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James 4:3 - "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts."
OBSERVATION:
If I am not receiving from God, I need to change what I have been giving my attention to.
Matthew 12:34-37 - "For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man...
Jesus' friends will draw close to His chest to hear His very heart beat. The lifestyle of the believer that is marked with an intimate life with Christ is available to you.
Jesus is looking for new recruits who will hear the passionate sound of His love beating through their beings.
Do you want...
I have been made right in God's sight and at peace with God because of my faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. - Romans 5:1
I reign as a king in the realm of life through Jesus Christ because I receive God’s abundant provision of forgiveness and the gift of righteousness. - Romans 5:17
Since we...
Isaiah 9:7 - "Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end......"
How important is increase to God? Jesus once cursed a fig tree for not bearing fruit out of season (Mark 11:13-14)! A man in one of His parables was cast into outer darkness for burying his money and not...
God has empowered us! We are anointed for action!
Our mission and mandate? Establishing the Kingdom!
We are chosen by Him and for Him!
"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." - Ephesians 2:10...
NOW is the Time to Awaken!
We are being called in these turbulent times to contend for change and take an unshakable stand that transforms our culture. It is time for a spiritual revolution.
WALK OUT OF PASSIVITY AND LUKEWARMNESS
There is a paralyzing passivity so prevalent in the Church...
A. Ask God to Soften Their Hearts
Ezekiel 11:19 - "And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh..."
Pray for the condition of their hearts to change.
B. Spirit of Conviction
Ask for the...
God has already "granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness" so that "you may become partakers of the divine nature" (2 Peter 1:3-4).
The Bible says that we "grow up into salvation" in the same way we should grow to be responsible adults (1 Peter 2:2). Therefore, our experience...
Read John Chap. 8 and Matthew Chap. 13
Have the class (or individual) read aloud each of the ascribed scriptures. Then dictate the indicated summary. The student is to recite the summary of each of the scriptures 5 times per day until the next class.
II Tim 3:15-17; All scripture is inspired...
Man was created to be inhabited by God through His Spirit. With a sincere devotion to God through the Holy Spirit, people can live in a place of overflow in His presence.
God desires our revelation to become reality. The things that He has given us in our dreams He desires to make manifest in...
Luke 9:23 - "If anyone wishes to come after Me; he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me."
When the Cross is alive, it burns up the flesh – dreams of the flesh, ambitions of the flesh – all of the flesh.
All of the flesh it consumes. It consumed man's flesh beyond...
"And a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His miracles which He did on them that were diseased." John 6:2
When it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, "This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and...
From Glory to Glory
(Read 1 Peter 1 & Colossians 1)
2 Corinthians 3:18 18But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
(As children of God, part of our...
I love You, God, because You first loved me. (1 John 4:19)
You sent Your only begotten Son, Jesus, to this earth out of Your love for me and for others. I have believed on Him and now, I will not perish - I have everlasting life. You did not send Jesus to condemn me, but to save me, and I thank...
Jesus instructed His disciples to pray..."Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven" (see Matthew 6:10, Luke 11:2). As we pray as Jesus instructs, we are actually praying for Heaven to touch earth.
When Jesus came He brought His world to ours! He demonstrated the Kingdom...
The Three Parts of the Spirit – #2 Intuition
Intuition is the consciousness within man’s spirit – it is direct and not dependant on anything else. We do not need the help of the mind, the emotion, or the will before we can have this knowledge. Through the intuition man can truly ‘know’...
We let the Lord take our heart through a process.
Just as Peter had to go through a series of events to be ready to be used in an extraordinary way, we realize that God has a process for all of us. What the Lord worked in Peter was a NEW IDENTITY, a dependency upon the Lord so that he would not...
Romans 10:10 - "For with the heart man beleiveth unto righteousness......."
Romans 5:17 - "For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ."
Paul makes two significant...
"When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, 'Now go out where it is DEEPER, and let down your nets to catch some fish.'" - Luke 5:4
When Jesus asked Simon to go farther out into the deeper water He was asking Simon to go back out to his place of failure and try again. When any of us fail...
"My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips. When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches. Because You have been my help, therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice." Psalm 63:5-7
In this classic...