Archives for October 2016

Oct. 3, 2016

MY FRIENDS, ARE WE JUST ONE PRAISE AWAY FROM OUR BREAKTHROUGH?

“I am just one praise from my breakthrough I’m just one praise away from my blessing. So I must reach down inside to the depths of my soul and bring forth a right now praise that’s already in me. For it’s my praise that produces fresh oil. And it’s the oil of the anointing that destroys every yoke [that so easily besets me”] (Jonathan Nelson, Right Now Praise) So daily we must praise God because His anointing Is already in us. And at times we are on the rough side of the mountain. But, through our faith and endurance, we are only one breakthrough away from our blessing.

And the god of this world, with all of his arsenal of mass destruction is trying to get us to fall, but “it’s the oil of the anointing that destroys every yoke” and through our faith gives us the strength and the endurance to overcome him because “He who is in you [and I] is greater than he who is in the world.” 1 John 4:4 (NKJV) So we must endure my friends.

The prize of life eternal only goes to the one who endures to the end and though we are driven to a point we have never been before or ever thought we would be at, here we are. So we must make split second decision while remaining focused on the journey as we move from one destination to the next as our strength is renewed daily in the love grace and mercies of God.

In Joshua 2:1-15 (NKJV) Moses is now dead, and God has chosen a new leader Joshua, who sends out two spies to “go, view the land, especially Jericho.” Which is their entry into the promise land. But it must be conquered first by human might, along with the help of God’s Spirit because “faith without works is dead,” So they went and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab, and lodged there.”

She tells them “I know that the Lord has given you the land, terror has fallen on us, and all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of you. For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt and how you destroyed the kings on the other side of the Jordan.

She pleads; swear to me by the Lord, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to me and my father’s house,…and spare my family and deliver us from death.” Her request was granted and from the rough side of the mountain as a harlot and on the brink of being annihilated by the Israeli army, to being of the ancestry of Jesus Christ Himself. Oh the goodness of God.

My friends, when those Spies came to her house, at that moment she was just “one praise away from a breakthrough.” A harlot is not an easy life to live. She had heard of the living God and knew she wanted herself and her family to be a-part of what Israel had and because she was sincere, God granted her request which then allowed “His anointing to destroy every yoke” that had become a part of her life.

My friends, God knocks, He pleads as that still small voice tells us, that same anointing of His Spirit will also destroy every yoke of sin that “so easily besets us.” But time is running out, and God will say it is finished. And He will enter the clouds above and His reward will be with Him, “and He will give to each person according to what they have done. [Or not done]” Rev. 22:12 (NIV)

Oct. 1, 2016

MY FRIENDS, HOW FAR WILL OUR FAITH GO?

“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Eph. 3:20-21 (NIV) “To him who is able to do immeasurably, [or incapable of being measured] more than all we ask or imagined or have ever “entered into the heart of man [or woman], the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” 1 Cor. 2:9 (KJV)

2 Kings 13 (NKJV) is a narrative at the end of Elisha’s life. He had become sick with an illness by which he would die and Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over him and said, “oh my father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” Josh was not a very righteous man, but by this statement he at least acknowledges that the prophet and His God meant more than all of their horses and chariots which at this point most of Israel’s weaponry had been depleted because they had turned so far from God.

But, the prophet’s desire before he died was to turn Israel and their king’s focus back to acknowledge that God was their only strength, defense, and salvation. Elisha tells the king to open the window eastward and shoot His arrow. When He does Elisha says, the arrow of the Lord’s deliverance and the arrow from the deliverance from Syria, for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.”

“Now he tells the king to Take the arrow and strike the ground.” [Which shows each of us that only in conjunction with God’s will could He or ourselves succeed against our enemies For God calls for total faith and endurance that is “always abounding in the Lord”until we have total victory against our enemy as we continue our journey to the promise land] So He struck the ground three times and stopped. Elisha was angry.

“You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you would have defeated your enemy and completely destroyed him where he would have never risen again. My friends this tells us that what God does for us is in “direct proportion” to our faith and endurance. How many times have we stop short of our blessings because of our unbelief in what God is able to do “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, He is willing to do for His Faithful Children?

For if you are a Child of God, Faith has no barriers which tells us God has no barriers in regards to what we ask God for. “You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.” James 4:2-3 (NKJV) Which tells us, we must seek God’s kingdom and His righteousness first; and then all [our needs] shall be added unto us.”Matt 6:33 (KJV) So our prayers must be prayers of passion, and a heartfelt belief that God will supply all of our needs.

The true concept of Faith, endurance, and the grace and mercies of God and His promises are all found in His word. “Genuine faith is a transaction by which those who receive Christ join themselves in a covenant relationship with God.” Genuine faith has is a way of life and a passion from within that tells us, by accepting the fact that the rough side of the mountain may never be conquered until Christ appears a second time, we will still never stop climbing, until Christ tells us personally “Well done, good and faithful servant!”