Sunday, April 12, 2020

Healing in Communion


The Resurrection Is The Proof

John 14:1 “Don't let your heart be troubled, you believe in God believe also in Me.”

Healing is freely given to followers of Jesus. Jesus said repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Repentance frees us to receive the blessings from God. The teaching on Communion explains that no repentance is the reason for not receiving from God the promise of healing. Come to God with pure motives and judge yourselves that you are right before God..

Repentance is not only turning from what we have done and instead to follow God. Repentance also is being active in our faith and accept what God has given to us. Don't neglect the gift of healing given to all believers. Remember what Christ has done for us. It was no small thing which He did. Accept and believe the hard work of Love Jesus did for us. We are invited to accept His work on the cross.

Remember what God has done for us at the cross. His body was broken for our healing and His blood was shed for our Spiritual healing. “This I recall to mind , therefore I have hope.”Lam 3:21 Remember what has been done for us on the cross and then hope will arise. Faith takes hold of hope and receives from God. Receive healing from Jesus.

Friday, March 13, 2020

Psalm 91

Psalm 91 7 Actions
v1
dwells and Abide
in the shelter of the Most High
in the shadow of the Almighty
Say
in the Lord
My refuge and my fortress
My God in whom I trust

Made the Lord
my refuge
my dwelling place
Jer 17
Tread  upon; Trample down
The lion and cobra
the young lion and the serpent
Loved Me
Know My name
Call upon Me

The 7 actions of Psalm 91

The promises of Psalm 91 are not given to all. They are given to the people that are described in the Psalm. Reading the Psalm shows what we can do to become part of this protection God is offering.

 It is not because I keep all the requirements that God answers me. It is because I have faith in the righteousness of Jesus Philippians 3:9 that His promise is sure. I have faith in Jesus that he will keep His word to me. His promises are guaranteed.



 Romans 4:16 “For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,”

Where we live speaks volumes about us. It talks about our values our personality our ability and our life and how we live it.

Where we live shows where we work. We are identified with that part of the country. A person living in Indiana is called a Hosier.
Israel's tribes lived in different parts of Israel.

4 areas of abiding
1 Read/Study
Daily devotions. Reading the Bible and listening to the Holy Spirit in your reading.
2 Pray/Seek
Stay in the Word with an attitude of prayer. John 5:39,40; Eph 6:17,18
 Pray. Commune with God about your day and about your needs.
Seek God for His direction for you. Eph 2:10
3 Worship God for His goodness.
4 Serve God by bearing fruit. 1 Cor 15:58

In the shadow speaks of being right next to God. Where He goes we go. When He stops we stop. We are right with Him. To stay in His shadow is to know His movements. To know His plans for us.
Ps 23 Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil. For God is with us. We don't go through the valley alone. God is walking right with us, we are under His shadow when we go through the valley.

God's light causes a shadow. There can be no shadow if there is no light.


What we say reveals what is in our heart.
A slip of the tongue is a look into the heart.
We can change our heart by what we say. We can set the tone of our life by what we say if we believe and desire what we say.


Benefits of Psalm 91
1 abide under God's shadow
3 delivered of snare and deadly pestilence
4 God covers you. Count on His faithfulness
5 Not be afraid of:
-terror by night
-arrow of the day
- pestilence in darkness
- destruction during the day
7 you will not fall
10 No evil will befall you
- No plague will come near you.
12 Angles will keep you from striking your foot on a stone
13 lion, cobra, young lion , serpent you will trample down
14 God will deliver you
- set securely on high
15 God will answer your call
God will be with us in trouble
We will be rescued and honored
16 Given long life
- see the salvation of God

Friday, February 28, 2020

Quotes



Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it.
 - MIke Tyson

The meaning of life it to find your gift.
The purpose of life is to give it away."
Pablo Picasso

They were younger faster, stronger and more sophisticated. But there is one thing they lacked that I had, good old hunger. George Forman


Monday, February 24, 2020

Spiritual strength



Joel 2:10 Let the weak say I am a mighty man.

Zech 12:8 Those who are feeble among them will be like David.

Zech 4:6 Not by might nor by power but by My Spirit says the Lord.

Lev 26:8 Five of you will chase a 100 and a 100 of you will chase 10,000, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

Josh 23:10 One of your men puts to flight a thousand, for the Lord your 'God is He who fights for you, just as He promised you.”

Deut 28:7 “The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you be defeated before you, they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways.”

Micha 7:8 “Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I fall I will rise; though I dwell in darkness, the Lord is a light for me.”

2 Sam 23:11,12 A man takes his stand in a lentil patch and fights off a troop of Philistines. He was not a mighty man because he was stronger then all of them. He was a mighty man because he had the courage to fight against impossible odds!

1 Samuel 17:45,46 “Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.”

Gideon with 300 against over 100,000 Judges 6 :11 - 7:25

God does not take pleasure in the legs of a man. God favors those who wait for His lovingkindness. Ps 147:10,11

Neh 8:10 The joy of the Lord is your strength.

2 Cor 12:9 Power is perfected in weakness.

Phil 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Dan 11:32 The people who know their God will display strength and take action.

Isaiah 30:15 Quiet and rest is your strength

Josh 14:11 I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me,as my strength as then , so my strength is now for war and for going out and coming in.

Joel 2:11 Strong is he who carries out His word.

Psalm 28:7 The Lord is my strength and my shield
My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped;
Therefore my heart exults,
And with my song I shall thank Him.