You Are Strong In The Lord

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 , , , 0 Comments

EPHESIANS 6:10 NIV
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.

No one can successfully argue against the statement, "You are strong in the Lord." It is a given that if you are in the Lord, you are strong. Nothing that is "in the Lord" could be weak.
So the only real question is whether you are "in the Lord.

I JOHN 5:20 NASB
20 And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, in order that we might know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 NIV
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

The choice is yours. You choose whether to accept Christ and thus be identified as "in Him." God does no force this, you must choose.

EPHESIANS 2:8-10 NASB
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
9 not as a result of works, that no one should boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

From Ephesians 2:8-10 we can see that when we are saved through faith, we are created a new IN Christ Jesus. That is our position. So, anyone and everyone who has received Jesus Christ can be said to be legally "in Him" according to the Scripture.

Always remember that your strength is not in your own ability or resources, but your strength is in the Lord. Depend on Hm. He will never fail you. (He probably will test your patience and maybe even let the situation look hopeless, but He will not ever fail you.)

PSALM 27:1 NKJ
1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?

HEBREWS 13:5-6 NKJ
5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
6 So we ay boldly say: "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

PSALM 28:8 NIV
8 The LORD is the strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one.

SAY THIS: I am strong in the Lord. In the Lord, I am strong, for the Lord is my strength.

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You Are Delivered From The Devil

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 , , , 0 Comments

COLOSSIANS 1:13 NKJ
13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.

Many people are afraid of the devil. As believers we have no need to be afraid of the devil, although we should be aware and on guard against his schemes.

The only true power the devil holds over a believer now is the power of deception. If you do not know the truth the devil will take advantage of you. The only way to know the truth is to read, understand, and act on the Scriptures.

To illustrate, imagine entering the hospital room of patient paralyzed from their neck down. All they can do is talk. They pose no threat to you, unless they convince you to take the gun from beside the bed and shoot yourself with it.
(How could they do that? One way would be to convince you that the gun was not real or not loaded, so it wouldn't harm you.)

You may think this is ridiculous, but it happens constantly with people who do not realize that the words they speak are powerful, and that the ideas they speak originate with the devil. Every day the devil convinces millions of people to take a spiritual "weapon" -- their words -- and use it against themselves.

The devil operates against you through fear and ignorance. God's Word gives you the information that will set you free from both fear and ignorance.

HEBREWS 2:14-15 NASB
14 Since then the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil;
15 and might deliver those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.

MARK 16:17 NKJ
17 "And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; for believers to cast out demons, it means they must have authority over the devil and his forces. However, unused authority conveys no benefit.

SAY THIS: Jesus is my lord, and the devil has no owner over me.
I have been delivered from the devil's authority. I am free, so leave me alone, devil!

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You Are Forgiven

Saturday, April 24, 2010 , , 0 Comments

2 CORINTHIANS 5:19 AMPLIFIED
19 It was God (personally present) in Christ, reconciling and restoring the work to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them]; and committing to us the message of reconciliation -- of the restoration to favor.

Most people mistakenly think they have to beg God to forgive them. Instead, God has already forgiven. It was His idea -- done on His own initiative. (Whether you accept God's forgiveness and benefit from it is another question.)

1 JOHN 2:12 NKJ
12 I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name's sake.

No matter what you have done -- God has already forgiven you!
God is not mad at you. Instead He loves you and desires to have a close relationship with you. Yes, God is against sin, because sin is harmful to humans. But He has already made provision for you to be forgiven and set free from sin.

Jesus Christ paid the price for all your sins -- and God is no longer holding any sin against you! You have been forgiven.
When you accept that, you can begin to receive the benefit of Jesus' sacrifice.

EPHESIANS 1:7 NKJ
7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

COLOSSIANS 2:13 NKJ
13 An you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, Through Jesus we have redemption from the devil and forgiveness for our sins.

Wouldn't it be great if you could tell someone who has messed up their life that God is not mad at them and not against them?
That He desires to be their friend and help them?

SAY THIS: Thank You Father God for forgiving me and loving me.

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You Are Healed

Friday, April 23, 2010 , 0 Comments

1 PETER 2:24 NKJ
24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness -- by whose stripes you were healed.

"Time" is difficult to understand. Scientists tell us that time is "relative," just something that seems real to us.

The Bible indicates God is "outside of time." God created time so He is not confined to it. Can we easily comprehend this? No.
When a human makes a statement that is not true at this present moment in time, we call it a lie -- not the truth.

But when God says something that does not seem to be true at this moment -- we cannot accuse Him of telling a lie -- because God is not limited to our time frame. (Also, we do not know everything.)
Having said all that, the Bible clearly says that you ARE healed.

ISAIAH 53:4-5 NRSV
4 Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed.

So, you have a choice. You can look at it from your perspective and say, "That is not true. I am not healed."
Or, you can view the situation from God's perspective, and because of your faith in Him, agree with what He said.

Which choice is best? As you decide your answer, remember to include eternity in your evaluation. Pleasing God by accepting His Word can bring benefits to you after this life.

Here is one way of understanding all this. God made provision for everyone to be healed. That provision must be received by faith -- by believing and acting on what God has said in His Word. Humans have a choice: believe God's Word and resist anything that would try to steal their health, or, let their feelings and circumstances control them.

If you disagree with all this, let's not argue or fight. That will not help anyone. But remember, the Bible will still say what it says.

MATTHEW 8:16-17 NKJ
16 When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick,
17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses."

God made provision for your healing, but the devil tries to steal it away from you. Here is the bottom line: we do not understand everything. God does. Since God loves us, it seems best to trust in
Him instead of trusting in our own limited understanding. So, I choose to believe and say what God says, whether I understand it or not.

SAY THIS: The Bible says I am healed. I choose to
agree with what God has said in the Bible.

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Hold Fast Your Confession

Thursday, April 22, 2010 , , 0 Comments

Confession is the act disclosing your sinfulness before God.
The Bible tells you to hang on tight to saying God's Word.

HEBREWS 10:23 NKJ
23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. God has no reason to tell us to hold fast, or hang on tight, to our confession, unless someone, or something, will be trying to get us to turn loose of it and say something else.

HEBREWS 3:1 NKJ
1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,

HEBREWS 4:14 NKJ
14 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

Jesus is the High Priest of our confession what we say. He represents us before God with the words we speak.

The Bible says:
You are righteous in Christ. Romans 3:2
You are forgiven. Colossians 2:13
You are healed. 1 Peter 2:24
You are delivered from the devil. Colossians 1:13
You can do all things through Christ. Philippians 4:13
You are strong in the Lord. Ephesians 6:10
The Greater One is in you. 1 John 4:4
The Lord is guiding you. John 16:13
God is working in you. Philippians 2:13
The Lord is your helper. Hebrews 13:6
Jesus became poor to make you rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9

You may wonder why you should say what God says in the Bible about you. First, God is looking for faith, and second, it is the Word planted in your life that will make you free. Speaking God's Word is a way of planting it in you.

Yes, it can take faith to say what the Bible says about you. Especially when you don't feel like it and the circumstances don't agree, either. But we have to choose: will we rely on our feelings, or God's Word? Do we trust the circumstances more than God's Word?

But you may say, "What the Word says is just not true in my life." You are the establishing witness. God has said something about you. Now when you come into agreement with Him, it will become manifest in your life.

MARK 11:23 NKJ
2 "For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will come to pass, he will have whatever he says.

Jesus told you that we will have whatever we say if we believe it. It will come to pass. So you see why the devil tries to get us to quit saying God's Word, which will set us free.

SAY THIS: I will say what God says about me regardless of my feelings o circumstances.

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Good Friday

Friday, April 02, 2010 0 Comments

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