So what is truth ?

How many believers go along in life and have their idea of truth, without letting the bible be their truth? I would say theirs a lot of them, I was one of them in some areas as well, but I prayed for answers and God showed me, Truth! If you want to know he will show you, if you don't his hands are tied. God will never move out of turn, But he will never fail to move when its his turn.  Oh sure we know the basic truth of salvation, baptism after getting born again. But it doesn't just stop their, how are we going to go onto great things for God, or overcome areas in our lives if that's all of the truth you settle on? Truth requires us to seek, to want answers, and for us to abide and learn what the word of God says.

Jesus put it this way in Joh 8:31  So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you abide in My word [hold fast to My teachings and live in accordance with them], you are truly My disciples.

Joh 8:32  And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.

Don't you want to know the truth and let the truth set you free ? I know I want to experience all that God has for me. But you have to want to know it, you can't just believe something that doesn't go along with His Word, what does God say in that matter, its in the word!

The gospel of Jesus Christ brings to all salvation, but once you get saved we don't stop their. Their is a way to live in this gospel of the Kingdom to bring us VICTORY, and will bring us results from God every time!

Why do people create their own perception of what God would do, in a matter in their life? It brings them comfort, and puts all the weight of it back on Him. I heard this from a teacher of the word say this and it stuck with me " A no fault religion". Think about that we go about in life and we don't bother to find out truth, we just think God didn't want us to have it, or He took it from us, or He's trying to teach us hard lessons. So that puts it all  back on God and we have a no fault, no responsibility, to every do our part, which is to " seek first the kingdom of God"

I am passionate about this, and so much more for others to know truth. I know you can't be the word police and try and give a ticket every time they do and say things, but I have a heart to want to speak the truth in Love to others when I can. So what is truth, truth is being a disciple of his word, seeking it with all your heart, and you will find answers and the truth will make you free.

Truth will bring you true success in life, truth will bring you Joy, when all around you might be despair. Truth will bring you peace of mind when you lost something or someone. Truth will bring you healing when sickness has been diagnosed over you. Truth will give you desires of your heart, for God loves us and wants to bless us with! Truth will bring you prosperity if your broke, and cause you to rise above and be able to provide for your family, and be a giver into the kingdom of God.  True prosperity is to know Jesus Christ, and have your soul prosper in all your emotions, thoughts and thinking right!
Joh 14:6  Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me.

 So if you thought you had truth and its not bringing you success in any of these areas ask yourself where am I missing it, God will show you through his word! Always remember He loves you so much, and has the best for you!

Ambassadors for Jesus !

Our highest priority in this life as a believer is to seek first the Kingdom of God, those are the words of Jesus! 

Mat 6:33  But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.

Mat 6:34  So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.

We have been brought out of darkness and into the light of His Kingdom. Do you know the bible refers to us as ambassadors for Christ? Think about in the natural what an ambassador does, and his role. They are sent to foreign nations to be representatives at meetings, will smooth relations between countries, they act as a figure head for their country of origin, etc. That is a pretty big responsibility, and we have been called that!

2Co 5:20  So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ's personal representatives] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor [now offered you] and be reconciled to God.

We are called ambassador's to represent our King Jesus, we don't have to say I think its so, we can say " Jesus said" we are to take over not take sides, making a Godly nation! 

Col 3:17  And whatever you do [no matter what it is] in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus and in [dependence upon] His Person, giving praise to God the Father through Him.

That is our position in the Kingdom of God! We will have to choose whom we serve in this life Jesus said it this way in Mat 6:24  No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in).

This world system is all about storing up treasures, its not about saving souls it all about saving money! Do we need money, absolutely, money in its self is not bad, its the love of it that will entice you. It will cause your eye not to be single and full of light like Jesus said again in- Luk 11:34  Your eye is a lamp, lighting up your whole body. If you live wide-eyed in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar.

All that is saying is having a single eye will keep you full of revelation to live this Kingdom life! Without Jesus this sense realm is the boundary of life. If it feels good, taste good, looks good, then I want it. That is a trap to many, and the down fall to many believers. Do we get to experience all those feelings "Yes" but its not at the cost of stepping outside the Kingdom of God ! God wants to give us all things richly to enjoy! 

In the Old Testament Danial was a true representative an "ambassador" for God. He never changed his belief or lifestyle because of laws that the king issued. He knew whom he served, and was under Gods Kingdom! He prayed with his windows open when he was told not to, and he never backed down from what God showed him. For that, he was thrown into the lions Den, BUT, lived to tell about it!

Dan 6:22  My God has sent His angel and has shut the lions' mouths so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent and blameless before Him; and also before you, O king, [as you very well know] I have done no harm or wrong. [II Tim. 4:17.]

Have you been thrown into something that you believe you can come out of- rise above- and live to declare about? 

Do you know that Jesus also said he knows what we have need of  in Mat 6:32  For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.

Isn't He such a great Father God, I tell you every time I read and meditate on these kind of verses I am so thankful my Heavenly Father is so good to me! 

Jesus also said not to store up treasures here on this earth where thieves break in and steal!

,Mat 6:19  Do not gather and heap up and store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust and worm consume and destroy, and where thieves break through and steal.

Mat 6:20  But gather and heap up and store for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust nor worm consume and destroy, and where thieves do not break through and steal;

So what that's saying is we are to deposit our treasure on a higher plane " heaven" because their ain't going to be any thieves or any kind of any thing come and break into heaven and steal from you!

So seek first the kingdom of God and everything will be added to you, not taken from you! Go fourth as an ambassador for Jesus and know who you are in Him!

Who's in Control ?

Have you or do you work hard at something in your life only to come up empty handed, struggling,toiling with frustration? That day that Jesus got onto Simon's boat changed his life! These were fisher men who made their living from catching fish, and Simon came up empty handed with his catch! Jesus took the liberty of just climbing into his boat, and then said put out a little from the shore. Jesus then just sat and taught the people from the boat, I'm sure Simon was hearing it all while he was busy cleaning his nets! I believe Jesus had a motive for Simon that day!  His life was about to change for ever, and he didn't even know it!  INCREASE ALERT on every level !

So the word says that when Jesus finished speaking, he said to Simon " Put out into the deep water, and let down your nets for a catch". Simon called him "Master"  we have worked hard all night and haven't caught one fish! BUT, because you say so I will let down my net! Don't we do the same thing today to Jesus, we want to say to him I've tried it, its not working!

Jesus was their that day to minister to many people, but it was in preparation  for Simon that day. The first request he asked Simon that day was, let out a little from the shore, and then he said now put your nets into the deep. I'm sure Simon had all kinds of thoughts running through his mind like "MASTER YOU ARE NOT A FISHERMAN" and I'm sure Simon was tired in his physical body with working all night, and frustration was trying to take over! We have all been their! But he obviously showed respect, he knew  their was something special about this man Jesus, he had healed his mother in- law in the previous chapter.  BUT when he"sowed" his boat into Jesus ministry that day, he reaped a huge change on every level. Its all about trust and putting  principals in the word of God into motion!

When Simon obeyed Jesus at his request to let down the nets, the miracle happened every fish in that lake came his way, INCREASE, their were so many fish that they had to fill 2 boats full with fish that the boats began to sink! Now that was great for Simon, as far as making his surplus for fish that day, but the greatest thing that happened that day was Simon was changed for ever! He had a revelation of who this man he called Master truly was, LORD, JESUS! Simon left that business of  catching fish and went on to be  called Peter and was a disciple of Jesus!
Luk 5:5  And Simon (Peter) answered, Master, we toiled all night [exhaustingly] and caught nothing [in our nets]. But on the ground of Your word, I will lower the nets [again].

Luk 5:6  And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish; and as their nets were [at the point of] breaking,

Things have not changed for us today, Jesus still may ask you in your life to let out a little from the shore, and then ask you let out into the deep. That would tell me, LET GO, relinquish it all, cast your net out into the deep where it may seem like your taking a big risk! Its the self can make it happen, toiling hard and seeing no results attitude that has to be thrown out!

Listen our days of trying to make it happen ourselves has to go, We must start believing no matter what we are called to in our lives Jesus, is right their  with us! Simon had the choice to even let him minister in his boat, and then to tell him how to start doing things! He was teachable, he knew something was different about this man Jesus! Today Holy Spirit  lives in our hearts if your born again, he wants Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth, We have the kingdom of God in us, we can take this and demonstrate the kingdom of God in every area of our lives!

We can miss the opportunity for Increase in our lives on every level, the rich young ruler missed it in Luke 18:25- Jesus answer to him was not what he wanted to hear, so that man went away sad and missed an opportunity of a lifetime! We try to bring Jesus down to our thinking what we want to hear, not what he may say, "let out a little from the shore, and now let out into the deep". It all has to do with fear, or loss, its about us being in control and not letting Jesus into our boats to minister the best for us, INCREASE ON EVERY LEVEL!

The word is full of these types of examples but I'm stopping for now here. Always remember he loves you so much!!

Are You Hungry for More ?

Lets shake ourselves out of this lie that we can fall prey to as Christians, that miracles, signs, and wonders are only for the the big Evangelist, or preachers of today! Or even that they are a thing of the past! Do you know that when you lack knowledge in an area of something it keeps you  dwarfed in your thinking, and will keep you from going forward ! It is for all the church, we might not all be in a ministry like the Evangelist or a pastor, but everyday we can see demonstrations, manifestations of the Holy Ghost in our own personal life!

Knowledge is the ingredient to think BIG!  Wisdom is the ability to use Knowledge, and Wisdom is Jesus! Jesus said come and learn of me. Mat 11:29  Walk with me and work with me--watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you.

Mat 11:30  Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly."

So knowledge of Jesus and who He is will keep life good, it will keep manifestation, demonstration, and visitation present in your life! It will keep us from falling prey to the lies that miracles signs and wonders are not for us in our everyday life! When I say this it might be the smallest of things to start in your life, He is the God who says cast all your burdens on me for I care for you! You might be in a position right now where you are in need of a manifestation, demonstration, or a visitation. I am here to say to you don't give up! A larger concept of Jesus will cause your thinking to think BIG, it will cause signs and wonders to follow you! We should be more surprised when we don't see it, rather than just settling for the "oh well I guess its not meant for today".

We have to create our world, don't let this world create you!" Don't adopt the suppose it won't work syndrome" - SAY ALL THINGS ALL POSSIBLE! Knowledge of Jesus will cause you to take the the right path in life, and to stay on it! When your thinking is small it will put you in a false relationship with the truth. 

The birth of the New Testament church came first because they preached the truth, it gave them knowledge of the truth, and then it produced signs wonders miracles, and thousands were added to the church! Act 2:41  Therefore those who accepted and welcomed his message were baptized, and there were added that day about 3,000 souls.

 The church operated with great power and favor we can have the same today! Act 4:33  And with great strength and ability and power the apostles delivered their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace (loving-kindness and favor and goodwill) rested richly upon them all.

We are the church with great favor, a church with great power, and great grace! Eph 2:7  He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come the immeasurable (limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His unmerited favor) in [His] kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ Jesus.

Touched ... But not Changed...Is that your life ?

Have you been touched by God in some way, but not changed. Is the word of God changing you?Have you been emotional, but with no devotion behind it?.Have you known something, but are not walking in it ?  We can all relate to this, but at some point change must be evident, the word will transform us. God doesn't come naturally to us, He is a supernatural God. He knows if we can accept it by the senses , it will not be by Faith ! We are to be Spiritual minded, the natural man doesn't understand the things of the Spirit, you will not know when they show up, or be expecting them.

Don't let the distractions of this world take you away, be led of the Spirit. We can change the atmosphere when we walk into a room. In the book of John 5: their was a man who was paralyzed who laid with others who were disabled, lame, blind. This man was this way for thirty eight years, and Jesus asked him "Do you want to get well"? I read that and wondered why ask this particular man when their were all the others as well. Well this man had an excuse as to why it wasn't happening for him.He didn't respond right to Jesus, he was caught up with what was happening around him. So Jesus was giving him the opportunity right their to change his life, GET UP! PICK UP YOUR MAT AND WALK!  At once this mans life changed , he allowed the touch of God to change him. He allowed those words Jesus said to change him, to impact him and do something about it! Now if you read on Jesus met up with this man later on and said now that you have been made well , stop sinning or something worse may happen to you. It was a word of wisdom from the Master Himself how to stay in the Spirit and see success. This applies to every generation, see yourself on the inside first whole and healed, and with no excuses why its not working, and take up your mat and be made whole! He loves us and has so much for us!

We must get our eyes off of man and onto God. I believe for miracles signs and wonders to happen for us we must be changed in our thinking. A renewed mind meditating on His word day and night will bring you out of sickness, disease, lack of any kind . God is always waiting on us, not us waiting on God!  This is our Prayer Lord God!

Eph 1:17  [For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him,

Eph 1:18  By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones),

Keep Hope Alive !!

We hear a lot about faith, faith to do this, or believe for this, but do you know that HOPE is a partner to FAITH? This is a powerful team together, and it must work together, to get right results!

Rom 15:13  May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

This is a Powerful scripture , Its saying, this God who is our Hope( expectation), our source, may He give you Joy, and Peace in the midst of tribulation that comes our way ! This is not HOPE as the world sees it, or its not a natural Hope, " wishful thinking" its supernatural Hope, biblical HOPE! 

Faith can't work alone, Hope must be their as well to not give up!  Their have been many faith people who have been shipwrecked because Hope wasn't their along side them.We must be abounding in Hope, keep it alive. It is flowing in the future, knowing you will see it, while your in the present, supernatural hope !

While we are waiting on our God of hope in the midst of trails, we can be filled with Joy and Peace. Many times some loose faith and give up in the wait. Its because we don't know how to wait. HOPE is our anchor to hold onto FAITH, to receive our manifested answers!

Faith is invisible, So Hope holds your hand in the process. We must let hope do its work and not allow discouragement, keep hope alive, or faith will die. HOPE cause you to see it! HOPE, Biblical hope, is a confidence from God about future issues , its a sure word form God!

1Jn 5:14  And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

1Jn 5:15  And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

So when all the questions the devil throws your way like, how long has this sickness, disease been staying  on your body, how long have you been giving and still no breakthrough. That's when you should lie down in the supernatural Hope and say my GOD  is not a GOD that should lie, He will come through! HOPE keeps the answer in our vision alive!

HOPE helps your FAITH locate where its going! Heb 11:1  Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Look at Abraham and Sarah lives, Abraham can't produce children, he is now old, way past the time of one wanting even to think about children. Then theirs Sarah she was always barren, and now old !

This is a wonderful story of them of HOPE, LOVE AND GODS GRACE. The word says that against all HOPE, Abraham in hope believed what God said would happen. So in essence Abraham believed against natural Hope, and believed in Biblical Hope that He would become the father of many nations, like us today!! His faith rode piggy back on Hope, your not going to be fully persuaded just on faith- no its Hope that will carry you to the end, biblical hope!

Rom 4:18  In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be."

Rom 4:19  He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.

God gives us Joy and Peace while your waiting. Faith and Hope are a team, hope removes disappointment, its knowing that Hope works in Gods timing. So keep Hope alive or faith will die, Hope in our God, our faithful God will bring it to pass!

Choose to walk in Love !

Love is the way God intended for us all to walk with each other, God is Love and if we are created in his Image we can choose to walk this way, the God kind of Love. The bible says that mankind was created in the image of God, Gen 1:26  God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. [Ps. 104:30; Heb. 1:2; 11:3.]

Gen 1:27  So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them. [Col. 3:9, 10; James 3:8, 9.]

When a man or woman chooses to accept the fact that they need God in their lives, and know that life is not really life until they accept Jesus as Lord, then Love is birthed in us!Rom 10:9  Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Rom 10:10  For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.

 I have witnessed what walking in Love can do, and I have witnessed what selfishness can do, I choose LOVE! 

It goes right back to the beginning of Mankind in Genesis  what choices you make can effect you, and others around you. The choice of selfishness can destroy, divide, and have great consequences ! Its a ripple effect, once what was, could no longer be! We don't realize how it can do so much damage around us. We were wired for love, because God created us in His Image and God is Love.1Jn 4:8  He who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love.

1Jn 4:9  In this the love of God was made manifest (displayed) where we are concerned: in that God sent His Son, the only begotten or unique [Son], into the world so that we might live through Him.

We make the choice to do either, and we may not see the effects of selfishness right away, but you will see it. Every day people make bad choices, it doesn't have to be that way, but sadly its true. 

Selfishness is a lie, its all about you, not even considering the people around you that love you. Its a lust that can grab hold of you and seduce your thought life! Now Love on the other hand will grant you access into a whole new life, "freedom", because you are relying on the God kind of Love ! Its His love that's gets into you when you Accept Jesus, and its His love that can Love anything, anyone and not see all the faults in people, but you see what God sees! You see what He created in His Image, His likeness. When God looks at all of us, He looks with love, not selfishness, not anger, not disappointment, but He sees a future, and all kinds of possibilities for us. That is the reason why He died, and rose again to give us life, hope and a future in His Love!

Love always wins, and brings with it many rewards, sometimes you may not see them right away but they will manifest! Choose Love !