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This is the blog post for May 22, 2025 that reminds us that we are more than conquerors because GOD loves us and that no weapon formed shall prosper against us.
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Delivered Through Desperation.
To Our Most High GOD, great is Your faithfulness towards me, towards us! Even when we fail to be faithful to You, You’re always faithful unto us. Thank you, kindly, Abba! It’s this fact that causes me to do a self-evaluation of my Walk with Christ. GOD has called me to the Table. My commitment is in question. My dedication and diligence, my perseverance, my ability to push against-all-odds is at the forefront, especially since I say, “GOD can do anything, I must truly believe that, with everything in me, in order to see the direct manifestation of my expectation that He’s able to do what His Word says, Ephesians 3:20.
Am I really chasing after Christ if I’m able to easily venture into the realm of unfaithfulness, after all that He does for me, after all the many ways that He’s made! What about the work He’s doing right now in our lives, are we as dedicated, as loyal, as zealous for GOD as we say? LORD, forgive me and cause Your face to shine upon me. Teach me your ways and give me sense enough to follow them. LORD, Your Word says in Psalm 25:4-5, “Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. 5 Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.”
It’s at the point of desperation that I felt my faith activate and GOD’s touch rescued me, just when giving up looked so good, exactly when hope faded, LORD, it was You that delivered me!
LORD, I’m desperate for You! Forgive me. Change me. Fix me. Heal me. Deliver me. Set me free, embrace me. Guide me. Hold me. Sculpt me. Rejuvenate me. Restore to me the joy of my salvation (Psalm 51:12). Edify me. Purify me. Teach me. Sustain me. Equip me (Ephesians 6:10-14).
Rejuvenate, refresh, relieve and release me from every yolk of bondage! Cancel the enemy's plans concerning us! We're Yours, GOD vindicate us as You protect us and always keeps us safe. You are Our GOD and we are Your Children. You call us, “Friend and You've made us a little lower than the angels.” You love us despite all of our mistakes and our blatant disobedience.
"It's because of Your mercies that we are not consumed." Lamentations 3:22-24.
Even though we deserve to have no hope, LORD, You've offered us eternal hope to be with You, when you return. You comfort us by way of Your Holy Spirit; comfort comes when we need it most. You shield & protect us at every turn.
Your Ministering Angels remind us of Your goodness, Your grace and mercy, Your unmerited favor, You are marvelous and You are sovereign! You reign and You have all power (omnipotent), You’re all-knowing (omniscient), You see my future (omnipresent)! You see us, not for where we are now, but for where You've destined us to be, the perfected place, through divine providence, El Roi! This prayer is signed, sealed, and delivered to You through Jesus Christ, Amen. -
Demolishing Spiritual Amnesia: From Trouble to Triumph
As Believers, we oftentimes, become frustrated because it takes a while before our breakthrough busts down our doors. In this waiting season, we have the tendency to forget ALL the ways that Our LORD has made for us. Some of us get discouraged and lose hope, become full of anxiety and frustration. Some of us believe that GOD’s stopped listening to us or that His answer is “No,” but all the while, He’s requiring us to have patience. GOD is wanting us to reflect and use this reflection as fuel that will sustain us while we’re waiting on His next breakthrough to happen in our lives. GOD will delay our NEXT season of change, our next deliverance, because our faith is lacking. He won’t give what He has for us away but He’ll hold onto it until our faith meets our requests.
It’s the time in-between where we are to where GOD’s taking us, next level, that we get bombarded with thoughts of worry and concern. We should be in prayer during this waiting period. We should continue to praise and offer worship while we’re getting ready to receive all that GOD has for our next season, our next level up. It’s what we do in this season that determines our mindset.
GOD’s looking for a People that will believe Him and His abilities to do the impossible and cause all things to work in our favor despite their current situations. He wants us to place our FAITH forward, not wavering or wondering if GOD will but being hopeful and full of assurance that He’s going to come through for us, no matter the timing.
What is Spiritual Amnesia (SA)?
SA happens in some Christians’ lives when faced with difficulties, such as obstacles or valley experiences. Immediately, they become distraught, lose hope, become depressed and burdened with anxiety. They don’t look to GOD as their first resort. They start internalizing and overthinking about all the negative things that could happen, as a result of the turmoil. The possibilities of things swaying in their favor is barely visible because Satan is steadily feeding them doubt, misplacement, abandonment, fear without any hope in sight.
I’ve been in this place. God has done so many wonderful things for me, yet, when I’m faced with some issues, I quickly go into “worry mode.” I don’t force myself to reflect on the ways that God has already made for me. I don’t quickly recall every door that God has opened for me or shut for my good. I’ll start thinking of all of the negative outcomes. I contract SA. I don’t pray as often nor praise as much because I’m so consumed by the fear of the unknown.
Then, my Spirit is quickened and I began to revisit every miracle that God has performed for me; this gives me hope and empowers me. When I press my way forward, I become strengthened in the areas where I was weak. I open my heart for God to pour into me a trip down memory lane. He reminds me of the benefits of being a Joint-Heir with Jesus Christ.
He reminds me of His Holy Word that comforts and consoles me. GOD reminds me that He’s Jehovah Jireh, my provider. He breathes into my being a stream of peace that surpasses any feelings of fear and anxiety that I once had before importation. Not only do I remember the miracles that He’s performed in my life, I’m able to also reflect on the ways that He’s made for people I know and those I don’t but have heard of the goodness of The LORD being showered upon their lives. It’s exhilarating and rejuvenating to recall the ways that GOD has continued to make for me. My soul is nourished and I’m better able to handle stormy situations because I know, beyond doubt, that GOD is my keeper and my sustainer and there’s absolutely nothing that He won’t do for us whom He loves and He chastens.
Toolkit for Turning Trouble to Triumph:
- Know that being “tried” is not the same as being “tempted” (James 1:13-16)
- God is near you and He won’t fail you. (Deuteronomy 31:8)
- God has never lied to you. (Numbers 23:19)
- Amplify your prayer life. Pray continuously and remember to cast all of your cares and concerns to God because we believe that He cares for us. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-17; Psalm 34:1-3; 1 Peter 5:7
- Amplify your praise and worship. Sacrifice time and effort to do so, even if it’s hard, because this will cause you to give God due praise and worship which will motivate God to change your situation. Hebrews 13:15-16
- Increase fasting and surround yourself with people who believe God, no matter the circumstance. Sacrificing during difficult times, for God’s purposes, are meant to sustain us, to revive us, and to purify us.
- Understand that Satan desires that we forget all that God has done for us because he only wants to steal, kill and destroy us. Dial into the fact that Jesus Christ deliberately died on Calvary’s Cross for our sins before we’ve even committed them.
- Realize that the Love of God is unrelenting and boundless.
- Adjust Your Attitude so You’re Altitude isn’t Stagnate: We cannot go from glory to glory, ascending and transcending to higher heights in God through His enrichment and nourishment if we’re not willing to be hopeful and increase our faith . Even our speech should be victorious.
- Our heads should remain held high and our pose is standing in assurance wearing our armor. At the pinnacle of our faith, we see our humanity embracing our Spirituality. We are what we speak! Our tongues need to be tamed, guarded, continuously so that we don’t waver in our faith. Our faith only gets stronger as we get wiser in the Knowledge of God. Proverbs 23:7(a)
- Outpouring of Revitalization and Rejuvenation: John 7:38 ushers us into the very important fact, promise, that our bellies are full of living water which will flow into the dry lands of our body that have dried out due to being discouraged, depressed, etc.
- The reason we ought to commune with Our Father when times are going well, the reason we should amplify our prayer, praise, worship, fasting, etc. is because we can use it as Spiritual food to nourish our Spirits and also our minds and bodies.
Today’s Scriptures:
Numbers 23:19 NLT | God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does not change his mind. Has he ever spoken and failed to act?
Jeremiah 29:11 NKJV | For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Romans 5:3-5 KJV | And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of GOD is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
2 Timothy 2:3 ESV | Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
Psalm 120:1 NKJV | “In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He heard me.”
James 1:3 Amplified Bible | Be assured that the testing of your faith [through experience] produces endurance [leading to spiritual maturity, and inner peace].
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Laborers of God’s Great Garden,
Today, let’s jump right into the Word of GOD:
Romans 8:1-4 The Passion Translation “So now the case is closed. There remains no accusing voice of condemnation against those who are joined in life-union with Jesus, The Anointed One. 8:2 For the “law” of the Spirit of life flowing through the anointing of Jesus has liberated us from the “law” of sin and death. 8:3 For God achieved what the law was unable to accomplish, because the law was limited by the weakness of human nature. Yet God sent us his Son in human form to identify with human weakness. Clothed with humanity, God’s Son gave his body to be the sin-offering so that God could once and for all condemn the guilt and power of sin. 8:4 So now every righteous requirement of the law can be fulfilled through the Anointed One living his life in us. And we are free to live, not according to our flesh, but by the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit!
Merriam-Webster terms “condemned” as “declared to be reprehensible, wrong, or evil” and “pronounced guilty and sentenced to punishment especially: sentenced to death” and “officially declared to be unfit for use.”
Ponder on this for a little while.
REDEMPTION STORY: I thank GOD that I’m no longer under condemnation. No matter what others say or have said about you, your sins are forgiven when you’re sincere, honest, open, and naked before Our Father who loves us unconditionally and accepts us back into His Arms when we’ve tried it our way and it’s failed. No degradation. No talking about me and not helping me; GOD helps all who come unto Him with a pure heart. Will you come? He doesn’t talk down to us. He welcomes us because His love overflows; you can see His Love in every part of our existence, from inhaling and exhaling, to putting one foot in front of the other. It’s in Him that we live, move, and have our being, Acts 17:28.
The enemy understands that if he can isolate you then he can condemn you, causing you to have doubt, confusion, frustration, emptiness, brokenness when all the while GOD has been right there with you, keeping you from harming yourself.
GOD is right here, Jehovah Shammah! The enemy uses these tactics to detour and distract us who are SAVED because he can see the potential and the power vested in us so he tries everything possible to create obstacles, cause issues that seemingly feel like there’s no way out. He blinds us.
GOD builds us up!
Lord, quiet the noise around us so that we can hear You, clearly, knowing Your voice and taking heed. LORD, YOU are our vindicator, it’s in You that we place our trust, our commitment, our confession and our profession. You have claim over our lives because You created us. Now teach us Your ways, Psalm 25:4-12.
CONDEMNED (Before Christ’s Resurrection): so when Adam and Eve sinned against God and didn’t obey His commandment to avoid the forbidden tree, we (all humanity) were immediately separated from God. Our sin drew a division in the sand, per se, and we see God (at a distance) rather than God very near to us. The wages (punishment) of sin is death, Romans 6:23, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus Our Lord.
Daily Digest: Today, can you even imagine not being able to reach God, not being able to pray OR what if GOD didn’t answer prayers? What if we couldn’t feel His warm embrace, suffering the absence of The Holy Spirit in your life? What if GOD had no grace and no mercy towards us?
That’s what it would be like today if Jesus Christ hadn’t been the Sacrificial Lamb of God for the sins of the whole world. We’d be lost, without hope. We’d have no reason to live nor to expect anything out of this life. Due to God turning away from us, forgetting His wondrous creation, humanity, we’d be desolate, destitute and abandoned. There would be no blessing of new mercies daily nor grace upon grace given unto us because there would be no atonement for our sins that caused the separation.
That’s deep. Really deep!
I’m so glad that GOD loves us so much that He didn’t throw us away nor cast us away from Him. He cherishes us, loves, and chastens us because of His great love.
HEART OF THANKSGIVING: Thanks be unto Our Father, who we call “Abba,” because even before He sent Jesus Christ to the Cross, He told us that “He’d never leave us nor forsake us,” Deuteronomy 31:8. David said that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, Psalm 139:14. In fact, God, Himself, has made us a little lower than the Angels and has given us authority over all of His Creation, Psalm 8:5-9. Hallelujah! Ezekiel 36:27 KJV lets us know that God said that His Spirit would be placed inside of us, causing us to obey His Divine Authority over our lives as Our Lord and Savior.
Furthermore, John 10:10 and Ephesians 3:20, alongside Romans 8 summate for us The Merciful Hand of Our God. It shows us His generosity, lovingkindness, communion with us, His abiding in us as we abide in Him (John 15:4). When Jesus ascended to Heaven to sit on the right hand of God, He told us that He’d leave with us “The Comforter,” our “Paraclete,” which is The Holy Spirit. He tells us the purpose of The Holy Spirit: to lead, to guide, and to show us things to come, John 16:13.
John 16:6-8 Amplified Bible “But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts [and taken complete possession of them]. But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor – Counselor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to you. but if I go, I will send Him (the Holy Spirit) to you [to be in close fellowship with you]. And He, when He comes, will convict the world about [the guilt of] sin [and the need for a Savior], and about righteousness, and about judgement:
STYLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT:
It’s through The Holy Spirit that we adjust our behaviors; we don’t act the same old way we used to act because our minds, hearts, and Spirits have been cleansed. If we’d be honest, there’s still more cleaning to do!
For instance, I may not curse people out (as much) these days but I may do something else that depletes me, causing me to be dehydrated in The Spirit Realm. We must stay under the shadow of the Almighty, in efforts to be shielded, safe, protected, and HYDRATED in His Arms, Psalm 91.
The Holy Spirit perfects us because it penetrates our deepest lie we’ve ever told ourselves, breaks it down, de-clutters our hearts and leaves room in our minds to adopt the Mind & Heart of Christ. It’s only when we’re completely naked before GOD, exposed, that He reveals unto us what we’ve been missing and then He carefully molds us into a better image of His likeness. He takes the stain away from the sin and remembers them no more, Hebrews 8:12.
Wrapping It Up:
- When we accept Christ as Our Lord & Savior, we’re telling Him that we’re submitting to His Will and His Way. We’re expressing by sacrificing, giving up what we want or what we think we want, thereby readily taking on what GOD wants for our lives. In essence, we’re saying “Yes” to GOD and “No” to Satan.
- We rely on The Holy Spirit to guide us and we ask GOD for wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, which breeds forth The Spirit of Discernment within us to decipher what means us good and what means our demise.
- We openly accept kinship with Our Father. We realize that He’s Our Source and everything else is just a “resource” from “Our Source – who is GOD,”
- We must learn how to access The Holy Spirit so that our every action reflects the likeness of Christ. We’re Heirs of GOD and Joint-Heirs with Jesus Christ; this means that we operate in Kingdom Principles, living by faith and not by sight, ignoring what it may “seem” to be and readily speaking LIFE into our existence amiss the storms of life. We endure as good soldiers. We persevere and we conquer!
- We understand that nothing and no one can separate us from the Love of Our GOD. Even though weapons are formed, they don’t prosper!
- We acknowledge GOD by wearing the Full Armor of GOD and we declare and decree that Our GOD is El Shaddai (GOD ALMIGHTY) and Jehovah Sabaoth (GOD OF HEAVEN’S ARMIES, LORD OF HOSTS). We believe that GOD is El Roi, He sees us! We believe that our sincere prayers produce miracles, signs, and wonders for and through us.
- We’re not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as we know it gives us abundant life. The Holy Spirit guides us into the Abundant Life and teaches us how to remain within “His Abundance.”
- Because we’re connected to GOD, Jesus, and The Holy Spirit (The Holy Trinity) We reverence Our GOD by exemplifying His character in our daily lives. Our old lifestyles are shedding away as we walk towards Christ.
- The Holy Spirit teaches us life lessons as we yield in humble submission to GOD. We love as GOD requires us to love, without judgment but with a genuine concern for others, helping and not hindering, as The Holy Spirit gives us utterance.
- We believe that The Holy Spirit unveils us. We’re fully exposed directly in frontal view of The Holy Spirit, in the Holy presence of GOD and Jesus Christ. We’re naked before The Trinity. We’ve nowhere on or under the Earth that we can hide the truth from The Trinity. We’re willing to show our flaws, our imperfections, where we struggle, where we’re unsure, where we’re perplexed.
- We’re yielding and yearning for Divinity to arise within us, to cause us to see, hear, taste, feel and touch ONLY what He desires of us.
- The Holy Spirit prays on our behalf. We don’t know what we ought to pray but The Holy Spirit teaches us and then transmits our prayers to Our Father, in a language that Our GOD responds to and therefore works all things out in our favor when in accordance to His Will for our lives.
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Elohim’s People,
The Psalmist David understood that he was in need of God’s healing in efforts to be completely healed from his infirmities. Now, it’s worth something here to pause and let this settle in. David “knew” that his soul was sick, maybe not him, physically, but Spiritually. David realized that his condition was at the heart level. Psalm 30:2, we see David crying out to The Lord for help and as a response The Lord healed him. He goes as far to describe how he felt he was to repay GOD for all of his favor “by giving thanks” in verse 4 and verse 5 he speaks of the favor of GOD lasting a lifetime.
In order for us to be healed, we must first realize that we need to be healed. We must realize our human condition. We must digest and ingest by understanding that we are undone, lest we receive a Great Reviving from The Lord. How do we know we need healed? We recognize that we are sinful in nature, we don’t know what to do, how to act, how to respond, even, until we receive Divine instruction. We are His Sheep and His sheep know His voice, John 10:27-28. When we profess our confession, that is, that we are in need of God’s rest and rule upon our lives, it’s when we accept that we know nothing lest GOD reveals it unto us, that we enter into a state of submission. We submit to the rule, the Will, the instruction, the direction of and by GOD to lead, guide us into all truth and show us things to come, John 16:13-15.
"But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth [full and complete truth]. For He will not speak on His own initiative, but He will speak whatever He hears [from the Father --the message regarding the Son], and He will disclose to you what is to come [in the future]. John 16:13 Amplified Bible
We cannot worship The Lord, less we worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. His Spirit is His Holy Spirit and "The Truth" is that Jesus came, was born, was beat then was buried in a borrowed tomb and then resurrected. Now, pause. Do you realize that Jesus was already "resurrected" when they lifted Him on the cross? For He said, "If I be lifted up amongst the Earth, I'll draw all men unto me." It was at this point that you could shout, "Hallelujah" because they lifted Jesus! Even though they had no clue what they were doing. They gave Him a sinner's death, a thief's death, yet He was glorified even in His sufferings upon The Cross. It was at The Cross, that we first believed--this builds our profession of our confession that we are sinful and need the provisions of GOD in order to make it in this life!
So, we see that it's necessary to unveil, uncover, that is, The Truth must be revealed to us for us to realize that we are of sinful nature. It's looking at the Life of Christ that we understand where we have flaws, shortcomings, sin. It's the revealing of "Truth" that sets us truly free, indeed. For whom The Son sets free, is free, indeed, John 8:36. We realize we're at a point of desperation when we compare ourselves to the life of Jesus Christ. We realize our imperfections but GOD is so great that He reverses the curses that we place on our lives! Yes, we invoke curses upon ourselves by not being under the Knowledge of GOD, operating within His Will for our lives.Oh GOD, I need you (with everything in my being) I really need you! Lord, I need you to fix me. I need you to heal ALL of me! Do it, again! Revive me, again!
You must be HONEST with GOD and then honest with yourself enough to truly be OPEN & EXPOSED, naked before GOD. That’s when you know you’re serious, you’re completely naked, laying prostrate before GOD, desperately and eagerly waiting on The LORD to come in & CHANGE EVERY PART OF YOUR BEING. It’s ONLY then when your pride is set aside. You don’t need pride with GOD. You need HUMILITY. You need SINCERITY.
Now that you have the ingredients of deliverance, the anecdote of healing, THE CURE, what are you going to do with it? Will you sit on this OR are you already headed to your prayer closet to get on your face before GOD and expose ALL of you to GOD? No need to keep waiting! I’m running towards GOD with everything in me! Lord, it’s me! Yup, I need you and ONLY YOU! Heal me, AGAIN! Rescue me, Again! Save me, Again.
Thank You GOD for doing it, Again. “GOD is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble!” Psalm 46:1
Lord, we need your shadow. If all you do is heal us through Your shadow as you allowed Peter to heal Your People, surely you can do this, today! Make your presence known in this place! Heal every manner of disease. Cause everything to be subjected to You, The Most High GOD. Cleanse & set free from all forms of bondage. Break every chain. Lose every bond. Cause us to see you in these times when uncertainties are plenty.
Cause us to see YOU through every blind corner! For we are not blind who trust in You. We are revealed and You reveal all things in Your Truth! Expose us. Revive and rebuild us! Do it, again. Heal, again. Save, again. Set free, again. DELIVER, again. We ask, in humility and with sincerity. We realize our sickness. The parts that unclear are being revealed unto us and we desperately need Your Presence! We need You! Come now. Rescue now. In the mighty Name of Jehovah Jireh, be our everything! Jehovah Shalom make Your presence felt, heard, seen! Touch us and make us WHOLE, again! Jehovah Shammah rest upon us. Stay near to us. It is so and so it is. Selah.
Today’s Scriptures:
Psalm 147:3 GOD’S WORD Translation | He is the healer of the brokenhearted. He is the one who bandages their wounds.
Psalm 34:18 Young’s Literal Translation | Near [is] Jehovah to the broken of heart, And the bruised of spirit He saveth.
Jeremiah 17:14 King James Version | Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
Isaiah 53:5 English Standard Version | But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
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YAHWEH’s People, when you’re confident of the benefits that are associated with being in The Kingdom of GOD, you’re prone to rely on those benefits when difficult times arise. You use your faith to activate a motivation to keep progression amidst adverse situations, knowing that GOD will supply every need according to His riches in glory, Philippians 4:19! Understanding that GOD has won the war equips us with the knowledge needed to depend on His Power to get us through another battle.
It’s an amazing comfort and great relief to rely on the Peace of God that surpasses all human understanding to keep you, to preserve you until your change comes! It’s imperative that “build our hope on things eternal, hold to GOD’s unchanging Hand.”
It’s satisfying to our hearts and minds to know that those that keep their minds in perfect peace, says Isaiah 26:3. He gives us way to ease our worrying, to calm and quiet Our Spirits. This type of peace allows one to remain steady when the waves of life come crashing against us. Remember the Disciples in the boat? When the storm came, Jesus was sleeping good. They were in an uproar, waking Jesus and asking why He was sleep amidst the winds and the waves beating against their boat [Matthew 8:23-27]. Jesus asked them why they were afraid. He calmed the sea which is a reminder to us, today, that nothing that beats against our lives shall win when we have a confidence in Our Creator, Our Great Protector. Therefore, we can rest peacefully and be calm in every situation because the outcome is swayed to our advantage when we place our hope in Christ.
“You will keep in perfect and constant peace the one whose mind is steadfast [that is, committed and focused on You- in both inclination and character], Because he trusts and takes refuge in You [with hope and confident expectation]. Isaiah 26:3 Amplified Bible
What’s it cost you to have full, complete faith in GOD? The enemy (satan and all his evil messengers: fallen angels) wants to distract, detour, and isolate you from fixing your mind and your heart on the things of GOD, which includes but is not limited to faith. It’s faith which gives you endurance, tenacity, perseverance, STRENGTH, the will to not just live, but to live in GOD’s abundance! [Ephesians 3:20]
The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. But I came so that my sheep will have life and so that they will have everything they need. John 10:10 | GOD’S Word Translation
Understand that the enemy means us harm; he wants us to be in a place where we feel hopeless (in despair and beyond repair). Rest assure that The Holy Spirit leads and guides us into all truth and shows us things to come, John 16:13, so you can be assured that HE WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU IN THE DARK, EXPOSED TO THE WEAPONS OF SATAN!!!
“You must WORK THE WORD SO THAT THE WORD WORKS IN YOUR LIFE!” – Pr. E. Nelson
Your Posture
Condition yourself to receive the blessings of GOD! How do you position yourself? You study His Word to show yourself approved unto GOD and not to people, 2 Timothy 2:15. You pray without stopping and constantly give thanks, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-17. You fast, which purifies your heart and mind, thus, allowing you to hear and see more clearly. You’re awakened! It opens you receive more because you’ve made a conscious sacrifice to abstain from a food choice or a behavior which shows GOD you’re willing and ready to take on HIS WILL for your life! (Ezra 8:23, Acts 13:2, Exodus 34:28).
Finally, you praise and offer worship unto GOD so that He knows that you appreciate His boundless grace and unmerited mercy given to you [it’s nothing that you’ve earned, it’s all because His lovingkindness], Psalm 34, Hebrews 13:15, Lamentations 3:22-24. We offer our lives as a living sacrifice that is Holy, to be The Temple of GOD [Romans 12:1-2]. This is true worship: living as GOD requires. It’s not just lip-service (saying to GOD you’re thankful), it’s our actions that determine our zeal for Him. Our dedication to His precepts equates to worship.
Our Weaponry: The Whole Armor of GOD (Ephesians 6:14-17)
- Chest (Heart): Breastplate of Righteousness (Right-Living) [to the best of our ability, while not making excuses for our habitual sins, but rather being remorseful, asking for forgiveness, and working towards sinning less.
- It’s ultimately a question of: Are we taking advantage of the grace & mercy applied to our lives while we make excuses for our continued sinful activities?]
- Feet: The Gospel of Peace (Good News: Because Jesus Christ died for our sins and arose, He offers salvation to all who believe in Him, which brings assurance that we will no longer die to/in sin but will live eternally [with GOD])
- Waist: Band of Truth (All truths which are God’s commandments, His mandates of right-living that His People (we) live by and are rooted in)
- Hands: Shield of Faith (Left-Protection: evident hope professed in The Holy Trinity: GOD, The Father; Jesus (The Son) and The Holy Spirit) & Sword of The Holy Spirit (Right-Correction): denounces satan’s schemes & plots to destroy us
- Head: Helmet of Salvation (Firm belief that Jesus Christ & resurrected)
Let this post energize and empower your Spirit!
Today’s Scriptures:
Ephesians 6:10-12 NASB | New American Standard Bible
Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power. Put on the armor of GOD so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil. For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.
Psalm 28:7 MEV | Modern English Version
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I was helped; therefore my heart rejoices, and with my song I will thank Him.
2 Corinthians 10:4 NLV | New Life Version
We do not use those things to fight with that the world uses. We use the things GOD gives to fight and they have power. Those things GOD gives to fight with destroy the strong-places of the devil.
Romans 8:35, 37-39 GW | GOD’S WORD Translation
What shall separate us from the love Christ has for us? Can trouble, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger, or violent death separate us from his love? The one who loves us gives us an overwhelming victory in all these difficulties. I am convinced that nothing can separate us from GOD’s love which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us. We can’t be separate by death or life, by angels or rulers, by anything in the present or anything in the future, by forces or powers in the world above or in the world below, or by anything else in creation.
BibleGateway.com: a great resource to study the Word of GOD, with useful commentaries and several versions of The Holy Bible; we are to study to show ourselves approved, while rightly dividing the Word of Truth and to also remind GOD of His Word, Isaiah 43:26, so that we show THE LORD our seriousness, our eager, diligent desire to learn of Him and be more like His Character
- Dynamic Equivalence: Bibles that break The WORD down, in common language that we use today: New Living Translation (NLT), The Message Bible (MSG), Contemporary English Version (CEV), GOD’s WORD Translation (GW), Good News Translation (GNT),
- Formal Correspondence: Bibles that are very closely related to the way that the people of old spoke, somewhat confusing if you’re new to studying The Bible: These versions in King James Version (KJV), New International Version (NIV), New American Standard Version (NASV)
https://theclbv.com/the-best-bible-version-for-life/ - Chest (Heart): Breastplate of Righteousness (Right-Living) [to the best of our ability, while not making excuses for our habitual sins, but rather being remorseful, asking for forgiveness, and working towards sinning less.
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Elohim’s People,
We need to know GOD for ourselves. Having an intimate relationship with GOD helps us to make it through the most difficult times in our lives. The Lord never said that we wouldn’t face adversity. However, He did state that He wouldn’t leave us nor forsake us, Hebrews 13:5. He promised to vindicate us, Exodus 14:14.
His promises are Yes and Amen towards us, 2 Corinthians 1:20. He is Our GOD, Isaiah 41:10, 13. He’s our shield, Psalm 3:3-6, and He sustains us. He’s Our Shepherd, Psalm 23:1. He’s Our Redeemer (freed us from captivity) and therefore He saves us, our refuge, Psalm 18:1-2, Zephaniah 3:17. We are free, Galatians 5:1, and free indeed, John 8:36.
Are you living like you’re truly FREE? Do you want His freedom? What are you willing to do?
The Lord teaches us to rely on Him. He teaches us to lean, to depend on Him, to trust Him, and to obey Him, Proverbs 3:5-6. Who do you say that GOD is to you? GOD asked Peter what he personally feels about Him. Peter replied, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the Living God, verse 16.
Will you give up your will for His? Do you really want more of GOD? OR, are you just concerned about the things in which GOD can provide for you? Do you really know that GOD is our everything? Our whole being depends on Our GOD to sustain us.
Will you give The Lord a chance to calm the storm in your life? Won’t you give Him the opportunity to be Your GOD?
God’s PROMISE: “I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven, Matthew 16:19
Today is the day to place your faith, your trust in The GOD of all creation. To lean into Him. To make Him your choice! Nothing else has worked. You cannot do it on your own. We cannot make it through this life, in good Spirit, without The Holy Spirit, the Love of Christ. We cannot weather the storm and come out victorious with GOD coming in and saving the day! We are nothing without GOD. He’s the reason we live, move, and have our being. You’re His, anyways, but He wants to know that you really desire Him in your life! He wants to know that you’re dependent upon Him, only! He wants to be your GOD! He wants to hear from you, to know just how much you want Him in your life.
He’s willing, are you?
Maybe you’re saying, Erica, I already have made GOD my choice. But, have you really made Him, LORD, over your life? Do you think to pray, first, before worrying about the outcome of a situation? Do you praise and worship Him, even when things get rough or can you barely even offer a prayer of thanksgiving amidst a trial? Do you really, truly trust GOD amidst the situation, believing that GOD will solve it BEFORE you stress out, become distressed and cause undue anxiety? Is He your first thought? Is He really your first choice and not your alternative? This is to challenge who you really say that GOD is to you! This speaks past all the cliches and gets down and serious about who you really say versus whom you really believe in.
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YAHWEH’s People,
This is a simple but necessary reminder: Just believe GOD and He will do whatever it is that you’re seeking as long as it’s in His Will for you to have/be it.
John 4:46-53
We see that a nobleman’s son was sick. He heard that Jesus had come to Galilee so he went to see Him. He pleaded before Jesus asking him to heal his son who had a fever and was on his death bed. Jesus questioned the man’s faith, verse 48, by saying “unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.” It was then that the nobleman asked for Jesus to come to where his son lay sick and near death, Capernaum.
Capernaum is about 4 miles from where Jesus and the nobleman were having the conversation. We see that Jesus healed the boy by simply speaking it into existence (see verse 50). The Bible then states that the nobleman believed the word that Jesus had spoke over his son so he headed home (also verse 50). What’s astonishing is that on his way home, his servants met him and told him that his son lives (see verse 51). In verse 52, the man was still in a state of awe and thankfulness. He inquired of his servants to ask at what time was his son well, again, and the servant’s responded that it was yesterday at 7pm. It was then that the nobleman knew that his son was healed exactly at the time Jesus had spoke it into existence! (see verse 53).
Let this be one of many examples that steer you into having unwavering faith in your GOD, in our GOD! It’s at the moment we believe that GOD works things out for our good, Romans 8:28. It’s at the moment where we can fix our eyes on Him and not the situation at-hand, that He comes in like a mighty-rushing wind and resolves every single issue that we’re having.
It’s on the profession of our faith that He changes everything in our lives, having it be subject to His favor, His deity, and His righteousness, His sovereignty reigns and rules, rests and abides, on the Believer when we believe that He truly is Our Savior. He doesn’t just save us from sin as He also saves us from other things.
He’s our Healer, our Waymaker, our Burden-Bearer, our bridge over troubled waters, our company keeper, The Great I Am, The Alpha & Omega, our beginning and our end, our Sustainer, our Deliverer, our Friend, our Father! You fill in here what you know GOD is to you and I guarantee you’ll break out in a shout, Hallelujah to The Lamb of GOD. The ONLY Bishop and Shepherd of our Souls, 1 Peter 2:25.
Not good enough for you? Let’s take a look at the woman at the well is found in the same Chapter of John 4. It was the woman’s honesty that Jesus recognized. Because of her honesty and the fact that she asked of Him to give her water that will never run dry (see verse 15), Jesus saved her, right there on the spot. He also told her how we must worship: in Spirit and in truth. It was her truth that was a form of “worship” that GOD honored and as a result, He gave her eternal life. It wasn’t even that she had everything perfectly positioned in her life before she met Jesus; it was simply that she confessed, told the truth, and Jesus honored her by honoring Him. She recognized that He was the True Messiah, this is His reasoning for explaining how to worship GOD (verses 23-24). He let her know that worship can happen, anywhere, as long as the worship is coupled with the truth.
We must be honest with GOD if we want Him to change our situations. We must be open, naked before Him, if we want the evidence of His miracles, signs, and wonders to be performed in our lives.
There are many, many more miracles that took place in the Holy Scriptures. What about the miracles that GOD has already performed in your life? You do know that the enemy’s way to distract and detour us from our purposed destiny in Christ is to make us forget all that GOD has done in our lives, thus far. The enemy wishes to dismantle and destroy our faith.
In fact, if the enemy can do this, he’s right there performing that which his goal is, to kill, steal, and to destroy (see John 10:10, 1 Peter 5:8). But, thanks be unto The Father that He sent Jesus that we may have life and have it more abundantly (same verse, John 10:10).
In order to defeat the enemy, you must be filled with God’s Holy Word, His Holy Spirit, and listen to GOD as He dispels doubt and confusion by allowing us into the secrets (mysteries) that He wants to share with us, only when we become more intimate with Him, 1 Corinthians 2:7, Revelation 10:7.
How do we have a more intimate walk with GOD? It doesn’t just happen without action. We must seek The Kingdom of GOD and His righteousness (Matthew 6:33) by praying, fasting, obeying, reading to study not simply reading to read, to uncover what He wants us to know, from His perspective and not our own interpretations of The Gospel. He wants to come closer to us, James 4:7-10. He wants to purify us and He cannot do that unless we are truthful; we must consecrate ourselves, laying prostrate before Him (Deuteronomy 9:25, in truth (honesty), admitting that we are nothing with out Him, confessing our sins in efforts to be forgiven and sin no more, in that area (He gives us strength to abstain from such repetitive sins when we’re serious about our walk with Him).
Consecration is the process of being open and honest before GOD. Laying prostrate is the position: face down and body facing the ground, to show our humility, submission, and our reverence towards GOD as being the Savior, The Ruler of Our Being. For it’s in Him that we live, move, and have our being, Acts 17:28.
Many of us are lazy but we want the Move of GOD to rest upon us. Many of us become lax in the Things of GOD but want GOD’s refreshing Spirit to overtake us but aren’t willing to do what it takes for OVERFLOW to happen. We’ve become stagnate, knowing a few verses is just fine. As long as some of us know Psalm 23, we’re good, right? No. GOD wants us to uncover all of His Word as well as listen to His Words that He speaks to us, personally, that bring reference back to His Word because He is bound by His Word to perform it, Jeremiah 1:12.
What’s the message today?
If you want the evidence of GOD to show in and through your life, you must put in the time and effort to get those results. GOD is not a man that He should lie, Numbers 23:19, so since He said that He’s the Way, The Truth, and The Life, John 14:6, how else will you ever see life fulfilled if you don’t know of His precepts, to keep His commandments, to study His Kingdom, to know of His Omnipotence (All Powerful), His Omniscience (All Knowing), and His Omnipresence (He’s everywhere at the same time)?
The enemy uses these monitoring spirits to infiltrate our lives, to the point that he watches what we say and uses it against us, 2 Corinthians 2:11. He watches our actions, studies them, to see if we are really more loyal to Christ or disloyal and will run towards him for all the materialistic things he can give versus waiting for Christ to give us what we need and even what we desire. Monitoring spirits are the reason you’ve become stagnated, the reason you haven’t been able to move forward. You have repeated instances of failure, nothing seems to go right for you. You’re always feeling watched and like your face is against the wall, with no exit. I advise you learn more about these types of evil spirits and also more about how to avoid these spirits, in efforts to progress forward into the Promise Land that GOD has destined for you.
Don’t be fooled by the enemy’s tactics to keep you as far as he can from Christ. He distracts and detours us, if we’re not steadily keeping our minds on Christ, Isaiah 26:3, wherein we have “perfect peace.” He brings nothing but chaos and confusion, frustration and turmoil, doubt and fear, hate and abuse, jealousy and envy, covet and selfishness, guilt and demise, some of which happens in your very home!
Will you believe GOD, more? Will you trust that if He said it, it’s sealed, it’s final, it shall be done in your life? Don’t you know you can be free in GOD? John 8:36
Don’t you know that He takes from the wicked and gives to the righteous, Proverbs 13:22, Ecclesiastes 2:26.
There are numerous blessings just because He’s GOD and then there are blessings according to our obedience.
God is a rewarder of them who diligently seek Him, Hebrews 11:6. He gives power to the weak and them that have no might He increases their strength, Isaiah 40:29-31. He’s a Comforter by way of The Holy Spirit, John 14:16. If you’re in need right now, trust that GOD is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above your wildest imagination, Ephesians 3:20!
If you work The Word, The Word will work in your life! You have to know it and believe that it’s your only lifeline! Our very lives are dependent on this type of assurance, FAITH without works is dead, James 2:14-26!
GOD’s TRUTH:
T: Think on God’s Word, meditate on it day and night, Joshua 1:8
R: Realize that it’s your lifeline, Acts 17:28
U: Understand that faith without works is dead, James 2:14-26
T: Teachable, always remain teachable by GOD through those He called for His purpose. Be teachable to allow GOD to teach you through His Holy Word, through the Words He speaks to you through Prayer and constant communication with Him. Allow Him to speak life into your existence! Proverbs 18:21
H: Hear The Word and establish it as your total being. Be doers of The Holy Word. Help others come to His Light by exemplifying what it means to Walk in His Light. Expose your faith and Watch GOD manifest your expectations! James 1:22-25, Romans 8:16-18
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