How to avoid crop failure !

Think of yourself as a farmer, sowing seed, your heart is the ground, and the word of God is the seed being sown. That seed goes somewhere when its thrown down in the natural. In the book of Luke 8:5-8- Jesus paints a picture of a farmer sowing his seed and the different places it fell. As a believer in Christ the word is so important to us, and more important, where is your seed falling, and whats happening to it, we are the ones to make sure of this!

The "path is the first place it is mentioned, lets liken that to  your walk in life, Jesus said "as the seed fell it was trampled on" Hearing the word  the devil can trample on it and steal it!  Then Jesus mentioned the birds of the air ate up the seed that was sown. Now we know their are so many birds out their, but one bird in particular came to my mind as I was thinking about this parable, the " Vulture" interesting read on them.

 The Vulture will move with authority through the skies as if all things are within its rightful ownership. The Vulture is quite content in waiting for what it desires, waiting for hours to get their fair share of resources.

They say nothing, no hoot or hollers, only hissing. Vultures don't need to announce themselves. They're reputation precedes them. Their power is in their purpose.

My  point in relating to this is likened to our" enemy" he is lurking about seeing whom he may devour the word says. 1Pe 5:8  Be well balanced (temperate, sober of mind), be vigilant and cautious at all times; for that enemy of yours, the devil, roams around like a lion roaring [in fierce hunger], seeking someone to seize upon and devour.

1Pe 5:9  Withstand him; be firm in faith [against his onset--rooted, established, strong, immovable, and determined], knowing that the same (identical) sufferings are appointed to your brotherhood (the whole body of Christians) throughout the world.

The seed also fell on rock and when the seed did come up they withered because of no moisture!  It says they received it with joy when they heard it, but they have no root, " no staying power" in time they fall away!

And other seed fell among the thorns, and they choked out the seed.The are the cares, worries of this life, it could be people, the old saying they were a" thorn in my side". That could be the biggest of them, "THORNS" people will offend you and if your not careful it could cause you to walk away from every seeing a harvest in your life. 

Then last the seed falls on good soil which comes up to produce a hundred times more than was sown. I want to be that don't you! 

Jesus said lastly have ears to hear, he who has ears to hear, than hear! Those who hear, and RETAIN IT, " keep it !

He also said though seeing, they may not see; though hearing they may not understand, I believe we have to first respect the word for it to work! It takes perseverance to produce a good crop, so don't give up!

Keys to open up Victory!

Do you see yourself as a  joint heir with Christ, seated with Him? Are you ineffective, are you experiencing defeat? The old saying is true,when you know to do better you will, and with knowledge comes power! That is so true, defeat is a result of living out of the soul realm when we should be living out of our sonship and being a joint heir with Christ
.Rom 8:17  And if we are children, then we are heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; so that if we suffer with Him, we may also be glorified together.

Heb 11:6  But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

So someone may say I have been trying, and failing, on many levels, I don't know anymore? The first place to start is knowing you are loved! Then comes discipleship, this comes from remaining in his word. Its learning who you are, a Son or daughter of God. Its a place where you die daily, and take up your cross on a daily bases. When you know you are a Son, you then know your an owner of everything He gave to you. These keys become yours to use with power in the name of Jesus! These keys of faith, love, the blood of Jesus,the wisdom of God to handle things. These have  been given to us by his amazing Grace, in the name of Jesus!

Joh 15:7  If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done to you.

Joh 15:8  In this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, so you shall be My disciples.

Mat 16:19  And I will give the keys of the kingdom of Heaven to you. And whatever you may bind on earth shall occur, having been bound in Heaven, and whatever you may loose on earth shall occur, having been loosed in Heaven.

Use these keys to walk in this Sonship and be led by the Spirit! Its in the name of Jesus that we must know how to use them. These keys unlock 3 worlds for us, Heaven, hell, and earth, and we have been given them. To operate with these keys we must walk with the armor of God at all times! 

Eph 6:11  Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Eph 6:12  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

 Rev 3:20  Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him and he with Me.

He is always knocking at our hearts door, the question is are you listening. Let Him in, He has the answer you need. Times of refreshing with His  presence will come in and refresh you, listen for him knocking! 

The power of His Resurrection made a way for you to get through anything, to get up from anything, it belongs to you, and defies  everything Satan tries to do against you. It stops him in his tracks!

Hearing differently can change everything, face everything in life knowing you are loved, and knowing  Jesus already made a way of VICTORY for you. Refuse to be robbed any longer and walk in your Sonship. your a joint heir in Christ!

Enemies of a Strong Spirit !

It is so vital to have a strong Spirit as a born again Christian, it will keep your enemies from defeating you ! Pro 18:14  The strong spirit of a man sustains him in bodily pain or trouble, but a weak and broken spirit who can raise up or bear?

A weak Spirit will draw all bad things to you, the devil is looking for a home, and when your Spirit is weak its not in a position to resist him. Now a strong Spirit will keep you prosperous, what is it to be truly prosperous? TO DO BETTER! Ignorance is every mans mountain, ignorance will make a failure, truth will give you advantage, and make you free!

What can hold you back from having a strong Spirit and deplete your Spirit, the bible is clear about what we should  do! Heb 12:1  Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

We are to roll the care of every weight that tries to come on us, over on the Lord, He knows what to do with it! Psa 31:15  Hour by hour I place my days in your hand, safe from the hands out to get me.


1Pe 2:11  Friends, this world is not your home, so don't make yourselves cozy in it. Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.

Making time for the Lord daily is so important. Excuses will be your enemy for sure! Take the answers the Lord has for you, but don't take the care, cast it all over on to the Lord!Luk 10:39  She had a sister, Mary, who sat before the Master, hanging on every word he said.Luk 10:40  But Martha was pulled away by all she had to do in the kitchen. Later, she stepped in, interrupting them. "Master, don't you care that my sister has abandoned the kitchen to me? Tell her to lend me a hand.Luk 10:41  The Master said, "Martha, dear Martha, you're fussing far too much and getting yourself worked up over nothing.Luk 10:42  One thing only is essential, and Mary has chosen it--it's the main course, and won't be taken from her."

This such a great word of advice for each of us, faith comes from hearing the words of the Master. So we must do as Mary and sit and listen, to His every word. When tough times come, and they will, they won't seem so tough. It will be easier to forgive, love, to give, and to rest in Him. Your marriage will come through tough times, and your children will be better for you taking this path in life. This will put you over the top, it will take you to the mountain. Pro 8:34  Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

So the question we should be asking ourselves is, who determines all this to keep our Spirit Strong, and recognize these enemies? It  is clear in scripture, Gal 6:8  For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

I encourage you to keep your Spirit Strong, so when adversity comes, you know you are loved, and hidden in Christ!

Is Addiction your friend ?

Their are  many who are suffering from one form of addiction or another, even in the church today! Addiction is one of the cruelest of all yokes because it deceives us unmercifully and ruthlessly.It comes to us like a friend , promising to bring comfort. It kisses us on the cheek like Judas, stealing from our treasury, then rents us for a cheap fee to the opposition. Addiction is a yoke that convinces us we must wear it to survive. Nothing will make you feel more powerless. It is a ungodly master in many lives. Their are countless people, even in the church today that have concluded that they are hopeless to overcome this beast of addiction.So what happens is they accept this relentless beast, which has caused them to fail time and time again. The accuser wears them down with lies and accusations that they are bound forever with this demon!

Many think freedom is a distant thing for them that would only come once in heaven. That is not the case, whether your addiction is substances or behaviors, God can set you free, it requires time, trust, and cooperation. The process is one that requires us to walk daily with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the one who came to set the captives free!

I know God could set many free instantly and he has, BUT many have returned to this beast, only to feel the shame once again. So I believe the process is one that requires your "thinking" to change and that is a process in the "word". The journey will show you who you really are and that you can make right decisions.These decisions will now give you the power you lacked before.

God teaches us Victory day by day, victory in Jesus Christ, we live in the constant awareness of His greatness and sufficiency. Hard lessons are often long-lasting lessons. God is far more interested in us getting to know our Deliverer than being delivered. 

Addiction is your enemy as it is Gods, but the truth is, God has defeated it at the cross. See yourself with the power of the cross on your side that if God be for you than who can be against you Though this enemy may look like a giant, do as the young David did as a shepherd boy when he looked Goliath in the face and SAID, who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? 

 1Sa 17:45  Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the ranks of Israel, Whom you have defied.
We can all remember that story how David killed that giant with only a few stones and sling shot, he first knew who His God was, and he knew his covenant with God. He spoke first and told his enemy that he was going down, and he trusted God to overcome him. How much more for us a new testament church, with the Blood Jesus paid at the cross and rose again for us, praise His name!

We as believers today can speak to our enemy, "Satan is our enemy"- Joh 10:10  A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.
  
  

Rom 8:31  So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose?

Rom 8:32  If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us? 

We must realize that God's unquestionable will is your freedom from this yoke, but also trust that He has written a personalized prescription for your freedom. His word is your manual for life, all the scriptures are in their and are waiting for you to take them and pray and believe them.
God's strength is tailor made for our weaknesses!
Always remember we are never stronger than the moment we admit that we are weak! Seek God diligently and ask Him to show you the way to VICTORY!
2Co 12:9  and then he told me, My grace is enough; it's all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness. Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ's strength moving in on my weakness.

 We are partners in the cause of " grace and truth" that comes through Jesus Christ, thank God our Savior came equipped with both, for where would we be with just one or the other?

Be tenacious and patient, if you fall don't listen to the accusations and jeers of the evil one. Get back up and walk with God again. In your born again Spirit you are free, its your soul man that you are working out, with all the lust and desires that war against the Spirit. Renewing your mind to the word of God is where the habits change, one day at a time! He love you so much!

Joh 8:36  So if the Son sets you free, you are free through and through.

  

To all the daughters of God !

I felt impressed this morning to write something on your identity in God our Father, our King and Savior ! This is for the many women out their who have given their lives to Jesus, but are not really knowing that you are a loved, and treasured daughter! The bible says faith begins where the will of God is known. The truth of knowing who you are will set you free in many areas that are holding you back. So know that he knew you before you were formed in your mothers womb and he loved you

.Psa 139:13  For You did form my inward parts; You did knit me together in my mother's womb.

 You are separate, distinct from any other person. Don't compare yourself to the image of what the worlds idea of a woman should be, it can only be found in Him, Jesus! All these verses in this photo should be your mirror in life. The place that Jesus made for us must be taken by faith, and we must hold on to it, sometimes harder than other times. It can fade away if you let it, everyday look and say this I am ..... A daughter of the King!

When you know, that you know, how much He Loves you, you can leap over a wall and run through an army of attacks. trust me I know. Their is power in His love!

 Pro 31:30  Charm and grace are deceptive, and beauty is vain [because it is not lasting], but a woman who reverently and worshipfully fears the Lord, she shall be praised! Pro 31:31  Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates [of the city]! [Phil. 4:8.]

This is a powerful verse, it will take you along way in life, it will pave the way to a life of true success only found in Him. So know you are a daughter of the King and how much He Loves you !

You might think nothing is happening !

Do you know as a Son or Daughter of God what comes against you is temporary? I know when you are in the midst of something is doesn't feel that way or look it! We are approaching Easter Sunday and we are celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus our Lord! Now 2,000 years ago it may not of looked that way for his disciple's, or his mother, and others that knew Jesus. He would say things to them  about his death, and his resurrection, but it didn't register with them. It looked like he was just dead to them, they grieved and were saddened ! To the world  that they were in at that time Jesus was defeated, even  more so to the ones that killed him!  The devil thought he won, Jesus enemies that hated him thought he was defeated. The enemies of the cross viewed him just as a natural man with a story, one of which they never believed! So of course when Jesus died, they thought it was over and that nothing was happening!

So when they placed him in that tomb wrapped in linen cloths he was  just  a natural man to them, he was as good as dead, forever! Now that we are on the other side of it, thousands of years later we can read about it in the bible. For us today as believers its a different reaction than those of that time that loved Jesus!

He let the devil think he won ! Jesus couldn't move ahead of the Fathers assignment, can you just imagine the plan that they talked about right from the beginning, WOW !  Jesus was to rise on the 3rd day, Now this is what I'm getting at, it must of seemed like a long 3 days to those who loved him, and missed him. They thought they had lost him forever, they were not putting the pieces of the things he spoke to them together. Sometimes in your life, it might seem like nothing is happening with your  fiances, your sickness, your relationships, don't be moved something is happening! 

On the 3rd day it changed everything for us, Death was defeated ! Jesus stood out from those grave clothes like a man and walked like our GOD, like he said he would! He went to the grave as a man, but rose as LORD OF LORDS, KING OF KINGS! He is the King Jesus. We should not be worrying that nothing is happening, we have a hope that our God is with us, he loves us, he died and rose again so we can have life in Him. 

The Grave couldn't hold him, the devil couldn't hold him! Because he lives, we live, I live, Jesus is alive forever ! So let it bring hope and new beginnings to you that he did all this so you couldn't be held back from anything, anyone. He has defeated all your enemies you just have to believe something is happening! So when we go through something its just temporary, HE HAS RISEN !

Luk 24:39  Look at my hands; look at my feet--it's really me. Touch me. Look me over from head to toe. A ghost doesn't have muscle and bone like this."

Luk 24:44  Then he said, "Everything I told you while I was with you comes to this: All the things written about me in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets, and in the Psalms have to be fulfilled."

Luk 24:46  He said, "You can see now how it is written that the Messiah suffers, rises from the dead on the third day,

Luk 24:47  and then a total life-change through the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed in his name to all nations--starting from here, from Jerusalem!

You can change anything with the truth !

The truth, their is such power in the truth. It will change everything for a person. In the world we live in many people don't care about the truth, they will say things, or do things, that are so far from the truth, they don't even know right from wrong anymore. I am so thankful to God that he can change that in all our lives. He is the way the truth and life and no one comes to the Father except through him. John 14:6.

So what is this truth that can change anything for us? It is that we are now Sons of God, we are made to be able to function in this truth that will change the course of your life if you let it! Their is  time like a child that we mature into this, its not over night, but we must know this truth first. Rom 8:14  For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.Gal 3:26  for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

We have in our born again Spirit the same power that raised Christ Jesus from the dead,Rom 8:11  And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.

Our struggle is in the flesh, our victory is in the Spirit ! The strongest 3 words to us is "IT IS FINISHED". We must work from this foundation of TRUTH. Our sonship operates from this and we can then be over comers and we will know the truth and the truth will make you free. 

Luk 9:23  And He said to all, If any person wills to come after Me, let him deny himself [disown himself, forget, lose sight of himself and his own interests, refuse and give up himself] and take up his cross daily and follow Me [cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying also].

That's a huge statement Jesus is making right their, but in order to fully operate as Sons in Christ we need to take that and truly apply that to our lives! 

Are we prepared to die daily, are we prepared to loose our opinion our reason ? That sounds way out their to the natural mind, but it is possible only through Holy Spirit with his help. Their are some that give up and let their senses always rule them in every matter, every decision. This does not mean we are meaningless cult  people, no their is freedom in letting that scripture in Luke become life to you. 

Self is a hindrance to our Sonship , it will cut the power off. Self can grieve the Holy Spirit, Self can resist the Holy Spirit and Self will look for another route always! Their is no other route to be free when Satan has his hand in your life other than the Holy Spirit. Its the only Power that can stop him. 

Their is a kingdom when we are born again on the inside of us - His name is Emanuel, His name is Jesus, His name is Almighty God, Lord of Lords, King of Kings, ready to rule and reign through us! That is a truth that will make anyone free and change anything! Praise His wonderful name!