Predestinated For His Purpose

Predestinated For His Purpose

Rom. 8:28-32   And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.

²⁹ For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

³⁰ Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

³¹ What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

³² He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

The word destination means the purpose for which something or someone is intended or appointed to.

The word predestinate means God did actually know us before we were ever born physically. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate.

That is how we know that all things can work together for good to them that love God. And to them who are called according to his purpose.

Matthew 22:14   For many are called, but few are chosen.

 Many are called for Gods purpose on earth, but some that are called are led astray by the world’s rebellious ways.

Before we were born physically to our mother and father, we were in Heaven as a spirit.

You were a spirit in the heavenly realm. How else could he have knew you and predestined you for his purpose.

We were called, we were justified, and the ones he justified, them he also glorified.

Before you were physically born, at the time of conception, God sent a predestinated foreknown spirit: Flesh can only produce flesh. The real you is a spirit, the flesh is to be a device to house the spirit.

Your soul which is made up of your mind, your will and your emotion, your soul helps you make choices in your life.

This is why and how Mary (Jesus’ physical mother) could deliver a physical baby without being with a man.

You are a spirit that was created in heaven: foreknown in heaven and at the time of God purpose for your life you were predestinated and sent to earth.

So if God is for us who can be against us? He also freely gives us all things. God loves his creation and wants to bless us with every thing heaven has to offer.

Romans 8: 37-39   Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Because of the love of God and everything that he has invested in us through the finished work at the cross, we are more than conquerors.

Paul is saying I am persuaded; persuaded means his mind was made up through faith in the word and is immovable. He was persuaded that neither death nor life or things to come was going to change his mind.

Nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

When God sends you to earth as a spirit, you as a human will have a free will to make decisions as to which path you want to follow.

You can choose the natural way and be led by the things of the world… or you can choose the spiritual way and be led by the Holy Spirit.

Because you were foreknown, God knew everything about you; you were predestined to come to earth for the purpose of serving God. Most people simply do not understand the purpose that God has for their lives.

On Sunday they live by faith; on Monday it’s the same old grind.

We are trying to get through life, letting the old flesh control our thoughts and our life. We are to be led by the Holy Spirit, not what the crowds think.

Let the Holy Spirit Quicken you with the life force that makes your minds and spirits alive beyond the natural thinking.

Let Gods Holy Spirit lead you to your highest potential.

Stay in the word
Brother Andy

WALKING IN THE SPIRIT

WALKING IN THE SPIRIT

John 16: 13-15   Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

 ¹⁴ He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

¹⁵ All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

If we truly understood and believed what the bible tells us about the Holy Spirit, we would not ever worry about anything again.

All that hell has to offer could come against us and we still would not fear.

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

Who is being referred to in this verse? It is not referring to God, because God is in heaven.

Greater is HE that is in us, is referring to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is omnipotent meaning he can be at all places at all times.

The Holy Spirit is our comforter; he lives within us and gives us gifts of wisdom, strength, power and provision.

What would you do if Jesus appeared to you today and told you, “from now on I will physically be present with you in every situation”?

If you became sick, he would lay hands on you and you would be healed.

If you ran short of money, he would pray and multiply your resources.

If you encountered a problem you didn’t know how to handle, He would tell you exactly what to do.

Under those circumstances you would be very bold and confident.

Anytime you ran into trouble, you would see Jesus standing next to you.

Suddenly you would have great courage.

 Naturally there is a problem; it is the fact that we don’t have that advantage.

Don’t be dismayed you have something better, Jesus said so himself.

John 14: 12-18   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.
¹⁴ If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
¹⁵ If ye love me, keep my commandments.
¹⁶ And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
¹⁷ Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
¹⁸ I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

Jesus was flesh and blood, a human, same as you and I; he could only be in one place at a time.

He sent us the Holy Spirit, he is omnipotent, and can be everywhere at one time, as he pleases.

When the Holy Spirit moves on a situation, he does it with wisdom and understanding. Wisdom So vast that it staggers the human mind.

At sometime in your life, you have probably asked, why doesn’t he help me? God knows I need it.

God has been waiting for you to give him something to work with. He has been waiting all this time inside you, just waiting for you to speak the word of God in faith.

That has been his desire since the beginning. When you made Jesus the Lord of your life, the Holy Spirit connected you to the Power of God.

That is the Holy Spirits Job to move on Gods word and deliver the power necessary to cause that word to manifest on the earth.

That is what he did at creation, and that what he is commissioned to do for you now.

You have to remember, he is your helper, not your dominator. If you have been walking around talking doubt and unbelief, He is severely limited.

You must develop an awareness of the Holy Spirit within you. Stop meditating on the problems that you’re facing and start meditating on the power of the one inside of you, who can solve the problems.

Eph. 3:20   Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

It’s saying, he is able to do above what we ask, or even think, according to the power within you.

Start building your faith in that power instead of saying, “God why don’t you help me”.

Start by saying, the Spirit of God is living in me, today I expect Him to do wise, wonderful, amazing and miraculous things through me.

Stay in the word,                                                                                                          
Brother Andy

KILLING YOUR BLESSINGS

KILLING YOUR BLESSINGS

Duet. 28:1-2   And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
² And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.

They were blessed for obedience.

Deut. 28: 15   But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

They were cursed for disobedience.

Under the Mosaic Law, you do good, you got good.

The trouble with the Law was, if you broke one law you broke all the law, and there are over three thousand laws.

You were blessed through the merits of your own effort and obedience to the law.

There is no way you could keep all the law, they tried and failed only Jesus could keep all the law.

God knew they would fail and he knows when we fail today. Yes we are failing in lots of ways.

We are responding to the world situations and desires instead of Gods desire for us.

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

God always wants what is best for us, he wants us to prosper, but when God says the word prosper, all we see is dollar signs; big houses, cars and boats.

Prosperity is what you need, not always what you want

Prosperity is nothing broken, nothing missing

A blessed life is the complete fullness of abundance in every aspect of life. It is everything Jesus suffered and paid for at the cross, it is already done.

Why is it that we keep stumbling through life day after day, refusing to accept what God says to do to be blessed?

We keep doing the same things over and over, expecting something different to happen. Take Gods word for it, it won’t happen.

Most people are only focused on what interest their personal gain or makes them happy.

If you are a Christian and have made Jesus the Lord of your life, it is not your life anymore, it belongs to Jesus.

You don’t have the right to do whatever you want, why? Because God has invested everything in the heavenly realm into your life including his Son you have given your life to Him.

It is Gods promise to meet your needs. It is your responsibility to live right before Him.

Robbing God is not a way to live right before Him. Malachi 3:6 says, for I am the Lord, I change not.

Numbers 23: 19-20   God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
²⁰ Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.

If God says he will bless, he can’t reverse it, God can not lie.

Malachi 3:6 says for I am the Lord I change not…
Malachi 3: 8-11   Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
⁹ Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
¹⁰ Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
¹¹ And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.

God is saying that if you don’t pay your tithes you’re cheating him what is due him.

Tithes only opens the windows of heaven, love offerings brings or manifest the blessings. He will pour out a blessing that there won’t be room enough to receive it.

He also says he will rebuke the devour for your sake.

1^st Peter 5:8   Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour

God won’t allow the enemy to steal your blessing.

There you have two good reasons for tithing. First thing you need to know is God doesn’t need your money. Second thing you should know your tithes and offerings are used to run the church. So the Churches can minister to the people and Glorify God.

Another thing if you think you can’t afford to pay tithes how about the blessing being removed and the curse that is attached to the whole 100 percent of your money.

God wants you to trust Him and not what you have in our pocket.

John 15: 7  If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Ask what you will, and it shall be done…

We are at the end of the period of grace. God very soon will give Jesus the ok to rapture out the church.

I know life is hard for a lot of us. God also knows this.

But we keep tying His hands and stopping our manifestation from coming.

Look up in your bible blessings, provisions, and promises… start trusting God.

Stay in the word,
Brother Andy

WALKING IN THE ILLUMINATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

WALKING IN THE ILLUMINATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT    

1^st Corr 12:7-11   But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
⁸ For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
⁹ To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
¹⁰ To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
¹¹ But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

Spiritual gifts given to each person by the Holy Spirit are special abilities that are to be used to minister to the needs of the body of believers.

There are nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. Each gift has its purpose. The purpose is to build up the Body of Christ which is the Church.

Each gift is different, and one gift is not superior to another. Having one or more of these gifts is a big responsibility. You must never use the gifts as a means of manipulation or for your own self serving interest.

Anyone can claim to speak for God, and the world is full of false teachers.  Don’t be quick to accept the words of all who claim to speak for God. Test their credentials by listening how they teach about Christ.

All Christians have faith; some however have the spiritual gift of faith. This kind of faith is an unusual measure of trust in the power of God. No matter what gifts a person has, each gift is given by the Holy Spirit.

The church is composed of many types of people from a variety of backgrounds, with a multitude of gifts and abilities. Despite the differences all believers have one thing in common, faith in Christ.

When we become a Christian, the Holy Spirit takes up residence in us and we are born into God’s family We have all received the same spirit, this means that each one of us may have different interests and gifts, but we are united by the spirit into one special body.

As Christians we need to get involved in the lives of others and not just enjoy our own relationship with God.  Our spiritual gifts are not just for self advancement: they were given to us for serving God and enhancing the spiritual growth of the body of believers.

The more we become like Christ Jesus the more love we will show to others. Spiritual gifts are given in order to build up, serve and strengthen fellow Christians… the church.

In eternity we will be made perfect and complete and will be in the very presence of God. We will no longer need our spiritual gifts; they will come to and end.

Knowledge is the accumulation of facts. Understanding is the arrangement of facts. You can have knowledge but knowledge is just information.  Until information is accessed by understanding, you’re just collecting data.

We must proceed from information to illumination or understanding. We must understand how to apply Gods word to our lives and Understanding only comes through the wisdom and insight or illumination of the Holy Spirit.

1^st Corr 2: 4-7   And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
⁵ That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
⁶ Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
⁷ But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

Not with the wisdom of man, but with the Spirit of God. You will never have the kind of wisdom God wants for you until you get spiritually minded and walk in the Spirit and be led by the Spirit. The spirit of God is a life force with divine energy that makes your mind and spirit alive.

Be enlightened with the illumination of the Holy Spirit and walk in the faith so that you can believe for the impossible to become manifested.

Stay in the Word                                                                                                          Brother Andy