The Spirit of Fear
May 27, 2013
2nd Timothy 1: 7 says… for God hat not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind…
Fear will always direct you onto the path of destruction. Fear will take you farther than you want to go and keep you longer than you want to stay…
Fear will compromise your hope and faith in Gods word and will always cause doubt and confusion in a persons life.
This is how the evil spirit of fear works…the spirit of fear is of Satan, the devil, and he at all cost is killing, stealing and destroying as many of us as he can.
He is determined to have things his way and is willing to fight to have it. Are you willing to fight to keep him from having his way with you?
Jesus has already fought the fight for us and made it possible for us to have victory over this spirit of fear and confusion.
All we need to do is accept that Jesus has fought and won the battle. We need to reject Satan when he tries to put fear on us.
A lot of people do not realize that we have an enemy. They go from day to day operating in their own strength wondering why they are failing at everything they try to do.
Why do they fail, because they don’t have the Holy Spirit working in their life, leading them in the path of Gods will for their life.
Satan has stolen their joy, their life is being controlled by deception and they have been stripped of any hope for the future.
If you went to Mexico to see the bull fights, you would realize the bull doesn’t have a clue who the enemy is. The bull is about to be killed and he thinks his enemy is the red cape that the matador has. We are like the bull… no clue who the real enemy is.
Listen to these words of God. 1st Peter 5: 8 says… be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.
Know who your enemy is, when he tries to put fear in your heart rebuke him… he will try to deceive you.
If you have accepted Jesus as Lord of your life, you have the anointing of the Holy Spirit to guide you and counsel you on your path of righteousness.
If you are not saved, accept Jesus as Lord today. You are not alone, God loves you just as you are. He is willing to accept you just as you are.
May joy and peace abound in you life.
Brother Andy.
Controlling Our Thoughts
May 20, 2013
The battles we face in today’s walk is a spiritual war that is trying to control the way we think. In 2nd Cor. 10: 4-5.…. Paul is saying the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds.
Verse 5 says… to cast down imaginations… How many times we as Christians start to think on things that do not line up with the word of God.
If we are not careful we get over into lustful thinking, and suddenly we realize it and think… Where did that thought come from?
We have and enemy, his name is Satan, he is the devil, he comes to kill… steal… and destroy. His favorite deception is to manipulate our thought life through the way we think.
Psalms 15: 26 says, that wicked thoughts are an abomination to the Lord. We need to think on thoughts of purity, not on things in the worlds way of thinking.
If a wrong thought comes to mind, you know it did not come from God. Cast it out in the name of Jesus. We will never have the peace of God in our lives until we control our minds, that is our way of thinking.
You can’t walk the path of righteousness and the path of wrong thinking at the same time. In our daily lives we have to make choices… those choices come through our thoughts.
The devil will try to twist and pervert your thoughts to fit his deceptive ways therefore controlling your choices. Even though we have an enemy trying to confuse us, the one we have inside us is greater, and He will instill the truth in us.
It is a fact, there is an evil one who is continually working against our way of righteous thinking, at the same time there is the holy spirit who is always with you that can and will conquer all the things the devil comes against you with, especially in your thought life.
Deception is the devils only weapon against you, don’t let him steal your joy, your life or your blessings, lean on Jesus and the Holy Spirit and keep your precious way of thinking.
Nehemiah 8: 10 says… for the joy of the Lord is our strength.
Be happy, be strong in thought…
May the Lord bless you and may His countenance shine upon your face,
Brother Andy
May 20, 2013
The battles we face in today’s walk is a spiritual war that is trying to control the way we think. In 2nd Cor. 10: 4-5.…. Paul is saying the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds.
Verse 5 says… to cast down imaginations… How many times we as Christians start to think on things that do not line up with the word of God.
If we are not careful we get over into lustful thinking, and suddenly we realize it and think… Where did that thought come from?
We have and enemy, his name is Satan, he is the devil, he comes to kill… steal… and destroy. His favorite deception is to manipulate our thought life through the way we think.
Psalms 15: 26 says, that wicked thoughts are an abomination to the Lord. We need to think on thoughts of purity, not on things in the worlds way of thinking.
If a wrong thought comes to mind, you know it did not come from God. Cast it out in the name of Jesus. We will never have the peace of God in our lives until we control our minds, that is our way of thinking.
You can’t walk the path of righteousness and the path of wrong thinking at the same time. In our daily lives we have to make choices… those choices come through our thoughts.
The devil will try to twist and pervert your thoughts to fit his deceptive ways therefore controlling your choices. Even though we have an enemy trying to confuse us, the one we have inside us is greater, and He will instill the truth in us.
It is a fact, there is an evil one who is continually working against our way of righteous thinking, at the same time there is the holy spirit who is always with you that can and will conquer all the things the devil comes against you with, especially in your thought life.
Deception is the devils only weapon against you, don’t let him steal your joy, your life or your blessings, lean on Jesus and the Holy Spirit and keep your precious way of thinking.
Nehemiah 8: 10 says… for the joy of the Lord is our strength.
Be happy, be strong in thought…
May the Lord bless you and may His countenance shine upon your face,
Brother Andy
Truth vs. Facts
May 13, 2013
Read Matt 9: 20-22... The woman was made whole…. The word “made whole” has a wide variety of meanings; Sound health, not diseased, broken, damaged or defective. Also including being saved, delivered, healed protected and made well.
Read Matt 12: 13... The man with a withered hand was healed and made whole. In this case, made whole was to be made well.
People often say that facts are truth, and basically this is correct, except in the Spirit realm. Jesus Christ is a fact, he is real and alive at this very moment, and He is also truth.
At times it requires truth to conquer the fact…Christ is our truth and has the power to changed and transform every negative situation.
In Jesus’ ministry the truth met the facts of evil, sickness and death. Truth conquered all the facts.
In John 14: 6 Jesus says I am the way, the truth and the life…It is a fact that all people are born into sin, but who is the truth? He steps in and defeats the fact and the sin nature is defeated.
It may be a fact that you are diagnosed with an incurable disease, confirmed by x-rays and doctors reports. You are told you can not deny the facts…
It is not faith to deny the facts… it is very possible the facts are seen on x-ray and truly stated by what the doctors say… it is however very possible to have the real truth. When Christ enters into the situation and meets the facts head on, He alters those facts and heals you.
For Jesus who is the truth can over power the facts, and make you whole. The word of God does not just contain the truth, it is the truth.
God Himself confirms His Word with visible evidence that in the New Testament is called, signs and wonders with miracles. God is still in the miracle working business.
We need to make a choice, will we trust God all the way?
In closing read Heb 2:4. Don’t lean to your own understanding, trust God and His Word, which is the truth.
May the countenance of God shine upon you.
Brother Andy.
May 13, 2013
Read Matt 9: 20-22... The woman was made whole…. The word “made whole” has a wide variety of meanings; Sound health, not diseased, broken, damaged or defective. Also including being saved, delivered, healed protected and made well.
Read Matt 12: 13... The man with a withered hand was healed and made whole. In this case, made whole was to be made well.
People often say that facts are truth, and basically this is correct, except in the Spirit realm. Jesus Christ is a fact, he is real and alive at this very moment, and He is also truth.
At times it requires truth to conquer the fact…Christ is our truth and has the power to changed and transform every negative situation.
In Jesus’ ministry the truth met the facts of evil, sickness and death. Truth conquered all the facts.
In John 14: 6 Jesus says I am the way, the truth and the life…It is a fact that all people are born into sin, but who is the truth? He steps in and defeats the fact and the sin nature is defeated.
It may be a fact that you are diagnosed with an incurable disease, confirmed by x-rays and doctors reports. You are told you can not deny the facts…
It is not faith to deny the facts… it is very possible the facts are seen on x-ray and truly stated by what the doctors say… it is however very possible to have the real truth. When Christ enters into the situation and meets the facts head on, He alters those facts and heals you.
For Jesus who is the truth can over power the facts, and make you whole. The word of God does not just contain the truth, it is the truth.
God Himself confirms His Word with visible evidence that in the New Testament is called, signs and wonders with miracles. God is still in the miracle working business.
We need to make a choice, will we trust God all the way?
In closing read Heb 2:4. Don’t lean to your own understanding, trust God and His Word, which is the truth.
May the countenance of God shine upon you.
Brother Andy.
The Emptiness of Unbelief
May 6, 2013
Where there is unbelief in a persons life it is impossible to have peace and true joy. The joy of the Lord is what we know, not what we feel
Nehemiah 8: 10 says…For the joy of the Lord is your strength… not how you feel.
When God told Abraham that he and Sarah were going to have a son, even though he was a hundred years old, Abraham did not disbelieve, but was fully persuaded it would happen.
Abraham considered the word of God to manifest just like it promised.
Unbelief comes through your natural senses, believing by faith, comes through your supernatural knowledge and wisdom by the Holy Spirit.
One of the reasons we have unbelief is lack of knowledge… Hosea 4: 6 says… my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
If you don’t read the Word you will never have enough knowledge for the Holy Spirit to work with. The Holy Spirit gives you wisdom and understanding of Gods Word. This knowledge comes by reading the Word.
Everything works through faith. Not unbelief. Faith is awarded to us or obtained through righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ.
Abraham did not have anymore faith than we do, he just didn’t have as much unbelief…
We as Christians should pray… Lord I believe, help my unbelief. In Mark chapter 5: 25 -34 it speaks of a woman who has a physical problem that the doctors couldn’t heal.
When she heard she could be healed by Jesus, she came and touched his robe, all the time saying to herself, If I can but touch his clothes, I shall be made whole, (healed).
Jesus knew healing power had gone out of Him and that someone had touched Him, so he turned to see who had touched Him. The woman fell down before Him and told him the truth, He said to her, daughter thy faith hath made thee whole (healed).
Do you have this kind of faith? You have to believe to receive the manifestation of God. God is spirit, Gods word and Gods will only works in a persons life through faith and belief.
We can not be double minded about the things of God, there are no ifs or ands and no doubts in the work of Gods will for your life.
If Gods word says He can, He can, if Gods word says He will, He will.
Our only hope in these perilous times is to trust the one and only Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There are a lot of religions, but only one way to life eternal with God.
Read John 14:6... I am the way, the truth and the life, no one cometh unto the Father (God) but by me. Jesus is speaking here in John.
John 15:7 says, if you abide in me and my words aide in you: you shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you.
God bless,
Brother Andy
May 6, 2013
Where there is unbelief in a persons life it is impossible to have peace and true joy. The joy of the Lord is what we know, not what we feel
Nehemiah 8: 10 says…For the joy of the Lord is your strength… not how you feel.
When God told Abraham that he and Sarah were going to have a son, even though he was a hundred years old, Abraham did not disbelieve, but was fully persuaded it would happen.
Abraham considered the word of God to manifest just like it promised.
Unbelief comes through your natural senses, believing by faith, comes through your supernatural knowledge and wisdom by the Holy Spirit.
One of the reasons we have unbelief is lack of knowledge… Hosea 4: 6 says… my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
If you don’t read the Word you will never have enough knowledge for the Holy Spirit to work with. The Holy Spirit gives you wisdom and understanding of Gods Word. This knowledge comes by reading the Word.
Everything works through faith. Not unbelief. Faith is awarded to us or obtained through righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ.
Abraham did not have anymore faith than we do, he just didn’t have as much unbelief…
We as Christians should pray… Lord I believe, help my unbelief. In Mark chapter 5: 25 -34 it speaks of a woman who has a physical problem that the doctors couldn’t heal.
When she heard she could be healed by Jesus, she came and touched his robe, all the time saying to herself, If I can but touch his clothes, I shall be made whole, (healed).
Jesus knew healing power had gone out of Him and that someone had touched Him, so he turned to see who had touched Him. The woman fell down before Him and told him the truth, He said to her, daughter thy faith hath made thee whole (healed).
Do you have this kind of faith? You have to believe to receive the manifestation of God. God is spirit, Gods word and Gods will only works in a persons life through faith and belief.
We can not be double minded about the things of God, there are no ifs or ands and no doubts in the work of Gods will for your life.
If Gods word says He can, He can, if Gods word says He will, He will.
Our only hope in these perilous times is to trust the one and only Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There are a lot of religions, but only one way to life eternal with God.
Read John 14:6... I am the way, the truth and the life, no one cometh unto the Father (God) but by me. Jesus is speaking here in John.
John 15:7 says, if you abide in me and my words aide in you: you shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you.
God bless,
Brother Andy
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