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 - October 2016
The following represents a compilation of various studies and teachings. I encourage anyone with specific doctrinal or biblical questions, to contact me. Please visit 2015 teachings for more readings.
Our Bodies are the Living Temple
Posted: 03 October 2016
Your body is a temple of the living God. What is a temple for? A temple is for worship. God inhabits the praises of His people. You can’t rejoice in your feelings or bad circumstances or hard conditions, you can rejoice in the Lord. The more you praise God, the more you become God-conscious and absorbed in His greatness, His wisdom, His faithfulness, and His love. Praise reminds you of all that God is able to do and of great things He has already done. He that is within arises will set ambush on all your enemies
Paul Prays for Open Doors
Posted: 05 Octber 2016
God does give me an open door where he is at the present.Where every door is closed, he prays and God did that; one of the Roman Soldiers through an unlikely person; the whole criterion guard turned to the Lord; somehow through 1 or 2 guards, as Paul would dictate and said his devotions out loud as there was no silent praying or silent dictating, the gospel went into the palace and into the streets of Rome and wrote the letters that went all over.Paul looked directly to God to give him a door with to share.Reason- It was impossible to find one himself.You can’t open doors into people’s lives; into their hearts. If the door is closed; they don’t really hear what you are saying. If I was on the other side of the door you would sort of hear me, but wouldn’t get what I am saying. If God doesn’t open the door into a person’s life or a city or a village; they know you are there; they know you are saying something, but don’t really have a clue about it because the door isn’t open.Whatever door you try to open it won’t be the door.Pray to God; usually that door is one that God could only find and open.Unlikely a Roman Soldier, he was the gateway into the palace then through Europe which extended to America.Whatever situation God is in, that situation is ready to open a very effective door to share the gospel.Doors open in such a casual way you realized the gospel has been shared.True story about 60 years ago in Ireland. Young Pastor- Prayed give me the Lazarus in the town. He stinks (his life) far gone; if he hears somewhere in this town; he is a key and a door. If he hears; the town will come. The majority of the town was converted.Read books in prayer, people who pray long, I didn’t see much results.Paul prays without ceasing. All of life becomes a prayer. Yes there is a prayer time, but pray the prayers of the bible. I am discovering and yet discovering much to be revealed and doors to openYou find one person and they see what your saying; they are a doorway themselves to a neighborhood.Lydia whom the Lord open the door of her heart. That was the beginning of the Philippian church
Who is Broken?
Posted: 06 October 2016
You have a rude awakening, If your praise is not followed by obedience, you are attempting to flatter God. God isn’t mocked. If His laws are not broken, then guess who is broken?
As the Dew is for Israel..
Posted: 7 October 2016
"I will be as the dew is for Israel." As dew refreshes grass and flowers during the stillness of the night, so My presence revitalizes, empowers, enlightens you as you sit quietly with Me.
Faith is Born from His Faithfulness..
Posted: 08 October 2016
Faith is born from faith in His Faithfulness, for that is what God is. He cannot be unfaithful or He would cease to be. It is God's Faithfulness to the blood of His Son. This is where we begin, where we live and where we go on, always.Every revelation of God you are beginning to see is maintains the authority of that seeing by rejoicing. Every time you see something of God is to bring you to a deeper level of worship rejoicing and thanksgiving. He inhabits the praises of His people; He rises up within you. You are the temple. Temples are made for worshipRomans 10:8 8 But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, 9 [e]that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes,[f]resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses,[g]resulting in salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE [h]DISAPPOINTED.” 2 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; 13 for “WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.”17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word [k]of Christ.Word of faith is in you. Faith is in your mouth. Every man is given a measure of faith.It is God’s nature to believe. He put Himself in you, The Holy Spirit has been placed within you, so it is within you, joined to you, in your nature to believe. Word of faith is in your mouth as a confession.He is the only one who can do something about it. I believe in who you are, what you have said to me; who you are in covenant to me in my current circumstance.When you combine rejoicing with faith your confession is strengthen.I thank you that if God be for me who can be against me.I thank you that You rejoice over me with singing.I thank you You will never leave me nor forsake me.I thank you You that you have me in the palms of your hands and your walls are ever before meI thank you and praise You that You are the glory and the lifter of head.I thank you and praise You are my wisdom, You are my righteousness, You are my Life.I thank you and praise you that You are the Lord My Healer, You are the Lord my deliverer, You are the Lord my Provider, You are the Lord my defenseYou receive from within from the Holy Spirit’s energy and power. You stand before God. Thanksgivings empowers you releases for the inner man of your heart Confess means to say the same thing as.Psalm 138:8 You have placed your word above your name. His will is in His wordRejoicing empowers your faith. Thanksgiving breeds confidence. Confidence in God releases trust; the heart of everything is God and what God initiates
The Secret Place
Posted: 06 October 2016
The secret place originated with God. God is Spirit and His glory is beyond our ability to perceive, we must meet with Him in the secret places of the heart in order to commune with Him.
God gave the blood Covenant to man; there was a linking of His life into your and making Himself responsible for your life. It is a divine exchange of your weakness and taking His strength. It is dying to your natural abilities and clinging to God.
Seeking the Lord is a term which means the a familiar beaten path to the heart of God, where you go to the center of who you are in relationship to God.
When Moses wanted to see the glory of God, the LORD explained that no man could see God and live (Exodus 33:20). So God allowed Moses to see His glory only from a secret place. In Exodus 33:22 God said, “When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.” Here God gives us a glimpse into what we must do to experience the presence of God. It can only be enjoyed when we enter His secret place. It is a state of a soul in its relationship with God. Psalm 27:5 says, “For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; / In the secret place of His tent He will hide me; / He will lift me up on a rock” (NAS). Jehosophat the king when the enemies begin to converge, seeks the Lord and the pronouncement of the covenant is; The battle is the Lord. They were able to give praise and be at peace and watch as they sang resting in that secret place and see God set ambush upon the enemies.
That is the picture the psalmist is painting in Psalm 91. God has a secret hiding place, and He invites each of us to join Him there. Notice that He does not invite us to visit. The promise is to those who “dwell” there. To “dwell” means we live there. It becomes our address. We must walk away from the clamor and enticements of the world. We must be willing to quiet our hearts before Him Secret places imply honesty and trust. We don’t join God in His secret place unless we are willing to be transparent and honest with Him. must enter into the secret place in our own spirits and meet God there
In the New Testament your spirit which now is joined to the Lord is the Holy of Holies where now you leant to abide and stay there. You die to self reliance and commune with Him and have His presence without and within and can find intimacy there. We cast our care on Him, knowing He gives Himself away to be your peace, your deliverer, your healer, your way maker, your protection, your provider, your defense and will do all for you. In the midst of trials and storms we must enter into the secret place in our own spirits and meet God there and your receive His peace and assurance
The True Power of Prayer
Posted: 12 October 2016
You can do more than pray after you have prayed; but you can never do more than pray until you have prayed. One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity. If we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not'.
Gods Grace
Posted: 18 October 2016
The natural strength is what you have been given and receives from the Lord as the God the creator. Your spiritual strength, your power and enablement to do what you cannot do is what we receive from God in grace.
Rejoicing in God begets true Happiness..
Posted: 18 October 2016
Your happiness being the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. Prayer and praise are the means and oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ. The more you praise God, the more you become God-conscious and absorbed in His greatness, wisdom, faithfulness, and love. Your faith grows in praise. Praise reminds you of all that God is able to do and of great things He has already done. It is good to bring to remembrance when David was being pursued by his own son and the nation of Israel; the odds of him winning were about nil, 10 to 1 and he set his being to praise, God set confusion of the army. Remember when all the enemies of Israel converged together against Jehosophat when he only had a scant army and they began to praise the Lord, the Lord sent ambush upon them. They killed each other, Israel did not lose a person and it took them 3 days to pick up the spoils.
In Covenant with Jesus Christ
Posted: 25 October 2016
if you are in covenant with Jesus Christ, He is responsible for covering your weaknesses, for being your strength. He will give you His abilities for your disabilities!