Luke 6:38 (NKJV)
.38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
Teachings - May 2017
The following represents a compilation of various studies and teachings. I encourage anyone with specific doctrinal or biblical questions, to contact me. For previous teachings, please refer to the Archives Menu.
The church of old, vs the church of Truth
Posted: May 4, 2017
The church has readily in the past gotten off balance and many of the epistles were written to bring correction. We can’t be deceived in the time that we are in that just because there is a flow of the gifts that we are moving in righteousness or the power of God. So many times it is just the opposite. Look at the Corinthian church; it has an outstanding flow of the gifts of the Spirit to an excess also, but Paul had to come and address that with them that as well as the lack of righteousness in their behavior. They did not know how to encourage themselves in the Lord as their forefather David did, nor did they apply the Word of God (Old Testament and the revelation of the blood of Jesus Christ). They were in gross sin and mirroring the world rather than the Lord, they were lacking in love, humility, power, real intimacy and real knowledge of the Lord’ otherwise it would have been reflected in their behavior. You can’t spend time in the Word of God with revelation and intimacy in worship and not take on the fragrance, His victory , His heart and essence of His life. To have real power with the Lord is not a microwave process. It takes time with the Lord in personal praise & worship and the word of God applied to your life. You have to identify yourself with the cross of Jesus Christ be in the Word of God.
Gods Hand
Posted: May 6, 2017
You can’t always see God’s hand but you can trust God’s heart always. God guides those who admit their need of His direction and rely on His wisdom. Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord. Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
The discipline of being a disciple of Christ
Posted: May 13, 2017
There will always be a problem trying to substitute praying much for obeying, and it simply will not work. What God commands and requires as a disciple of Christ shall always remain a constant, but thinking much praying to receive without being and doing as He has said will never make what you are praying for happen. God does not go against what He has decreed period.
Jeremiah 9:23-24
Posted: May 16, 2017
Thus says the LORD, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; 24 but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
If we are to do any glorying, we should not glory in our wisdom, our knowledge, our educational achievements, however fine they might be. Neither should we glory in our might, whatever power or authority we might exercise. We are not to glory in our bank account. What we are asked to glory in?, is two things: “that he understands and knows Me.” This glorying is not a proud boasting. Rather, it is a sincere open rejoicing. We are to glory in the fact that we understand and know God, the giver of life, the one who gives meaning to life, give you worth and meaning.
Titus 2:11
Posted: May 29, 2017
Titus 2: 11 For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. 12 It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age,
The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon divine grace. The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him. The law orders; grace supplies the power of acting. Grace is the enabling power of God’s own Spirit within you. It is Christ in You; Christ who is your life that we draw from.