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October 14, 2020
GOD ALWAYS KEEPS HIS PROMISES
Trust in Me and in My Word. Imitate Me by keeping your word even when it hurts. In this you will show others you have the integrity of the Holy Spirit living in you.
GOD ALWAYS KEEPS HIS PROMISES
You may want to sit down for this: Did you know God does not respond to you based on sickness, pain, trials or poverty? He doesn’t. The only thing that causes God to respond to you is His covenant to you – the one He made when you got saved and became part of His spiritual family.
What?!? It’s true. The only reason God acts on your behalf is because He promised to. So what should your response to this be? Trust in His covenant by glorifying Him no matter what is going on in your life!
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. – 1 Corinthians 10:31
Look at how broad the Holy Spirit had Paul write this verse. Whether you are eating, drinking, standing, sitting, laughing, crying, buying or selling, traveling or building, or whether you are doing it all at the same time, do all for the glory of God.
This is a covenant lifestyle driven by a covenant mentality, which produces selflessness and servitude – aka Godly character. A covenant mentality says, “my life is not my own.” It says this when it’s convenient and when it’s not.
You see, Jesus put us first when it was hard, painful and downright deadly. Our needs came before His, so He kept His covenant with Adam and died for our sins. God always keeps His promises.
What about you? Are you a promise keeper with a covenant mindset? Do you trust Him and glorify Him not matter what hell is breaking loose in your life? Purpose to be covenant minded.
From my book: Soul Invasion
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POWER PLAY
Walking in My power is not for the faint of heart. Be brave and step into all I have for you!
POWER PLAY
People flock by the millions to pack out movie houses to see The Avengers, X-men, The Justice League, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. The reason? These movies portray people who have a leg-up on everyone else around them. They have what we all want — power.
How tragic it is that there are churches on every corner in America that don’t know where the power is. It is so important that the church believe and declare that our God is a miracle-working God — not just in biblical times when great men of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit, put pen to paper, but for this time as well.
Let’s throw away the doctrine that says God will be powerful again someday. The world has gone to Hell while we’ve fed in to this lie.
Jesus is no less God now than He was in biblical times. Nor is He less God now than He will be when He rides His white horse from Heaven to take back this earth. He is God right now — this very minute — and He is powerful.
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.” – Hebrews 13:8
There are a lot of people who don’t believe in the power of God for today because they don’t want to be held responsible for walking in the power of God today. They relegate healings and prophecy to the past. Dreams, visions and words from God, they say, are not for us. If they were, we would have to act on them — heaven forbid!
Today is a good day to act on His power. Dare to share that Jesus is in the miracle business and you are job No. 1.
From my book: Miracles with a Message
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October 13, 2020
GET TO IT!
Though you may not believe it, you are fearless. Just like Gideon was unaware he was a mighty warrior, you are unaware of your power to help the widow, orphan, downtrodden and sojourner. Awaken, oh sleeper! Bring the lost and hurting to Me!
GET TO IT!
One of the four faces of Jesus is the face of a man. Why? Because He was not only 100 percent God, He was also 100 percent man – the second Adam only Jesus didn’t fall for the enemy’s schemes.
Ezekiel is a prophetic book about the person of Jesus – the face of a man. In Ezekiel 22:29, it says God is looking for a man to stand in the gap – to make up the hedge. He’s looking for a man who will stand up and say, “Hey man. Not on my watch!” God’s literally looking for somebody who will get actively involved.
I think one reason the Church has been so aloof to hurting people is because so many Christians don’t actually believe Jesus is actively involved in every part of their life, so why should they be actively involved in anybody else’s life?
The truth is, when you see God personally involved in your life – the face of a man – you will be willing to be involved in other people’s lives. When you really, truly believe Jesus jumps head first into all of your mess, you’ll finally be willing to jump into somebody else’s mess.
That ongoing revelation of Jesus being involved in the good and the bad parts of your life, makes you selfless, just like Jesus is selfless.
“Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” – James 1:27
He’s like, “You will find people who are afflicted and you will jump into the midst of their affliction. You will not avoid it. You’ll jump in it.” That comes from the revelation of Jesus as the face of a man.
Know this: He’s personally involved in your life. So, take that grace to be personally involved in someone else’s life and get to it!
From my sermon series JESUS UNVEILED
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October 11, 2020
ALWAYS THE RIGHT BATTLEFIELD
You are My treasured child. I love it when I see My resemblance in your kindness, your generosity and your love for the lost and hurting. Continue to show what the King looks like despite opposition. You will bring many to repentance!
ALWAYS THE RIGHT BATTLEFIELD
Fighting on the right battlefield is tough for me, especially in this generation where God, and good in general, is portrayed as evil by the media and culture in general. I’ve had a hard time with this though the Bible is clear on this subject.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. – Isaiah 5:20
Woe indeed! Despite knowing those times are truly here, this has been more difficult than I’d thought, because I have a tremendous burden to show people the heart of Jesus and demonstrate the Lord’s goodness.
I hate it when people think I’m the bad guy. I want people to think I’m the good guy – that I’m the guy that represents Jesus and Jesus is a good guy. So I ought to be a good guy. It’s really that simple.
It’s the goodness of God that leads men to repentance. It’s not the meanness of the Church that leads men to repentance. Yes, I have personally experienced several churches who think like this: “The meaner you are, the more holy you’ll be.” What!?
No. That is not the way that it is.
It’s important for us to be full of the goodness of God. I wrote a book called “Good Overcomes Evil” because this is one of the life messages God has given me. The truth of the universe is that it only takes a little goodness to overcome a whole lot of evil. It just doesn’t.
Because we live in a day where there is sympathy for the devil and hatred for Jesus, good guys are going to be presented as bad guys, and bad guys are going to be presented as good guys. And Jesus says to you, “In these last days, my friends, do not be deceived.”
Also, and this is really important. If you are called evil for doing good, DO GOOD ANYWAY! That is always the right battlefield!
From my sermon series I LOVE MY TRIBE
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October 10, 2020
A TIME TRAVELER’S LOOK AT THE CROSS
Today is the day to serve Me out of your overflow. You are blessed to be a blessing. Find your area of fruitfulness, or overflow, and make a point to sow into other’s lives. I will bless you in return!
TIME TRAVELER’S LOOK AT THE CROSS
I would love to go back through time and actually witness Jesus on earth. He was God in the flesh, not God pretending to be a man.
Would I be able to talk to Him since I don’t speak Hebrew? Maybe I would be an observer, a fly on the wall. If I were, I would want to see Him feeding the 5,000 and Jesus walking on water.
Calming the storm would be cool. So would watching Jesus defend the woman caught in the act. What did you write in the dirt, Jesus?
Though I would love to be there in the upper room when He walked through the wall and fulfilled His promise to the hopeless, I think I would love to be there the day He died. I would like to encourage Him somehow. Give Him a drink, help Simon of Cyrene carry the timbers – anything to ease His pain.
Oh, if I could just see the one face yelling, “Thank you, Jesus” in the midst of the many shouting for His death. I would tell Him, “You can do this! It’s not always going to be like this. This one day changes everything, Lord.”
A few years back in my prayer time, I was complaining to God about my lack of a time machine to do such a thing. “Lord I want to come and love on you when you were hurting so bad,” I said.
In an instant, in a way only God can, I felt God speak a word into my heart. “You already do and have many times.” I knew right away He was talking about Matthew 25.
“Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ – Matthew 25:44-45
Come to find out, I’ve done a lot of time traveling these past 30-plus years. What about you? Have you clothed Jesus? Have you fed Him, encouraged Him, visited Him in the nursing home, hospital or prison?
Take time today to love on Jesus wherever you find Him.
From my book Best of the Brewer
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October 9, 2020
THAT “TA-DA” MOMENT
You are an overcomer. The Word of your testimony is Me. My Goodness has passed before you many times. Testify to Me and watch My Spirit work.
THAT “TA-DA” MOMENT
Everything in the kingdom is relational before it is functional. Everything. If it’s really Jesus, it’s going to be relational, and if it’s relational, it’s going to be unique.
You’re going to have a little different take on Jesus than I’m going to have. Likewise, I’m going to have a little different take on Jesus than you are because how you and I have personally experienced Jesus is different.
That, my friend, is called exclusiveness.
While we all know Him as our Savior, how we have encountered and experienced Him is a little bit different. And that’s the power of testimony. It’s what causes us to be over-comers.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. – Revelation 12:11
Your testimony is not what you did before you were saved. That is your history. Your testimony is who yousay Jesus is.
So revelation is the “Ta-da!” And there’s actually a different way every single one of us goes, “Wow!” to that ta-da. Each of us have these wow moments with God over, and over, and over again.
It’s about the ongoing “apocalypse” within your life. Jesus unveiling Himself to you, personally because you are not a number. You are named. You are special. You are His.
From my sermon series JESUS UNVEILED
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October 8, 2020
THE POWER OF REDEMPTION
My blood paid for your redemption. There is great power in being redeemed, so use it to receive upgrade into deeper relationship and greater territory. This gift already belongs to you, so use it.
THE POWER OF REDEMPTION
The book of Exodus is all about redemption. Just look at these three extraordinary acts of redemption that take place.
First, God raises up Moses from the tribe of Levi. Before Moses shows up, nobody wanted to be a Levite. That is redemption. Where there’d been shame, now there is honor. Redemption is powerful!
Then, Moses was made safe floating in the very river that was killing all the other Hebrew boys. What was death to others was life to Moses. That is the power of redemption.
Also, the mother of Moses was actually paid by the house of Pharaoh to feed the baby Pharaoh had made it illegal to feed. The devil who was destroying the relationships between mothers and babies actually paid this momma to feed and spend time with her baby. Again, the power of redemption.
This theme is all throughout the book of Exodus and you can miss it. You could miss it in your own life too, so know this: redemption belongs to you. Did you know that? You can actually claim those three extraordinary acts for yourself because you have been redeemed. Check this out:
“Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy.” – Psalms 107:2
You know what? We are supposed to approach life from the perspective that redemption is in full operation within our lives. We’re not supposed to fight for victory. We’re supposed to fight from victory.
I know this because the book of Deuteronomy says every devil that rises up against me one way, shall have to flee from me seven different ways. That is the power of redemption.
Are you walking in the power of redemption? You probably are and don’t even know it. Even so, start speaking redemption. Claim it! Declare and decree it! Now, that’s power.
From my sermon series EXODUS
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Episode 58 – Head of the Year Conference
Here is my word at Chuck Pierce’s Head of the Year Conference. I speak on the Key of David and how that ties to the miracle that brought me to the conference, and how it can open doors in your life.
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October 7, 2020
HIGH EXPECTATIONS
Patience is a fruit of the Holy Spirit, as is self control. I have given you a measure of both, but how you grown and expand those is up to you. Learn to wait for Me. Expect Me to speak to you, and act on your behalf as I always have done.
HIGH EXPECTATIONS
“Milk and honey” might not mean much to us today, but back in ancient Israel it really resonated with the people who God gave the promise to. The term ‘expectancy’ has to do with expecting God to do amazing things.
It is one of the ways you and I partner with the Holy Spirit prophetically. You cannot operate prophetically if you’re not expecting God Almighty to speak to you.
It’s a mindset that says, “I may not know the hand of God, but I know exactly what His heart is all about. And you watch, God’s going to do something awesome.” Okay, that kind of prophetic declaration of faith is called expectancy.
The term ‘milk and honey’ is found in the Bible exactly 20 times. Twenty is the number for expectancy.
Israel waited 20 years for deliverance, expecting to get it through Samson (Judges 15). The Ark of the Covenant was in Kirjath Jearim for 20 years (1 Samuel 7). Solomon waited for the completion of the temple and his house for 20 years (1 Kings 6).Twenty years Jerusalem waited between its capture and its destruction. Jeremiah prophesied for 20 years concerning Israel.
Expectancy is waiting for God to do amazing things, with the emphasis on “waiting.”
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. – Isaiah 40:31
Waiting expectantly has a great reward, no matter how long it takes. God’s timing is always perfect. Expect good things!
From my sermon series MILK AND HONEY
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October 6, 2020
BE A FAN, NOT A FOLLOWER
The road I walked was filled with pain. Look at Me in the garden. See My sweat – My tears. Hear My pleas. I took your punishment so you wouldn’t have to. Follow Me.
BE A FOLLOWER, NOT A FAN
You show me people who are following a mob and I’ll show you people who are not following King Jesus.
This is the difference between followers and fans: fans have to be entertained in the body of Christ. Followers are willing to pay a price – followers have to pay a price.
There is a price to pay for not being part of the mob. You will be called a hater. You will be called the bad guy. This attack isn’t just coming against the church and church leadership. It’s coming against anybody who lines themselves up with King Jesus.
Why? Because people like you and me who follow Jesus cannot follow a mob. You won’t be swept up by the doctrines of the day and the spirit of this generation. You’ll have a different spirit and because of that, you’ll be alienated.
You’ll be ostracized. You’ll be made fun of. Understand right now this is the price you pay. Know this: there is a good reason you will pay a price to stay out of the mob and bring goodness in the face of evil.
“The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master.” – Matthew 10:24
Because you’re no better than King Jesus. Jesus was persecuted for healing, loving, and doing good. He refused to join the mob of the Pharisees. He refused to join the religious elite, but to demonstrate the heart of the Father. If you follow His example, you will too.
In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted – 2 Timothy 3:12-13
Can you take it? Are you in? There’s no place in the mob for you. Be a follower, not a fan!
From my sermon series I LOVE MY TRIBE
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