September 29, 2013

Journey to see God: see the Father through Jesus

The relationship between God the Father and Jesus the Son of God, has been repeatedly declared by Jesus while on earth, as the Son Of Man. Jesus was Spirit-filled and walked in the power of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God. Let us read His words on His divine relationship with God and learn from Him the right way of knowing God. What did Jesus say about God? How we may relate to God? John 1:18 “No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.”
Jesus declared His status (and relationship with God) clearly in the temple, 7:28-29 “You both know Me, and you know where I am from; and I have not come of myself, but He who sent Me is true, Whom you do not know. But I know Him, for I am from Him, and He sent Me.”
John the baptist testified for Jesus, “And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.” 1:34 He testified Jesus' relationship with God. “ He who comes from above is above all...and what He has seen and heard, that He testifies...For He Whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure. The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand. He who believes in the Son has everlasting life;” 3:31, 32, 34-36
Jesus spoke of God as His Father, and He declared the true purpose of the temple of God. “Take these things away! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!” 2:16
He told off His earthly parents, “Why do you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?” Luke 2:49
At Jerusalem, Jesus went into the temple and drove out those who bought and sold in the temple...and would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple. hen He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves'?” Mark 11:15-17
He testified that His mission on earth was the mission of God for mankind. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 3:16-17
Jesus spoke of Himself as the gift of God and that He gives living water; a 'fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (the Holy Spirit who gives the rebirth). 3:10, 14
He spoke of how a believer relates to God by his action. “But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.' 3:21
Jesus declared that God is Spirit and looks for those who worship in spirit and in truth. 4:23-24
Jesus declared how God works pertaining to human. “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.” 5:17 God works. God is always working.
What work God works and Jesus also does? Jesus explained further on this subject in 5:19-21 “...the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son , and shows Him all things that He himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will.” 37 “And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me.” 43 “I have come in My Father's name,”
God works through Jesus. “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him Whom He sent.” 6:29
6:27 God the Father has set his seal on Him. Therefore Jesus can give us the food which endures to everlasting life.
6:32 “My Father gives you the true bread from heaven.” 37 “All that My Father give Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.”
Jesus clearly declared what the will of God regarding salvation through Jesus is. 6:39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.” 40 “And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
God draws us to Jesus. God teaches us to go to Jesus. “Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.” 6:45
There is a connection of life between Jesus and the Father. It is in the Holy Spirit (the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ) and the words of God. 6:57 “As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so He who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life.”
unless one is born of water and the Spirit, He cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” 3:5-6 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” 7:
Concerning the words Jesus spoke: 7:16-17 “My doctrine is not mine, but his who sent Me. If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.” 8:26 “but I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.” 8:28-29 “that I do nothing of myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things. And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father does not leave Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”
31-32 “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”
38 I speak what I have seen with My Father,” 47 “He who is of God hears God's words;” 51 “If anyone keeps My word He shall never see death.” 55 “I do know Him and keep His word.”
Jesus spoke of the love relationship between Him and the Father in chapter 10:
10:15 “As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.”
17-18 “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again...and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.” 25 “The works that I do in My Father's name.”
29 “My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My father's hand.'
30 “I and My Father are one.” 32 “Many good works I have shown you from My Father.” 36 “I am the Son of God.” 31 “If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me.” 38 “that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.”
(This study is based mainly on the gospel according to John, chapters 1-10, unless otherwise specified. Some of the verses are quoted in excerpts. Readers are urged to refer to the Bible yourself so that you would not miss out the original full texts.) 
 

September 23, 2013

God wants to heal you! But You make alliances not directed by His Spirit!

 Today's message is: God wants to heal you. The worldly system cannot heal you. God is waiting for you to turn to Him. Alliances with the world are not in accordance to God's Spirit, and such actions of unbelief in God's words ("I am the Lord who heals you". "By His wounds, you were healed"), grieves Him. You pile up your sins by seeking any help other than God's help. Only the Spirit of God (the Holy Spirit) can direct your way. Jesus said,
"The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life."
John 6:63 (NLT)_______________________

Isaiah 30

New Living Translation (NLT)

30 What sorrow awaits my rebellious children,”
    says the Lord.

“You make plans that are contrary to mine.
    You make alliances not directed by my Spirit,
    thus piling up your sins.
For without consulting me,

    you have gone down to Egypt for help.
You have put your trust in Pharaoh’s protection.
    You have tried to hide in his shade.
But by trusting Pharaoh, you will be humiliated,
    and by depending on him, you will be disgraced.
For though his power extends to Zoan
    and his officials have arrived in Hanes,
all who trust in him will be ashamed.
    He will not help you.
    Instead, he will disgrace you.”
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12 This is the reply of the Holy One of Israel:
Because you despise what I tell you
    and trust instead in oppression and lies,

13 calamity will come upon you suddenly—

    like a bulging wall that bursts and falls.
In an instant it will collapse
    and come crashing down.
14 You will be smashed like a piece of pottery—
    shattered so completely that
there won’t be a piece big enough
    to carry coals from a fireplace
    or a little water from the well.”
15 This is what the Sovereign Lord,
    the Holy One of Israel, says:
Only in returning to me
    and resting in me will you be saved.
In quietness and confidence is your strength.

    But you would have none of it.
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 18 So the Lord must wait for you to come to him
    so he can show you his love and compassion.

For the Lord is a faithful God.
    Blessed are those who wait for his help.
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So it will be when the Lord begins to heal his people and cure the wounds he gave them.
27 Look! The Lord is coming from far away,
    burning with anger,
    surrounded by thick, rising smoke.
His lips are filled with fury;
    His words consume like fire.

28 His hot breath pours out like a flood
    up to the neck of his enemies.
He will sift out the proud nations for destruction.
    He will bridle them and lead them away to ruin.
29 But the people of God will sing a song of joy,
    like the songs at the holy festivals.
You will be filled with joy,

    as when a flutist leads a group of pilgrims
to Jerusalem, the mountain of the Lord
    to the Rock of Israel.
30 And the Lord will make his majestic voice heard.
    He will display the strength of his mighty arm.
It will descend with devouring flames,
    with cloudbursts, thunderstorms, and huge hailstones.

31 At the Lord’s command, the Assyrians will be shattered.
    He will strike them down with his royal scepter.
32 And as the Lord strikes them with his rod of punishment,
    his people will celebrate with tambourines and harps.
    Lifting his mighty arm, he will fight the Assyrians.
33 Topheth—the place of burning
    has long been ready for the Assyrian king;
    the pyre is piled high with wood.
The breath of the Lord, like fire from a volcano,
    will set it ablaze.
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Isaiah 66:24  And as they go out, they will see
    the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me.
For the worms that devour them will never die,
    and the fire that burns them will never go out.
All who pass by
    will view them with utter horror.”

 THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT - THE WORD OF GOD - THE FIRE OF GOD!

September 11, 2013

Great Yom Kippur menus on what to eat before and after fasting!

Once again, this blogger has found something for those who like to know a bit about the Yom Kippur menus. Great for those who would like to learn to do fasting and praying too! (What to eat and prepare yourselves before fasting; what to eat when you break your fast!) Here are some:
http://www.joyofkosher.com/category/holidays-guides/holidays/yom-kippur/
Yom Kippur

Best Foods To Eat Before Yom Kippur Fast

Chicken Soup with Kreplach

September 20th 2012By Tamar Genger MA, RD

 Yom Kippur’s Break the Fast
vegetable terrine

September 19th 2012By Alison and Jeff Nathan

 How To Have a Healthy Break The Fast
spinach jiben

September 19th 2012By Beth Warren

 Start Planning With Our Holiday Menu Ideas
Apples and Honey Tart

August 28th 2012By Tamar Genger MA, RD

 Get Stuck With a Recipe for Sticky Fig Buns with Dates
Fig Sticky Buns

October 5th 2011By Jaclynn Lewis

 Break Fast Recipes and Memories – A Discussion
Potato Cheddar Fritata

October 4th 2011By Tamar Genger MA, RD

 Pre Yom Kippur Menu
Roast Chicken with Chestnuts and Orange Yam Mash

October 3rd 2011By Tamar Genger MA, RD

 Yom Kippur Break Fast Recipe Ideas
Roasted Tomatoes with Blue Cheese

October 3rd 2011By Ronnie Fein

 How to Break Your Fast
 Fasting Tips With a Pre-Fast Dairy Menu
 Yom Kippur Break-fast – 8 Changes For a Budget-Friendly, Do-Ahead Meal
Yom Kippur Break-fast – 8 Changes For a Budget-Friendly, Do-Ahead Meal

September 26th 2009By Felisa Billet

August 30, 2013

Receive the Holy Spirit today!

Notes from this blogger: Lately I was convicted in my spirit to listen more on the salvation and grace and faith messages, all Holy Spirit -filled and inspired messages. One of the series is "The positive ministry of the Holy Spirit" (You can watch or listen to the teaching at the following websites: http://www.awmi.net/tv/2006/week40 ; http://www.awmi.net/extra/audio/1020 )
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Here is the teaching on how to receiving the Holy Spirit: 
 Receive the Holy Spirit (from Andrew Wommack)
 As His child, your loving heavenly Father wants to give you the supernatural power you need to live this new life.
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened... If ye...know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
LUKE 11:10,13
All you have to do is ask, believe, and receive! Pray, Father, I recognize my need for Your power to live this new life. Please fill me with Your Holy Spirit. By faith, I receive Him right now! Thank You for baptizing me. Holy Spirit, You are welcome in my life.
Congratulations! Now you’re filled with God’s supernatural power. Some syllables from a language you don’t recognize will rise up from your heart to your mouth. (See 1 Cor. 14:14.) As you speak them out loud by faith, you’re releasing God’s power from within and building yourself up in the Spirit. (See v. 4.) You can do this whenever and wherever you like.
It doesn’t really matter whether you felt anything or not when you prayed to receive the Lord and His Spirit. If you believed in your heart that you received, then God’s Word promises you did. “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24). God always honors His Word; believe it!
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Eternal Life / The True Nature Of God
Entire Week (RealAudio)
August 26th - August 30th

August 20, 2013

A testimony: You’ve Already Got It!

I have encountered a number of cases in which even Christian believers felt helpless and had no means to overcome their physical and mental illness. On the other hand I have seen many testimonies of victorious Christian living! I have been personally helped by listening to the following Bible teacher’s audio teachings. Here is an article which I pray will encourage readers to visit the website and listen to his audio on the subject. His teaching of the Bible is clear enough for even listeners who speak English as a second language. There are many testimonies of healed witnesses. Find out more yourself.

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You’ve Already Got It!
By Andrew Wommack
On March 23, 1968, I had a miraculous encounter with the Lord that changed my life forever. Instantly, I received “revelation knowledge” that I’m still trying to understand and communicate today. This knowledge didn’t come through the normal channels of study and education; the Spirit of God supernaturally imparted it to me.
When I came heart to heart with the Lord, I just knew things about Him intuitively. One of those revelations has become a mainstay for what the Lord has accomplished in my life, and it’s one of the most important and foundational truths of the Gospel.
It’s the knowledge that God has already done His part. When Jesus cried “It is finished” (John 19:30), He meant just that. His work on earth was done. The Atonement was complete. He provided everything we could ever need. We aren’t waiting on Him to give; He is waiting on us to receive.
The book of Ephesians is written from the perspective of everything already being ours in Christ. It starts in Ephesians 1:3 by saying,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ” (emphasis mine).
Any blessing you could ever need or desire from the Lord is not something to strive for but something you already have. God made the provision before you had the need. It is just a simple matter of receiving what He has already done.
The benefit of understanding and being assured of this is enormous. It kills legalism and the performance mentality, and that takes a huge load off of you. How could you doubt that God will give you something if He’s already given it to you?
When Jamie and I first pastored our little church in Seagoville, Texas, in 1973, I didn’t even have a complete Bible. The one I had taken with me to Vietnam was all mildewed, and entire books were missing. I decided that believing for a new Bible wasn’t an option—it was a necessity.
I had to start seeing results somewhere and it was here. I would get a new Bible or die trying. If I couldn’t trust God for $20 to get a Bible, how could I trust Him to minister to people about eternal things?
The devil knew how important this was to me, and he fought me “tooth and toenail.” It took me months to get enough extra money to buy that Bible. During that time, not ten minutes would pass that I didn’t have to deal with some thought of unbelief. The devil was telling me, “You’ll never get it. Some man of God you are! You don’t even have a whole Bible! How can you pray for people to be saved or healed when you can’t even pray and get a new Bible?” The battle was intense.
The day came when I had the money. I bought a brand-new Bible, had my name engraved on it, and walked out of the store with it under arm. I had won! And you know what? Instantly, my doubts ceased. I had been fighting negative thoughts constantly for months. But once I had the Bible, I never doubted that I would get it.
You are probably thinking, Of course you didn’t doubt once you had it. That would be crazy! That’s my point. Have you ever prayed to be healed and then in your next thought wondered if you would ever really get healed? That’s because you don’t view healing as something that has already been done but as something that has yet to be accomplished.
First Peter 2:24b says,
By whose stripes ye were healed” (emphasis mine).
It’s already a done deal. It is actually incorrect to pray for healing. Instead, we should just receive the healing that the Lord has already provided. There is a difference between fighting to get healed and fighting because we have been healed. That difference is the difference between success and failure.
In Ephesians 2:8, Paul said, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves.”
We aren’t saved by grace alone or by faith alone;we are saved by a combination of the two. Actually, faith isn’t true biblical faith unless its used in receiving what God has already provided by grace.
Grace is what God has already done for us, independent of any worth or value on our part. If it’s tied to some goodness of ours, then it’s not true grace. God, by grace, has already provided everything we will ever need.
Our faith doesn’t move God. If God hasn’t already moved by His grace, then your faith can’t make Him. Faith simply appropriates what God has already provided by grace. If He’s already provided your needs by His grace, then faith is just your positive response to what He has already done—not something you do to get God to respond to you.
It takes a revelation from the Holy Spirit to make these truths become alive on the inside. Many people just can’t grasp them, because they are trapped in their five senses. If they can’t see it, taste it, smell it, touch it, or hear it, they don’t think it exists. Therefore, when you say they have already been healed, they check their physical bodies with their five senses, and if they don’t look or feel healed, they say they aren’t.
Many things exist that we can’t perceive by our physical senses. For instance, there are television signals wherever you are right now. You can’t see or hear them, but they are there. All you have to do is turn on a television set and tune it in to the signal, and then you will see and hear that they do exist.
The signal doesn’t begin broadcasting when you turn on your set; it was already being broadcast before you tuned in. That’s just when you began to receive. Likewise, the Lord has already blessed you with ALL things. Your life may not reflect that, but it’s not because the Lord hasn’t given; it’s because you haven’t received.
If your television set was to suddenly go blank, what would you do? Would you immediately contact the station and urge them to fix their transmitter? I don’t think so. You would check your set first. Yet in the spiritual realm, Christians are constantly going to the Lord and asking Him to fix His transmitter instead of asking Him to work on their receivers.
If they don’t see an instant manifestation of their healing, they just automatically suppose that God hasn’t healed them. They seldom take into account that maybe it’s their reception that’s the problem.
Daniel prayed two prayers in Daniel 9 and 10. He saw an answer to his first prayer while he was still praying, within about three minutes. But in the tenth chapter, it was three weeks before he saw his prayer answered. Some people would think, Why did God answer the first prayer in three minutes and the second prayer in three weeks?
The answer to that question is that God didn’t answer one prayer in three minutes and the other one in three weeks; He answered both prayers instantly. In Daniel 9:23, the angel Gabriel told Daniel that at the beginning of his prayer, the Lord gave him a commandment to go explain the answer to Daniel. Yet it took Gabriel approximately three minutes to get there.
Then in the tenth chapter, the messenger who came to Daniel told him that on the first day of Daniel’s prayer, the Lord sent him, but he had been hindered by a demonic power for three weeks.
God wasn’t the variable in these instances! He answered both prayers instantly, but what the Lord had commanded in the spiritual realm was hindered from manifesting in the physical realm. Still, the answer had been given. The truth is that the Lord has already provided everything we will ever need, but His provision is in the spiritual realm.
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24).
God moves in the spiritual realm. Whether or not we see manifest in the physical realm what He has done in the spiritual realm is not dependent on His giving but on our receiving.
One of the variables is the devil’s opposition. However, people give the devil way too much credit. Some think that the devil never misses a trick. They aren’t sure about the Lord’s faithfulness, but they are absolutely convinced that the devil is always there to wreak havoc.
However, the devil blows it all the time. Sometimes the physical manifestation of what God has already done comes with little effort. Other times it can be delayed, not because God changes, but because the devil just misses it sometimes. Other times, there is major demonic opposition that hinders the manifestation of what God has commanded.
We have to know that God has already done His part and that any delay in our manifestation is not His fault. That will keep us in faith. Remember that faith is our positive response to what God has already done by grace.
This leads us to spiritual warfare. It’s a hot topic in the body of Christ, but in my opinion, spiritual warfare is the most abused teaching in the church today.It’s true that every one of us is involved in spiritual warfare. Denying the battle doesn’t stop it—it just guarantees that you will lose. But Satan’s only power is deception.
Satan doesn’t have any physical power or authority except what we give him when we yield to his lies. That’s a radical statement that is completely contrary to popular spiritual warfare teachings. Many proclaim that demonic powers are holding people in bondage and that the way to break through is to intercede, bind those powers, and set the people free. That’s not what God’s Word teaches.
The Bible says,
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32).
Knowing the truth, not binding the devil in prayer, is what sets people free. There isn’t one scriptural model for spiritual warfare the way that it is being taught today. Neither Jesus nor His disciples ever sent teams of prayer warriors into cities to prepare the spiritual climate. They never motivated the body of believers to spend their lives binding demonic powers. This is a very controversial subject and one that I don’t have time to deal with properly in this letter. But I have gone in depth about this in my teaching entitled You’ve Already Got It!
If you aren’t experiencing the abundance that you know the Lord wants you to have, then I can guarantee you that the revelation you need is in this message. This is the type of teaching that you will want and need to read or listen to again and again until it becomes true revelation knowledge to you.
This message will forever change the way you think about receiving the blessings of God. It’s the knowledge of this truth that will set you free to receive from God.
http://www.awmi.net/extra/article/already_got
http://www.awmi.net/extra/audio/1033

August 18, 2013

Heidi baker's testimony

watch this video of Heidi Baker's testimony
Heidi Baker in Redding, California - December 30th 2012
 20 Heidi Baker Quotes on Love, Compassion & Ministry
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-QXMGNIVN0
1. “All fruitfulness flows from intimacy.” [Tweet this]
2. “Sometimes we make things too complicated when we really need to remember that the kingdom belongs to children.” [Tweet this]
3. “I never understood why people want to do big things… Just do little things, with great Love.” [Tweet this]
4. ‎”Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first must see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel.” [Tweet this]
5. “When you’re in love with God, you’re not afraid to yield your life to Him.” [Tweet this]
6. “Obedience out of love is joy.” [Tweet this]
7. “There is always enough because I died for you.” [Tweet this]
8. “Love looks like something.” [Tweet this]
9. “God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal.” [Tweet this]
10. “Ministry is being one of theses sent out ones, a laborer of love.” [Tweet this]
11. “If ministry is not about compassion and passion, let it die.” [Tweet this]
12. “Love looks like something, yet it has no limits.” [Tweet this]
13. “Union and Communion: this is the essence of Christianity.” [Tweet this]
14. “Why go to the ends of the earth if you have nothing to give?” [Tweet this]
15. “We must give up all that we are in order to possess all that He is.” [Tweet this]
16. “Ministry is not about where you are or where you go, it is about where He is.” [Tweet this]
17. “If we are not full of Him we have nothing to offer to anyone else.” [Tweet this]
18. “It’s not complicated. Just love the one in front of you.” [Tweet this]
19. “I don’t want to grow up, I want to grow down” [Tweet this]
20. ”If you stand, worship, and love God in the midst of lack and difficulty, you will never lose” [Tweet this]
 http://www.revivallifestyle.com/20-heidi-baker-quotes/

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