Word of the lord

Word of the Lord Wednesday September 14, 2011

I weary with your simple-mindedness. I am God! I do not change! I keep My Word. I give light to the sky and require darkness to appear out of light. I not only know all things - I created everything that exists. If it exists, it does so because of Me. I fill My house with splendor and glory. I lack for nothing. I utter My voice and cause the unshakable to tremble. I possess wealth and dominion and there is no one to challenge me. My home is everywhere and I do not require assistance from anyone.

Why do you insist on doubting me? Why do you put me on trial and then determine in your on courts that I am not faithful? Why do you struggle to rest when I called you to cast all your cares over onto Me?
Am I a man that you should negotiate a deal with Me? Should I change to accommodate your opinion of Me?

Let Me speak to you now! Listen and I will give you advice that cannot be bought. I will give you Words that cannot be broken.
All the promises I made have already been fulfilled. My work is finished. All of my Words come to pass. I determined before the foundations of your world were even laid what I was going to do. I spoke My intentions and the universe took shape. The earth was placed in time and space according to My command. I said let there be and it was. I don’t answer to mere humans that I created but I do answer their prayers when prayed in faith.

Ask of Me says the Lord! Believe Me when I say that I am not only willing, but also able and ready to meet your every need. My storehouse is full but yours is empty, says the Lord. Ask of Me! Believe Me and you will have all that you need.
Stop bringing Me down to your level in your minds – I’m so much bigger than that. Close your natural eyes and open your spiritual eyes and then you will see.

You ask Me for rain when you could be living by rivers of fresh water!
You ask Me for assistance when I desire to do it for you!
You ask Me to heal you and then take matters into your own hands!
You ask Me for favor and blessings when I have already given them to you!

Come now, I have spoken! Can a man mature in one day says the Lord? The answer is a resounding “Nothing is impossible to them who believe”! What you think is impossible – I have already done!

If you have ears to hear – hear what the Spirit is saying today.

My daily confessions

MY DAILY CONFESSIONS

This is a new day I have been given. It is the only day I have - therefore I will rejoice and be glad in it. I am blessed and highly favored this day. Wherever I go and what ever I do will prosper, Yet, No weapon formed against me will prosper. There is an open heaven over me and I live in my Father's authority. I will hear and obey His voice.

I will not move out of my position today. My position is in heavenly places with Christ. I am totally and completely saved, my sins have been removed from me as far as the east is from the west, never to be remembered against me again.

When my Father looks at me, I bring Him great pleasure. He delights in my response to Him. I am a believer, I trust Him and Him alone. I delight in walking with Him all day - everyday!

I will say this is the day the Lord has made and thank Him for His provision. He knows my every need - even before I ask. Often I am spiritually aware that words aren't necessary. I remember that all the promises of God have already been fulfilled and they are a resounding "Yes" and "Amen"!

I will not side with or agree with our enemy today by speaking anything that opposes my Fathers Word. I will however speak today. The meditations of my heart and the words of my mouth will be acceptable to Him. I will speak up and I will not be silent. My words have life in them. They precede me into a bright future. I will not however, speak death. I will speak up for those who don't know salvation. I will speak up for those who are confused, frustrated, and have no hope. I know that Truth is the only thing that will set a person free - therefore - I will speak Truth!

I will not allow anything into my life that does not please my Father. On the other hand, I will evict anything that He reveals to me that does not please Him and bring Him glory.

I renounce the devil as the father of all lies and oppose him and his work in the name of Jesus! I will not be silent about this. I will speak truth and revelation in the face of complacency and deceit.

I make no room for my flesh any more than I do the devil. I am not obligated to either one. I mortify (put to death) my flesh. That means I say a resounding "No" to it's desires. I depend totally on the grace of God for this.

Today, I am being converted to true biblical Christianity. I am taking on the very nature and character of Christ, the one who redeemed me. I am walking in fresh revelation and that brings "mountain moving faith" into my walk with Him.

Today, I am blessed. I have ascended the mountain of God, by His invitation, and I have arrived at the top. I am as blessed as any person can be. I lack nothing and I want for nothing! My Father supplies all my needs. I call heaven down on earth into all my circumstances.

My profession is sure and my words have life in them. I speak for Him and I call others back home to the Fathers heart. I do not condemn nor do I get offended. I love like He loves and I accept like He accepts. His heart is for "whosoever" - therefore my heart will be also!

I pray - without ceasing. I communicate with my Father all day and everyday! I will not be put off or denied. I will abide in His shadow and find protection under His wings. I will fear no evil!

I believe! I am totally and completely in! I love what He loves and I hate what He hates. I cannot turn back nor will I accept excuses. I will spend my life in His service. I was saved from works to do God works.

I will not be duped by the enemy or live in the past. I have no past and my future is bright. My way is strait and my vision is clear.

I am healthy and my body is healed. My body is the temple of God and is not a receptacle of satan's trash. I refuse all sickness, disease, brokenness, lack of any kind. I see the heavens open and nothing is impossible.

My family is also blessed. Nothing shall by any means harm them. I am there covering and I have authority to speak life over them. The womb of my daughters are blessed. Their futures are bright and their lives belong to Father God. They will serve God all the days of their lives. They were created in His image and they will reflect that image in the earth.

Today, I take my place and state my position. I am an anointed child of the ever living, all wise creator of the universe. He anoints my every step. He guides me into all truth. He sends me to this world with His message of hope, grace and deliverance. I obey and fruit grows.
I decree "Your Kingdom come, on this earth, now"!

I am blessed!

Facades of Deceit

Façade:  “A showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant”

    Also: from a French word that means “Face”.  The front of a building.

A person’s façade, then, would be what they let you see.  

What are facades of deceit?  

This is where we live our lives attempting to cover over our sins by never really being honest with God.  We deceive ourselves and others by confessing our sins only to a point.  Most of the time, we never really go all the way.  We refuse to call it what it really is.  The devil convinces us to accept our sin as part of life.  He tells us God understands.  So, we build nice picket fences around our sin.  We whitewash our sin!  Ezekiel 13:10 (MSG) says; “The fact is that they've lied to my people. They've said, 'No problem; everything's just fine,' when things are not at all fine. When people build a wall, they're right behind them slapping on whitewash.” We even get an acceptable social name for it, like a disease.  Psychotherapists or modern social shapers, dealing only with the mental and emotional issues we face, grant us the excuses we need to live in our sin.  

One doesn’t have to look far to see what this has done to our culture.  The medical and drug communities have exploded with patients and profit greatly from our maladies.  The best they can offer the sin-sick person is coping skills and temporary relief.  At the heart of it all, the sin continues to have its effect on the person.  Covering our sin with psychobabble and expensive drugs only delays the inevitable – breakdown and even death in many cases.  

Breakdown comes in many forms.  Too often we don’t see the real issue as being sin, even when faced with many forms of breakdown.  An example of this would be the illicit drug user.  In most cases, the person now addicted to drugs, began using them to cover-up pain, pain being the beginning of a breakdown.  We all have a burning desire to feel whole and accepted.  Because of life issues, like an unbalanced upbringing, we seek something to ease our pain and ward off the inevitable breakdown.  

Make no mistake about it, pain is legitimate.  It manifests in various forms from physical sickness to relational breakdowns. Often the pain is mental so we feel as if no one understands or even cares.  It is easy to ask someone to pray for you if you have physical pain; on the other hand, if pain is in the unseen realm of emotion it is much more difficult to believe that God cares.  If that were true, then the Bible would not be filled with antidotes to every kind of pain.  Notice what 1 Peter 5:7 says; “ Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”   Anxiety has to do with the mind and emotions.  It was Jesus that said “do not worry. . .”, one again, dealing with the mind.  Why not worry?  Because He knew what worrying would do to you.  It only leads to more stress and less quality of life, the very opposite of His plan for us.  The scientific community has confirmed many times and in many ways that a happy, carefree person lives a much healthier life.  By the same standards, a person who worries and frets over everything tends only to sickness and disease.  

Covering up our sin only worsens the problems we face every day.  It breaks us down and makes us weak, when we get weak; the enemy comes in as an angel of light to offer a remedy.  The whitewashing begins!  The façade of deceit is the prescribed medicine.  The enemy does not want us to consult God’s Word for the truth because his lies will be exposed in the light of God’s Truth.

The only word related to freedom in the Bible is Truth.  More education was not prescribed for healing.  More giving of one’s self and finances to the kingdom of God was not prescribed, contrary to TV preachers.  Doing more or less is not the antidote we need to be made free.  Listen again as the Holy Word of God speaks: John 8:32 “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."   What sets a person free?  Truth alone and nothing else.  What is truth?  Jesus is truth!  What the Bible says is the final authority!  Truth is the total absence of error.  No lies of any kind can be found in Truth.  That is why it is the only thing that will set a person free.  Let’s look at the salvation experience.  Jesus said; “I am the way, the truth and the life.  No one comes to the father but by Me.”  I am the way and there is no other way.  Therefore, for a person to truly be born again, he has to accept this truth.  No other way!  Can you see how one form of healing takes place when Truth is applied?  Giving your life to Christ is the ultimate healing for your sin-sick soul.

Now back to the issue of sin.  Most people have no idea that sin and the effects of it remain alive and well in their lives.  The question then becomes, when I confessed my sins at the time of salvation didn’t I get forgiveness of all sins at that point?  The answer is YES.  The root of sin, which is the reason for our separation from God, is confessed and forgiven. If you indeed confess that you are a sinner in need of a savior, then you are forgiven and on your way to heaven.  Then what remains?  Most often, people mistakenly think that because I made my confession as a sinner that all the issues of sin have been dealt with.  This is not necessarily so.  If that were the case, then there would be no need for sanctification.  What then is sanctification?  This is a long word that simply means God, by way of the Holy Spirit, comes to you as a new believer to deal with the effects of sin on every level.  Again, are you saved?  Yes!  Are you going to heaven?  Yes!   The real issue then becomes living here on earth.  How do I overcome sin’s effect on me while I live the rest of my life here?  The residue of sin is everywhere.  What I mean is that once you are born again, the process of cleansing the effects of sin begins.  Listen to how the Apostle Paul explained this issue to the Roman church.  “Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now (when is Now?  Now that you have become born again Christians) you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy.” Romans 6:19 ^(NLT)

Becoming holy is the process of sanctification.  It is like a deep cleaning.  The word means; a purifier.   I love how the Message Bible puts it.  ^“God hasn't invited us into a disorderly, unkempt life but into something holy and beautiful—as beautiful on the inside as the outside.” 1 Thessalonians 4:7  It is the work of the Holy Spirit to bring us to completion.  That means He will start working when we give our lives over to Him, and He will continue the process until we reach full maturity.  That involves attitudes of the heart, little sins that we sometimes don’t even know about, and sins that we do know about but build walls around.  He never stops working on us because of His incredible love for us and His desire to see us completely whole, spirit, soul and body.

 As stated earlier, God is not just nitpicking so as to make our lives miserable.  No, He is sanctifying us through and through to wash the residue of sin completely from us.  Why?  Because He wants us totally free. The issue is that we tend to want only to deal with fruit and He wants to deal with root.  He searches the innermost parts of our hearts to get at the root.  That is where hidden sin lives.  That is where real deliverance and healing take place.  Allow Him to get past the facades of deception and wash them all away. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 “It is God's will that you should be sanctified: . . .” 

Is God micro-managing sin?  The answer is both Yes and No.

The first answer is No.  

If you think He’s out just to find something to condemn you over, then no!  He’s not doing that at all!  If He were, He wouldn’t have to look hard because we all have sinned and come short of His glory.  See Romans 3:23. The truth is, our Father does not condemn us.  John 3:17 in the message Bible says; “God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again.”   

The key to this verse is - He came to help.  God did not send His one and only Son to earth to find fault; nor did He send Him here to condemn.  By the standard of His Holiness; (we find this standard in the Old Testament scriptures) we were found guilty from the day we were born. Jesus, knowing that we were separated from our Father, came to tear down the wall of separation and restore us to our original position as children of God.  He came to get back what Adam gave away. As Christ hung on that cross, the cost necessary for our sins - death took hold of Him - but sin’s grip was letting go of us!  As Jesus took His last breath the veil in the temple came thundering down from top to bottom.  While this reveals that the presence of God was being released to all mankind, it also reveals that sin’s grip was loosed at that very moment.  Now, for the first time since Adam, the heart of man could be restored to perfection. For anyone to be bound now is the choice of that person, it is certainly not the will of God nor His plan for their lives.

Is God micro-managing sin? The second answer is Yes!

As we have already established, our heavenly Father is not trying to find fault, He is not looking for little sins to trap us and then condemn us.  So what then is He trying to do?  Let’s look at Song of Songs 2:15; it says “Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom.”  It’s the little foxes that spoil the vine.  The little - hidden, covered over sins that keep us from becoming whole and totally set free.   God’s interest then, is not nitpicking; rather, His incredible desire is revealed for His creation to be free.  His motive, that many people have the audacity to question, is clearly on display.  He loves us so much that He will not just look away from sin, how can He?  He allows sin to continue its work in us till we see our need to be set free.  Look at what James 1:5 says about sin’s effect on us.  “¹⁵ Lust gets pregnant, and has a baby: sin! Sin grows up to adulthood, and becomes a real killer.”  Once again, God’s heart for us is to get to the real root of our problems, sin!  Sin, when it’s full grown, bring death.  Our Father does not want death for us.  How do we know this?  John 10:10 clearly tells us the purpose of sending Jesus, His only Son, into this world.  “. . . I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of. 

Quite the opposite of condemning, frustrating, or destroying, as so many have wrongly attribute to God.  The first part of John 10:10 reveal the true destroyer/killer.  “The thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy.” ^MSG

Can you see the truth stepping out into the light now?  Can you see just how much our Father loves us?  His heart is totally for us.  His purpose toward mankind is flawless.  No blame or fought can be ascribed to Him. James even says; “Don't let anyone under pressure to give in to evil say; God is trying to trip me up." God is impervious to evil, and puts evil in no one's way.” James 1:13 (MSG)

God, our heavenly Father, is for us.  He knew us before we were formed in our mother’s womb.  He had a master plan for us before we drew our first breath.  Jeremiah 29:11 says; “For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Wow!  Now when you feel the urge cover over sin in your life, remember, that urge is the first step in the process of bondage.  To confess your sin and get it out is God’s way of keeping us on the path of blessings, prosperity, and wholeness.  James 5:16 says; “Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with.” 

It’s no wonder that the enemy of our souls has become a master of deceit, building facades through lies that keep us bound.    Confess all sin, in it’s entirety, and receive forgiveness and be healed – spirit, soul and body! 

Word given in Africa

A Word Given In Africa

April 2011

Son of Man, what do you see?  

• I see the heavens open and nothing is impossible.
• I see provision instead of excuses.
• I see revelation instead of theology.
• I see servers instead of seekers.
• I see distributors instead of consumers.
• I see the end time upon us and hearts are changing.
• I see the Lord pouring out his Spirit on all flesh.
• I see Prophecy filling the land.
• From the least to the greatest, common people and government officials alike, hearing the Word of the Lord.

• I will build my church says the Lord. No man or system of men can stop Me.

• My heartbeat will be felt all over this world.
• Rivers and streams will break forth as the noon day.
• Light will shine in dark places and all will see that the Lord is good.

• Heaven is my home and the Earth is my resting place.
• Build me a sanctuary and I will inhabit it.
• Show the world your God and I will show the world my grace. 
• Say yes to me, says the Lord, and I will say yes to you.