THINK BEYOND THE NATURAL REALM

Think beyond the natural realm.

Eph 1:12-13   That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
¹³ In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

The Holy Spirit is Gods guarantee that we belong to him, and that He will do what he has promised.

Now that we are under the direction, or led by the Holy Spirit, we should be thinking in the supernatural. So how do we do this? By the divine energy that works within you. With Gods divine energy, faith rises up so you can believe for the impossible.

The anointing of the Holy Spirit is a physical quickening within and upon the body. It’s a life force that makes your mind and spirit alive.

Now that you have the Holy Spirit, Gods endued power from the heavenly realm will give you insight to put His word into action.

James 2:20   But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Faith without words is dead; better said, without works or action, faith alone won’t work.  If you want Gods blessings to work in our life, you must add action to faith.                 The works James was speaking of was trust, belief and expectation

Expecting an event like it is about to happen. Expectation looks forward to the manifestation of Gods word to supply your need.

Philippians 4: 19   But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

God has no problem supplying all our needs; he does have a problem manifesting them through our doubt and unbelief.

John 14: 12-13   Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
¹³ And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If you ask anything in my name I will do it.

We must be led by the Holy Spirit to get a clear perception of the things we are looking for.  By faith, trust and expectation in Gods word and His promises He will secure our future.

We don’t have to know the future to have faith in God, but we do have to have faith in God, to be secure about the future.

Love is the power charge behind the God kind of faith. Having faith in your faith is having faith in what Jesus has already done for you.

It is called the finished work at the cross. Faith works for those that who so ever will believe. We stand on faith, we fall by unbelief.

Prayer does not cause faith to work, faith causes prayer to work. Faith should never be allowed to stand still. Expect what you say to come to pass.

Once you understand how faith works, then you will understand how to bring things from the unseen heavenly realm to the seen, natural realm.

3^rd John 2   Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

After God has made you righteous, you have the right to be prosperous and have good health.

The reason your soul has to prosper is because of our lack of knowledge about Gods word.

Your soul is made up of your mind, will and emotion: and if it doesn’t line up with the word, you will not prosper and be in health.  We must know what the word says and means before God can add all these things to us.

The Holy Spirit is the only one that can direct you toward the truth of how to receive from God. Our natural minds will never move mountains and will never break the chains of oppression.

We must think in the supernatural and leave the natural way of thinking to the people of the natural world.

It’s ok to think big, we serve a big God.

Stay in the word,                                                                                                          Brother Andy

BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD

BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD

READ JOHN 1:28-29… THESE THINGS WERE DONE IN BETH-AB-A-RA, BEYOND JORDAN WHERE JOHN WAS BAPTIZING…

THE NEXT DAY JOHN SEETH JESUS COMING UNTO HIM, AND SAITH, BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD, WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD.BEHOLD MEANS TO FIX YOUR EYES UPON. BEHOLD (FIX YOUR EYES) UPON JESUS AND THE FINISHED WORK AT THE CROSS.

EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE WAS LAYED OUT AT CALVARY. YOUR HEALING, YOUR PROSPERITY, YOUR SALVATION. ALL OF THIS WAS DONE AT THE CROSS

THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS YOU WERE SAVED, SANCTIFIED, GLORIFIED, AND PURIFIED SO PURE UNTIL HIS HOLY SPIRIT COULD COME AND DWELL IN YOU.

WHEN YOU GET BORN AGAIN GODS SPIRIT INTERES INTO YOUR SPIRIT AND YOUR SPIRIT IS SEALED…  SATIN CAN NOT TOUCH YOUR SPIRIT…BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD.

FIX YOUR EYES UPON JESUS… UNTO HIM WHO IS ABLE…HE IS ABLE TO FULFILL ALL YOUR NEEDS. DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION TO JESUS AND GET OVER INTO THE SUPERNATURAL.

READ 2^ND CORR. 3:17-18… NOW THE LORD IS THAT SPIRIT AND WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS, THERE IS LIBERTY.

NO MORE CAPTIVITY, YOU ARE FREE,

FREE FROM BONDAGE,                                  
                       

FREE FROM CONFUSION,

FREE FROM STRESS,

FREE FROM DEPRESSION.

READ VS 18… BUT WE ALL, WITH OPEN FACES AS BEHOLDING IN A GLASS, THE GLORIY OF THE LORD, AND WE ARE CHANGED INTO THE SAME IMAGE FROM GLORY TO GLORY, EVEN AS BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD.

HE IS SAYING, KEEP YOUR EYES UPON JESUS AND YOU WILL BE TRANSFORMED INTO THE IMAGE OF WHAT YOU ARE BEHOLDING. YOU WILL BE TRANSFORMED INTO THE IMAGE OF JESUS.

IT IS NOT A TRANSFORMATION OF YOUR WORKS, OR YOUR EFFORT, IT IS THE TRANSFORMATION OF YOUR SOUL BY THE SUPERNATURAL POWER OF GOD THROUGH HIS SON JESUS, THE LAMB OF GOD.

GOD SEES US THROUGH JESUS, THE KEY TO DELIVERENCE IS TO STOP LOOKING AT THE CIRCUMSTANCES AROUND YOU, AND START LOOKING AT THE SUPERNATURAL REALM. JESUS

DON’T BE PREOCCUPIED WITH YOUR NATURAL ABILITY IT ONLY LEADS TO DISSAPOINTMENT AND EMPTINESS.

READ MATH 14: 22-28… NATURAL MAN CAN’T WALK ON WATER, IF YOU ARE GOING TO WALK ON WATER, YOU HAVE TO KEEP YOUR EYES UPON JESUS.

AS LONG AS PETER KEPT HIS EYES ON JESUS, HE WAS IN THE REALM OF THE SUPERNATURAL… WHEN YOU BEHOLD SUPERNATURAL THINGS YOU BECOME WHAT YOU BEHOLD.

WHILE PETER WAS IN THE SUPERNATURAL, WATCHING THE SUPERNATURAL, NATURAL THINGS STARTED TAKING PLACE AROUND HIM…

SOMETIMES THINGS ARE GOING GREAT AND THEN A CIRCUMSTANCE SHOWS UP AND THE FIRST THING WE DO IS GET OVER IN THE NATURAL… INSTEAD OF BEHOLDING THE LAMB OF GOD WE PANIC…

MATH 14:29-33 SAYS… PETER SAID LORD IF IT IS YOU HELP ME COME TO YOU ON THE WATER…PETER ACTUALLY WALKED ON THE WATER TO GO TO JESUS.  HOW DID HE DO THAT? HIS EYES WERE FIXED ON JESUS.   

BUT BEFORE HE GOT TO JESUS THE WIND CAME UP AND HE STARTED LOOKING AT THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND TOOK HIS EYES OFF JESUS. WHEN WE TAKE OUR EYES OFF JESUS WE GET BACK INTO THE NATURAL AND TRY TO DO THINGS IN OUR OWN EFFORTS AND OWN WORKS, AND THAT IS HOW WE GET DEFEATED.

YOU WILL NEVER HAVE VICTORY IN THE NATURAL REALM, WE HAVE AN ADVERSARY. THE DEVIL DOES EVERYTHING HE CAN TO GET YOU TO TAKE YOUR EYES OFF JESUS.

EVERY PROBLEM YOU FACE IS TO GET YOUR EYES OFF JESUS, EVERY BILL THAT COMES IN, EVERY PROBLEM IN YOUR MARRIAGE…

WHEN YOU TAKE YOUR EYES OFF JESUS YOU ARE NO LONGER WALKING IN THE SUPERNATURAL…  NOW IS THE TIME TO BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD.

KEEP BEHOLDING HIM,

BROTHER ANDY

BATTLE OF THE MIND

BATTLE OF THE MIND

Heb 12: 1-3  12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,² Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
³ For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Before you can enjoy the kind of victory that God has made available for you, you must first learn about the strategies the devil is using against you.

You must learn how he operates, so you can put a stop to his operations in your life. You must find out exactly where he is going to attack you.

We must lay aside and get rid of everything that slows us down… sin, wrong desires…We must look away from ourselves, or at the circumstances surrounding us, and keep or eyes upon Jesus.

If we start looking away, our eyes will be deceived; we must keep Jesus in our sight.

We are not the first to struggle with the problems we face, look at what the disciples faced.

Look at what Jesus faced, he saw the joy ahead of him, so he endured death on the cross and ignored the disgrace it brought Him.

Then he received the highest position in heaven, the one next to the throne of God the father.

Unless you become weary and faint in your minds, you too will have an eternal position with Christ.

As long as you live in a mortal body, your carnal natural mind is the place where your fight with Satan will be won or lost. Some people think Satan’s attacks come in the realm of the spirit, but they don’t.

Jesus defeated him where the spirit realm is concerned…once and for all. When we made Jesus the
Lord of our life, that victory became forever ours. The battle for your spirit is over; it has already been fought and won.

As a believer you have been spiritually re-born into the image of God. There is absolutely nothing the devil can do to change that.

You must understand the difference between the soul and the spirit.

When you’re operating purely in the realm of the spirit, your mind, which is the realm of the soul is not in charge.

Even though Satan himself is a spirit, he has lost all his authority in the spiritual realm.  He can not fight you in the spiritual realm anymore. But he can battle you in the mind.

1^st Corinthian 10:13   There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

When you are tempted, God will give you the ability to endure the temptation as your way of escape.

That means, satin has to operate in this natural soulish realm, and even in the natural realm he has no authority.

But he can deceive you, deception is all he has. That doesn’t mean that he will just pack up and go home. He is still going to try to steal, kill and destroy you and your relationship with Jesus. He is going to try to do it by gaining control of your mind.

If you’re going to take a successful stand against the devil, you will have to do it on the battlefield of your mind.

If we start looking away from Jesus, our eyes will be deceived; we must keep Jesus in our sight.
Stay in the word,
Brother Andy

Angels Unaware

Angels Unaware

As I look around our world today it is hard to recognize it as a safe place to live. I think we can all agree that we need the Lords continual protection: at home, on the job and on the road. For the believers, there are many scriptures promising God can and will protect us.

We can call on angels in the name of the Lord for protection with a simple prayer. The Lord is quick to send his angels to answer our pleas.

Angels are involved in our lives on a personal and practical level. How ever there are things that we do that can offend our angels and will hinder their protection of us.

Angelic messengers are special messengers from God, appointed by God himself. The most common angels are called ministering spirits.

They go forth according to the purposes of God to complete a specific work, task or assignment from the Lord.

Exodus 23:20-23 says… “Behold I send an angel before you to keep you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Be aware of him and obey his voice, do not provoke him for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him. But if you indeed obey his voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries, for my angel will go before you.”

There is a special angel. Not a normal fighting angel. This angel was more than a regular angel, this very well could have been Jesus. Jesus seen in his pre-incarnate state as the angel of the Lord.

Negative words or wrong speaking can offend the angels. The angels of the Lord are commissioned to listen to and be obedient to the voice of His word. It is the word of God that moves the angels into action.

I believe that in the same way, man’s disobedience can cause them to with hold their protection.

Unbelief will offend the angels, when you speak unbelief, you are saying what God promised and Christ on the cross wasn’t enough.

Sin offends your angels, when we speak of sin, we think of sexual immorality, stealing, lying, murder and so on. But remember that complaining, criticizing or speaking negative things of the spirit of God is also a sin. Not giving God the glory can offend the angels of the Lord.

Each and every day we should praise God for the gift of the day, and thank him for just being our God. Taking the time to give Him all the glory.

Disobedience to the word can offend your angels. God does not work through disobedience. He works through our obedience to his word and through our faith. When we are sinning and disobedient our angels are silent. They turn their backs away from us with their arms folded and their heads bowed.

Here is what to do if you have sinned and offended your angels… confess your sin and repent. In repentance you turn away from sin and do your best to walk with the Lord daily.

Be quick to forgive others that have wronged you in some way, If you won’t forgive others it puts the Lord in the position of not being able to hear your prayers. We must forgive to get forgiveness.

In the midst of all the things that can go wrong in our daily lives we need our angels to protect us and our family. Which they will do. Call on them In Jesus name… pray, study the word, love God with your whole heart, this is the way to Gods protection.

Live close to the Lord in confidence in these perilous times. He will shower us with His love and protection. Life will be better and full of the joy of the Lord.

God bless

Brother Andy