THE WORLD IS AGAIN
FLOODED BY WATER
Brother James, OIC
2Pe 3:1-7 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2Pe 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
There is only one thing that can purify you, that can remove the spots of false doctrines, that you can repent to and that is TRUTH. Jesus stated that His words are spirit and they are life. The world today is again flooded, symbolically by water, by the words of false doctrines that do give life but produce death through false teachers in the Church and in the world. These use words to control you, put you fear or hold you captive, they pronounce you as sick, as sinners going to hell, as never being able to fully recover, that the Devil doesn’t exist or is not to blame but that your problems are your flesh’s fault, that your solution is medicine, psychologies, philosophies or step programs or even doing works of the Law but it isn’t. YOUR ONLY HOPE IS JESUS CHRIST WHO IS GODS WORD INCARNATE. GODS WORD IS YOUR SOLUTION AND WANTS TO BECOME INCARNATE IN YOU. THEREFORE THE SOLUTION FOR YOU AND YOUR LIFE CAN ONLY BE RECEIVED BY YOUR RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE TRUTH OF GODS WORD. IT IS THE ONLY WORD THAT CAN TRULY, SAVE YOU, CLEANSE YOU, DELIVER YOU, WASH YOU AND PURGE YOU AND IT MUST ABIDE IN YOUR HEART. IT IS TRUTH THAT BIRTHS THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST (GODS ANOINTING) IN YOU AND IT’S THE ANOINTING THAT BREAKS ALL THE YOKES SATAN USES TO HAVE US LOOKING EVERYWHERE ELSE OTHER THAN TRUTH FOR OUR SOLUTIONS. GODS TRUTH CHANGES YOU INTO A NEW CREATION THAT’S ANOINTED TO DO GODS WORK, HIS WILL FOR YOUR LIFE AND IT WILL FLOW OUT OF YOU LIKE RIVERS OF LIVING WATER.
2Ti 2:24-26 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
I recently went to a Church which at first glance appealed to me. But after listening the Pastor was constantly judging and condemning and could only preach from handwritten sermons. No doubt if it’s Truth being read it will save others but if it doesn’t flow out of the minister in Living Words than I question where he is in growth in Christ or if he is truly the called of God. But if all they teach is out of both sides of their mouth one minute Grace without knowledge of Truth the next Law with works, evil judgments or worse worldly solutions there is no stability in doctrine, he is a false teacher an end time apostate. I noticed that myself and everyone that visited was told that his Church was suppose to be their home Church that God brought us to him, I actually was invited by a friend who quit the Church twice while I was visiting and now is only back because of friends who go there. Today more than ever Satan has sent out his army of demons appearing as Angels of Light whose ministers only appear as Ministers of Righteousness but there is no Sincere Truth in them. There is a flood of False Doctrine in the world today. And these are gossipers, backbiters having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof.
But Gods Truth is called spirit and life:
Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Cleansing Water, spot and wrinkle remover:
Eph 5:23-27 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
It is Living and Powerful:
Heb 4:9 -14 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
Profession is confession of Truth because:
Pro 18:19-21 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
It is not okay to preach even a little false doctrine as Jesus stated a little leaven leavens the whole lump and judgment on those false ministers of Satan who cause offenses who gossip and teach false doctrine is set:
Mat 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
RELIGION KILLS THE HOLY SPIRIT BUILDS James, OIC
RELIGION KILLS
THE HOLY SPIRIT BUILDS
Brother James, OIC
Jas 1:25-27 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
I know above anything else Satan has tried to use to destroy Gods Will in my life is religion. The word religion was applied more times than any where to the Jews Religion.
The Jews were keepers of the Law, a Law God gave to revive sin in the heart of man until the redemption paid in full by Christ. The Pharisees were the epitome of the law, judging self righteously everything out of the sight of their eyes and the hearing of their ears but never with the Grace of God in the Love of Christ with Righteous Judgment. Today this unrighteous evil judgment abounds in the Americanized Church. They do this not discerning Christ’s Body and are asleep to Truth and are in sickness often:
1Co 11:27-29 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
One of the biggest misconceptions of this scripture is that it is only pertaining to the actual partaking of the Sacrament of Communion. Which does but is inclusive of fellowship in the Body. Who is Christ’s Body then. This is what Jesus says:
Mat 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.
The Pharisees who are the epitome of everything wrong in the Church today were described by Jesus like this:
Mat 23:23-29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
When you can love The Least of these without prejudice and hypocritical judgment then
The Kingdom of God will be close at hand in your life until then your Religion is useless.
Awake to true Righteousness which is not of the Law but Faith in Christ Who taught us to Love like this:
1Co 13:7 -8 (LOVE) Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
Love others today not in word nor hypocritical deed but in Spirit and Truth and the Holy Spirit will buil your house into truly a Holy Temple fit for God.
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THE HOLY SPIRIT BUILDS
Brother James, OIC
Jas 1:25-27 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
I know above anything else Satan has tried to use to destroy Gods Will in my life is religion. The word religion was applied more times than any where to the Jews Religion.
The Jews were keepers of the Law, a Law God gave to revive sin in the heart of man until the redemption paid in full by Christ. The Pharisees were the epitome of the law, judging self righteously everything out of the sight of their eyes and the hearing of their ears but never with the Grace of God in the Love of Christ with Righteous Judgment. Today this unrighteous evil judgment abounds in the Americanized Church. They do this not discerning Christ’s Body and are asleep to Truth and are in sickness often:
1Co 11:27-29 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
One of the biggest misconceptions of this scripture is that it is only pertaining to the actual partaking of the Sacrament of Communion. Which does but is inclusive of fellowship in the Body. Who is Christ’s Body then. This is what Jesus says:
Mat 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.
The Pharisees who are the epitome of everything wrong in the Church today were described by Jesus like this:
Mat 23:23-29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
When you can love The Least of these without prejudice and hypocritical judgment then
The Kingdom of God will be close at hand in your life until then your Religion is useless.
Awake to true Righteousness which is not of the Law but Faith in Christ Who taught us to Love like this:
1Co 13:7 -8 (LOVE) Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
Love others today not in word nor hypocritical deed but in Spirit and Truth and the Holy Spirit will buil your house into truly a Holy Temple fit for God.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
FAMILIAR SPIRITS VS. A SOUND MIND James, OIC
FAMILIAR SPIRITS
VS.
A SOUND MIND
Brother James, OIC
Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
2Ti 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
A dear friend asked me recently if I thought she was bi-polar? Heavens no not if you will only believe and do what Gods Will is for your life and not allow the Adversary entry into your thoughts to turn you again to the spirit of bondage unto fear from what God has called you to do.
Fear and confusion enters into your lives when you return again to bondage, a bondage usually from your past that God caused you to escape from. Familiar spirits that held you in bondage produce these thoughts. This return again to bondage occurs after someone has escaped in Christ and are facing trials of Faith that are unfamiliar to them that the adversary uses to delude them into turning t back to their familiar pasts:
2Pe 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Those who live in error are those who do not know the Truth of Gods Word. They may be in Church may say they are a believer but their doctrines are false. And in these perilous times these apostates are in abundance.
I believe many have a tendency to only remember the good and tend to forget the bad from their pasts. Then when they are tricked to returning to their pasts the deception fades and they are right back in what God had caused them to escape from.
More than anything else a life in Christ is one of determination. It is a determination that you do not run in fear from testing of faith. Familiar spirits are always ready to take opportunity to entice you again by a spirit of bondage again unto fear.
Eph 6:10-13 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Understand that your problem is not flesh and blood but you need to remember that familiar spirits will work through people from your pasts and those around you, if you remain rooted in Truth then you will recognize the schemes of the enemy and have a sound mind to stand against his tricks.
VS.
A SOUND MIND
Brother James, OIC
Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
2Ti 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
A dear friend asked me recently if I thought she was bi-polar? Heavens no not if you will only believe and do what Gods Will is for your life and not allow the Adversary entry into your thoughts to turn you again to the spirit of bondage unto fear from what God has called you to do.
Fear and confusion enters into your lives when you return again to bondage, a bondage usually from your past that God caused you to escape from. Familiar spirits that held you in bondage produce these thoughts. This return again to bondage occurs after someone has escaped in Christ and are facing trials of Faith that are unfamiliar to them that the adversary uses to delude them into turning t back to their familiar pasts:
2Pe 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Those who live in error are those who do not know the Truth of Gods Word. They may be in Church may say they are a believer but their doctrines are false. And in these perilous times these apostates are in abundance.
I believe many have a tendency to only remember the good and tend to forget the bad from their pasts. Then when they are tricked to returning to their pasts the deception fades and they are right back in what God had caused them to escape from.
More than anything else a life in Christ is one of determination. It is a determination that you do not run in fear from testing of faith. Familiar spirits are always ready to take opportunity to entice you again by a spirit of bondage again unto fear.
Eph 6:10-13 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Understand that your problem is not flesh and blood but you need to remember that familiar spirits will work through people from your pasts and those around you, if you remain rooted in Truth then you will recognize the schemes of the enemy and have a sound mind to stand against his tricks.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
WHY LOVE NEVER FAILS James, OIC
WHY LOVE NEVER FAILS
Brother James, OIC
1Co 13:1 -13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not LOVE, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not LOVE, it profiteth me nothing.
LOVE suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; LOVE vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
LOVE never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, LOVE, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE.
There are many reasons Love Never Fails. From right motives to laying down your life for another Love makes it alive and causes supernatural faith to go forth and effect holy and supernatural changes around you. One of the biggest reasons Love Never Fails is that Love is of God and God is Love:
1Jn 4:3-8 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Love is the single most identifying characteristic of God that reveals that Christ is formed in you. Being so it is therefore more than a response to others, it is what is produced in those who are the called of God as good fruit:
Gal 5:22-25 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
This fruit can be imitated but in spiritual reality for it to mature it requires keeping the rightly divided Truth of Gods Word in your heart:
1Jn 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
And finally it is the activator of Faith through which we are pleasing to God.
Gal 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
1Cor 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, LOVE, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE.
Brother James, OIC
1Co 13:1 -13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not LOVE, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not LOVE, it profiteth me nothing.
LOVE suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; LOVE vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
LOVE never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, LOVE, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE.
There are many reasons Love Never Fails. From right motives to laying down your life for another Love makes it alive and causes supernatural faith to go forth and effect holy and supernatural changes around you. One of the biggest reasons Love Never Fails is that Love is of God and God is Love:
1Jn 4:3-8 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Love is the single most identifying characteristic of God that reveals that Christ is formed in you. Being so it is therefore more than a response to others, it is what is produced in those who are the called of God as good fruit:
Gal 5:22-25 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
This fruit can be imitated but in spiritual reality for it to mature it requires keeping the rightly divided Truth of Gods Word in your heart:
1Jn 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
And finally it is the activator of Faith through which we are pleasing to God.
Gal 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
1Cor 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, LOVE, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE.
Monday, October 25, 2010
MEEKNESS OF GOD’S WISDOM VS. THE WORLDS WISDOM THAT’S CONFUSION James, OIC
MEEKNESS OF GOD’S WISDOM
VS.
THE WORLDS WISDOM THAT’S CONFUSION
Brother James, OIC
1Co 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace,
as in all churches of the saints.
Jas 3:12-15 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
There are two wisdoms present on the earth today: the wisdom of the world which is full of confusion and Gods wisdom which is Christ. The wisdom of the world is birthed out of darkness, appeals to your reasoning’s and fits in with what’s acceptable to the world and its god Satan.
1Co 1:19-20 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1Co 3:16-19 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
The wisdom of this world and it’s god Satan appeals to your reasoning and appear right in directing your decisions but God says different:
Pro 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Defiling the temple has nothing to do with what goes into your body but what the world’s dark wisdom dictates in your heart and you speak it:
Mat 15:9-18 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable. And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Many called of God faced deliverance only to turn back to their past by listening to worldly wisdom. And most of the time this dark counsel parades itself as Christ. Those who wait on the Lord seeking His Wisdom are never put to shame. This Wisdom makes a stand in Faith on the Promises of God against such demonic.
Eph 3:7 -13 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
Gods Wisdom will certainly bring you face to face with tribulation, but Gods Wisdom is coupled with Gods Power, which is Christ in you the hope of glory:
1Co 1:24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
This Wisdom will not make sense to the world its fallen solutions its way of thinking its reasoning but will bring you to victory in Christ in this life and the next eternal life.
VS.
THE WORLDS WISDOM THAT’S CONFUSION
Brother James, OIC
1Co 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace,
as in all churches of the saints.
Jas 3:12-15 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
There are two wisdoms present on the earth today: the wisdom of the world which is full of confusion and Gods wisdom which is Christ. The wisdom of the world is birthed out of darkness, appeals to your reasoning’s and fits in with what’s acceptable to the world and its god Satan.
1Co 1:19-20 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1Co 3:16-19 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
The wisdom of this world and it’s god Satan appeals to your reasoning and appear right in directing your decisions but God says different:
Pro 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Defiling the temple has nothing to do with what goes into your body but what the world’s dark wisdom dictates in your heart and you speak it:
Mat 15:9-18 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable. And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Many called of God faced deliverance only to turn back to their past by listening to worldly wisdom. And most of the time this dark counsel parades itself as Christ. Those who wait on the Lord seeking His Wisdom are never put to shame. This Wisdom makes a stand in Faith on the Promises of God against such demonic.
Eph 3:7 -13 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
Gods Wisdom will certainly bring you face to face with tribulation, but Gods Wisdom is coupled with Gods Power, which is Christ in you the hope of glory:
1Co 1:24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
This Wisdom will not make sense to the world its fallen solutions its way of thinking its reasoning but will bring you to victory in Christ in this life and the next eternal life.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
WHAT IS MOCKING GOD? James, OIC
WHAT IS MOCKING GOD?
Brother James, OIC
Gal 6:7-10 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
It is written; “The flesh profits nothing.” It is also written that; “flesh and blood will never enter the Kingdom of God.” Since these things are a given what then is mocking God?
Mock Greek: muktērizō
mook'-tay-rid'-zo
From a derivative of the base of (meaning snout, as that whence lowing proceeds from); to make mouths at, that is, ridicule: - mock.
To mock God is to take Carnal Doctrines, False Solutions, False Doctrines and confess them as Truth. This infiltration of lies into the Gospel corrupts the Truth and ridicules God Who reconciled us back to Himself through Jesus Christ Who is the Way, the Truth and the Life of God.
Have you heard a preacher preach Jesus plus medicines they are usually ate up with pharmaceuticals? Have you heard a preacher preach Jesus and the 12 steps he is on a wide path of destruction? How about one that mixes psychologies in with the Gospel, or Philosophies, or works in with Gospel? This is all mocking God it is bringing the flesh into the Body of Christ and then corruption is eminent.
To ridicule God is to tell God His Promises are not enough that what the world offers needs to added to them. But didn’t God give man wisdom to do these things? No that’s a lie from the pits of hell.
Paul had this problem arise in the Church of Galatia:
Gal 1:6-9 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Gal 3:1-4 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
I have a dear friend that was getting a solid hold on Truth that’s now turned back to bad counsel and what appears right to man. It is easy to believe the lie. Why? Because most lies start at something you want or wanted to work for you in the past. Then when the glossy illusion of the lie has faded you discover everything you just went through was for nothing.
The world and the flesh are filled with the works of the law. In fact the Law was given by God to reveal the struggle between the knowledge of good and the knowledge of evil that’s been in man since Adam. BUT the Law is for the flesh and the knowledge of good and evil are both in the flesh. And mans efforts always mock God But only the Hearing of Faith pleases Him.
Brother James, OIC
Gal 6:7-10 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
It is written; “The flesh profits nothing.” It is also written that; “flesh and blood will never enter the Kingdom of God.” Since these things are a given what then is mocking God?
Mock Greek: muktērizō
mook'-tay-rid'-zo
From a derivative of the base of (meaning snout, as that whence lowing proceeds from); to make mouths at, that is, ridicule: - mock.
To mock God is to take Carnal Doctrines, False Solutions, False Doctrines and confess them as Truth. This infiltration of lies into the Gospel corrupts the Truth and ridicules God Who reconciled us back to Himself through Jesus Christ Who is the Way, the Truth and the Life of God.
Have you heard a preacher preach Jesus plus medicines they are usually ate up with pharmaceuticals? Have you heard a preacher preach Jesus and the 12 steps he is on a wide path of destruction? How about one that mixes psychologies in with the Gospel, or Philosophies, or works in with Gospel? This is all mocking God it is bringing the flesh into the Body of Christ and then corruption is eminent.
To ridicule God is to tell God His Promises are not enough that what the world offers needs to added to them. But didn’t God give man wisdom to do these things? No that’s a lie from the pits of hell.
Paul had this problem arise in the Church of Galatia:
Gal 1:6-9 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Gal 3:1-4 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
I have a dear friend that was getting a solid hold on Truth that’s now turned back to bad counsel and what appears right to man. It is easy to believe the lie. Why? Because most lies start at something you want or wanted to work for you in the past. Then when the glossy illusion of the lie has faded you discover everything you just went through was for nothing.
The world and the flesh are filled with the works of the law. In fact the Law was given by God to reveal the struggle between the knowledge of good and the knowledge of evil that’s been in man since Adam. BUT the Law is for the flesh and the knowledge of good and evil are both in the flesh. And mans efforts always mock God But only the Hearing of Faith pleases Him.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
MOVING FORWARD FROM THE PAST James, OIC
MOVING FORWARD FROM THE PAST
Brother James, OIC
Luk 18:29-30 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
Today more than ever God is separating His children of light from Satan’s children of darkness. He is severing the unequal yoking with darkness we made in marriages, partnerships, friendships, etc and even our own attitudes that were never His will . He does this in us and through us as He empowers us to make decisions then opening escape routes as the Truth of His Word comes to Light within us. But what happens when one gets seduced into returning to their past.
The first thing you need to know is you are called for Gods purpose not to fix your life nor establish you in the American Dream. Jesus came to show those God called to Him the way to do Gods Will. But from the beginning there are many examples of those that turned back to lives they were called out of. A glaring example was Lots wife who turned back to look at Sodom and Gomorrah and was turned into a pillar of salt. This remarkable happening is stated matter-of-factly, with no suggestion that it was a special miracle or divine judgment. Lot’s wife "looked back" (the phrase might even be rendered "returned back" or "lagged back") seeking to cling to her luxurious life in Sodom (note Christ’s reference to this in Luke 17:32,33) and was destroyed in the "overthrow" (Genesis 19:25,29) of the city. In Luke 17:32 Jesus simply says "Remember Lot's Wife" using her as a warning to professing Christians to not turn back to their old life after escaping it Turning back is fueled strictly by emotions and emotions are tantalized by lies the devil tells to convince one to turn back.
Other examples: Judas who betrayed Jesus, Demas who forsook Paul because he loved this present world, Hymaneus and Philetus etc;
1Jn 2:18-20 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
God is calling His Children out from these dark alliances because He knows who is antichrist and who isn’t. We are in a spiritual battle. The Battlefield of the Mind as Joyce Meyers put it is where it wages, where Satan either convinces you to turn back or you follow Gods Spirit to lay down your life for Truth of the Gospel. The flesh profits nothing and is insignificant to this battle. We are not talking sin in the flesh but a yoking of our hearts to the lies of this world. Turn again and use the Power of God to leave confusion behind and escape to your High Call of God in Christ.
Brother James, OIC
Luk 18:29-30 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
Today more than ever God is separating His children of light from Satan’s children of darkness. He is severing the unequal yoking with darkness we made in marriages, partnerships, friendships, etc and even our own attitudes that were never His will . He does this in us and through us as He empowers us to make decisions then opening escape routes as the Truth of His Word comes to Light within us. But what happens when one gets seduced into returning to their past.
The first thing you need to know is you are called for Gods purpose not to fix your life nor establish you in the American Dream. Jesus came to show those God called to Him the way to do Gods Will. But from the beginning there are many examples of those that turned back to lives they were called out of. A glaring example was Lots wife who turned back to look at Sodom and Gomorrah and was turned into a pillar of salt. This remarkable happening is stated matter-of-factly, with no suggestion that it was a special miracle or divine judgment. Lot’s wife "looked back" (the phrase might even be rendered "returned back" or "lagged back") seeking to cling to her luxurious life in Sodom (note Christ’s reference to this in Luke 17:32,33) and was destroyed in the "overthrow" (Genesis 19:25,29) of the city. In Luke 17:32 Jesus simply says "Remember Lot's Wife" using her as a warning to professing Christians to not turn back to their old life after escaping it Turning back is fueled strictly by emotions and emotions are tantalized by lies the devil tells to convince one to turn back.
Other examples: Judas who betrayed Jesus, Demas who forsook Paul because he loved this present world, Hymaneus and Philetus etc;
1Jn 2:18-20 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
God is calling His Children out from these dark alliances because He knows who is antichrist and who isn’t. We are in a spiritual battle. The Battlefield of the Mind as Joyce Meyers put it is where it wages, where Satan either convinces you to turn back or you follow Gods Spirit to lay down your life for Truth of the Gospel. The flesh profits nothing and is insignificant to this battle. We are not talking sin in the flesh but a yoking of our hearts to the lies of this world. Turn again and use the Power of God to leave confusion behind and escape to your High Call of God in Christ.
Friday, October 22, 2010
KEEPING THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM! James, OIC
KEEPING THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM!
Brother James, OIC
1Co 2:2-8 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Confusion is not of God but of the Devil. I have a friend who recently has come under the conflict of confusion again in their life. One tool Satan used was the thought they were not doing what they thought they were suppose to be doing. That thought turned to confusion then counsel with those who fed that thought so this person turned back into a situation God had delivered them from, not once but several times.
My own life in the past has followed similar unwise choices and the people of God that were placed in my life to help me and love me just prior to those choices were hurt, disregarded and left behind but they stood then and are still standing today in the grace and faith of God. I’ve often wondered if I had been faithful to continue walking through the open door into Christ’s Kingdom at that time how much further along I would have been.
Errors in judgments must occur so we can learn from our mistakes. Most of those errors occur when we enter the deception into things acceptable to society that society calls good. But these mistakes should not be the same ones over and over again as that is insanity. Yet God is faithful and will deliver again unless you are fallen from grace having the thought that it is what you are doing that saves you and not Whom you should be trusting.
Gal 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
Grace is the vehicle that moves you into the position that God wants you in through Faith in Him. It is when we follow our own reasoning and way of thinking that Satan’s Demons begin working confusion then wrong decisions in us.
Pro 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
There is Hope and that Hope is that when Gods Grace delivers you again seek the fruit of Patience in your life, as it is only through faith and patience that you will hold the keys to the Kingdom and inherit the Promises of God.
Rev 3:7-10 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Brother James, OIC
1Co 2:2-8 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Confusion is not of God but of the Devil. I have a friend who recently has come under the conflict of confusion again in their life. One tool Satan used was the thought they were not doing what they thought they were suppose to be doing. That thought turned to confusion then counsel with those who fed that thought so this person turned back into a situation God had delivered them from, not once but several times.
My own life in the past has followed similar unwise choices and the people of God that were placed in my life to help me and love me just prior to those choices were hurt, disregarded and left behind but they stood then and are still standing today in the grace and faith of God. I’ve often wondered if I had been faithful to continue walking through the open door into Christ’s Kingdom at that time how much further along I would have been.
Errors in judgments must occur so we can learn from our mistakes. Most of those errors occur when we enter the deception into things acceptable to society that society calls good. But these mistakes should not be the same ones over and over again as that is insanity. Yet God is faithful and will deliver again unless you are fallen from grace having the thought that it is what you are doing that saves you and not Whom you should be trusting.
Gal 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
Grace is the vehicle that moves you into the position that God wants you in through Faith in Him. It is when we follow our own reasoning and way of thinking that Satan’s Demons begin working confusion then wrong decisions in us.
Pro 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
There is Hope and that Hope is that when Gods Grace delivers you again seek the fruit of Patience in your life, as it is only through faith and patience that you will hold the keys to the Kingdom and inherit the Promises of God.
Rev 3:7-10 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
ADULTERERS & ADULTERESSES James, OIC
ADULTERERS & ADULTERESSES
Brother James, OIC
Jas 4:4 Ye adulterer and aulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
You are not of this world if you are a son or daughter of God. You are a son and daughter of God if you have exercised your right to become so. Truth is what makes this transformation in you, IF, you truly believe the word of Truth.
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power (right) to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Gods will is that He born you again through the Word of Truth:
Jas 1:16-18 Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Jas 5:19-20 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Truth is the dividing factor between what’s important, what’s real and whether we are standing in the world in it’s false goals and false solutions or in grace and truth, which is salvation.
Sin is everything outside of Faith, it is missing the mark of God. Faith is the spiritual substance that Truth delivers unto it’s hearers. TRUTH MAKES ONE FREE FROM SIN. And not sin only but the tethering of our hearts to the world and its fallen solutions. Not that the flesh is ever without sin nor will not sin but the flesh is dead because of sin but the New Creation within, who you now really are, cannot sin because Gods Seed of Truth remains in you.
1Jn 3:9-10 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Today in this present Truth God has been separating those who are truly going to be His vessels of Truth and Light from those who walk in darkness and believe a lie. If you are friends with the world if God had set you free from your past but you have looked and gone back it is time to repent from you spiritual adultery and receive the engrafted Word of Truth that is able to save your soul.
Brother James, OIC
Jas 4:4 Ye adulterer and aulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
You are not of this world if you are a son or daughter of God. You are a son and daughter of God if you have exercised your right to become so. Truth is what makes this transformation in you, IF, you truly believe the word of Truth.
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power (right) to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Gods will is that He born you again through the Word of Truth:
Jas 1:16-18 Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Jas 5:19-20 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Truth is the dividing factor between what’s important, what’s real and whether we are standing in the world in it’s false goals and false solutions or in grace and truth, which is salvation.
Sin is everything outside of Faith, it is missing the mark of God. Faith is the spiritual substance that Truth delivers unto it’s hearers. TRUTH MAKES ONE FREE FROM SIN. And not sin only but the tethering of our hearts to the world and its fallen solutions. Not that the flesh is ever without sin nor will not sin but the flesh is dead because of sin but the New Creation within, who you now really are, cannot sin because Gods Seed of Truth remains in you.
1Jn 3:9-10 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Today in this present Truth God has been separating those who are truly going to be His vessels of Truth and Light from those who walk in darkness and believe a lie. If you are friends with the world if God had set you free from your past but you have looked and gone back it is time to repent from you spiritual adultery and receive the engrafted Word of Truth that is able to save your soul.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
BUT GOD IT HURTS! James, OIC
BUT GOD IT HURTS!
Brother James, OIC
Rom 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Suffering is not something to look forward to, it hurts. Loss of loved ones through separation, divorce, sickness or death, physical, spiritual and emotional abuse, addictions to sex, drugs, alcohol, etc all cause suffering. And while suffering is meted upon us other suffering comes by way of own poor choices. Suffering even then does not come near the suffering you’ll receive as you obey God by loving others as Christ loved you. You cannot be in this world in Christ without being a partaker of His sufferings. These sufferings can take the shape of suffering for righteousness sake or sufferings for wrong decisions both of which God uses to shape us. Whether you throw yourself on the Rock of Christ and be broken or it falls on you and pulverizes you suffering occurs.
Mat 21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Partaking in Christ’s sufferings will produce in us what it did in Him:
Heb 5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered
Yet this suffering reveals a glory a glory that no amount of suffering can be compared with. But wait why is there even an unworthy comparison between sufferings and glory? Because sufferings is a glory…I’ll explain;
2Co 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.
1Co 13:12-13 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity
Being changed from Glory to Glory would be wonderful if it was a steady non challenged growth in a ever increasing light of knowledge of Gods Word, but it isn’t that simple though it is popularly perceived to be. Doesn’t a a mother giving birth experience birth pains contrary to the blessing that will come? Doesn’t the child experience growing pain? So it is in the Faith. When we do things contrary to the law of Faith which is an unfading glory we transgress the law into a fading glory. These areas where you may be at Liberty, being the called of Christ, are not expedient to the ever increasing glory of a life that lives fully by Faith. And these areas hurt, they cause pain, they cause heartache, they cause grief and they cause many regrets.
1Co 6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Life itself delivers unto you heartaches not of your own making, these if met head on in faith become bearable and understandable. Things we choose outside of faith hurt worse as God then has to grant us repentance to the acknowledging of Truth so then we again are back in the faith; the good news is though it hurts Gods Grace is with us.
Seek Gods Face before making decisions. It wont mean there will never be any pain but it does mean there will be less self inflicted pain. Grow in Grace always in the Faith and His Glory will shine in your heart as the Daystar Christ is birthed in you.
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Brother James, OIC
Rom 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Suffering is not something to look forward to, it hurts. Loss of loved ones through separation, divorce, sickness or death, physical, spiritual and emotional abuse, addictions to sex, drugs, alcohol, etc all cause suffering. And while suffering is meted upon us other suffering comes by way of own poor choices. Suffering even then does not come near the suffering you’ll receive as you obey God by loving others as Christ loved you. You cannot be in this world in Christ without being a partaker of His sufferings. These sufferings can take the shape of suffering for righteousness sake or sufferings for wrong decisions both of which God uses to shape us. Whether you throw yourself on the Rock of Christ and be broken or it falls on you and pulverizes you suffering occurs.
Mat 21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Partaking in Christ’s sufferings will produce in us what it did in Him:
Heb 5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered
Yet this suffering reveals a glory a glory that no amount of suffering can be compared with. But wait why is there even an unworthy comparison between sufferings and glory? Because sufferings is a glory…I’ll explain;
2Co 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.
1Co 13:12-13 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity
Being changed from Glory to Glory would be wonderful if it was a steady non challenged growth in a ever increasing light of knowledge of Gods Word, but it isn’t that simple though it is popularly perceived to be. Doesn’t a a mother giving birth experience birth pains contrary to the blessing that will come? Doesn’t the child experience growing pain? So it is in the Faith. When we do things contrary to the law of Faith which is an unfading glory we transgress the law into a fading glory. These areas where you may be at Liberty, being the called of Christ, are not expedient to the ever increasing glory of a life that lives fully by Faith. And these areas hurt, they cause pain, they cause heartache, they cause grief and they cause many regrets.
1Co 6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Life itself delivers unto you heartaches not of your own making, these if met head on in faith become bearable and understandable. Things we choose outside of faith hurt worse as God then has to grant us repentance to the acknowledging of Truth so then we again are back in the faith; the good news is though it hurts Gods Grace is with us.
Seek Gods Face before making decisions. It wont mean there will never be any pain but it does mean there will be less self inflicted pain. Grow in Grace always in the Faith and His Glory will shine in your heart as the Daystar Christ is birthed in you.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
WHEN PEOPLE CHANGE James, OIC
WHEN PEOPLE CHANGE
Brother James, OIC
Col 1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled.
Change is a constant force that fills the essence of all things. Change itself can be good or it can be evil. Change in the world is tethered to decay. Change in Christ means growth to Eternal Life. We can become alienated from God by our thoughts and we can become alienated from one another by these same thoughts. The one change that binds our hearts and minds together is the change that comes from Gods Word it changes us into a New Creation. Besides Change there is another constant in the world today. There are three types of individuals: Sons of God, sons of the Wicked One, and those who are becoming Sons of God. A Son of God is a completed change. Sons of the Wicked One will never know the call of God only that an invitation was given. And those who are the Called of God and are becoming the Sons of God are given to much testing to either secure their chosen place in Son-Ship or be a castaway to the Faith of Christ.
For most who are the called of God the greatest struggle against positive change is the struggle that causes them to look back to their past romancing its deceptions. This is the sole work of the Devil who seeks to divide you from finishing your race in Faith.
Believing God is a High Calling. Few have the Faith even the size of a mustard or things would happen in a positive way for them. Jesus stated:
Mat 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of a mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
From Mustard Seed size Faith you can move mountains but mountains are never moved by looking back.
Luk 9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
This is why it is most necessary for those who are still small in their Faith to grow under the watchful loving care of an anointed minister.
Gal 4:1-2 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father
Rebellion is what causes the change in those who might be saved to turn back. Once the turning has begun the spirit of rebellion enters and starts telling them they have rights, control, freedom of choice and gives them the mind set I will do what I want when I want. They turn from the Light and Love of Liberty in Christ to darkness (though to thenm it appears by deception as Light). But you must remember:
1Co 6:19-20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
While negative change always comes from rebellion positive change comes from submission to Gods Word and those given rule over you.
1Pe 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Jas 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Your thoughts your reasoning’s your attitude will change as you rebuke rebellion and submit to where Light has called you and then Positive Change will be eminent.
Brother James, OIC
Col 1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled.
Change is a constant force that fills the essence of all things. Change itself can be good or it can be evil. Change in the world is tethered to decay. Change in Christ means growth to Eternal Life. We can become alienated from God by our thoughts and we can become alienated from one another by these same thoughts. The one change that binds our hearts and minds together is the change that comes from Gods Word it changes us into a New Creation. Besides Change there is another constant in the world today. There are three types of individuals: Sons of God, sons of the Wicked One, and those who are becoming Sons of God. A Son of God is a completed change. Sons of the Wicked One will never know the call of God only that an invitation was given. And those who are the Called of God and are becoming the Sons of God are given to much testing to either secure their chosen place in Son-Ship or be a castaway to the Faith of Christ.
For most who are the called of God the greatest struggle against positive change is the struggle that causes them to look back to their past romancing its deceptions. This is the sole work of the Devil who seeks to divide you from finishing your race in Faith.
Believing God is a High Calling. Few have the Faith even the size of a mustard or things would happen in a positive way for them. Jesus stated:
Mat 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of a mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
From Mustard Seed size Faith you can move mountains but mountains are never moved by looking back.
Luk 9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
This is why it is most necessary for those who are still small in their Faith to grow under the watchful loving care of an anointed minister.
Gal 4:1-2 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father
Rebellion is what causes the change in those who might be saved to turn back. Once the turning has begun the spirit of rebellion enters and starts telling them they have rights, control, freedom of choice and gives them the mind set I will do what I want when I want. They turn from the Light and Love of Liberty in Christ to darkness (though to thenm it appears by deception as Light). But you must remember:
1Co 6:19-20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
While negative change always comes from rebellion positive change comes from submission to Gods Word and those given rule over you.
1Pe 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Jas 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Your thoughts your reasoning’s your attitude will change as you rebuke rebellion and submit to where Light has called you and then Positive Change will be eminent.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
REPENTANCE James, OIC
REPENTANCE
Brother James, OIC
Mar 1:15 And (Jesus) saying,
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand:
repent ye, and believe the gospel (good news).
I’ve written and spoken many times on repentance. And of late I’ve had to look deep into my own heart about things pertaining to repentance. I have come to awaken to this Truth; “Many beliefs we may have can be grounded in scripture yet can be made better with the Light of the Grace of the Gospel.” Repentance key purpose is to get us to turn to the Gospel and away from the beggarly elements of the world and the false solutions of its god Satan. Truth (if believed and desired) will always in its time effect a forward movement in ones life. And will heal you from the seductions of looking back into a past yoked in darkness, and into a bright new life in Christ.
My favorite scripture on Repentance is:
2Ti 2:24-26 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Truth is the key focus of repentance. Why? Because Jesus told us the Good News of the Gospel was this:
Joh 8:30-32 As he spake these words, many believed on him. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Repentance is not merely turning to words on a page of a book but to something living, powerful that creates life and hope and peace in ones life:
Joh 6:63-64 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
The word quickeneth means life.
Heb 4:12-13 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Repenting then to the acknowledging of the Truth brings life. This Truth we repent to does a complete work in us. And it is God Who does it.
Php 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
We are all being changed daily into the New Creation God wants us to be IF we have a love for the Truth. The Truth will shine in us ever brighter as the Glory of the Lord is brought forth in Truth
2Co 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.
So Repentance is a work of God in our lives and is very much a point of rejoicing as we look back to our opening scripture and acknowledge what all He has and is doing for us:
Mar 1:15 And (Jesus) saying,
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand:
repent ye, and believe the gospel (good news).
Brother James, OIC
Mar 1:15 And (Jesus) saying,
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand:
repent ye, and believe the gospel (good news).
I’ve written and spoken many times on repentance. And of late I’ve had to look deep into my own heart about things pertaining to repentance. I have come to awaken to this Truth; “Many beliefs we may have can be grounded in scripture yet can be made better with the Light of the Grace of the Gospel.” Repentance key purpose is to get us to turn to the Gospel and away from the beggarly elements of the world and the false solutions of its god Satan. Truth (if believed and desired) will always in its time effect a forward movement in ones life. And will heal you from the seductions of looking back into a past yoked in darkness, and into a bright new life in Christ.
My favorite scripture on Repentance is:
2Ti 2:24-26 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Truth is the key focus of repentance. Why? Because Jesus told us the Good News of the Gospel was this:
Joh 8:30-32 As he spake these words, many believed on him. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Repentance is not merely turning to words on a page of a book but to something living, powerful that creates life and hope and peace in ones life:
Joh 6:63-64 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
The word quickeneth means life.
Heb 4:12-13 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Repenting then to the acknowledging of the Truth brings life. This Truth we repent to does a complete work in us. And it is God Who does it.
Php 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
We are all being changed daily into the New Creation God wants us to be IF we have a love for the Truth. The Truth will shine in us ever brighter as the Glory of the Lord is brought forth in Truth
2Co 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.
So Repentance is a work of God in our lives and is very much a point of rejoicing as we look back to our opening scripture and acknowledge what all He has and is doing for us:
Mar 1:15 And (Jesus) saying,
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand:
repent ye, and believe the gospel (good news).
Friday, October 15, 2010
OVERCOMING DEPRESSION James, OIC
OVERCOMING DEPRESSION
Brother James, OIC
2Ti 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Depression is common weaponry used by the Adversary and his army of demons. It can be a mildly distracting spirit to one that lifts you high then so low you don’t know how you can go on. Some even after being called to Jesus hold onto these old spirits through old soul ties that imprison them causing the individual to isolate themselves and thinking it’s simply their lot in life to feel this way. But I am here to tell you, no matter your circumstances, no matter your past, no matter the rejection and loss in your life, Jesus Christ can and will stabilize your mind and heart and give you JOY TODAY and A LIVING HOPE OF A BETTER TOMORROW.
The spirit of fear which works with depression is dispelled with the spirit of Gods Word which is Christ being formed in you.
Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Gal 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
This Anointing which is Christ must be Birthed through the Word of Truth and in turn produces the Love of God in Wisdom and Power within,
1Co 1:24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
As Christ is formed within so is Power and Wisdom and this Power is the working of the supernatural through us, Gods Chosen, in this fallen natural realm while Wisdom always answers life’s circumstances with what Gods Word in them speaks.
All these things begin producing fruit in your life of which is Joy. Joy works in us a forward motion in Christ which cures all depression.
Psa 16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
To stay in Gods Word produces joy in your life. Why? Because Gods Word produces life.
1Jn 1:4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.If you are in depression make yourself study the Gods Word and God will begin opening your eyes to Truth that will make you free from depression and everything else contrary to to Gods Life in you.
Brother James, OIC
2Ti 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Depression is common weaponry used by the Adversary and his army of demons. It can be a mildly distracting spirit to one that lifts you high then so low you don’t know how you can go on. Some even after being called to Jesus hold onto these old spirits through old soul ties that imprison them causing the individual to isolate themselves and thinking it’s simply their lot in life to feel this way. But I am here to tell you, no matter your circumstances, no matter your past, no matter the rejection and loss in your life, Jesus Christ can and will stabilize your mind and heart and give you JOY TODAY and A LIVING HOPE OF A BETTER TOMORROW.
The spirit of fear which works with depression is dispelled with the spirit of Gods Word which is Christ being formed in you.
Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Gal 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
This Anointing which is Christ must be Birthed through the Word of Truth and in turn produces the Love of God in Wisdom and Power within,
1Co 1:24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
As Christ is formed within so is Power and Wisdom and this Power is the working of the supernatural through us, Gods Chosen, in this fallen natural realm while Wisdom always answers life’s circumstances with what Gods Word in them speaks.
All these things begin producing fruit in your life of which is Joy. Joy works in us a forward motion in Christ which cures all depression.
Psa 16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
To stay in Gods Word produces joy in your life. Why? Because Gods Word produces life.
1Jn 1:4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.If you are in depression make yourself study the Gods Word and God will begin opening your eyes to Truth that will make you free from depression and everything else contrary to to Gods Life in you.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
REST IN THE PROMISES Brother James, OIC
REST IN THE PROMISES
Brother James, OIC
Heb 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. Heb 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it………. Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
There is no greater calling in this universe than to be called by God to Jesus Christ, There is no greater crime and tragedy in this universe than to mix the works of man in with what Gods Promises deliver to us through Faith. This life will hear in that day these wonderful words from our Lord Jesus Himself:
Mat 25:21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption (through your trust in your own works) that is in the world through lust.
The fruit of Joy is a great reward to those who have been faithful in waiting on God and NOT TRYING TO THINK THEIR WAY OUT OF LIFES DAILY NEEDS AND CIRCUMSTANCES. This Joy is by staying in His Presence by Trusting His Solutions:
1Jn 1:4 And these things (Gods Promises) write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
Gods Promises Received is your entering His Rest, it is Working out your Salvation with Fear and Trembling they are what keep you in His Presence and full of Joy. The greatest benefit of being born from above is the Living Hope Gods Promises deliver unto us:
1Pe 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a Living Hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Pro 13:12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
When we Hope in Faith of Gods Promises the Peace which comes from entering Gods Rest is the fruition of a life that trusts God and not mans (Satans) False Solutions and evidences that Life is working in you.
Joh 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my Peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
In the opening verse we must cease from our works to enter Gods Rest:
Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
And this is what we must do in order to NOT DO OUR WORKS BUT GODS and thus enter His Rest:
Joh 6:28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Joh 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Brother James, OIC
Heb 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. Heb 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it………. Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
There is no greater calling in this universe than to be called by God to Jesus Christ, There is no greater crime and tragedy in this universe than to mix the works of man in with what Gods Promises deliver to us through Faith. This life will hear in that day these wonderful words from our Lord Jesus Himself:
Mat 25:21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption (through your trust in your own works) that is in the world through lust.
The fruit of Joy is a great reward to those who have been faithful in waiting on God and NOT TRYING TO THINK THEIR WAY OUT OF LIFES DAILY NEEDS AND CIRCUMSTANCES. This Joy is by staying in His Presence by Trusting His Solutions:
1Jn 1:4 And these things (Gods Promises) write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
Gods Promises Received is your entering His Rest, it is Working out your Salvation with Fear and Trembling they are what keep you in His Presence and full of Joy. The greatest benefit of being born from above is the Living Hope Gods Promises deliver unto us:
1Pe 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a Living Hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Pro 13:12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
When we Hope in Faith of Gods Promises the Peace which comes from entering Gods Rest is the fruition of a life that trusts God and not mans (Satans) False Solutions and evidences that Life is working in you.
Joh 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my Peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
In the opening verse we must cease from our works to enter Gods Rest:
Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
And this is what we must do in order to NOT DO OUR WORKS BUT GODS and thus enter His Rest:
Joh 6:28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Joh 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Monday, October 4, 2010
SPEAKING IN THE AUTHORITY OF CHRIST James, OIC
SPEAKING IN THE
AUTHORITY
OF CHRIST
Brother James, OIC
2Co 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
We all who are coming of age in Christ have been the responsibility of taking authority in our surroundings. That is we are to deliver unto others Gods Promises in the physical and spiritual, it is our purpose. When we are still young in Christ we have the responsibility for ministering the ministry of reconciliation:
2Co 5:18-19 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
When we have come to maturity in Christ, we then being dead but alive in Christ, and Christ is in us and God in Him and our lives are then hid with Christ in God:
Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
This is a great mystery of God Who wants to give us Power and Authority to affect change wherein His Glory and Love for His Creation can be seen in this lost and dying world. Jesus even prayed for us in His authority to reach this level of growth in Him:
Joh 17:20-26 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
When we grow to this maturity wherein it is no longer us who live but Christ lives in us then we have the Power of God within and our faith then works by Love to speak on behalf of God to others, not just words but Living Words that produce life, healing, provision, emotional stability, trust in Gods Promises not the Worlds and its god Satan’s False Solutions.
Col 1:25-28 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 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: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
1Co 1:23-29 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
This Power in us makes us vessels of Gods Promises:
2Co 1:20-22 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
What evidences this in us is what we speak. If we still speak like the world then there is no power in us and we have yet to be fully converted but if we speak in confidence the Word of God in Authority then we will continually see the manifestation of His Power and Glory around us:
Pro 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Grow in the Grace of God in the Truth of His Word and do not hesitate when its your time to speak in the authority of its Power; Christ in you the hope of glory.
AUTHORITY
OF CHRIST
Brother James, OIC
2Co 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
We all who are coming of age in Christ have been the responsibility of taking authority in our surroundings. That is we are to deliver unto others Gods Promises in the physical and spiritual, it is our purpose. When we are still young in Christ we have the responsibility for ministering the ministry of reconciliation:
2Co 5:18-19 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
When we have come to maturity in Christ, we then being dead but alive in Christ, and Christ is in us and God in Him and our lives are then hid with Christ in God:
Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
This is a great mystery of God Who wants to give us Power and Authority to affect change wherein His Glory and Love for His Creation can be seen in this lost and dying world. Jesus even prayed for us in His authority to reach this level of growth in Him:
Joh 17:20-26 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
When we grow to this maturity wherein it is no longer us who live but Christ lives in us then we have the Power of God within and our faith then works by Love to speak on behalf of God to others, not just words but Living Words that produce life, healing, provision, emotional stability, trust in Gods Promises not the Worlds and its god Satan’s False Solutions.
Col 1:25-28 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 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: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
1Co 1:23-29 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
This Power in us makes us vessels of Gods Promises:
2Co 1:20-22 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
What evidences this in us is what we speak. If we still speak like the world then there is no power in us and we have yet to be fully converted but if we speak in confidence the Word of God in Authority then we will continually see the manifestation of His Power and Glory around us:
Pro 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Grow in the Grace of God in the Truth of His Word and do not hesitate when its your time to speak in the authority of its Power; Christ in you the hope of glory.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
WHATSOEVER YOU ASK VS. ASKING AMISS James, OIC
WHATSOEVER YOU ASK
VS. ASKING AMISS
Brother James, OIC
Mat 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Jas 4:2-4 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers (Greek: moichos moy-khos'Perhaps a primary word; a (male) paramour; in reality; apostate: - adulterer) and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
The Old Testament Law dealt with revealing then condemning sin in the flesh and began giving a mindset of right and wrong in the natural. Did it stop murders-NO! Did it stop immorality or theft or any conceivable sin-NO-IT REVIVED IT, and those who attempted justification by the law never attained to it.
Rom 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
What it also did was draw a line between God and man that later would point to spiritual things and not to law contained in ordinances. Yet so many in the Church today use the Old Law in interpreting the opening scriptures, BUT we are not under the Old Law we are under Grace-The New Law of Liberty and only Truth can separate and make free your body which is dead in trespasses and sin from the sinless New Creation you become in Christ. What keeps you from receiving what you ask from God is that you have not been born from above by the Word of Truth, which produces faith. Many in Church today walk in apostate teachings of Satan and accept them as truth.
Jesus came full of Grace and Truth using earthly parables to teach those (before the Spirit of Truth was given) Spiritual Matters, but now we have the Spirit IF you receive the love of the truth.
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Lust and amiss in the opening scriptures pertain today to False Doctrine that causes all things regarding your life to remain in the Natural of things seen and not in the Spiritual things not seen thus causing you to miss the mark of Gods Truth. Truth makes you free in the Spirit. The lies of apostate teachings (which are attributing the things of Satan as being from God and vice versa) yokes you to the natural fallen state of the flesh. The Spirit is reborn in Truth and in it is Light and no darkness but the Carnal Mind is full of the darkness of False Solutions the world and its god Satan offers.
Mat 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing (while acknowledging Truth in your heart), ye shall receive.
Many choose to believe the lie and thus are inadvertently worshipping the Creature (man) and not the Creator (God).
Rom 1:17-25 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Jesus said it simply enough:
Joh 8:31-36 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Whatsoever you ask has to be asked in Faith which only comes by hearing the Word of Truth.
Jas 5:14-16 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Mat 21:21-22 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Having faith and doubting not that you will receive is a prerequisite to receiving but if you doubt you are double minded, double mindedness is present where asking amiss exists.
Jas 1:6-8 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
From needs being met to deliverance from demonic oppression, healings and miraculous restorations touching the lost in this world to be saved are all in the power of faith wherein whatsoever you ask believing will be done for you. And believing must unwaveringly trust Gods Promises and not the world for its solutions.
VS. ASKING AMISS
Brother James, OIC
Mat 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Jas 4:2-4 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers (Greek: moichos moy-khos'Perhaps a primary word; a (male) paramour; in reality; apostate: - adulterer) and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
The Old Testament Law dealt with revealing then condemning sin in the flesh and began giving a mindset of right and wrong in the natural. Did it stop murders-NO! Did it stop immorality or theft or any conceivable sin-NO-IT REVIVED IT, and those who attempted justification by the law never attained to it.
Rom 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
What it also did was draw a line between God and man that later would point to spiritual things and not to law contained in ordinances. Yet so many in the Church today use the Old Law in interpreting the opening scriptures, BUT we are not under the Old Law we are under Grace-The New Law of Liberty and only Truth can separate and make free your body which is dead in trespasses and sin from the sinless New Creation you become in Christ. What keeps you from receiving what you ask from God is that you have not been born from above by the Word of Truth, which produces faith. Many in Church today walk in apostate teachings of Satan and accept them as truth.
Jesus came full of Grace and Truth using earthly parables to teach those (before the Spirit of Truth was given) Spiritual Matters, but now we have the Spirit IF you receive the love of the truth.
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Lust and amiss in the opening scriptures pertain today to False Doctrine that causes all things regarding your life to remain in the Natural of things seen and not in the Spiritual things not seen thus causing you to miss the mark of Gods Truth. Truth makes you free in the Spirit. The lies of apostate teachings (which are attributing the things of Satan as being from God and vice versa) yokes you to the natural fallen state of the flesh. The Spirit is reborn in Truth and in it is Light and no darkness but the Carnal Mind is full of the darkness of False Solutions the world and its god Satan offers.
Mat 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing (while acknowledging Truth in your heart), ye shall receive.
Many choose to believe the lie and thus are inadvertently worshipping the Creature (man) and not the Creator (God).
Rom 1:17-25 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Jesus said it simply enough:
Joh 8:31-36 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Whatsoever you ask has to be asked in Faith which only comes by hearing the Word of Truth.
Jas 5:14-16 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Mat 21:21-22 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Having faith and doubting not that you will receive is a prerequisite to receiving but if you doubt you are double minded, double mindedness is present where asking amiss exists.
Jas 1:6-8 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
From needs being met to deliverance from demonic oppression, healings and miraculous restorations touching the lost in this world to be saved are all in the power of faith wherein whatsoever you ask believing will be done for you. And believing must unwaveringly trust Gods Promises and not the world for its solutions.
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