God Is So Good

Nothing else that I can say, God is Good.  No matter how you see it, God is good.  God has been so good to me, I just want to thank Him.

He is Real

God is alive and moving in our midst today.  He is keeping His promise and is pouring out His Spirit on ALL FLESH.  He is truly touching the hearts, minds, bodies, and the lives of men, women, and children throughout the Earth.  He is looking for hearts that are fully His.   Is your heart in tune and turned toward God today.  He says in His Word. Today, If you hear His voice, do not harden your heart.  We need to keep our hearts open and yielded to the things of the Spirit of God.   God is real, and He wants to reveal Himself to those who are really seeking Him.  "Draw near to me and I will draw near to you", says the Lord.
Religion and tradition of men's ideas and words will not reveal Christ and His Spirit to you, it must come by revelation.  When God tugs on your heart by the Holy Spirit, He declares, no one can come to God, unless the Spirit draw him.  Man can not do this it must be a move of the Holy Spirit that will bring transformation  into the Earth.  He is doing it by His Spirit.  "Unless the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it".

He is more than just a history book, He is more than a religion, or an idea, He is real.

Our Father

We  are in a time where we desperatly need to know our Heavenly Father.  There is a lack of Fatherhood in our nation.  Everywhere across the board for one reason or another, children are being raised without the blessing and wisdom of their father in their lives.  That is not to say for some, the character and behavior of their fathers, is not worth  the wisdom or blessing that they have to impart.  As a people, we need to find, get to know, and learn to follow Our Heavenly Father's direction in our lives.  Everyone needs their Heavenly Father's blessing in thier lives, in order to function and develope properly.

  Let's look to heaven, and reach for an intimate relationship with the one who loves us more than anyone.   Ask Him in today, ask Him to lead you.  He gives good gifts to His children.

Set Appointments With God

Set Appointments With God

Acts 3:1 "Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour."

Great people of God have great habits.  Get in the discipline of prayer each day.  Your discipline will birth a habit and eventually, will become a joy and a pleasure to you.  Make appointments with God, you make appointments with everyone else.  Doctors schedule appointments, businessmen schedule meetings, and othe professional people make appointments with you.  Even your friends make appointments with you.  Start making scheduled appointments with God.  On a daily basis, find some time that you can get alone with God in your "secret place", prayer closet, or wherever you can meet with Him.  You must get in His presence daily, hear His voice daily, and cleanse your mind and heart daily.  Your success in life is contingent upon meeting with God everyday. Make the time and take the time to pour your heart out to Him.  He's waiting for you to come. Set appointments with God and Keep Them.  God Honors those who Honor Him.

God is Good

God is Good

Praying Always in Spirit and Truth

 Do you remain thankful even in the hard times?  God tells us to rejoice always.
Are You thankful continually?  Allowing the Spirit of Truth to fill you life and your heart.
It's time to walk with an attitude of grattitude.  The greatest cure for ingrattitude is loss.
The joy of the Lord will be your strength if you allow the Holy Spirit to take control of your emotions and your mind.  The Word tells us to cast down every vain imagination and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of Christ.  We are told to take every thought captive to the obedience of the Word of God.  Praise Him,  Praise Him,  Praise Him.  Psalm 100 declares;

¹ Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
 ² Worship the LORD with gladness;
   come before him with joyful songs.
³ Know that the LORD is God, and not we ourselves       
   It is he who made us, and we are his;
   we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

 ⁴ Enter his gates with thanksgiving
   and his courts with praise;
   give thanks to him and praise his name.
⁵ For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
   his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Who's Your Daddy?

Who's Your Daddy?

THERE IS AN IDENTITY CRISIS IN THE WORLD AND IN THE BODY OF CHRIST.  AS A WHOLE, WE DON'T KNOW WHO OUR DADDY IS.  WHO'S YOUR DADDY?, HAS BECOME A POPULAR STATEMENT.  A VERY TRUE ONE INDEED!  Our Father which art in Heaven, Jesus told us to pray Our Father, He did not refer to Him as His Father although He was his Father.  He is OUR Heavenly Father.  There is an identity crisis in our nation and across the world.  We have entered into the fields of the fatherless.   There is a lack of Fatherhood in our nation.  Everywhere across the board for one reason or another, children are being raised without the blessing and wisdom of their father in their lives.  That is not to say for some, the character and behavior of their fathers, is not worth  the wisdom or blessing that they have to impart. We are in a time where we desperatly need to know our Heavenly Father.  As a people, we need to find, get to know, and learn to follow Our Heavenly Father's direction in our lives.  Everyone needs their Heavenly Father's blessing in thier lives, in order to function and develope properly. 

  Let's look to heaven, and reach for an intimate relationship with the one who loves us more than anyone.  Humbly reach out in prayer and devotion, He is waiting for you.  Do not wait any longer.  Ask Him in today, ask Him to lead you.  He gives good gifts to His children, and wants more than anything for you to develop a relationship with H

Have an Attitude of Gratitude

Have an Attitude of Gratitude

God tells us to enter His gates with thanksgiving in our hearts, and to enter His courts with Praise.  We need to remain thankful.  God is big on attitiude remember Moses, his attitude when he struck the rock kept him out of the Promised Land.   Thankfulness and gratitude go a long way in God's Kingdom.  They can really make a difference in the seasons of your life.   Great achievers are appreciative and thankful.  Loss is the quickest cure for ingratitude.  Find ways to express your appreciation to God and to people.  Thank You Jesus for giving us the treasure of Yourself.

Right On Time

God is not slack concerning His promises in our lives.  The Word of God declares, the righteous have never been forsaken, and their seed have never had to beg for bread.  Praise God, that He is a Provider.  He really is an ever present help in time of need.  When the storms of life are headed our direction, we need to speak to God about the circumstances in our lives.  He has the ability to calm the storm.  In fact, He declared that NO WEAPON FORMED OR FASHIONED AGAINST YOU IS GOING TO PROSPER.  You can speak to every mountain and enemy in your life, and not let them stand in the way of your victory.  Don't let your inheritance slip through your fingers.  Believe God for it.  Go after it, and apprehend it.  God is for you, He is not against you, unless of course you're against Him.  He wants you to experience the rich joy of His salvation, and the blessings that come with knowing Him.  He is not slow, He does not leave His people forsaken.  He is a good Father, who always gives good gifts to His children.  Whatever He has promised you, you can trust Him to do it.  He is always right on time with His promises in our lives.

Why Are We Not Seeing the Power of God Displayed In Our Churches?

Why are we not seeing the power of God displayed in our churches?  A more important question to ask is, why are we not seeing the power of God in our lives?  Is it because the cares of the world have choked out the word from our lives, robbing us from the blessing that it produces.  God said we live by every word that proceeds out of His mouth, and that we are to be doers of that Word in childlike faith.  When we stop believing that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him.  Believe that He is, and that He will do exactly what He says He will do.   We need to accept Him with faith like a child.  We need to be taught and trained of the Lord to be bold and expect God to meet us,. If we are walking in true fellowship with Him, He will show Himself strong.  If God is not allowed to show up in our "Western Cultured" churches,  He will raise up children from stones, and make the rocks cry out.  .  The Holy Spirit is calling you to step out and do the "greater works" that Jesus talked about.  We need to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises of God.  We need to learn how to communicate with God and Call for His purposes in the Earth.God is raising up children,to do great works in the last days.  If we do not allow Him to do what He chooses, He will go other places and use other people for His purposes  Why is it there is more sincerity and faith in the heart of this child playing church., than in most of the lives of the adults who claim the name of Jesus, that are also "PLAYING CHURCH".  We could learn alot if we would be more childlike in our faith and step out in boldness.

The Battle Belongs To The LORD

The Bible points to the fact, that the Lord will tread down our enemies, and that no weapon formed  against us will prosper.  Every tongue that rises against us shall be condemned.  He is the one who fights our battles for us.  Let the Lord have the final say concerning the battles you are facing.  The enemies that are standng between you and your God are about to be trampled.  Get up and fight, and do not draw back.  God is shutting the mouths of the lions that come to eat up and devour God's people like bread.  He will bring forth the ability to demolish your enemies.  The victory is yours in Christ Jesus.

We Win

We Win Because He Has Won the Victory

Revelation 12:11 And they have overcome (conquered) him by means of the blood of the Lamb and by the utterance of their testimony...

Read the back of the Book.  The Bible says there is victory in Jesus.  We overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony.  Do you think God would let this happen to His Son for nothing.

He has already won the victory.  He paid the price, IT IS FINISHED.  It's time to take our place, and obtain our inheritance.

Get Over It

Get Over It,  we have all had things happen, some more than others for sure, but we all have  had a reason to quit.  We need to keep on going forward,  and stop staying down when the enemy comes at you with attacks, trials and temptations.  Your enemy is never going to stop fighting, you will always be engaged in warfare.  Right before your breakthrough, your enemy will hit harder.  The things you go through may be tough at times, but they are just to make you stronger.   Your crisis can become an opportunity that will produce the character of Christ in you and through you.  Our life consists of the memories we keep and choose to believe, or the God breathed ideas and thoughts that can bring us into a Kingdom experience.  We can choose to believe the report of the Lord, or the negative reports from other sources of influence  that are in our lives.  To take every thought captive, means arrest it subdue it and render it powerless.  To the obedience of the Word of God is to allow heavens influence and inspiration to control your thinking.  As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.  Let it go, do what God is telling you to do about every person, situation, and circumstance in your life.    Get over it, life is too short to waste your mind space or your time and stay there.

Pray About It

Why is it that we consult everyone else about our issues and our circumstances..  Why ask the advice of someone incapable of solving your problems.  We should be going to the one who knows the way everthing is going to turn out.  God sees our future and He has our future planned.  He has plas to give us a hope ands a future, plans to give us an expected end.  With that in mind why would you go anywhere else for solutions and answers, when we have access to the one who holds everything in His hands.  We need to start praying about it.  Cast your cares upon Him for He cares for you.  Be anxious for nothing but with all manner of prayer and supplication make your requests known unto God.  God leads us in peace and when we are void of His peace, we are usually not where He wants us.  Start asking God for direction, trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding, and in all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths Proverbs 3:5,6.   He told to call unto Him and He would answer us and show us great and mighty things that we do not know.  If you don't know where to go or who to go to, call out to God.  If you don;t know how or why, seek the living God.  Stat talking to God about it, He is waiting fo you to reach out to Him.

Trusting God

Trusting God

 Sometimes though out life, we are faced with mountains of adversity. We have problems at home, problems at work, problems with bills, problems with the car, and problems with people we know. Sometimes it can seem like the entire world can be against us, and we do not clearly see how we will make it past whatever the current obstacle is.  
We may not always see the answer, but sometimes it is because we cannot see things like He does. The solution may be just around the corner. The answer to your prayer may be just around the corner. The blessing can be just around the corner. Sometimes we get so caught up in worrying about life, that our worrying can prevent us from hearing from Him. There are other times when we see problems as being so big, that we do not understand that compared to God, they are really small. Whatever the mountain is, we have a God who is much bigger. We have a God who has promised us over and over again He would take care of us.
Philippians 4:19: 
       "God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus."
In Psalms 37:25:
         "I have been young, and now am old;
         yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
         nor his descendants begging bread"
Matthew 6:25
“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;  and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear? For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. "
The one thing all of these verses have in common is this, trust God. We believe in Him for our salvation. Believe in Him also for everything else. Lay down the worry, and the fear, and the doubt, and the struggle. Spend a moment just to consider how amazing and how big our God really is. Throughout the Old Testament God kept telling people, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." Over, and over, and over again He would tell people this. Perhaps it is because over and over again we tend to forget it. God sent His own son to die for our sins to prove how much He really loves us. 
Don't worry. Just trust Him. If you don't know the answer, that does not mean He does not either. It means that there are times, when things are beyond our control and we have the choice to either worry about them, or to just lay those things at His feet and say, "Here, I can't do it, I need help, I trust You". 
God will provide. God will provide. God will provide. Not just some of our needs, but all of our needs. God will provide. Trust that He is who He says He is. Trust that He will do what He said He will do. Take a moment and just think about Him. Not necessarily on what He can do for us at the moment, but think about who He really is. Understand that He bigger than anything. Understand that He loves us more than anything. Understand that He sees and knows everything. Understand that regardless of where you are, He is there too. 
When Peter was walking on the water to Jesus in Matthew 14:22, his eyes were not on the waves, or the water. He was not thinking about the fact that people don't walk on water. It was that faith believing that when Jesus said "Come", that was all that mattered. It wasn't until Peter started looking at his circumstance that he started to sink. Why? It was because Peter took His eyes off of Jesus and let his problem become bigger than the person in whom his faith was in. Yet even then, when he cried out to Jesus, Jesus reached down and grabbed his hand. 
Just like then, Jesus will not allow us to sink if we will just trust in Him. So today, trust in Him and dare to believe that God can and will do everything He said.
One last verse, Ephesians 3:20:
"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen."

 

by Shaun Holmberg

 

Overtake Your Enemies Then Recover All...

1 Samuel

30:8

And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake [them], and without fail recover [all].

This is the hour when the people of God need to rise up.  We need to stop being on the defensive side of things and rise up and take our place which is standing upon the head of satan.  It's time to tread on our enemy.   God has raised up a standard against the Enemy, the Blood of Jesus, has defeated every attacker and tormentor in our lives.  Like Daniel in the Lion's den, God will shut the mouths of those capable of devouring His people.  The enemy is lurking about as a roaring lion, but THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, has already won the victory.  As JESUS roars over You, and the Nations, allow the noise of the war cry of Heaven shake off all the chains of the enemy in your life.  He is breaking the power of darkness by the Power of His Holy Holy Spirit.  Reach out to Him in prayer and worship. He is moving among Us.

Pursue the promises of God as you pursue Him.  Overtake and defeat every enemy in your life by the power of the Blood of Jesus.  God will restore what has been lost in your life and He will help you recover all.  Begin to pray and ask the Father to help you get back everything the enemy has taken from you and your family.  The Holy Spirit will lead you to the promises, the people, and the places that will bring the restoration of God into your life.  He will restore what was lost or stolen if you ask Him to redeem everyting in your life.

The Love of God

Let the Love of God flood over your soul today.   God's love has the power to set you free.   If you've been a Christian for a long time, or maybe you have'nt met Him yet.   His love is unstoppable, unshakable, and will have you undone in His Presence.   His love is like the rain, falling on your soul.  Get lost in the gaze of His eyes, get lost in the warmth of His smile.  He loves you today, let His love wash your sin and shame away.  Let Him set you free today, there is nothing that can seperate you from your Heavenly Father's Love, He is constantly looking for ways to help you, touch you, heal you, and bless you.  Let Him in, you can not afford to miss His plans for your life.  Call on Him today and He will answer you.

Romans 8

 Life Through the Spirit

For the Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.

We Live By Every Word That Proceeds From His Mouth

Jesus said that we do not live by bread alone, but Every WORD that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
The Holy Spirit is the only person that we are required to obey, His every instruction and His every Word. God only holds us accountable to His Word.  The written and the spoken WORD of God are both equally important in the life of the believer, for proper growth and development in the Kingdom of God.   Nobody talks more than the Holy Spirit talks, that is probably why He tells us to slow to speak and quick to hear and slow to wrath.  When we are in anger and anxiety, our spiritual senses become dulled and ability to hear God, is tainted.  Guard your hearts, for out of your heart are the issues of life.  You have to keep your heart protected, guard your heart, don,t harden your heart.  If your harden your heart, you harden yourserlf toward the voice of the Spirit.  This is not good for you or anybody.  Those who are children of God are led by the Spirit of God.  How can you be led if you can't sense the Holy Ghost?   Don't dull your senses, sharpen your sword.  Shape your life with the Word of God, if He spoke and framed the worlds by his Words, then you can speak and frame your life according to His riches and Glory, by Christ Jesus.  From the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.  Be careful what you allow in your heart, so you have plenty of room for the Word of God.  Do not let the cares of the world choke out the Word within you.   Listen, Trust, and Obey the voice of God.  He greatly rewards obedience.    

We Have Dominion and Authority Over Circumstances Part 2

Dominion by definition, comes from the Latin word " Dominus’’ which literally means ‘’Lord’ this refers to someone with sovereign power and controlover a realm or territory; it points to the kingly authority with legal right to govern a land. Dominion could thus be defined as authority with honour, that carries the rights and privileges of a king. Ephesians 1:22, says," And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him {Jesus} to be head over all things to the church which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all." Jesus is the head and we are his body. And, the Bible says all things have been placed under Jesus’ feet, from simple biology, we know that the feet are a part of the body. Now, if all things have been placed under his feet, it means as a member of the body of Christ, all things are under you. This includes all poverty, sickness, and diseases, demons and every infirmity. With this dominion, no negative circumstance can reign successfully in your life because they have all been placed under your feet; therefore, refuse to be a victim. God said, ‘’my people are destroyed because of lack of knowledge…" [Hosea4:6}. Ignorance of God’s word regarding your dominion can keep you in bondage, but when you discover the truth, you’ll walk free and shake off that circumstance that plagued you in your lifetime.
WE HAVE POWER IN JESUS NAME

In Matthew 28:18, Jesus said, ‘’…All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth, go ye therefore…’’Glory to God! ALL Power in heaven and in the earth belongs to Jesus. What this is saying is that you have all power in heaven and in the earth because you are his representative (His Ambassador).
You have power over every demon of rank in this world, and they know it. Now, Jesus says, on the basis of this unqualified authority that has been vested in my name, go and exercise dominion. I have your back says the LORD. You can see this authority today over demons, diseases and death, and You can exercise it over your body as well and tell it what to do. You are the custodian of your body, which is God’s property  "…therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s’’ {1 Corinthians 6:20} so, when the devil attacks your body, command him to
expect them to comply.
let go of God’s property. Your body belongs to God; the devil has no LEGAL right to reside there.

IT'S TIME TO REIGN AND RULE AS THE PEOPLE OF GOD.
Make up your mind never to be a victim of poverty, sickness or disease. The salvation wrought for you in Christ Jesus was perfect; you no longer need to live like ordinary human being who is subject to the limitations of this world. When the enemy tries to shows up in your life, or in the lives of those
around you, command him to go in the Name of Jesus Christ, and he will. The Bible says, ‘’for if by one man’s offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ’’ {Romans 5:17} To reign means
to exercise dominion. Though all men became subject to sickness and death because of sin, the bible says ‘’…much more they which receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. Take authority over every life circumstance today; this because is

your right when you accept the life that God offers you. Take advantage of the grace of God in Christ Jesus, and the enemy will have no choice but to flee.

We Have Dominion and Authority Over Circumstances Part 1

God never intended for his children to be victims of adverse circumstances, let alone victims of the devil. The devil and all the demons of hell have been defeated, and we have been brought into a life of complete authority and dominion, where we reign in life through Jesus Christ. We have been designed for a life of dominion and victory.  However many suffer and stay in bondage because of ignorance. They refuse to accept the life that God has prepared for them. They suffer what they should not be going through because they lack knowledge;  God said His people perish for a lack of knowledge. This is why the teaching of God’s word is so important.  We will begin to see who we really are. Jesus said, "and these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover’’ {Mark 16:17-18}.  We have an identity crisis in the body of Christ. God's children do not realize who they are in Him and the power that works within them. Begin to declare and confess the Word of the Lord until His will and His kingdom are manifested in your life and circumstances. As God's people, our Confessions are loaded with power {Ecclesiates 8:4} therefore, let your Confessions about your life and that of your environment be words that will shape, build and establish you in prosperity, unity, peace, progress and economic stability, and also teach others to do the same.  Jesus was actually saying that with these signs, the world could recognize the new breed of men and women that would be coming on the scene. This new breed would exercise absolute mastery and authority over devils and diseases, and function with superhuman capabilities that would cause the world to marvel. You receive eternal life-the God kind of life, by virtue of salvation [John 3:16} and this is what makes it possible for you to live in complete dominion over sickness and diseases. When the life of the Spirit of God is in you, no infirmity has the power or ability to destroy your body mind or spirit {Romans 8:11}.

Open the Eyes of Your Heart

Ephesians 1:17-19 (New International Version)

 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.  I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,  and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength

God's Kingdom is spiritually discerned.   The natural world is temporal and passing away, while the Kingdom of God is eternal and will last forever.  If you want to experience the supernatural life that Jesus insisted on us having.  Then you must look with the eyes of faith.  The Kingdom of God is within you, and must be discerned on the inside.  God speaks to us on the inside. we see with spiritual eyes from the inside.  You cannot be closed minded or closed hearted when it comes to the things of the spirit.  They are not carnally discerned, they are spiritually discerned.  Ask God to enlarge your capacity for more of Him, and His KINGDOM.  We spend so much time in the things that are temporal, that it dulls our spiritual senses.  Time to sharpen our spirit's.  Allow the fellowship, mentorship, and stewardship of your Christian relationships to sharpen you and  allow God to sharpen you.  Proverbs declares as iron sharpens iron, so does one man sharpen another.