GOD IS ON OUR SIDE 2-13-26 VIDEO
No matter what we are facing God is there for us. He is the friend that stands closer than a brother. Stress and anxiety can work you up, but it’s God’s presence that gives you rest. Jesus will be with you through all the hard time that you face. He has sent the Comforter.
PS 46:1God, you’re such a safe and powerful place to find refuge!
You’re a proven help in time of trouble—more than enough and always available whenever I need you.
2 So we will never fear even if every structure of support were to crumble away. We will not fear even when the earth quakes and shakes, moving mountains and casting them into the sea. TPT
Job 5:19 From one disaster after another he delivers you; no matter what the calamity, the evil can’t touch you — MSG
PS 34:17 Yet when holy lovers of God cry out to him with all their hearts, the Lord will hear them and come to rescue them from all their troubles.
18 The Lord is close to all whose hearts are crushed by pain, and he is always ready to restore the repentant one.
19 Even when bad things happen to the good and godly ones, the Lord will save them and not let them be defeated by what they face.
20 God will be your bodyguard to protect you when trouble is near. Not one bone will be broken. TPT

PHIL 4:6 Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns.
7 Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.
8 Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious – the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse.
9 Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies MSG

1 PET 5:6 So be content with who you are, and don’t put on airs. God’s strong hand is on you; he’ll promote you at the right time.
7 Live carefree before God; he is most careful with you.
8 Keep a cool head. Stay alert. The Devil is poised to pounce, and would like nothing better than to catch you napping.
9 Keep your guard up. You’re not the only ones plunged into these hard times. It’s the same with Christians all over the world. So keep a firm grip on the faith.
10 The suffering won’t last forever. It won’t be long before this generous God who has great plans for us in Christ – eternal and glorious plans they are! – will have you put together and on your feet for good.
11 He gets the last word; yes, he does. MSG
LUKE 12:32 Don’t be afraid of missing out. You’re my dearest friends! The Father wants to give you the very kingdom itself. MSG

JN 14:27 Peace be with you! I give you my own peace – this is not the kind the world gives – this is peace in the midst of troubled times; therefore you have nothing to fear! Let not your hearts be timid.
28 You have heard me say that I go away to come to be face to face with you; now if you’re in love with me you would not be threatened by the idea of my departure, but you would rejoice since I’ll be going to the Father and my Father is greater than me. From now on we will be present in a much closer capacity to you than what I could ever be while I am with you in the flesh! MIRROR

DEU 31:8 God is striding ahead of you. He’s right there with you. He won’t let you down; he won’t leave you. Don’t be intimidated. Don’t worry.” MSG

EX 33:14 God said, “My presence will go with you. I’ll see the journey to the end.” MSG

2 COR 1:5 This bliss and closeness we now participate in was made possible through the enormous 1consequence of the sufferings of Christ. The overwhelming extent of his sufferings brought about this equally overwhelming sense of inseparable oneness!
6 Our afflictions and testimony of his closeness in the midst of it all is to spark you with courage whenever you might be facing similar contradictions. We all participate in the same salvation and enjoy equal closeness!
7 We are so confident about you, knowing that there is nothing you could possibly face or suffer that can separate you from his nearness. MIRROR

PS 119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction, That Your word has revived me and given me life. AMP
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PS 119:50 These words hold me up in bad times; yes, your promises rejuvenate me. MSG

PS 23:4 Even when the way goes through Death Valley, I’m not afraid when you walk at my side. Your trusty shepherd’s crook makes me feel secure
5 You serve me a six-course dinner right in front of my enemies. You revive my drooping head; my cup brims with blessing.
6 Your beauty and love chase after me every day of my life. I’m back home in the house of God for the rest of my life. MSG

1 THES 3:7 for this reason, brothers and sisters, during all our distress and suffering we have been comforted and greatly encouraged about you because of your faith [your unwavering trust in God—placing yourselves completely in His loving hands]; AMP

JN 14:15 “If you love me, show it by doing what I’ve told you.
16 I will talk to the Father, and he’ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you.
17 This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can’t take him in because it doesn’t have eyes to see him, doesn’t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!
18 “I will not leave you orphaned. I’m coming back.
19 In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you’re going to see me because I am alive and you’re about to come alive.
20 At that moment you will know absolutely that I’m in my Father, and you’re in me, and I’m in you. MSG

ISA 51:12 “I, I’m the One comforting you. What are you afraid of – or who? Some man or woman who’ll soon be dead? Some poor wretch destined for dust?
13 You’ve forgotten me, God, who made you, who unfurled the skies, who founded the earth. And here you are, quaking like an aspen before the tantrums of a tyrant who thinks he can kick down the world. But what will come of the tantrums?
14 The victims will be released before you know it. They’re not going to die. They’re not even going to go hungry.
15 For I am God, your very own God, who stirs up the sea and whips up the waves, named God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
16 I teach you how to talk, word by word, and personally watch over you, Even while I’m unfurling the skies, setting earth on solid foundations, and greeting Zion: ‘Welcome, my people!'” MSG

PS 69:16 Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is sweet and good and comforting; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me. AMP

2 COR 1:4 There is no contradiction of any proportion that we can possibly face that has what it takes to exasperate us or distance us from God. Our consciousness of his inseparable nearness immediately reinforces us to extend the same tangible closeness to you in your difficult times, and together we snuggle up in the comfort of his intimate embrace! MIRROR

2 Cor 1:4 He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us.
5 We have plenty of hard times that come from following the Messiah, but no more so than the good times of his healing comfort — we get a full measure of that, too. MSG

HEAVENLY PLACES AND HEAVENLY THINGS 2-8-26 VIDEO
There is a heaven that is for certain. It’s not something we have made up just to help people when they have lost a loved one. Jesus shares his life after death. Lazarus gained paradise. The rich man had torment. God is in heaven above an earth below. In the Old Testament, God spoke directly to his people from heaven. Jesus worked with them from heaven, giving them in refutable evidence.
JN 3:12 If I speak incarnate language to you and you are not persuaded about our common origin, how will you be persuaded about heavenly things?
13 No one can fully engage in heaven’s perspective, unless one’s heavenly origin is realized! The Son of man declares mankind’s co-genesis from above!
14 Remember how Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so the son of man will be lifted up! MIRROR

LU 16:20 A poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, had been dumped on his doorstep.
21 All he lived for was to get a meal from scraps off the rich man’s table. His best friends were the dogs who came and licked his sores.
22 “Then he died, this poor man, and was taken up by the angels to the lap of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.
23 In hell and in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham in the distance and Lazarus in his lap. MSG

DEU 4:39 Know this well, then. Take it to heart right now: God is in Heaven above; God is on Earth below. He’s the only God there is. MSG

EX 24:11 Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the nobles of the Israelites; and they saw [the manifestation of the presence of] God, and ate and drank.
12 Now the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandments which I have written for their instruction.”
13 So Moses arose with Joshua his attendant, and he went up to the mountain of God. 14 And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we come back to you. Remember that Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a legal matter, let him go to them.”
15 Then Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain AMP

2 KINGS 2:1 Just before God took Elijah to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on a walk out of Gilgal.
2 Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here. God has sent me on an errand to Bethel.” Elisha said, “Not on your life! I’m not letting you out of my sight!” So they both went to Bethel.
3 The guild of prophets at Bethel met Elisha and said, “Did you know that God is going to take your master away from you today?” “Yes,” he said, “I know it. But keep it quiet.”

2 KINGS 2:7 Meanwhile, fifty men from the guild of prophets gathered some distance away while the two of them stood at the Jordan.
8 Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and hit the water with it. The river divided and the two men walked through on dry land. MSG

2 KINGS 2:9 When they reached the other side, Elijah said to Elisha, “What can I do for you before I’m taken from you? Ask anything.” Elisha said, “Your life repeated in my life. I want to be a holy man just like you.”
10 “That’s a hard one!” said Elijah. “But if you’re watching when I’m taken from you, you’ll get what you’ve asked for. But only if you’re watching.”
11 And so it happened. They were walking along and talking. Suddenly a chariot and horses of fire came between them and Elijah went up in a whirlwind to heaven.
12 Elisha saw it all and shouted, “My father, my father! You – the chariot and cavalry of Israel!” When he could no longer see anything, he grabbed his robe and ripped it to pieces. MSG

1 CHRON 16:31 So let heaven rejoice, let earth be jubilant, and pass the word among the nations, “God reigns!” MSG

NEH 9:13 You came down onto Mount Sinai, you spoke to them out of heaven; You gave them instructions on how to live well, true teaching, sound rules and commands; MSG

JOB 16:19 There must be Someone in heaven who knows the truth about me, in highest heaven, some Attorney who can clear my name –
20 My Champion, my Friend, while I’m weeping my eyes out before God.
21 I appeal to the One who represents mortals before God as a neighbor stands up for a neighbor. MSG

PS 17:15 As for me, I shall see Your face in righteousness; I will be [fully] satisfied when I awake [to find myself] seeing Your likeness. AMP

DAN 2:28 But there is a God in heaven who solves mysteries, and he has solved this one. He is letting King Nebuchadnezzar in on what is going to happen in the days ahead. This is the dream you had when you were lying on your bed, the vision that filled your mind: MSG

MAL 3:10 Bring all the tithes (the tenth) into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you [so great] a blessing until there is no more room to receive it. AMP
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MAL 3:10 Bring your full tithe to the Temple treasury so there will be ample provisions in my Temple. Test me in this and see if I don’t open up heaven itself to you and pour out blessings beyond your wildest dreams. MSG

MATT 5:11 “Not only that – count yourselves blessed every time people put you down or throw you out or speak lies about you to discredit me. What it means is that the truth is too close for comfort and they are uncomfortable.
12 You can be glad when that happens – give a cheer, even! – for though they don’t like it, I do! And all heaven applauds. And know that you are in good company. My prophets and witnesses have always gotten into this kind of trouble. MSG
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MATT 5:11 “How blessed you are when people insult and persecute you and speak all kinds of cruel lies about you because of your love for me!
12 So leap for joy—since your heavenly reward is great. For you are being rejected the same way the prophets were before you. TPT

MATT 6:19 Don’t hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust or – worse! – stolen by burglars.
20 Stockpile treasure in heaven, where it’s safe from moth and rust and burglars.
21 It’s obvious, isn’t it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being. MSG

MATT 16:19 “And that’s not all. You will have complete and free access to God’s kingdom, keys to open any and every door: no more barriers between heaven and earth, earth and heaven. A yes on earth is yes in heaven. A no on earth is no in heaven.” MSG

MATT 28:2 Suddenly the earth reeled and rocked under their feet as God’s angel came down from heaven, came right up to where they were standing. He rolled back the stone and then sat on it.
3 Shafts of lightning blazed from him. His garments shimmered snow-white.
4 The guards at the tomb were scared to death. They were so frightened, they couldn’t move.
5 The angel spoke to the women: “There is nothing to fear here. I know you’re looking for Jesus, the One they nailed to the cross.
6 He is not here. He was raised, just as he said. Come and look at the place where he was placed.
7 “Now, get on your way quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He is risen from the dead. He is going on ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there.’ That’s the message.” MSG

MK 14:62 Jesus said, “Yes, I am, and you’ll see it yourself: The Son of Man seated At the right hand of the Mighty One, Arriving on the clouds of heaven.” MSG

MK 16:19 Then the Master Jesus, after briefing them, was taken up to heaven, and he sat down beside God in the place of honor.
20 And the disciples went everywhere preaching, the Master working right with them, validating the Message with indisputable evidence.] MSG

JN 1:51 Truly I say unto you [singular], because of who I am, you [plural – will surely see this communication between the heavenly sphere and earth thrown wide open, and the celestial messengers of God ascending and descending upon the incarnate son of man. Heaven and earth meet in the incarnate one! MIRROR

JN 3:31 He who discovers the poetry of truth, faces the light unashamedly – his lifestyle boldly displays the workmanship of union with God! His works speak for themselves -”Made in heaven – wrought in God!” MIRROR

JN 6:31 How do you compete with Moses? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness – as it is written – He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
32 Jesus reminded them that it wasn’t Moses who gave them the bread from heaven – My Father is the one who gives the real bread from heaven. MIRROR

1 COR 15:48 The First Man was made out of earth, and people since then are earthy; the Second Man was made out of heaven, and people now can be heavenly.
49 In the same way that we’ve worked from our earthy origins, let’s embrace our heavenly ends. MSG
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1 COR 15:48 The reduced state of the individual left its mark on mankind as being earthly; now the redeemed state of mankind confirms their origin in God and marks their new heavenly life.
49 Just as we were once defined by the flesh [our earthly image] we are now defined by our spirit [our heavenly] image. MIRROR

2 COR 5:1 Our skin-suits have a “sell by” date; our spirit-bodies are eternal. The same God who fashioned these skin-bodies in our mother’s womb, engineered our spirit-bodies to be our permanent dwelling.
2 Facing pressure times the way we often do, makes us sigh with longing to exchange our skin-suit with the permanent splendor of the heavenly-body.
3 In the meantime, whatever challenges we are facing in the meat-box, we know that we shall never be found naked; since we are already fully clothed with our heavenly identity in Christ in our inner person! MIRROR

2 COR 5:5 God wired us this way; his Spirit already confirms within us the present evidence of eternity. We are eternal beings by design. MIRROR

PHIL 2:10 so that all created beings in heaven and on earth – even those long ago dead and buried – will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ, MSG

PHIL 3:20 But there’s far more to life for us. We’re citizens of high heaven! We’re waiting the arrival of the Savior, the Master, Jesus Christ, MSG

YOU ARE A THREE PART BEING  2-6-26 VIDEO SPIRIT SOUL BODY

You are a spirit you have a soul, which is your mind, will, and emotions, and you live in a body. Made in the image in the likeness of God. God created us to act like Him to think like Him and to have life like Him. Our life with God is that we work in the light just like He is in the light. Paul makes Jesus his reason for living. We have the mind of Christ. We are now a living spirit.

GEN 2:7 Yahweh-God scooped up a lump of soil, sculpted a man, and blew into his nostrils the breath of life. The man came alive—a living soul. TPT

1 COR 15:45 So it is written [in Scripture], “The first man, Adam, became a living soul (an individual);” the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving spirit [restoring the dead to life].  AMP

Ps 19:7 The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the [whole] person; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. AMP

ROM 8:29 God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him.

30 After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.  MSG

2 PET 1:3 Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received!  MSG

1 JN 1:2 The Word of Life appeared right before our eyes; we saw it happen! And now we’re telling you in most sober prose that what we witnessed was, incredibly, this: The infinite Life of God himself took shape before us.

3 We saw it, we heard it, and now we’re telling you so you can experience it along with us, this experience of communion with the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ.

4 Our motive for writing is simply this: We want you to enjoy this, too. Your joy will double our joy!   MSG

1 JN 1:7 But if we walk in the light, God himself being the light, we also experience a shared life with one another, as the sacrificed blood of Jesus, God’s Son, purges all our sin.  MSG

EPH 4:22 Since, then, we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything – and I do mean everything – connected with that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and through. Get rid of it!

23 And then take on an entirely new way of life – a God-fashioned life,

24 a life renewed from the inside and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces his character in you.  MSG

PHIL 1:21 Alive, I’m Christ’s messenger; dead, I’m his bounty. Life versus even more life! I can’t lose.  MSG

LUKE 20:38 God isn’t the God of dead men, but of the living. To him all are alive.”  MSG

1 COR 2:16 There is no other basis to teach from but to echo the mind of Christ; he is the Master mind personified within us!   MIRROR

GAL 5:25 Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives.

26 That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.   MSG

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GAL 5:25 Because faith defines us and not flesh, we take our lead from the spirit in our daily conduct. There is an authority in our step; we are marching in rank like soldiers!

26 Quit your efforts to try and impress one another. The law of works reduces your life to envious comparison and petty competition, while love only always seeks the advantage of the other!  MIRROR

2 COR 3:18 Now, we all, with new understanding, see ourselves in him as in a mirror. The days of window-shopping are over! In him every face is unveiled. In gazing with wonder at the blueprint of God displayed in human form, we suddenly realize that we are looking into a mirror, where every feature of his image, articulated in Christ, is reflected within us!  The Spirit of the Lord engineers this radical transformation; we are led from an inferior mind-set to the revealed endorsement of our authentic identity.  MIRROR

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2 COR 3:18 All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.  MSG

JN 6:63 It is the Spirit that quickens the poetry of life – the flesh (muscle and willpower) is useless without the spirit. The words that I speak unto you they are spirit and life! I communicate from a different dimension and perspective giving voice and substance to every prophetic shadow and purpose.  MIRROR

JN 6:57  As the living Father has sent me and also sustains me so will I sustain the one eating me. I live through my Father – just like my daily food sustains me, so his life permanently resides in me – now you may also continually and habitually feast on me and live through me!

58 This is the bread that stepped down out of the heavenly sphere – there is no comparison with the manna your fathers received from heaven [which was merely a prophetic shadow pointing to me]; they ate and they died [without completing their destiny] – now feast on me and celebrate the life of the ages.  MIRROR  

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JN 6:57 In the same way that the fully alive Father sent me here and I live because of him, so the one who makes a meal of me lives because of me.

58 This is the Bread from heaven. Your ancestors ate bread and later died. Whoever eats this Bread will live always.”  MSG

JN 14:18 “I will not leave you orphaned. I’m coming back.

19 In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you’re going to see me because I am alive and you’re about to come alive.

20 At that moment you will know absolutely that I’m in my Father, and you’re in me, and I’m in you.   MSG

ROM 6:11 This reasoning is equally relevant to you. Calculate the cross; there can only be one logical conclusion: he died your death; that means you died to sin, and are now alive to God. Sin-consciousness can never again feature in your future! You are in Christ Jesus; his Lordship is the authority of this union  MIRROR

EPH 2:5 Even when we were dead and doomed in our many sins, he united us into the very life of Christ and saved us by his wonderful grace!  TPT

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EPH 2:5 he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us!  MSG

COL 2:13 When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were incapable of responding to God. God brought you alive – right along with Christ! Think of it! All sins forgiven,   MSG          

THE AUTHORITY OF THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD 2-1-26 VIDEO
Reinhard Bonnke said that the Lord spoke to him that the words that came out of his mouth were as powerful as the words that came out of God‘s mouth. Our words have power. Our words conveyed more than information they have an impact on people. The power to use God‘s word is a powerful gift.
HEB 4:12 The message God spoke to us in Christ, is the most life giving and dynamic influence in us, cutting like a surgeon’s scalpel, sharper than a soldier’s sword, piercing to the deepest core of human conscience, to the dividing of soul and spirit; ending the dominance of the sense realm and its neutralizing effect upon the human spirit. In this way a person’s spirit is freed to become the ruling influence again in the thoughts and intentions of their heart. The scrutiny of this living Sword-Logos detects every possible disease, discerning the body’s deepest secrets where joint and bone-marrow meet. MIRROR

Jer 1:9 God reached out, touched my mouth, and said, “Look! I’ve just put my words in your mouth — hand-delivered!
10 See what I’ve done? I’ve given you a job to do among nations and governments — a red-letter day! Your job is to pull up and tear down, take apart and demolish, And then start over, building and planting.” MSG

PS 19:14 So may the words of my mouth, my meditation-thoughts, and every movement of my heart be always pure and pleasing, acceptable before your eyes, Yahweh, my only Redeemer, my Protector. TPT

MATT 12:35 A good person produces good deeds and words season after season. An evil person is a blight on the orchard.
36 Let me tell you something: Every one of these careless words is going to come back to haunt you. There will be a time of Reckoning. Words are powerful; take them seriously.
37 Words can be your salvation. Words can also be your damnation.” MSG

EPH 4:29 And never let ugly or hateful words come from your mouth, but instead let your words become beautiful gifts that encourage others; do this by speaking words of grace to help them. TPT

JAMES 1:21 So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life. MSG

Eph 6:17 and salvation are more than words. Learn how to apply them. You’ll need them throughout your life. God’s Word is an indispensable weapon. MSG ↓↓↓

ISA 55:10 “As the snow and rain that fall from heaven do not return until they have accomplished their purpose, soaking the earth and causing it to sprout with new life,
providing seed to sow and bread to eat.
11 So also will be the word that I speak; it does not return to me unfulfilled. My word performs my purpose and fulfills the mission I sent it out to accomplish.” TPT

ROM 10:14 How is it possible to convince people of their identity in him while they do not believe that he represents them? How will they believe if they remain ignorant about who they really are? How will they understand if the Good News of their inclusion is not announced?
15 What gives someone the urgency to declare these things? It is recorded in prophetic Scripture, “How lovely on the mountains are the feet of them leaping with the exciting news of victory. Because of their eyewitness encounter they are qualified to run with the Gospel of peace and announce the consequent glad tidings of good things that will benefit everyone.” MIRROR

PRO 18:20 Sharing words of wisdom is satisfying to your inner being. It encourages you to know that you’ve changed someone else’s life.
21 Your words are so powerful that they will kill or give life, and the talkative person will reap the consequences. TPT

EPH 6:19 My most urgent request is for clarity of utterance every time I open my mouth to speak. I desire that my words will be gifted with inspiration, boldly articulating the mystery of the gospel.
20 I am an ambassador in bonds, chained to this task of confidently communicating the revelation of the Gospel with the accuracy it deserves. MIRROR

HEB 11:3 By faith, we see the world called into existence by God’s word, what we see created by what we don’t see. MSG

1 JN 1:1 From the very first day, we were there, taking it all in – we heard it with our own ears, saw it with our own eyes, verified it with our own hands.
2 The Word of Life appeared right before our eyes; we saw it happen! And now we’re telling you in most sober prose that what we witnessed was, incredibly, this: The infinite Life of God himself took shape before us. MSG

JN 1:1 The Word was first, the Word present to God, God present to the Word. The Word was God, MSG

REV 19:13 The robes he wore were dipped in blood and his Name has always been the Word of God! MIRROR

JN 12:48 I came to save the world. But you need to know that whoever puts me off, refusing to take in what I’m saying, is willfully choosing rejection. The Word, the Word-made-flesh that I have spoken and that I am, that Word and no other is the last word. MSG

Jn 14:10 Don’t you believe that the Father is living in me and that I am living in the Father? Even my words are not my own but come from my Father, for he lives in me and performs his miracles of power through me. TPT

MK 11:22 Jesus was matter-of-fact: “Embrace this God-life. Really embrace it,
23 and nothing will be too much for you. This mountain, for instance: Just say, ‘Go jump in the lake’ – no shuffling or shilly-shallying – and it’s as good as done.
24 That’s why I urge you to pray for absolutely everything, ranging from small to large. Include everything as you embrace this God-life, and you’ll get God’s everything.
25 And when you assume the posture of prayer, remember that it’s not all asking. If you have anything against someone, forgive – only then will your heavenly Father be inclined to also wipe your slate clean of sins.” MSG

ROM 10:8 Righteousness announced by God’s faith, is the authentic conversation! Here, every definition of distance in time, space, or even indifference and hostility, is cancelled. The word is no longer a distant prophetic pointer in the mouths of Moses and Elijah! They announced its destiny to be mirrored in the incarnation! “The Word is extremely close to you. It spills over from your heart and becomes dynamic conversation in your mouth!” MIRROR

JOB 22:28 You shall also decide and decree a thing, and it shall be established for you; and the light [of God’s favor] shall shine upon your ways.
29 When they make [you] low, you will say, [There is] a lifting up; and the humble person He lifts up and saves.
30 He will even deliver the one [for whom you intercede] who is not innocent; yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands. AMP

COL 3:16 Let the Word of Christ – the Message – have the run of the house. Give it plenty of room in your lives. Instruct and direct one another using good common sense. And sing, sing your hearts out to God! MSG

2 TIM 3:17 Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us. MSG

1 PET 1: 23 For through the eternal and living Word of God you have been born again. And this “seed” that he planted within you can never be destroyed but will live and grow inside of you forever. For:
24 Human beings are frail and temporary, like grass, and the glory of man fleeting
like blossoms of the field. The grass dries and withers and the flowers fall off,
25 but the Word of the Lord endures forever! And this is the Word that was announced to you! TPT

2 Tim 4:2 so proclaim the Message with intensity; keep on your watch. Challenge, warn, and urge your people. Don’t ever quit. Just keep it simple. MSG

GOD GIVES REVELATION FOR OUR FUTURE 1-30-26 VIDEO
God loves to give us revelation, especially for getting to know him better. He likes to let us in on the plans he has for the future. God gives us revelation for our future. We have a future that is good and not evil. A future filled with hope. The spirit of Revelation is available to everyone who receives the Holy Spirit.
ROM 8:18 That’s why I don’t think there’s any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times.
19 The created world itself can hardly wait for what’s coming next.
20 Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in
21 until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens. MSG

JER 29:11 Here’s what Yahweh says to you: “I know all about the marvelous destiny I have in store for you, a future planned out in detail. My intention is not to harm you but to surround you with peace and prosperity and to give you a beautiful future, glistening with hope.
12 When you call on me and come to me in prayer, I will listen to your every word.
13 If you reach out to me, you will find me when you search for me with all your heart. 14 I will not disappoint you,” declares Yahweh. “All that you have lost, I will restore, and I will regather you from all the nations where I have scattered you. I will bring you back home to the land from which I exiled you,” declares Yahweh. TPT

PHIL 1:6 There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears.
7 It’s not at all fanciful for me to think this way about you. My prayers and hopes have deep roots in reality. You have, after all, stuck with me all the way from the time I was thrown in jail, put on trial, and came out of it in one piece. All along you have experienced with me the most generous help from God. MSG

PS 16:5 Yahweh, you alone are my inheritance. You are my prize, my pleasure, and my portion. You hold my destiny and its timing in your hands.
6 Your pleasant path leads me to pleasant places. I’m overwhelmed by the privileges
that come with following you! My Praise
7 The way you counsel me makes me praise you more, for your whispers in the night give me wisdom, showing me what to do next. TPT

ROM 15:13 God who is the engineer of expectation fills you to the brim with tranquil delight. The dynamic of the Holy Spirit causes faith to exceed any possible hesitation in hope. MIRROR

EPH 1:17 I desire that you will draw directly from the source; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory kindles within you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the unveiling of his Master Plan. I long for you to know by revelation what he has known about you all along! MIRROR
EPH 2:10 We have become his poetry, a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it! TPT

PS 19:7 The revelation of God is whole and pulls our lives together. The signposts of God are clear and point out the right road. MSG

ISA 42:21 God intended, out of the goodness of his heart, to be lavish in his revelation. MSG

PS 119:77 Now comfort me so I can live, really live; your revelation is the tune I dance to. MSG

ISA 51:4 “Pay attention, my people. Listen to me, nations. Revelation flows from me. My decisions light up the world.
5 My deliverance arrives on the run, my salvation right on time. I’ll bring justice to the peoples. Even faraway islands will look to me and take hope in my saving power. MSG

1 COR 2:10 These profound mysteries of God’s eternal resolve are now unveiled in us; nothing is hidden from Holy Spirit, who explores the innermost thoughts of God.
11 Just as a person’s spirit knows their own thoughts beyond the public eye, even so the Spirit of God is our faith decoder to access the thoughts of God.
12 The Spirit proceeding from God unveils the gifts of his generosity. He has graced us with understanding so that we may know what he has always had in mind for us; this is so unlike the secular spirit of the wisdom of the world where everything has a price tag! MIRROR

MATT 11:27 Jesus resumed talking to the people, but now tenderly. “The Father has given me all these things to do and say. This is a unique Father-Son operation, coming out of Father and Son intimacies and knowledge. No one knows the Son the way the Father does, nor the Father the way the Son does. But I’m not keeping it to myself; I’m ready to go over it line by line with anyone willing to listen. MSG

DEUT 29:29 God, our God, will take care of the hidden things but the revealed things are our business. It’s up to us and our children to attend to all the terms in this Revelation. MSG

MATT 5:8 “Blessed [anticipating God’s presence, spiritually mature] are the pure in heart [those with integrity, moral courage, and godly character], for they will see God. AMP

MK 4:22 For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been kept secret, but that it would come to light [that is, things are hidden only temporarily, until the appropriate time comes for them to be known]. AMP
1 JN 2:8 On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true and realized in Christ and in you, because the darkness [of moral blindness] is clearing away and the true Light [the revelation of God in Christ] is already shining. AMP

MATT 26:64 Jesus said to him, “You have [in fact] said it; but more than that I tell you [regardless of what you do with Me now], in the future you will see [Me revealed as] the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.” AMP

MATT 24:34-35 Don’t take this lightly. I’m not just saying this for some future generation, but for all of you. This age continues until all these things take place.
35 Sky and earth will wear out; my words won’t wear out. MSG

COL 1:5 The lines of purpose in your lives never grow slack, tightly tied as they are to your future in heaven, kept taut by hope.
6 It’s the same all over the world. The Message bears fruit and gets larger and stronger, just as it has in you. From the very first day you heard and recognized the truth of what God is doing, you’ve been hungry for more.
7 It’s as vigorous in you now as when you learned it from our friend and close associate Epaphras. He is one reliable worker for Christ! I could always depend on him. MSG

1 PET 1:4 including a future in heaven – and the future starts now!
5 God is keeping careful watch over us and the future. The Day is coming when you’ll have it all – life healed and whole. MSG

1 PET 1:8 You never saw him, yet you love him. You still don’t see him, yet you trust him – with laughter and singing.
9 Because you kept on believing, you’ll get what you’re looking forward to: total salvation.
10 The prophets who told us this was coming asked a lot of questions about this gift of life God was preparing.
11 The Messiah’s Spirit let them in on some of it – that the Messiah would experience suffering, followed by glory. They clamored to know who and when. MSG

PHIL 3:13 I don’t depend on my own strength to accomplish this; however I do have one compelling focus: I forget all of the past as I fasten my heart to the future instead.
14 I run straight for the divine invitation of reaching the heavenly goal and gaining the victory-prize through the anointing of Jesus.
15 So let all who are fully mature have this same passion, and if anyone is not yet gripped by these desires, God will reveal it to them.
16 And let us all advance together to reach this victory-prize, following one path with one passion. TPT

THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM 1-25-26 VIDEO

What is the Spirit of wisdom? It is not the wisdom of this world. Wisdom is a spiritual gift from God. It’s not some mystery given to just a few. Wisdom helps us know God better.

Job 28:12 “But where, oh where, will they find Wisdom? Where does Insight hide?

13 Mortals don’t have a clue, haven’t the slightest idea where to look.

14 Earth’s depths say, ‘It’s not here’; ocean deeps echo, ‘Never heard of it.’

15 It can’t be bought with the finest gold; no amount of silver can get it.

16 Even famous Ophir gold can’t buy it, not even diamonds and sapphires.

17 Neither gold nor emeralds are comparable; extravagant jewelry can’t touch it.

18 Pearl necklaces and ruby bracelets — why bother? None of this is even a down payment on Wisdom!

19 Pile gold and African diamonds as high as you will, they can’t hold a candle to Wisdom.

20 “So where does Wisdom come from? And where does Insight live?

JOB 28:23 “God alone knows the way to Wisdom, he knows the exact place to find it.

24 He knows where everything is on earth, he sees everything under heaven.

25 After he commanded the winds to blow and measured out the waters,

26 Arranged for the rain and set off explosions of thunder and lightning,

27 He focused on Wisdom, made sure it was all set and tested and ready.

28 Then he addressed the human race: ‘Here it is! Fear-of-the-Lord – that’s Wisdom, and Insight means shunning evil.'”  MSG

PRO 2:4 Searching for it like a prospector panning for gold, like an adventurer on a treasure hunt,

5 Believe me, before you know it Fear-of-God will be yours; you’ll have come upon the Knowledge of God.

6 And here’s why: God gives out Wisdom free, is plainspoken in Knowledge and Understanding.

7 He’s a rich mine of Common Sense for those who live well, a personal bodyguard to the candid and sincere.  MSG

JAMES 1:5  And if anyone longs to be wise, ask God for wisdom and he will give it! He won’t see your lack of wisdom as an opportunity to scold you over your failures but he will overwhelm your failures with his generous grace.  TPT

JESUS Isa 11:2 And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him — the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the reverential and obedient fear of the Lord —  AMP

Mark 6:2 On the Sabbath, he gave a lecture in the meeting place. He made a real hit, impressing everyone. “We had no idea he was this good!” they said. “How did he get so wise all of a sudden, get such ability?”  MSG

Luke 2:40 And the Child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace (favor and spiritual blessing) of God was upon Him   AMP

Luke 2:52 And Jesus increased in wisdom (in broad and full understanding) and in stature and years, and in favor with God and man. AMP

1 Cor 1:21 For in his wisdom, God designed that all the world’s wisdom would be insufficient to lead people discovery of himself. He took great delight in baffling the wisdom of the world by using the simplicity of preaching the story of the cross in order to save those who believe it.

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1 COR 1:21 Since the world in all its fancy wisdom never had a clue when it came to knowing God, God in his wisdom took delight in using what the world considered dumb – preaching, of all things! – to bring those who trust him into the way of salvation.  MSG

1 COR 2:6 The words we speak resonate revelation wisdom in those who understand how perfectly redeemed they are in Christ, this wisdom supersedes every secular kind; suddenly what once seemed wise and good advice has become useless information.    

7 We voice words of wisdom that were hidden in silence for timeless ages; a mystery unfolding God’s Masterful plan whereby he would redeem his glory in man. Our glorification has always been God’s agenda, even before time was.  MIRROR

1 COR 3:19 God’s wisdom proves the foolishness of secular wisdom. It is on record in Scripture how God outwits the wise of this world.  MIRROR

Prov 9:11 For by me [Wisdom from God] your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.  AMP

1 KINGS 4:29 God gave Solomon wisdom – the deepest of understanding and the largest of hearts. There was nothing beyond him, nothing he couldn’t handle.

30 Solomon’s wisdom outclassed the vaunted wisdom of wise men of the East, outshone the famous wisdom of Egypt.  MSG

JOB 11:6 I wish he’d show you how wisdom looks from the inside, for true wisdom is mostly ‘inside.‘ But you can be sure of this, you haven’t gotten half of what you deserve.  MSG

PRO 16:16 Get wisdom – it’s worth more than money; choose insight over income every time.  MSG

JAMES 3:13 If you consider yourself to be wise and one who understands the ways of God, advertise it with a beautiful, fruitful life guided by wisdom’s gentleness. Never brag or boast about what you’ve done and you’ll prove that you’re truly wise.

14 But if there is bitter jealousy or competition hiding in your heart, then don’t deny it and try to compensate for it by boasting and being phony.

15 For that has nothing to do with God’s heavenly wisdom but can best be described as the wisdom of this world, both selfish and devilish.

16 So wherever jealousy and selfishness are uncovered, you will also find many troubles and every kind of meanness.

17 But the wisdom from above is always pure, filled with peace, considerate and teachable. It is filled with love and never displays prejudice or hypocrisy in any form

18 and it always bears the beautiful harvest of righteousness! Good seeds of wisdom’s fruit will be planted with peaceful acts by those who cherish making peace. TPT

1 Cor 1:30 For it is not from man that we draw our life but from God as we are being joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. And now he is our God-given wisdom, our virtue, our holiness, and our redemption.

31 And thus fulfills what is written: If anyone boasts, let him boast in all that the Lord has done! TPT

COL 1:9 and so we have become inseparably linked to you. Our constant desire for you is that you might be overwhelmed with the knowledge of God’s dream for your lives. We pray that the pattern of his wisdom and thoughts will fall into place for you in all spiritual understanding. MIRROR

EPH 1:17 I desire that you will draw directly from the source; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory kindles within you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the unveiling of his Master Plan. I long for you to know by revelation what he has known about you all along!

18 I pray that your thoughts will be flooded with light and inspired insight; that you will clearly picture his intent in identifying you in him so that you may know how precious you are to him. What God possesses in your redeemed innocence is his treasure and the glorious trophy of his inheritance! You are God’s portion. You are the sum total of his assets and the measure of his wealth!

19 I pray that you will be overwhelmed with an understanding of the magnitude of his power in the finished work of Christ. This is what results in the dynamic of your faith.  MIRROR

SURRENDER YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES TO THE FATHER 1-23-26 VIDEO
You can trust him 100% of the time for a good outcome. You aren’t yours anymore. You belong to him. Surrenders to give up control of something to someone else. Surrender means to let go of the control into the hands of someone you can trust. When you surrender you are not giving up, but you are casting your care upon the Lord no matter what the circumstances. You don’t carry around your own circumstances. You give it over to God.
When you give way to me, says the Lord, then I put my plans in effect for you. You cannot fail.
PS 37:3 Keep trusting in the Lord and do what is right in his eyes. Fix your heart on the promises of God, and you will dwell in the land, feasting on his faithfulness.
4 Find your delight and true pleasure in Yahweh, and he will give you what you desire the most.
5 Give God the right to direct your life, and as you trust him along the way, you’ll find he pulled it off perfectly!
6 He will appear as your righteousness, as sure as the dawning of a new day. He will manifest as your justice, as sure and strong as the noonday sun.
7 Quiet your heart in his presence and wait patiently for Yahweh. And don’t think for a moment that the wicked, in their prosperity, are better off than you. TPT

Ps 56:3 When I get really afraid I come to you in trust. MSG

MATT 11:28 Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest.
29 Walk with me and work with me – watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you.
30 Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” MSG

PS 55:22 Pile your troubles on God’s shoulders – he’ll carry your load, he’ll help you out. He’ll never let good people topple into ruin. MSG

PRO 3:5 Trust in the Lord completely, and do not rely on your own opinions. With all your heart rely on him to guide you, and he will lead you in every decision you make.
6 Become intimate with him in whatever you do, and he will lead you wherever you go. TPT

1 PET 5:7 Pour out all your worries and stress upon him and leave them there, for he always tenderly cares for you. TPT

PHIL 4:11 Not that I speak from [any personal] need, for I have learned to be content [and self-sufficient through Christ, satisfied to the point where I am not disturbed or uneasy] regardless of my circumstances.
12 I know how to get along and live humbly [in difficult times], and I also know how to enjoy abundance and live in prosperity. In any and every circumstance I have learned the secret [of facing life], whether well-fed or going hungry, whether having an abundance or being in need.
13 I can do all things [which He has called me to do] through Him who strengthens and empowers me [to fulfill His purpose—I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency; I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who infuses me with inner strength and confident peace.] AMP
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PHIL 4:11 Actually, I don’t have a sense of needing anything personally. I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances.
12 I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty.
13 Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am. MSG

2 COR 9:8 And God is able to make all grace [every favor and earthly blessing] come in abundance to you, so that you may always [under all circumstances, regardless of the need] have complete sufficiency in everything [being completely self-sufficient in Him], and have an abundance for every good work and act of charity. AMP

JAMES 1:25 But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God – the free life! – even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action. MSG

Prov 3:23 You’ll travel safely, you’ll neither tire nor trip.
24 You’ll take afternoon naps without a worry, you’ll enjoy a good night’s sleep.
25 No need to panic over alarms or surprises, or predictions that doomsday’s just around the corner,
26 Because God will be right there with you; he’ll keep you safe and sound. MSG
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PROV 3:23 They give you living hope to guide you, and not one of life’s tests will cause you to stumble.
24 You will sleep like a baby, safe and sound—your rest will be sweet and secure.
25 You will not be subject to terror, for it will not terrify you. Nor will the disrespectful be able to push you aside,
26 because God is your confidence in times of crisis, keeping your heart at rest in every situation. TPT

Ps 37:5 Commit your way to the Lord [roll and repose each care of your load on Him]; trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass. AMP

PS 9:9 God’s bad a safe-house for the battered, a sanctuary during times.
10 The moment you arrive, you relax; you’re never sorry you knocked. MSG

Ps 61:4 A lifetime pass to your safe-house, an open invitation as your guest. MSG

Ps 62:8 So trust him absolutely, people; lay your lives on the line for him. God is a safe place to be. MSG

PS 50:15 And call for help when you’re in trouble – I’ll help you, and you’ll honor me.” MSG

JN 15:1 I am the true Vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that continues to bear fruit, He [repeatedly] prunes, so that it will bear more fruit [even richer and finer fruit].
3 You are already clean because of the word which I have given you [the teachings which I have discussed with you].
4 Remain in Me, and I [will remain] in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself without remaining in the vine, neither can you [bear fruit, producing evidence of your faith] unless you remain in Me. AMP

2 Cor 1:8 We don’t want you in the dark, friends, about how hard it was when all this came down on us in Asia province. It was so bad we didn’t think we were going to make it.
9 We felt like we’d been sent to death row, that it was all over for us. As it turned out, it was the best thing that could have happened. Instead of trusting in our own strength or wits to get out of it, we were forced to trust God totally — not a bad idea since he’s the God who raises the dead!
10 And he did it, rescued us from certain doom. And he’ll do it again, rescuing us as many times as we need rescuing.

PS 91:14 “If you’ll hold on to me for dear life,” says God, “I’ll get you out of any trouble. I’ll give you the best of care if you’ll only get to know and trust me. MSG

JN 14:1 Set your troubled hearts at ease by letting your belief conclude in God as you rest your confidence in me. MIRROR

ISA 26:3 People with their minds set on you, you keep completely whole, Steady on their feet, because they keep at it and don’t quit.
4 Depend on God and keep at it because in the Lord God you have a sure thing. MSG

HEB 10:39 But we are not of the quitting kind; we possess a persuasion of soul that believes against all the odds. MIRROR

THE DAY YOU BECAME ALIVE IN THE SPIRIT 1-18-26  VIDEO SALVATION SPOKEN

We all have an understanding of how we were made alive and part of mankind. We know about the day of our birth. But you have another day to know you are truly alive. It’s the day you became alive in your spirit. The death Jesus died we died. The life he lives now we live. We must get this. Our new life is hidden with the glorified Christ. Look at Him and see you. We are dead to the things of this world. The power of this new endless life is contained within the blood of Jesus. His blood is the currency that is recognized in the world of the spirit.

ROM 6:4 Baptism pictures how we were co-buried together with Christ in his death; then it powerfully illustrates how in God’s mind we were co-raised with Christ into a new lifestyle.  MIRROR

ROM 6:6 We perceive that our old lifestyle was co-crucified together with him; this concludes that the vehicle that accommodated sin in us, was scrapped and rendered entirely useless. Our slavery to sin has come to an end.

7 If nothing else stops you from doing something wrong, death certainly does.

8 Faith sees us joined in his death and alive with him in his resurrection.

9 It is plain for all to see that death lost its dominion over Christ in his resurrection; he need not ever die again to prove a further point.

10 His appointment with death was once-off. As far as sin is concerned, he is dead. The reason for his death was to take away the sin of the world; his life now exhibits our union with the life of God.

11 This reasoning is equally relevant to you. Calculate the cross; there can only be one logical conclusion: he died your death; that means you died to sin, and are now alive to God. Sin-consciousness can never again feature in your future! You are in Christ Jesus; his Lordship is the authority of this union.  MIRROR

COL 3:3 Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life – even though invisible to spectators – is with Christ in God. He is your life.

4 When Christ (your real life, remember) shows up again on this earth, you’ll show up, too – the real you, the glorious you. Meanwhile, be content with obscurity, like Christ.

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EPH 2:4 But God still loved us with such great love. He is so rich in compassion and mercy.

5 Even when we were dead and doomed in our many sins, he united us into the very life of Christ and saved us by his wonderful grace! He raised us up with Christ the exalted One, and we ascended with him into the glorious perfection and authority of the heavenly realm, for we are now co-seated as one with Christ!

7 Throughout the coming ages we will be the visible display of the infinite riches of his grace and kindness, which was showered upon us in Jesus Christ.  TPT

ISA 43:17 He destroyed chariots and horses and all their mighty warriors. They fell, never to rise again—gone forever, snuffed out like a wick. This is what he says:

18 “Stop dwelling on the past. Don’t even remember these former things.

19 I am doing something brand new, something unheard of. Even now it sprouts and grows and matures. Don’t you perceive it?  I will make a way in the wilderness and open up flowing streams in the desert. TPT

JN 3:1 Now amongst them there was a man who was a prominent leader among the Jews, a Pharisee named Nicodemus.

2 He came to see Jesus under the cover of the night and said to him, “Rabbi, it is clear for all of us to see that you come from God as a Teacher – the signs you perform are proof that God is with you! No one is able to do these signs you do if they are not in union with God.  

3 Jesus answered him emphatically; no one would even be able to recognize anything as coming from God’s domain unless they are born from above to begin with! The very fact that it is possible to perceive that I am in union with God, as a human being, reveals mankind’s genesis from above!

4 Nicodemus did not understand this answer at all and said to him, “How can a person be born if they are already grown-up? Surely one cannot re-enter your mother’s womb and be born a second time?  

5 Jesus answered, you have to get this, unless someone is born out of water (the womb) and Spirit, there would be no possible connection with the realm of God!

6 Whatever originates out of flesh is flesh; but what is sourced in Spirit is spirit!     

7 Don’t be so surprised when I say to you You couldn’t get here in the flesh unless you got here from above! These are the ones who discover their genesis in God beyond their natural conception! This is not about our blood lineage or whether we were a wanted or an unwanted child – this is about our God-begotteness; we are his dream come true! We are not the invention of our parents!  

8 We can observe the effect the wind has and hear its sound whenever it touches objects – yet those objects do not define the wind; it comes and goes of its own accord – if life was not born out of spirit in the first place, it would not be possible to detect spirit influence at all! We are spirit-compatible by design! MIRROR

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JN 3:9 To which Nicodemus responded, “How is this possible? What kind of birth can this be?

10 You are the teacher of Israel yet you do not know these things?

11 Nicodemus, hear me, our conversation stems from what we, mankind, have always borne witness to; we endorse what we have observed; how is it that your religious perspectives keep you so blinded to this?  

12 If I speak incarnate language to you and you are not persuaded about our common origin, how will you be persuaded about heavenly things?  

13 No one can fully engage in heaven’s perspective, unless one’s heavenly origin is

realized. The Son of man declares mankind’s co-genesis from above. MIRROR

JN 16:21 “When a woman gives birth, she has a hard time, there’s no getting around it. But when the baby is born, there is joy in the birth. This new life in the world wipes out memory of the pain.  MSG

2 COR 5:17 Now, if anyone is enfolded into Christ, he has become an entirely new person. All that is related to the old order has vanished. Behold, everything is fresh and new.  TPT

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2 COR 5:17 Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it!  MSG

2 COR 4:16 So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace.  MSG

EPH 2:4 But God still loved us with such great love. He is so rich in compassion and mercy.

5 Even when we were dead and doomed in our many sins, he united us into the very life of Christ and saved us by his wonderful grace!

6 He raised us up with Christ the exalted One, and we ascended with him into the glorious perfection and authority of the heavenly realm, for we are now co-seated as one with Christ!

7 Throughout the coming ages we will be the visible display of the infinite riches of his grace and kindness, which was showered upon us in Jesus Christ.  TPT

TITUS 2:12 We’re being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now,  MSG

TITUS 3:6 Our Savior Jesus poured out new life so generously.  MSG

1 PET 1:23 Your new life is not like your old life. Your old birth came from mortal sperm; your new birth comes from God’s living Word. Just think: a life conceived by God himself!

24 That’s why the prophet said, The old life is a grass life, its beauty as short-lived as wildflowers; Grass dries up, flowers droop,

25 God’s Word goes on and on forever. This is the Word that conceived the new life in you.   MSG

JN 17:23 I in them and you in me. Then they’ll be mature in this oneness, And give the godless world evidence That you’ve sent me and loved them In the same way you’ve loved me.  MSG

HEB 9:12 He also bypassed the sacrifices consisting of goat and calf blood, instead using his own blood as the price to set us free once and for all.

13 If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior,

14 think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out.  MSG

HEB 10:19 So, friends, we can now – without hesitation – walk right up to God, into “the Holy Place.”

20 Jesus has cleared the way by the blood of his sacrifice, acting as our priest before God.

21 The “curtain” into God’s presence is his body.  MSG

ACTS 20:28  “Now it’s up to you. Be on your toes – both for yourselves and your congregation of sheep. The Holy Spirit has put you in charge of these people – God’s people they are – to guard and protect them. God himself thought they were worth dying for.  AMP

HEB 9:24  For Christ didn’t enter the earthly version of the Holy Place; he entered the Place Itself, and offered himself to God as the sacrifice for our sins.  AMP

HEB 13:20 This is my prayer for you: that the God who made peace with the human race through the blood of the eternal Testament, who raised Jesus from the dead as the supreme shepherd of the sheep,

21 will thoroughly equip you in the most distinguished way possible, to give expression to his design in you according to his delight realized in Jesus Christ, who is the blueprint of the ages. Jesus is the accurate expression of God’s glory. Our lives confirm and echo the Amen!

22 My friends, I have written to you briefly, reminding you of your original identity in order to increase the volume of its resonance in your hearts.  MIRROR

BEHOLD SEEING VISION 1-16-26 VIDEO
Matt 13:13 This is the reason that I speak to them in parables: because having the power of seeing, they do not see; and having the power of hearing, they do not hear, nor do they grasp and understand. AMP

GEN 30:29Jacob replied, “You know how hard I’ve worked for you and how your livestock has increased under my care. 30The little you had before I came has multiplied greatly, for Yahweh has blessed you wonderfully because I am here. But now, I need to provide for my own family, too.” 31So Laban asked, “What should I give you?” “Nothing,” Jacob replied, “You don’t need to give me a thing. If you will do but one thing for me, I will continue to care for your flocks: 32Just let me pass through all your flocks today and take out every speckled and spotted sheep or goat, and every black lamb. That’s all the payment I ask. 33And in the future, when you review my wages, the integrity of my dealings with you will be obvious. If you find any animal among mine that is not speckled, spotted, or black, then you will know that I stole it.”
34“Agreed!” Laban said. “We’ll do what you’ve suggested.” 35But that same day, Laban secretly removed all the male and female goats that were speckled or spotted (all that had white on them) and all the black lambs and left them under the care of his sons. 36He set a distance of a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban’s flocks.
37Jacob, however, cut green branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled back part of their bark, to expose the white inner wood of the branches. 38Then he set the partially peeled branches inside the water troughs where the goats would see them when they came to drink. 39For they mated when they came to the water troughs, and as they lowered their heads to drink, they saw the stripped branches in front of their eyes. Miraculously they gave birth to streaked, speckled, and spotted young.
40But with the mating ewes, on the other hand, he made them face the streaked or completely black animals in Laban’s flock. By doing this, he produced his own special flocks, which he didn’t allow to mingle with Laban’s. 41Moreover, every time the stronger females were in heat, Jacob laid the partially peeled branches in the water troughs in front of the flock, so that they would mate among the branches. 42But he didn’t place the branches in front of the scrawny goats when they mated, leaving the feeble animals for Laban and the stronger for himself. 43In this way, Jacob quickly grew very wealthy and owned large flocks, a great number of camels and donkeys, and many male and female servants. TPT

LUKE 4:1-2 From the moment of his baptism, Jesus overflowed with the Holy Spirit. He was taken by the Spirit from the Jordan into the wilderness of Judea to experience for forty days the ordeal of testing by the accuser. He ate no food during this time and ended his forty-day fast very hungry. 3It was then the devil said to him, “If you are really the Son of God, command this stone to turn into a loaf of bread for you.”
4Jesus replied, “I will not! For it is written in the Scriptures, ‘Life does not come only from eating bread but from God. Life flows from every revelation from his mouth.’ ”
5The devil lifted Jesus high into the sky, and in a flash showed him all the kingdoms and regions of the world. 6-7The devil then said to Jesus, “All of this, with all its power, authority, and splendor, is mine to give to whomever I wish. Just do one thing, and you will have it all. Simply bow down to worship me, and it will be yours! You will possess everything!”
8Jesus rebuked him and said, “Satan, get behind me! For it is written in the Scriptures, ‘Only One is worthy of adoration; therefore, worship only the Lord your God and love him supremely.’ ”
9Next, the devil took Jesus to Jerusalem, set him on the highest point of the temple, and tempted him, saying, “If you really are the Son of God, jump down in front of all the people. 10-11For it is written in the Scriptures, ‘God has given his angels instructions to protect you from harm. For angels’ hands will hold you up and keep you from hurting even one foot on a stone.’ ”
12Jesus replied, “It is also written in the Scriptures, ‘How dare you provoke the Lord your God!’ ”
13That silenced the devil’s harassment for the time being. So he retreated until an opportune time. TPT

Matt 16:23 But Yeshua turned his back on Kefa, saying, “Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my path, because your thinking is from a human perspective, not from God’s perspective!” CJB

GEN 3:1Now the snake was the most cunning of all living beings that Yahweh-God had made. He deviously asked the woman, “Did God really tell you, ‘You must not eat fruit from any tree of the garden—?’ ”
2But the woman interrupted, “—We may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden, 3except the tree in the center of the garden. God told us, ‘Don’t eat its fruit, or even touch it, or you’ll die.’ ”
4But the snake said to her, “You certainly won’t die. 5God knows that the moment you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”
6When the woman saw that the tree produced delicious fruit, delightful to look upon, and desirable to give one insight, she took its fruit and ate it. She gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he also ate it. 7Immediately, their eyes were opened, and they realized they were naked, vulnerable, and ashamed; so they sewed fig leaves together for coverings. TPT

John 12:40 He has blinded their eyes and hardened and benumbed their [callous, degenerated] hearts [He has made their minds dull], to keep them from seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and minds and repenting and turning to Me to heal them.

Matt 13:15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

Luke 10:23 He then turned in a private aside to his disciples. “Fortunate the eyes that see what you’re seeing!
24 There are plenty of prophets and kings who would have given their right arm to see what you are seeing but never got so much as a glimpse, to hear what you are hearing but never got so much as a whisper.” MSG

PS 119:37 Help me turn my eyes away from illusions so that I pursue only that which is true; drench my soul with life as I walk in your paths. TPT

GEN 15:5 Then he took him outside and said, “Look at the sky. Count the stars. Can you do it? Count your descendants! You’re going to have a big family, Abram!”
6 And he believed! Believed God! God declared him “Set-Right-with-God.” MSG
John 8:56 Your forefather Abraham was extremely happy at the hope and prospect of seeing My day (My incarnation); and he did see it and was delighted. AMP

Acts 10:9 The next day as they were still on their way and were approaching the town, Peter went up to the roof of the house to pray, about the sixth hour (noon).
10 But he became very hungry, and wanted something to eat; and while the meal was being prepared a trance came over him,
11 And he saw the sky opened and something like a great sheet lowered by the four corners, descending to the earth.
12 It contained all kinds of quadrupeds and wild beasts and creeping things of the earth and birds of the air.
13 And there came a voice to him, saying, Rise up, Peter, kill and eat.
14 But Peter said, No, by no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unhallowed or [ceremonially] unclean.
15 And the voice came to him again a second time, What God has cleansed and pronounced clean, do not you defile and profane by regarding and calling common and unhallowed or unclean. AMP

2 Cor 3:18 And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit. AMP

2 Cor 5:17 Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! AMP

1 Jn 3:2 But friends, that’s exactly who we are: children of God. And that’s only the beginning. Who knows how we’ll end up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we’ll see him — and in seeing him, become like him. AMP

Rev 3:20 Behold , I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears and listens to and heeds My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he [will eat] with Me. AMP

Rev 22:7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

Proverbs 29:18 If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed. MSG

John 8:38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.

John 4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

Hebrews 11:27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Heb 12:2 Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hos 12:10 I have also spoken to [you by] the prophets, and I have multiplied visions [for you] and [have appealed to you] through parables acted out by the prophets.

3 John 11 Beloved, do not imitate evil, but imitate good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen (discerned or experienced) God [has enjoyed no vision of Him and does not know Him at all].

Eph 1:18 your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for Christians, MSG

John 9:39 Jesus then said, “I came into the world to bring everything into the clear light of day, making all the distinctions clear, so that those who have never seen will see, and those who have made a great pretense of seeing will be exposed as blind.” MSG

JESUS SEEING GOD’S WILL Luke 6:20 And solemnly lifting up His eyes on His disciples, He said: Blessed (happy– with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition–and to be envied) are you poor and lowly and afflicted (destitute of wealth, influence, position, and honor), for the kingdom of God is yours!
LOOK UP- to look up; by implication, to recover sight:
LAZ FROM THE DEAD John 11:41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

ABOUT TO GO TO THE CROSS John 17:1 WHEN JESUS had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify and exalt and honor and magnify Your Son, so that Your Son may glorify and extol and honor and magnify You.
6 But He said this to prove (test) him, for He well knew what He was about to do.

Mark 6:41 And taking the five loaves and two fish, He looked up to heaven and, praising God, gave thanks and broke the loaves and kept on giving them to the disciples to set before the people; and He [also] divided the two fish among [them] all.

Blind sees men as trees Mark 7:34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

Hebrews 11:27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Job 42:5 I admit I once lived by rumors of you; now I have it all firsthand — from my own eyes and ears! MSG

Acts 26:18 to open the eyes of the outsiders so they can see the difference between dark and light, and choose light, see the difference between Satan and God, and choose God. I’m sending you off to present my offer of sins forgiven, and a place in the family, inviting them into the company of those who begin real living by believing in me.’ MSG

THE POWER OF BLESSING 1-11-26 VIDEO GRAHAM COOKE BLESSINGS
The blessing of God can change your life. Most Christians talk about and pray for blessings, but don’t really understand what the blessing is. Some examples in the Word for blessed or blessing are used 474 times in the Bible. There are the blessings of Abraham, the blessings of Job, the blessings of David,. Blessings that reach into the future.
GEN 22:17-18 I’ll bless you – oh, how I’ll bless you! And I’ll make sure that your children flourish – like stars in the sky! like sand on the beaches! And your descendants will defeat their enemies.
18 All nations on Earth will find themselves blessed through your descendants because you obeyed me.” MSG

GAL 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse as consequence of our failure to keep the law. In his cross he concentrated the total curse of the human race upon himself. In his abandoning himself to death, he absorbed and dissolved the horror of the curse in his own person. Scripture declares that anyone hanging on a tree embodies the curse.
14 This act of Christ released the blessing of Abraham upon the Gentiles! Now we are free to receive the blessing of the Spirit. MIRROR
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GAL 3:13 Christ redeemed us from that self-defeating, cursed life by absorbing it completely into himself. Do you remember the Scripture that says, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”? That is what happened when Jesus was nailed to the Cross: He became a curse, and at the same time dissolved the curse.
14 And now, because of that, the air is cleared and we can see that Abraham’s blessing is present and available for non-Jews, too. We are all able to receive God’s life, his Spirit, in and with us by believing – just the way Abraham received it. MSG

GAL 3:8-Scripture records prophetically that the mass of non-Jewish nations would be justified by faith and not by their own ability to be righteous. This announcement by God over Abraham is the gospel in advance. God saw every nation included in the same principle of the faith that Abraham pioneered. “In you all the nations of the earth are equally represented in the blessing of faith.”
3:9 As did Abraham so do we now find our source in the blessing of faith. MIRROR

ACTS 13:34 “When he raised him from the dead, he did it for good – no going back to that rot and decay for him. That’s why Isaiah said, ‘I’ll give to all of you David’s guaranteed blessings.’ MSG
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ACTS 13:34 “God had promised to not let him decay in the tomb or face destruction again, so God raised him from the dead. He gave this promise in the Psalms:
‘I will give to you what I gave to David: Faithful mercies that you can trust.’ TPT

JOB 42:10 After Job had interceded for his friends, God restored his fortune – and then doubled it!
11 All his brothers and sisters and friends came to his house and celebrated. They told him how sorry they were, and consoled him for all the trouble God had brought him. Each of them brought generous housewarming gifts.
12 God blessed Job’s later life even more than his earlier life. He ended up with fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand teams of oxen, and one thousand donkeys. MSG

DEUT 7:13-15 He will love you, he will bless you, he will increase you.
14 You’ll be blessed beyond all other peoples: no sterility or barrenness in you or your animals.
15 God will get rid of all sickness. And all the evil afflictions you experienced in Egypt he’ll put not on you but on those who hate you. MSG

JER 33:9 ‘And it will become to me a source of joy, honor, and splendor for all the earth to see. When they hear of all the prosperity that I bestow upon the people, they will be shaken to the core at all the good and prosperity that I lavish upon it. ‘ TPT

DEUT 28:2 All these blessings will come down on you and spread out beyond you because you have responded to the Voice of God, your God:
3 God’s blessing inside the city, God’s blessing in the country;
4 God’s blessing on your children, the crops of your land, the young of your livestock, the calves of your herds, the lambs of your flocks.
5 God’s blessing on your basket and bread bowl;
6 God’s blessing in your coming in, God’s blessing in your going out.
7 God will defeat your enemies who attack you. They’ll come at you on one road and run away on seven roads.
8 God will order a blessing on your barns and workplaces; he’ll bless you in the land that God, your God, is giving you.
9 God will form you as a people holy to him, just as he promised you, if you keep the commandments of God, your God, and live the way he has shown you.
10 All the peoples on Earth will see you living under the Name of God and hold you in respectful awe.
11 God will lavish you with good things: children from your womb, offspring from your animals, and crops from your land, the land that God promised your ancestors that he would give you.
12 God will throw open the doors of his sky vaults and pour rain on your land on schedule and bless the work you take in hand. You will lend to many nations but you yourself won’t have to take out a loan. MSG

PROV 10:22 True enrichment comes from the blessing of the Lord, with rest and contentment in knowing that it all comes from him. TPT

PS 67:1 God, keep us near your mercy-fountain and bless us! And when you look down on us, may your face beam with joy! Pause in his presence
2 Send us out all over the world so that everyone everywhere will discover your ways and know who you are and see your power to save. TPT
PS 116:7-8 I said to myself, “Relax and rest. God has showered you with blessings.
8 Soul, you’ve been rescued from death; Eye, you’ve been rescued from tears; And you, Foot, were kept from stumbling.” MSG

JER 33:6 “But now take another look. I’m going to give this city a thorough renovation, working a true healing inside and out. I’m going to show them life whole, life brimming with blessings. MSG

AMOS 9:13 13 “Yes indeed, it won’t be long now.” God’s Decree. MSG

MAL 3:10 Bring your full tithe to the Temple treasury so there will be ample provisions in my Temple. Test me in this and see if I don’t open up heaven itself to you and pour out blessings beyond your wildest dreams. MSG

JN 20:29 Jesus responded, “Thomas, now that you’ve seen me, you believe. But there are those who have never seen me with their eyes but have believed in me with their hearts, and they will be blessed even more!” TPT

2 COR 9:8 God can pour on the blessings in astonishing ways so that you’re ready for anything and everything, more than just ready to do what needs to be done. MSG

MATT 5:3 “You’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.
4 “You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.
5 “You’re blessed when you’re content with just who you are – no more, no less. That’s the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can’t be bought.
6 “You’re blessed when you’ve worked up a good appetite for God. He’s food and drink in the best meal you’ll ever eat.
7 “You’re blessed when you care. At the moment of being ‘carefull,’ you find yourselves cared for.
8 “You’re blessed when you get your inside world – your mind and heart – put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.
9 “You’re blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That’s when you discover who you really are, and your place in God’s family.
10 “You’re blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God’s kingdom. MSG

LUKE 11:28 Jesus commented, “Even more blessed are those who hear God’s Word and guard it with their lives!” MSG

EPH 1:3 Let’s celebrate God! He lavished every blessing heaven has upon us in Christ!
4 He associated us in Christ before the fall of the world! Jesus is God’s mind made up about us! He always knew in his love that he would present us again face-to-face before him in blameless innocence. MIRROR

HEB 11:20 By an act of faith, Isaac reached into the future as he blessed Jacob and Esau.
21 By an act of faith, Jacob on his deathbed blessed each of Joseph’s sons in turn, blessing them with God’s blessing, not his own – as he bowed worshipfully upon his staff. MSG

PHILEM 1:3 God’s best to you! Christ’s blessings on you! MSG