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December 19, 2019 - January 4, 2020
Only through a vision and a dream can you visualize and dream bigger churches.
But in my church I preach about the saving Jesus, the sanctifying Christ, the baptizing Savior, the blessing Son of God, and the healing Jesus; and we have all of these aspects manifested in my church. I try to create the whole presence, the rounded out presence, of Jesus Christ.
NO! It is potentially yours, yes, but make it yours in practical reality by waiting upon the Lord.
NEUTRAL
The first step is to put myself in neutral gear—not forward or backward, but completely calm in my heart. Then I wait upon the Lord, saying, “Lord, I’m here. I will listen to your voice. If you say ‘yes,’ I will go; if you say ‘no,’ I’m not going. I don’t wish to make decisions for my own benefit, but to decide according to Your desire. Whether it becomes good for me, or bad for me, I’m ready to accept your guidance.”
The second thing I do is to ask the Lord to reveal His will through my desire. God always comes to you through your sanctified desire. “Delight thyself also in the Lord; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart” (Psalm 37:4). “The desire of the righteous shall be granted” (Proverbs 10:24). “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24).
After my desire becomes very clear-cut, then I proceed to step three: I compare this desire with biblical
After I screen my desire through the written Word, the teachings of God, then I am ready for step four: to ask God for a beckoning signal from my circumstances. If God truly has spoken to your heart, then He is bound to give you a signal from the outside external world.
After I have received a sign, then I take the final step: I pray until I know God’s timing. God’s timing is different from our timing. You must pray—until you have a real peace,
for peace is like the chief umpire.
God is like thought. If you do not have any thoughts, then God has no channel through which to speak to you.
Miracles follow a renewed mind, and as Peter renewed his mind, he began to walk on water. He walked high on the crest of the waves; he was actually walking on water!
When Peter received the rhema from Christ, renewed his thinking and therefore thought he could walk on the water, he walked. When he changed this thinking and thought it impossible to walk in the water, he instantly began to sink.
Renew your mind. Constantly think in terms of success, in terms of victory, and in terms of abundance.
Think big. Have big objectives.
heart, by thinking positively, by thinking in terms of miracles, and by developing a success orientation of victory and abundance consciousness.
What do you think? Do you think poverty? Do you think sickness? Do you think impossibility? Do you think negatively? Do you think failure?
“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice” (Eph. 4:31, NKJV).
Jesus told us that He would be with us, in us and upon
Jesus told His disciples that the Holy Spirit was with them, but in the new birth, He would be in them (John 14:17).
To have fellowship we must share our feelings, knowledge or will together through expression in words.
I did not just turn to the Holy Spirit in time of trouble, I learned how to walk in the Holy Spirit as a natural way of life.
The reason so much of God’s work shows little or no profit is because of the partnership arrangement. I am convinced that there is no vineyard too hard, no field too barren, no area too difficult for the Holy Spirit to be successful.
we are only junior partners. The junior partner’s responsibility is to listen to the senior partner. The senior partner makes the strategy and the junior partner carries it out.
The Holy Spirit transports the love and grace of God to us and then takes our prayers and supplications and transports them back to God.
This idea must be one which the Holy Spirit has placed in your mind.
There are three spiritual forces in the earth. The Spirit of God, the spirit of man (as is noted in Genesis 2:7), and the spirit of Satan, who is in opposition to God, also alluded to in Genesis 3.
The soul controls our will and desires and has a strong influence over the body.
The soul also comprises that which we call emotions. Joy, shame and happiness are all emotions which also have an effect on the body. For
more quickly. The soul also contains what we call desires.
The soul also comprises what a man calls his intellect and his taste.
2. Abraham was told to look up to the stars. He was asked to number them. They represented his spiritual children (Gen. 15:53). 3. His name was changed from Abram to Abraham, which means “father of a great multitude.”
The Body of Christ has only one consciousness; we, as each part, can only function as we function under the direction of our head, Jesus Christ.
“The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law” (Deut. 29:29, KJV).
most important thing is to recognize the importance of filling our minds with the Word of God, so that our natural predisposition for action will be in accordance with the truth of the Scriptures.
“For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body” (James 3:2, NKJV).
You are more concerned with the Holy Spirit ministering to the whole Body of Christ than whether you are seen, heard, or not noticed at all.
“Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us” (Rom. 5:5, NKJV).
