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I am a sinner saved by God’s grace. I do not profess to be anything more. My purpose in life is to “Empowering People To Get From Where They Are To Where They’re DESTINED.” There is no other way but through Jesus Christ, the shedding of His blood for us. I am moved to encourage people to want to use God’s Word as their instruction manual in life. As I grow in the wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of His Divine plan for my life, I pray I can be a blessing to you. Peace and Blessings, Erica Nelson Pastor, Passion4People Ministries Inc.
  • The Blessing is in Your Reflection: The Glory of God Revealed in Us

    The Blessing is in Your Reflection: The Glory of God Revealed in Us

    People of The Most Holy God, Elohim, Abba!

    God is calling His People (sheep) who know His voice therefore we should be following His voice. I find it Interesting how there are many frequencies in the world. In other words, there’s a lot of people speaking that you’re listening to BUT what about listening to the wavelength that God is on?

    Is it that you’ve taken a detour and don’t know how to get back to that place where you and God commune? Are you feeling empty even though you attending Church services regularly? Do you go home still brokenhearted and still feeling like there’s no hope and despair is holding you back?

    God wants you to know that there’s a blessing in His reflection: this “one” blessing is still plural because says it means OVERFLOW!

    WE ARE HIS REFLECTION. John 1:4-5 (NIV) states, “In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.” God is telling us that we who are in Him represent His light and that His light never dims.

    How do you turn up THE LIGHT in your life? You simply fall down before God, in repentance, and with sincerity to commit your way to Him. You allow God to consecrate you, in other words, correct you and sanctify you (Jehovah Tsidkenu). 

    YOU HAVE A SACRED PURPOSE: CONSECRATION.

    • You take off all of the blinders, you allow the scales of addiction, mistreatment, abuse, abandonment, loneliness, confusion and chaos, depression, anxiety, grief, discontentment, mistrust, broken-hearted, troubled mind, constant disapproval of self, feelings of guilt, feelings of despair and hopelessness, frustration, sins – give it ALL to Him.
    • Become NAKED before He who is able to heal you, Jehovah Rapha. He forgives us: unfailing love.

    Why do you continue to go through cycles? What generational curse are you content with having, until now, do you need to throw before God’s throne? THE LIGHT destroys the darkness of all curses, all things not like Him! Reach out to Him! Embrace His Words and let it illuminate your whole being.

    Furthermore, John 1:9-10 (NIV) tells us, “9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.”

    One small question: Are you recognizing God? How many times do you acknowledge Him as the never-ending LIGHT that doesn’t burn out?

    The scheme of the enemy is to keep us bound (in darkness) so that we cannot truly be seen. 

    WE ARE GOD’S REFLECTION! The Bible even tells us that we’re made in His image (Genesis 1:27-28 ESV).

    HE CREATED US THEN HE BLESSED US (Genesis 1:27-28 ESV)! HIS GLORY FELL UPON US AND BROUGHT LIGHT TO SHATTER ALL DARKNESS!

    Since this is the case, you can stand with the authority vested in you by God and cause all things in your life to be subject to His sovereignty, His deity. You can uncover what’s been hiding for so long. EXPOSE it to Christ. Give Him the opportunity to come in and show you His bright, illuminating light; His LIGHT is within us.

    How do we get THE LIGHT to shine through our situations, the issue of our hearts?

    We surrender it all over to Him. It’s in Him that we live, we move and we have being because GOD’s reflection rests upon our lives (Acts 17:28).

    What will it take for you to truly surrender you life to Christ? What more has to happen for you to sure that Our God is calling you unto Him? Why is He calling for you? Why do you need ten thousand “confirmations” when you know

    GOD said it, He sealed it and that’s it!

    GOD wants to show you yourself in the mirror so you can see the GLORY of GOD revealed within you. See, when you rest in His glory there’s nothing that can stop you from keeping your light shining.

    Today, look in the mirror and start proclaiming THE VICTORY over every situation that’s in your life! SPEAK LIFE TO YOURSELF! Tell yourself what God says about you: how He’s made you a little lower than the Angels (Psalms 8). You are the seed of Abraham (Galatians 3:29)! You are more than a conqueror and there’s absolutely NO CONDEMNATION towards you! What does this mean?

    COME TO GOD, ANYWAYS.

    Come with your mess and allow GOD to rearrange your life. Hear Him today and take heed! Your next breakthrough is depending on you seeing your reflection!

    Today’s Scriptures:

    John 10:27-28 KJV | King James Version

    27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

    28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

    Proverbs 4:23 NIV | New International Version

    Above all else, guard your heart,

        for everything you do flows from it.”

    Proverbs 14:30(a) NKJV | New King James Version

    “A sound heart is life to the body,”

     Proverbs 15:13  NIV | New International Version

    “A happy heart makes the face cheerful,

        but heartache crushes the spirit.”

    Psalm 34:18 NLT | New Living Translation

    “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted;

        he rescues those whose spirits are crushed.”

    Isaiah 26:1-6 MSG | The Message Bible

    “1-6 At that time, this song will be sung in the country of Judah:We have a strong city, Salvation City, built and fortified with salvation. Throw wide the gates so good and true people can enter.

    People with their minds set on you, you keep completely whole, Steady on their feet, because they keep at it and don’t quit. Depend on God and keep at it because in the Lord God you have a sure thing. Those who lived high and might he knocked off their high horse. He used the city built on the hill as fill for the marshes.

    All the exploited and outcast people build their lives on the reclaimed land.”

  • Thoughts of Adoration & Admiration to The Only Wise GOD

    Thoughts of Adoration & Admiration to The Only Wise GOD

    It’s when I began to ask GOD, from my profession that HE IS GOD & that there’s no other god before HIM, that I could see my confession, the very fact that His forgiveness overflows in my life and the true confession that I’m NOT GOD, that my prayers become STRONGER thus causing GOD to listen to respond, to react, to change, to restore, to deliver, to produce miracles, to bring me water in my drought, to release and to relieve me of my troubles, loosing shackles and breaking unnecessary bonds. 

    I’m growing, therefore, in the Wisdom of GOD with a deepened adoration of GOD to understand the difference between praying with intent through faith and merely praying without an expectation of the manifestation of God’s WORD in my life. The distinction is “faith in expectation of the preordained manifestation” that makes a pivotal proclamation to GOD that I BELIEVE YOU, wholeheartedly!

    Furthermore, it’s my sacrificial praise and worship that spring up from my belly, nothing but HIS LIVING WATER, when all that’s seemingly around me is turmoil, confusion, indifference, crime, hate, perversion, pollution, negativity, malice and strife. I know that this isn’t my home and I believe that I’m just passing through!

    Because of this adoration and admiration I have for my GOD, who is Adonai, Elohim, El Shaddai, Great Jehovah, Mighty Ruler, Everlasting Father, Price of Peace, WayMaker, A Friend and Forever Faithful, that He causes the unrelenting WARRIOR that’s inside of me to spring UP-giving me a fountain of eternal water to cure my thirst, to replenish my strength and endow upon me courage, fueling the will and the tenacity to keep fighting FORWARD to tear down strongholds and move every mountain, stomping every obstacle, causing eternal victory, forever!

    Thank you, GOD.

  • Hunger Pangs: GOD, fill me UP again!

    Hunger Pangs: GOD, fill me UP again!

    Our Spirits call for Christ even when our Earthly Man (carnal man, flesh) doesn’t want to. We experience “hunger pangs” for His communion. According to Merriam-Webster, “hunger pangs are pains in the abdomen that occur in the early stages of hunger or fasting along with stomach contractions of the empty stomach.”

    As Believers of Christ, we must be in constant communication with Our God, always. If we don’t communicate with Him, we are left feeling alone and hopeless.

    Have you noticed an “empty” feeling, a feeling of needing or wanting something but you’re unsure of what that “something” is?

    You try to find that “thing” in people and places but yet you’re still left feeling “empty?” Even after you’ve talked with a good friend or spent time with your significant other. Even after you’ve catered to your addiction, you feel a sense of incompleteness. You’ve entered a state of despair.

    Ever went to Church but still felt empty after attending? It’s because your Spirit is yearning for The Holy Spirit, you’re in desperate need of a conversation with God.  A real conversation. One without preconceived thoughts of fear and failure, but to come to God, expelling “all of you,” to Him. 

    Don’t you know that our Spirits are connected to His Holy Spirit and the more you’re away from Him, the hungrier you’ll be? You’ll STARVE and fall subject to the temptation to give up, throw-in-the-towel, lest you return to Christ to be refilled.  This kind of “refill” requires falling on your face, before God, with “all of you,” “naked.”

    You must “strip your self of yourself” – the you that fears coming to Christ with your imperfections, disbelief, hurt, pain, heartbreak, heartache, etc. 

    God desires “THE REAL YOU.” You cannot hide “you” from God! It’s best to go before Him, with you.  You must begin to have a conversation.  It’s possible that you need to fall into worship – begin thinking of how great GOD is, how powerful He is, how He’s all-seeing and all-knowing. Worship God because He’s The Great Deliverer, He’s The Great “I AM” and the fact that even at your lowest, He STILL remains “High and Lifted Up!” Therefore, you have no reason to let yourself be down, discouraged and overtaken.  He’s The Great Overcomer and through Him we overcome! Yes, that’s right, WORSHIP GOD.

    John 4:13-15 AMP | Amplified Bible

    13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks the water that I give him will never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water [satisfying his thirst for God] welling up [continually flowing, bubbling within him] to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not get thirsty nor [have to continually] come all the way here to draw.”

    It’s interesting, when I worship – it leads me straight into praise! For instance, when my money is low, I don’t let myself get so low that I’m unable to appreciate all of the times that I’ve had more than enough and all the ways that God has already made.

    This is a reminder to get up! Don’t stay hungry.  Come unto God. God says, “Come on in.” When you reach for God, you get filled! You’re reading this because you’re in this place right now and God’s calling you to better, greater, higher!

    Reach for God amidst your struggle. Give God the opportunity to speak to you. Create space for God to speak. Create space for you to pour out your heart before God. Stop making excuses because if you don’t stop, you’ll starve – this isn’t the Will of God for your life. You must LIVE and LIVE AGAIN! You’re meant to survive every storm so go back to Our Source, The Lord Our God, and get a refill. You’ll have to keep coming to Him. It doesn’t stop. You cannot stop!

    Why starve and die to your problems when God is readily available to give you food?

    The enemy wants you to starve. In fact, the enemy will drain your life and leave you empty. On the contrary, God wants you to run-over with encouragement. He wants your belly to be full. Let me say it this way, “out of your belly shall flow rivers of living waters” when you allow God to refill you. – John 7:38 KJV

    A Prayer for Fulfillment

    God, it’s me! Here I am! Today, I expose all of me to you. I’m through running from you. I ran to my friends and ran to things and it left me hopeless. My despair grew greater. I couldn’t see You. I even tried suppressing all of my feelings. The more I relied on self-pity, it did nothing but depress me.  God, I’m empty and I’m hungry for you! Fill me, again!

    God, I’m desperate for you! You’ve been calling me back to you for some time. I flesh ignored your call but my Spirit did not. Here I am. Broken and battered but I know that coming to You will mend me; You will work all things out for my good because I love You and You’ve called me. You’ve chosen me. You’ve predestined me to overcome.

    God, I want to see you! God, I want to experience Your warmth, right now, when it’s cold in my life. My problems seem to consume and confuse me. God, I want to see You! I adore You and I know that you’ve brought me out many times before. I know that you’ve always looked out for me. You’ve kept me floating, rising, even when things seemed to weigh on me.

    God, hear my prayer today because of my sincerity. Hear me because You’re The Great Counselor, you can help me and you can handle ALL of me, ALL of it! Forgive me for not coming to you first. My desire is to be filled, by You and You only. I need Your Holy Spirit to enrich me, to nourish me. God, I’m thirsty! Revive me. Renew me. Fill me up! This prayer is signed, sealed, and delivered to You, through Jesus Christ, Amen.

    Today’s Scriptures:

    Romans 5:9-10 GW | God’s WORD Translation

    “Since Christ’s blood has now given us God’s approval, we are even more certain that Christ will save us from God’s anger. If the death of his Son restored our relationship with God while we were still his enemies, we are even more certain that, because of this restored relationship, the life of his Son will save us.”

    Isaiah 43:1-2, 13, 16, 19, 25 NLT | New Living Translation

    “But now, O Jacob, listen to the LORD who created you. O Israel, the one who formed you says, “Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine. When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you.

    “From eternity to eternity I am God. No one can snatch anyone out of my hand. No one can undo what I have done.”

    I am the LORD, who opened a way through the waters, making a dry path through the sea.

    For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.

    “I—yes, I alone—will blot out your sins for my own sake and will never think of them again.”

  • Nakedness for Brokenness: Removing ME for the Release of God to Restore ME.

    Nakedness for Brokenness: Removing ME for the Release of God to Restore ME.

    Have a desire to be free, truly free? Are you in a place where you feel “stuck,” not sure of why you’re not moving forward? Do you feel as if you need a release? Yearning for something different to happen in your life, for your good, but you feel it’s not coming? Are you really seeking God, in efforts for Him to unravel, uncover, expose you to you? Maybe He’s just not moving the situation, not causing the “change” that you so desperately need to happen? But Why?

    This is an interesting position, that is, to be in a place where you’re wanting to be “free” but you’re not sure what you’d need to do to get there? What does the term, “surrender” mean to you? Are you really ready to receive The Strength of God to cause the change that you’re needing to take place?

    There’s a distinctive difference between wanting something, “in theory” but not “in action,” that is, with no intent to change but you like the idea; you’re just not willing to be obedient to God so you’re lying to yourself, which is keeping you “bound.” Most Christians find this subject to be the hardest one to actually “live.” We talk about how God can change situations, open doors, close doors, but are we willing to allow God to “open” and “close?”

    Are we comfortable with The God who knows everything about us to reveal to us everything about us, to us? Philosophical.

    The human condition isn’t just a “human” thing. It’s Spiritual. There’s a Spirit Realm. Since God is a Spirit, The Holy Spirit, why wouldn’t you think that therein lies a Spirit World where there are all sorts of different spirits, aside from “The Holy One?” The war that you’re in, isn’t manmade. The war is of spiritual warfare! There’s only one way to combat spiritual warfare against evil spirits, that is to fight using Spiritual, GOD-sight.

    I’m introducing this term, “GOD-sight” to disseminate “The Truth”, to edify you by elevating your mind. Ephesians 6 references “putting on The Whole Armor of God” but do we really understand that it requires a “taking off” and a measure of “total exposure, total nakedness” before Him?

    Haven’t read the verse, “God is a Spirit and those that worship Him must do so in Spirit and Truth? – John 4:24.” This is a Kingdom Principle, an attribute of being reborn, by His Spirit, to the Father through the admission of sin then forgiveness of sin, by confession of your faith, to -and- in God. Rarely is there a conversation had, a sermon, a bible study lesson that deals with how we learn how to operate in the Spirit world. We’re Spirits having a human experience. Therefore, we must approach LIFE from the aspects of what it means to have The Holy Spirit inside of us.

    Having The Holy Spirit gives us spiritual discernment that is manifested into the Earth Realm. Staying close to God, through prayer, fasting, worshipping, praising, interceding, abstaining from our desires and taking on His desires for us, and by reading His Word – the toolkit, allows us to be open for God to provide spiritual discernment. If we have a hard time releasing our own will, our own direction, if we only take advice from ourselves and other humans, how do we expect to “change” from what’s breaking us, not building us?

    It’s an internal transformation that must take place for the external man to be complete, whole, by God’s definition.

    If you’re really ready to receive “TRUE FREEDOM,” you must be willing to seek God, desperately (diligently) and earnestly (seriously through mental intent). Seeking God requires your action. You cannot reside in insanity and expect sanity to break through without “you breaking through” it/that with God’s Mighty Power! You possess God’s Power. You must enter into His Power, it’s internal before it’s ever external. It’s Spiritual Empowerment by way of The Holy Spirit’s ability to shift us, to change us, to reveal to heal us, inside so that it shows up on the outside.

    How do we access this power, GOD-Power? Go beyond the veil. Uncover yourself before God. Take it all off! Be honest, admit and accept that this is “the part(s) of you that need His help, otherwise you cannot conquer it.” Talk to God about whatever it is and then wait for His “sound” advice. Stay in His Presence and wait. His answers are there but we ignore what we don’t want and don’t like. 

    God’s Will requires us to forego our own thoughts, the thoughts of others. Being naked before God requires total submission.

    Having one area of your life, changed, doesn’t account for complete wholeness. We need the Whole-Body Experience – FREE mind, body and soul!

    The Fullness of God cannot be manifested in a place where there’s no expectation!

    Expectation is through actions of faith and that faith requires movement, a getting-up, a stepping-forth, a breaking-through, a pushing-out through the old you and grabbing for Him, reaching into His Spirit that lives inside of you.

    • When you stay before God, you learn the “TRUE TRUTH” that He has to dismantle generational imprints of curses and remove the blindness of what we’ve been taught, only to be re-taught, reconditioned to understand what service means towards Him (The Spirit Man) versus service towards the enemy and our flesh (Earthly Man).
    • It’s an “unraveling to reveal” that must take place. It has to start at the Spirit level which will illuminate our heart’s condition (issues of our hearts). It’s all exposed to The Most High, The Holy Spirit, to be transformed, for our good. There’s a shaking-up of what you thought and it’s the yielding to God that causes the “changes” that you want to see happen in your life, NOW!

    You cannot get there without your action! You must activate God’s Divine presence in your life through an intimate connection (constant communication, constant listening) to Him. If He says, “no,” “not now,” “I’m preparing you for something better than what you’ve asked me for.” What if God’s saying, “are you giving me any time” or “are you only accessing me after you’ve tried every other option?”

    God’s saying, “don’t come to me for a manifestation of earthly blessings without coming to me for the Spiritual blessings, first.” God doesn’t bless backwards: It’s through The Spirit then The Man NOT The Man then The Spirit.

    God is always present even when we’re not present. He wants us to remain “in His Spirit” to handle this life that we’ve been so graciously given. Our purpose is to “bow down and worship Him,” to worship Him by how we live. True humility is required to have GOD-sight. Being a Christian isn’t easy and if we’re honest, the manual that we use, The Holy Bible, is often misinterpreted and misunderstood.

    Contrary to popular belief, God’s voice, through “Rhema,” is His Spoken WORD that you must connect with Him to hear. There’s so much that God’s said to me that references His Word but is given to me in a way that I would understand it, even if I didn’t quite understand a Biblical reference, a Scripture. Philosophical.

    I’d like to submit to you to listen for God’s Voice. Listen to His Sound. Allow His Sound to penetrate your very being so that when you hear God, you hear a resounding Sound of Victory over defeat! Listen to His Voice through all of the other noises; His VOICE cancels the outside noise, once you’re really connected, in-tune with Him!

    You cannot connect with God without being willing to be naked before Him, opening up and admitting your issues, for Him to come in and tear down the bonds of brokenness, chains of emotional despair – the captivity of insanity and instability, in order to rebuild and reveal to you all of your fears, failures, frequent mistakes, lusts, loves, goods and wrongs. Let Him speak to your Spirit Man. We as Christ-Believers have been given The Holy Spirit.  Are you truly accessing The Holy Spirit?  

    I submit to you today: Go before God, in prayer, and tell Him everything that you haven’t even exposed to any human before. Submit to God all of your issues, self-doubt, depression, anxiety, fearfulness, doubt, strongholds (dangerous sins you know that you’re committing that are doing yourself a disservice, tearing you down, weighing your heart and mind) so that He can replace, restore and repair all that’s needed to be replaced, restored and repaired.

    There’s a constant frame of mind and heart posture that must be adopted in order for the “changes” that you need to be actualized, manifested – made known, revealed.

    There is a Divine Process: by continuously coming before God with “all of you.” Your heart and mind MUST AGREE that you need God to remove the scales of deception and destruction to breathe into your inner soul, life and truly “life lived in His abundance.” – Pr. E. Nelson

    Today’s Scripture:

    Hebrews 4:12-16

    YLT | Young’s Literal Translation

    12 for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

    13 and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things [are] naked and open to His eyes — with whom is our reckoning.

    14 Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens — Jesus the Son of God — may we hold fast the profession,

    15 for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but [one] tempted in all things in like manner — apart from sin;

    16 we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace — for seasonable help.

    MSG | THE MESSAGE

    12-13 God means what he says. What he says goes. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. Nothing and no one can resist God’s Word. We can’t get away from it—no matter what.

    14-16 Now that we know what we have—Jesus, this great High Priest with ready access to God—let’s not let it slip through our fingers. We don’t have a priest who is out of touch with our reality. He’s been through weakness and testing, experienced it all—all but the sin. So let’s walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help.

    NLT | New Living Translation

    13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes, and he is the one to whom we are accountable.

  • Why Believe GOD?

    Why believe GOD? There’s absolutely NO other option that works.

  • COAT CHECK.

    LUKE 18:15-17 MSG People brought babies to Jesus, hoping he might touch them. When the disciples saw it, they shooed them off. Jesus called them back. “Let these children alone. Don’t get between them and me. These children are the kingdom’s pride and joy. Mark this: Unless you accept God’s kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you’ll never get in.”

    People of Adonai,

    It’s the middle of March of 2024, that’s two thousand twenty-four years and three months. Whoa!

    There are 40 calendars in use around the world. God doesn’t deal in time, He’s timeless. But for us, so that we can understand, He breaks things down into increments, allows us to use time as a measurement of space. With this being said, why 40?

    You’d think that with all the knowledge out in the world, all of the advances in technology, all of the astronomical achievements and solar exploration and research, we’d have narrowed it down to only one calendar by now. 

    I thought it would be pertinent to help us advance in God by edifying us through doing a “Coat Check,” that is, helping us realize the importance of “checking” ourselves before we approach God. Let’s get into the specifics.

    In pursuit of Christ, that is, on the journey to meet Jesus, we’ve been given instructions in Luke 18. In addition to the admission and confession of our sins we then enter into repentance which leads us straight into the acceptance of Christ into our hearts. We are made anew.

    It’s out of this newness of life that Christ requires us to leave our intellect and our pride “at coat check.”

    Consecration produces sanctification.

    Jehovah Mekoddishkem, The Lord who sanctifies you.

    What do you mean? In order to really learn of God, to get to know Him, what He desires and How He wants to be treated, His statutes, His dislikes, His favorites, we must put ourselves under submission to His Deity. It’s at acceptance that we learn what submission means.

    Submitting to His Sovereignty, His Will is further explained to us through our exploration of Him through several modes of exposition that we discover that God’s knowledge is much higher than ours. His level of thinking and seeing and even hearing is higher, greater. His wavelength and frequency is higher. You get the point yet? 

    He’s Omnipresent, meaning that He’s everywhere. We’re in one place and even if we could teleport, we could only still teleport to one location at one time because we are one body with limited power.

    He’s The Holy Spirit who is everywhere at the same time with unlimited POWER! He knows what’s going to happen every nanosecond but we don’t know what’s going to take place at any space in time, unless He discloses it to us. 

    He’s Omniscient. We only know what we know at the moment we know it and even then we could be misinformed. He’s never misinformed! How do we think that we could ever bring our knowledge to the table and present it as if we could teach God as opposed to God having to be our Teacher?

    How could we compare our knowledge to His, given that we are finite when God is infinite? Jehovah! Elohim!

    He’s Omnipotent, He’s ALL POWERFUL. We have no power without Him! We cannot even breathe less He breathes within us. He’s The Creator yet gave us management ability as Curators as a part of His Creation.

    Movement? We couldn’t have the activities of our limbs less God says so.  If God decided our time’s up, guess what? It’s up, but His Power sent Jesus to The Cross. That same Power took the penalty of sin away through Christ’s death then resurrection. The Resurrection released us from the hand of the enemy.

    God adopted us. Now, we are Heirs of God! His Power is what captivates (us) His Children to yearn for Him. Our very being requires Him to survive. We hunger and thirst for Him. This is why we pray, praise, sing, preach, teach, study, worship, etc. Who are you thirsty for? Who do you have a taste for? We cannot serve two Masters.

    Therefore, we must check ourselves before we enter into His Presence. Before we go before His Throne, we must have a heart of humility. We must repent before asking for God to do something for us and mean it.  We must approach Him with the mindset that He knows what is best for us and when it is best for us. Our hearts and minds must be under submission, in unity, that God dwells over us and that we are nothing without Him; this is how we progress in God. 

    We grow in God when we understand that God wants us to approach Him as children approach their parents, in humility, wanting to know more, wanting to learn, eager to help, excited to see them, happy to love them and filled with joy to be in their presence. He wants us to be assured that whatever we need He will provide.

    Abba, Father!

    Put respect on God’s Name! 

    He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less.

    John 3:30 | NLT

  • Watch Your Mouth! Obey GOD

    You have a plan for 2024. You’ve written it out on paper and even created a vision board. You’re telling your friends, family and coworkers. You’re reciting it in the mirror or reviewing it on your phone.

    God’s Plan OR Your Plan?

    People of God,

    There is a tendency to settle for things that are below the standard of being “Saved by Christ” wherein we’re transforming into Citizens of The Kingdom of God.

    We ignore the very “kinship” that’s been given upon the acceptance of Christ as “Lord, Our Savior.”

    When we don’t get what we expected, we blame GOD by saying, “it must not be meant.”

    His Divine Will has already been stored up for us in The Heavens! However, we ignore obedience to Him, causing us to live below The Inheritance that was ordained. 

    Obedience causes The Heavens to release and pour down Our Inheritance (abundant blessings).

    Pr. E. Nelson

    If we’re honest, it’s a simple computation but the devil causes some of us to feel it’s an impossible feat.

    News FLASH! IT‘S NOT IMPOSSIBLE to fight against the flesh!

    Obeying God produces favorable outcomes, blessings upon blessings! We should avoid opposing The Will of God; it’s dangerous to operate outside of God’s Will!  

    John 1:16 AMP For out of His fullness [the superabundance of His grace and truth] we have all received grace upon grace [spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favor upon favor, and gift heaped upon gift].

    God endows strength. We are His Warriors! OUR WORDS HAVE POWER! OUR THOUGHTS HAVE POWER, too!

    What are you thinking? What’s and who’s controlling you? Who are you hearing?

    For some of us, the issues of our hearts are confined (STUCK). We must take all of our issues to Christ. We must let The Holy Spirit work within us, causing us to change our thoughts and to handle all the heart’s issues. Many times we haven’t committed our will, our way to take on God’s Will and God’s Way. We remain stagnate and confused for no reason other than our own.

    Why is it so hard to follow The Leader? We’re created to give praise and offer worship to God. These actions accompany obedience and produce both imaginable and unimaginable gifts from God – God will manifest things you didn’t even know you wanted when you obey.

    He will pour out intangible (internal, Spiritual) blessings and then He will give tangible (external) ones. Why?

    He does this in order that the intangible blessings prepare us to receive and maintain the tangible ones.  

    For example, when we’re obedient to casting our cares to Him, we loosen our grips on life’s issues; the casting causes everlasting peace…you’ll literally experience an outpouring of peace — a peace that fills you up inside and overflows outside your body from The Holy Spirit. This peace won’t make any sense but yet you will have it!

    Moreover, your response to circumstances are from a State of Divine Assurance. This “State of Assurance” causes a supernatural increase in your faith and hope which then gives you relief and strength. 

    As we’re leaving January of 2024, let’s focus our hearts and minds on listening to Our Father’s instructions and directions. Let’s be conscious of working to do what’s right (in God’s eyes).

    Ask God for “His interpretation of RIGHT,” by reading His Holy Word and by listening to His voice. 

    [There’s a distinction between hearing GOD and listening to GOD. Listening to GOD is intentional whereas hearing GOD is for your reference]. 

    Lastly, there are two methods of Obedience to God:

    1) via Rhema, which is the Spoken Word of God, and

    2) via reading The Holy Bible (inspired by God)

    2024 will be better than 2023 when you do just what He says!

    Pr. E. Nelson

    Today’s Scriptures:

    John 2:22 NLT | New Living Translation

    22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.

    Deuteronomy 28:1,12 (1-14) “Blessings for Obedience” NLT | New Living Translation

    1 “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the world.12 The Lord will send rain at the proper time from his rich treasury in the heavens and will bless all the work you do. 

    James 1: 22-26 NLT | New Living Translation

    22 But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. 23 For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror. 24 You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. 25 But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it. 26 If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.

    1 Samuel 15:22-23 MSG | The Message

    22-23 Then Samuel said, Do you think all God wants are sacrifices—empty rituals just for show? He wants you to listen to him!
    Plain listening is the thing, not staging a lavish religious production.
    Not doing what God tells you, is far worse than fooling around in the occult.
    Getting self-important around God is far worse than making deals with your dead ancestors. Because you said No to God’s command,
    he says No to your kingship.

  • Unfailing Love – Despite Disappointments, Trials, Confusion, Heartache: GOD PREVAILS THEREFORE YOU’RE PRESERVED!

    In the past couple of months, I’ve experienced several health complications. The pain has been so difficult that I was hospitalized. I’ve been up countless nights. Many nights I’d just lay in my bed restless. 

    One night, God whispered to me, “pray for yourself, pray in The Spirit.” I realized, in that moment, that I’ve not spent as much time talking to God about me; I’ve spoken about everyone else’s troubles, asking God to intervene. “What about you,” God says. “What will you ask of me?” He said, “Pray in The Holy Spirit, access the tongues I’ve given you.”

    Preface: For those of you who believe that to have The Holy Spirit, God makes it evident through the gift of Speaking in Tongues; it’s a deeper, more intimate relationship (communication) with God. It’s not a surface thing. It’s not a light thing. Everyone doesn’t have the same tongues. You cannot fake it.

    Speaking in Tongues is God’s way of encoding (scramble) what you’re saying so that the enemy cannot decode (decipher) it. In other words, it’s praying in a language that only God understands that the enemy cannot understand, therefore, the enemy cannot touch this prayer.

    Pr. E.Nelson

    Question: When’s the last time you sought God, for you?  What are you willing to do to hear from God? Have you laid down your burdens? Have you confessed your sins? It’s something about true confession.

    True faith is birthed from personal encounters with God. It’s good to hear others’ testimonies of The Faithfulness of God but it’s something more about personal experiences.

    Pr. E. Nelson

    Everyone wants the prosperity of God but no one wants to embrace the suffering through God. If you’re familiar with Jesus’ walk on The Earth, you’d know that He experienced suffering. Not only did He experience pain, after doing nothing wrong, others in The Holy Scriptures have also experienced personal turmoil, suffering, incomprehensible pain.

    Suffering isn’t always because you’ve done something wrong nor will it always be an experience based on the past sins of your parents nor even because of a generational curse. Sometimes it’s intentional from God to exercise His strength, in and through you, to raise you up and deliver you OUT!

    Pr. E. Nelson

    God desires to be glorified. He gets the glory through it. You and those who witness your suffering receive the remnants of glory when you’re brought out, delivered from your suffering. How you endure through it is the experience we must face.

    What do I do in the meantime? How to I respond while in this suffering?

    You pray consistently, you offer a sacrifice of praise and you worship with the intent of honoring God and adoring His Divine existence in your life. You continue to push yourself to study His Word, even when it feels like studying isn’t producing any results. You wait in expectation of the manifestation of His GLORY to be revealed to you and through you.

    Don’t you know that it’s a SET UP! GOD ordained this struggle so He won’t leave us there for long! God be glorified! Therefore, through the pain, I will offer a sacrifice of praise to God, My Abba. YAHWEH be lifted up above this pain! Thank you because even if you don’t remove this cup right now, I understand that a RELEASE is coming for me! RELEASE IS COMING FOR YOU, TOO!!!

    I pray that this encouraged you to keep the faith and continue in the hope that you professed when you first believed in Our Jehovah Jireh – The Lord, Our Provider. He is Jehovah Shammah – The Lord is there. He’s fighting for you, Jehovah Saboath – God of Heaven’s Armies.

    Today’s Scriptures:

    Job 13:15 (a) KJV | King James Version

    15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:

    Job 13: 15 MSG | The Message Bible

    “Because even if he killed me, I’d keep on hoping; Just wait, this is going to work out for the best—my salvation!”

    Psalm 33:12 KJV | King James Version

    12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

    Psalm 33:18-19 NLT | New Living Translation

    18 But the Lord watches over those who fear him,
        those who rely on his unfailing love.
    19 He rescues them from death
        and keeps them alive in times of famine.

    20 We put our hope in the Lord.
        He is our help and our shield.

    Psalm 33:18-19 MSG | The Message Bible

    18-19 Watch this: God’s eye is on those who respect him,
        the ones who are looking for his love.
    He’s ready to come to their rescue in bad times;
        in lean times he keeps body and soul together.