THE POWER OF LOVE

Romans 5:5   And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

This expectation will not disappoint us. For we know how dearly God loves us. He has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with His love.

Mankind has taken the power of love, and turned it into the love of power. Mankind has conditional love. God has unconditional love.

A lot of powerful people will not inherit the kingdom of God. Why?  They are not letting the Holy Spirit into their lives. They are not walking in the Holy Spirit. They have not developed a relationship with God.

Satan is the god of this world. Satan has no authority over the Body of Christ. We as Christians live under Gods law of Love.

The earth’s natural laws are superseded by spiritual laws.

 

John 3: 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.

It is saying God so loved, God is love…

1^st John 5:1-5   Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.³ For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.⁴ For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.⁵ Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

All who believe that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God.

Verse 1 is saying that everyone who loves the Father in Heaven loves his own children too.

Verse 3. By loving God it means we must keep His commandments. His commandments are not grievous or difficult.

Verse 4. For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world.

This is the victory that overcomes the world… every child of God defeats the evil of this world by trusting Jesus to give us the victory.

 

Verse 5. And the ones who win this battle against the world are the ones who believe that Jesus is the son of

God.

 Develop your faith in Gods love for you. Put the word first, not your feelings. Make a decision to walk in Gods love in your life. Love always prevails and produces victory.

The Love of God never fails.

God will never fall out of love with you. To walk in love is to walk in the highest spiritual realm there is.

We are to walk even as Jesus walked. We have the same capacity as Jesus. That same capacity makes us responsible to walk as Jesus walked.

If we love one another God dwells in us and His love is perfected in us.

Gods Blessings

GODS BLESSINGS

I want to show you a bible mystery lost to the Christian church for 2000 years. It is a mystery that can change your life, your family and your church forever.

It is God’s will, He wants to bless you.

We all want to have God’s supernatural blessings over our finances, health relationships and emotions. We desire to be filled with the peace that surpasses understanding and joy unspeakable.

We want victory over the world, the flesh and the devil. The secret is locked in the supernatural power of the blessing.

Numbers 6: 24-27   ²⁴ The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:

²⁵ The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:²⁶ The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.²⁷ And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.

The last 5 words in verse 27 says, And I will bless them.

Not because we deserve it. God does not love you because of what you do. God blesses you because he has chosen to bless you.

His grace knows  no limits, His love knows no measure. His compassion has no boundaries, and His tender mercies are renewed every morning.

So what is the blessing?

A blessing: the imparting of the supernatural power of God into a human life by the spoken word of God’s delegated authority.

It is God’s will to bless every aspect of your life. Once this blessing has been spoken it can not be withdrawn. Only God can stop it for disobedience. No man can stop it.

Once a spiritual authority speaks the blessing you should fully expect it on your life. The source of any righteous blessing is of the Lord, a supernatural power is released when we bless and praise his holy name.

Psalms 66: 1-2   Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:² Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.

Sing to the Lord all the earth, sing of his great name. Tell the world how wonderful He is.

When God heals your body, restores a broken marriage, opens the windows of heaven and blesses you financially, it is time to make a joyful noise to His name.

Psalms 150: 6   ⁶ Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.

If you are alive, Praise the Lord. It is time for Christians in America to quit stating how difficult life is and to make a joyful noise to the Lord and Praise Him.

There is one name above all names; it is a precious name a powerful name. A name that saves it is an eternal name. It is the name of Jesus.

He is our hope, our joy and our salvation. Our future is not determined by presidents or politicians. It is determined by our Savior and our God.

Romans 12:14   ¹⁴ Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

Don’t unload on someone because they hurt you. It is better to forgive and pray for that person.

What is a curse? It is a negative supernatural power initiated by speech.  That is words spoken by God or someone in spiritual authority.

This destructive force of cursing someone can continue from generation to generation until it is supernaturally broken. Our words have power and that power has an effect.

Positive words have the power to convey Gods blessings, healing, joy, confidence and peace. Negative words have the power to bring emotional and spiritual death.

Some believe that curses were removed at the cross. That is not correct. The only curse removed at Calvary was the curse of the law.

Here is how you as a Christian can break curses.

1. Bless those that curse you.
2. Admit that others have knowingly or unknowingly spoken a curse over your life.
3. Identify the nature of the curse.
4. Pray aloud by name for each curse to be broken.

Say, Father in the name of Jesus I ask you to break this curse over me. I renounce it in the name of Jesus.  I am free. As a child of God you are entitled to his supernatural blessings.

A blessing is the act of releasing the supernatural power of God into your life or another person’s life by the spoken word with spiritual authority.

THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT

THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT

1 Timothy 4:1   Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

Paul is saying here the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last days some will turn away from what we believe.

They will follow lying spirits and teachings that came from the doctrines of devils. False teachers were and are still a threat to the church.

Even today it is not enough that a teacher, minister or evangelist appears to know what they are talking about or says she or he is speaking for God.

If their words contradict what the bible says they are teaching false. These hypocrites, false teachers are lying spirits that are teaching what come from demons.

The devil deceives people by offering a clever imitation of the real things of God. Don’t be impressed with a teachers style of credentials, his teaching must line up with the word of God.

Because we still live in the flesh we sometimes get weak in our thinking and that is very fertile ground. It leaves room for the devil to work on our minds.

Eph 4:23-27   ²³ And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

²⁴ And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.²⁵ Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.²⁶ Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:²⁷ Neither give place to the devil.

Our old way of life before we got saved should be completely in the past. We must put on the new nature, go in a new direction and have a new way of thinking that the Holy Spirit gives us.

Don’t give place to the devil. Why, because it is his goal to deceive you. It is so important to avoid the worthless deeds of evil and darkness and stay away from evil influences.

When things don’t work out the way we think they should or the way we want them to, that is when wrong thoughts start coming into our minds. That is when we start thinking of things. Satan fights with lies and sometimes his lies sound like truth.

Satan often attacks our heart, the very center of our emotions… self worth… and trust. He wants us to think the good news of the gospel is worthless and hopeless.

Satan wants to make us doubt God. Never doubt in the enduring power of the heavenly realm.

Did you ever have a bad habit that you actually hated, and know in your heart that it is wrong? Sinfully wrong. In your heart you would say, I am never going to do that again.

But sure enough this nagging thought would drive you crazy, and without thinking you would do it again. The temptation was so strong that you could not stop yourself.

You are not alone, that probably describes half the population or more. Bad thoughts lustful thoughts and thoughts of wrong desires only come from one source, the devil.

We all have areas where temptation is strong and habits are hard to conquer. These weaknesses give the devil a foothold. We must deal with our areas of vulnerability.

We still live in the flesh, most people struggle with a particular sin. The sin is bad enough but the big problem is when we try to justify it.

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

Your adversary, the devil, is always on the prowl, seeking someone to devour. Just like a real lion who seeks out the young and feeble to attack and kill.

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.

Who is the thief? The one who comes to kill, steal and destroy. How does he kill steal and destroy? He does it By deception, getting you to doubt yourself and God.

This deception does have a good ending, Jesus says I am come that you might have life and that they might have life more abundantly.

Yes you will be tempted, Jesus was tempted, yes there will be thoughts that come to your mind, some not so good, some worse.

You need to consider the source; you know these thoughts are not of God so they must be from the adversary the devil.

James 4:7   Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Tell his as Jesus did to get behind you.

REDEEMED BY THE BLOOD

REDEEMED BY THE BLOOD

Isa 53: 3-6    ³ He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted
with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.⁴ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Sin is in the body

Iniquity is in the soul

Transgression is in the spirit

It was our grief Jesus carried, it was our sorrows that weighed him down, and people thought God was punishing him for his own sins.

He was wounded in the Spirit, he was bruised in the soul and he was chastised in the body.

He was chastised for our peace, not for our healing

He was chastised when they beat him,

He was chastised when they put the crown of thorns on his head.

He was being chastised while he was suffering,

Chastisement was not only by the pain he suffered

But also the agony he suffered.

First he was wounded before his soul was bruised.

He was wounded for our transgression (sins).

At that time he began fighting for our salvation.

Then the battle became so intense that his soul was bruised and his sweat became as great drops of blood.

It was on that day that his spirit was wounded and he began to experience our transgressions.

I believe that in Gethsemane, not only did the battle begin, but he began to experience separation from God. We can never know how painful it was. Jesus had never been separated from the Father.

Luke 22: 42-44   ⁴² Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.⁴³ And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.⁴⁴ And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

We don’t know when the father left Him, but we know that it was between Gethsemane and the cross

Matthew 26:38   ³⁸ Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto
death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

In Gethsemane He said my soul is sorrowful, stay here and watch with me while I go and pray.

I don’t believe His separation from God happened in a moment. I believe God the Father had a very hard time leaving His Son.

I believe the Holy Spirit had a very hard time walking away.

When Jesus was pleading… Let this cup pass… I believe everything in the heart of God was exploding with pain.

As the separation began, the wounds began to increase.

Isa 53 and Matthew 26 are not just about healing, think about the price Jesus paid for our salvation, our healing, our blessings and prosperity. Not to mention spending eternity in the lake of fire.

He is in Gethsemane saying to his disciples…my soul is sorrowful unto death, if you don’t stay with me I might die before I even get to the cross.

Even so the disciples kept on going to sleep, then Jesus said… sleep on now and take your rest…

This was when God sent an angel down to strengthen Jesus.

I really believe Satan tried to kill him that night.

That same night Judas came with a great multitude of soldiers with swords, sent by the chief priests and elders.

They led Jesus away as a prisoner to the house of Caiapais, the high priest… to judgment hall.

That is when the chastisement started; they began to beat Him, pulling out his beard and hitting in the face until he was unrecognizable.

They sent him to the dungeon until morning. In the dungeon he was still bleeding, the blood didn’t stop flowing, his face was disfigured.

Early in the morning they took him before Pilate

Pilate said to the chief priest, I find no fault in this man

When Pilate heard Jesus was a Galilean he sent Jesus to Herod. When Herod saw Jesus he was happy to see him.

Luke 23:6:16   ⁶ When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean.⁷ And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.⁸ And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.⁹ Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing.¹⁰ And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.¹¹ And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.¹² And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.¹³ And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,¹⁴ Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:¹⁵ No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.¹⁶ I will therefore chastise him, and release him.

So Pilate had Jesus chastised, which means he was whipped, or scourged on the back with a whip. That was for our healing… the crown of thorns came from Herod’s soldiers.

Jesus at this time was most likely taken out of the dungeon early in the morning, around four or five o’clock. He was on the cross at nine AM, on a Wednesday morning.

Jesus was beaten with the whip but that was not enough to satisfy the chief priests and the people.

Luke 23: 20-21   ²⁰ Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.²¹ But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.

Pilate gave the sentence that it should be as they required.

I believe with all my heart, that Jesus paid the price for our transgressions and our iniquities, and our peace as they were beating Him.

He was wounded and bruised on Tuesday, he was chastised on Wednesday.

He was wounded when the separation from God began. He was bruised in the garden when his soul was sorrowful.

As they began to beat him and whip Him the healing began to come for us.

Isaiah saw this four hundred years prior to the cross, and prophesied it and said with his stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53 is not just about healing…by the time Jesus said it is finished we were healed.

They took his body off the cross at three pm and laid it in a tomb before the Sabbath started at dusk. That was on a Wednesday night. By six o’clock pm on sat, he conquered hell and the grave and rose from the dead Sunday morning.

                               


                        Our healing and our salvation cost Him much.