Are you living in the eternal realm?

2 Cor 4:18 While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

As long as we are in the body, we are in the temporal realm, the realm of the senses. However, we are not to see this temporal realm as permanent, it is subject to change.

The will of God is not always done in this temporary realm, but it can be done in this temporal realm, because it is subject to change. Eph 1:3 declares that we are already blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places (the realm of the spirit.)

As we pray and believe that God’s will be done on earth (the temporal, subject to change realm) as it is in heaven (the eternal unchangeable spiritual realm.) You will see God’s will come to pass in your life.

The Word declares to pray daily for the Father’s will (His desires for us) to be done in our lives today. His desire is that we believe His Word so that it manifests in our lives daily. So, we believe what He says and He causes it to come to pass in our life.

Heavenly Father, I thank You, Your will be done in my life today, as it has been done in heaven. Amen.

Brother John

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Holding Fast the Word of Life

We are exhorted to hold fast the Word of Life. The Word of God is spirit and life to us. We live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. We live the abundant life in Christ Jesus according to our holding fast. We are to have and hold the Word. That is, we have continual possession with the idea of putting the Word of Life forth out of our mouths. As we speak the Word of Life, we are possessing it continually.

Hebrews 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 

As we continually possess the Word of Life by holding fast our confession to the Father God and He sees to it that our confession of the Word of Life comes to pass in our life by the power of the Holy Spirit.

So whatever situation, circumstance or tribulation you are facing today, begin to hold fast to your confession of the Word of God so that the Word begins to work in and against that negative circumstance and it must line up with the will and the Word of God.

Brother John

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What is God’s Righteousness

Romans 10:3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

Let’s take a look at the righteousness of God so that we do not fall into the same category as the children of Israel, who were ignorant of the righteousness of God.

The righteousness of God refers to His faithfulness and His truthfulness. It means that Father God is always consistent in His own nature and promises. Righteousness is who He is, and because He is righteous, everything He says and does is right. He does not look outside Himself to find what is right. There is no circumstance or anyone outside Father God who dictates to Him righteousness or the right thing to do.

We see in the Word that by one man’s offense, sin and death entered mankind. Therefore, the righteousness of God sent Jesus, the one man, to be the propitiation for our sins. In other words, by one man’s obedience, Jesus, we have been made righteous, put in right standing with God, and totally accepted in the Beloved by our Father God. Now, Father God can deal with us and treat us as if we have never sinned. Praise the Lord!

Abraham said, “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” The answer is yes, all the time. The Lord is faithful to His Word all the time. The Lord fulfills His Word all the time. The Lord’s nature is righteousness, and He never falls short of who He is. Please receive with me the truth of the Word of God: As Jesus is, so are we in this world. (from 1 John 4:17)

Prayer:
Father, I believe Your Word, and Your Word says that as Jesus is, so am I in this world. I believe that and I receive it. I thank You for the grace to walk in Your truth today. I believe I am just like Jesus in this world today.

In the name of Jesus, Amen.

Brother John

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I give thanks for you!

give_thanksPhil 1:3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you; 1 Cor 1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God given to you by Jesus Christ; Col 1:3 We give thanks to God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ praying always for you.

Our life consists mainly of our relationship with God our Father through our Lord Jesus Christ, and our relationships with one another. If you desire your relationships to overflow with righteousness, peace, and joy, believe the Word of God, giving thanks to the Father for every relationship in your life.

Whenever you remember your marriage, children, parents, brothers, sisters, and every member of the body of Christ, enter into thanksgiving to the Father in the name of Jesus. Thank God for the grace He has given them through the Lord Jesus Christ.

As you give thanks, God’s grace appears in every relationship in your life. Thanksgiving is one of the highest expressions of faith in action. Grace always comes through faith!

Brother John

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To Be Found in Him

Phil 3:9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

It is clear in this scripture that I can’t partake of all the benefits of being in the Lord Jesus if I am going to establish my own self-righteousness. This is our best effort to do all the works of the law. This is to set a standard of behavior for ourselves according to laws, such as the Ten Commandments. We then base our right-standing, our acceptance before God or God’s love for us on attaining the standard of behavior we have set for ourselves.

If we approach God in this manner, rather than according to the free gift of righteousness which Father God has provided for us because of His mercy and grace, then we will disqualify ourselves from any of the benefits received by being in Christ Jesus. (Gal 5:4)

We will have difficulty in receiving such things as forgiveness of sins, healing, or wisdom from God. We will have difficulty in walking in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

So, abandon every effort to be righteous in our own effort, to do good enough for God to accept you. Please receive by faith the gift of righteousness (right-standing with God) that Jesus has provided for us. Believe, think, know, and speak that God deals with you as if you have never sinned.

You are justified by faith.

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By Jesus Stripes We were Healed

Isaiah 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

1 Peter 2:24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness–by whose stripes you were healed.

It was the Roman custom to scourge a person before actually placing them on a cross. This was part of the Roman method of punishment and execution. Jesus was scourged with a whip that had hooks which tore the skin into open wounds. He received thirty-nine stripes, or open wounds, on His back. Every known disease today can be traced to thirty-nine basic categories of disease. Each stripe, each open, bleeding wound on His back set mankind free from every known disease.

However, it should be understood that everything the Lord endured from being spat upon, to carrying the cross, to the crown of thorns, to the scourging on His back, to the nails in His wrists and feet, to the spear in His side, and even the place where He died provided total redemption for mankind. Our Lord received it all in our place. He took what we, mankind, should have received. God met every need man could possibly have through the Lord Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross.

Through revelation knowledge, we receive what the Father through His grace has provided for us. Certainly, we have done nothing to earn this wonderful gift that the Father has freely given to us all.

Brother John

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His Mercy Endures Forever

Micah 7:18-19 Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy. He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea.

Father God does not love you because of the Lord Jesus. He loved you and had compassion on you, therefore He sent the Lord Jesus to FULFILL what was said in Micah 7:18-19. Through His death and resurrection, we are forgiven all sin past, present and future. We are set free from all consequences of sin, failures or mistakes which includes all wrong decisions. Moreover, the power of sin over your life is broken forever. If you have been trying to pay for sins or mistakes by doing more for the Lord, STOP IT. If you believe because of your past sin or failures you must suffer the consequences, STOP IT. If you are trying to pay a debt for your mistake or sins by trying harder, praying more, giving more or serving more, STOP IT.

Father God’s love, mercy and compassion has forgiven you all your sins, failures, and mistakes and has broken the bondage of sin, cancelling out all judgment, punishment, obligation or debt through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We have the same spirit of faith; therefore, you and I believe, so we speak. We say thank You, Father, You have forgiven ALL, You have set me free, You have delivered me from all consequences of sin. I receive these blessings today and forever, amen.

Brother John

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Let Them Have Dominion

Matt 6:10 …Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Gen 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

ln order for God’s will to be accomplished on the earth or in own individual lives, we must take our God given, blood bought authority and use it. When we speak the wisdom of God (Word of God) and decree God’s will (His Word) on the earth, there can be the manifestation of the Kingdom of God (will of God) in the here and now.

When God decreed that man be given dominion on the earth, He meant it. By His sovereign will He chose not to operate in the earth without His created man, made in His image.

Now you and I have opportunities to use the authority God has given against tribulations, problems, and the storms of life. When Jesus faced adversity in His earthly ministry, He did not pray for the Father to take care of it, He took His authority as the Son of God. He took authority over the storm when He commanded it to be still, and it obeyed.

Why are these times opportunities for us? Because the glory of God is manifested every time we use the authority He has given us in the Name of Jesus. So whatever storm you are facing today, whether physical, financial, or emotional, speak to it and command it to be still that you may experience the glory of God and have the peace of God in your life.

Brother John

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Freely We Receive

Rom 8:32 
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things
?

1 Corinthians 2:12
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

Charizomai is the Greek word for “freely given” found in these two verses.
It carries the following thoughts and ideas.

  • To do something pleasant or agreeable to another
  • To do a favor or to gratify
  • To show oneself gracious, kind, benevolent
  • To grant forgiveness, to pardon or to cancel a debt owed
  • Graciously restore one another or to reconcile
  • To preserve a person from peril or to deliver from destruction

These are just some of the things that we are freely given. We are to
receive by faith what has been “chaizomai”. We cannot earn that which is freely given.
Our Lord Jesus paid the cost that we may freely receive all things from
our Father God.

Please freely received today that your joy may be made full.

Brother John

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You have peace with God!

Romans 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ..

Often, saints of God lose their peace with God. They believe that God is at war with them, or angry with them, or punishing them for their sins or mistakes.

The reason this occurs with so many is because they do not believe that Jesus paid the full price for our sins nor do they believe that He was raised from the dead for our justification. To be declared justified is to be judged not guilty (innocent); to be judged righteous; is to be accepted by Father God as if we never sinned.

The Judge of all the earth, God Almighty, declares because we believe in what He said, we are justified now and forever.

In Isaiah 54:9 God declares,
“For this is like the waters of Noah to Me;
For as I have sworn
That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth,
So have I sworn
That I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
For the mountains shall depart
And the hills be removed,
But My kindness shall not depart from you,
Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,”
Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.

There is never any reason that we should lose our peace with God. According to His Word, He has established His covenant of peace with us that shall never be removed for any reason.

Brother John

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