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God’s Glory Revealed Through Surrender

“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” II Corinthians 4:17 Our faith is our positioning ourselves in dependency upon the Lord. Surrender is a requirement for having a relationship with God. To know God’s glory, we must yield our hearts to Him, giving Him control. Like a seed, we must come to an...

Where Is Your Trust

“Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.” Psalm 20:7 During the time this verse was written, King David was leading Israel’s armies in war against their enemies. The confidence of some going to war would be in the chariots and horses used as strength in battle. Our trust should not be in anything besides Him. Trust is a...

Do It Anyway

“Who are you to criticize someone else’s servant? The Lord will determine whether HIS servant has been successful. The servant will be successful because the LORD makes him successful.” Romans 14:4 GW First of all, please notice of the LORD in Romans 14. The servant served the LORD. The LORD would determine whether or not the servant was successful. The LORD would be the one to cause His servant to...

Growing in Grace

“Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 3:18 I love plants, and I enjoy helping things grow. When I think about a plant growing, I think about it flourishing, getting new leaves and producing a flower or a fruit. In my life, I want to grow spiritually, intellectually, economically, and more. I enjoy learning new things. New experiences are valuable to me,...

Your Hands Are Conductors

“…they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Mark 16:18 Jesus is the one who told His followers to lay hands on the sick to minister healing in His name. In Jesus’ ministry, physical contact brought transference of power, or anointing. The same will happen for those who represent Him today. The Holy Spirit resides on the inside of us. The power of the Holy Spirit will...

Show Us How It’s Done

“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, we went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.” Acts 10:38 Jesus spent about three years ministering on the earth before He went to the cross as a ransom for the sins of the world. In those three years Jesus made the Father known through how Jesus...

Let Him Flow

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.” II Corinthians 4:7 The anointing of God is tangible. Even though spiritual things are usually invisible to our human eye, it doesn’t mean that they are not made of a substance. God’s power is substantial, palpable, touchable, and detectable. We can sense God’s anointing from our spirit. When...

The Anointing and You

“I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh, your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.” Acts 2:17 Jesus was anointed by the Anointing, the Holy Spirit. The name “Christ” literally means, “anointed one.” After Jesus rose from the dead, instead of staying much longer on the earth, He ascended back to heaven. There was a reason for...

You Are Meant For Great Things

“The anointing which you have received from Him abides in you.” I John 2:27 If you’ve ever felt like you were meant to do something great, it’s because you ARE! Your Daddy is the creator and originator or all power, all wisdom, and all things good and true. He made you to know Him, experience Him, and operate together with Him. Jesus said we would do greater works than He...

Dominate or Be Dominated

“…just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:4 Sin is anything outside of God and His life for us. Sin can bring a person to a low place, but God can lift us up to know His life. The life God intended for us is a life of knowing His glory, His...

Minster Life

“God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 3:17 The mission of the Christian and of the Church is the commission we received from Christ, our Head, who told us to go and make disciples. Similarly, the motive, message, and methods should reflect the ministry Christ had on the earth. His motivation was a deep...

Living in Resurrection Power

“… out of weakness were made strong…” Hebrews 11:34 God will take our weakness and make us strong – not by our power, but by His power. When we are weak, we realize we have limits. We know we are insufficient of for the kind of life God intends for us to have. The person of faith realizes that real life is living in reliance upon a loving and all-sufficient...

Snatched Out of Depression

“The Lord upholds all who fall, and raises up all who are bowed down.” Psalm 145:14 There is no doubt that depression brings a person down emotionally, but it also can drag someone downward mentally, physically, and spiritually as well. Depression is a lower condition from the higher position God has intended for us. Depression is not a product of life; it’s a result of our fallen world. Whether depression...

Lifter of My Head

“…My glory and the One who lifts up my head.” Psalm 3:3 There is a Hebrew word for poor that means to be needy, weak, and lowly (aniy, 6041). The root word (anah, 6031) has the idea of being bowed down, stooped over because of a heaviness or depression. If you can imagine, a person who is feeling low might have their head down, bent over with feelings that are...

Resurrected Health

“And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up…” James 5:15 There are three historical stories from the Bible that I want to share with you. In all three you will see people who were in a low position and could not get themselves up. The first is found in John 5. Jesus asked a lame man by a pool of water, “Do...