SANCTIFIED

Read John 17: 13-19... Jesus is about to return to heaven and is praying to the Heavenly Father.

He is saying to the father, keep them from evil, for they are not of this world as I am not of this world. ..He is speaking here of the believers

Sanctify them through the truth, for the word is truth. For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through truth.

John 8: 32 says… and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.

Being sanctified means made holy, or set apart for sacred services.

A sanctifier is a person or thing that sanctifies or makes holy… specifically, the Holy Spirit.

Sanctify or to make holy, means free from sin or to purify… To set apart as holy to make sacred. Sanctification just means to be sanctified…

There are different levels of sanctification, they are connected to your levels of spiritual growth and maturity.

The first manifestation of sanctification is at the moment of conversion…(accepting Jesus as the Lord and Savior)… believing He gave his life so your life could be saved.

The first manifestation happens when a person becomes a believer by receiving Jesus through the new blood covenant upon their confession of faith.

At that time, God sets you apart as sons and daughters through this new covenant, instantly at this time the Holy Spirit seals your spirit.

We are sanctified by the word, by the blood, by the Holy Spirit, and by separating yourself from unclean things. Read 2^nd Corr. 6: 17-18

Heb 13: 11-12 says… we are sanctified by the blood of Jesus

Under the old covenant (which is the Mosaic Law) the chief priest would bring the blood of animals into the holy place as an offering for sin.

Since the new covenant, by the blood of Jesus, all our sins past, present and future have been washed away, if you have accepted him as Lord and Savior.

Read Eph 5:26-27... It is saying the church has been made holy by the spoken word. So Jesus could present it to Himself as a glorious church, without spot or wrinkle, holy without fault.

Read Heb 10: 28-31... Under the law, if two or three witnesses accuse someone of rejecting Moses teachings, that person was shown no mercy and he was executed.

What do you think a person who shows no respect for the Son of God deserves? That person looks at the blood , the blood that made him holy as no different from other peoples blood.

He insults the very spirit that God gave out of his loving kindness. This person deserves a much worse punishment, God says, I alone have the right to take revenge.

Falling into the hands of the living God is a terrifying thing. The Lord will judge you if you are not sanctified by the word, the blood and his Holy Spirit.

If you are a believer, Gods mercy, Gods grace and the truth will set you free.


May the truth be with you,

Be blessed, Brother Andy

STOP GRIEVING THE HOLY SPIRIT

 

 

Read Math 12: 32 Understanding the word of God, the will of God and the importance of who the Holy Spirit is. You need the ability to place biblical facts in a proper perspective in your daily walk.

The Holy Spirit is the giver of peace, not the vexation (or) torment the devil puts on you…
Isaiah 10: 27 says… The Holy Spirit is a yoke breaker. The yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing.

The power of the Holy Spirit being released upon or within a person can break the thought patterns and emotional burdens on the Christians life…
Once this yoke is broken, then a feeling of peace will settle over you.

Read Rom 14: 17.… When the chains or yokes of depression and oppression are broken, these emotional and spiritual chains will be replaced by peace.

There is Righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit…To have peace is to be in a state of mind where the mind and body are free from mental frustrations.
Peace is so important to God that in
Numbers 25: 12 he spoke of giving his people a covenant of peace. Read Romans 5: 11 the Holy Spirit provides a level of peace

Living in sin produces discord, but forgiveness of sin produces peace with God.

Read John 16: 13 When we ignore the Holy Spirits call, instruction and direction, we open the door for satin that leads to actions of disobedience

Love, compassion and affection are all imparted by the Holy Spirit.

The word of God is based on Facts

Knowledge is the accumulation of facts

Understanding is the arrangement of facts

It is the ability through the Holy Spirit to place biblical facts in a proper perspective. The word of God and the Holy Spirit are an unbeatable team

Gods word is powerful, we are not living on blind faith, but the foundation of truth…

The Holy Spirit touches the emotional part of the human spirit, without emotions, there is no motivation. That is why you FEEL the presence of the Holy Spirit in a powerful worship service.

When Worship and praise are released in the service and everyone is in one accord, you can always feel the presence of the Holy Spirit…

When a church rejects any form of emotion in their worship service, the anointing of the Holy Spirit can not work, or inter in…He works through love, peace, joy and faith, in the word of God.

I have learned that God does not always work through perfect vessels. Not all believers have reached the heights of spiritual perfection.

Most of us struggle, but the anointing has always flowed through obedient vessels.

Sometimes believers struggle with lack of self-esteem. Like fear of failure, doubt and guilt from their past. Also a lack of confidence, even in their own prayers being answered,

Jesus used common men to turn the world upside down. Sometimes even anointed men of God miss the mark and do foolish things.

The anointing did not prevent them from being exposed to the world system and the influence of temptation.

The failure came, not because the Holy Spirit was not indwelling them, But because they yielded to the voice of the tempter, who is the devil.

When you meet the tempter head on… refuse to follow his voice or yield to his deception

If we could mature to perfection without the Holy Spirit, then we would not need him to dwell within us.

He is given to help us in our weakness.

God Bless,
Brother Andy

DIVINE POWER THROUGH GRACE

The divine power of God is called grace…It is the divine power that reveals the righteousness of God.

It is the divine power that gives you everything that pertains to life and Godliness.

It is the Divine power of God that makes it possible for you to access things you need through God

And it was the divine power that brought Paul back from the dead into righteousness, into divine life through Jesus Christ’

Just like Paul, we must be born from unrighteousness unto righteousness…

The law came through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ…

Jesus came and fulfilled the Law, he came as a ransom and delivered us from sin under the Law…The gospel of Jesus Christ is the gospel of grace…Grace is the unmerited favor of God through His mercy. Grace is the entire gospel, nearly to good to be true gospel… over the top news

We did not work for it, we did not deserve it… it came through Gods mercy, His love, and His loving kindness, through our faith… The gospel of grace is not ashamed, grace is the power of God…

The law was all bad news… can do this, can’t do that, and stoned to death…

The Law puts you under condemnation, grace is the divine power under salvation…

Grace will deliver you out of depression, poverty, sickness and diseases as well as delivering you from condemnation.

Read gal 3:1-6... Paul is saying, you stupid people of Galatia, who put you under and evil spell…Wasn’t the crucifixion clearly described to you?

How did you begin in a spiritual way and end up doing things in a human way?

Read Rom 5: 20-21

Gods law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were, so they would become sin conscious

The purpose of the law was to show people that they needed a savior… the law made them aware…

The covenant of grace leads us out of the covenant of the law, we now live under the spirit of grace…

Grace was not given unto us to make us holy, while it is holy

Grace was not given unto us to make us righteous, even though we are righteous by faith…

Gods grace was given because man could not receive eternal life under the law

We had to have a savior and Jesus Christ is our savior…

Gods law was perfect, but it could not make us perfect, the problem was with man, not with God.

God didn’t ask you to do anything, just trust…

He has already made healing available to you, deliverance, He made you free and has done every thing you need…

Your performance won’t make it happen, Jesus has already qualified you to have every Blessing.

The holy spirit will lead you by the renewing of your mind… read 2^nd Corr 4:16 read eph 4: 22-24

You can not live in the flesh in this world system with out the renewing of your mind…The word of God is the language of the spirit

The 10 commandments is not lead by the spirit, it is lead by works. Our new covenant is led through accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior by the spirit through faith

God is not turning his head on sin anymore, but has given us resources through his Son, his Word and the Holy Spirit to live a holy life.

When God speaks of a new covenant, it means he has made the first one obsolete.

It is now out of date and ready to be put aside. Stop trying to impress God by good works.

Just trust Him and let Him impress you.

God bless

Brother Andy

The Spirit of Fear
May 27, 2013

2^nd 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. 1^st 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 2^nd 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.

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