amos 8:11 ESV “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land-not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.
John 12:50 BLB And I know that His commandment is eternal life. Therefore what I speak, as the Father has said to Me, so I speak,”
1 Kings 17:1 NASB Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”
Revelation 3:6 BSB He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Quotes: • The early church did not expound scriptures • An Apostolic word brings alive the scriptures for today • The Father is looking for people to hear the Word
Take Away: Christ was the pattern Son, He heard and spoke only what the Father said, we should follow His example
Summary: How, or where, does your piece of the puzzle fit in? We are perfectly how God made us, yet still not perfected alone. As we come together as the body of Christ with Jesus as the head, then we are perfected. Show Notes: • There is no comparison with any other person as we are not a homogenized entity, but individual parts of one another. • Each of us have different gifts that truly function when used with others. References: Genesis 1:27 NIV So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Luke 15:11-27 The Story of the Prodigal Son 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 The many members of the body of Christ
Quotes: • I think that the perfection is the relationship • It’s that coming together of individuals that make one body • You cannot be perfect without others, all together we make a perfect body • If a piece is missing, it ruins the whole picture
Take Away: Father, help us to find where our puzzle piece fits in according to your will.
Summary: How does one become “Free to Love”? There are guidelines in God ’s love to follow “ Love the Lord your God with all of your heart.....” Show Notes: • Without guidelines, life will be destructive • Eliminate our negative responses to differences • God put something of Himself in us References:
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey 1989 page 98 Center of page talks about: Climbing the ladder of success, only to discover it’s leaning against the wrong wall.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverb 29:18 KJV Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Matthew 7:16 NIV By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
Matthew 5:45 ABPE So that you will become the children of your Father who is in Heaven, for his sun rises on the good and upon the evil and his rain descends on the just and on the unjust.
Mark 12:30, 31 BSB 30. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”
Luke 23:34 NASB ‘77 But Jesus was saying, “ Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” And they cast lots, dividing up His garments among themselves.
Quotes: • God’s love is not human love • We are seeing chaos, destruction, and a mess in the world • We want to lift the limitations of appearances • There is a lot to learn from people not sitting in pews
Take Away: Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.” John 14:21 NLT
Summary: There are many aspects of forgiveness, and we address only a few here There is no heart change when forgiving on a natural level. We cannot forgive with an arrogance Show Notes: • True love and forgiveness is in God • We should be quick to forgive, so that we are not harboring unforgiveness • The only solution for today is to forgive References: The Amish church school incident took place in 2004
Matthew 25:40 NLT “And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’
1 John 4:7 BSB Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Quotes: • “We forgive that man that did this” • When someone asks for forgiveness, are they honestly looking for forgiveness? • There is a feeling with forgiveness, usually you can sense where they are coming from. • My forgiveness opens the door for them
Take Away: True forgiveness comes from God our Father, when He forgives you then you can forgive another.
Summary: Where does love come from? God so loved us that He did something about that love He wants to be loved because He first loved us. Show Notes: • Love requires an action • God loved us first • Love and kindness must be shown, or an action showing that love or kindness. References: John 3:16 NASB “ For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
1 John 4:7 KJV (James is mentioned) Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
Galatians 5:16-26 The deeds of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit.
Ephesians 1:4 NLT Even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in His eyes.
Quotes: • Who loved who first? • Love is something that makes me feel good • God so loved us that He did something about it
Take Away: Babies and children need to be shown love, “Brethren, we ought to love one another as He first loved us.”
Summary: How many young people did God use in the bible? Young children simply love, nothing added, and nothing taken away. Show Notes: • There is a simplicity and an openness in children • Many times our own children reveal how easy it is to love • Samuel was 4 years old when God spoke to him References: Psalms 139:13, 14 NASB 13. For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother ’s womb. 14. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Mark 9:36, 37 NIV 36. He took a little child whom He placed among them. Taking the child in His arms, He said to them, 37. Whoever welcomes one of these little children in My name welcomes Me; and whoever welcomes Me does not welcome Me but the one who sent Me.
Matthew 18:3 ISV Then He said, “I tell all of you with certainty, unless you change and become like little children, you will never get into the kingdom from Heaven.
Romans 8:38, 39 KJV 38. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39. nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Matthew 7:1 NLT “ Do not judge others, and you will not be judged.
Deuteronomy 6:5 NKJV You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Quotes: • There is something of an openness that some people have, and some people don’t have • People listen from where they are at • God, make us all like little children • It is a simplicity and the openness that you can find the Lord in
Take Away: It is the young people that remind us how to love with a purity, with nothing to complicate it. Father restore to us a pure heart towards you
Summary: Everything that God does is based in His love, though we may not understand it at first His discipline is because He loves us and wants a close relationship with each of us. Show Notes: • The Lord does not condemn anyone while going through discipline • We know what it is to live without love, we are learning what love really is • The Prodigal son learned honestly how his father loved him. References: Romans 8:1 NASB Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 24:16 NIV For though the righteous fall seven times, they rese again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes. Psalms 145:14 NIV The Lord upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
Luke 15:11-32 Story of the Prodigal son
1 John 4:8, 11 ESV 8. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 11. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Hebrews 12:7 ISV What you endure disciplines you: God is treating you as sons. Is there a son whom his father does not discipline?
John 13:35 KJV By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another
1 John 4:19 NLT We love each other because He loved us first.
Quotes: • He will give you another opportunity to have the victory • You fail, the Lord is not condemning you • The Prodigal son got to know his father much better than his brother did.
Take Away: There is no love if one is not disciplined and one who loves has had discipline .
Summary: Is there a process to becoming God ’s friend? God places before us relationships to use in order to bring about His will in us. As we give in or submit to His will for us, this is choosing to be His friend. Show Notes: • A relationship is like sand paper or rocks in a tumbler, taking off the ‘rough edges’ • “My command is that you love each other as I have loved you.” • Everything is a choice, where will we place ours? • “What you do to the least of these My brethren” • It is our choice as He will not cross our will to force us References: John 15:12-15 NASB 12. “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. 14. You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
Mark 3:35 NASB “ For whoever does the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother.”
Matthew 25:40 NIV “ The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these my brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ Deuteronomy 11:26-28 The choice of a blessing or a curse
Quotes: • He comes to a point where He can say we are His friends • I want to be a friend of Jesus Christ • It’s a daily choice, a daily initiative • Every step in God is a personal choice
Take Away: Each individual can choose to be God ’s friend, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Summary: How is it we can share what we do? This is a conversation that discusses what we do with each other. Never feel as if anyone is lesser nor greater than another, we are all a part of God’s family. Show Notes: • We are a family that comes together to speak what God has put on our hearts • There is a love, respect, and trust we have for one another recognizing Christ in “our brother (sister)” • A friendship that transcends a general relationship • We are being created into gold and silver vessels for the Lord’s use References: Jeremiah 31:34 ISV No longer will a person teach his neighbor or his relative: ‘Know the Lord.’ Instead, they’ll all know me, from the least to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord. “Indeed, I’ll forgive their iniquity, and I’ll remember their sin no more.” Hebrews 8:11 ISV Never again will everyone teach his neighbor or his brother by saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because all of them will know me, from the least important to the most important.
Colossians 1:27 NASB 1977 To whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. John 17:21 NIV That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me, and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me Ephesians 4:13-15 KJV 13. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14. That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15. But speaking the truth in love, may row up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ;
Romans 12: 10 NLT Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.
Matthew 6:10 ESV Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Hebrews 10:30,31 ISV 30. For we know the one who said, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” 31. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God!
Hebrews 12:28, 29 NASB 1995 28. Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; 29. for our God is a consuming fire.
Zechariah 13:6 NIV If someone asks, ‘What are these wounds on your body?’ they will answer, ‘The wounds I was given at the house of my friends.’
John 15:12, 13 ESV 12. This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. 13. Greater love has no one that this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. John 14:2a NASB and KJV NASB: “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places;” KJV: In my Father’s house are many mansions;
Quotes: • We are just sharing the love of the Lord that we have with one another • All about men and women that come together, and they just speak what is on their heart • My experience is going to be different than your experience with Christ • When we relate, we are glorifying Christ • There are different levels of walking with God • You choose where you want to dwell
Take Away: We, as a family, are exposing our hearts to all that hear our podcasts, We’ve become very close and our trust in each other is beyond a natural trust. We believe that others will come to know the love and trust we are expressing here.
Summary: People recognize the Lord in you, through your compassionate acts. How do we express God’s love to another? Christ is not meant to be dormant in us, He is to be expressed to others through us. Show Notes: Make Christ alive through your actions Wherever you go, leave a “residue” of the Lord there. Who is our neighbor? We are Christ’s Ambassadors, 2 Corinthians 5:20
References: James 2:15, 16 NASB 15. If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?
John 3:16 NLT For this is how God loved the world: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
Mark 1:41 ISV Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out His hand, touched him, and told him, “I do want to. Be made clean!”
Matthew 25:40, 45 NIV 40. “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ 45. “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
Matthew 7:1 BLT “do not judge, lest you should be judged.”
Romans 8:14 KJV For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Galatians 5:22, 23 ESV 22. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness 23.gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Quotes: When we see a need, address it That is faith, seeing a need and addressing it Our responsibility is to come and give of ourselves People know, it is not just you. You are bringing the Lord That wasn’t me, it was the Holy Spirit It’s one of the things that makes walking with God so exciting
Take Away: Understanding that God takes personally what we do to each other is a foundation where we can take compassion or kindness to show others the love that God has for them by feeding a need that is practical.
Summary: What is the Fire all about? People tend to know “about” God; not only do we want to actually “know” God, but for Him to “know” us also. How does the Fire introduce God to me? Show Notes: • The fire produces a stability for my life. • Satan should be left alone in hell. • He wants to remove the Adamic nature in us. • God wants to know us. References: Matthew 7:21-23 NASB 21. “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles? 23. And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you ; Depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
Hebrews 10:31 NLT It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
John 14:26 ISV But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have told you. Psalms 139:23 KJV Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my thoughts
Genesis 9:11 GNT With these words I make My covenant with you: I promise that never again will all living beings be destroyed by a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.
Proverbs 9:10 NKJV “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Matthew 25:1-13 Parable of the 10 virgins
Quotes: • As far as my walk with the Lord and faith, boy that is as solid as a rock. • Created a fear of the Lord in our hearts • He is looking for His son’s nature in you • Do you want the fullness of Christ in you? Then you have got to go through the steps of the fire. • Their heart isn’t full of His presence and isn’t full of the Holy Spirit
Take Away: The fire of the Lord is here to take away the things that prevent a relationship with Him, He wants to know us more that we want to know Him.
Summary:
How well do you know whom you will be relating with?
Are you willing to truthfully communicate?
Will you become best friends and commit to each other with all you are?
Having an honest foundation enables the building of a strong, healthy relationship.
Show Notes:
Do you bring flowers or chocolates to a potential girl friend? Is she allergic to flowers, does she hate chocolate? We do not want false starts.
For a marriage, did you talk before being married? Did you discuss your Plans, your dreams, your desires? How well did you communicate?
In communicating one must be brutally honest. Truth is the most important thing in a relationship. If you cannot be truthful with the person you want to relate to, it will usually come out in a way you would not expect. This is what causes rifts and divisions in a relationship.
Become best of friends, be a partnership in everything. Relationships have challenges and blessings, being a partner will help each other through them all.
References:
Col. 1:27
- To whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Notes:
Cupid is a Roman god, the Greek god is Eros
The book is titled: The Death of Cupid by Shimon Apisdorf and Nachum Braverman
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Summary: The fire comes to purify us so that we can have a close relationship with the Lord What does the fire burn? Why do we go through trials and testing ’s? Show Notes: • The fire has a dual purpose, the destruction of the “bad” and the bringing out the “good”. • We want to see our Father face to face. • We have a choice in how we relate to the fire. • God is a consuming fire, when we go through the fire we get to know Him closer. References: Hebrews 12:29 KJV For our God is a consuming fire.
Daniel 3:22-27 NLT The story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Matthew 3:11 NASB “ As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Matthew 21:44 ISV The person who falls over this stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush anyone on whom it falls.” James 1:2, 3 NIV 2. Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3. because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
Hebrews 12:5b NASB My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;
Matthew 3:12 NIV His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor, gathering His wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Leviticus 17:11 NLT For the life of the body is in its blood. I have given you the blood on the altar to purify you, making you right with the Lord. It is the blood, given in exchange for a life, that makes purification.
1 Peter 1:19 NIV But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
Hebrews 12:6 NKJV For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.”
Quotes: • What was consumed by the fire? Their bondages. • You go through this honeymoon experience, then He puts His finger on things in your life. • Your Adamic nature is going to be less and less. • There is an element of our choice. • I think we go through little tidbits here and there. • He has worked in your heart already.
Take Away: He wants all of us and it is the process of the fire that He uses to purify our hearts so that we can relate to Him, and He be revealed in us.
Summary: Spiritual warfare is something that all who have accepted Christ is going to go through, because He scourges every son that He receives. There is help in making it through the testing’s or warfare, through the Holy Spirit and having others pray with you. Show Notes: • Set your face like flint as Jesus did; “Not My will, But Thine be done.” • Do not give it an expression or attention as that gives it validity and strength making it more difficult to go through. • Go to the Holy Spirit, pray in tongues. • Pray: Thy will be done References: Matthew 26:39 NASB And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.”
Isaiah 61:7 NIV Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in you land, and everlasting joy will be yours.
2 Peter 1:4 YLT Through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.
Revelation 10:6 NASB And swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created Heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there will be delay no longer,
Matthew 6:10 NASB Your kingdom come, Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.
Quotes: • The more we talk about the warfare that we are facing, the more life we give it. • The greatest thing Satan can do is cause us to delay • Give expression to your faith • The Lord is showing me something, can you pray with me about it?
Take Away: We all go through warfare and testing’s; Focusing on the Father and the Holy Spirit allows us to go through it easier than focusing on the “problem”.
Summary: Even knowing the Lord, and the Holy Spirit; there is a cry in our hearts to know them even more We too often settle for a thimble full, when asking for an avalanche. Show Notes: • In all of our combined years, there is one thing we know, and that is what we do not know. • We are crying out for the complete fulfillment of Joel 2 • Lord, we believe, help our unbelief • His kingdom is the bottom line References: Colossians 1:27 KJV To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Joel 2:28 NASB And it will come about after this That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions John 14:26 NIV But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you
Mark 16:17, 18 BSB 17. And these signs will accompany those having believed: In My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18. they will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm then; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.”
Mark 9:24 NKJV Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”
1Kings 18:44 NIV The seventh time the servant reported, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.” So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘hitch up your chariot and do down before the rain stops you.”
Mark 1:12 WEB Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.
Galatians 5:22, 23 NASB 22. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23. gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
2 Kings 2:14 NIV He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. “Where now is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.
Quotes: • We are not going to be satisfied with just a taste • We need the Holy Spirit; • We loose the desire to know and to have it. • Christ was not led, He was driven • Appropriate the answer • He is so much more real than the air we breathe
Take Away: A hunger cry for the Lord is one that cannot be satisfied, it is an indescribable ache that will not accept a token taste.
Summary: What does forgiveness really mean? Can we forgive those who have violated the core of our very being? Without forgiveness, we cannot be forgiven. Show Notes: • Are we harboring anything against another because we cannot forgive? • Forgive yourself first • Forgiveness is not agreeing with another, or saying what they did was “okay”, We may not ever sit and have coffee together. • Forgiveness is for each individual, not the other person necessarily. References: Luke 23:34a NLT Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”
2 Corinthians 2:10 NASB But one who you forgive anything, I forgive also; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes in the presence of Christ, 2 Timothy 2:21 NLT If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work.
Matthew 6:14, 15 NIV 14. For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Ephesians 4:32 NASB Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
Psalms 103:12 NKJV As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Micah 7:19 TLV He will again have compassion on us. He will subdue our iniquities, and You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Corrie Ten Boom: Three books The Hiding Place; Corrie Ten Boom, Her Story; In My Father ’s House
Quotes: • The first thing you need is to have forgiveness for everyone • Where do you start? • It is not excusing what someone has done • Forgiveness is a gift from God
Take Away: When we do not forgive we harbor sin in our hearts, as we forgive others only then are we set free to be what God has called us to be.
Summary: In the Word/Bible, we find our relationship with the Father verified through the confirmation of the Holy Spirit. Jesus knew the scriptures and was filled with the Holy Spirit when tempted by Satan. Show Notes: • Reveal Yourself to me, Father • Satan tries to make the Word and a relationship with God impossible • The children of Israel knew the acts of God, Moses knew His ways • The Holy Spirit must bring the correct emphasis References: John 12:49 NLT I don ’t speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it.
John 1:1,2 NASB 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2. He was in the beginning with God
Deuteronomy 19:15 NASB A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin which he has committed; on the evidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed.
Matthew 4:6 NASB and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God throw Yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will give His angels charge concerning You’; and ‘On their hands they will bear You up, Lest You strike Your foot against a stone.’”
Psalms 91:11, 12 NASB 11. For He will give His angels charge concerning you, To guard you in all your ways. 12. They will bear you up in their hands, Lest you strike your foot against a stone.
Psalms 103:7 ESV He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the people of Israel.
Matthew 4:3, 4 3. and the tempter came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” 4. But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, But on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”
Quotes: • Father, gave us the Holy Spirit to teach us, to let us know the truth • It is just opening that Bible up and reading it and knowing that God will speak to you • It’s that second witness that gives it truth. • It’s not just memorizing Scripture although there is nothing wrong with that.
Take Away: In these last three podcasts, we are attempting to help understand that the Bible is the Word of God, it is a unfolding revelation of Jesus and who He is, not just talking about who Jesus was.
Summary:
There is no beginning nor an end to Him or His word “ In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” Can the Word become flesh again? Show Notes: • The Word is alive and grows each day. • He is the Alpha and the Omega, get to know Him through His Word. • The whole of the Scriptures speak of Jesus. • Never compare this book, it IS the Word of God about His Son. • The Word was never meant to beat people down. • Do not just talk about the Word, speak His Word. References: Revelation 1:8 “ I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “Who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Colossians 1:27 To whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
John 5:19 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.
Quotes: • Everything that we are, everything that we believe stems and grows from the reality that the scriptures are the word of God. • We should find ourselves in the scriptures, just the same as Jesus did. • You don’t use God, He uses you… • Pray the Word into existence.
Take Away: We want the desire to know the Word so much, that it is the Word of God coming through us, not just talking about God.
Summary: The scriptures are in fact the living word of God What are we supposed to get out of reading them? Show notes: • There is a difference between talking about God and speaking His word. • “When I pray to God, I talk to Him. When I read the Bible, God talks to me” • The word of God is more than revelation, It is an open door to a relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ • Read the scriptures until they become real you. References: Hebrews 4:12 NASB For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two- edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
John 1:1, 2, 14 NASB 1. In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2. He was in the beginning with God. 14. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 5:39 KJV Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
John 5:39 NIV You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very scriptures that testify about Me,
Luke 24:27 NASB And beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the scriptures.
Matthew 26:26 NASB And while they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”
Deuteronomy 8:3 NASB And He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the lord.
John 14:26 NASB “ But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, an bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.”
Quotes: • The Bible is not just some story book. • The lack of Revelation of the bible, leaves us without the power we need to act. • The word of God is much more than revelation, it is life. • The bible is an open living door to the Spirit realm. • You read them until God speaks to you.
Take Away: The Scriptures are more than a history of Jews and Christians. It is full of wonderful stories, parables and mysteries to be reveled by the Holy Spirit to those that hunger to know the truth.
Summary: Do we get so focused that we are not aware of what is around us? There is so much “noise” around us vying for our focus. Practice His Presence, we do not want to miss the little things. Show Notes: • Will you be aware? • It is the little acts of kindness that mean so much to others, • God wants to bless people, and He does it through other people, References: Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert Matthew 12:15, 16:8, 26:10 Mark 2:8, 5:33, 8:17, 15:10 Luke 5:22, 8:46, 9:11 Some scriptures speaking about Jesus being aware
Galatians 5:22, 23 22. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
- gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Genesis 50:21b So he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
Job 6:14 “For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend; so that he does not forsake the fear of the Almighty.”
Psalms 18:25 With the kind You show Yourself kind; with the blameless You show Yourself blameless,
Quotes: • Cause yourself to be aware of what is going on around you. • We don’t want to miss the little things. • Somebody where you would least expect it, bears the greatest blessing. • Lord, lead my day.
Take Away: A simple act of kindness toward another individual might be just what they needed that day. Let us be aware of the great need that is out there in this world.
Summary: Just how difficult or simple is it to find God’s heart? Many times our gut feeling is tied to God’s heart. Show Notes: • Let’s talk about the Heart of God • We open our hearts to Him, and He reveals His heart to us. • “Create in me a clean heart O, God”
References: Psalms 33:21 For our heart rejoices in Him, Because we trust in His holy name.
1 Samuel 16:7b For God sees not as a man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.
2 Corinthians 11:3 But I am afraid that , as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
1 Samuel 13:13a, 14 13a. Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly 14. But now your kingdom shall not endure. The Lord has sought our for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”
Quotes: • If our spirit is connected with Him, everything else jus falls in line. • It is a simple heart, if you have a heart to walk with Him. • Sometimes it is that gut level feeling.
Take Away: We can ask God to reveal His heart and He will show us, it is as simple as that.
Summary: As we are in motion and paying attention, then He will lead us. We do have the option to follow His leading or our own instincts. Being Led takes a faith and trust that He is indeed leading us. Show notes: • God cannot lead if one is not willing to do something. • One moves out in faith and trust. • Doing His will is a level of maturity. • Not my will, but Thine be done. • You cannot steer a parked car. References: Genesis 24:17b KJV I, being in the way, the Lord led me…
John 5:19b, 20a NIV 19b. He can do only what He sees His Father doing, because what ever the Father does the Son also does, 20a. For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does.
Mark 1:41a NASB Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out His hand….
Romans 8:28 KJV And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.
Luke 22:42 NASB Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.
Quotes: • Don’t pray for rain, and leave your umbrella at home. • What are You doing today Lord? • What does He want? • You say: “Lord show me the way”
Take Away: As we move out in what we believe the Lord is showing us, that is how we continue to learn what being led of the Lord really is.
Summary: With human teaching there is a degradation in transferring what is taught. How can we learn the truth? Show notes: • One can search for answers for a life time and never find them. • The Holy Spirit was sent to teach all things. • The entire earth knows about the troubles it is in. References: Mark 8:35 For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s shall save it.
Romans 8:20, 21 20. For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope. 21. that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
John 16:13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
Quotes: • It’s a giving up of yourself, who are you going to be? • We do research, Father show me. • You cannot judge yesterday’s achievements based on today’s revelations • Take on the Holy Spirit, and let Him lead us.
Take Away: Learning anything from a human stand point will lead to futility, only learning via the Holy Spirit is there hope for this earth.
Summary: Everything we know we were taught, whether right or wrong. Young people are very smart and observant; aware. They want to learn from those who love what is being taught. Show Notes: • Introduce the children to everyday life and the fun of learning. • Show them the “how to” specifically as you would like. • Make learning fun and create a closer relationship together. References: Deuteronomy 6:7 You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. Proverbs 22:6 Train a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 13:24 He who withholds his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
Quotes: • I taught them how to find a book about exercise. • I taught them how to find their ways into the library. • After that first lesson, the parents came to me, thanking me because the children were hungry to read the bible'
Take Away: The relationship created between a child and their parents in doing things together is priceless, the children will remember these lessons for a lifetime.
Summary: We have our ideas of what to pray, but is it what God wants? Prayer is not begging to God for something, it is asking for His will. Show Notes: • Lord, create in me a clean heart. • We are here because someone prayed for us. • Praying in tongues is allowing the Holy Spirit to speak/pray. • The Holy Spirit knows the mind/heart of God. • It is not my will, but Thy will be done. References: Matthew 6:9 “Pray, then, in this way: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.
Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Matthew 7:7-12 Encouragement to pray.
1 Samuel 12:23 Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way.
Colossians 1:9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.
1 Corinthians 14:18, 39 18. I thank God, I speak in tongues more than you all; 39. Therefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.
1 Kings 18:41-46 Elijah prays for rain.
Daniel 10:2-14 Daniel prays for 21 days.
Quotes: • Prayer can be worship. • I need His love, I need His joy, I need His patience. • He is the only provider, there is nowhere else to go. • Let the Holy Spirit in you pray for them and you get out of the way. • Ask for it, the ability to speak in tongues.
Take Away: Our prayer is to see God’s will done in a person or situation, not our will. Show us Your will, Father, in how to pray for these things.
Summary: There are many aspects of prayer. Jesus taught the Disciples how to pray. What is the prayer of listening? Show Notes: • The first aspect of prayer is a worship to the Father. • Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done. • My maturing is going to come through waiting on God. • Lord, give me ears to hear. • What is the will of God for that person we are praying for?
References: Matthew 6:5-15 The Disciples prayer (Lord’s prayer)
Galatians 5:22, 23 22. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23. gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Isaiah 40:31 Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.
Psalms 119:81, 82a 81. My soul languishes for Thy salvation; I wait for Thy word. 82. My eyes fail with longing for Thy word,
Ecclesiastes 5:1, 2 1. Guard your steps as you go to the house of God, and draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know they are doing evil. 2. Do not be hasty in word or impulsive in thought to bring up a matter therefore let your words be few.
Psalms 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.
Quotes: • You’re giving Him the glory right off the bat. • Let me learn to love as you love. • There is a lot that God wants to do through prayer. • We can be in His presence and say one word with an anointing.
Take Away: 1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing; Our prayer is an expression of our relationship with God our Father. Honoring and giving Him praise, worship, and giving up of ourselves to hear what He wants to say to us.
Summary: Impart the love of the Lord to the Children by your actions. An act of kindness can be a blessing to the parents as well as the children. Find ways to bless the children, where are they open? Show notes: • Blessing a child can simply be, hey buddy those are really cool shoes you have on. • You should be aware. In tune with what is happening around these children. • They are looking at us. • It's all about openness and how to minister the Lord into someone's life. References: Matthew 19:14 (KJV) But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: For of such is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 25:31-46 “The judgment” Matthew 18:5 (NASB) “And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me; Mark 10:13-16 Jesus blesses the Little Children Psalms 127:3 (NASB) Behold, children are a gift of the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward Proverbs 17:6 (NASB) Grandchildren are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons is their fathers. Quotes: • Connect people with the knowledge that they can bless children. • It’s all about openness, and how to use that openness to minister the Lord into someone’s life. • “Suffer not the little children to come unto me” Takeaway: We need to minister to the young people to give them a potential experience with God that they would not have had otherwise, had we not been kind to them.
Summary: Is salvation a onetime experience? Everyday is a new day. He should be fresh and new to us each day. Show Notes: We have an open door to be new every day Do not hang on to old experiences Do not let the past dictate your future Just like manna, we need the fresh to eat today Have a relationship with the word Read the word, speak that word
References: Isaiah 42:9,10 9. “Behold, the former things Have come to pass, Now I declare hew things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.” 10. Sing to the Lord a new song. Sing His praise from the end of the earth! You who go down to the sea and all that is in it. You islands and those who dwell on them. Isaiah 43:18,19 18. “Do not call to mind the former things, Or ponder things of the past. 19. Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert.” Philippians 2:12-14 12. So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; 13. for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. 14. Do all things without grumbling or disputing;
Matthew 25:1-13 The parable of the ten virgins
Matthew 6:11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread.’
Exodus 16:20 (manna) But they did not listen to Moses, and some left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.
Hebrews 3:7, 8, 15 7. Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you hear His voice, 8. Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, As in the day of trial in the wilderness, 15. While it is said, “Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.”
1 Corinthians 3:2, 3 2. You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3. being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts.
Quotes: Christ is our salvation every day. Each day there is an expansion and a growth Work out your salvation with fear and trembling We need a fresh meeting with the Lord, today If you ride on yesterday’s word, you’re missing it That is why salvation will never be complete until He appears, and we are like Him.
Take Away: Salvation is only a beginning experience, as a child grows so do we in the Lord.
Summary: Are we living a Christian life? What should I expect? How do I hear the voice of the Lord, the Holy Spirit? How did Jesus know to speak only what the Father told Him? What does hunger have to do with it? Show Notes: • What does it mean to be in motion? • A small child first learns to crawl, then to walk • Honest faith is putting into action what the Lord shows you or tells you • Learn to expect the Holy Spirit to speak to you. • All of us need an experience with the Lord • There is nothing in the world worth anything • God knows the Heart of a man References: Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.” John 6:38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. John 15:10, 15 10. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love 15. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. James 2:18, 26 18. But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” 26. For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. Matthew 25:34-40 “I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink” Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and keep asking and it will be given to you; seek, and keep seeking and you will find; knock, and keep knocking and it will be opened to you.”
1 Samuel 3:1-14 God speaks to Samuel
1 Kings 8:39 Then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men,
1 Samuel 16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as a man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
Luke 2:41-52 Jesus as a youth in the temple. 49. And He said to them, “Why is it that you were looking for Me? Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”
Quotes: • The principle of being in motion is a huge principle. • That is the only time I get revelation and I get understanding is when I am moving • Just ask the Lord to show you Himself • It was just the fact of relating to somebody in their need • Read with an anticipation and an expectation that the Holy Spirit is going to speak to you • Pester Him, whatever it takes, till He speaks to you
Take Away: Jesus said that He only did what He saw the Father doing, only spoke what He heard the Father speaking. If we are to be like Him, then we probably should seek to hear what He is saying.
Summary: Accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior is only the start, why do we say that? There must be a hunger to know Him, to seek Him, to have that personal relationship with Him on a daily basis. Show Notes: • Salvation is the starting gate. Reading, and abiding in His word to find a further revelation of Him is another step. • Paul had an initial meeting with Jesus on the road to Damascus, but in Philippians he says: “That I may know him and the power of His resurrection.” • God is Love, and that is to be our expression to this earth. • Psalms 51 “Create in me a clean heart, oh God.” • Start where you are and seek the Lord, by opening your heart. • Ask Him to show you what to do, how to do it. Then do it. References: Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek Him. Mark 4:40 And He said to them, “Why are you so timid? How is it that you have no faith?” James 4:8a Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Matthew 7:26 “And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not act upon them will be like a foolish man, who build his house upon the sand.
Titus 2:13 Looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus;
Luke 2:11 For today in the city of David there has been born for you a savior, who is Christ the Lord.
John 16:13,14 13. “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. 14. “He shall glorify Me; for He shall take of Mine, and shall disclose it to you.
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
Psalms 51 A Psalm of David. A prayer for Pardon.
Luke 8:39 “Return to your house and describe what great things God has done for you.” And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.
Quotes: • If you are saved, you accept Christ as your savior and Lord, That’s really the starting gate. • If you read it (the bible) and you find a revelation of the Lord, you are reading it right. • Once you become a Christian your mindset has to change, you have to love. • And hey, the scripture jumps off of the page and where does it land? In my heart. • Paul knew that there was more to who the Lord was than what was first experienced on the road to Damascus. • The Lord knows exactly what is in our hearts.
Takeaway: To find an honest relationship with God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit beyond simple salvation. To know His love for us and through us.
Summary: What if we do not “feel” like worshiping? Worship is one of our offensive weapons. Worship at all times. Show Notes: • What if one is devastated? • Nothing is going right, the heavens are like brass, what do we do? • As one worships the Lord and they enter His presence, things simply drop off. • Many times there is a point where there are no words to express. • In His presence is fullness of Joy References: Deuteronomy 6:5 “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” Deuteronomy 28:23a “and thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass.”
Ephesians 5:20 Always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
Isaiah 30:21 And your ears will hear a word behind you, “This is the way, walk in it.” Whenever you turn to the right or to the left.
Quotes: • When you cannot do anything else, bleed worship. • It may not be easy at first, but the Lord will enable you to dispel the thing that is bothering you. • All He wants is us to worship. • Many times we come to that point where words won’t come out. • Words are not important anymore. It’s that spirit to spirit connection that you just let it happen.
Takeaway: When everything is coming at you, when everything seems devastating, when you cannot think clearly…..worship the Lord.
Summary: There are many facets to worship, not just singing. There is an attitude that releases our love and adoration to our Father, giving back to Him what we have received. We were created by God to be His worshippers. Show notes: • Worship is much deeper than just music or singing. The Holy Spirit is at the foundation of our worship. • The baptism in the Holy Spirit has opened a door for us to worship; speaking in tongues is helpful. • The Holy Spirit teaches us how to worship in spirit and truth. • You focus on God and your relationship with Him, and you will spring forth in worship. • In our relationship with God, we are to be in an attitude of worship, in His presence. References: John 4:24 “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14 through 17 The coming and ministry of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord’, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Colossians 3:23 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men,
Quotes: • Worship is more than just giving yourself in a mental ascent. It is our spirit directly connecting with the Father. • Worship is not a difficult thing, it is very, very simple. Opening your heart and expressing your love for the Lord. • It is how you see the Father; we submit or subject ourselves to Him and to His Lordship.
Take away: In this phase of our discussion of worship, we find that it is with the help of the Holy Spirit that lets us worship in Spirit and in Truth and that we are not to worship from afar, but as we are in His presence.
Summary: Growing in God is an experience of a relationship with the Holy Spirit, the Father; with an expectant heart. Are you ready? Show Notes: • A major key in a walk with God is learning to open your spirit, don't read the word, eat the word. The flow of impartation is where you are going to grow. • Your drive is to meet with the Father first thing, that is your zero time. That is how you start your day. • Open your heart, God teach me to be expectant. There is an expectancy that comes by the impartation of the Holy Spirit. References: Psalm 130:6 “My soul waits in hope for the Lord More than the watchmen for the morning; Yes, more than the watchmen for the morning.”
Lamentations 3:24-26 24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, Therefore I wait for Him. 25 The Lord is good to those who await Him, To the person who seeks Him. 26 It is good that he waits silently For the salvation of the Lord.”
Quotes: • Step one, be in the word, be waiting on the Lord, be in prayer, and read the word prayerfully, • You don’t read the word when you are under pressure. You don’t read it when you are stressed out, be relaxed and be in an atmosphere where the Lord can meet you.
Takeaway: There are people listening to this podcast who might ask: what’s he talking about? It’s the conveyance of His nature to your nature. He wants us to want Him. That’s our worship. Lord, I want you to live in me, take up your abode in me.
Summary: Can you put it together? An expression of God’s love is the love shown in the natural family. With God's Love and help it is possible to be a part of His family. Show Notes: • One of the most important things that a mother and father can do for their little children is to teach them to love their parents. That love builds a family relationship that will last an eternity. • Young children are very observant and if mom and dad are expressing and showing love for one another the kids will pick up on it. • One of the primary things people are looking for today is family. Reference: John 34-35 “I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all people will know that you are My disciples: if you have love for one another.
Quotes: • We have to learn how to be the expression of love one to another. • Lord, make me more aware of those around me that I can be a blessing to.
Takeaway: When the Lord becomes real to a family, by whatever means, they start to know what real love is, then they can minister that love. The family unit is very important because it’s together that those families who are walking in the love of the Lord. A love of one another builds the family of God.
Summary: How can I be a delight to my Father? Can I accept His terms for our relationship? You're giving back to Him all that He has given to you. Show Notes: • Sanctification has been misunderstood. You ask people what does it means to be sanctified. They probably can’t give you an answer because there have been so many definitions given to sanctification. • Do you want to be holy? Accept being set apart and look at yourself as being set apart. Do you want to be sanctified just receive it. • Being sanctified, what that says to me, there’s a special relationship that we have with the Father. He separates you apart to Himself, you have that walk, true to that relationship with Him. References: 1 Thessalonian 4:7 “For God has not called us for impurity, but in sanctification.”
Hebrews 10:10 “By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.”
I Peter 1:15-16 “but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Psalm 51:17 “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.”
Quotes: • He speaks to me, and He leads me. All these experiences that we are talking about unfold and begin to happen. • It’s a very special relationship you have with your Father. Everyone relates to Him as their Father.
Take Away: I release the impartation of the growth that it takes for each person listening. Salvation is not the end all for everything. It is our close relationship with the Father.
Summary: How will I know the will of God for my life, who will teach me the ways of the Lord? The teachers and shepherds that God's placed in your life will lead you. Show Notes: • Our relationship to God really begins at the baptism of the Holy Spirit. A free will, power and authority comes in the Holy Spirit. • He gives you meat in due season. He gives us this day our daily bread. • The teacher is one who is teaching how to have your own walk with God, an individual relationship with the Father that is what an honest teacher is for. • A teacher imparts that will to learn: to seek the lord, to read the scriptures. That is where God wants to speak to you. References: Matthew 18:20 For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst. Psalm 145:15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
Matthew 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
I Samuel 3:1-14 The Prophetic Call to Samuel.
I Kings 19:19-21, II Kings 2:1-14 Elijah and Elisha.
I Timothy 1:1-7; II Timothy 2:1-4 Paul’s charge to Timothy to minister the word.
Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
II Corinthians 6:14a Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers.
Quotes: • We have to be led of the Holy Spirit in our teaching and in our walking with God. • God is so available and so wanting to lead His people. All they have to do is apply themselves just apply themselves every day. • If you have that motivation, then again as a teacher, you’ll be led how to minister correctly to the sheep if you have that type of heart.
Takeaway: God loose those teachers and shepherds, the hearts of those who would help people in their walk with God. The one thing about all of those ministries is that they are servant’s first.
Summary: Have you found your way into the living scriptures in your bible? You need someone to teach you to receive what the word is about. Show Notes: • Reading the bible is dry and does not make sense until a teacher comes that is anointed by God. • We are trying to break out, to make the word real for today. • He is a God of today. What did He do today? How can you share what God is doing today? References: II Corinthians 3:6 “who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
II Kings 7:3-4 “Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die? If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; but if we sit here, we will also die.”
Hebrews 3:15a “While it is said, “Today if you hear His voice.”
Quotes: • Make the word real for today so it actually means something in your everyday life. • Make it alive today because the scriptures reveal who Christ is, not necessarily who He was.
Takeaway: There’s an impartation that makes people in the scriptures come alive and makes the scriptures come alive to you.
Summary: How can we walk together into His Kingdom? It happens as we open our heart to our brother. Show Notes: • We want to reach out to those that are listening. The last thing that we want this podcast to be is a time of revelating and preaching. It doesn’t bring people into a relationship with the Lord. • We are looking to convey the Father's heart. Come join us in our hunger for a walk with God with a drive to see His Kingdom come forth in the earth and in you and in me. • That’s our heart right there in a nutshell. Just so you know our email is livingepistle@livebehindtheveil.com. Come walk with us. References: Mark 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.”
Matthew 25:40 “And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me”
1 John 4:19 “We love, because He first loved us.”
Quotes: • You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your mind and with all your soul. If people would simply just do that their life would be changed. • When you love your brother you’re loving the Father. You cannot love unless you have the love of the Father. We love because He first loved us.
Takeaway: Wherever you are at with the Lord, God’s wanting to speak to you all the time.
Summary: Are you willing to listen to the Holy Spirit? He will provide the answers if you seek Him with a whole heart. Show Notes: • The books you read may be inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will show you something out of that book that you can use. • We go to the Holy Spirit to teach us. There’s been a lot of wonderful things come out of those people who said I don’t have enough. • It’s the attitude of man, he thinks he’s going to find an answer. It is a people that humble themselves before the Lord and receive the Holy Spirit and let Him lead us. Reference: Matthew 16:25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
Quotes: • As men and women going into the kingdom we are creating this day, this age because we’re willing to humble ourselves. We’re willing to listen. • I think that’s our heart, our intercession for the world is that they would listen.
Takeaway: All you have to do is open your eyes and look where the world’s at. Don't blame everybody and everything it doesn’t change the fact of where the world is today.
Summary: How simple is it for you to reveal Christ? The Lord Jesus Christ is in our heart, we are a part of Him. Show Notes: • Christ in us the hope of glory. Christ being our example and the first born of many brethren. • Spend your time before the Lord. You’re carrying the presence of the Lord, and the direction of the Holy Spirit. As you speak, Christ is revealed. • The Lord will help you because you’re stepping outside of human love. You are stepping into divine love. References: Colossians 1:27 “to whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mystery that is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
Romans 8:29 “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”
1 Peter 4:8 “Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.”
Quotes: • Stop talking and just open your heart to listen from that point you just bless them. • The thing we’re all striving for is to come to that place where we can reveal Christ completely. • Love is like a food. You can’t live without it. You have to be receiving it.
Takeaways: Talk to them, let them share. Love many times is being a good listener. The love of the Lord, the love from one to another will minister to you, and feed your life.
Summary: Are you ready for a fervent love from those who love you? Open your heart, welcome to the family of God. Show Notes: • The need is for love, follow after love. Be engrossed in it. See that you love one another with a pure heart fervently. • When you read the Book of Titus you have to love young women as sisters and the young men as brothers. • That relationship is very important because that’s where you see Christ in your brother, your sister, that’s where you’re family. The first relationship we have is with the Father. Our second relationship is with one another as brother and sister. References: I Peter 4:8 Fervent love for one another.
I Peter 1:22 “Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.”
Titus 2:2-3 Duties of the Older and Younger.
Colossians 1:27 “to whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mystery that is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
1 John 3:16 “We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.”
1 Peter 4:8 “Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.”
Luke 6:27 “But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.”
Luke 23:34a But Jesus was saying, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.”
Quotes: • Love yourself, love one another. People are looking for honesty and integrity. They have had enough of half-truth half-action. Action speaks louder than words. • Satan is coming in to break up relationships. • I love you, Dale. I thank you and I take it. Love you Allan, I do, I really love you guys. And I love you Ed. We love you guys we do. • What we do is we expand that. Well we’re sitting here holding hands. That’s what Kristi and I do. Everybody opens up to a blessing that comes from a heart of love.
Takeaway: That relationship is very important because that’s where you see Christ in your brother, your sister that’s where you’re family. The scripture talks about He laid down His life for us, we ought to lay our lives down for our brethren. That’s a level of love that I want to reach into.
Summary: Can you make His provision yours? The body and blood of His Son gives you the pathway to all He has provided for you. Will you ask? Show Notes: • I want to give three scriptures. The first one is “we have not because we ask not.” The second is "we have not because we ask amiss." The final scripture is, depending on translations, “ask and keep asking, seek and keep seeking, knock and keep knocking." • The Lord’s Prayer taught us to ask, “Give us this day our daily bread.” What is daily bread? Christ said, " I am the bread of life." • Communion is a provision. You are appropriating the body and blood of Christ. Take it as often as you can. References: James 4:3 “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.”
Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
Luke 18:1-8 The Unjust Judge.
Matthew 6:11 “Give us this day our daily bread.”
Matthew 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; the one who comes to Me will not be hungry, and the one who believes in Me will never be thirsty.”
Matthew 6:10b “]On earth as it is in heaven.”
Matthew 6:9 “Our Father, who art in heaven.”
Quotes: • Touching and having an experience with the Father and being with Him. Honestly, that is the inheritance for anybody that chooses. • It’s a simple thing. It’s very simple. • In our relating to the Father, it is important that we know the principles, we are not approaching Him as a beggar and there’s a level of persistence.
Takeaways: We are to trust the Father; we are to trust Him. At this point I think the balance is rapidly changing and that’s because His nature in us is rapidly changing.
Summary: Why are the feasts celebrated? They are God's plan to bring us closer to Him. Show Notes: • He’s our Passover lamb. Pentecost, we have the Holy Spirit that He promised us. Tabernacles which is the dwelling of God with us. • The Feast of Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles are times of rejoicing. The feasts are the pattern for us to follow in our redemption. • A great platform for a family to keep the feasts can be very exciting for the kids and adults because they are learning together. • The material you receive from a Jewish Book Store and a synagogue help you a lot. The foundation of the Jewish belief is the family, that is huge. References: Exodus 12:1-23; Leviticus23:4-5 The Feast Of Passover
Exodus 23:16; Leviticus 23:15-21; Acts 2:1 Feast Of Pentecost
Exodus 23:16; Leviticus 23:34-44 Feast Of Tabernacles
Leviticus 23:24-25 The Feast Of Trumpets
I Samuel 17:1-47 David and Goliath
Luke 10:30-37 The Good Samaritan
Genesis 37-Exodus 1:6 The Life of Joseph
Acts 8:26-40 Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
(Elul is the 6th month of the Biblical calendar (late summer/early fall), the month set apart for repentance, or teshuvah, in spiritual preparation for the High Holidays.)
Quotes: • One of the commands was to celebrate the feasts. • I choose every opportunity I have to go to my elder brother (Jewish brother) and say teach me, relate to me, we’re family.
Takeaways: When you teach you learn. If you are teaching your children not only are you learning, but you are also retaining more than if you had just studied. When we talk about why we should celebrate the feasts, we have a relationship with the Lord. We have become His chosen people to celebrate the feasts.
Summary: Where is the path of redemption? It is what God wants in your life today. Show Notes: • Christ on the cross, His blood and body opened the door for us to have a relationship with the Father without strings. • We have an actual right to stand in the Father’s presence and to be transformed. • Disconnect, it only takes a half of a second. • My understanding is when God forgives something He throws it in His Sea of forgetfulness, it doesn’t exist anymore. Why would you tell me about something God doesn’t even relate to It doesn’t exist. • It’s a turning to the relationship you have with the Father. References: Psalms 139:23a “Search me, God, and know my heart.”
Genesis 3:1 “Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”
Philippians 3:13b-14 “forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
II Chronicles 7:12-22 God’s Promise And Warning.
I Peter 3:18a “For Christ also died for sins once for all.”
Isaiah 35:8b The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
Quotes: • It didn’t take Him forty years of repenting. It does not take that long. He died for all of our sins in three hours. • No one is worthy. That’s the whole point, no one is worthy, and Christ came to make you worthy.
Take Away: Do you know who the Father is? Do we know who we are? The reason being, and this is classic, ask somebody, tell me something about your experience.
Summary: Will you answer the trumpet call and come together at God's appointed time? He is calling His family together. Show Notes: • God intends for the whole world to celebrate His presence. The Kingdom of God on the earth is the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles. • There’s one scripture that ties the Feast into what we believe and its Matthew 5:17. The question of the Feast and the law was presented. “I did not come to abolish the law or the prophets, but I come to fulfill.” • As the kingdom is established on this earth, we live with the Father under the Lordship Jesus Christ. References: Zechariah 14:16-18 16. “ Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of armies, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths. 17. And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of armies, there will be no rain on them. 18. And if the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.” Matthew 5:17 “Do not presume that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.”
Leviticus 23:4-32 The Required Feast.
Romans 11:17 “But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the [j]rich root of the olive tree.”
John 4:22- “You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.”
Quotes: • God's presence is what Tabernacle is, being with Him. When you’re in the tabernacle you are in the presence of God. • The origination of the Feast started in scripture; it also says that this will be a perpetual feast for all your generations. It never says that they are going to stop.
Take Away: As the kingdom is established on this earth we live with the Father under the Lordship Jesus Christ.
Summary: Do you want to walk in righteousness? You can have what you believe in. Earnestly contend for the belief that was delivered to Abraham, that belief reckoned him righteous. Show Notes: • We all share the desire to walk in righteousness before God. We are appropriating from the Lordship of Jesus Christ in our lives to make us righteous in the sight of God. • Hebrews 3, today if you hear His voice. I want to hear what He’s saying today, putting something in motion according to what I believe. References: John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. John 5:19 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in the same way.
Jude 3 Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all time handed down to the saints.
Genesis 15:6 Then he (Abraham) believed in the Lord; and He (God) credited it to him as righteousness.
Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
Isaiah 30:21 Your ears will hear a word behind you, "This is the way, walk in it," whenever you turn to the right or to the left.
Hebrews 3:7a “Today if you hear His voice.
Quotes: • Just be honest with yourself, you are living in a realm of faith, hope and love. Now. Faith is you, expecting answers and the answers are His presence. • God is spirit, we must relate to Him in that spirit realm. We don’t have to die and go to heaven to relate to God in that realm.
Takeaways: It’s building a boat in your backyard. It’s being obedient to the little things that the Holy Spirit tells you to do daily. I believe in hearing from the Holy Spirit daily and acting on it.
Summary: Where are you in relation to being "all things to all men?" Give of yourself, create the atmosphere, take the time that develops the relationships in the Lord. Show Notes: • There are people that teach and are involved with other people. We need to learn to create relationships and be the atmosphere for others. • The scripture that says no greater love has man than he give up his life for His friend. We take our time to listen to others where they are. • Evangelism is the creation of relationships. There will be relationships formed because God, through us, provides the atmosphere needed as He sees fit. • It is an honest, sincere love that’s imparted from God. Those you relate to don’t have to know your history to love you. References: I Corinthians 9:22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become all things to all people, so that I may by all means save some. John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends.
Quotes: • It's because of the relationships that sheep beget the sheep. • There’s so much relating going on that is teaching, impartation, appropriation all based upon first your personal relationship with God and how He moves among us. • Anyone that progresses in the Lord, there is a refinement that comes to your spirit and a refinement that comes to your attitude about people that you are around.
Takeaway: Just keep loving those that you have relationships with, and they will grow and mature. I think that is what is exciting about this new day.
Summary: Are you ready to sound the trumpet? The Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah is quickly approaching. Let us create this Feast. Show Notes: • The month of Elul which is the month prior to the Feast of Trumpets, those who celebrate the Feast take time for anticipation and expectation of God moving. • The Feast of Trumpets is the sounding of a word from the Lord to assemble. • It is the trumpet call that the people hear that set in motion the Feast of Tabernacles. • God frames the coming year through the mouth of His people. He creates you to be His instrument in the earth to speak His word. • When that Day of Trumpets comes you are not only speaking His word you are receiving His word. References: Numbers 10:1-10 The Silver Trumpets.
Leviticus 23:33-44 The Feast of Tabernacles.
Psalm 150 A Psalm of Praises.
1 Corinthians 14:31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.
Elul is the 6th month of the Biblical calendar (late summer/early fall), the month set apart for repentance, or teshuvah, in spiritual preparation for the High Holidays (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur).
Quotes: • You speak the word of the Lord and trumpet in the New Year. You are speaking prophetically . We create the year. The sound of the trumpet blast that really hits the spirit realm for the coming year. • It prepares us for what we are going to become in the next year. Trumpets is a New Year in the presence of the Lord. • You are declaring what you are going to do, be, believe, meet the Lord in what is He speaking.
Takeaways: Trumpets is a huge deal. In Genesis God spoke and today He is speaking through a human agency. Trumpets creates a New Year and the next steps that you are to are to take into the presence of the Lord. We are to do that until the fullness of His Kingdom comes.
Summary: What is your revelation of what God is doing today? Let us be those who hear from God and are co-creators with Him. Show Notes: • The scriptures are our foundation. We are writing the last chapters. The Word says, "Behold I will do something new will you be aware." • When He speaks we want to listen then put it into action. • Jesus Christ's ministry was creating sons. We are entering into more of God’s creation. • The men and women in the body of Christ have been chosen as His mouth piece. It is God speaking through a many membered body, the revelation is: give God His voice. References: Isaiah 43:19a “Behold, I am going to do something new, Now it will spring up; Will you not be aware of it?” Isaiah 30:21 “Your ears will hear a word behind you, "This is the way, walk in it," whenever you turn to the right or to the left.”
Hebrews 3:15 “Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as]when they provoked Me.”
Ezekiel 37:1-14 The vision of the Valley of Dry Bones.
Ephesians 3:20a Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us.
Quotes: • Here is my act of faith, we are listening to that still small voice. He tells us this is the way walk ye in it. • He is creating us, the one group that is the Body of His Son, the Body of Christ.
Takeaway: We open our hearts to hear what the Holy Spirit is speaking today.
Summary: Two of the gifts from the cross of Christ to us are teachers and prophets. We are the teachers and prophets that Christ died for so you could be born and created as the prophets to this age. Show Notes: • Christ in His many membered body is coming forth as an organism not an organization, they are free to flow as one. • It is easy to see someone after the flesh. • God’s looking at him and saying this is the one that is going to speak a release for seven thousand people in three months. We must see him the same way. References: Ephesians 4:1-14 Unity of the Spirit
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Quotes: • If you do not know who you are then you are not going to know where to go into the scriptures or whatever it is to know how to pray or prophesy. • What should I be doing as who I am today? • We are the fulfillment of His Cross. • We are the fulfillment of His gift. • He is coming to the creation that has happened. • Out of the Jews out of the Greeks come a new creature.
Take Away: We want to see each other as God sees them. We are a son, we’re aware that we are positioned at the right hand of the Father. We speak a word into any situation. We stay positioned or get bluffed out of who you are.
Summary: Can I believe that God loves me? Opening my heart for Him to judge me with grace and mercy will create me into a worshipper that knows Him by name. Show Notes: • Do I believe that God loves me? I have found an answer. It is when I cry out to Him with a broken heart, yes God, I know you love me. • I look at it as the uncovering the gifts that is within us. I do not know how long the gifts have been there. • How many of us would take our first born son and cause him to die to save same body else? • Many of the names that God called Himself is an effort on His behalf to get through to us that this is who I am. • All things will be made a footstool for His feet. When you look up the meaning of footstool you find out that is about worship. God takes judgment and brings it to mercy and He turns His enemies into worshippers. References: John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. Acts 2:34-35 34 For it was not David who ascended into [a]heaven, but he himself says: ‘THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD,“SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND, 35 UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET.”’ Matthew 21:44 44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.”
Matthew 7:1 1 Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.
Quotes: • We have the story of us falling on the rock or the rock falls on us. It does not matter which one happens you are going to be a worshipper. • I want to have a heart that takes my enemies and makes them worshippers of the Lord, now that is Judgment.
Takeaway: It is when I cry out to God with a broken heart. Yes God, I know you love me. It is all about His love for us and about us learning how to accept that love.
Summary: What is your revelation of what God is doing today? Let us be those who hear from God and are co-creators with Him. Show Notes: • The scriptures are our foundation. We are writing the last chapters. The Word says, "Behold I will do something new will you be aware." • When He speaks we want to listen then put it into action. • Jesus Christ's ministry was creating sons. We are entering into more of God’s creation. • The men and women in the body of Christ have been chosen as His mouth piece. It is God speaking through a many membered body, the revelation is: give God His voice. References: Isaiah 43:19a “Behold, I am going to do something new, Now it will spring up; Will you not be aware of it?” Isaiah 30:21 “Your ears will hear a word behind you, "This is the way, walk in it," whenever you turn to the right or to the left.”
Hebrews 3:15 “Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as]when they provoked Me.”
Ezekiel 37:1-14 The vision of the Valley of Dry Bones.
Ephesians 3:20a Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us.
Quotes: • Here is my act of faith, we are listening to that still small voice. He tells us this is the way walk ye in it. • He is creating us, the one group that is the Body of His Son, the Body of Christ.
Takeaway: We open our hearts to hear what the Holy Spirit is speaking today.
Summary: Has God set you up to do what He wants you to do? The disciples didn't know what they were doing but they knew that everything that they had believed just fell apart. All their hopes and dreams. They were devastated. They approached the Lord wanting to receive His promise. Show Notes: • A mighty rushing wind in Acts 2 filled the people. What was important to those 120 people in that upper room, Jesus was gone. Everything they knew was gone. What do they do now? • On the Day of Pentecost believers were wanting to receive. They wanted the Holy Spirit and the gifts. • The scriptures gives us a foundation. Hebrews 3 and 4 says, “Today if you hear my voice don’t harden your heart.” When we are empty then we have an opportunity to hear and receive from the Lord. • God wants to change us. Christ laid down his life and that’s how we change. We lay down our lives. It is our choice. References: Acts 2 The Day of Pentecost - Peter's Sermon. John 21:25 But there are also many other things which Jesus did, which, if they were written in detail, I expect that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.
Hebrews 3:8, 4:7b Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me.
Quotes: • We get up each morning, tie into what God is doing, believing that before that day ends it is going to be added to us as a new creature. • God is moving forward. He does not stay in yesterday.
Take Away: The promises prior to the cross began on the Day of Pentecost and just blossomed. They took what Christ started and began teaching that He is coming back.
Summary: Why do I listen to these Psalms? I want to receive what is in those Psalms. Read with a purpose. Show Notes: • There is so much of how we walk with God, How David walked with God. • One can read one Psalm over and over and not exhaust it. • Every line changes your life. References: Psalms 1 The Message Bible The Passion translation Psalms 91 The Living Bible
Psalms 24 Rotherham’s Emphasized Bible
Psalms 119:97-104 New American Standard Bible
Psalms 33 New American Standard Bible
Psalms 4 New American Standard Bible
Quotes: Why do I listen to these Psalms? Because I want to be a worshipper, I want to receive what is in those Psalms.
Take Away: Read with a purpose.
Summary: What is the gift of Passover? The gift of this Passover is the rolling away of another age. The ultimate Passover is the Passover of Christ's crucifixion. Show Notes: • The Passover of Christ on the Cross ended one age and created another. • Christ took over the same way the Captain of the Lord of Host did before Jericho. • Christ began His ministry by proclaiming the Kingdom of God. He gave His life for it; the pattern is complete. • God ordained and is directing everything. It is time for us to let go and He will do what He wants to do. • Christ has already won the victory. Our whole being is required to be given to His Lordship and Kingdom. This is a wakeup call. The Captain has come to earth through a many membered body. • He is requiring more from us, which is preparing us for the Kingdom. This is a drastic life style change. • Christ has won the victory. Our whole is being is required to be given to His Lordship and Kingdom. References: Matthew 27 and 28 Christ on the cross and His resurrection.
Joshua 1-5 God's charge to Joshua and the appearance of the Captain of the Lord of Host.
Matthew 4:17 17. From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
II Corinthians 4:5 5. For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus' sake.
I Thessalonians 1:10 10. and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come.
Quotes: • The gift of Passover He brings to us each year is the fruit of his blood and Cross experience so we could walk the same way. • God has ordained and directed everything. It is time for us to let go and He will do His will. • There is something of a reality that is coming from the Lord, a purifying of His people of our human nature. • At Gilgal, He showed a change of Himself as a different person, the Captain of the Lord of Host. • We have to remember it is Him doing it. He is faithful. He has already won the victory. It is up to us to thank Him.
Take Away: The gift of Passover is the rolling away of an age where we thought we had to do it. Christ on the cross, He literally took over. In my heart I want to refuse any credit that could put on me for what God has done. The whole man is being required to be given to the Lord for His purposes.
Summary: What is the principle of dedication revelation? How much are you willing to give, how much of God do you really want? Show Notes: • If you are going to be dedicated to God it is a full time thing. It is not part time. • A walk with God requires preparation. We open our heart and He requires dedication. • God is going to lead you through a giving of yourself in dedication. He will pour Himself out, as a reward. • The more God reveals Himself the more there is revelation. It is a way of life. References: Psalm 103:7 He made known His ways to Moses His acts to the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 23:23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
II Timothy 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us.
James 2:8 If, however, you are fulfilling the [a]royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
Acts 7:1-60 Steven’s Defense and Martyrdom.
Romans 8:1-32 Deliverance From Bondage – The Accuser of the Brethren.
Quotes: • It is a perpetual thing It is every day you have to have a set of heart. It’s our free will offering to give ourselves to the relationship. • He wants you to walk out your free will and walking out dedication gives you an opportunity to receive the fruit of that free will. • Your dedication is a form of worship because you worship without the reward. You worship and then comes the reward.
Takeaway: It becomes a relationship where you come to know the Lord and you know what He is saying and you know what He wants for you and you know what the steps are in how to walk it out. One thing that is exciting about this dedication that God is requiring is that it has a reward. A revelation is God appearing to you in a matter that is beyond words. Let this go out and touch someone’s heart. Let them learn what it is to have a relationship with you Father.
Summary: Will you walk in two realms, laying down your life and taking it up again? The experiences of spirit realm are for you. We put our thoughts aside to feed on Him. Show Notes: • We are a generation that He has called to walk in two realms at once and that is walking in the spirit and walking on this earth. • Walking in the spirit is a rebuke to the carnal mind which is limited. • What we do in the realm of spirit is permanent. • He has chosen us. We are created in His image by repentance, turning towards the Lord. There is no condemnation because you took that moment to turn back into His presence. References: Matthew 5:3-11 The Sermon on the Mount: The Beatitudes
Romans 8 Our Life is in the Spirit.
Romans 8:1 Therefore there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Quotes: • Everything happens first in the spirit realm and then it happens in the physical realm. • We are going to make this earth His footstool. • There is so much that is opening up to us by walking in the spirit.
Take Away: This is the day of His grace, and it is a grace to become and to do.
Summary: Can this make you want to visit the Holy Land? God put together a wonderful group of people waiting to see you, living in the places where it all happened. Show Notes: • When you travel to Israel go as a student not as a tourist. There is nothing like walking the same places where Jesus walked. • Galilee is probably the most unspoiled untouched part of the Holy Land. It is where Christ delivered the Sermon on the Mount. • When you go with an open heart wanting to learn as much as you can about the places where God moved, you will never leave. • Visiting the desert, the Dead Sea and Ein Gedi you will see where John the Baptist lived and will give you a greater understanding of who he was. References: Acts 10:1-48 Peter's Vision Matthew 3:1-17 The Preaching of John the Baptist
I Samuel 24:1-12 David Spares Saul’s Life
Quotes: • There are so many mysteries in both the Old and New Testament. • It is an unfolding of a greater understanding and part of the change that happens to anyone who experiences Israel.
Take Away: There is nothing like walking the same places where Jesus walked where Abraham walked. It is amazing to see it firsthand. There is life in Israel along with a rich history, an experience that will live with you forever.
Summary: How do I reconcile my differences with my brother? How can I be reconciled to God and present myself for communion? Show Notes: • Eating His body and drinking His blood is about a relationship to Christ. • If I have ought against my brother that has to be resolved before receiving communion. • The second greatest commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. • Having anything against your brother you cannot hide it. The Lord sees it and you cannot take communion with that because you are trying to commune with the Lord and He is gone. References: Matthew 5:23-24 23 Therefore, if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering. Matthew 25: 45 45 Then He will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for Me, either.’ Quotes: • God’s provision through the communion is just mind boggling what He has provided in that gift. • Communication dispels deception because it is in your heart that there be no division nothing to harm the relationship.
Takeaway: One important thing to learn is how to forgive and walk in righteousness, It is about a relationship with that person that is right. If anybody defends me it is going to be God and if He choose not to it is His business not mine.
Summary: Is your honesty and integrity in your thanksgiving to the Lord? You have an open door to walk out the will of God. The will of God for your life is to be thankful in all things. Show Notes: • We find ourselves disconnecting from our past and our unawareness and reaching in to become more aware in our spirits. • He is there willing to walk with us, help us and show us, He wants to meet us. • Unawareness plagues everyone, Satan refuses to give up, he can cause a delay and make ones lose their focus. • With maturity there comes a greater awareness of things around you and things that are yours. References: Ephesians 5:26-27 26 that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she should be holy and blameless. I Thessalonians 5:18 18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus. Quotes: • To prevent an unawareness is to focus on the will of God for me. • We can trigger our awareness of the Lord if we are being thankful in all things. • Thankfulness sharpens our awareness of the Lord every day .
Takeaway: I like the idea of giving thanks for all things because it is not so much about how do I do this. It is more like I can do this and there is a principle behind it. This sharpens my awareness every day of the Lord.
Summary: How do I walk in the spirit? A relationship with the Holy Spirit can be formed by meditating upon His word night and day. Show notes: • How do we wake our spirit? Spending time talking with Him. • Read the Word. Find a principle, a passage of scripture something that the Holy Spirit is speaking to you. • Sleep on it. Wake up the next morning Open your heart and God will begin to speak to you. • Listening all night long to recorded material including scriptures and prerecorded messages. This will minister to you in your sleep. Upon waking up it has sparked your spirit. • Connecting to your spirit, finding more ways to know Him, to please Him and love Him. References: Peter 1:3b 3b. His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope.
John 14:26 26. "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I say to you.
Psalms 1:2a, 3b 2a. How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, 3b. his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.
Quotes: • Good morning Holy Spirit what have we got going today? • With intensity I say WAKE MY SPIRIT AND WALK THIS DAY WITH THE LORD! • You control your Spirit by your will, you can use your will and your imagination to do. • Practice the presence of the Lord, practice knowing where your spirit is, know what is it doing.
Take away: Spend time simply talking with Him.
What happened at Gilgal? God did it again. He delivered His people into His promises and fulfillment by rolling away the reproach of Egypt. Show Notes: • Moses has died and Joshua is now the leader. The sons of those who died in the wilderness were preparing to go in to possess the promise land. • Passover was celebrated at Gilgal. It was a repeat of the Passover in Egypt. They passed over on dry land. • The Passover at Gilgal was the rolling away the reproach of Egypt. God established a pattern of Passover. • The Captain of the Lord of Host revealed Himself to Joshua as leader and lead the Israelites into the promise land. • Passover is all about the delivery of God's nature and His plan for us is to be His worshippers. References: Joshua 3:1-9 The Parting of the Jordan River. Joshua 5:1-9 Israel Is Circumcised and crosses the Jordan. Joshua 5:13-15 Joshua and the Angel of the Lord of Host. Romans 2:25-29 Circumcision of our heart. Luke 22:1-8 Passover at Christ's Crucifixion.
Quotes: • The principles from the stories we have heard many times are the same today as they were then. • Paul said neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. Why? Because we have entered into the realm of spirit.
Takeaways: Joshua asked the Lord of Host, "Are you for us or for our adversaries?" He said, "No, rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the Lord." It was the act of obedience to circumcision that rolled away the reproach of Egypt. The age we live in, it is God circumcising your heart, cutting away the old.
What is intercession? Intercession is reminding God about a person or a situation. Christ bore the sins of many and interceded for the transgressors. Show Notes: • An intercessor positions themselves between a person or situation and God. The intercessors remind God of the word over that person or situation. • Where is Christ right now? He is at the right hand of the Father day and night pleading our case to the Father • You are being an intercessor by channeling the Holy Spirit. References: Isaiah 53:12 12 Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, And He will divide the plunder with the strong, Because He poured out His [a]life unto death, And was counted with wrongdoers; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many And interceded for the wrongdoers. Romans 8:34 34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, but rather, was [a]raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
Matthew 22:37-39 37 And He said to him, “‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’ 38 This is the great and [a]foremost commandment. 39 The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
Luke18 Parables on Prayer.
Ezekiel 22:30,31 30 I searched for a man among them who would build up a wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one. 31 So I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; I have brought their way upon their heads,” declares the Lord GOD.
Quotes: • God, there is this guy over here who needs you and I am going to tell you all about him. • We have a cry for others to see them set free. • There is a relationship. Less of you, more of Him, more effectiveness, more focus, more of the Holy Spirit through you.
Take away: It is a relationship that an intercessor has. Let the Blood of Christ cover the situation. My intercession is that the will of the God be done.
God is our Father, and He wants to relate with us. Take your will and set it on the Lord. He wants our all from a freewill offering. Invite Him into what we are doing at; work, play, family etc. Show notes: • If you are going to walk with God, you are going to spend time with Him. • Tithe your time the same as you would tithe your money. • The cry of our hearts is to give Him our all. • It is out of a heart of love. • It is not a duty or an obligation. • Take your will and set your spirit to be doing what God is leading you to do. • It is our whole life walking before God. • There is a balance, He understands you have other responsibilities throughout your day. • Take short or small times to contact the Lord. • It comes from Loving the Lord with all your heart. • He will never waste a minute of your time. • He will bring you to a balance , to a maturity. References: Genesis 49:18 18 “For Your salvation I wait, O LORD.
Psalms 147:11 11 The LORD favors those who fear Him, Those who wait for His lovingkindness.
1 Peter 4:2 2 so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
Malachi 3:10 10 “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the LORD of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.
Luke 6:10 38 “Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.”
Deuteronomy 14:22 22 “You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year.
Matthew 19:27 27 Then Peter said to Him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?”
Deuteronomy 6:5 5 “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Galatians 5:22 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 4:4 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
Hebrews 12:2 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
2 Corinthians 3:3 3 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
1 Peter 3:15 15 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;
1 Peter 4:11 11 Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Revelations 21:5 5 And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”
Hebrews 10:14 14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
Isaiah 45:18, 22 18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited), “I am the LORD, and there is none else. 22 “Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.
Quotes: • "People don't spend the time with the Lord, with the Holy Spirit”. • “They go to church once a week, there by thinking they have a walk with God”. • "You have to spend with
What is the will of God for today? Through scriptural references and spiritual experiences the family relates the gift from God to us of a free will and how we put it to work to bring forth His Kingdom on this earth. Show Notes: • It is a principle that I know that we are trying to reach into and learn how to forget the things that are past, reach into the new today and dump the old. • God is reaching out to us through His different names. He is showing us who He really is. • Exodus 6 tells us that God appeared to Moses as God Almighty. In Joshua 5 He appears as the Captain of the Lord of Host, He also appears to us as the Deliverer. God has a thousand faces. • People pray all the time, but it is fruitless because they are not praying for His will. • We cannot put God in a box, He can do so much more than what we can ask or think. • God in His love and His wisdom will hold you in His will until you are complete. He is the Captain of the Lord of Host. References: Exodus 6:3 3 and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, LORD, I did not make Myself known to them.
Joshua 5:13-14 13 Now it came about when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our adversaries?” 14 He said, “No; rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the LORD.” He said, “No; rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the LORD.”
James 4:3 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Ephesians 3:20 20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us. Psalm 40:7-8 7 Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required. Then I said, “Behold, I come In the scroll of the book it is written of me. 8 I delight to do Your will, O my God Your Law is within my heart.”
Hebrews 10:9 9 then He ]said, “BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.
Quotes: We need to make sure our sensitivity and desire to hear Him speak to us is attuned and that comes from practice. If Christ walked down the aisle of their church they would miss Him because they would not recognize Him. He sees the whole picture way beyond what I understand. Father, help me walk in your will. Not my will but thine be done.
Takeaway: God has given humanity a free will, he is looking for a freewill offering of love, worship, and obedience back to Him.
People pray like beggars, thinking that they have to do something to earn God's provision. All of God's provision was already provided for us by His son through the cross. As our awareness grows of the residing Holy Spirit, Christ and the Father within us, our attitude of prayer changes from looking to a God apart from us, and realizing that He dwells within us. Our form of prayer begins to be a proclamation of what is already ours. As our Lord taught us, we proclaim “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done!” Show Notes: • In the scriptures Christ travailed in prayer there are prayers of appropriation knock the door is open, you ask, and it is yours. • Prayer initiates with God making all things available to you. • It is not about praying to a God out there and begging or talking to a God up in heaven, but realizing He is within our heart s • The Lord’s prayer is a teaching of how to pray. thy Kingdom come thy will be done. • Check your relationship with the Father, h ow deeply is your relationship with the Father? If you have a relationship with the father like Christ does, he said I only do the things I see the Father do. I only speak what my father speaks. References: Matthew 6: 9-13 9 “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father, who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Our Father, who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
James 4:3 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with the wrong motives, so that you may spend what you request on your pleasures.
Ezekiel 37 The Valley of Dry Bones.
Romans 8: 26-27 26 Now in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Isaiah 40:31 31 Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.
Galatians 3:27 27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Romans 8:32 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?
II Timothy 1:14 14 Protect, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.
Colossians 1:27 27 to whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mystery that is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Romans 8: 9, 11 9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
John 16:-13 13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
Matthew 7:-9 9 Or what person is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf of bread, will give him a stone?
James 5:16 16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. A prayer of a righteous person, when it is brought about, can accomplish much.
Quotes: • You look to the Lord; open y our heart and you receive. that is a definition of prayer • It is the simple things of talking with God, finding out...
Your preparation and daily communion with the Lord is basic to anyone's walk with the Lord. Questions such as “What does it mean to wait on the Lord,” or How should I read the scriptures,” should be of uppermost concern for those who truly want a deep relationship with the Lord. Spending time in the Word, waiting on Him and your daily worship is the foundation of your relationship with the Lord, and the foundation of your relationship to those who you relate to in the Body of Christ. Without this preparation of your spirit, you are missing what the Lord would speak and impart to you in everyday life. When you assemble with the family of God it is all about active participation not passive observation. Show Notes: • Your time before the Lord in Worship, waiting on Him, reading His Word is all a time of preparing yourself for your daily walk with Him. • Functioning as a man or woman of God requires an anointing from Him and that comes from time spent with Him. • Preparing yourself to speak and hear a Word from God is a way of life. • Walking with God is not a spectator sport! • The point is He wants to have a relationship with you, and you can't have that unless you are doing something in the relationship. • Start each day with a meeting with the Lord.
References: Isaiah 40:31 31 Yet those who wait for the L ORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become They will walk and not become weary. Psalms 27:14 14 Wait for the L ORD Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the L ORD. Psalms. 37: 34 34 Wait for the L ORD and keep His way, And He will exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are eliminated, you will see it.
James 5:7 7 Therefore be patient, brothers and sisters , until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient ab out it, until it gets the early and late rains.
Galatians 5:5 5 For we, through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness.
Acts 4:31 31 And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak.
Isaiah 43:19 19 Behold, I am going to do something new, Now it will spring up; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert.
Matthew 5:24 24 leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering. the word of God with boldness.
Isaiah 53:5 5 But He was pierced for our offenses, He was crushed for our wrongdoings; The punishment for our well being was laid upon Him, And by His wounds we are healed.
Matthew 11:15 15 The one who has ears to hear, let him hear. The one who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Luke 18: 10-14 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood this in regard to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, crooked, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’ 13 But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to raise his eyes toward heaven, but was beating his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner 14 I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other one; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Deuteronomy 16:16 16 Three times a year all your males shall appear be fore the Lord your God at the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths; and they are not to appear before the Lord empty handed.
Exodus 23:14-17 14 “Three times a year you shall celebrate a...
Summary:
Living Relationships require action and Love is an active part of relationships.
God So loves us, that He did something about it, He gave His Son for us.
Show Notes:
How can one fall in love again? Act like you love one another and see relationships restored.
Fall in love afresh each day, each hour.
Love comes from the Father, God is Love. Who is the Father? A living God, a living love.
Relationships built on the love of the Lord will grow.
References:
1 John 4:8,16
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The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
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And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
John 3:16
- For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.
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He has given us all things, why do we pray or act like beggars? “Every promise in the Book is mine….” What are some actions that we can take to show how we believe what the scriptures say? Show Notes: We who believe, He has given us everything pertaining to life and Godliness. He has already provided everything to have a revelation and an awareness of that provision, change your attitude of the way you pray and approach the father. There are actions that we must do to appropriate the provision. How much do we miss because of our unawareness of the Lord and the provisions that are ours? The Holy Spirit will show us the things that we can do. The little things snow ball, a little here, a little there. We want to live by the promises in the scriptures; and the only honest way to do that is know what the scriptures give us as promises. References: 2 Peter 1:3 3 seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. Proverbs 23:23 23 Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Matthew 6:25-34 “The Cure For Anxiety”
Matthew 4:4 4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.’ ”
Luke 15:11-32 Parable of the Prodigal Son
John14:9 9 Jesus *said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Matthew 4:17 17 From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
2 Peter 1:4 4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.
Hebrews 6:12 12 so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
2 Corinthians 1:20 20 For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us.
2 Corinthians 7:1 1 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Jeremiah 15:16 16 Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.
Hebrews 4:12 12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
John 3:16 16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
John 14:16-17 16 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;
17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
Romans 12:2 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Psalms 51 “A Contrite Sinner’s Prayer for Pardon.”
Galatians 5:6 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.
Ephesians 3:20 20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,
Ephesians 3:9 9 and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things;
Quotes: He has given us everything
Are there disappointments with God or situations? Is there a legitimate cause for these disappointments? How do we end disappointments? How do we get faith? Show Notes: Let’s talk about disappointments, and how we can help people get past disappointments by eliminating that deception that is creating them. Many times we are believing something or for something that god has not spoken. Faith comes by hearing and hearing from a Word from God. Faith is a gift; How do we receive this gift? When god speaks a Word that creates faith Faith never dies it is eternal as long as that faith is in your spirit and you are feeding it and caring for it and walking in it. Do not try to do something on a human level. Take the time to write it down, what you believe, go through each point and find out what Word from God gave me that Faith. It has to be an experience where God meets you in the Word. Then take action on that Word. References: Romans 10:17 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. 1 Corinthians 12:4, 9 4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
James 4:3 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
1 Peter 2:24 24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.
Isaiah 53:5 5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.
John 16:13 13 “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 16 Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. 17 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, 18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
James 2:17, 18 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. 18 But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”
James 2:14-16 14 What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith, but he has no works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?
Matthew 16:22, 23 22 Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen to You.” 23 But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s.”
Matthew 13:3-9 Parable of the sower.
Matthew 11:15 15 “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Matthew 4:1-11 Temptation of Jesus.
Take Away Faith comes by hearing and hearing from a Word from God. You cannot manufacture it by yourself, you can't say I want to do this thing and work up faith for it, It is so important to get confirmation.
Are we interpreting what the scripture says? Or are we getting Revelation? It is the Holy Spirit that reveals Jesus and all that the Father has given Him. Without hunger, there will be no reaching into to get a revelation. “Today if you Hear my voice…..” Show notes: • Christianity as a whole has gotten away from trusting in the leading of the Holy Spirit as seen in the scriptures. • It is up to us to open up and receive that same word that is coming by the holy Spirit. • The breaking down of resistance, walls, is the beginning of opening up and hearing from the Holy Spirit. • I loose the Spirits of the people to come alive in a drive to want to know who the Father is, who Jesus is, Who the Holy Spirit is to teach us who they are. References: Romans 8:14 14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. John 14:26 26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
2 Peter 1:21 21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
Ephesians 1:13 13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,
Matthew 5:6 6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Hebrews 3:15 15 while it is said, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME.”
Genesis 1:26 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Matthew 5:15 15 nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.
John 10:17-18 17 “For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.
Quotes: The Holy spirit speaks one word to everybody, it is available 24/7 Our prayer is Holy Spirit speak to them. You have to have a hunger in your heart for more of God. "Today if you hear my voice do not harden your heart" God wants to have an experience with you everyday.
Take away There has to be a hunger and an openness to reach in and believe that the Holy Spirit can speak to us, to impart a revelation to us.
How do we see the Lord? Our depictions restrict how He can appear to us. He is so much more that we can imagine. Show Notes: • When Steven was stoned he said He saw the Son of God at the right hand of the Father. • Find a revelation of who Christ is, who the Father is, and not have a false image of who Christ as. • When people do not have a relationship with Him, they draw on history. • We also need to know who He really is. • God said no images. • Seek the Lord to know Him. • Who Christ is, is still unfolding before us. We are still learning what He did for us. • Christ and the father and the Holy Spirit are invisible to us and there is a reason for that. • If you have an image of God, then you lock him in to that depiction of how you see Him. • The liberty of not knowing what He looks like allows God to be to us what He wants to be. References: Acts 7:56 56 and he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.” Mark 16:19 19 So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
2 Corinthians 5:14 14 For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;
1 Peter 3:18 8 To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit;
Hebrews 7:25 25 Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
Leviticus 26:1 1 ‘You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.
1 Timothy 6:16 16 who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.
John 14:12 12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.
1 John 4:20 20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
1 Peter1:8 8 and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,
Colossians 1:27 27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
John14:23 23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.
Quotes: We need a relationship of Christ and who He really is. Those who have an image of the Lord on a cross or pictures of Jesus, it is a lack of revelation of where the Lord is.
Take away: Find a revelation of who Christ is , Who the Father is and not a false image. No one knows what He looks like, We know He is a Jew. Having a crucifix, or a picture in your mind would tend to create a passivity toward knowing Him. If you have an image of God then you lock Him into that depiction of what you see Him as.
How do we relate to the Lord? What is a relationship with the Lord? God wants a relationship with us more than we want one with Him. Show Notes: • It is talking to Him, a relating to Him, communicating and sharing before the Lord. • The Lord may not answer right away. • You have to start and stay with it. • He will not be real to you if you cannot be real to God. • God wants to impart to you an honesty and integrity. • Ask and keep asking, knock and keep knocking, because He will intentionally act like He does not hear you. • Continue until He responds to you. • He wants a relationship also. • He wants us to be with Him. References: Matthew 7:7 7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Exodus 33:15 15 Then he said to Him, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.
Joshua 4:22 22 then you shall inform your children, saying, ‘Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.’
Deuteronomy 6:5 5 “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Numbers 13:31 31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us.”
Joshua 1:6, 7 6 “Be strong and courageous, for you shall give this people possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.vi 7 “Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go.
Joshua 5:13, 14 13 Now it came about when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and 14 He said, “No; rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the LORD.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said to him, “What has my lord to say to his servant?” Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our adversaries?”
1 Chronicles 29:13, 14 13 “Now therefore, our God, we thank You, and praise Your glorious name. 14 “But who am I and who are my people that we should be able to offer as generously as this? For all things come from You, and from Your hand we have given You.
Matthew 7:21 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
John 14:23 23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.
Quotes: It is the simple things, just open up, say Lord I'm talking to you. He wants you to talk to him as your Father, as your Friend. God, I really want this and I'm going to pester you till I get it. Relationships work together, you can't have a relationship with just one person. It is time for His creation to return to Him. He wants His people, His creation. We are talking about a relationship with the Lord, there is nothing more exciting.
Take away: When you have a touch from the Lord , can you honestly say that there is nothing that compares to that touch.
God has so much more for us than salvation, He wants a relationship, and the Holy Spirit is provided to teach us how Receiving the Holy Spirit is very easy, simply ask. Show Notes: • There is more than just accepting Jesus as your Savior. • The provisions of God are more than we can ask or think. • All you have to do is ask. • Do not let anyone complicate it . • If it is not simple, it is not of God. • Receiving one of those provisions is the Holy Spirit. • Read John chapters14,15,16,17. They will tell you the purpose of the Holy Spirit and how He is to teach us all things. • Ask him to show you what you need for today. References: 2 Timothy 1:10 10 but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 1 Timothy 4:10 10 For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers. Luke 2:11 11 for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. Ephesians 4:14-16 14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; 15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
John 14:16, 26 16 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
Galatians 5:22, 23 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Romans 5:8 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1 Corinthians 12:8-11 8 For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.
2 Peter 1:3 3 seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
Ephesians 3:20 20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,
Ephesians 4:8 8 Therefore it says, “WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH, HE LED CAPTIVE A HOST OF CAPTIVES, AND HE GAVE GIFTS TO MEN.”
Psalms 56:11 11 In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Matthew 7:9 9 “Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone?
Matthew 6:11 11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread.
Quotes: • Many people have not changed their way of life. • There is a change that takes place after Salvation, that is the very beginning of your walk with God. • Simply ask and believe. • The fulness that God is offering us is far beyond our wildest dreams. • All you have to do is ask for the Holy Spirit to come into you. • It is a gift.
Take away: God has so much for us, that if no one teaches us that we have all this provided for us, then we are missing out on a...
Yesterday is gone, let go of what was and reach into today. Show notes: • There is a place where you need to realize that your attitudes and your actions are not producing the positive. • We disconnect from yesterday and it's thinking. • Pour out the glass and let the Holy Spirit fill it up for us. • How can I express my faith? by repenting, by turning away gives an expression of my faith. “Search me oh God”. 1. In entering a new day, then: The Lord begins to meet you, begins to help you, and turns your life around. You begin to express the positive things of faith. References: Amos 9:13 13 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “When the plowman will overtake the reaper And the treader of grapes him who sows seed; When the mountains will drip sweet wine And all the hills will be dissolved. Exodus 20:8 8 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Matthew 6:34 34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Exodus 16:20 20 But they did not listen to Moses, and some left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them. Philippians 4:6 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Hebrews 3:15 15 while it is said, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME.”
Matthew 13:8 8 “And others fell on the good soil and *yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.
Romans 8:7 7 because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,
Colossians 1: 27 27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Galatians 2:20 20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Psalms 62:8 8 Trust in Him at all times, O people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us.
Joshua 5:12 12 The manna ceased on the day after they had eaten some of the produce of the land, so that the sons of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate some of the yield of the land of Canaan during that year.
Exodus 20:8 8 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Matthew 6:11 11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread.
Matthew 6:34 34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Revelations 12:10 10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night.
Isaiah 45:22 22 “Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.
1 Peter 3:11 11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
John 14:6 6 Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
James 4:10 10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
Romans 8:1 1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:10 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
1 John 5:18 18 We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.
James 2:20 20 But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?
Quotes: • You begin to have an...
Be creative as to how to make the scriptures fun. Sing together songs that the family enjoys. Engage with family. Show notes: • Read the Word with your children, make it a fun time. • Let them choose what scripture to read. • Read as a family together, be creative. • Reading or singing of the scriptures helps the scriptures become real or alive for the family. • As parents we can lay a foundation for our children like no one else. Include their friends. • This all has to do with the family of God. References: Mark 9:36, 37 36 Taking a child, He set him before them, and taking him in His arms, He said to them, 37 “Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me.”
Psalms 59:16, 17 16 But as for me, I shall sing of Your strength; Yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning, For You have been my stronghold And a refuge in the day of my distress. 17 O my strength, I will sing praises to You; For God is my stronghold, the God who shows me lovingkindness.
Psalms 66:4 4 “All the earth will worship You, And will sing praises to You; They will sing praises to Your name.”
Psalms 51:14 14 Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation; Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.
Isaiah 52: 8, 9 8 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever. 9 I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it, And I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.
Romans 10:17 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
Ephesians 3:15 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,
Proverbs 22:6 6 Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Matthew 18:2-6 3 and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 “Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 “And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me; 6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Quotes: • " Sing , it was so beautiful to do it together" • "Anything to do with God make it fun" • "You are relating with your family and there is a connection that will never be forgotten"
TAKE AWAY: Read the scriptures together and find a way to make them fun, it will create a love for the Word.
God is our Father, and He wants to relate with us. Take your will and set it on the Lord. He wants our all from a freewill offering. Invite Him into what we are doing at; work, play, family etc. Balance your many responsibilities so that you have time with the Lord. Show notes: • If you are going to walk with God, you are going to spend time with Him. • Tithe your time the same as you would tithe your money. • The cry of our hearts is to give Him our all. • It is out of a heart of love. • It is not a duty or an obligation. • Take your will and set your spirit to be doing what God is leading you to do. • It is our whole life walking before God. • There is a balance, He understands you have other responsibilities throughout your day. • Take short or small times to contact the Lord. • It comes from Loving the Lord with all your heart. • He will never waste a minute of your time. • He will bring you to a balance , to a maturity.
References: Genesis 49:18 18 “For Your salvation I wait, O LORD.
Psalms 147:11 11 The LORD favors those who fear Him, Those who wait for His lovingkindness.
1 Peter 4:2 2 so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
Malachi 3:10 10 “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the LORD of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until d it overflows.
Luke 6:10 38 “Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure— pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.”
Deuteronomy 14:22 22 “You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year.
Matthew 19:27 27 Then Peter said to Him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?”
Deuteronomy 6:5 5 “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Galatians 5:22 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 4:4 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
Hebrews 12:2 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
2 Corinthians 3:3 3 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
1 Peter 3:15 15 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;
1 Peter 4:11 11 Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Samuel 14:26-30 27 But Jonathan had not heard when his father put the people under oath; therefore, he put out the end of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened.
Revelations 21:5 5 And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”
Hebrews 10:14 14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
Isaiah 45:18, 22 18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed...
What is Faith? “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ” Romans 10:17 Fear is the opposite of faith Faith is not the product of ones thinking or emotions Show Notes: • Disappointments are believing in something that is not faith. • Remember Satan uses the Word of God to deceive or distract us. • What is God trying to say to us? “Today if you hear My voice do not harden your heart”. • The truth out of time is as good as a lie. • The Holy Spirit has to confirm it to you. • Find what you are believing for in the Scriptures. • "Witness" of the word is your experience of that word. • I open my heart to listen and wait for Him to speak. • Faith is imparted to you by the Holy Spirit. • You should be having experiences with the Lord; You should be having some fulfilment in your life. References: Romans 10:17 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. Luke 4:9-12 9 And he led Him to Jerusalem and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here; 10 for it is written, ‘HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU TO GUARD YOU,’ 11 and, ‘ON their HANDS THEY WILL BEAR YOU UP, SO THAT YOU WILL NOT STRIKE YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE.’ ” 12 And Jesus answered and said to him, “It is said, ‘YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD TO THE TEST.’ ” Genesis 3:1 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”
Numbers 14:43-45 43 “For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there in front of you, and you will fall by the sword, inasmuch as you have turned back from following the LORD. And the LORD will not be with you.” 44 But they went up heedlessly to the ridge of the hill country; neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses left the camp. 45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and beat them down as far as Hormah.
Hebrews 3:7 7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,
Hebrews 11:1 1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
James 2:17, 18, 20, 26 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. 18 But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” 20 But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? 26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
John chapters 14, 15, 16, 17
Quotes: • "What is God trying to get through to you”? • “Today, If you hear my voice, don't not harden your heart." • "Have the Holy Spirit confirm to your heart that it is a word from God". • "I have had an experience in God". • "True Faith comes from God "
Take away: Get down to the real depth of your heart in what you believe. Start looking at each thing that you believe, one by one and ask yourself; what am I going to do as an action to express faith in what I believe. What has been spoken to me by the Holy Spirit?
Where is our focus? Everything comes at all of us to cause distractions and draw our focus away from what the Holy Spirit is saying. Many a millennia have past and no one has made this world unified or a “paradise” There is the one thing we are instructed to do: Seek first His Kingdom. Show Notes: • There is such confusion in Christianity about what is the truth. • What is our focus to be on? • What is the Holy Spirit speaking today. • Each person is deciding in their own heart. • God's Kingdom is not coming from a human realm. • The Kingdom is coming from the Spirit realm. • “Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness". • Tomorrow has its own issues, do not worry about it. • The only effective way to change is through Jesus Christ. • It is so exciting to see God get what he wants. References: Hebrews 3:7 7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, Genesis 33:13, 14 13 But he said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds which are nursing are a care to me. And if they are driven hard one day, all the flocks will die. 14 “Please let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will proceed at my leisure, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.” Matthew 3:2 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Acts 28:28 28 “Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will also listen.” Matthew 6:31-34 31 “Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ 32 “For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. 34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
John 5:19 19 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something, He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner. Acts 13:22 22 “After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘I HAVE FOUND DAVID the son of Jesse, A MAN AFTER MY HEART, who will do all My will.’ Ephesians 5:26 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, Revelations 3:8 8 ‘I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.
Quotes: • "what is the Holy Spirit speaking today"? • "Where is your awareness"? • Where is your focus"? • "God in his grace is perfecting us" • "It's better, to be honest and humble ourselves."
Take away: We are letting God develop us and create us according to His will. God's Kingdom is not coming from a human realm.
What are the little things the Holy Spirit is asking of us? By being obedient, the Holy Spirit reveals the Christ in us. Disobedience is sin, the wages of which are death. “He who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven.....” Show notes: • The simplicity of obedience , the small acts of obedience to the Holy Spirit brings the awareness of Christ in you. • What are the little things? • Put the scriptures up to your life as a plumb line. • If the Holy Spirit speaks to you even small things, do them, It is simple, be obedient when the Holy Spirit speaks. • The father chastens every son whom He receives. • When you are obedient in the small things, more will be entrusted to you. • Christ will reveal more of Himself to you. • It is the helper, the Holy Spirit who will help you into all things. References: Matthew 7:21 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 2 Kings 5:13 13 Then his servants came near and spoke to him and said, “My father, had the prophet told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?" Matthew 12:50 50 “For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.”
Romans 6:23 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 16:26 26 but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith; 1 Peter 1:22 22 Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, Colossians 1:27 27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Hebrews 3:7, 8 7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, 8 DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME, AS IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS,
1 John 2:17 17 The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.
Hebrews 12:9 9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
Hebrews 12:6 6 FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES,AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.”
Genesis 24:27 27 He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His lovingkindness and His truth toward my master; as for me, the LORD has guided me in the way to the house of my master’s brothers.”
Luke 24:16, 31 16 But their eyes were prevented from recognizing Him. 31 Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight.
Philippians 3:10 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
2 Corinthians 5:16 16 Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer.
John 14:26 26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
Hebrews 11:6 6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
Quotes: • "It is the small acts of obedience to the Holy spirit that bring forth the awareness of Christ with in us". • "The wages of sin is death and sin are simply disobedience". • "Ask the Holy Spirit to show us and to direct us". “ • As you are obedient to the small things the Holy Spirit will speak more and reveal...
Confirmation is like gathering faith. Confirmation is not what comes from what one thinks. If He spoke it, He will confirm it. Integrity is a part of confirmation. Show Notes: • Let the Word be confirmed by the mouth of two 2 or three. • The Holy spirit is speaking, how do we learn His voice? • Act on what you hear, or He will quit talking with you. • It is a ministry to the body. • The Lord will be faithful to get you the confirmation you need. • Lack of confirmation is not a necessarily a “no”. • His word has within itself the ability to see it fulfilled. References: Matthew 18:16 16 “But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY FACT MAY BE CONFIRMED. Mark 16:20 20 And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed. 2 Corinthians 13:1 1 This is the third time I am coming to you. EVERY FACT IS TO BE CONFIRMED BY THE TESTIMONY OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES. Ephesians 4:16 16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. Hebrews 3:7, 15 7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, 15 while it is said, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME.” Hebrews 4:7 7 He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS.” John 14:26 26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. Judges 6:37 37 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I will know that You will deliver Israel through me, as You have spoken.” Matthew 7:24 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. John 1:1 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Jeremiah 23:28 28 “The prophet who has a dream may relate his dream, but let him who has My word speak My word in truth. What does straw have in common with grain?” declares the LORD.
Quotes: • "Confirmation can be like gathering faith." • " If you feel like the Lord is speaking to you act on it." • "You have to a heart of integrity before the Lord." • " That Word has everything in it to see it fulfilled." Take away: I have to be faithful to what God is saying. Find out if the Lord is speaking to you.
The Body of Christ is not just in one denomination or another. By the diversity of each individual part, this makes up the entire body of Christ and Jesus is the head. Christ is not divided. All parts make up the whole. Show Notes: • Christ is coming forth in a many membered body. • God wants to give us all things. • I am learning to enjoy the diversity that exists in others. • Love is more important than being right. • God has given a gift of other people. Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 12:14, 14 For the body is not one member, but many. Ephesians 4:16, 16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. Matthew 24:23, 24 23 “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe him. 24 “For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. Colossians 1:27 27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. John 14:26 26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. Ephesians 3:20 20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, Matthew 28:19 19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Ephesians 4:8 8 Therefore it says, “WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH, HE LED CAPTIVE A HOST OF CAPTIVES, AND HE GAVE GIFTS TO MEN.” 1 Corinthians 3:6 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. Matthew 6:28 28 “And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil, nor do they spin, Philippians 3:21 21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself. 1 Corinthians 13:13 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Ephesians 4:13 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. Matthew 25:43 43 I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.’ Revelations 4:11 11 “Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.” Jude 1:5 5 Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. John 17:21 21 that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. Ephesians 4:3 3 being diligent to preserve...
Have we become to smart regarding our relationship with God/Jesus? Thank you, Father, for giving us the Holy Spirit to teach us. Do we have a drive to know who God the Father is? Who Jesus, the Son is? Who the Holy Spirit is? How do we know that we are “known” by the Father? Show Notes: • We grow into a place in the spirit where the Father and the Son comes and takes up their abode in us. • Our worship is led by the holy spirit to touch God. • I do not think there is anything in God we ever outgrow. • The Holy spirit is revealing the truth, the son, Father to us. • Send a blessing, ten times better than a prayer. • The Holy spirit is our teacher. • We worship in spirit and in truth. References: All I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten By: Robert Fulghum 1990 Matthew 25:32, 33 32 “All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; 33 and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left. Matthew 7:22, 23 22 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23 “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’ John 14:23 23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. 1 Corinthians 14:5 5 Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying. Deuteronomy 3:24 24 ‘O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your strong hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as Yours? Romans 12:14 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Romans 8:14 14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
John 14:26 26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. John 16:13 13 “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. Galatians 4:2 2 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by the father. Matthew 5:6 6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Matthew 6:11 11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread. Luke 11:12 12 “Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he?xiii John 4:23, 24 23 “But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24 “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” Quotes: • "You have to come to a place in your spirit by the Holy Spirit, that He prepares you so that Christ and the Father can take up their abode in you." • You want to pray for people? Learn to impart to them,...
What is God’s will or purpose for each of us? How do we bless another? God uses people to do His will. Show Notes: • What is a blessing? • How do we spend time with Him? • Become a conduit of God’s blessing to others • “Bless and curse not” • We are here so that God can have his way on this earth References: Romans 6:11, 13 11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. Romans 8:10 10 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 1 Corinthians 15:22 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. Genesis 2:16,17 16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.” Genesis 3:23, 24 23 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life. Acts 1:4, 5 4 Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me; 5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” John 14:26 26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. Romans 12:14 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
Just how big is the God you believe in? How much do you want to experience or know about God? Show Notes: • We must be willing and have a desire to know about God • How hungry are we to know God in all His vastness? • A person will receive as much as they are hungry for • There are experiences based on our hunger to know Him References: Matthew 7:7 7. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. (In Greek: Ask and keep asking, seek and keep seeking etc.) Philippians 2:12, 13 12. So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; 13. for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. 2 Corinthians 5:17 17. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Stress today is opening people up to diseases and a death process never seen before. In the Fathers presence there is a rest that energizes us and a peace that passes all understanding. Show notes: • Stand. Hold your position before the Lord. • We should be focused on the Father continually. • We are coming into a rest which comes from the Father. • His Spirit through us is producing His will. • It is the Day of His rest we are in, the 7th Day, the day of Spirit. • It is a joy to be in His presence. References: 1Cor.16:13 13 Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Ephesians 6:11, 13 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. 13 Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Ephesians 4:14 14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; Psalms 16:11 11 You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever. Philippians 4:7 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 2 Corinthians 3:17 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. John14:26 26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. Isa. 40:31 31 Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary. Romans 8:6 6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, Quotes: "We are being heavily tested of what we are made of." " Stay in my presence". " It's the holy spirit coming to minister a peace to all of us".
Take a ways: We are going to see more of what God has for us. Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.
Both Adam and Jesus were “Sons” of God. His desire is to be our Father, “Our Father, who art in Heaven...” God’s love is far above anything we as humans understand. God’s family is a truly functional family, we want to eliminate the “religious” thinking of who God is and find the experiential relationship with our Father. Show notes: • When a person accepts Jesus as their Lord and savior, this begins the relationship of the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit in our life. • We reach the Father going through Christ. He is the only door. • Your relationship with the Father is so special, so precious , so inviting, peaceful, it ministers the fruit of the Spirit. • We come just as we are, believing that He will receive me and love me because I am His son. • Human relationships and love dry up without a connection to the source of love. • Our hopes, aspirations, and dreams will turn to ashes without the foundation of the Lordship of Jesus, and people will argue with this statement but look at the world today. References: Romans 1:7 7 to all who are beloved of God in Rome, called as b saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Matthew 7:26 26 “Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. John 14:9-13 9 Jesus *said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. 11 “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves. 12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. 13 “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. Luke 3:38 38 the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. Matthew 6:9 9 “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Matthew 10:40 40 “He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. Luke 11:11-13 11 “Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? 12 “Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he? 13 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?” Matthew 12:50 50 “For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.” Matthew 10:30 30 “But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Genesis 2:7 7 Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. John 17: Jesus prayer that we may all be one. Colossians 1:27 27 to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Matthew 22:37,39 37 And He said to him, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’ 39 “The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ Jeremiah 1:5 5 “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, And before you were born, I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Proverbs 8:23-31 23 “From everlasting I was established, From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth. 24 “When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water. 25 “Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills I was brought forth; 26...
Satan is jealous of God, the Father, and wants to take all of His glory. He has painted a false image of God to make Him out to be “mad at us” and afar off where we are unable to reach Him. We are learning to become aware of just how much God loves us, how close He is and wants a relationship more than we can comprehend. Show Notes: • Satan has created an illusion of who God the Father is and our unawareness of God is Satanically contrived • His drive is to discourage us from having a relationship or even want one with the Father, the veil Satan has created is very thin, but has prevented our seeing Him • Since the beginning, He is our Father • He, God, is the most loving Father • He wants to give more than we can ask or think • He wants a relationship more than we are aware of References: Matthew 23:37 37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. Luke 13:34 34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it! 1 John 4:8, 16 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has b for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. Matthew 18:19,20 19 “Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. 20 “For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.” Ephesians 3:20 20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within Matthew 7:9-11 9 “Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? 10 “Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? 11 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him! John 1:1, 2, 14 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. cABPsKcROHDyBhAGlT53
How should a family relate with one another? Does the extended family have a part in raising one another’s children? What are some things that have created the demise of a functional family? How is success for everyone attained? How do you learn? Practical, reading, by example? Let us break the misconceptions that exist for families. Show Notes: • “I don’t want to do what dad does for work.” • There is probably someone in the family at large that can help learn a different job. • Because in family, can trust one another • How do we provide a successful life for everyone in the family? • How does each individual learn? Provide atmosphere where all can learn. • We are believing for a whole new foundation of learning that works for everyone. • Learn from books and then the practical understanding of how and why it works. • How are relationships affected by others wrong thinking? • How do I relate to other people’s relationships? • How do we eliminate misconceptions of starting relationships? References: 1Samuel 3:7-10 7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, nor had the word of the LORD yet been revealed to him. 8 So the LORD called Samuel again for the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Then Eli discerned that the LORD was calling the boy. 9 And Eli said to Samuel, “Go lie down, and it shall be if He calls you, that you shall say, ‘Speak, LORD, for Your servant is listening.’ ” So, Samuel went and lay down in his place. 10 Then the LORD came and stood and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for Your servant is listening.” John 14:16, 26 16 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another a Helper, that He may be with you forever; 26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. 2 Timothy 1:5 5 For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well. John 17:21 21 that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. Galatians 5:22, 23 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:19-21 19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: a immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, d factions, 21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.1 New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. (1995). La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.
His Joy is more than just being happy, more than just feeling good We are able to appropriate His Joy to be our strength When Jesus went to the cross, it was the “joy set before Him” that gave Him the strength to suffer the beatings and cross experience. Show Notes: • Jesus went to the cross for “the Joy set before Him” • We are in a transition between two ages • We can tap into His Joy • His Joy is a rest and peace • “The joy of the Lord is our Strength” References: Hebrews 12:2 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Deuteronomy 10:17 17 “For the LORD your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe. 1 Timothy 6:15 15 which He will bring about at the proper time—He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, Ephesians 2:22 22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. Psalms 16:11 11 You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Nehemiah 8:10 10 Then he said to them, “Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” John 5:19 19 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner. John 3:16 16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
How is the Holy Spirit teaching us to be evangelists today? How do we end the stigma of what was in turning so many away? Show Notes: • God wants you to witness, although it may be different than what we have been taught previously • One preacher will speak a thousand words to bring in one convert, those during the New Testament church age spoke one word and thousands were saved • In the New Testament church age, no one went out to talk about themselves, but to talk about Jesus, the Christ • As we become as He is, then we can impart to others who He is • It is about who we are, not a doctrine References: Acts 5:42 42 And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ. Acts 15:35 35 But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching with many others also, the word of the Lord. Acts 18:11, 25 11 And he settled there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. 25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John; Acts 28:31 31 preaching the kingdom of God and teaching concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all openness, unhindered. 2 John 9 9 Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. 2 Corinthians 3:2, 3 (NKJV) 2 You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. Matthew 28:19 19 “ Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 2 Timothy 4:2 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. 2 Timothy 2:2, 15 2 The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. (1995). La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.
Do we know God the Father’s voice? Are we willing to hear what He has to say? Do we know what He is saying today? Show Notes: • We give our spirits and whole life to hear His voice and speak His Word • His Word has authority and power behind it, we are only vessels or servants • We do not know as we ought, ask Him to show us • Jesus only spoke what He heard the Father speak • We are being refined as we wait on Him to speak His Word • We are going to know God’s will beyond anything else • It is my freewill to be obedient to His voice • Do we trust Him? Yes, we have learned He is • Do not conjure up a “Word” • Do not tell God “what to do” • How do we relate to circumstances that do not necessarily go our way? • We serve a right now God. References: Deuteronomy 6:4-7 4 “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! 5 “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 “These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. 7 “You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. 1 John 10:3-5, 16 3 “To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 “When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. 5 “A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” 16 “I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd. John 18:37 37 Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” Hebrews 3:15 15 while it is said, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME.” Revelations 3:20 20 ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. John 5:19 19 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner. Psalms 37:9 9 For evildoers will be cut off, But those who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land. Isaiah 40:31 31 Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary. Lamentations 3:25 25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him. Matthew 6:10 10 ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Luke 1:4 4 so that you may know the exact truth about the things you have been a taught. Luke 8:10 10 And He said, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that SEEING THEY MAY NOT SEE, AND HEARING THEY MAY NOT UNDERSTAND. John 7:17 17 “If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself. Matthew 7:22 22 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ Acts 26:19 19 “So, King Agrippa, I did not prove disobedient to the heavenly vision, Hebrews 2:13 13 looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of bour great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, Romans 3:3 3 What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? 1 Corinthians 1:9 9 God is faithful, through whom you were
We are faced with comparisons on a constant basis. “That looks better than what I have.” This is a deception that divides and is deadly to relationships. Show notes: • We are faced with comparisons daily. • We are tempted by comparisons. • We have to come back to real life. • We have to see through the deception. • It is all about loving one another. • Take the victory over that situation. • God’s grace over our mistakes comes with forgiveness. • Relationships have to have God at the base of that relationship. References: Genesis 1:5, 6 5. For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. 6. When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. Romans 5:12 12. Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned. Matt. 18:7 7. “Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes! 2 Samuel 11:1b,2, 4a, 15 1b. But David stayed at Jerusalem. 2. Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance. 4a. David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, he lay with her; 15. He had written in the letter, saying, “Place Uriah in the front line of the fiercest battle and withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and die.” Acts 13 :22 22. After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My will.’ Judges 14:3, 7 3. Then his father and his mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she looks good to me.” 7. So he went down and talked to the woman; and she looked good to Samson. Judges 16:1 1. Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her. Acts 9:3-6, 17 3. As he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him; 4. and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” 5. And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And He said, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting, 6. But get up and enter the city, and it will be told you what you must do.” 17. So Ananias departed and entered the house, and after laying his hands on him said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you were coming, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” Colossians 1:13-14 13. For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, 14. in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Matt. 7:1 1. “Do not judge so that you will not be judged. Galatians 5:22, 23 22. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23. gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Hebrews 5:12 12. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 1John 5:7, 8 7. For there are three that testify: 8. the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. Take a ways: In God's eyes all sin is the same except for unbelief.
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Are we going to obey? When the Nature of Christ is worked us, it is no longer a thought as we have the mind of Christ. Show notes: • The Golden Calf was built out of disobedience. • Moses hit the rock out of disobedience. • The importance of what God is doing in each of us, is finding Him in one another. • I am finding it easier to obey God because I know you. • Start wherever you are at. • The ending point is the nature of Christ worked in you. • We are talking about metamorphosis from a worm to a butterfly. References: Exodus 32:4,5 4. And he took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it into a molten calf; and they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.” 5. Now when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.” Numbers 20:11, 12 11. Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation and their beasts drank. 12. But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you have not believed Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” 2 Samuel 11:4, 15 4. And David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house. 15. And he had written in the letter, saying, “Place Uriah in the front line of the Fiercest battle and withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and die.” John 5:19 19. Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for what ever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner. John 16:7, 12-15,27 7. “But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper shall not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. 12. “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13. But when He, the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. 14. He shall glorify Me; for He shall take of Mine, and shall disclose it to you, 15. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore, I said that He takes of Mine, and will disclose it to you.” 27. for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father, John 17:21-23, 26 21. that they may all be one; even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that Thou didst sent Me. 22. “And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given Me I have given to them; that they may be one, just as We are one; 23. I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and didst love them, even as thou didst love Me. 26. and I have made Thy name known to them and will make it known; that the love wherewith Thou didst love Me may be in them and I in them.” Romans 6:16 16. Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? Philippians 2:12 12. So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; Hebrews 13:17 17. Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they keep watch over your souls, as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you. John 7:17 17. If any man is...
We are entering into a new time of pursuing Him, following Him, to know Him where He is. Faith, willingness and initiative are important to knowing Him and His will for us. Show notes: A new level of willingness to pursue, follow, and to know Him. We are entering into a new relationship with God. Initiative is a trigger as He cannot steer a parked car. You will hear and see as much of God as you are willing to do His will. We are being trained to know the voice of Lord. Everyday exercise your spirit towards the Lord.
References: 2 Corinthians 5:17 17. Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Revelations 21:5 5. And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.” Isaiah 43:19 19. “Behold, I will do something new, now it will spring forth; will you not be aware of it? I will even make ta roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert. Jeremiah 31:22 22. “How long will you go here and there, O faithless daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth. A woman will encompass a man.” Isaiah 30:21 21. And their leader shall be one of them, and their ruler shall come forth from their midst; and I will bring him near and he shall approach Me; Romans 10:17 17. So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. Numbers 22:30 30. And the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden all your life to this day? Have I ever been accustomed to do so to you?” And he said, “No.” Revelations 22:6 6. And he said to me, “These words are faithful and true”, and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show to His bond servants the things which must shortly take place. Revelations 17:7 7. And the angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I shall tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. (some other scriptures where the angel spoke. Luke 1:13, 30; 2:10, Acts 12:8) John 10:26, 27 26. “But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep. 27. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;” John 7:17 17. “If any man is willing to do His will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, of whether I speak from Myself.” John 8:31, 32 31. Jesus therefore was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; 32. and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Romans 1:11 11. For I long to see you in order that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established; Galatians 3:21 21. Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law. 1 Thessalonians 2:8 8. Having thus a fond affection for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us. Luke 22:42 42. saying, “Father, if Thou are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Thine be done.” Psalms 119:108 108. O accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me Thine ordinances. Matthew 9:13, 36 13. “But go and learn what this means, I desire compassion and not sacrifice, for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” 36. And seeing the multitudes, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd. Matthew 12:7 7. “But if you had known what this means, I desire compassion, and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent. Matthew 14:14 14. And when He went ashore, He saw a great multitude, and felt compassion for them, and healed their sick. Matthew 15:32 32. And Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, “I feel compassion for the...
Summary: To understand the humanity of Jesus Christ is to know His example which allows us to become just like Him. Since He is the pattern Son, then that means there will be others after that pattern. Show notes: • We must come to know the humanity of Jesus Christ. • He was the pattern Son so that we could be just like Him. • He had to live through all of what we experience as humans or it would have been useless for Him to die on the cross. References: 1 Peter 2:21 21. For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps. John 13:15 15. “For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you. John 1:14 14. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. Ephesians 1:23 23. which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. 1 Corinthians 13:12 12. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known. Matthew 13:11 11. And He answered and said to them, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them is has not been granted. 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 1. Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2. In this case, moreover, it is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy. 3. But to me it is a very small thing that I should be examined by you, or my any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself. 4. For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord. 5. Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of man’s praise will come to him from God. Other references: The Humanity of Christ Essay by Luke Stamps, Thegospelcoalition.org/essay/the-humanity-of-christ The Man Christ Jesus Bruce A Ware ISBN: 13-978-1-4335-1305-3 Why Is the Humanity of Jesus Important? Rick Kirby Christianity.com Quotes: "He is our example", " the whole oppression of the church age is being lifted off us" Takeaways: Christ learned obedience through the things He suffered. He became our example.
Adam, the first son, learned disobedience through his experience in the garden. Jesus Christ learned obedience through the things he suffered. Jesus opened the door for us to return to that relationship as sons to the Father.
Show Notes: We can learn from Creation as God can use anything to teach us if we are open.
God was teaching Adam and Eve and would have taught them about the tree of good and evil when they were ready.
God created man with a free will and after eating the fruit, realized that they made a mistake. We now have a struggle to make the right decisions.
Adam and Eve walked with God in the cool of the evening, Christ died so that we could have that relationship with God once again.
Those who have the revelation of the Father and of the Son and that have the revelation that they are a Son are the ones that see the big picture.
Why did God give us free will? He wants us to love Him because of our choice or else it would be a false worship.
God is bringing forth His Sons, bringing them forth by their free will, not forced to do it.
Reach into the Spirit and find out what we need to be doing, feel the heart of the Father.
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Gen. 2:15-20
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Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.
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The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;
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but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”
18. Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”
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Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
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The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.
Gen 3:3:8-19
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“but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.”
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They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9.Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
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He said, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
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And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
12.The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”
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Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
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The LORD God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life;
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And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He sh
Does God in the sky meet us? Or is it in our brothers and sisters? It says, “Christ in you, the Hope of Glory”, do we believe this? Where is Christ? Is He not in His creation, all around us? It is our minds that limit how we perceive the Christ.
Show notes:
We thought that it was God in the sky that should come down and meet with us. But we are finding that it is in our brothers and sisters, those around us, where He chooses to meet us today.
If we become to familiar with someone, then we know them after the flesh and probably will not hear or see the Christ in them.
It is “Christ in you, the hope of glory” that I must open up to. It is so real and practical and not ethereal, He is seen through faith.
He chooses imperfect human vessels to dwell in.
Our minds are what limit how Christ can minister to each of us, if we are attuned to His Word and are paying attention, then we will hear Him speak to us.
As we seek Him, He will be known by us. We need to stop restore mankind’s relationship with the Father.
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Hebrews 1:13
- But to which of the angels has He ever said, “Sit at MY right hand, until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet”?
Hebrews 10:13
13. waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet.
Romans 8:9-11
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However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of god dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
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If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
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But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
1 Corinthians 3:16
16. Do you not know that you a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
2 Corinthians 4:7
7. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;
How confident are you that you are where God wants you? Do you know who you are? Do you know His voice? It is very practical and easy to connect with Him where He is. Ask the Lord if “this” is where He wants you, get confirmation Ask God for that confirmation.
Show notes:
God is very practical and easy, not afar off, He is right here.
Connect with Him where He is, you do not need to travel a thousand miles because you heard of someone speaking something about God.
If you are in a “dead” church, then find where you can find life.
Ask God to reveal where He wants you, our feelings do not matter as our feelings will not always be correct.
How does one find the will of the Father for them? What is the process? How does one find the “proof”?
Like Gideon, ask God for confirmation, He will give it.
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1 Kings 19:11,12
- So He said, “Go forth and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord was passing by! And a great and strong wind was rending the mountains and breaking in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind and earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
12. After the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing.
Genesis 1:2
2. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
John 17:20,21
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“I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word;
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that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
1 Corinthians 12:18
18. But now God has placed the members, each one of them in the body, just as He desired
Jonah 1:2,3
2. “Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.”
- But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. So, he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
Hebrews 13:17
17. Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.
1 Corinthians 2:10
- For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
1 Peter 1:12
12. It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
Acts 13:1a, 2
1a. Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers:
- While they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Galatians 5:15, 19-21
- But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.
Every marriage is different, so how can we progress from here? Do we start over? How do we Love one another afresh? What roll does God play with Marriages? Show Notes:
What do we do with an existing marriage relationship?
Each couple is different and there are varying levels of how they are relating, are they in troubled waters? How do they get on the same page with one another?
Start over. Start anew, yesterday is gone and nothing can be done to change what has happened. The good, the bad, indifferent etc. Start afresh. Start dating again, start asking questions.
A relationship must be nurtured, worked at and expressed.
What are your goals as a couple?
Commitment is a must in any relationship, honesty and integrity are foundations for commitment.
God created marriage. The purpose of a marriage is to serve God. Each individual has their respective relationship with God, and it needs to grow daily. Same with a marriage, it needs to grow in God as well as with each other. Without the help of the Holy Spirit guiding the failure rates are remarkably high. Look at statistics, even in the churches today, failed marriages are too high.
References: Gen 2:23,24
23. And the man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
24. For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
Matt 19:5,6
5. And said, ’For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh’?
6. “Consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh.
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
How well do you know whom you will be relating with? Are you willing to truthfully communicate? Will you become best friends and commit to each other with all you are? Having an honest foundation enables the building of a strong, healthy relationship. Show Notes:
Do you bring flowers or chocolates to a potential girl friend? Is she allergic to flowers, does she hate chocolate? We do not want false starts.
For a marriage, did you talk before being married? Did you discuss your plans, your dreams, your desires? How well did you communicate?
In communicating one must be brutally honest. Truth is the most important thing in a relationship. If you cannot be truthful with the person you want to relate to, it will usually come out in a way you would not expect. This is what causes rifts and divisions in a relationship.
Become best of friends, be a partnership in everything. Relationships have challenges and blessings, being a partner will help each other through them all.
References: Col. 1:27
27. To whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Notes:
Cupid is a Roman god, the Greek god is Eros The book is titled: The Death of Cupid by Shimon Apisdorf and Nachum Braverman
Relationships start with God’s love. Everything in God is based on relationships. He wants people to love with His love. Friends and acquaintances are important, a simple smile can create a lifelong relationship
Show Notes: Do we want to create relationships? Do we tend to be arrogant and make others feel inferior? The Pharisees knew the scriptures, and we learn that “The letter kills but the spirit gives life”.
Right relationships start with receiving God’s love. He wants people to love with His love. God Freights our words with His Spirit and we are to just speak and/or make eye contact with a smile, which are means to impart His love. Relationships are what matter; they are far more important that having all the answers. The age and or experience level are irrelevant, it is the relationship that ministers.
Expect to hear God speak through another, God flows through people. Right relationships are created by a word from God.
References:
1 Cor. 3:6-9 6. I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.
7. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.
8. Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
2 Cor. 3:6 6. who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
1 John 4:9-13 9. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
10. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12. No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.
13. By this we know that we abide in Him and He is us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
1 John 4:19 19. We love, because He first loved us.
Living Relationships require action and Love is an active part of relationships. God so loves us, that He did something about it, He gave His Son for us. We must put into action our love also.
Show Notes:
How can one fall in love again? Act like you love one another and see relationships restored. Fall in love afresh each day, each hour. Love comes from the Father, God is Love. Who is the Father? A living God, a living love. Relationships built on the love of the Lord will grow.
Key Verses:
1 John 4:8,16 "The one who does not love does not know God , for God is love."
" And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him."
John 3:16
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life."
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