TAKING A STAND!
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Walk in what God has for you!
Walk in what God has for you!
Replace these scriptures with your name into them:
16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. 20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, 21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Knowledge acted upon brings results!
(use money under seat as example)
I promise I gave it to you
The enemy doesn’t what you to fully understand what you have already in Christ! WE MUST HAVE THE PROMISE IN THE WORD! WE MUST KNOW THE WORD!
YOU CAN LEGALLY HAVE SOMETHING AND NOT BE WALKING IN IT!
The enemy blinds the eyes of our understanding!
130 The entrance of thy words giveth light;
It giveth understanding unto the simple.
Prayer and the Word MUST WORK TOGETHER!
Like eating and breathing!
***A lot of the time we are praying, its not scriptural and we are not getting any results!**
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
HOW MANY ARE BOUND UP TODAY? WITH A PARTICULAR SIN......OR SICKNESS
THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE!
WHAT IS TRUTH.......THE WORD, THE SPIRIT, AND JESUS!
ARE YOU ALLOWING JESUS TO MAKE YOU FREE? ARE YOU ALLOWING HIM INTO THE CENTER OF YOUR LIFE? IS HE REALLY NUMBER 1? IS YOU LIFE STILL YOUR OWN? ARE YOU JUST TRYING THIS JESUS THING OUT?
OR HAVE YOU GIVEN HIM YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, WILL, AND PURPOSE ON THIS EARTH?
IT COMES WITH A COST:
“When I was dying of tuberculosis as a boy, dozens and dozens of church people were praying, some of them fasting and praying, but my life was not touched. Finally, the night came when I had a consciousness of His presence. Christ spoke to me and asked me if I would preach the gospel. He showed me a casket on one side of my bed and an open Bible on the other. He said, “Now, which one of these would you choose?” He did not heal me until I had placed Him at the very center of all my being. When He took first place in my heart, in that moment, healing was irrelevant. The thing that mattered was that Christ was the center of my life. I made Him the preeminent one. I said yes for eternity, and not only did I have an experience, I had a Person. I embraced Him with my whole heart. I became His in the deepest thought of my mind and the strongest feeling of my heart. I was His in the most deliberative choice of my own will. I became His to work and to witness, His to preach the gospel, His to suffer and to live, and if needs be, to die for Him. We need to find a demonstration of Christ’s love in our hearts that will draw us closer to His bosom. Whether or not He lets you live for a few more days is not so important as knowing Him. Do you know Him in His suffering? Do you know Him in His glory? Are you conscious of His presence? This means heaven to you.” _ Lester Sumrall #lestersumrall #holyspirittv
MY FAITH IS NOT IN MAN, OR IN MY BROTHERS WALK WITH THE LORD, OR WITH MY PASTORS WALK WITH THE LORD!
MY FAITH IS IN THE LORD AND IN HIS WORD AND IN HIS PRESENCE/SPIRIT!
WHEN YOU ARE IN HIS PRESENCE, WHEN HE IS IN THE CENTER OF YOU AND YOUR LIFE, EVERYTHING HAS TO BOW!
****IF YOU DON’T BOW TO HIM OVER EVERY AREA OF YOUF LIFE, THEN NEITHER DO THE ATTACKS FROM THE ENEMY THAT DIRECTLY COME AGAINST THE PROMISES THAT ARE YOURS IN CHRIST!
We talk about our thought life a lot, taking our thoughts captive and making them obedient to Christ.......
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
What are we actually doing?
Taking our thoughts, changing them to what Gods thoughts are about us! The power of the Word!
**So right now what we are going to talk about, your natural mind is going to try to dismiss! Don’t let it, make it listen and receive these words!
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
In the Greek the word power is two different words......the first one is authority!
Policeman directing traffic.....he holds his hand up and people stop.....he doesn’t have the power to stop traffic!
Authority is delegated power!
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
“I’m trying to be strong” forget that......be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might!
THIS WAS THE 70 THAT WERE NOT BORN AGAIN YET IN LUKE 10:19. JESUS WAS STILL ALIVE.....HE GAVE THEM CREDIT!
READ 1 JOHN 4:4
4 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.
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
I’M NEVER WITHOUT HELP! I’M NEVER WITHOUT GOD! I’M NEVER WITHOUT HOPE!
LOOK IN YOU FOR YOUR HELP IF YOU ARE A BORN AGAIN BELIEVER!
JESUS IS THE HEAD AND WE ARE THE BODY......THE AUTHORITY NEEDS A BODY TO ACT!
20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
THIS IS ALREADY DONE NOW!
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
IF HE IS THERE, THEN WE ARE THERE!
WE MUST LEARN HOW TO LIVE IN THE EPISTLES OF THE NEW TESTAMENT!
BODY AND HEAD ARE ONE!
Your mind doesn’t want to accept that! You have been religiously brainwashed!
12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many.
27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
The church is called Christ!
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Let’s start with the works that He did first!
12 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.
Evil spirits are rebel holders of authority!
****YOU ARE USING YOUR FAITH! AND YOU ARE GETTING WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART!*****
If you are in the Body of Christ, and are in Fear, worry, doubt.......you are using your Faith! YOU ARE A BELIEVER, AND YOU ARE BELIEVING A LIE/FEAR!
We are in the world, but not of the World! IF WE ARE NOT OF THIS WORLD, WHAT WORLD ARE WE FROM?
14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
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: 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 that is in the world through lust.
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