The Power That Works Within Us

Ephesians 3:15-20   ¹⁵ Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

¹⁶ That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

¹⁷ That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

¹⁸ May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

¹⁹ And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

²⁰ Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

 Rejoice, because your names are written in Heaven.

Luke 10:20   but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

The family of God includes all who have believed in Him in the past, present and all who will believe in the future.

We are all a spiritual family, because we have the same spiritual Father.

He is the source of all creation, the rightful owner of everything. God promises his love and power to his family the church.

If we want to receive Gods blessings, it is important that we stay in contact with other believers in the body of Christ.

People, who isolate themselves from Gods family and then try to go it alone, cut themselves off from Gods power. Gods’ power works in unity or in one accord.

Matthew 18:20   ²⁰ For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

This is so important in the body of Christ. When two or three believers are praying for something the Holy
Spirit is with them.

The Holy Spirit gives us the gift of grace by the effectual working of his power. If you are a believer, this power should be working in you.

In union with Christ Jesus and through His empowering spirit we are complete. We have the fullness of God available to us.

Through faith and prayer we can ask the Holy Spirit to fill every aspect of your life to the fullest.

If believers set their spiritual minds in one accord, or in the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, nothing is impossible.

Genesis 11:4-6   ⁴ And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

⁵ And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

⁶ And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

God said the people are one, they are in one accord or in agreement. They have one language, now nothing can hold them back from what they have imagined to do.

In this verse Language is speaking words they were agreeing on building the tower.

These people had the kind of faith in themselves that they believed they could do this. However these people were not trusting God to help them build this tower.

Their faith and belief was in agreeing if it could be imagined they could do it. Their faith was in trusting the next step. Their words of faith made a reality.

How much more faith can believers have today in the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen.

The will of God is our foundation for faith. You must look beyond the natural realm of your mind, will and emotions to have the God kind of faith.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Your must get Gods word beyond your head and down in your heart for it to work.

Matthew 12:34   ³⁴ O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Jesus reminds us that what we say reveals what is in our heart. You will never be able to solve your heart problem by just cleaning up your speech.

We must allow the Holy Spirit to fill us with the spiritual way of speaking. As believers we are the righteous children of God. We need to use our words carefully. Words have power.

Believe in your heart that you are the righteousness of God and confess with your mouth, only then you will have the right to what you say

The power is within us.

NOT A FAILURE BY SHAME

Lesson for April 21, 2017

Isaiah 50:7   ⁷ For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

Shame is a weapon Satan uses when one sins. God wants to set us free through Christ Jesus. Once you have repented of what you are feeling shame and guilt for, let it go. God has.

On the cross, Jesus became sin for us. That is what being justified means, (just as if we had never sinned).

Matthew 27:46   ⁴⁶ And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

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And at the ninth hour, Jesus shouted in a loud voice, "Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani?" which is translated, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" It is the only saying that appears in more than one Gospel, and is a quote from Psalms 22:2.

At that point on the cross, Jesus had just taken the sins of the world upon himself. The reason he thought God the father had forsaken Him is that the father could not look upon sin. His glory would have destroyed Jesus.

Satan always twists the things around. Jesus took our shame at the same time he took our sin, we have to stand up to shame.  Let Satan know that you know the truth.

Shame is the failure of feeling worthy. You feel unworthy and unloved. If not dealt with you can become paranoid from the guilt.

You are not a failure just because of your feelings. In Jesus you are made perfect. Stop feeling bad about what you did. Satan will use this feeling of shame and guilt against you.

If shame is how you see yourself and feel about yourself, other people will see you the same way.

We need to empty ourselves of all shameful feelings and transgressions. We must stop letting shame dominate our lives.

Now that you know that Satan is behind shame and guilt, lets conquer it with what God says.

Nehemiah 8:10   ¹⁰ Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

For the joy of the Lord is your strength. When you rejoice God restores; God wants to restore you, but you have to desire it and believe.

Every believer should be in the midst of complete supernatural restoration. If you will notice the first part of the word restoration is “rest”.

Hebrews 4:9   ⁹ There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

There is a special rest still waiting for the people of God. For everyone who enters into Gods rest will find rest from every failure ever done and the shame that came from it.

We do not need to wait for the next life to enjoy Gods rest and peace. We may have it daily now. If Jesus has provided for our rest through faith, why must we struggle?  Jesus has already made this rest available for us.

God wants to restore everything you need to make your life full of peace and joy today and every day.

Everything the enemy stole from you, God intends to supernaturally restore it to you. Faith is the key to this supernatural restoration.

Another key to restoration is Joy. The Joy of the Lord is the supernatural key to restoration. I want you to see how to use Joy to ignite faith.

Restoration is always the objective when Joy is released. This joy of the Lord, which comes from His promises and provision really can give you strength, a strength that you can believe in. so when you have a weak moment and need strength to get passed it, release the Joy of the Lord.

Let the devil know you’re not going to put up with guilt, shame, or temptation anymore. Get bold, you are a child of the king of kings and Lord of Lords. Command that devil to get out of your mind and out of your life, in the name of Jesus.

Receive the fullness of God, the fullness of God is to be whole in body, mind and spirit. Whole is nothing broken, you are not broken. Be strong in the Lord and the power of His might.

Joel 2: 21-23   ²¹ Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things.

²² Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

²³ Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

The first part of restoration is rest, rather than fear. Rejoice for the Lord will do great things. God is not a little God, he is God of plenty.

God has dealt wonderfully. Never be ashamed, shame died at the cross. So if you are having an issue with shame and guilt…STOP…release your joy and go about your day, God is still in control.

Everything we do starts with a decision. Don’t let the devil deceive you by making you have guilt feelings.

Happiness is based on your decisions, joy is based on what you know, when nothing seems to be working, and you remember something from Gods word, say praise the Lord… something will work.

When God mentions the former rain, and the latter rain, it is talking about the spirit of God coming together as the anointing for the believer. Your future looks very anointed, because of Jesus and what he did for us.

Psalms 51:10-12   ¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

¹² Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

We must know how to respond when issues that don’t seem to be working. We don’t respond as the world does, we are Christians, we respond differently. We say, if I can get my joy in the Lord restored, everything will fall into place. We are in effect trusting in the Lord, not in our own abilities.

So if you are having an issue of shame or quilt, where is your Joy? A Christian should not be without joy.

Habakkuk 3:18-19   ¹⁸ Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

¹⁹ The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

Always rejoice in the Lord. Your feelings are not to be controlled by the events around you. When nothing makes sense and when troubles seem more than you can bear, remember God gives strength.

Take your eyes off your difficulties and look to God. The situation doesn’t have to be right for you to have the Joy of the Lord.

I don’t know what is missing in your life, I don’t even pretend to know. I don’t know the circumstances, but I know how to get you out of them. Start by rejoicing and praising God.

Do you want to walk in the high places? You rejoice, he restores. Joy is the fuse to igniting your faith. It is time to lite the fuse.

Get Gods joy inside of you. Faith will rearrange things. Being sad is a waste of the time. God needs the voice of his people… he needs your voice.

Jeremiah 33:9   ⁹ And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.

It shall be to me a name of Joy and a praise and an honor. The good I do unto them.  Continue to praise God and trust him with all your cares.

Knowing Who You Are

Lesson for 4:18:17

Colossians 3:2   ² Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Setting our sights on Heaven means to put heavens priorities into daily practice. Letting heaven fill our thoughts, means concentrating on the eternal rather than the temporal.

John 14:1-3   14 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

² In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Jesus has already prepared the way to eternal life, the only issue that may still be unsettled is our willingness to believe.

Colossians 3:17    ¹⁷ And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Whatever you do or say, let it be as a representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. To bring honor to him in every aspect and activity of daily living.

Which leads up to what this lesson is really about, which is your life. Everyone that watches the news or reads the word, especially prophecy, knows we are living in the days right before the rapture.

2 Timothy 3:1   3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

There will be very difficult times, but this is not the time to worry, fret or get emotional. This is the time to trust God. When emotions get involved, Satan will start feeding your thinking. Thoughts of fear which will totally immerse you into an emotional frenzy.

You will start to lean more to your feelings and own understanding. When that happens complex reactions with both spiritual and physical manifestations such as love, hate, fear, anger etc.

At this point your emotions and frustrations will lead to agitation, commotion, excitement, disturbance and ill feelings.

When you get emotional you are easily aroused to things and start showing your emotion in anger, fear, doubt etc.: this if not dealt with will eventually cause a not so good reaction in your life. 

Anger causes a chemical change in the physical body, as does depression and exhaustion of energy from nervous tension.

2 Timothy 2:7   ⁷ Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

Not knowing who you are causes you to be powerless. Being powerless causes negative emotions which can directly alter your life.

Matthew 28:18   ¹⁸ And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

Luke 10:19   ¹⁹ Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

I have given you, authority over all the power of the enemy. All the authority of Jesus has been given to the believer. You, however, will never see your authority work until you start operating in your God given authority.

You will never be able to use this power and authority while living under negative thinking, (an emotion) it will leave you feeling worried and powerless.

If you have accepted Jesus as Lord and savior. You are not powerless, you are in covenant with Jesus Christ who is all power. That is the power inside of you in the name of Jesus.

Acts 19:13-16   ¹³ Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

¹⁴ And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.

¹⁵ And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?

¹⁶ And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

These particular Jews had traveled from town to town making a living by claiming to heal people. While trying to drive out demons they would often recite a whole list of names in their incantation to be sure of including the right deity. Here they were trying to use Jesus’ name in an effort to match Paul’s power.

Many Ephesians engaged in exorcism and occult practices for profit. The sons of Sceva were impressed by Paul, whose power to drive out demons came from Gods Holy Spirit, not from witchcraft.

They discovered however, that no one can control or duplicate the power of God. These men were calling on the name of Jesus without knowing Him personally.

The power to change people comes from Jesus. It cannot be tapped by reciting his name like a magic charm. God works his power only through those he chooses.

When you know who are you, demons will never ask you who are you. They know who you are, they see that same power and authority in you that they saw in Jesus and Paul.

John 8:14-17   ¹⁴ Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.

¹⁵ Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.

¹⁶ And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.

¹⁷ It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.

Galatians 3:29   ²⁹ And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

You are more than a conqueror, you are heirs according to the promise.

Revelation 1:5-6   ⁵ And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

⁶ And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Is there any doubt as to who you are as a believer. This has to go higher than religion.

You must start talking to yourself and say, I am a son or daughter of God. I am the righteous of God through Christ Jesus. I’ve been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ.

I take authority over fear, anger, emotions in the name of Jesus. Through Gods mercy and grace I am who and what the word says I am.

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Dominated by Deception

Lesson for April 7, 2017

We have been taught the doctrine of death until it is so ingrained in us and in our spirits, that on a certain day we just turn over and die.

When you operate in the natural or human mind you can create whatever illusion you want.

It will reproduce a thought and put that thought into the real world, the world where you live.

The thieves, the killers and the destroyers have not been Satan alone: But we as believers have handed our power over to the devil by listening to and believing misinformed teachers and incorrect teachings on this particular scripture.

If you believe Satan can kill you, he will,

If you believe Satan can rob you, he will,

If you believe Satan can destroy your means of life, he will.

Hebrews 2:14-15   ¹⁴ Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

¹⁵ And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

The power of death has been taken from Satan.

When we the children of God, rise up in the knowledge of who they are and who the devil is, and what he is not, the devil will forever be under your feet.

We must take dominion over this world, over death.

Over our environment and over the very circumstances, our circumstances.

If we are going to rule in the name of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

Do you think that Jesus is coming to this earth to reign with a group of Satan dominated, fearful, defeated saints? Remember, he is coming to rule with us not for us.

John 10:10   ¹⁰ The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

The only thing Satan can steal from you in is his own power is the word of God.

It is true, that if he can steal the word of God from you, he can steal your power over him.

Your strength over Satan does not rest in what the world says… it rests in what the word says.

If you live in the word, you live in power.

If you live in the word, you rule Satan serves.

If you live in the world, you live in defeat.

If you live in the world you serve, Satan rules.

Satan can steal the word, so in that respect, he is indeed a thief.

Christians need to be careful about the biblical concept of thieves.

The bible even teaches, Jesus will come as a thief in the night.

That does not make Jesus a thief.

Be very careful about any power you attribute to Satan.

He has the power to steal from us, only if we give him the authority to do it. By himself he has no power.

The truth of the matter is, the battle we go through is in our mind.

As long as we think that Satan is mighty and powerful, he can and will hurt you.

It is time for Christians to let God take you from a mentally defeated human, to mentally being an over coming god like Christian.

These concepts about Satan cannot enter your mind, when you are walking in the greater dimension of our God-like mental abilities and the mind of Christ.

One of the first things we need to learn is when you give something attention, you give it strength in your life.

You give Satan power when you constantly acknowledge his presence…. Quit letting him run your life.

1 John 3:7-9   ⁷ Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

⁸ He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

⁹ Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Jesus destroyed the devils power.

The power of death that he once had has been destroyed.

It has been wiped out.

Matthew 7:15-20   ¹⁵ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

¹⁶ Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

¹⁷ Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

¹⁸ A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

¹⁹ Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

²⁰ Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

These false prophets, which come in sheep’s clothing speak just enough truth to make his lies sound convincing.

You can detect these false prophets by the way they act. Just as you can identify a tree by its fruits. A healthy tree produces good fruit, and an unhealthy tree produces bad fruit.

You can see the fruit in the lives of people. It will help you identify them. Is their fruit good or bad, or non-existent?

Verse 16 says, you shall know them by their fruits.

1 John 4:1-4   Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

² Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

³ And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

⁴ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Don’t believe everything or every one. There are many false prophets in the world.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15    ¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

¹⁴ And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

¹⁵ Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Verse 14 says, but I am not surprised, even Satan can disguise himself as an angel of light.

It is time for us to hold on to the truth of the word.

The saints must come into the truth of who they are in Christ Jesus.

It is time to start walking in belief, not unbelief.

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