- New Covenant : Walk in Spirit
Galatians 5:25 — “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit
Includes : walk with God - For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; 9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper (Deu 8:7-9)
- All is easy picking. It is a place of more than enough
- 10 “So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which He [c]swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build, 11 houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant—when you have eaten and are full— 12 then beware, lest you forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. (Deu 6:10-12)
Turn Your Frustration Into Breakthrough
- One word from God can change your life forever
- When we hear the word of men, we may forget it and did nothing. But when we receive word of God even though we forget, but it does something in you. Illustration : fill up the basket and water the plants, it leaks, but it cleans then basket.
- To the extend that you worry / fearful in a certain area, to the extend that area is still in the darkness, to that extend the words has not dropped into your heart
- John 8:31-32 “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
- You can be freer
- Pray : Lord, unveil the truth that You see that I need that set me free
- In the area that you worry, you are lacking revelation in that area, even you have the bible knowledge in your head
- Bible knowledge is not to fatten your intellect
- You can go to Bible school and graduate and still do not know the Lord in the way that you should
- Drop the knowledge to the heart
- Jesus is master in answering questions as well as asking questions. Jesus did not answer questions objectively but further in a way that reach the heart and the conscience. Example : Luke 13:23-24 “Then one said to Him, “Lord, are there few who are saved?” And He said to them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
- Jesus did not answer yes or no, you focus on narrow gate, make sure you are in.
- The question is will you be there, not about many or not who will be saved
- The goal of bible study : We know the Lord by revelation
- Ephesus : a very spiritual church – Paul prayed that God give them the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation
- When you pray, use your words to express your feelings and emotions, only you can pray the pray God puts in your heart.
- If you realize the futility of human efforts , you will be praying all the time
- The closed doors sometimes a blessing from God. Sometimes you feel there is no favor in a certain area, actually God is bringing you to higher level.
- Job story : God does not use Devils.
- David dealt with difficult circumstances, with God , to build up characters of kingly, heavenly and loveliness
- God does not correct with accidents, sickmesses and tragedies
- You don’t need to judge people, leave them to the Father in Heaven
Bites of Truth
- You can not trust and worry at the same time
- Worry is meditation in reverse. If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate\
- John is leaning on Jesus bosom and ask “Who is it Lord?” – Leaning on Jesus bosom, trusting in His love , you can ask “What should I do?”
- A cow can not be chewing if he is not resting. Likewise, if you are chewing God’s words, you will be resting
- There are some Christians who only receive God’s words once a week when they are in church and after that they will not think about it anymore. Cows which are standing and grazing is the picture. They do not bring up the words.
- Meditating is where the cuds become milk
- You don’t need to worry how to be an impact for your children, when you chew on the word there will be milk for them. Don’t worry about effective ministry, just chew on the words and there will be food for them when the time comes.
- They are more people that graze than meditate.
- Job 14:7-9 At least there is hope for a tree:
If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
and its new shoots will not fail.
8 Its roots may grow old in the ground
and its stump die in the soil,
9 yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put forth shoots like a plant. - The dead place in my life will come alive at the scent of water (word of God)
- When you come and touch God’s words, dead spot come alive
- Every area is dead is revived and every part of our life start to flourish, blessed
- Even though tree has been cut down, root grow old, stump died,
- God’s words have the smell of prosperity, life and health, peace and salvation. Fruitfulness out of barrenness
- Expose yourself to the water
- He stretches out the north over empty space;
He hangs the earth on nothing. Job 26:7
God can hang the earth on nothing, Likewise. if you have nothing in your life, God can cause your life hang on nothing - When you full of the Spirit, you can say things without knowing nothing. you dont have to be smart but you can be accurate. You can go beyond the knowledge you have.
- Old testmanet : meditate on God’s promise and not laws. From New Testament : meditate redemptive truth
- Meditation connects with prosperity and profits. Whatever you do prospers, including your mistakes.
- Hollywood can present a lie or whatever they want because they present it in excellent way. on the other hand, the Church has the truth bit cannot be presented well. The Church has the substance and we need to present it excellently.
- Dont apologize for the word of God. Proclaim the truth and then back off, let the Holy Spirit take over.
- 1 Timothy 4:8 KJV 8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
- Meletao : attend to carefully, meditate : used of the Greeks of the meditative pondering and the practice of orators and rhetoricians
Developing Devotional
Trusting in God’s
Word is trusting in the very source of all that is created in the Universe. By
daily meditating on the Word of God, we are tapping upon the very source
of power that created this Universe. God Himself guarantees His own Word
(Hebrews 6:17-18).
The things of the Spiritual World were not designed to be swallowed in
one big gulp; they were designed to be partaken one portion at a time just
like we have our physical daily infusion of air, water and food
We might not have felt
the immediate effect in our lives (sometimes we do) but through time its
effect, compounded over months and years, have a revolutionary impact
upon all of our life.
Success in both the natural and spiritual world is by growth and not
merely by our efforts. We grow into success rather than work for success.
We grow into the mighty things of the Spirit rather than strive for them. We
grow into the character of Christ rather than trying to be like Christ. The
New Testament is not
the Old Testament with different laws; the New
Testament is a new way of living and not a new set of creeds.
God manifests measures of His presence on
earth in direct proportion to the cloud of thanksgiving, praises and worship
that we could surround ourselves with.
How To Meet Jesus In The Word
- “He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.” — Numbers 23:21 (KJV)
- Because burn offerings was going up covering all Israel, ensoothing the sweet fragrance smellling aroma.
- We are all unto God, sweet fragrance of Christ. The fragrance cover all nasty smells of jealousy, resentments etc
- Like Isaac clothed by animal skin with sweet fragrance that cause Jacob to bless him, we are clothed with Jesus, sweet smelling aroma to God that cause Him to bless us
- Lowest task : gleaning. Lev 23:22 22 ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field when you reap, nor shall you gather any gleaning from your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the Lord your God.’
- 26 Jesus answered them and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. 27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.” John 6:26-27
When you open the Bible, you are laboring but He is giving - Isaiah 55:12 “For you shall go out with joy, And be led out with peace; The mountains and the hills Shall break forth into singing before you, And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
- The result of spending time in the Word is Isaiah 55:12
- The different level of learning the Word of God
- gleaning what others are harvesting
- reaper/harvester – pastors, teachers, evangelists
- Boaz :in Him is strength
- You wont meet techniques or formula, but person. You will meet at the point of your needs
- Bible is multilayer. Bible is rich field.
- Ruth 2:1-20 “Please let me go to the field, and glean heads of grain after him in whose sight I may find favor.” Ruth is gleaning after him whose sight I may find favor. She is going to the filed to meet the person to find favor with. When you open bible, confess that you will meet Jesus in the book
- Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—
In the volume of the book it is written of Me—
To do Your will, O God.’ Heb 10:7 - Psalm 40:7-8 7 Then I said, “Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book it is written of me. 8 I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart.”
- Emmaus Road : expounding things concerning Himself
- Ruth has special connection with Boaz but she did not pull strings. To “pull strings” means to secretly use your personal power, influence, or important friends to get a favor or an unfair advantage.
- You get very little gleaning if you dont go to church. In church , pastors, preachers are harvesting the word and you can glean and to feed the word and to pick up nuggets of truth.
- Ruth 2:3 “Then she left, and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech”
- Once you confess favor, your future are happenings. God’s way is believe first and you will see.
- We are fallen and perverted, we want to see first and then we speak. When a machine breakdown, we go to manufacture handbook to find how we are made. Likewise, we are fallen, we need to go to Bible to see how we are made and redeemed.
- When we spend time in the Word, God will cause your haps to happen and your days become full, your sleep will be sweet. God prepare your right happenings. We’ll be able to do lots of things in short time. God will bring things we need to attend to and you will accomplish much more.
- Spending time in the word and pray is not a waste time, but they will bring you to right place and right time, the haps.
- When I neglect God’s words, I find my days is not so well
- Martin Luther : I am so busy, I cant afford not to pray.
- Ministry which is full of Holy Spirit will never call attention to the Spirit, but to Jesus Christ.
- Holy Spirit empowers us by His Gifts and characters by the Fruit
- When you attend church or cell group, whatever you get, you are gleaning what is drop even though you dont understand fully.
- Just reap the word – sounds right but it is not. God gives gifts and teachers. God’s word is organic raw foods.
- Divinely orchestrating : Bible
- Our inner man is not cheap, and can not be satisfied with anything less than Jesus. The only bread, the field that feeds. We are made for eternity.
- Stage 1 Gleaner who trust in God’s favor, then he found the reapers who know the fields and then he meet the Master.
- Reapers : transfer wheat into bread.
- Spend time with Jesus, beholding Jesus and your fear melts away
- Reapers gather for the Master.
- Jesus always tells the good things you have done.
- God gives you grace to do what He wants you to do and then He rewards you for using the grace He first gave you.
- He tells you to love Him and He gives you the love to love Him and then He blessed you for loving Him with His love.
- The LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.” Ruth 2:12
- Spoken kindly – Ruth 2 : 13
- If you preach God’s word about something, anointed preaching. God can use it to many hearts that is not related to the topic.
- Feed your way into His goodness and abundance. Feed His goodness.
- Now Boaz said to her at mealtime, “Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed parched grain to her; and she ate and was satisfied, and kept some back. Ruth 1:14
- Parched grain : deep truth
- But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! Luke 15:17
Interpretation of the Song of Songs
Sermon : Experience Abundant Life When You Feed On Jesus
- The most beautiful, loving, greatest song is the song that describe the love of Christ
- Three ways to interpret Song of Songs :
- Dispentionally : Israel and Jehovah
- Redemptively : Christ and His Bride
- Individually : Me and Christ
- Eight chapters and different players in the book : daughters of Jerusalem, shepherd King, city, watchman, Shulamite woman
- Seven depictions of Christ
- Shepherd and flocks
- Chapter 1:12 – King and His table. Jesus is hosting us, He is prepare the table in the presence of enemies
- The merchant man / business man and His fragrance
- Chapter 4 : Gardener and His garden with beautiful flowers – devotional life
- Chapter 5 : Bridegroom and His Bride – His physical attributes that refer to spiritual truths
- The Lover and His Beloved
- The Lord of the Vineyard
- If you lost the first love, do the first work to revive it. Love is a verb and not a feeling
- Shulamite – female word of Solomon
- First coming of Jesus : gold frankincense and myrrh. Myrrh represent bitterness. At second coming, no more myrrh
- Universe is made by time, space and matters
- Jesus is the Lord of time. Story of water into wine. Good wine in Israel takes 7 years because teaching of Torah and Talmud. Every 7 years land rest. Compare to modern approach 3-4 years. The lowest place on earth is dead sea. Jesus compressed time. Time has triunity : past, present, future. Jesus can go back to your time and heal you. He can go to your future and prepare it for you.
- Jesus is the Lord of space.
Story : Jesus healed nobleman’s son from distance. “Jesus said to him, ‘Go your way; your son lives.’ So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.” — John 4:50 (NKJV)
Space has three dimensions Length, depth and height - Jesus is the Lord of matter. Story : 2 bread and 5 fish. He multiplied matters. Energy, motion and fenomena
- Jehovah/Yahweh : the One who was, who is and who is to come. The One who is continually existing.
- The most important thing is come to Jesus.
- “I am dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, Like the tents of Kedar, Like the curtains of Solomon.” Songs 1:5
- I am dark, but lovely – We are sinful, but Jesus loves us. He put His beauty, His righteousness on us
- “Tell me, O you whom I love, where you feed your flock, where you make it rest at noon.” Songs 1:7.
She is craving food and rest. - Come unto me, I will rest You. Matt 28. There is something royal and different about you because You are in the presence of Christ
- If you want more feeding, feed others. What you learn from the Word, and feed them the good food. In feeding, you are fed.
- Feed people by unveiling Jesus. It is not hard to talk someone you love, it is a flow, comes from your heart. When people ask about your wife or husband or children, you can talk about them out of your heart and flowing
- Feed my lamb, tend my sheep , feed my sheep. Jesus biggest concern is His flocks. Lamb : younger believers, tend – protect, and feed sheep – all believers.
- He will feed His flock like a shepherd;
He will gather the lambs with His arm,
And carry them in His bosom,
And gently lead those who are with young. Isaiah 40:11 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrelJhZ2I0U Isaiah 40:11 song
- Fighting by feeding the Word. Fighting from, not for, victory. Stand on your position as conqueror
- Hebrews : Lechem vs Lachem.
- Whatever you give Him, he will multiply. If you give the Lord time, He will multiply it
- We make time for what is important
- 11 “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for[a] a fish, will give him a snake instead? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” Luke 11:11-13
- Holy Spirit is the best thing.
- Matthew 7:9–11
“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” Matthew 7:9-11 - Put your minds on the bright side of life. Illustration : 2 prisoners looking behind bars, one is looking down at mud while the other looking up at stars. Both are reality, but stars will not pass while muds will pass away.
- snatch victory from the jaws of defeat vs snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
- Divine health is better than divine healing
- Manna is a picture of heavenly food.
- Had rained down manna on them to eat,
And given them of the [a]bread of heaven.
25 Men ate angels’ food;
He sent them food to [b]the full. Psalm 78:24-25 - If you enjoy the food that comes from God, you will be kept healthy
- Bread – systematic exposition of the doctrines of the Bible. Basically, it is about expounding on Christ. Jesus says I am the bread of life. The Shepherd feeds bread that is Himself / the portion of Himself. Bread is the Person of Jesus.
- Fish is always moving/ motion. It is practical application.
- Bread without fish is not really enjoyable food. It goes together
- Ephesians 1-3 : bread – indicative – position in Christ, what you have in Christ, what Christ has become to you
- Ephesians 4 – 6 : fish –
- Fish has fin that kept the bad out, the good in. Fin make them get out of danger places fast
- Egg : you can get food or meat. Take home with you to incubate, to meditate. It will produce life.
- Stone : ministry that is legalistic, and beating. There is no life. Never preach out of bitterness and anger. Stone hurts and can kill
- Snake : poison in the mouth. They will put doubts on God’s words.
- Scorpion : poison/sting is in the tail. Example : explain salvation but close with not everyone will make it.
- Everything from Jesus is bread and fish and egg.
Divine Healing, Divine Health and Longetivity
Believe He Wants To Heal And Provide
- All animal sacrifices never tortured before sacrifice, but Jesus did. This is the love of God : By His stripe, we are healed
- The disease lost its hold over you.
- They overcome Satan by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony of what Jesus has done – deliverance, peace of mind, healing
- The manifestation is God’s part, our part is to believe. It can manifest 30 fold, 60 fold until 100 fold, full manifestation.
- The Spirit of faith : thank God and continually believe
- When you preach what God wants to do through us and for us and in us: that’s grace – gracious words : Luke 4:22
- Law : what you do for God, you shall not , you shall not
- Be conscious of God’s present activity, future activity. It is not about I can do, I will do
- Under old covenant : Leper and blind only can be cured by Messiah
- The only person cured was Naaman, Syrian captain, a gentile. Elisha did not meet and touch him. Elisha is a servant. Jesus is the Master who cleanse by words
- When our faith is failed , it does not mean the truth of God needs to be compromised. Something there is great anointing in operation that help us receive easily
- Preach healing, people’s faith rise up. You dont preach healing , you just stay at your level
Kairos
- Don’t wait an event to happen, then you say you are prosperous. Goals and prosperity is not destination, it is the journey. Learn to enjoy where you are, that is success, you will see your destination, the prosperous journey
- Be ready and be equipped, to be fitted for the master’s use – hear His voice, study the Word. God does not use lazy people
- Ecclesiastes 9:11: 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 : eeth (hebrews) , kairos (greek)
- CHANCE : paga (occurence)
denotes an event that overtakes a person—an “occurrence” that can be either morally neutral (Ecclesiastes 9:11) or adverse when paired with רָע (evil) in 1 Kings 5:4. The underlying idea is “that which meets” someone, reflecting the verb pagaʿ (“to encounter, touch, intercede”). In biblical thought, what “happens” to people is never outside God’s knowledge; even seeming accidents are woven into His providence. - HAPPEN (QARAH) : refer to favorable opportunity/time
- He makes time and chance happen to you
- Kairos depict harvest
- Gen 24 – then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed, for all his master’s goods were in his hand. Tithe represent all
- Next level : before you call, He answers
- Gen 24:21 mention first about “prosperous – tsalach (hebrews) or euodoo (greek)” Used in 3 John 1:2
- Euodoo
to grant a prosperous and expeditious journey, to lead by a direct and easy way
to prosper, be successful - Three kinds of gifts : vocal gifts, revelation gifts, power gifts
- Half shekel = atonement money, the idea of redemption
- Nose represents quick understanding = quick smell – nose
- Become man of discernment – not judge based on what you see with eyes, and not reproof by what you hear with ears
- Nose gifts – not something you can develop, as God’s people we have to be able to discern.
Nose ring half shekel – bought by redemption - Pray for tokens / manisfestation of what has been shared now, open doors of opportunity, grant them kairos
Divine Healing
- 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.