equal weight?

mark 24 amplified

And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure ^[a][of thought and study] you give [to ^[b]the truth you hear] will be the measure ^[c][of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you–and more [besides] will be given to you who hear.

The same All the scriptures go by the law of weight. I looked up glory one time and it said it was “weight” Since the bible provides a way to discene your heart it acts like a mirror. For instance if you have sin active in your heart or fear certain verses when you read them will have fear attached to them. They will in that spirit have more weight that other verses and will act to destroy not to help. However if you have love toward God in your heart and you read a verse it might have the weight of love that your heart has in it and act as life to you. Whatever is in your heart will mix with the verses to return to you. The way to read the bible correctly is with the spirit of love and truth. “speaking the truth in love we might grow up into him.” We need to have love and truth when we read the scriptures so that we wil have a heart that is being conformed to his image rather than just reflecting what we all ready have in there.

When A scripture is bothering you it is pointing out something wrong in your heart. Make sure you give equal weight to the other verses about mercy and love. “through mercy, truth and love is a heart changed.”

theres something there to steal

I was praying about something and afterwards as I was beliveing for it I was harassed. I would just be sitting there and thoughts would come like “thats not going to happen”. They kept comming and comming. I was annoyed I finnaly asked God why am I getting thoughts like this so persistently. God said becasue “theres something there to steal”. When we pray and believe God its GOING to happen. The unseen rascals that rule this world go to work to steal what is about to happen while its still a seed. The reason they are harrasing you is because there is something REAL there to steal. If satans harrasing you about a prayer you prayed, or weather or not your saved, or if God loves you, or telling you your kids are going to go bad or whatever its because there is something there to steal. All he needs to do to steal it is have you agree with him about it and thats it, its stolen.

the kingdom of God is operating now

The kingdom of God is here now. When a king gives a decree its the law. Its all operating. like gravity or the laws of thermodynamics. As is your faith it is being done to you right now. Well all of Gods decrees are working. For us they become active when we believe. We act on the word with faith and patience. Eventually our reality changes. Either we believe the new government based on faith and Gods limitless power or we are believing our physical senses and our canal mind. Because its all ready done is why Jesus sat down waiting for his enemies to be his footstool. He sowed his life and then he sat down. He paid for your peace, your sins, your healing. When we believe we enter into what he has done. He’s all ready accomplished your salvation, he has all ready made you well and prosperous. All this is static and waiting for us in its completed form. It all starts with righteousness, you can have any part of him without him washing your feet. For instance the Bible says that righteousness has come upon all men. Do all have it? No. Are all healed? No, But it is there for them. The lord paid for every sickness and sin. He could not have left anything un-paid for. The lord showed me a wall plate that has power in it. Its always on just waiting for someone to plug in. How can you put this work for you? Is poverty a problem? study how Christ was made a curse for you and that poverty is under the curse. Know the promises for prosperity. Once you believe them then that is law for you. All creation will have to bow to God sword based the death of his son for you. Out of a good mans heart good things come to pass and out of a evil mans heart evil things come to pass. Get Gods words in there. We are in a glory economy now. Glory means weight. Give God’s word weight. Everything was made by Gods word for God’s word. Get your heart in agreement with heaven. Whatever you lock is locked and whatever you unlock is unlocked. Take every thought captive to the intimacy that you have with Gods word. That thought kingdom is working all the time, take dominion over it , be diligent and make the word of God rule there. Only you can make it work. The current governor is persistent always talking and putting out his spirit to destroy. Gods kingdom is voluntary. Jesus said the way to life is vigorous and demands all your attention. The kingdom of God is in your heart and come through his words. once you believe for it the other current government has to move aside and allow heavens provision in. Whatever measure you believe for it will be measured back to you. Another example, in the area of righteousness. he tasted death for everyman, Righteousness has come upon all men, and the effect of righteousness is peace. Do you have peace? If not you can meditate on Gods word until you believe it. In this case meditate or study righteousness. When you believe you have it then you WILL experience peace. Since Gods word is law it would be impossible for you not to have that peace. Thats the kingdom. Everything God said is working now. It says in Hebrews only we who believe God can enter. How does faith come? faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. We can stand on the words of God instead of present reality or reasoning. Gods word goes beyond reasoning, God can do ANYTHING. It says he can do exceedingly above all we can ask or think ACCORDING to the power that works with in us? what is God’s power? The word says I am not ashamed of the good news of Christ for it is the power of God to them that believe. So its power released by faith. Imagine a diplomat in another country. Even though the laws of the county he is in say one thing his country says another. His position as a diplomat gives him immunity from those laws. For instance the law of this world is the law of life in the flesh. Being motivated by the want of the eyes, the want of the flesh and the pride of life. The law of sin and death is active. However you as a citizen of heaven can live free from the law of sin and death by activating the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. You can be free from your old man. As the bible says it those that belong to Christ have crucified there flesh and the wants and affections there of. Not by your effort but by living with Christ by faith. Your a branch not the vine. Without him you can’t do a thing.  His power comes into your life through faith and stops your flesh. You can demonstrate this in a spot check way by trusting Christ the next time you get mad of the next time you want to overeat or watch too much tv. Christs power will be there and he will make you want to do his will and then enable you to do it. God wants us to live in union with Christ like this all the time. He grows more and more in you as you trust him. In this way you become conformed to the image of his dear son. All that power is inside that socket. His spirit, blood and his word is just sitting there waiting for you to plug in by faith.

to clean the heart

from the Aramaic,
Truly the faith of God in you let be If you believe in your heart -if your heart becomes divided not the thing you say will happen.

The thing the knowledge of Good and Evil did to us is make for a double hearted person. This effectively cuts us off from Gods help because we can never believe. The bible says the god of this world blinds the mind of those who do not believe. Jesus says our FAITH makes us whole. The Bible said he made one man out of the two. To be one person again instead of two. It says that a heart is repaired by mercy truth and love. Once again we see righteousness in first place in the form of mercy. Seek first the kingdom of God and righteousness. The kingdom of God is the kingdom of the air. Currently it is ruled by the devil. That kingdom of the air is your inner self. All those thoughts images and beliefs, thats the kingdom. So its saying get that cleaned up first. Rightousness leads us to the cross. Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you. So to repair the heart your right standing with God because of Jesus sacrifice is first. With the heart you believe unto righteousness. You can tell if your doing this right for certain because you WILL have peace. The effect of righteousness is peace. And the work of righteousness is quietness and assurance for ever. If you think this is in error your arguing not with me but with the bible. You can prove it to yourself by taking a scripture that says your righteous by faith alone and meditate (meditate in the Hebrew means “chew the cud”) on it until you believe it. As you do things that go against that verse will come up but cut those ideas down by giving more weight to the word. You can use truth and love to give the word weight. When you actually believe it you will experience this crazy amazing peace. You will know if you have done it right. You must get that righteousness first. Jesus said unless you are will for me to wash away your moral guilt you can no part of me. Then truth which is the word. You have to have that in you so you can be cleaned up. He cleans up the heart through the washing of the water of the word. By these promises you might be partakers of the divine nature (or output).

The first and only copies of the bible were in Aramaic.

Jesus spoke Aramaic. The first and only copies of the bible were in Aramaic. They have translations of this Bible here.

Here are a few interesting translations. For instance about prayer.

Truly the faith of God in you let be   If you believe in your heart -if your heart becomes divided not the thing you say will happen.

Heres another

happy are those who are rinsing their robes that it will be license on the log of life and they may be entering the portals to the city REV 22:14

If we believe we will enter that state of resting We who believe are entering into the stopping, according as he has declared “as i swear in indignation, if they shall be entering into my stopping…! Although the works occur from the beginning of the world. for only we who believe God can enter. 

how to have a quiet heart, You can demonstate this to yourself now.

the work of rightousness is peace and the effect of rightousness is quietness and confidence forever.

When  you put faith in THAT sacrifice your bill is paid. faith in anything else won’t work. There is no other way to pay this bill. Only Christ could pay, only faith in his work is accepted. Once you believe Christ paid the full debt, really believe it then you WILL experience peace.  One of the ways I do it is through meditation. I get a piece of the word that says “he that takes refuge in him will be freely pardoned.” and go over and over the same verse. This brings up anything contrary to this in my heart. I then give more weight to the word than I Give to any other reasoning. “be careful how you hear, with the same measure you hear will be measured back to you. Once you actually believe you are rightouss the peace WILL come. Then continue trusting christ. It says he will keep our hearts quiet and at rest as we trust in him.

two men into one

It says that in the bible God made two men into one when he sent Christ.

By belief in the sacrifice of Christ the “power” of sin is defeated. This allows you to be free from its influence. Living in that spirit allows you to do the right thing. Sin is only empowered when it is a living thing. Faith in Jesus blood makes it dead, since Jesus paid for it. Once Jesus sacrifice is alive in you through faith, by just believing it, it makes sin dead in you. Sin is a spiritual thing, the law of the SPIRIT of life in Christ Jesus makes us free from the power of the law of sin and death. Trusting Jesus is the only righteousness there is. By faith his sacrifice is credited to you and stops sin from making you a spiritual idiot. When sin is operating in your life you can’t think right , just like Adam lost his mind after the fall and blamed eve and God in one sentence. Sin makes you a spiritual moron. Christs’ blood makes you think strait. Makes you sane. You can’t think right with sin active in your life.

Since the whole trouble with man was that knowledge of Good and evil The way to solve it would be to get rid of the knowledge of evil. If you got rid of that you would fix things to the way it was before the fall. Instead of a open door to fear, anger , guilt etc you would have a closed door. Faith in Jesus blood closes that door. We are to take every thought captive to the “knowledge” we have in Christ. This word knowledge in the Greek is where we get the word for sexual intercourse. It is oneness and a mating. The knowledge of evil is the same word. Jesus came in sinful flesh and his body met the punishment that sin brings. However since his body bore the punishment but was sinless we who have a sinful body can “get a divorce” from it by “marrying” Christ. Because in Christ The punishment for the body’s mis deeds have been paid. Faith is spiritual substance and when we have faith in what Christ did it becomes real in us. Just like the sin is real in us and exerts a power over us. Since we have obeyed sin we are then subject to it from then on. The bible says “the one you yield yourself to obey it will take you.” However belief in that blood sacrifice is the door into God and allows us to get a sin divorce. It puts out the fire. Then we can respond to God. Since our spirit is alive through righteousness and we can no longer produce it God gives us Jesus righteousness to sustain us. He’s the bread of life. Then he gives us right thoughts through his word that cleanse us from the wrong beliefs and thinking we got while being slaves of sin. Paul said he carried the death of Jesus with him always that the power of Jesus might be manifest. Its that death that makes two men into one and stops the confusion. The bible says the effect of righteousness is peace and quietness and assurance for ever. It says with the hart we believe unto righteousness. Without that belief it is not real inside us since faith is spiritual substance. If you meditate (chew the cud) on the words of God about our saviors sacrifice until it brings you peace you will be amazed. its called peace that passes understanding and it really works. As soon as your wrong ideas in your heart get changed into the right ideas by faith you experience that peace. It really works.Jesus said if you eye (in your heart) is evil (or dual) your whole body is filled with darkenss but if your eye is sound, solid (one eye) your whole body is full of light. The problem of the knowledge of good an evil is solved by starting here. see this sacrifice with a single eye. look at it only Gods way and no other. Don’t reason within yourself with your broken dual heart but with faith like a little child see it God’s way and only his way. When you do this peace comes. Standing only on Jesus righteousness brings two men into one and solves the problem created by “knowing” good and evil both. Now you only are in living union with good. You “know” good.

http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=1097

Strong’s Number: 1097

ginw�skw

Original Word		Word Origin
	ginw�skw		a prolonged form of a primary verb
Transliterated Word		Phonetic Spelling
	Ginosko		ghin-oce’-ko
Parts of Speech		TDNT
	Verb		1:689,119
Definition
	to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel to become known to know, understand, perceive, have knowledge of to understand to know Jewish idiom for sexual intercourse between a man and a woman to become acquainted with, to know

fear of =subject to : faith = protected from

When the devil appraoched God about Job he said that he could not get in because of the hedge God had about him. God told the devil see he is allready in your power. That power was fear. job said “the thing I have feared has come upon me.”

In proverbs we read he that breaks down a hedge will get bit by a serpent.

When we fear we are under the devils spiritual government. When we have faith we are in Gods governmental protection and protected by his hedge.

Fear=faith perverted

The bible says Jesus came to save those through fear of death who all their life had been “subject to” bondage.

Fear of death brings you to the death you fear.

The devil goes about like a roaring lion. Lions when they hunt never roar. Only weak old outcast lions roar. They are  roaring to try to get a animal to fear and freeze so they can catch it. They are too old and weak to catch it like other cats. I did a study on lions when I was in grade school.
Fear=subject to….Faith=protected from.

Its that simple.

The Cantaloupe of life. Living life form the inside out…

I saw something uninteresting the other day. A physics professor said that when Jesus showed up to the disciples and just appeared that he was moving in the sixth dimension. Now I don’t pretend to know what that means but he said from the sixth dimension you could eat a orange from the inside out.

When I woke up this morning the lord showed me a Cantaloupe.

People eating a Cantaloupe from the outside in might sort of scratch the surface with their teeth and taste the bitter peel but only a few would bite down hard enough to get some sweet fruit. Even then it might be mixed with peel and make the fruit well, un apealing. (sorry bout the pun)

Anyway if you eat the fruit from the sixth dimension you could eat the fruit and skip the peel. Your perception of the peel would see it was nessesesary to care for the fruit but wasnt what the fruit was all about. Those on the outside eating the peel would think there is something wrong with this fruit. A few would find some sweet fruit but mixed with the peel not so tasty.

When we live Gods way, by faith we see present circumstances in their true form. We know that our faith will change them and we can eat the sweet right now. Ask and believe that you receive them and you shall have them. From the inside out. First clean the inside of the cup then the clean outside will matter.

So we use Gods utensils which is the word of God and eat the sweet now, by faith, int the “sixth dimension” I guess and we can eat the fruit from the inside out instead of trying to eat it peel first.

People who live just on the surface will every once in a while git a taste of love or peace, but never get much and will be mixed with bitterness. Those who live in the spirit will have there love full on knowing the external things of life are like the peel. Thats why faith is so important. If i say I love you but you never believe it you will never feel it. When Jesus says he loves us we need to believe it. Living from the inside out. Then the circumstances won’t matter. WE take it by faith and its ours. Soon the circumstances will align with it. The feelings will come. It develops like a seed and soon the plant is here.

Its like we are being taught about life from someone that lives in more dimensions. From his perscepctive he sees that every command of his leads to life. Every thing he says is true. His reality is comming ot take over ours. From our perspective we don’t see it yet. We are on the out side with only a few dimensions to reference. He sees it all. Thats why its important to listen to him, mixed with love and truth. Then we can see. Jesus it says did not take what he saw or what he heard or felt as truth. He saw truth as truth dispite what other evidence there was. When he spoke to the fig tree he believed it was withered. Only afterwards did the disciples see it. We have been given keys to this inside dimension that controls the outside dimensions. Its our faith.

The two truths

Jesus said that a witness to him was in the world but that the world did not recognize him. He is the spirit of truth. There is another spirit of “truth” that is not truth at all. They even feel different. God is truth. The devil is called the God of this world. There are then two “truths.”

The devil wants to reign by getting people to give him the weight of truth. There is a real spirit of truth and it is different from the spirit of “truth” that rules the world. The fake truth comes behind silly ideas like “evolution” to give them weight. He tries to convince you with spiritual weight or force. For instance, if someone told you you would never amount to something that may be lodged in your heart. It may be backed up by a feeling. It should be replaced by what faith in what God says “I am God’s workmanship (in the Greek workmanship says “poem”) created in Christ Jesus for good works,” and “I am accepted in the beloved.” Give weight to that by faith to the word despite the past or what you feel like. To believe what any other thought says about you is to give that the weight of “truth”. You have to listen to him and give weight to HIS words. Jesus said if you continue in my words you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. Lies bind, truth sets free. Trusting Christ’s words puts you in his kingdom and takes you out of the devils. Jesus said be careful how you hear because with the same measure that you hear will be measured back to you. HE meets our needs according to his riches in glory (weight) through Christ Jesus. The anointed word of God mixed with faith.

The devil is all around you in thoughts, pictures, feelings (or spirit). The word needs to be your shielding and place of truth between you and thoughts that come in from the atmosphere. In Peter it says “an idle mind is a devils workshop.” Keeping you mind occupied keeps him out. Meditating is good for this which in the Hebrew means “chew the cud”. Another is making melody in your heart to the Lord.

The master faith, the one that opens the door to God’s goodness is believing in what Jesus did on the cross. Everything stems from that truth.

You need to spirit of truth in you. Ask God.

Luke 11:1-13 “How much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Once you ask you have done your part, he will do his part. No other validation is necessary. You have done your part, he will do his part. Every other thought that would try to talk you out of it is from the kingdom of this world. You need faith like a little child to get in Jesus said. Once you ask don’t look for any evidence other than what the word said. He will give it to you. You take it then before you see evidence.

let’s build something together

Faith is the substance of things hoped for.

Most everything in your heart gets there through faith. You give each word concept or idea a weight and then it stays or leaves. Jesus said “be carefull how you hear for the same measure that you hear will be measured back to you.” There are two spiritual values that really hammer in a thought. “speaking the TRUTH in LOVE we might grow up into him who is the head principality and power.

So you are building all the time. The word says that there will be a testing one day. Some will build with wood, hay and stubble and some gold, silver and precious gems.  All the works will go through the fire and then it says we will all have praise of God. So he will thank us for what makes it through. It says our God is a consuming fire. I believe the fire is truth in love. The holy spirit told me I needed to burn with love everyday so that I would do what is right and leave the trivial behind. The Bible says in first Corinthians 13 that without love my faith, efforts, and knowledge profits me nothing. Profits is whats left over after expenses. So if we are to build right we should build with truth in love. Each thought should be taken captive to Christ. Each thought is a nail, every act a timber in our house. Our heart is being formed. In a new living translation it says be careful how you think your life is made up by your thoughts.

The word of God is strong stuff. It has substance no matter what we do. Its enduring and lasts forever. We need tobuild with it.

The love of God is shed abroad in our heart through the holy Ghost. Its spiritual light.

While I was thinking of this I pictured a group of expert builders building a house in the dark.  It wouldn’t turn out well. Yet everyday we think, and do our stuff without love. It makes for a twisted building. In the message it says that a loveless world is a sightless world , and that only in the dark is there a danger of stumbling. So to get our house right we need to build in the light. The truth about who we are and where we are in history. Peter said prophecy is like a light shinning in a dark place and we would do well to pay attention to it until the morning star rises in our heart. I have a site with some nice pictures that can convince you of where we are in history at http://www.signsoftheend.blogspot.com It says if we have the hope of Christs coming soon in our heart we will purify ourselves as he is pure. We will get busy doing what is important instead of just thinking of today.

Christianity in a nutshell my response to tom cruises video on scientology

here is a link to the video

I saw a post where Tom cruises video had briefly appeared on you tube. The powers that be over there yanked it off you tube but once something is let go on the web its out there.

Anyway in the comment section I put a comment on what Christianity is to me since most people were likening Christianity to Scientology. So here is my “Christianity in a nutshell.

Ephesians 2:1-3 (Amplified Bible)
1 AND YOU [He made alive], when you were dead (slain) by [your] trespasses and sins

2 In which at one time you walked [habitually]. You were following the course and fashion of this world [were under the sway of the tendency of this present age], following the prince of the power of the air. [You were obedient to and under the control of] the [demon] spirit that still constantly works in the sons of disobedience [the careless, the rebellious, and the unbelieving, who go against the purposes of God].

3 Among these we as well as you once lived and conducted ourselves in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by our corrupt and sensual nature], obeying the impulses of the flesh and the thoughts of the mind [our cravings dictated by our senses and our dark imaginings]. We were then by nature children of [God’s] wrath and heirs of [His] indignation, like the rest of mankind.

Want real insight into Gods character?

Just a quick note on something God told me one time.

I asked him to tell me what he was like.

He told me that to understand him better that he wanted me to deeply think about this…

He said,

I made tickle spots on people on purpose,

now think about that.

Have you ever tickled a child? Did you know that the lord God of all time space and dimension, the one that hung on a cross to die for your sins, the one they made that impressive cathedral for?

He had to purposely design tickle spots when he designed man. That little giggle your kiddos make when they get tickled is designed.

What kind of mind designs tickle spots into humans? Think about that for very long while that will do you some good. Next time your getting too religious think about that.

Its fun to see the reaction in our minds when we think of this truth. This worlds dark and small ideas about who God is gleefully crashes in a heap upon this rock solid solid happy truth.

Its nice to see that kind of God playfully peeking out from behind the religious image of God the world creates in our mind. Watch how quickly the mind tries to go back to the old religious image but don’t let it, Make it obey the truth in this. Stare intently at the mind of deity revealed in the tickle me Elmo carefully designed into each of us. Soon you will see something real and wonderful.

(click on Elmo)

Eat your Supper!

I was in a steak restaurant called logans roadhouse. I am always amazed at how God made living machines that taste good. Talk about your multi tasking. Steak is yummy.

While there I saw a sign that said “eat your dinner” in neon. I thought about Jesus words

“my food is true food, my blood is true drink.”

Odd to most, but I live by this. What amazing cooking this is! How few partake. I know its hard to get my kids to come to the table they are always busy with their plans.

I come to eat. All my worthlessness the devil is so fond of bringing to my attention, my insecurities, my suspicions, my sin tarnished view of myself; ALL gone when I come to the table. But I have to eat.

I eat Jesus’ perfect performance as my own, I taste the new fresh “who I now am.”

Yummy! I see with one eye now looking unto Jesus instead of myself. The spiritual noise around me subsides, my thoughts become peace. Paul said he was constantly carrying around the death of the lord Jesus so that the life of Jesus could be seen in him. His sacrifice takes the power out my old man and makes me whole.

This is a real power in the spirit world. All the sin and muck you carry around all got there and exists by faith. Put more faith in what Jesus did than on your past. Give it more weight than your sin and you will receive peace. Eat your supper! Gnaw at whats been eating you. Bite back. The war is over I don’t have to fight myself anymore, he makes one man out of the two. Now this is a foundation.

love=The bond of perfection Sin=the evil urge

A kingdom divided against itself can not stand. Jesus said this. In the bible it also says that love is the “bond of perfection”. That means love binds together. That gives light to the command “love the lord with all your heart” and love your neighbor as yourself.

The devils strategy is to divide us and God and our fellow Christians. If we live in love we can’t be divided.

In the bible it says the spirits rule, and in the new testament it says the one you obey he will take you. Since you will have some sort of spiritual master why not choose God who is love. By keeping in love you stay in union with God. He then controlls you. You can, in love, offer yourself as a living sacrifice, holy the kind he can accept. By faith walk in love. The world looks different. You will think different since “love thinks no evil”. You will be failure proof since “love never fails.” You make your heart strong and sinless when you love. You will be one with God since God is love and “love is the bond of perfection”. When you walk in the light the bible says we have friendship one with another and that the blood of Jesus Christ Gods son continually cleanses us from all sin. This all starts by rightousness since “the love of God is IN Christ Jesus, and Jesus said that he that eats his flesh and drinks his blood abides in him. Thats our rightousness. We enter by his blood we stay clean by walking in love. He that abides in him does not sin, it says. Even Jesus said that as the father loved him so he loved us and for us to “make our home in his love.” God always tells me to stay in the house, the shelter of the most high.

Jesus rightousness=entrance>Gods Love=continuous shelter.

 See the post below about abiding in the secret place of the most high. It says in the old testament tthat God keeps us safe from the strife of tounges in a pavillion. All those icky thoughts go by by in the shelter. Once you peg your acceptance with God on Jesus alone, and then walk in love all that negative talk has got to go. When it shows up it looks pretty silly in the light of love. It tells us in the bible to put on the armor of light. Gods is light, pure light in whom there is no darkness at all, God is love. Without love all the nasty little impulses take control. In the greek sin is sometimes translated “the evil urge”. Those urges come from satans programing in your heart and the spiritual powers pulling strings in the spirit world. Jesus blood got us legal freedom from those impulses. It cut the strings. Then Jesus words reshape the heart to be like him. “speaking the truth in love we grow up into him who is the head principality and power.” When you start to walk in love the light goes on and you see how many little “urges” and “impulses” have taken you over. You start to weed them out and say no to them. There is suffering involved in this. Thats why it says he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sins. Those that belong to Christ have crucified their flesh with the lusts and appitites thereof. As you start to walk in the freedom Christ has bought you you can say no to the flesh, yes to God. It all culminates in Love. When we are in love we live in God and we become one with him. This is what Jesus wanted when he prayed we would be one with him as he is with his father. Love is the bond of perfection. Love wants to be the spiritual boss. The one you obey he will take you it says. With LOVE calling the shots you become alive again, your spirit ascends over your flesh and carnal mind. Thats why it says the mind set on the flesh is death, the mind set on the spirit is life and peace. It also says we were like the others children of wrath who obey the impulses of the flesh and the mind.  We need to get in line with the spirit of God, Who is love. All this is due to Jesus and his power over sin.

By the way two important sources of love. One you are a branch not a vine. We love him because he first loves us.

When we recieve Gods love, by faith then we love him. Its exausting to do it the other way around. Meditation helps here, in the jewish bible meditation is translated like a cow “chewing the cud”. The cow eats grass, burps it up and chews it swallows it, goes to another stomach and then burps it up etc etc. Mediating on Gods love by his word and by his testimonies.

We focus on Gods love for us and we naturally love back. The other source is that the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the holy spirit. Its there to use and develop by faith. You can start shining it all around and make your heart bright and clean inside! Its used by faith. Its kind of mazing what happens when you start to practice it. Its like you had this treasure you never knew you had.  

The Bright and Morning Star is still there.

 I was looking at the sky in the early morning and saw the morning star. Its venus and its very bright against the black sky.

I was thinking about feelings. Somtimes in your walk with God your feelings are intense. Sometimes they are not. As I was thinking about this God said look out the window again. I looked and the sun was up the sky was a pale blue. I could not see the morning star anymore but I knew it was still there. A entire world blotted out. A min ago it was so clear. Gods word, Gods Love is like that. We can believe it even if we don’t see it. I remember when I was healed of asthma and after a few days I had a little wheeze. I could at that point look to the symptoms and belive I had asthma again. Instead I said in myself “by his stripes I was healed.” The next breath was perfectly clear. I know I can stand on the word even if symptoms and circumstances say different. The word can change my circumstances, my feelings.

I can look up at the sky in the daytime and even though I can not see the stars I know they are there.  I can’t see them in the day and if I could they really look small from here. In fact they are greater and larger than the earth on which I stand. The blue sky and the distance hide the truth about whats up there. Feelings and circumstances are like that when the word of God is concerned. God’s word rules the universe, but with so much other light around and from this perspective it sometimes looks small. Thats decieving. It actually caused everything to come into being. Its the very building blocks of matter. My feelings and circumstances seem bigger, brighter but in reality they are not. The word is bigger, brighter, permanant.  

Jesus said that when the storms came that the house that stood firm was based on a rock.  Feelings, circumstances are shifting sand.

Where did God go?

This is a little post for when you think God has left you or you don’t feel his presence. I had one of those times and God told he to “take out the trash”. So I did and as I was walking outside God said “look up”. He said “where are the stars and the moon?”

It was overcast and the clouds blocked the stars and moon.

I said “they are there but behind the clouds”.

He said “I am still here too”.

I thought that was nice. On a scriptural basis not feeling Gods presence or wondering where he is usually always comes down to us not walking in love. We have become offended, or sinned, both are express exits from God’s presence. Also when you are offend and walk out of love you stumble in the dark and don’t know what your stumbling over according to 1 John. At those times I usually go over a few truths. Like that God loves me as much as he does Jesus. (he does you know according to the bible). I remember verses like, we love him because he first loved us, we have come to know and believe the love which God has for us, etc. Then I go over some kind and loving things God has done for me and then make sure I haven’t become offended with my neighbor. If I have I repent and start loving that person. There is a good book about how the devil traps us and gets us out of the love walk. Its called the bait of Satan. It will help you avoid about 80% of what the devil throws at you.

Instant peace, a place of shelter, make the Devil dissapear! PARALYZED!

Freeze the devil!

This is not going to make sense to most of you but to Christians undergoing trials it will really help. One of the most important things you can get is a handle on the righteousness that God gives. It is so important that God says to seek it first. It brings peace and a place of rest. The effect of righteousness is peace.

Isaiah 32:17 The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

SO since this is spiritual law lets make the law work for us. It also promises that those that receive the gift of righteousness and the abundance of grace will reign in life. Also it will take you out of religion directly into relationship.

Let me show you what Jesus showed me,

(yes, Jesus will show up and talk to you, John 14:21 He who has my commandments and obeys them (theres really only two) –he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will clearly reveal myself to him.”)

I was on the porch and was having some troubles with el-diablo. If your a Christian you know what I am talking about, if not you will think I am nuts. Anyway Jesus shows up and shows me as I am having trouble with the devil how to make the devil disappear. I mean gone, like he does not even exist in my world. As I was being spiritually harassed He pointed out a little Chevron car, you know the one with the cute eyes.

The car looked at me kind of menacingly if you can believe it. (God is fun by the way.) Anyway then he showed me kinda like a box in the sky, (I didn’t see it with my eyes but in the spirit) He said that’s my righteousness, the box. You never did anything to make it, its something that happened completely out of your control. Take it as your own. Let that box be your righteousness completely severed from anything you did or did not do. Let it answer any questions about your right standing with me. As I took it as mine, and believed it I saw the eyes of the chevron car turn from menacing to dead, like it was a dead stick. It then got very quiet and the spiritual harassment was gone! Then I let go of the righteousness box and the harassment started, and the car looked mean again. Put the box back on and the car went dead and instant peace. Wow. now that’s a gift. So if I keep this “box” I can make the devil go away, anytime I want to, then I walk in love and boom chucka-lucka boom…

 

No devil, hes gone, Nada, he doesn’t exist in my universe.

 

Jesus said it was because with his righteousness on the Devil has no legal right to me. Wow this works, now I know what it means when it says that Jesus disarmed the principalities and paralyzed them.

Colossians2:15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

Taking Jesus righteousness as your own takes every weapon the devil has and makes him freeze! wow so now your still armed with your sword and your opponent has no weapons! Remember how God said when a man fully armed guards his house its safe till someone better armed comes. Well bless, God, with Jesus righteousness THEY are disarmed and you are still armed. Now in peace you can get everything back the devil stole from you and hes frozen off in the corner!

True food, true drink!

Since God said seek ye first his kingdom and his righteousness it is super important and first means first, So it must be the way to start the whole Christian walk. Why war against a guy with weapons if you can disarm them first. Wow this makes the Christian walk a way easier. And the peace Wow, the peace. Its amazing!!!

Like a hot knife through butter

When you read the Bible you have to see it through the window of your heart. The Bible says a mans heart colors everything you see. Well your heart all ready has all kinds of stuff in it. Stuff from your past, stuff the devil sowed in it, fear, religous ideas. Well if you read the bible without care your prior experiences and other junk can color the word so that you don’t see it right.

In the wrong spirit the word that was meant to heal could hurt.

What to do? well the bible gives us the answer. “speaking the truth in love we might grow up into all things.” So we need the spirit of truth. That means is should be heavy, serious and the final say. But truth without love leads to wierd religious stuff. Truth without love is easily colored by fear. Fear is the basis of all kinds of religious junk and leads to little rules and hurt feelings. Your hidden fears backed up by a bible verse or two can change a life for the worse. Truth colored by love is what is needed. These two spiritual powerhouses make you “see” in your heart corectly. Like a hot knife through butter you will cut through all the junk in your heart . The Bible talks about having the eyes of your heart enlightened. Jesus talks about having a single eye, or light in you. Truth in love puts the bible in correct persective and puts the correct spiritual forces behind the word so that you can grow instead of be injured. The word of God read hap-hazerdly is dangerous. Be sure to have these powers out when you read the word. I often go over and over a promise till I get is set in truth and love. Rember God answers your prayers like this. He can do exceedingly abundant ly above all that you ask or think ACCORDING TO THE POWER THAT WORKS WITHIN YOU. I belive that power is the word and faith. Well if you can have anything you ask for if you don’t doubt (mark 11:24) You need some faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word. Put some truth and love behind the word and get that heart in shape fast. (proverbs say with a dull axe much strength is needed) Truth in love puts a razor sharp edge to the word you read.

The true blueprint for youself

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I read in the message translation “self SACRIFICE is my way to finding your true self”. I also read “put off the old man and put on the new man created in the image of him who created it.”

The way this works in me is, well here is a example. Lets say my son Ben messed up my cd drive on my laptop (true story). Now my first reaction is to yell and be upset, saying things that make my boy upset as well. However since I have learned about Christ and his burden removing, yoke destroying power of God. So right away I “put on Christ” through faith. I draw from the vine. By trusting Christ right away in this little crisis I activate the “law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus” that supercedes and inactivates the “law of the sin and death.” Kinda like how the law of lift on a airplane supercedes the law of gravity. About Christ it says “living in you as you trust in him”, so I am trusting, right now when I need it. What happens is I “tap into” Christ through that trust and am very calm with my boy. I explain to him how to use the cd rom, how he should call me to help if he has trouble. I don’t yell, no mean tones. Wow now thats living right. What a gift this is. No more evil me and I can be the kind of dad I always wanted to be. Not in my own strength but through the strength of trusting Christ. These are spiritual laws and they work just like the law of gravity or thermodynamics. Turns out that as I go with this that God wants me to live by trusting Christ all the time not just when I am in crisis. Christ becomes my self control and my wisdom. The Annointing has broken my “yoke”.

This goes along with abide in me and you will produce good fruit. I now also understand what Paul says when he says “I die daily”. He also said I am crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, the life I live in the body I live by faith in the son of God, who loves me and gave himself for me. So now I can be a good person and no longer moved about by my flesh. Jesus said I have to give up my life to save it and if I cling to it I would lose it. So now I know what this means. “AS YOU RECEIVED CHRIST JESUS  SO WALK YE IN HIM.  It says to those that recieved him to them gave he power to become the sons of God even to those that believe in his name. So we have power to be able to be good, no longer just having to follow rules. (the law leads to death)

When I was in sunday school I was told a lot of stuff I could do adn stuff I couldn’t. I tried to play that game but found I would mess it up and do bad stuff anyway. Then later when I really wanted to know how this worked I read romans 6, 7, 8. I found out it wasn’t up to me to be good, but that I had help. I could trust Jesus to be good in me. That ended the frustration of trying to be good by myself. The power to be good is through trusting Christ

The kingdom of God is like a seed

Just like God spoke and said “let there be light”

he speaks into the world today with his word. His words fall like seed and those that value those words grow in direct relation to the weight or importance they give those words. So his words are sent out to create in our hearts. Those that grow and are green he keeps as good word containers. He knows he can get a return on his word with those good ones in whom produces fruit. Those that reject the word don’t know truth, the real truth. They think truth is some other spirit than the real spirit of truth so the seed never grows in them. There is a real spirit of truth and those that really love truth find it.

To sharpen those words we can use truth and love. Speaking the truth in love we can grow up into him. Read the hot knife through butter post above.

Why does God say hide in his shadow when he has none?

God has no shadow. Since God is light and in him is no darkness at all I was curious about how God could have a shadow, I asked God about this and what I got back was,

“what part of the Godhead casts a shadow?”

Well Jesus would be the only one who ever did. So if we are standing in Jesus shadow he covers us from Gods judgment and we abide under his wings. I always knew that the secret place was in Gods love, but the bible says “the love of God is in Christ Jesus,”. How are we in Christ Jesus? “He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me”. Once we accept Jesus as our righteousness we have peace. The effect of righteousness is peace. So he is the covering from Gods judgment and our peace. “I will keep him in a pavilion safe from the strife of tounges” What he says about us becomes the place where we hide, rather than what we think about us. The Safety and security that Jesus perfect performance purchased is then ours, and satan’s legal rights are void thanks to the blood. Once you believe this legally you should experience and are owed peace. This goes along with my post below entitled “how to make the devil disappear” At the very bottom you can see a link to previous posts, be sure to click on that.

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According to the riches of glory, what does that mean?

I was asking what the term “according to the riches of glory” as in my God shall supply all your needs according to the riches of glory through Christ Jesus.

I wanted to know what “according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” means. So I asked. What I was told was to find out what glory meant. It seems to mean “weight” or how awesome it is, you know heavy. To give something value. SO its like this

(riches is a variable) x Weight by (Christ Jesus, the word)=amount of supply

So in the same measure you give the words and trust Christ will be measured back to you. This is born out by other scriptures like “be careful how you hear for with the same measure that you hear will be measured back to you.” and what ever you sow you reap. This would make sense because it would be the way to make sure that everyone was treated fairly, including Christ. Since he made all this world and everything was made for his glory then anyone attributing glory to him should get a return. Also God would want to make sure to put growth and blessings in branches that produce. Since The real purpose of existence seems to be love and the glory of God then anything that gets in line with that purpose is blessed eventually. Its probably a little more complicated than this but in general I can see it working. For instance if someone puts faith in Gods word for salvation they receive it even if they say don’t ever believe in divine healing. By the way in the message Bible it translates that “green the color of glory.” I found that interesting since a lot of the world is green and that there is a green rainbow over Gods throne.

Joke God told me when I said some people think hes a cow.

I was talking to God and saw something on tv. I said God some people think you are a cow. He shot back udderly ridiculous! I thought that was funny.

How to turn Mike Tyson into Gary Coleman

Had a interesting experience. I started to meditate on how much God loved me by going over some of my prayer answers and Mr diablo showed up with some of his junk. Being in love though turns him in to a much smaller and less formidable foe. I was amazed that energized by love the devils once fiery darts that once hit hard fell with all the power of a water soaked tortilla! I launched the word at him and it cut through him like he was warm jello! What you talking about Willis!

Love is quite a power stance, Think about that next time the devil comes a calling. It says if you obey the law of love you will find your obeying all the others.

The bible (the message translation) says put on love, make it your everyday garment, never be without it. Do all things with love. Jesus said make your home in my love and he also say why do you call me lord and do not what I say. Making our home in love is a important commandment. Its the shelter of the most high spoken of in psalms 91.

Word from the dojo!

Growing in Grace

Grace is undeserved favor. To get something for free that you did not earn and don’t deserve.

Grace is harder for us adults but children think nothing of it. If I brought a new bigscreen  Tv to my son Ben he would be very excited! He would call his nana and papa and tell them all about it. He would have no guilt about it and wouldn’t give it a second thought.

If I bought the same TV and gave it to my friend Brent it would be hard to make him take it. He would say it’s too expensive etc. If he did finally take it he would soon come to the conclusion that he needed to give me something as expensive. As he watched it he might even have a twinge of guilt.

God gives us free forgiveness and some of us receive it. That may be why God said you have to have faith like a little child. Some of us would sort of receive it but then keep doing stuff to earn it.  You know the R word (religion)

In the old testament it says that if you sold everything in your house and gave it in exchange for love it would be utterly despised. I think we should get childlike in regards to grace and grow in it. Realizing Gods gifts to us are pure grace frees us from trying to measure up to receive it and allows us to accept Gods best instead of begging on the fringes of what we think we deserve.

Cyclops faith!

Seeing things one eyed is a lot of power.

God talks to me about being one eyed a lot. In your heart you have eyes. Jesus said if our eye be single your whole body is full of light. If your eye is double or evil pluck it out. Evil in translations means “dual.” Its where we get duplicitous, or not true.

He always talks about one eye as good and two eyes as evil. Like if your eye offends you pluck it out. It’s better to go to heaven with one eye instead of two. Childlike faith is one eyed faith. Not suspicious or wavering. Thats why the knowledge of good and evil is so bad. Since faith is the substance, wavering damages reality in the spirit world. It destroys.

Its interesting to see in the Bible that when God talks about you, he talks single eyed language. You can see this all through the scripture. Its not an accident that when he speaks about you he talks “one eyed,” but when he puts his judgment hat on for the wicked he talks two eyed.

I will guide you with mine eye upon you. Its kinda code for “I see you as good”.

It’s an inside joke kind of, I like the way God hides these things. They are fun to find.

I was taught by God to put my love goggles on the eyes of my heart. Its funny when God was telling me about it, I looked up and saw on the TV someone looking through binoculars. It says a mans heart colors everything he sees. Your heart is the gateway of the kingdom of God into this world. Whatever you allow on heaven is allowed on earth. We have the keys. We open and close all the doors through believing.

God says that by His stripes I am healed, and your five physical senses say you are not. God says you are righteous but you don’t feel that way. God says he became poor that you might become rich, and that the blessings of Abraham might come upon the gentiles through faith, but your bank account numbers are low.

Putting weight on both makes it impossible for God to help you. Why because your being double minded, dual, duplicitous, twisted, wicked or evil. It may not seem that way to you but God being righteous would do wrong to answer your prayer on shaky faith. He’s not going to violate the law for you or anyone, even though he may care deeply he still can’t break the law. Thats why Jesus talked about them having many widows during a famine but Elijah was sent to only one. God will step over the world to get to one person with faith. He’s anxious to do you Good. Give God something to work with and he will step in. 

He makes stuff out of faith, and as is your faith be it done unto you. Have you ever seen how Jesus went into one town and could do no mighty miracles because of their unbelief? A wavering man got nothing according to James. Jesus said to be careful how you hear because with the same weight you give, it will be measured back to you. The word has to get glory, to be put first place, first. It’s the purpose of all creation, LINE UP WITH THAT. Agree with heaven, disagree with earth. Agree with your spirit and disagree with your flesh. Give preeminence to the word above all else, disregard all other proofs and God’s creative “let their be light” speaking, creative power will invade your circumstances and make his will be done on earth as it is in heaven. When the word is put first place in your heart whatever reality that opposes that word will soon wither up and die. God showed me that your heart is like a light bright children’s toy. As soon as a white peg takes the place of a blue peg for example, then in your heart the programing is changed and reality will change for you. Your current situation is the blue peg and what God says is the white peg. Once you line up with the new kingdom reality has to change because of the open door you made in your heart. Your the boss here. Thats why mark 11:24 says you can have what you say. Don’t believe it yet? Why not set your heart on the rock of the word instead of your hearts current ideas.
God wants to back up his governors. He has to do it legally. Your faith makes it legal for him to act. Faith is being certain, not being wishy washy.

Our heart is kind of like a piece of software. It gets commands and judges them true or false. Yes or no: I/O. The results of these judgments all pile up until they make up your heart. Your heart is made up of what you believe.

This worked out great when you only knew good but now because of that tree of the knowledge of good and evil your eyes in your heart can swing back and forth. Since “as is your faith be it unto you,” this is a real problem. Whatever you believe for or allow in earth is allowed in heaven, whatever you disbelieve is dis-allowed in heaven. So our heart is the kingdom, the ruler, the boss. I asked God why this was and what I got back was that man was created to have the desires of his heart.

Abraham had a single minded heart, Abraham “considered not” his own body or the barrenness of Sara but considered God. Upright in heart. Single minded. This allows God to work, by considering God only we take the limits off Him. We give Him the needed authority to move in the earth on our behalf. If we consider “what is” we are frustrating Him who calls those things “which are not as though they were.” Since God makes stuff out of faith, when we look at God and then at symptoms, situations, etc. and mix the two we end up double minded, and double minded men shouldn’t expect to receive anything from God according to James. It’s fun to look at ourselves and our problems through the eyes of God. It’s a refreshing and liberating perspective rather than our own limited perspective.

Before the fall of man we only saw things one way; innocent, good. (they knew not they were naked) their heart did not know evil. Evil in translations means “dual.” Abraham had a single minded heart, Abraham “considered not” his own body or the barrenness of Sara but considered God. Upright in heart. That undoes the damage of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We judge God good.

So in order to get the heart fixed we need to look just to the light side, the promises and provisions of God so we can open good doors and get good stuff. A kingdom divided is brought to ruin. So we need pure hearts, one eye!

We need one eye. Not duo, not two, not evil. Looking unto Jesus. Etc. Put the weight where it is supposed to go. When you look up glory it reads weight. Thas why Jesus said to be careful how you hear with the measure you give it will be measured to you. Weight, measure, Glory. Now the verse that says he will meet all our needs according to his riches in glory, (weight)  through Jesus Christ our lord. Give the weight, (glory) to the words get the weight back. Measure for measure. (cept god always tries to give you as much as possible, you know shaken down, pressed together etc.)

The fool’s eyes are to the end of the earth, (duo, many places) but a wise man’s site is straight ahead (a narrow way).

Philippians 4:6 BBE: Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.

Exchange your cares for faith. It’s a good trade.

I have the power!

In Romans 8 we read, I want to do right but I end up doing wrong, I don’t want to do wrong, but I end up doing it anyway. Who can help me escape this body doomed to death, (the illustration here is where they used to strap on a dead body on someone and let them rot along with the body as a torture, ya they did that in roman days)

Well our spirit man has got a body like that strapped on. It has taken over the heart with selfishness and its desires. When our spirit man is renewed by the new birth we have to get that heart completely back from the flesh but this is impossible without help. It says we were like the others following the impulses of the flesh and of the mind and were children of wrath like the others.

Ephesians 2:1-3 (Amplified Bible)
1 AND YOU [He made alive], when you were dead (slain) by [your] trespasses and sins

2 In which at one time you walked [habitually]. You were following the course and fashion of this world [were under the sway of the tendency of this present age], following the prince of the power of the air. [You were obedient to and under the control of] the [demon] spirit that still constantly works in the sons of disobedience [the careless, the rebellious, and the unbelieving, who go against the purposes of God].

3 Among these we as well as you once lived and conducted ourselves in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by our corrupt and sensual nature], obeying the impulses of the flesh and the thoughts of the mind [our cravings dictated by our senses and our dark imaginings]. We were then by nature children of [God's] wrath and heirs of [His] indignation, like the rest of mankind.

This is the nugget in the Romans 8 that helped me understand how I could be a Christian.

I was raised Baptist and we were given a long list of stuff to do or not to do but was never told how to accomplish any of it.

I love the baptists, but it says in the last days their will come a people who have a form of godliness but deny its power and to stay away from people like this. Well I would start out trying to do what was required but always failed at it. Soon I just gave up entirely but consented that they were right about what was right and wrong I just could not do it. Well now Romans 8 gave me a whole perspective. Here they were saying that I could have help. Jesus got rid of the power of the flesh over me on the cross and simply by trusting him to help me I could stop sinning. Now this was good news. I learned that instead of me having to be strong and stop I could just depend on Jesus power and he would make me stop. It says that its God at work in us making us want to do his will and then empowering us to do it. Jesus said that without him we could do nothing. This made it me and Jesus against the world instead of just me. The bible says that to those that received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. It also says that Jesus would never fail us. This was the power I needed to obey. So it wasn’t all up to me anymore. We are super conquerers through him that loves us.

God has given us our stuff: God meets our needs through his promises

God has given us our stuff:

God has already given us all things that pertain to life and godliness through our knowledge of him. It would be irresponsible for a father not to provide for his children. God’s not like that, hes provided, hes a spirit who makes reality through words mixed with faith. Your standing on his words and faith now, or sitting on it or laying on it.

So God gives us stuff through his words. We mix it with faith and receive. (see my prayer answers below)

So when you have a need our spirit father wants you to get out the spirit words he spoke mix it with spirit faith, plant it like a seed and confidently wait for your material stuff.

Better and more trust worthy than UPS or Fedex.

You belief in Gods word and its integrity gives it substance, faith is the substance of things not seen or the title deed.

2 Peter 1:3-4 (The Message)

Don’t Put It Off
3-4 Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received! We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you—your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.

2 Peter 1:3-4 (Amplified Bible)
3 For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [[a]full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).

4 By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (wants or lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.

Mark 11:24 (Amplified Bible)

24 For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it].
Mark 11:24 (The Message) Have the faith of God Jesus says. God decides it is and it is, he never backs up on it or wavers, we should not either because we are supposed to be imitating God like dear children.

Psalms 82:6 “I said, ‘You are “gods” you are all sons of the Most High.’

22-25Jesus was matter-of-fact: “Embrace this God-life. Really embrace it, and nothing will be too much for you. This mountain, for instance: Just say, ‘Go jump in the lake’—no shuffling or shilly-shallying—and it’s as good as done. That’s why I urge you to pray for absolutely everything, ranging from small to large. Include everything as you embrace this God-life, and you’ll get God’s everything. And when you assume the posture of prayer, remember that it’s not all asking. If you have anything against someone, forgive—only then will your heavenly Father be inclined to also wipe your slate clean of sins.”

Ya your like God, your in his image, Your not the God, but you are a God, your in his class of beings, Adam was the God of this world until he lost it to the devil. Jesus bought us back our position as the head and not the tail. We are supposed to operate like Jesus our example. The one who walked on the water. Jesus said that we would do greater works than he did. I know this sounds a little crazy, but thats exactly how you would cage a God like being who rules through faith. You would bar his believing. That comes through fear.

Psalms 82:6 “I said, ‘You are “gods”;
you are all sons of the Most High.’

Letting God be God

Letting God be God

Its important to cast our cares on God and leave them there. He can figure them out and help us.

7Casting the [a]whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, [b]once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you [c]watchfully.(A)

Now once and for all, now thats nice, I like that. I heard a preacher say cast your keys to him, then don’t take them back. Like you give him your cares. Don’t take them back, if they come up again toss em back at Jesus and throw in a promise from the Bible. He said he would teach us how to take a real rest, and he is the Prince of Peace you know.

These guys make shoe promises, you stick them in your shoes. Ha! put one in your heart as well Click on the feet for their site.

Are you really a Christian? here is the test as given in the Bible.

Do you want the red pill or the blue pill?

I saw a scripture that said there was a test to see if you are a real Christian or just a poser. (2 Corinthians 13:5). The Living Bible, which is actually a paraphrase, puts it like this, “Check up on yourselves. Are you really Christians? Do you pass the test? Do you feel Christ’s presence and power more and more within you? Or are you just pretending to be Christians when actually you aren’t at all?” And

Romans 9-11. But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won’t know what we’re talking about.

Well that was a stumper! I didn’t know what he was talking about, I didn’t feel Christs presence and power and I was always thinking more about myself than God. So I asked God to show me how I had gotten it wrong.
I found out it was started by knowing and putting faith in Gods promises which cleans up your heart and separates your flesh from your spirit. It says that by those promises you can become partakers of the divine nature or divine output. It says that we are sanctified by his word. then it is lived out by trusting Christ on a moment to moment basis. At first it was a spot check kind of thing, trusting Christ just when I was about to blow my top, but then grew into something more.

Ill give you an example of how this works. My boy Ben had messed up my cd rom on my laptop which at first made me mad. So I called him in and then trusted Christ right then when I saw him. As I trusted Christ the anger I had went away and it was replaced by calmness and I told him what he did wrong and let him know I loved him and wanted to show him the right way to handle the cd rom. What happened is I put the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus to work, or disciplined him in the anointing. I believe that this trusting Christ is not just supposed to be a spot check thing to help us when we need it but rather how we live our life. Thats why the scripture tells us stuff like “as ye received Christ Jesus so walk ye in him. This will allow the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus to go into effect and nullify the law of sin and death. It says “living more and more in you as you trust in him”. This is why Paul said I am crucified with Christ, I no longer live but Christ lives in me. And why he said I die daily. This goes along with abiding in Christ and taking up your cross.

I then put that with things like Abide in me and I in you and you will bear good fruit, and he that separates from me is cast off like a branch, he withers and men gather them and are burnt. Christ is what I consider my cross. By moment to moment trust “I put off my old man and put on the new man created in the image of him who created it.” It goes along with taking every thought captive to the knowledge (gnosco=intercourse) you have with his anointing. This vital trust is your new life that displaces your old man. Its a trust to trust deal and demands all your attention.

“The way to life–to God!-is vigorous and requires total attention.”
Matthew 7:14, the Message Bible

Its why Jesus is the way the truth and the life.

heres the verses about taking up your cross.

the Then Jesus called the crowd to himself along with his disciples. He said to them, “Those who want to follow me must say no to the things they want, pick up their crosses, and follow me. (GOD’S WORD®)

“Message” Matt 16:25- “Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.”

in the Word of God, “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.”(NASB)

Its weird living a vigorous life of trust but it is quite amazing what happens.

I can tell you it’s weirder than the matrix sometimes. Its like reality is changed. Its kind of hard to explain. Imagine asking God a question and just as you do someone next to you talking to someone else answers your question in their conversation to someone else. . Then just as your thinking of a bible verse about armor of God you look up and see on the TV screen “total armor”. Then you get a message from the holy ghost to go over and talk to that guy, you talk to him and he says I was just asking God to send someone to help me, your like a angel. Then you leave ask God which hotel to stay at and you see a guy in front of a hotel waving you to come in. You go in the lobby and God tells you that you should talk to the security guard and she tells you that she was asking God to bring her someone that really knows the word. You talk to her and save her marriage. Then you stay in the annointing and lead the desk cleark to Christ. He cries accepts Christ, You go to Wal-mart, buy the desk clerk a bible, put it in a gift bag, and bring it back to him. While in the parking lot you see a guy that God tells you to give him a card about your bible prophecy web site (http:www.signsoftheend.blogspot.com) He says hes really interested in prophecy and he thanks you. That stuff actually happened to me. Not to mention all the miracles I have seen. Like when my wife got bit by about 200 mosquito’s and had whelps all up and down her arm. I prayed for her and we watched all the bites disappear in front of our eyes.

Now imagine stuff like that happing to you about every day then it starts occurring almost every hour and then almost every minute or so. Thats where this has lead me. Its like being in a different reality. Jesus said only those that throw their lives away for the Gospel will know what it is like to really live, and if you get your inside life clean you will see God in the  outside world. Its very fun to live by the power of Christ.

Edit I think its important here to put in that your feelings can lie to you and that you need to go by faith in the word of God. Feelings will come but they can’t be the yardstick we use. First comes the word then comes the feelings. I have learned the hard way that we always stick to the word first.

God gives pet names to the stars….Imagine how he thinks about you.

God was talking to me today about how in the bible it says God gives affectionate pet names to all the stars. They really are not alive and there are billions and billions of them. God said to me that if he gives affectionate nick names to the stars that are not really alive and there are billions upon billions upon billions of them, what do you think he thinks about you.

God cares for us affectionately

God cares about you affectionately (1 Peter 5:7 Amplified)

I am superman in my fortress of solitude

Sometimes I think of Christ as superman, and he sometimes calls me spider man. I know that sounds silly, but he does. It says he affectionately cares for you. He jokes with me all the time.

I was at the kitchen table wrestling with a spiritual thing I wanted to get . I forgot what it was but it was eluding me. I thought about the verse “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”. I wondered if I could link up with Christs strength through faith to get this spiritual thing I was wrestling with. Just I asked that question the television popped on and there was some sort of explorer in arctic cave. He said I am superman in my fortress of solitude. I thought that was funny and took it as a yes to my question. I still don’t know how the tv just “popped on”.

The Light of Christ

Since God often talks to me in terms of comic books he reminded me of this eye that dr. strange used. Dr. strange could use it to see truth. I can use the light of Christ to see truth as well. it comes from two verses. one is that the anointing (which means Christ) teaches you all things and is the truth and no lie. The other comes from a verse that Paul said. He said shine the light of Christ on it and expose it for the sham it really is.

So I tried it, by faith I put the light of Christ on it and showed it for what it was. Lots of lies out their and light is the best way to fight the prince of darkness. If your a Christian try it out. If your not a Christian you will think this is wacky.