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The truth is that you can control your life by what you say. If you are a believer you say what God says about you that's how you were saved by grace through faith why can't everything else be that way? Life and death are in the power the tongue. Proverbs 18:21 God uses words to get things done. Why cant we. We are his sons and Daughters So we should say what we says he does the work.
Saturday, August 31, 2013
God Of The Small Things Too
Friday, August 30, 2013
I Can’t Stop Sinning!
Romans chapter 7, verse 19, states, “For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.” How many of you can relate to this? You have a heart for God. You genuinely love Him and desire to serve and please Him wholeheartedly. But you find yourself habitually mired down by some type of sin or disobedience. You can’t seem to break that bondage or stronghold no matter what you do.
Many Believers are captive, suffering one defeat after another in life. Why? They don't possess knowledge of the power of God’s grace. Hosea 4:6tells us, “My people are destroyed because of lack of knowledge.” The Hebrew word for destroyed literally means “cut off.” Instead of accessing grace to overcome their weaknesses and shortcomings, many Believers try with their own human efforts to live a victorious life. They try to keep all of the laws and commandments. When people don't have knowledge of certain things, they become captive.
But, ladies and gentlemen, I have some good news for you today!Sin’s dominion has been destroyed! “Well, Brother Dollar, if it’s been destroyed, why am I still being dominated by it?” Look with me at Hebrews 12:28, “Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.”
Did you see that? The way you're going to serve God acceptably is going to be by grace. Now, I'm always digging. When I read a scripture like that, I’m always asking, “Yeah, but what does that mean? How practical is that?”
Listen, before we became born again, we were children of the devil. We had his sin nature (Ephesians 2:3). We sinned because it was the “natural” thing to do. But when we became born again, we received the nature of Christ (2 Peter 1:4). We received the very likeness, image, and nature of God, on the inside. Now that we have Christ’s nature, we can produce righteousness rather than sin. However, if that’s true, why do so many Christians still struggle with the same sins they struggled with when they possessed the devil’s nature?
“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof”(Romans 6:11-12). This scripture is showing us our responsibility.Don't let sin rule in your mortal body! How? By grace! Through His death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus has presented to you His grace, His power, His ability, His name, everything you need to overcome in this life!
You're a free moral agent. You can stop sinning! You can choose to submit to sin, or you can choose to walk in grace, free from sin. Begin to put all your faith and confidence in Christ instead of your own self-effort. Stand up in front of temptation and sin and say “Thank You, Father, that I have the grace to overcome this thing! I'm depending on the grace of God!” What are you doing? You're acknowledging His grace, by faith, which is how we access grace (Romans 5:2). That's when grace can begin to empower you to overcome in areas you didn't think you could ever get out of. Even in the middle of whatever you’re doing that’s wrong, open your mouth and confess what you have a right to, because of grace! Declare, “I'm the righteousness of God! God loves me so much that He’s enabled me to overcome this! God has graced me to win over this!” Submit to, believe in, trust in, and receive, His great grace! Amen!
Release The Anointing Into Your Situation
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
You Are A Son And An Heir Of God
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Health and Healing Confessions
This means that if you are sick, God’s heart is and will always be to heal and restore health and life to you. He so desires for you to walk in health and life that He gave you His beloved Son, Jesus, so that you might have life and have it more abundantly (John 10:10). God is for you to walk in abundant health and life. He does not want your body and life sapped, incapacitated or debilitated by pain, sickness and disease, and He will never withhold healing from you.
How important is your healing and health to the Lord? So important that He Himself paid the heaviest and most terrible price for your wholeness! At the cross, Jesus was judged, burnt, smitten and crushed. He paid the full price for your healing, health and wholeness so you could experience His abundant life. Today, there is no symptom in your body that is too insignificant for Him to care about, and no condition that is greater than what His finished work has accomplished.
Beloved, if you’re facing challenges in your body today, I encourage you to meditate on the love and finished work of our Lord Jesus through the healing scriptures below. These Bible verses pertain specifically to your healing. In them, you will see the Lord’s heart to heal you and your loved ones, and how your healing has already been paid for at the cross. When you see also how willingly and compassionately Jesus simply healed all who came to Him, as long as they had a physical need, faith will rise in your heart to know that He wants to, and can do the same for you.
You may find some of the verses familiar, but I pray this will not stop you from soaking yourself in these healing scriptures, chewing on them and trusting the powerful and living Word of God to bring healing and life to your body. The Bible tells us that God’s Word is “life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh” (Proverbs 4:22). So as you immerse yourself in God’s healing promises and speak them over your body, expect to receive an abundance of His divine healing and resurrection life!
Apart from these healing scriptures, you will also find a prayer at the end of the verses that you can pray or speak over yourself or your loved ones. I pray that through these avenues, you will keep receiving the healing and wholeness you are trusting Jesus for, and keep walking in an increasingly greater measure of His health and life!
God Wants You Healed And Whole
Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy]. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.
— Isaiah 53:4–5 (AMP)
But He was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.
— Isaiah 53:5 (NLT)
… who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
— 1 Peter 2:24
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
— Romans 8:11
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
— Romans 8:32
Suddenly, a man with leprosy approached Him and knelt before Him. “Lord,” the man said, “if You are willing, You can heal me and make me clean.” Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” He said. “Be healed!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared.
— Matthew 8:2–3 (NLT)
“Lord, help!” they cried in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress. He sent out His word and healed them, snatching them from the door of death.
— Psalm 107:19–20 (NLT)
For He will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease.
— Psalm 91:3 (NLT)
He also brought them out with silver and gold, and there was none feeble among His tribes.
— Psalm 105:37
Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.
— 3 John 1:2 (NASB)
“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have [it] more abundantly.”
— John 10:10
Do not be afraid of the terrors of the night, nor the arrow that flies in the day. Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness, nor the disaster that strikes at midday. Though a thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, these evils will not touch you.
— Psalm 91:5–7 (NLT)
With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation.
— Psalm 91:16
“…I am the Lord who heals you.”
— Exodus 15:26
“I will give you back your health and heal your wounds,” says the Lord.
— Jeremiah 30:17 (NLT)
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases.
— Psalm 103:2–3
My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; for they [are] life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.
— Proverbs 4:20-22
Everyone Who Came To Jesus Was Healed
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
— Matthew 4:23
News about Him spread as far as Syria, and people soon began bringing to Him all who were sick. And whatever their sickness or disease, or if they were demon-possessed or epileptic or paralyzed—He healed them all.
— Matthew 4:24 (NLT)
When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed and in terrible suffering.” Jesus said to him, “I will go and heal him.”
— Matthew 8: 5–7 (NIV)
When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He Himself took our infirmities and bore [our] sicknesses.”
— Matthew 8:16–17
…Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!” And the man jumped up and went home!
— Matthew 9:6–7 (NLT)
Then great multitudes came to Him, having with them [the] lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others; and they laid them down at Jesus’ feet, and He healed them.
— Matthew 15:30
Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed Him.
— Matthew 20:34 (NIV)
And He entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand. So they watched Him closely, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. And He said to the man who had the withered hand, “Step forward.” Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they kept silent. And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched [it] out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.
— Mark 3:1–5
A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse. She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind Him through the crowd and touched His robe. For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch His robe, I will be healed.” Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition.
— Mark 5:25–29 (NLT)
Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” So they called to the blind man, “Cheer up! On your feet! He’s calling you.” Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus. “What do you want Me to do for you?” Jesus asked him. The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.” “Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.
— Mark 10:49–52 (NIV)
When the sun was setting, all those who had any that were sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and He laid His hands on every one of them and healed them.
— Luke 4:40
And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed [them] all.
— Luke 6:19
A funeral procession was coming out as He approached the village gate. The young man who had died was a widow’s only son, and a large crowd from the village was with her. When the Lord saw her, His heart overflowed with compassion. “Don’t cry!” He said. Then He walked over to the coffin and touched it, and the bearers stopped. “Young man,” He said, “I tell you, get up.” Then the dead boy sat up and began to talk! And Jesus gave him back to his mother.
— Luke 7:12–15 (NLT)
And a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, He called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” Then He put His hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.
— Luke 13:11–13 (NIV)
One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, He asked him, “Would you like to get well?” “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.” Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!” Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking!
— John 5:5–9 (NLT)
“…how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”
— Acts 10:38
Faith Confessions
- Romans 4:19–21
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
- Hebrews 10:23
By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.
- Hebrews 11:11
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
- Hebrews 11:1
So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
- Isaiah 55:11
God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
- Numbers 23:19
Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven.
- Psalm 119:89
Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses.
- 1 Kings 8:56
For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
- Mark 11:23
Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
- Mark 11:24
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
- 2 Corinthians 5:7
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.
- Galatians 5:6
...God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did...
- Romans 4:17
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
- Hebrews 13:8
...For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
- Hebrews 11:32–34
Jesus’ Priesthood Never Curses
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Dead or Alive?
Have you ever read the scriptures in the Bible that talk about how we were crucified with Christ, how we died with Him, and how we’ve been resurrected with Him? (Romans 6:4; Galatians 2:20; Colossians 3:3). You may have read them from a religious standpoint and thought, “That’s nice, praise the Lord,” but it didn’t really resonate with you, or mean to you what it should mean. Well, I spent some time studying those scriptures out, and I tell you, it just blew up in me—what it really means to “die” and be “alive” in Christ.
The Bible says we were born into sin and shaped in iniquity (Psalm 51:5). So, how do we cut off that sinful nature we inherited when Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden? (Genesis 3:6-19). Check this out. If we were born into something, the only way out of it is through death. Since we came in by birth, we must go out by death. Death is the secret of emancipation. Emancipation is freedom or liberation from something.
In order to do away with our sinful nature, we must do away with our life. What life? The life we were born with. Now, God didn't remove sin, He just removed the sinner. Romans chapter 6, verses 2,3 states, “How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?”
Notice it says dead to sin—past tense. We are not going to die to sin; we died to sin. So now God deals with us in Christ. Okay, a question for you: Did Christ die? Yes. So if you're in Christ—meaning you’re born again—did you die? Yes! You’re dead to sin and alive in Christ (Romans 6:11). What we couldn’t do for ourselves, God did for us. God put us in Christ. It’s a divine work. First Corinthians 1:30 (NIV) plainly states, “It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus.”
Christ was crucified. Since we're in Him, so were we. Christ was resurrected; we're in Him, so we were also! Christ rose with all power in His hand; we're in Him, so we have all power in us! (Matthew 28:18-20). You can’t separate what Jesus did from you, because you're in Him.
You might say, “But wait, Christ went to heaven after He rose from the dead” (Acts 1:9, 10).” Yes, but He didn’t go to heaven without us, because we’re in Him! The Bible says God has raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus! (Ephesians 2:6).
What God wants you to get a revelation of is this: stop trying to “die to yourself” and realize that you're already dead to sin and alive in Christ. “Yourself” has already been nailed to the cross. What will happen when you get this revelation? It will catapult your faith and confidence in the finished works of Christ to a whole new level. The question will no longer be, Can God do this? Your faith will say, God has already done it! You’ll realize that whatever you need to manifest in this natural world, whether it be healing, deliverance from some addiction, or financial provision, is already done because you’re in Christ! When your faith is in His finished works, you’ll begin to reach out and grab hold of everything you need.
Now, begin to wake up with this thought every day: that you’re dead to sin and alive in Christ. It’s time for you to start grabbing everything that's been made available to you. This world ought to start freaking out over you! They ought to be looking at you like, How in the world are you doing all this? And you’ll say, “Well, I reckon it’s already done! I'm just receiving what He’s already done.” Hallelujah!
“For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord”(Romans 6:10-11).
Healthier, Stronger Each Day
Grace in Rome
A Heavy Weight
Sunday, August 25, 2013
It’s a Fixed Fight
Beloved
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Not mere man
When you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, the Holy Spirit moved in and became one with your spirit (Ephesians 1:13). Everything about the Holy Spirit is now true about you, because you're one with Him.
Ephesians 3:16 says the Holy Spirit, Who now resides in you, released the spirit of might—the ability to do all things—on the inside of you. Ephesians 1:19, 20 says the very power that raised Jesus from the dead—that immeasurable, unlimited power—has been put on the inside of you. Zoë life has been put on the inside of you. Then, 1 John 4:17 says, “As he is, so are we in this world.”
Ladies and gentlemen, that's a powerful thing; right now, you who are born again possess everything that God has on the inside of Him. I know it’s hard for some of you to grasp that truth, because the Bible refers to God as the Almighty God. So how can we, mere humans, be as mighty as God?
Might is the ability to do all things. We’ve already established that the Holy Spirit has released the Spirit of might on the inside of you. It’s in there!
Now, in the Old Testament, the Spirit of might was not on the inside of people; it had to come on them. Take Elijah, for example. The Bible says the hand of God came mightily upon him, and he outran Ahab’s chariots to the entrance of Jezreel (1 Kings 18:46).
It’s important that we discern Old Testament truth from New Testament truth. People in the Old Testament were not born again. Their spirits had not been recreated. They didn't have this injection of power, in the person of the Holy Spirit, on the inside. Study it out for yourself (1 Samuel 5:6; 2 Kings 3:15; Ezra 7:6, 28; Ezekiel 3:14). The hand of God, His might, came upon all of those Old Testament prophets. But today, it’s in us. It’s eternally residing in us.
You may be thinking, “But, I didn't deserve it.” That's my point. It’s in you by grace! If you live for one hundred years, you couldn’t earn or deserve it. The Bible says you’re saved by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8). Salvation is a free gift from God. So is grace (Romans 5:15).
You’re walking around with every answer to every prayer. Some of you are struggling financially, and you don't even know you've got millionaire potential inside you. You're sick, and healing power is inside you. You're not happy, and the joy of the Lord is inside you. But you’re satisfied with acting like a mere human, continuing to ignore this grace that richly abounds toward you! (2 Corinthians 9:8).
The key to withdrawing from your spirit, from the supernatural realm, is to renew your mind with the Word of God. All of your old thought patterns come from the world. If you don't renew your mind with the Word, you're only going to believe what you've believed all of your life, before you got saved. You will only believe what you can sense with your five physical senses.
Mind renewal takes time; it’s a daily process. It’s an exchange process. You have to begin to allow God’s Word to change the way you think. It starts with reading the Bible on a daily basis so you'll know how to adjust your thinking. You exchange your old thoughts for the Word of God thoughts. You renew your mind so it agrees with your new, born-again spirit. If you want results, you can’t ignore this process. As you renew your mind, you’ll begin to see great, significant change in your life. You’ll pull proof over into the natural realm from the supernatural realm, and prove the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God for your life!
“Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect” (Romans 12:2, NLT)
No death only life !
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