The Holy Ghost

The Holy Ghost

It is time for us to search our Hearts and see who we are following. Is it The Holy Spirit of our Lord?

            ZACH 4:6    NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER, BUT BY MY SPIRIT, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS

Nothing happens in heaven, and/or in earth, that the Holy Spirit is not involved in. He is the spirit of God, He is the one that makes things work in your Christian life.

The Holy Spirit is the one that gives you wisdom. Wisdom you need to use knowledge given to you by God in the correct way.

 He is the comforter that Jesus sent, when He left and went back to heaven.

 He is the light to your path way, and guide for your life.

 He is the one that directs you in the purpose that God has planned for your life.

 JOHN 3: 5-6  EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER, AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CAN NOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

Because which is born, or still in the flesh, will operate in the fleshly manner.

JOHN 4:23-24   ²³ But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

²⁴ God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

 God is seeking people that will worship Him and seek his righteousness.

 God is a spirit, and when we worship him we must worship Him in spirit and in truth.

 It is the spirit that quickened us according to the word of God. The Holy Spirit gives you more life to your mortal bodies. In this way Jesus might be manifested in your mortal flesh

READ ROM 8: 1   8 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

There is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.

The power of the life-giving spirit who is the Holy Spirit of God, has freed you thru Christ Jesus.

He has freed us from the power of sin that leads to death.

The law of Moses could not save us, because of the sinful nature of mankind.

 God had a different plan, to save us he sent his only begotten son, Jesus the Christ.

 God destroyed sins control over us by giving his son as the ultimate sacrifice for our sins.

We are no longer caught in that pull to follow our sin nature, but instead to follow the spirit of God

 The ones who are controlled by the Holy Spirit, want to think about the things that please the Father.

The sinful nature of man is always hostile to God. It never obeyed God’s laws and never will. The pull of sins pleasure is to strong for mankind to resist on their own. They need the help of the Father thru Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

That is why people that are not lead by the spirit, will not be able to please God.

READ ROM 8: 16... 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

The Holy Spirit speaks to our hearts and tells us that we are Gods children. Draws us closer to Him. Through the Holy Spirit we can feel the love of God and Jesus.

 By becoming his children, we will share his treasures, because we are joint heirs with Christ. Everything God gave Jesus is ours too.

1^ST CORR 2:9 SAYS.. BUT AS IT IS WRITTEN, EYE HATH NOT SEEN, NOR EAR HEARD, NEITHER HAVE ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN….

THE THINGS WHICH GOD HATH PREPARED FOR THEM THAT LOVE HIM

God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit.

 It is all about the leading of Gods Holy Spirit, you must seek out and be filled with the spirit and be led by the spirit of God.

Stay in the word,
Brother Andy

UNDERSTANDING GODS GRACE

UNDERSTANDING GODS GRACE

To understand the grace of God, first you must know why we need Gods grace. When Adam caused sin to come into the world by disobeying God, mankind was separated from the presence of God.

Genesis 3:14   ¹⁴ And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

Genisis 3:16-19   Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

¹⁷ And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

¹⁸ Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

God put a curse upon mankind, Adam and Eve’s disobedience had cause them to fall from Gods presence, effecting all creation, including the environment. Because the tree of life was in the garden and eating from it would cause them to live forever they were driven from the garden.

They had separated themselves from the fellowship of God with their disobedience.

God did not want us to eternally be separated from him, but because of his fore knowledge of the events that happened in the garden he already had a plan to re-establish his fellowship with mankind.

He first gave Moses the ten commandments, and the laws. This law said, you do good you get good, you will get blessed. Under the law you could be forgiven your sins but would not be justified.

Your sins under the law was covered by the blood of animals. God had a better plan than the law.

The law was only to teach the Hebrews and to let them know they needed the savior. Out of His awesome love and His loving kindness he sent a savior to regain our relationship with Him.

This Savior, Christ Jesus, came to fulfill Gods purpose for the Jew first, then for all mankind to receive the gift of salvation, redemption. To have all of our sins done away with. Jesus was the final blood sacrifice.

Out of Gods love, kindness and mercy he loved the people so much that he sent his beloved son Jesus as a sacrifice for our sins.

John 3:16-17   ¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

God gave us his Son that if we will believe in Him and accept Him as our Lord and Savior we can have everlasting life thorough Him. Jesus did not come to condemn the people, but that the people might accept Him and be saved.

John 14:6     ⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

This is one and only way to get eternal life and fellowship with God.

After Jesus’ death on the cross and His resurrection, he became grace. He manifested grace for the believer. Grace is a blood covenant that Jesus made possible for believers by his sacrifice. It is a promise of everything heaven has to offer to the believers.

Ephesians 2:4-8   ⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

⁵ Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

⁶ And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

⁷ That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

His grace is sufficient for believers and his strength is made perfect in our weakness.

Romans 3:23-24   ²³ For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

²⁴ Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 

Through this covenant of grace, we are justified by Gods grace, justified means freed from sin through Christ Jesus, just as though sin in our lives had never happened.

Thank God for his loving kindness and for having mercy on us, also for manifesting a plan of salvation through his son Christ Jesus.

Grace will set you free, even in these hard times in our world. There is victory through grace thanks to Jesus’ sacrifice. Remember it is by grace we are saved, not by any works that we do.  

Stay in the word,
Brother Andy

IS YOUR MIND WORKING FOR YOU OR AGAINST YOU?

IS YOUR MIND WORKING FOR YOU OR AGAINST YOU?

2 Timothy 1:7   For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

We are spirit, we live in a body, and we have a soul.

Our soul is made up of three parts, our mind, our will and our emotion.

Your mind is what you think with

Your will is what you want

Your emotions are what you act on.

Matthew 22: 37   Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

This is what the mind does; it is supposed to make the right choices to love the Lord with all your heart.

However, your mind can only do what it is trained or renewed to do.

 We still have a will and emotions to deal with.

Your will is doing what you want it to do, is called the desires of the mind. If we give into the world with our mind we are abandoning the call God has put on our life.

Then comes the emotions, your emotions can really make your day or cause disaster in your day. They are a state of feeling. Feeling happy or feeling anger, but the one that is most dangerous is fear. Fear can lead us to desperation. A lot of bad things can happen to us when we act out of desperation.

Romans 8:15    For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Fear will put you under bondage while anger causes toxins, or poisons to be released into your body.

Ephesians 4:31   ³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:   

1 Corinthians 6: 19-20   ¹⁹ What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

²⁰ For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Let us talk about our mind: our mind is what we think. Did you ever hear the expression “I gave her or him a piece of my mind?”

Or, I think I am losing my mind:

Or, my mind isn’t what it used to be

It is just mind over matter. I don’t mind and it don’t matter.

That is bad lingo in any language. We need to protect ourselves from the words of our mouth. There is power in the words we speak.  From those words our life is formed.

Eph. 4:23   And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

We need to renew our minds daily, so the enemy can not deceive us. The enemy is very cunning and very smart. Take heed to your selves, that your heart be not deceived.

Eph 2:5   ⁵ Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

Open your mind and receive the inspired word of God.

Receive this anointing and power from reading and discerning of His word.

Let the word quicken your mind with the life force that makes our spirit alive beyond natural thinking.

If you will let Gods presence in your life, the Holy Spirit will give you insight to put Gods word into action. Gods word will not return void. You must believe you receive.

Romans 12: 2    And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

It is not about your will. It is about the will of God and the renewing of your mind.

Continue daily in Gods word. Fill your mind with the thoughts that God has for you. Turn away from carnal things and accept the word of God as your way of life. The rewards are many, the peace and joy of the word are awesome.

Stay in the word
Brother Andy

LET’S TAKE THE ROAR OUT OF SATAN

LET’S TAKE THE ROAR OUT OF SATAN

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.

There will be no moving into the next dimension that God has for his church, until the saints of God know that they have dominion over Satan.

And take back what the devil has taken from their lives.

All those possessions that Satan has taken from you can be restored.

God is revealing to the body of Christ who they are in him and

What their rights are, and what their power is, in the name of Jesus

Before this take back process can begin, you must first understand how the devil works.

Satan uses deception as his main weapon to steal, rob and destroy.

It is important that you grasp here, that Satan is not the powerful prince of darkness that we have been taught to believe.

He does have deceptive powers, but even they are limited.

 His primary work is… the tool of deception,

An ounce of fear gives Satan just the edge he needs

But Satan is powerless against a word conditioned Christian.

The statement I am about to make is one of the most powerful keys I know toward changing your life. If you begin to absorb this principle, Satan will remain powerless against you.

The only absolute power left on earth is all the power of God that now dwells in you. It is waiting to burst forth and move in this world and change it for Jesus.

Eph 1: 17-19   That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

¹⁸ The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

¹⁹ And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

God wants our eyes opened to this greatness of powers that he has given to us.

Today’s Christians don’t have to put up with the things of past generations.

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:

First of all, Satan is not a roaring lion.

Notice the word does not say he is a roaring lion, the word says he performs as a roaring lion.

The only power the devil has is to manifest himself in your mind, with deceptive images.

We say, then how did he get so strong; we gave him this power by bragging on how strong he is.

Remember… the saints shall have whatsoever they say.

Mark 11: 23   For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

There has been too much power breathed into the devil by miss-informed children of God.

We must let people know that the devil is not the roaring lion they think he is.

It is time for Satan to be defused, defanged, and defeated.  Remember all he can do is deceive.

As we speak of him having destructive power, the devil receives destructive power over the Christians that truly believe he has the power of John 10:10

John 10:10   The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

The same is true of the stealing power as we speak it we give it to him

The killing power is given to him to take not only our lives as we speak it, but our loved ones lives too. Why?? Because as we speak those words, those words take root in the things of evil.

It is because the power over life and death is in your mouth.

Proverbs 18: 21   Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

We have been giving power and strength to the devil, by the teaching of his power, instead of teaching the ability of Gods power

Roman 13: 1  Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

It is saying there is no power but God

1^st corr 1:24   But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

There is only one power, Gods power by Christ Jesus… and in His name. Free for us to use, remember Jesus left the power and authority with us.

Stay in the word,

Brother Andy