- When you hear the Word being spoken, hear with your spirit and not only ears
- If the Word create your body, the Word can recreate your body. You are crafted by spoken Word of God
- 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. (John 1:3)
- Your DNA is not your master, your symptom is not your master. Jesus is my Lord and His Word govern my body.
- Satan get nervous when you start speaking the Word, not sing about it nor read it
When you speak to your body, your body starts remember where it comes from - Psalm 139:15-16
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. - Your true identity, state is in heavenly report and not doctor’s report
- Proverbs 4:19-22
My son, give attention to my words;
Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh. - The Word is working on my body from the top of my head until the sole of my feet
The Word is health/medicine not only to spirit and soul (emotions, minds) but your body
Health – hebrews Marpay : cure, remedy, medicine
Flesh – hebrews BASAR body, skin, muscle, tissue - You can not overdose the Word, the only side effect is wholeness
- The Word is not to try but trust, believing it and speaking it until your body obeys. Your body listens, your cells are servant, your DNA is not dictator but is a responder. It responds to words. Word of fear cause malfunction, word of faith blood covered Spirit breathed.
- Speaking God’s Word will cause your body to align with Heaven’s design
- You cant build healing on emotions, but on solid foundation which is the Word of God
- Healing is the legal blood bought right of every child of God. it belongs to you because Jesus paid for it.
- 1 Peter 2:24 – Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose [a]stripes you were healed.
- It does not say you might be healed,one day could be healed. 2000 years ago, your healing was accomplished.
- If you say : I don’t feel healing. Well, your feeling does not change the Word, but the Word will change your feelings
- Rome 8:11 – but if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies [a]through His Spirit who dwells in you.
- Quicken : To make alive, to energize, to restore function. It does not talk about the ressurected body but your mortal body now
- Psalm 103
Bless the Lord, O my soul;
And all that is within me, bless His holy name!
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
3 Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,
4 Who redeems your life from destruction,
Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,
5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. - Who satisfies your mouth with good things, : this is where your healing begins. What is in your mouth, will overflow into your members. Healing begins with words
- Words are containers that carry life and death, fear or faith, word or world
- Isaiah 55:11
So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me [a]void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. - When God’s words come out of your mouth, it will not return void.Your body, DNA, blood is listening.
- The word of God has authority over your biology because Jesus bought your biology with His blood. The Word and body fight and only one can win
- There is difference between faithful church goers vs full of faith. You can go to church but still don’t know how to fight the good fight of faith
- Reporting and reinforcing – the moment you receive a lie as identity, it becomes stronghold
- “maybe this is my cross to bear” – Jesus did not leave any sliver of the Cross for us to carry. He bore it all so you can walk free. He did not carry sin and you carry sickness, He did not carry shame and you carry pain.
- Redemption is not only spiritual, but soul and physical. If you believe wrong, mouth, mind submit to false verdict.
- My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge – Hosea 4:6
- Example : a woman turn medical opinion into spiritual truth by confessing and start speaking it
- Your body begin to obey what comes to your mouth consistently
- Proverbs 18:21 Death and Life is in the power of tongues
- Your mouth is a thermostat and not a thermometer
- God give sickness to teach you something : a poisonous lie. Jesus taught with Words, not sickness
- Be careful when listening to sermon about endurance, suffering but not about victory
- Lacking of teaching about Divine authority about physical body cause Her faith has no direction, her mouth has no confession, then her body has no reason to recover
- Psalm 107:20
He sent His word and healed them,
And delivered them from their destructions. - Your healing is waiting in your mouth and not in the sky
- Declare : I am blood bought property , I am not genetic property. My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Every cell tissue, you line up with heaven now
- You gotta speak your way into agreement with God. You gotta to say what He says, no matter what it is. I believe I receive
- You body listens to your mouth, your healing begins in your mouth. My cells are obedient to the Word of God. My immune system listens to heaven. My cells are obedient to the Word. My organs were made by the Word. My DNA is redeemed by blood. My nerves are aligned with the Spirit and they respond to the Word. My blood carries life and not sickness.My youth is renewed like the eagels
- I am not subjected to hereditary patterns but I am governed by divine promises
- Faith speaks until it sees results. Speaking scriptures like medicine, morning, noon, night
- I forgive myself for being stressed and unbelief. Body, I am commanding, line up with the Word. Nerves , listen to the name of Jesus, you are not the authority but the Word is
- Isaiah 53:4-5
Surely He has borne our [a]griefs And carried our [b]sorrows; Yet we [c]esteemed Him stricken, d]Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded[e] for our transgressions, He was [f]bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes[g] we are healed. - Speaking this , not out of desperation but out of authority. Don’t beg God, but reinforce what God has already said. Faith does not cry, faith commands
- Faith does not deny symptom, but faith deny symptom’s the right to stay
- DNA, listen to me, you are not allowed to rebel, you are not allowed to misfire, I command you to return to the order of Edem, to return to the design of heaven, to line up with the blood of Jesus. My body listens to Words, my body is not in charge, my DNA listens to Jesus. Declaring the truth and not try to convincing yourself
- Truth does not need permission, it takes dominion. Progressive healing is still divine healing
- James 1:23-25
23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do. - See yourself in the Word, the more you see yourself in the Word, the less you see yourself in the diseases. I am the healed standing against sickness. Let the Word reprogram her system
- Rome 12:2 metamorphosis – a whole new structure. The more speaking the word, the more the Spirit rewrote the script, once the cells bow to curse, now respond to the covenant. The evidence is coming, the proof is writing. By His stripes I am healed
- My body belongs to the lord, I am breathing with resurrection power, same Spirit, same power, same mouth
- Healing is a gift, wholeness is a confession. You gotta to speak your way into agreement with God
- Healing does not start with fireworks, it often start with whispers
- Rome 8:8-10
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. - Do you want healing? Breakthrough? Restoration? Remind your body who is in charge
- Faith confession creates reality
- Father, I thank You, Your word is health to all my flesh. I am not the sick trying to get healed. I am the healed resisting sickness. My DNA listens to the voice of the Lord. My body was made by the Word. And it is sustained by the Word. Every cell, every tissue, every system lines up with divine order. I reject hereditary curses and I receive covenant promises. The blood of Jesus speaks louder than my family history. The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives in me and He is quickening my mortal body. I declare I am healed, I am whole, I am free
- Don’t go by feelings, go by faith. We walk by faith and not by sight. We speak by faith and not by symptoms. We live by the Word and not by the report
- Faith is not an event, it is a lifestyle. Say it until your body obeys
- You speak until the symptoms has no place to live
- You can speak healing to your tissue, your spine, your blood, your DNA is not the final word. If you speak what heaven speak, your body has no choice but to obey
Jesus, The True Vine (John 15)
- The way of the Lord : God uses small, little, insignificant things to confound the mighty
- Verse 1: “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
- Upper room discourse is for the Church which John 15 is part of. The sermon of the month is for the Kingdom of God
- The night when Jesus had Passover meal before He was betrayed, He spoke upper room discourse
- Gospel of John has 7 miracles which is called SIGNS. Those are for the nation of Israel.
- The first sign was turning water into wine. Judaism is like water, Jesus’ grace turned it into wine. 6 pots of water is the number of man.
- The Holy Spirit chose 7 miracles to be written. 30 Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.
- Moses turned water into blood. Servant (Moses) does not abide forever in the house. John 5:35-36 35 And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. 36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.
- Psalm 80:8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt; Israel is a type of vine to supply the knowledge and wisdom of God for nations roundabout, but they failed. Prophet Isaiah used typology vine to refer Israel
- Jesus is the true vine to deliver the knowledge of God
- Verse 5: I am the vine, you are the branches.
- As believers we are connected to Jesus, the living vine
- Part of tree that fruits grow on is the branches.
- The vine and branches are one. It is not like a regular tree that has trunk and branches.
- You are not the one responsible to supply life, zap, life and fatness. Your part is to bear and manifest the fruits.
- Verse 4: Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me
- All a branch to do is to ABIDE (Greek : MENO)
- Abide : stay where you are, Abide is not a place you are trying to get at
- The vine is responsible for fruit. The branch is to be restfulness and carefree attitude to bear abundant and lushes fruits
- But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption” (1 Corinthians 1:30, KJV) Of Him you are in Christ : it is of God’s doing , not your work. You are in Christ abiding forever
- You restrict the flow by worrying.
- If time to be fruitful, trust the vine to supply the bud, leaves and fruits. If there is no rain, trust the vine to bring moisture from the root
- if face stressful situation, Lord supply Your peace. If you feel tired, Lord supply Your strength. If you face decision making, Lord Your wisdom. A restful Christian is a wonderful testimony
- Let us labor to enter His rest. Outwardly working, inwardly resting. The more your rest, the more you abide, the more supply flows. The task of believers are to enter restfulness, more restfulness and deep restfulness.
- It is not a lazy life, because you are connected to the vine. The vine has a zeal that is not fanatic but it is holy powerful zeal. You will have zealousness, you will be doing but not expiring. You are like burning bush, you are burning but not burning out. You can not connect to the Vine and becomes lazy.
- The more you struggle to produce, you resist the flow of life.
- New Covenant reality for believers. You live by grace by resting on the power of the Holy Spirit that works in you both willingness and performances of His good pleasure. He gives desires to do what He wants you to do and gives you the performance.
- You work out your salvation, because it is God who works in you. You don’t work for Salvation
- Gal 5:4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. Grace is higher than Laws. Long before sinning, a person falling from grace (boasting and trust in his own strength).
- The zap and vine’s life can restore your life and give you a new start When you are seeking justification by laws, at that moment you are cut off from supply and cut off from all that Christ can be to you. Sinners can receive from Jesus. Jesus was effect for them. Only Pharisees, self righteous, can not receive from Jesus.
- Verse 5: He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
- The world is full of people who does things without Christ, so what does it mean?
- All accomplishment of greatest men without Christ , what does it avail at the end? it comes to nothing. Only things that is done for Christ will last forever
- Heaven’s economy is not like ours
- Jesus means nothing of value, substance, eternal quality and consequence, of eternal quality that result in this life and life after
- Verse 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
- The vine dresses will blame the vine if there are no grapes. As long as I am abiding, the responsibility is the vine
- God made us righteousness of God in Christ. Everything you do, all is righteous act because you do while you connect with the Vine. Sometime we still think if we pray, go to church and read bible are righteous act. Actually, when you drive, brush your teeth, kiss you children are righteous acts. Your whole life is righteous acts.
- If the tree is good, all leaves and fruits are good. Same as bad tree.
- You may not do significant at this moment. Everything in your life is now permeated with the life of Christ. You face can speak volume to others.
- Jesus and me are separated. Pray ask for wisdom and He supplies from heaven. A more proper imagery you and Jesus are one. Pray that the same wisdom that flow in Jesus flow to you. Prayer is realization of what you already are.
- You may not feel it but you are called to live in the realm of faith and not feelings. Feelings can deceive you. Illustration : after you aboard a boat, when you step on ground, you still feel the shakes and moving. The reality is the land is not moving, but your feelings.
- Faith says I am connected to the vine , the same health, life, strength, fatness in the vine flows in the branches.
- When you preach, if source from you, it will not benefit hearers.
- When you abide and rest, supply always flows. Your restful attitude is greater testimony than your words. Whatever we expose to in your daily living, if you think you are the responsible party and act everything depend on us, you will be stressful. Illustration when you aboard the plane, you can not help the plane to fly. Rest and it will fly.
- Abide is not working.
- I am doing my best to believe your words vs when you listen to pilot and relax, that’s trust.
- Jesus can not make mistakes, can not fail while pilot can. So why you trust pilot’s words but difficult to trust God’s words
- If you know the person who speaks it. Jesus can not fail and can not do mistakes
- God promised the land flowing with milk and honey, God never mentioned giants, wall and obstacles. The ten spies did not believe God’s words, and compared God’s promised to obstacles saying there were giants that we could not conquer. The two, Caleb and Joshua focused on God’s words.
- Don’t compare God with problems, trials. With God ALL things are possible.
- The devil wants you to be afraid by what you hear and watch.
- Live the life of the branches.
- Verse 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
- Take away does not mean take home to Heaven.
- Take away is the word “AIRO” means to lift up. Vine is supposed to cling on pillar or around tree and curl and not on the ground. Branches on the ground can not bear fruit.
- The reason many Christians can not bear fruit is because they are wallowing on the dust of depression, self pity.
- Philistine means wallowing in the dust. The serpent’s food is dust.
- No one is caring for branch on the ground
- Branch twist around each others. It is nature of a church, we are interdependent.
- Jesus always lifting up. He went about doing good, always restoring and healing.
- Luke 17:13 And they lifted up (AIRO) their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
Lift up their voice = the word is AIRO - Acts 4:24 When they heard this, they raised their voices (AIRO) together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.
- John 11:41 Then Jesus looked up (AIRO) and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me
- Verse 2 says bear fruits, more fruits. Verse 5 much fruits. Much : you can count no more.
- Be patient to yourself. You wont get result at the same year if you start a ministry or a business.
- The root system is going down deep, the branches is going out wide and strong so when the grapes come, they are in the position to hold the grapes and to supply the nourishment and the water.
- Make sure God lead you when you open a ministry or a business. If it is from God, it will bear fruits. A grape start bloom after 3 years. If after 10 years, nothing fruitful, stop it. You waste your time.
- Even after 3 years, it is not the best grape. Still need another 5 years to have quality grapes to produce wine. And 10 years to produce good wine. The longer it is, the better it is
- Jesus compressed time when He turned water into wine. Jesus is the Lord of time
- Jesus healed from distance. He is the Lord of space. You dont need to ask Jesus come down from heaven.
- The way of the Lord is opposite from the way of human. God’s way rest first and you will work well. Human’s way work first then you can rest.
- The life of the Vine flows consistently
- In the story of Leper, Jesus commanded the leper to show the priest. Luke 17:14 When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.
- From the story, leper did not heal first then go. As they went, they were healed. They acted to show the responsibility was Jesus.
- Medicine keeps the symptom down, but really God heals. Panadol remove the headache and pain but does not remove the root cause. Use medicine, depend on God
- Start confessing “As He is, so am I in this world” at whatever level your health is and your situation is. As He is healthy, so I am in this world.
- As He is so I am in this world is another word to say Jesus is the vine, I am His branch. The same health and resurrection life that flow in the vine flow in the branch, your body: creating health, removing obstacles, growth, hindrance creating new cells, new parts, new organ, readjusting DNA, programing for health , wholeness and longevity.
- I don’t have the faith to believe, say Lord your faith. I dont have strength, Lord your strength. Even faith He supplies, let anyone not boast.
- There is no sickness in heaven. God wants us to raise to His standards.
- Verse 2 and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
- Prunes gives idea of cutting as gardener cutting plants. It gives picture of discipline, chastisement, affliction, painful.
- “Prunes” at the time of Jesus, what farmers do to the grapes in ancient Israel. They did not cut but watering. The Greek word for prune is KATHAIRO – cleanses with water. They pour water of branches to cleanse and wash the deposit of pests, insects, most.
- Verse 3: You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you
- Next, Jesus used the word clean (KATHAROS) – adjectice
- How did Jesus cleanse us from depression, self pity, envy, bitterness, resentment, irritability by the preaching and the washing of the water
- The more you sit under anointed teaching , the more you will bear fruits
- John 13:10 Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath (LUO) need only to wash (NIPTO) their feet; Bath refers to born again experience, bath by the HS.
- Somewhere in your day, you need to have words to wash your feet.
- Faith comes by hearing.
- You can not think yourself out of fear, but you can heart out of fear.
- Isaiah 40 : 28
Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak. - The word “health” only appears few times in the bible, which actually also means medicine, but the word “strength” appears all OT and NT. Sickness, weakness, growing old is the absence of strength. You become infirm
- Verse 30 those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.- mount up first – spend time in the living vine, stay in touch with Jesus, then you will soar, and then run then walk. Start with God in the heavenliest. The world have it opposite, and they never soar
- A man who forgotten to grow old was Caleb. He saw difficulties as food.
- There is no situation God does not have answer or supply for. If you don’t have answer yet, rest in Him, knowing that He will take care of it and you don’t need to worry about it. The devil will ask what are you going to do about it? Answer it is Jesus responsibility. The more you let go, God holds. His hand is more powerful and loving.
- Expect abundant fruit of health flow from the vine.
- World is part of thousand that fall. You are in the world but not of the world.
- Fit vs health/strength. You can run and be fit and not healthy. Health and strength come from God
- Joshua 14:10 Caleb experienced literal renewal. He was 80 as strong as when he was 40.
- Count God as faithful, not yourself, because when you don’t have faith, He remains faithful. It is not you hold on to Him but the other way around. If you dont have faith, rest in the One who is faithful. When we are faithless, He remains faithful.
- you are connected with the living vine
- Verse 6: If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you[b] will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
The Vine and The Branches
- The upper room discourse is for the church, the sermon of the mount is for the Kingdom which is suspended.
- The Gospel of John recorded 7 miracles which called SIGN(S)
- Psalm 80:8 God brought vine out of Egypt. Vine referred to Israel.
- We are the branches of the true vine, not the branches. The vine and branches are one. The vine tree does not have trunk but made of clinging branches. You are not the supplier and produces, your part is to bear and manifest the fruits. The life, fatness and riches come from the vine. The same that flow in the vine flow in the branches.
- Abide : all you need to do is to abide. Abide is not a place you are trying to get at, you are already there. Who is responsible for fruits : vine.
- True attitude of branches are carefree and restful, to remain in the vine.
- The only criteria is MENO meaning ABIDE
- If you ask a branch, how do you bear such lushes fruits? We just remain as branches
- 1 Cor says “of Him you are in Christ Jesus.” It is God’s doing not you.
- Allow yourself as branch, to rest and to abide.
- If it is time to bear fruits, trust the vine to supply the bud, leaves and the fruits. If there is no rain, trust the vine to bring moisture to the branches. When harvest time come, it is not your concern what kind of fruits you will bear. As long as abide the responsibility is on the vine
- If you face with stressful situation, ask the vine : Lord, Your peace. Peace being supplied at that moment. Decision making situation : Lord, Your wisdom. Tired : Lord, Your strength.
- Your restfulness is the greatest testimony than the words you speak. Restful christian is a wonderful testimony
- Let us labor to enter the rest. The more you rest, the more supply flows. Restfulness, more restfulness and deep restfulness.
- You are like burning bush, you are burning but not burning out
- If you are trying to produce the fruits, you will be struggling.
- Let the life, the zap and the richness of vine flow. Dont resist
- The New Covenant reality is for you to rest in the power of the HS who gives you willingness and performance of His good pleasures.
- God gives you both the desires to do what He wants you to do and the performance. It is God who works in you, you work it out
- You work out your salvation not work for
- Grace is higher than laws. If you seek justification by laws, you fall from grace. Before someone fall into sin, they fall from grace. You are cut off from what all Christ can be to you.
- Sinners could receive from Him but Pharises (self righteous) could not. Jesus was no effect for Pharises.
- You can do nothing apart from Christ. World is full with people who can accomplish many things without Christ but what does it avail at the end? It comes to nothing. Only what is done for Christ will last forever.
- It means: you can no nothing of value, substance of eternal consequences , eternal quality in this life and in the life after
- When you pray, read bible, go to church, you feel you do something righteous. That’s laws mentality
- Kiss your child, when you do your work , you whole life is righteous. That’s grace mentality
- If a tree good, whatever comes from that tree is good. Everything you do is permeated by the life of Christ
- Prayer is a realization of what you already are. Believe you are connected with the living vine. I am the vine and you are the branches. Lord I thank you the same life, wisdom, strength, health that flow in You flow in me.
- You may not feel it. Illustration : you were in a boat and when you are in the ground you still feel shaking. The reality is you are standing on a solid ground.
- God wants you in the realm of faith not feeling.
- If you preach from yourself, it wont benefit hearers.
- Rest and let the supply flow when you expose challenges. Do you think yourself as the responsible? You will struggle
- When you aboard the plane, you can not help flying the plane. All you need to do is rest
- Abide is not working.
- Trust His words. He can not fail, He can not lie. With God ALL things are possible
- John 15:2 He takes away (AIRO – lifts up). Jesus always lift up, always restoring. Sermon should lift you up.
- Fruits, more fruits and much fruits (you can count no more). Be patient to yourself. It takes three years for vine to produce grapes. The root system is going down deep, the branches is going out wide and strong. they are in the position to hold the grapes when they come, to supply the water and the nourishment. If it is from God, it will bear fruits.
- Wine is getting better through the years. The longer it is , the better it is
- As they went, the leper got healed based on what Jesus said. The way of the Lord
- Use medicine and depend on God. Don’t depend on medicine as you depend on God
- As He is so we are in this world
Be Led by Spirit into Blessings
- Our spirits need recreation, our souls need restoration
- Truth outlasts facts Facts can change. Truth will set you free. Pray natural facts be transformed to turth. E.g : sickness is a fact, by His wounds I have been healed is the truth that is higher than the facts
- Laws give you something to observe to live by, grace gives words to believe upon that will save you (Acts 11:14) . If you need healing , hear the word of God pertaining health and healing.
- Sin : omission and commission.
- If you have eyes to yourself , the result is depression
- God is perfect love and the nature of love is to pour out. It is painful and grief if love is not allowed to give
- Bell is not a bell until it rings, love is not love until it gives
- A life of suffering is not Christian’s life. We are not called to suffer evil Christ has redeemed us from.
- Substitutionary work by Christ.
- Behold to the beauty of His person, the glory of His work and the wonder of His grace
- The more you indulge in hedonistic pursue, the more empty you become.
- Sermon of the mount is heavenly sermon that is beyond your ability. Jesus knows we can not so He said I will come and live inside you and I will live the life for you and you rest in Me.
- Jesus is the only One that can live sermon of the mount.
- Demons can not touch free choice. The demoniac man can run to Jesus even though he could not control himself fully.
- Life abundant from the story : clothes (in righteousness), rest and have your mind sober.
- Trespass offering : you will get so much more than you have lost.
- Blood is put on the right thumb , right ear and right toe
- Right thumb: things you do and touch, right ear : things you hear, right toe : wherever you walk, you will be a blessings
- Put oil on the blood : wherever the blood is, the oil will come on the blood.
- Wherever the blood touches, the Holy Spirit answers. When the blood is honored, the HS responds. Be conscious that the blood has cleansed you, and the HS will bear witness
- The laws only demands and can not impart. The Spirit imparts.
- Revival will stop if you introduce laws.
- The blessings of Abraham is righteousness.
- Blessings are upon the head of the righteous.
- No evil shall befall the just. It means trials will not cause evil for the just
- The prayer of the righteous avails much
- The more you live by the Spirit, you will live by perceiving and not reasoning. Your spirit can understand quicker than your reasoning. Your mind can lead you to heartache, lost and disaster
- The HS will lead you in the path of peace and rest, lead you to the place of plenty , to large land. The land flow with milk and honey
- God put the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the middle and forbade Adam to eat it
- It exercised whether Adam by his free will show that he honor God and acknowledge His lordship. Tithe served this purpose
- If you still ask : good or evil? it shows you still live by the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You need to ask : is this what Spirit leading you to do ? is it life and death? E.g : giving someone is not always spiritual thing.
Parable of Sower
- There are four types of heart : wayside, stony ground, thorny ground and good soil
- If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear – talks about what you allow yourself to hear and to feed
- Mark 5:24 Then He said to them, “Take heed WHAT you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given. 25 For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”
- Luke 8:18 Therefore take heed HOW you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he [a]seems to have will be taken from him.”
- WHAT you hear talks about subject. Psychology, expert’s opinion will not do as the word of God. The word of God regenerates us, raise Jesus, it is incorruptible seed while man’s word is corruptible
- HOW you hear refers to hearing attitude / hearing heart.
- The same measure that you give to hear WHAT and HOW, the same measure will be used to you. If you have this, more will be given to you. Who does not , it will be taken away.
- What kind of measure you give when you hear the words? 60 fold attention?30 fold?100% attention? The same measure of fruitfulness applies to you.
- Amos 8:11 talks about famine of hearing the words of the Lord
- Psalm 1:3 is a picture of those who meditates the promise of the words of God
Spirit-filled Life
- Flowers give joy, they just be. We look at them. They don’t have to do anything so we enjoy them. Flowers is example of beautiful things although they are not permanent
- God gives us richly all things to enjoy, e.g: senses, taste in your tongues
- Hedonistic life is live by senses and desires. You will end up empty because you’ll never created to live by yourselves and to focus my gain,my reward.
- We realise the purpose of life that everything revolve around Jesus because all things were made by Him.
- Something in body that cause skins to be tied together=laminin – shaped like a cross
- For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. (Mat 16:25). To find high life means we should lose low life, the life that revolve around you : the part you pursue your own self, own pleasure, own need. Church is a place to enjoy high life
- Crown of thorn – golden crown. John who was there in all major event of Jesus, was almost dead with the vision of the glorious Jesus touched John with his right hand. The right hand of power – hand that open the red sea, touched the leper, raise peter mother in laws. He used His power on behalf of John He is man and He is God
- “the path of the righteous is like the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day” Pro 4:18 — your path is shining brighter
- Follow me that You will never lack, I will make you lie down in the midst of plenty. I am still with you, with rod and staff (emblem of shepherd), I will comfort you, I will prepare the table, you will eat in the midst of adversity, this time your cup will run over
- Look for Rhema word : word of season. So much in the bible to teach on. Be wise and faithful steward who can give to the household the food in due season. Joy that comes from food in season
- A word spoken in due season, how good it is <> as bad as heresy
- How a victorious christian look like in this world?
- Promotion does not come east west north and south but from God. When man exalt, they can substitute and replace you. When God exalt you, He never substitute you. He will exalt you in due time. Your trials is temporal but victory is lasted. The triumph thing of the wicked is temporal
- Walk in Wisdom Eph 5:15-20
15 See then that you walk [e]circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another in the fear of [f]God. - We still observe 10 commandment outwardly – in every civilized nations but the truth is laws can not change heart
- Redeem the time – means buy and snatch, to buy back. Time = kairos – means fortunate time, opportunity, favorable/good moments
- Both OT and NT mentions about good days and evil day! evil day – days when things do not happen as you wish – single, good days – plural
- This earth is fallen – you will face adversities and trials. People are driven by goals, deadlines
- The world is getting more and more stressful place. The Church : oasis of love. Come and replenish youself at the feet of Jesus
- Psalm 90:9-10 – majority of people, facts in the world : people live 70-80 years even though good medical is provided. The verse is sandwiched by wrath and anger
- Psalm 91:16 – with long life I will satisfy you. Satisfy = safer. Psalm 103:5 – satisfy – safer. Gen 25:8 – satisfied with life, days. Not die because old age but full of days and years, a long and satisfying life. Isaac lived 180 years. Gen 35:29 – full of days – safer, over satisfied
- There is force in this world to stay “natural”. Devil is supernatural wants us to be confined to natural sustenance.
- 1 Chro 29:28 and Job 42:17 mentioned about full days
- Psalm 90, wrote by Moses , under the laws, under judgement. Psalm 91, wrote by David. Psalm 90:12, dont think you will live forever in this world, but number of our days so you becomes wise.
- Walk with wisdom, as thy days so shall they strength be, keep on walking in the Spirit, walk on to the rain.
- Number your days! kids grow up very fast, Jacob serve 7 years but feel like days because of his love for rachel.
- Make use of your time, make your time become kairos moment, fortune, good, opportunity moment
- God can make days longer or shorter, satisfied with days. Long-life but miserable life is not God’s will
- Eph 5:15. There are general wills of God, but specific will for yourself is different to others: what is school, area of vocation, calling. Hard way : fasting, pray. Easy way : eph 5:18-20 – be filled with the Spirit – giving thanks, rejoicing / merry heart, wisdom, praise, singing and making melody to the Lord ARE LINKED TOGETHER!!!
- Buy back the Kairos moment! by being filled with the Spirit. Being filled with the Spirit is the key that you just know the will of the Lord when the time comes!!!
- WORLD WAY drink away your worries – get drunk with wine. Drink wine = he does not care about tomorrow, you have fellowship with friends
- GODS WAY spiritual wine, being be filled with Spirit (passive), constantly be receiving it. Allow yourself to be continually be filled with the Spirit, the active part is speaking. When you get drunk in Spirit you will be bold – in wonderful way. Not worry anymore and no hang over, does not damage your body
- Psalm 90:14 satisfy (safer) yourself in the morning with God’s grace. early = boker = morning, start your day with His hesed
- One day in God’s presence is better than thousand days elsewhere that we may rejoice all days
- Speaking hymns, psalm … no one listen to you, sing a simple chorus, vital for spirit filled life,the joy of the Lord
- Worshipping is oil in your marriage because after that verse, Paul talked about married life
- If you are filled with the Spirit, you will know the will of God for your life, and you will become wise (you will buy back all the kairos moments)
- Need to have both: wisdom + largeness of heart
- Worshipping set you in the right key, you will flow with your family
- 2 kings 3:14-16, bring me a musician. When you are filled, the flow is so easy. Judah means praise, let tribe of Judah goes first.
- Worship leaders : Ethan =everflowing, heman = faithful, chalcol = to provide, supplied, darda= (pearl of wisdom)
- Goshen = drawing near, there I will provide for you (chol)
- Draw near to Him by singing, there I will provide. Worship tie up with wisdom. mahol = dance
- Isa 60:1-5, prophecy has dual fulfimment : near fulfillment and future fulfillment. Because of the light of you, people will come to you. abundance of sea – people, the wealth of the Gentiles will come to you
- Verse 11 therefore your gate shall be opened continually. Verse 18 but you shall call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise. Have a song in your heart!!
Live Led by the Spirit
- John 16:14. The primary role of the HS is to glorify Jesus and to convict you of righteousness, not sin
- The upper room is for the Church. It is the church’s truth that is applicable today. Another sermon of the mount
- There is only one commandment under new covenant which is to love. To love is your nature. It is easy commandment, like commanding someone who is hungry to eat
- HS is another helper : another of the same kind. Jesus unlimited, no time and space. When Jesus was on earth, He was limited geographically and by time.
- Another Helper : When you are restless, I give your rest. When you are discouraged , I lift you up. When you are sad, I give you joy. When you are sick, I provide you health.
- Jesus says I am your good friend, I am your shepherd
- Helper : parachlete which means friend, helper, comforter
- The truth about rapture purifies believers.
- Jesus goes to prepare a place for you. Jesus went bodily and He will come again bodily
- Asking in Jesus name means in the person and representation of Jesus. As Jesus under God’s favor, so you are.
- The HS loves you and He never leaves you nor forsake you. That’s why He can be grieved. Griefs means He loves you.
- You are created to more beautiful destiny that sinning
- The book of Romans, in the first 4 chapters do not talk about the HS. In the chapter 5, it is the first time the love of the Spirit mentioned. He is with us and He loves us
- Dont confound : the work of Christ for you and the work of the HS in you. e.g : you look inside, am I saved?you should look outward to the work of Christ. The work of Christ is done outward and you have no part in it. God wants your eyes to be delivered from self.
- Unless you are established in the work of Christ for you, then you are ready for the work of Spirit in you.
- Did Jesus die on the Cross? YES, so is your sicknesses
- “When I see the blood, I will pass over you” I – God and it is not about you. If you understand this, it cause you faith in the blood of Jesus
- Holy Spirit 2 witnessess : HS bearing witness with us and HS bearing witness to us – Heb 10
- A witness can not say “I think I feel”, it is “yes or no you see it”. HS witness in the court of heaven
wherether you are good or bad, spiritually or carnal Christians, it will not change HS witness - HS witness that Jesus took all your sins and put on Jesus body on the Cross
- Christ was punished in your place, became curse so the blessings of Abraham be on us. Your sins God remember no more
- The work of Christ is outside me, therefore it can be undone by me. If Christ did the atoning , you don’t have any part in it. all of your part is to believe and to receive
- Put the death the deeds of the body, the way God helps is by the Spirit
- HS has flowing and spontaneous nature.
- You can do good things, but it is not the Spirit thing. e.g. when your wife is upset, you give her flowers, then she will become angrier. The Spirit thing is to talk with her and spend more time with her. e.g : diet – numerous advices, eat according to blood type. work for a while
- Laws causes self righteous/special compare to others. Laws does not always mosaic laws
- Break the will without breaking his spirit. The Spirit knows when and how
- The Spirit more leads us with red lights than green lights. HS teaches you with the wavelength of peace.
- Peace is natural habitat/default mode/natural state. Peace that rest securely more than emotions but on the unshakable foundation, does not depend on your feeling. I may tremble when I stand on the rock, but the rock never trembles.
- You are about to embark or to do something, and you find restlessness, stop. It is the HS stop you. HS does not possess, He wants you to flow with you.
- Every word, deeds is like frankincense , sweet fragrance to God. We are unto God, sweet aroma to Him. God smell the fragrance of Christ, and give you the blessings
- HS never drive, force, take over your personality but leads you. God never bypasses the personalities
- When you have your heart heavy, take a walk with Jesus.
- If faith becomes laws, you wont see result.
- You may need hearing ears–not advice. prayer: pour out your hearts and nobody dies in Jesus presence. you talk to ressurection and life, you will receive strength and grace and you will feel the comfort of the HS
- Toxic emotions – need to get out, otherwise it becomes toxic to your body
- Generally: ladies are more anxious, excited, expressive, man are more calm. Man dies younger, although calm in more sense because woman talk to cast their cares. If you want the news to spread, tell a woman, not telegram, telegraph, telephone
- talking is casting. cast your cares. the more frank you are, the more you sense His presence
- With God, God wants you to be a child
- OT:fearing God with sense of distance, NT:fearing God with sense of respect
- You can have the right phrase of theology but dont have the Spirit of it. You can quote the Scripture and you can have bible knowledge, but still anti Christ.
- It is not the matter of knowing Bible, but know Him, the one who wrote the Bible. if you are led by the Spirit, you are mature sons of God
- The HS bears witness that we are child of God — this is the most important area in life, how much more He will bear witness in other areas of life affairs (parenting, career, eating etc).
- God cares about small things and details. Birds are cheap, but God feeds them. Your hair is numbered. Nothing too small for God, you complement Him
- Green light is your natural habitat. if you make wrong move, sign/say something, if you feel the red light, dont do it. Even in good things, dont do it because it is good thing but because it is Spirit thing
- Your part of assignment, HS will lead you to your Great Commission to your assigned portion in the Lord’s vineyard
- God does not guide a parked car. HS bearing witness, as you move. Rest is not inactivity but Spirit directed activities.
- Dont depend on outside signs, because you have HS inside you. Learn to follow the Spirit inside
- God leads us with red lights. 2 Tim 1:6-7, stir up the gift…..fan into flame
- Doria = repent and be baptized
- If you are faithful in the gift of tongues, it will light up other gifts. Fear bring all kings troubles, diseases. When you pray intongues you release the rivers of power, love and sound mind
- Sounds mind = to save your mind – saving your mind and heart.
- the adrenal glens = released the hormon for strength. e.g a mom lift up a car to save car
- Isaiah 30:15 quietness and confident
- Come to Me and I give you rest. God moves in the rhythm of grace, the key to accomplish more
- God wants you to be in the place of quietness and confidence. You can not will power yourself to the place of relaxation.
- God has supernatural gift that does not depend on your certain position and environment, deep breathing – praying in spirit — rest and refreshing.
- God design us to live life like camel and turquoise, not lion and tiger. Animals are for us to learn.
- Lion, tiger live short. God design us to be camel speed and to live long life
- Remember : The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
- Time and chance belongs to God
- Pray in tongues especially in your stressful of life
As He is, so am I in this world
- Jesus did perfect and eternal work on the Cross. We stand on the value of the work before God. Jesus worked to remove sins/sickness
- You cannot decide whether you have enough faith by looking at your self
- It is not the amount of faith but trustworthiness of the person you have faith in
- In Jesus, there is no perhaps or maybe. Illustration: if you ask direction to someone, and he answers perhaps and maybe, you wont believe him
- 1 John 5:13 – you may know that you have eternal life. Zoe is our portion today
- Eternal life is not only about live eternally but also about quality of life. Zoe life is the life of God in all of us.
- The degree of life : plant – animal – human life – life of God.
- Eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. John 10:10 have life more abundantly
- Allow that life to dictate us, live by the tree of life, Walking by spirit.
- God makes man perfect but not complete. It is not God’s plan that man live life of ethics, knowledge of good and evil, but by the tree of life which is contrary to natural thoughts or thinking
- Our pattern man : Jesus
- The resurrection life is the life of Jesus , He dies no more. Lazarus did not possess this resurrection life. Jesus rose with glorified body
- We have resurrection life in us. Jesus is able to transcend time and space. There is no coming and going but disappearing. We will transcend time and space
- Rapture, trinity word is not in Bible. 1 Cor 15:52 talk about rapture, we’ll be transformed in atomic seconds
- Mat 8:17b He Himself toook our infirmities and bore our sicknesses
- Everything Jesus touches has eternal effect. Only He can do perfect work
- God’s favor were with david, ester, ruth, nuh, joseph
- God is synergizing everything for our good although God is not behind everything
- God has a destiny and a purpose for your life. Gal 1:15 – seperated to the calling since my mom’s womb
- Wealth fame pleasure of sin can not satisfy us. Your heart only can satisfied with real thing, because you are spirit being
- Foreknowledge but God does not manipulate your free choice
- Jesus touches the leper and became healed. He touches the small fishes and loaves, and became many. He touches the sick, became healthy. Whatever Jesus touches, prospers. Live to have the result that Jesus has.
- Live in the audience of one. It is bondage to live to please man
- All mistakes, misteps – work for good.
- Death and judgement is behind me, not in front of you. Christian posture not to look to the grave but to the sky
- All fears will go when we have new bodies.
- Eph 5:30 We are members of Jesus body, flesh and bone. Jesus has healthy flesh and bones
- 2 cor 3:18 transformed to the same image, from glory to glory
- Jesus is keeping His eyes on you. The result is not produced by you but in you by the HS. Take off your eyes from hallowing wind and look at Jesus
- Come to the place when you are flowing and cooperating with HS to what He is doing. Submit to the leading of the HS
No Battles No Spoils
- Every time you go through crisis, ask God for revelation.
- Whatever your battle is, when you come out to the other side, expect something greater, expect to step to bigger place
- Out of battles come spoils. 1 Ch 26:27, no battles, no spoils. They receive wealth to maintain the house of the Lord
- In the case of Simon, his voice is voice of human sympathy which is an attack from Satan
- Special place and wealth for Those who go to battle with receive, while those who don’t will not receive.
- A revelation can be only a theory if you don’t go to battles. When you go through in a battle, you will know and live it in your heart.
- A person can teach, share and preach a revelation but if they don’t go through battles, there is no life. Therefore, revelation needs to be meditate upon, own it, possess it and live through it. Take it and make it theirs, meditate until you own it. Take a revelation and put it your flavor, flow, with your anointing
- Four gospels are different. God never by pass human personality and everyone has different calling
- You get attacks because you serve the Lord. Paul took the laws of cows and see the truth and apply it to ministers.
- Number 31:25 law of plunder. Eleazar: son of Aaron, succeed as HP
- Under OT, High Priest is the connection with God. HP brings you very near to God. To be in touch with HP is to be very near to God. HP is a position of privilege. The blessings of God has to come to priests first before come to the children of Israel. Priest is the place of nearness to God
who assist the priests? the levites
the priests : hand full of incense , e.g Zacaria, the smell stays with you
levites : help kill the animals, light the menorah
Jesus has 70 disciples,
out of 12
there is 3
there are degree of closeness to God
Num 31:27
- who went to battle
- congregation
Jesus Brings Life to Dead Places
- Jesus walked in the region of death. Wherever Jesus was , no one died in His presence. Jesus says “I am the resurrection and life.” He came in the midst of our curse, depression, necessity and fall.
- The biggest challenges in earthly life are provision and health. The answers are communion and tithe
- Elisha Purifies the Pot of Stew -1 Kings 4:38-41. It is a typology of COMMUNION
38 And Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was a famine in the land. Now the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.” 39 So one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered from it a lapful of wild gourds, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, though they did not know what they were. 40 Then they served it to the men to eat. Now it happened, as they were eating the stew, that they cried out and said, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it. 41 So he said, “Then bring some flour.” And he put it into the pot, and said, “Serve it to the people, that they may eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot. - Gilgal is the first stop after crossing Jordan, where they circumcised kids of Israelites, the place of blessings where the reproach and shame has been rolled away. The world is always in famine since the fall of Eden
- Pot : place of life, suistanance, nourishment. Pot is typology of pulpit ministry. Elisha is type of salvation
- The way of man is to remove, the way of God is to add something greater
- Food : a bit polluted or poisoned, the all is polluted. Uncleaness is contagious in the world.
- Power and virtue comes from Jesus and clean them all. Jesus is the fine flour
- Levi 2:1 And when any will offer a meat offering unto the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:
- Fine flour. Nothing uneven. When he is firm, he does not hurt. Something princeliness in His character. Truthful but kind. His earthly life was anointed by Holy Spirit.
- Make sure you have Jesus in your sermon. Ignorant, human opinion, tradition. It will purify the uncleaness. Jesus is the only One greater than uncleaness.
- Elisha Feeds One Hundred Men 2 Kings 4:42-24 – Typology of Tithe
42 Then a man came from Baal Shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley bread, and newly ripened grain in his knapsack. And he said, “Give it to the people, that they may eat.” 43 But his servant said, “What? Shall I set this before one hundred men?” He said again, “Give it to the people, that they may eat; for thus says the Lord: ‘They shall eat and have some left over.’ ” 44 So he set it before them; and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the Lord. - His provision is always greater than your need. In my Father’s house is always bread to spare.