This show walks us through the time after the garden. We saw the triumpal entry and Jesus fulfilling prophecy spoken over His life. The events of that week ended in the disciples’disappointment when Jesus did not meet their expectation as the natural king, His dominion and authority was of a higher realm. We seem to miss the real reason Jesus Christ died on the cross- not just forgiveness of sins, healing of the body, etc…but He laid down the mission of the Church! His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension made us the Body of Christ (anointing). He put His Spirit in us and on us and desires to use us and move through us to influence the regions where He has placed us with His wisdom, knowledge, and power! Religion missed who He was, it had lost the power of God. I believe religion is the top voice of satan’s deception. It soothes your soul, satisfies the requirements and rules and brings a limited peace to your soul but it does not provide a nature change in your spirit! Jesus came to redeem our authority and dominion we lost in the Garden of Eden!
We need to get back to the basics and fall on the Rock, let Him break us, and let Him become the foundation of the Church…the habitation of God in the spirit! Allow Him to “square” your corners as the Chief Cornerstone and be vessels of honor to bring back God in all of His expression by His anointing to the regions we live and always be on call for His will and purpose! He will give us a foundation as our Head and protect us from above while building us from beneath! We then become the temple, body, habitation of God in the Spirit so He can pour Himself out both on us and through us!
This show explores the question can we hear the voice of God? The Holy Spirit influences, instructs, inspires as a Person of the Godhead. The Spirit of God testifies of God and reveals Him through the Word and manifestations. The same voice that teaches you the Word of God is the same voice that leads you. People are on a search and sometimes think they have to hear an outside voice. The Church has not been intentional about growing people up spiritually and we have lost people. We have judged them instead of nurturing and instructing them by precept and example. We don’t seem to know our spiritual identification. It is important to get to know God by His Word otherwise we won’t recognize Him when He is speaking to us! We seem to be too busy and too noisy to hear God? Very few people are willing and able to be a spiritual habitation. We should be bold about hearing what He says and doing what He says to do. We do a lot of works instead of settling the Word in our hearts….so we are limited to a little inspirational nugget or intentional indoctrination….maybe somebody is happy to make us think like they do but “who told you that?” We read in I Jn.2 when you have overcome the evil one by abiding in Him and His Word is abiding in you than you can move in the things of the Spirit. Enough is enough! Bully back the realm of the spirit! Find your place, take your place and give no place!
Yes, we can hear the voice of God….in His Word…in our spirit (your conscience is the voice of your human spirit)…this is where God can speak to me!
This show introduced the news of the death of Rev. Billy Graham and the Fla. school shooting. Is. 58:8 tells us God’s got your back! God is living in you by the Holy Spirit. How do you hear the voice of the Spirit? How can you be led by the Spirit of God? When you walk in your soul all day long, at what point do you hear the voice of your human spirit? At what point do you get to know the voice of God’s Spirit? He promises to lead us and show us things to come. There is only one way to hear the Spirit speak…through the Word of God and in prayer. We are being asked to pray for schools, then why did we take prayer and God out of the schools? Lives become void, empty, desperate, desolate wastelands without the influence of the Word/Spirit. We fill our lives with entertainment and informaton at the expense of our spirit. More information and more discussion will never solve the problems. We need to apply the Word of God to our meditation and behavior. Evidently in our world today we are not seeing the presence of God or the glory of God otherwise we would be imaging it. Whose responsibility is it to bring forth the presence of God? 2 Cor. 3:17 where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty! Gal. 5:1 Stand fast in the liberty that set you free!
This episode contined the thought of what is happening in my life? Circumstances can imprison us and possess our souls. Sometimes we take scripture out of context and don’t do the process. Patience is not sitting back and just taking it! Luke 21:19 ….with patience possess your souls. ITim. 6:12 says “Fight the good fight of faith.” We take scripture and push back on an attack from the enemy. However, there is also a rest in the covenant. Eph. 6:13,14, having done all stand. We are not waiting to be rescued…we have some occupying to do in the authority we have been given as kings and priests, some work to do! It is not God’s work….it is ours! Jesus said, “It is finished” on the cross. When He was raised from the dead in the very presence of hell and its inhabitants…we were raised with Him to be His spiritual body on this earth! Where has He raised me? Eph. 2:4-10; Eph. 1:21-24, Where did He seat me? I am potentially seated above all the stuff, if I keep myself in Christ! The storm is inevitable, prepare yourself for the storm. (1 Cor. 10:13).
A lot of talk about our 2nd amendment right. God has given us the equivalent in the realm of the Spirit. When you see the strongman coming in to spoil your goods (Mt. 12)….do something with your authority! Rom. 8:11 is the way of escape. That same glory that raised Jesus from the dead lives in me! That same glory can raise me above my circumstance! Heb. 4:3, 9-11, there remains a rest for the people of God to cease from their own works. Sometimes our labors are wrong. We are supposed to labor to enter into rest. We are laboring so much we cannot rest in God’s promises and provision. But if we labor to rest (in patience) we won’t fall into unbelief!
Where do you go to in the Bible when things are going wrong in your life? It seems many times people go to the book of Job. They forget the part that the Lord turned the captivity of Job and the fact that his dilemmas lasted 9 mos. Job 42:10 A lot of people can be in imprisoned who are not physically in prison. Circumstances are pressing in on them and they need a change. Ps. 126:1 What happens when your captivity is turned? Job’s counsel was family and friends and they were wrong associations in that they presumed his problems were caused by God or his sin. We see that an ignorance of the truth or a lack of knowledge caused wrong thinking/believing. God’s Word is our counsel and it is pure and stands firm as Truth. When we stand on God’s truth we raise up a standard and we have dominion and authority in the name of Jesus! Most people will live their entire lives out of the appetites of their physical body or the issues of their soul, very few people live out of their spirit. They do not possess their souls! Our churches and spiritual lives are in the condition they are because we don’t walk out our authority we have in the name of Jesus!
For example: Suppose I was a teacher and I presented the material in a classroom setting. I would still have students with various grades and levels of achievements. I would not consider myself a failure as a teacher based on these results. The key could be application, interest or even development. Sometimes the teacher has to evaluate and even change the style of teaching while the material is the same. The only realm satan has to hold me in captivity is through my soul. My resistance to him has to come up from my spirit and out. He is coming at me from the outside in. When I realize that God is already in me and the Greater One…than I can put satan where he belongs…..under my feet!
Job had lost everything and his body is covered with sore boils. His wife and friends tell him to curse God! He must have thought, “Here I am sitting with everything taken away from me, what happened? Brokenhearted and alone, why did God do this to me? Satan did it! Job’s response, “I’m in God’s hands…I put myself there.” What a place to be! 9 months later God restored everything the devil had stolen and doubled it. It is very important that we understand it is not God, so we don’t let the enemy come and steal from us again. We can get entrapped by wrong theology. God couldn’t do anything for Job until Job asked Him to. Life brings choices and consequences. God stepped back and is transcendent (looking in ). He has limited Himself to His Word/covenant. When we pray to the Father in Jesus’ name He will get involved. I Peter 5:8 the enemy (satan) seeks to devour, in the Hebrew this means drink down. Spirit is always referred to in terms of water. He drinks up the water (spirit) and we have no life. Satan’s goal is to separate you from God, His Word, and truth. The things in your life that steal, kill, and destroy are his work. Don’t blame God! Sometimes we say, “Okay God, here I am…where are you? Why aren’t You here?” God didn’t move, you moved away from Him.
Who are you allowing to speak into your life? Walk in the integrity of God’s Word and don’t be influenced by wrong associations. Walk in the revealed truth of God’s Word, resist the enemy and his slandering lies, mind games…and he will flee from you. Discern what/who to turn away from and what/who to turn to. Let your response be as Job’s was….worship and God will keep you in perfect peace as your mind is stayed on Him!
If God controls everything…why is the world in such a mess? If I pray for God to take care of stuff…why is my life such a mess? Notice Eph. 4:27 don’t give place to the devil. 2 Cor. 2:11 Satan is an adversary, don’t let him take advantage of you to dupe or deceive! Don’t be ignorant of his devices! If we don’t know Truth (God’s Word is Truth), we will not know the answer to these questions and we will be duped! We must look at 2 Cor. 10:5 to examine the standard of our warfare. We do not engage with our adversary after the flesh. It is a spiritual contest. Job is an example of this scenario. Job 1:10 Satan cited that Job’s righteousness was a hedge. God makes us His righteousness in the New Covenant and this is also our hedge. The book of Job is like a play unfolding before us scene by scene.
Can satan put forth his hand against us? Is he permitted to be in God’s presence? If God cannot have evil how was he able to present himself before the throne? Job did not know who to attribute the bad circumstances to because he was ignorant of the covenant. Scholars believe he lived before the time of Abraham. He did not understand his authority nor his adversary. Your faith is the level of the knowledge of God’s Word (Truth). This is where the battle is and satan does the “to and fro” thing. Too often you are trying to wrap yourself around all kinds of stuff you have no business wrapping around. We are commanded to renew our minds and possess our souls. We can walk our life out in peace, through the promises of God(His Word) by the power of His Spirit!
This show started with Eph. 4:27/2 Cor. 2:11 Don’t give place to the devil or be ignorant of his devices. The question posed: “If God’s in control of everything, why is this world in such a mess?” Answer: Don’t touch the knowledge of good and evil. Knowledge and obtaining such is not wrong…but what are we doing with it? There are two kinds of knowledge…sense and revelation. Sermons should not be purely intellectual, neither should people “check their brains out at the door.” The confusion lies in the words power (dynamis), and authority (exousia). There was a transfer of power, dominion was lost in the garden and transferred to satan who became the “god of this world/age” (2 Cor. 4:4). Satan rules through sense or natural knowledge. God’s knowledge is higher. This is why I can’t blame God for the world’s mess. Satan has established his kingdom as the prince of the air, he’s not in hell yet. He’s right here.
What do we see in this world? Chaos and confusion. God is not the author of confusion, but rather wisdom, peace, and joy. Not the utopia, euphoric thing..woo woo, way out there kind. Adam was given the commad to dress/keep the Garden. Our spirits are the garden now, we are to plant the seeds of God’s Word, it should be a well watered garden..but it is up to us. We are the authority over our life, our spirit, our mind. Yes, we make choices, but there will be consequences that dictate circumstances. God bless my mess? No! God wants us to walk by a standard contrary to this world order we live in, the standard of faith. Appropriate the Word of God, let faith rise, remove the mountains of resistance and walk out your victory!
This episode started out with the question: What was the reason that God transcended, sharing about God being incarnate. God chose to leave His realm and enter ours so that He could be touched with everything we deal with (Hebrews chapter 2 &4). God breathed zoe life (His very nature and essence) and man was clothed in the glory of God. Adam never stopped being this (spirit) even though he sinned. However, God knew that He had to take on flesh to redeem what man had made a mess of…Adam/Jesus, natural/spiritual representative heads of a blood covenant that bought us the exchange of natures. 1 Cor. 15:45-50. You can walk as a mere man in acts of flesh as a Christian, but you won’t exhibit God’s power and glory.
Jesus pondered how he as Jesus of Nazareth, limited to his humanity, was going to do God’s plan. Jesus emptied Himself of who He was in heaven, took on flesh in the womb of the virgin Mary and had to be trained for ministry, meditate and study the Word of God and be led by the Spirit. Isaiah 10:27 says the yoke was destroyed because of the anointing. But Matthew 11:28-30 says the yoke is the anointing. Jesus says, “Learn of Me.” We are all going to yoke ourselves with something. If you choose to yoke with the anointing you will not experience the “handcuffs on the neck” mentioned in Isaiah. If God is going to take something away from us, remove it, He is going to release His power and glory and replace it with something far better than you can comprehend! Unyoke the shackles in your life by the yoke of the anointing! There are choices to be made and a process to walk through. Allow God to empower you as you “do life!”
This show again discusses the two experiences of the Holy Ghost. Do people that have the “infillment experience” have more of Him, more joy, devotion, excitement? Not necessarily but it seems they believe in the miraculous and have an expectation that God will do things for them. There is a tangibleness of the Holy Spirit in both experiences. In you….wisdom and power of God as a well for your own personal fulfillment. The anointing upon you is awesome for ministry. Jude 20; 1 Cor. 14:2 Well water needs stirred up or it could stagnate. Stir up your faith and experience the virtue or power flowing to make it useable. In the new birth you can become God- inside minded and in the baptism of Holy Spirit with the evidence of tongues you can be stirred up and in prayer go right into His presence and past the limits of yourself. If you can’t seem to get where you want to be- speak in tongues. The Church (as God’s body) is powerless when they only live, pray, sing in their understanding. Speaking, praying and singing in tongues gives expression to that eternal being inside of us, it ignites the fire and keeps it burning! Position yourself in His presence and you will find you can live life empowered! You will not see yourself clothed in “your stuff” but rather in the garment of His anointing! Don’t be a toxic person with a stagnant well, stir up your faith…it is written! You can’t be a witness until He is witnessed to you.