TEARING OFF THE ROOF 9-8-24 by Mary Dorian VIDEO TEAR OFF THE ROOF

Tear up the Roof” Tear is a verb meaning to pull apart something by force. To move very quickly in an excited manner.

Luke 5:17 Then, one day, while he was teaching, the following dramatic incident happened. There were Pharisees and Scholars of the law also sitting in his audience along with people coming from every village in Galilee and Judea as well as the outskirts of Jerusalem. The very atmosphere was charged with the presence of the Lord to heal

18 Meanwhile, there were people desperately trying to get into the house where Jesus was teaching; they were carrying a man on a bed who suffered from severe convulsions that left him paralyzed. If only they could get him close to where Jesus was teaching. But, because of the crowd they were unable to.  

19 Then, having no alternative, they got onto the roof and proceeded to break the roof open by taking the tiles off and then lowering him down on his bed to exactly where Jesus was.  

20 And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Your sins are forgiven!”  Mirror

Luke 5:24 Now, let me show you the connection here and help you see for yourselves that the son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins!” Jesus then again addressed the paraplegic man saying, “Arise, lift up your pallet and be on your way home!”  

25 The lame man instantly responded, got up, took his bedroll and left for home, magnifying God all the way!

26 Everyone were beside themselves with ecstatic joy! Overawed, they continued to praise God, mesmerized with the wonder of the paradox they have just witnessed!

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Luke 2:13 The next moment, a heavenly host of multitudes of celestial messengers joined and erupted in accolades of praise telling the God-story!

14 God’s highest and grandest 1intention in the heavens is dove-tailed upon earth in unbroken, incarnate oneness; in being human, he exibits his delight in mankind!  

15 Then, as the celestial heralds withdrew into the heavens, the shepherds immediately determined to go to Bethlehem and witness with their own eyes, the prophetic word which has now come to pass, as they have learned from the Lord. Mirror

Luke 8:42 His only daughter was dying, and she was only twelve years old. Jesus immediately went with him, but the dense crowd was thronging them.

43 Amongst them was a woman who was suffering from an issue of blood for twelve years; she had spent all she owned on physicians, but not one of them could heal her.  

44 She squeezed though the throng of people and touched the hem of Jesus’ garment and was instantly cured!

45 Surprisingly, Jesus immediately wanted to know who it was that touched him. But no one stepped forward; then Peter said to him, how can you ask that? Throngs of people are crowding you and many are obviously touching you

46 Jesus answered, “Someone has touched me differently; I felt a surge of power emanating from me.”

47 Then, realizing that she could not remain unnoticed, she approached Jesus, trembling and knelt before him and proceeded to tell everyone her story and that she felt heat going though her body as she touched the hem of his garment and was instantly cured!   

48 And he said to her, Daughter, 3your faith has saved you, continue on your life’s journey 1in this place of our 2joint-oneness and peace. Mirror

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Luke 8:42  because his twelve-year-old daughter, his only child, was dying. Jesus went with him, making his way through the pushing, jostling crowd.

43 In the crowd that day there was a woman who for twelve years had been afflicted with hemorrhages. She had spent every penny she had on doctors but not one had been able to help her.

44 She slipped in from behind and touched the edge of Jesus’ robe. At that very moment her hemorrhaging stopped.

45 Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When no one stepped forward, Peter said, “But Master, we’ve got crowds of people on our hands. Dozens have touched you.”

46 Jesus insisted, “Someone touched me. I felt power discharging from me.”

47 When the woman realized that she couldn’t remain hidden, she knelt trembling before him. In front of all the people, she blurted out her story — why she touched him and how at that same moment she was healed.

48 Jesus said, “Daughter, you took a risk trusting me, and now you’re healed and whole. Live well, live blessed!”  MSG

John 5:5 Among the many sick people lying there was a man who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

6 When Jesus saw him lying there, he knew that the man had been crippled for a long time. Jesus said to him, “Do you truly long to be well?”

7 The sick man answered, “Sir, there’s no way I can get healed, for I have no one to lower me into the water when the angel comes. As soon as I try to crawl to the edge of the pool, someone else jumps in ahead of me.”

8 Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your sleeping mat and you will walk!”   9Immediately he stood up—he was healed! So he rolled up his mat and walked again! Now Jesus worked this miracle on the Sabbath.  TPT

1 Cor 15:14 And face it — if there’s no resurrection for Christ, everything we’ve told you is smoke and mirrors, and everything you’ve staked your life on is smoke and mirrors.

15 Not only that, but we would be guilty of telling a string of barefaced lies about God, all these affidavits we passed on to you verifying that God raised up Christ — sheer fabrications, if there’s no resurrection.

16 If corpses can’t be raised, then Christ wasn’t, because he was indeed dead.

17 And if Christ wasn’t raised, then all you’re doing is wandering about in the dark, as lost as ever.

18 It’s even worse for those who died hoping in Christ and resurrection, because they’re already in their graves.

19 If all we get out of Christ is a little inspiration for a few short years, we’re a pretty sorry lot.

20 But the truth is that Christ has been raised up, the first in a long legacy of those who are going to leave the cemeteries. MSG

1 Cor 15:30 And why do you think I keep risking my neck in this dangerous work?

31 I look death in the face practically every day I live. Do you think I’d do this if I wasn’t convinced of your resurrection and mine as guaranteed by the resurrected Messiah Jesus?

32 Do you think I was just trying to act heroic when I fought the wild beasts at Ephesus, hoping it wouldn’t be the end of me? Not on your life! It’s resurrection, resurrection, always resurrection, that undergirds what I do and say, the way I live. If there’s no resurrection, “We eat, we drink, the next day we die,” and that’s all there is to it. MSG

Rom 8:24 For what we already experience confirms our hope and continues to fuel our expectation for what we still cannot see. In the final visible completeness of the harvest, hope has fulfilled its function.

25 In the meantime our expectation takes us beyond visual confirmation into a place of patient contentment. Mirror

Deut 2:3 “You’ve been going around in circles in these hills long enough; go north. MSG

John 10:10 A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of. MSG

Ps 16:11 Because of you, I know the path of life, as I taste the fullness of joy in your presence. At your right side I experience divine pleasures forevermore! TPT

Ps 30:5 I’ve learned that his anger lasts for a moment, but his loving favor lasts a lifetime!  We may weep through the night, but at daybreak it will turn into shouts of ecstatic joy. TPT

Ps 55:18 My life is well and whole, secure in the middle of danger Even while thousands are lined up against me. MSG

Prov 4:23  Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that’s where life starts.

24 Don’t talk out of both sides of your mouth; avoid careless banter, white lies, and gossip. MSG

Matt 6:25  “If you decide for God, living a life of God-worship, it follows that you don’t fuss about what’s on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body.

26 Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds. MSG

John 1:4 His life is the light that defines our lives. (In his life we discover the light of life.) Mirror

John 11:25 “You don’t have to wait for the End. I am, right now, Resurrection and Life. The one who believes in me, even though he or she dies, will live.

26 And everyone who lives believing in me does not ultimately die at all. Do you believe this?”  MSG

Rom 6:4 When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus; when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus.

5 Each of us is raised into a light-filled world by our Father so that we can see where we’re going in our new grace-sovereign country. MSG

Rom 8:2 A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death. MSG

Col 2:10 We are complete in him! Jesus mirrors our wholeness and 1endorses our true identity. He is “I am” in us!  Mirror

Eph 3:20 We celebrate Elohim who supercharges us powerfully from within. Our biggest request or most amazing dream cannot match the extravagant proportion of their thoughts towards us.  

21 God is both the author and conclusion of the glory on display in the 1Ekklesia, mirrored in Christ Jesus. The encore continues throughout every generation, not only in this age but also in the countless ages to come. Amen! Mirror

THE TRUE PURPOSE OF THE CROSS 9-1-24

VIDEO PEOPLE THANKING AT THE CROSS

What is the purpose of the cross in our lives? Taking up the way of the cross is to really find ourselves, to be set free from the prison of the world system. It is not the American dream that is our purpose, but it is a way of life in the eternal kingdom of God. Taking up the cross is dying to ourselves and living in and for Christ alone. For the joy that was set before him, He endured the cross. The Pharisees didn’t comprehend Jesus and His mission. It was not about Himself but serving mankind. The result of Jesus laying down His life on the cross is you and I are new creations.

Mk 8:34 Jesus had his disciples and the crowd gather around him. And he said to them: “If you truly want to follow me, you should at once completely disown your own life. And you must be willing to share my cross and experience it as your own, as you continually surrender to my ways.

35 For if you let your life go for my sake and for the sake of the gospel, you will continually experience true life. But if you choose to keep your life for yourself, you will forfeit what you try to keep.

36 For what use is it to gain all the wealth and power of this world, with everything it could offer you, at the cost of your own life?

37 And what could be more valuable to you than your own soul?   TPT

deny himself [forget, ignore, disown, and lose sight of himself and his own interests]

John 3:16 The entire cosmos is the object of God’s affection! And he is not about to abandon his creation – the gift of his Son is for mankind to realize their origin in him who mirrors their authentic birth – begotten not of flesh but of the Father! MIRROR

Matt 27:40 “You bragged that you could tear down the Temple and then rebuild it in three days — so show us your stuff! Save yourself! If you’re really God’s Son, come down from that cross!”  MSG

Heb 12:2 Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed — that exhilarating finish in and with God — he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.

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RO 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 1once-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.  

12 You are under no obligation to sin; it has no further rights to dominate your dead declared body. Therefore let it not entice you to obey its lusts.  MIRROR

1 Cor 1:17  God didn’t send me out to collect a following for myself, but to preach the Message of what he has done, collecting a following for him. And he didn’t send me to do it with a lot of fancy rhetoric of my own, lest the powerful action at the center — Christ on the Cross — be trivialized into mere words.

18 The Message that points to Christ on the Cross seems like sheer silliness to those hellbent on destruction, but for those on the way of salvation it makes perfect sense. This is the way God works, and most powerfully as it turns out. MSG

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1 COR 1:17 My mandate was not about winning members for some ‘Christian club’ through baptism! I am commissioned to declare the Good News without any strings attached; nothing to distract from the powerful effect of the revelation of the cross of Christ.  

18 To their own loss the message of the cross seems foolish to some; but to us who discover our salvation there, it is the dynamic of God. MIRROR

GAL 6:14 May my boasting be in nothing but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. The religious-systems and applause of this world have no appeal to me. As far as they are concerned, I am like a dead person.

15 The new creation in Christ steals the show; not whether someone is circumcised or not! (God associated us in Christ; when he died we died, when he was raised we were raised together with him in newness of life.)

16 Our union with Christ sets the pace and makes us the true Israel, not whether we are Jew or Gentile, circumcised or not! Oh, what peace we discover in his mercy! This rule is the new law we submit ourselves to as the principle of our daily walk!MIRROR

Phil 2:8 Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death — and the worst kind of death at that: a crucifixion MSG

COL 2:13-This “realm of death” describes our former state, for we were held in sin’s grasp. But now, we’ve been resurrected out of that “realm of death” never to return, for we are forever alive and forgiven of all our sins!

14 He canceled out every legal violation we had on our record and the old arrest warrant that stood to indict us. He erased it all—our sins, our stained soul—he deleted it all and they cannot be retrieved! Everything we once were in Adam has been placed onto his cross and nailed permanently there as a public display of cancellation.

15 Then Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of darkness, stripping away from them every weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse us. And by the power of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of triumph. He was not their prisoner; they were his!   TPT

1 COR 2:7 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.  

8 Neither the politicians nor the religious leaders of the day had a clue about this mystery; if they did, they would never have crucified the Lord whose death redeemed our glory!  MIRROR

Gal 3:1 You crazy Galatians! Did someone put a hex on you? Have you taken leave of your senses? Something crazy has happened, for it’s obvious that you no longer have the crucified Jesus in clear focus in your lives. His sacrifice on the Cross was certainly set before you clearly enough.

2 Let me put this question to you: How did your new life begin? Was it by working your heads off to please God? Or was it by responding to God’s Message to you?

3 Are you going to continue this craziness? For only crazy people would think they could complete by their own efforts what was begun by God. If you weren’t smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how do you suppose you could perfect it?

4 Did you go through this whole painful learning process for nothing? It is not yet a total loss, but it certainly will be if you keep this up!  MSG

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. MSG

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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

Eph 1:7  Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people — free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free!

8 He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need,

9 letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ,

10 a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.

11 It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living,

12 part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.  MSG

EPH 2:15  Ethnic hatred has been dissolved by the crucifixion of his precious body on the cross. The legal code that stood condemning every one of us has now been repealed by his command. His triune essence has made peace between us by starting over—forming one new race of humanity, Jews and non-Jews fused together in himself!

16 Two have now become one, and we live restored to God and reconciled in the body of Christ. Through his crucifixion, hatred died.  TPT

Col 1:22  But now, by giving himself completely at the Cross, actually dying for you, Christ brought you over to God’s side and put your lives together, whole and holy in his presence.

23 You don’t walk away from a gift like that! You stay grounded and steady in that bond of trust, constantly tuned in to the Message, careful not to be distracted or diverted. There is no other Message — just this one. Every creature under heaven gets this same Message. I, Paul, am a messenger of this Message.  MSG

1 Peter 2:24 He personally bore our sins in His [own] body on the tree [as on an altar and offered Himself on it], that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed.  AMP

Gal 2:20 Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

21 I am not going to go back on that. Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God’s grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily. MSG

2 COR 5:17 ow, in the light of your co-inclusion in his death and resurrection, whoever you thought you were before, in Christ you are a brand new person! The old ways of seeing yourself and everyone else are over. Acquaint yourself with the new!  MIRROR

TIMES OF REFRESHING 8-30-24 

VIDEOS TIMES OF REFRESHING BILL JOHNSON 2

It feels like the Holy Spirit is wanting to refresh us, the body of Christ. To refresh means to restore strength to bring back to the original state. To heal your mind and heart, so your thoughts become agreeable with God‘s will. To bring refreshment to our body by bringing it back to health. To renew or revive. To breathe upon us again.

To catch our breath., heavenly breath from above: Spiritual rejuvenation / refreshing, To refresh us. As we are refreshed, we can refresh others. The Holy Spirit comes as rivers of living water. He is the refreshment. To bring us back to our first love.

Acts 3:19 So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased (blotted out, wiped clean), that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord;  AMP

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Acts 3:19 Let this be your wake-up call once and for all. Face the fact that your sins and scars were completely blotted out, and return to the one you have wandered from. Now you may encounter times of total rejuvenation in the face to face, immediate embrace of the Lord. MIRROR

Ps 23:3 He refreshes and restores my life (my self); He leads me in the paths of righteousness [uprightness and right standing with Him — not for my earning it, but] for His name’s sake. AMP

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Ps 23:3 True to your word, you let me catch my breath and send me in the right direction.  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. MSG

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MATT 11:28 “Are you weary, carrying a heavy burden? Come to me. I will refresh your life, for I am your oasis.  TPT

Ps 4:8 At day’s end I’m ready for sound sleep, For you, God, have put my life back together.  MSG

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PS 4:8 Now, because of you, Lord, I will lie down in peace and sleep comes at once,

for no matter what happens, I will live unafraid!  TPT

Ps 41:3 The Lord will sustain, refresh, and strengthen him on his bed of languishing; all his bed You [O Lord] will turn, change, and transform in his illness.  AMP 

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Ps 41:3 Whenever we’re sick and in bed, God becomes our nurse, nurses us back to health.  MSG

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ISA  40:31  But those who entwine their hearts with Yahweh  will experience divine strength.  They will rise up on soaring wings and fly like eagles, run their races without growing weary, and walk through life without giving up.  TPT

Jer 31:25 For I will [fully] satisfy the weary soul, and I will replenish every languishing and sorrowful person.  AMP

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Jer 31:25  I’ll refresh tired bodies; I’ll restore tired souls.  MSG

Col 1:11 We pray that you’ll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul — not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy,

12 thanking the Father who makes us strong enough to take part in everything bright and beautiful that he has for us. MSG

ROM 15:32 Through the pleasure of God’s purpose I will arrive in Rome in joy so that we may be mutually refreshed in one another’s company. MIRROR

Job 29:22 After I spoke, they did not speak again, and my speech dropped upon them [like a refreshing shower].  AMP

PROV 27:9 Sweet friendships refresh the soul and awaken our hearts with joy, for good friends are like the anointing oil that yields the fragrant incense of God’s presence. T PT

1 COR 16:17 I was delighted when Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus arrived, for they’ve made up for your absence.

18 They have refreshed my spirit in the same way they’ve refreshed yours. Be sure to honor people like this. TPT

2 COR  7:6  How wonderful it is to discover God’s comforting closeness when one feels like a bird that cannot rise in flight to escape the fowler; this time God’s closeness was reinforced in the arrival of Titus!

7 Oh, and what a joy it was to hear personally from him how greatly encouraged he was by all of you! He told us how deeply you missed me and how you grieved with sincere concern for me. I immediately went from feeling a little sorry for myself into a happy-dance-mode!  MIRROR

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2 COR 7:12 The object of my writing was not to debate the detail of who was wrong and who was wronged, but you, discovering the heart of God mirrored in our urgent appeal to you

13 We are so inspired to know that you are acquainted your true identity and are overjoyed by the way you have gladdened the heart of Titus; he is so happy and completely blessed and refreshed by all of you!  MIRROR

Prov 25:13  Reliable friends who do what they say are like cool drinks in sweltering heat — refreshing!  MSG

Ps 73:28 But I’m in the very presence of God —  oh, how refreshing it is! I’ve made Lord God my home. God, I’m telling the world what you do!  MSG

Hos 6:3 We’re ready to study God, eager for God-knowledge. As sure as dawn breaks, so sure is his daily arrival. He comes as rain comes, as spring rain refreshing the ground.” MSG

Joel 2:23 Children of Zion, celebrate! Be glad in your God. He’s giving you a teacher to train you how to live right —  Teaching, like rain out of heaven, showers of words to refresh and nourish your soul, just as he used to do. MSG

John 7:38  Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me this way, just as the Scripture says.”

39 (He said this in regard to the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. The Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)

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JOHN 7:38 Believe in me so that rivers of living water will burst out from within you, flowing from your innermost being, just like the Scripture says!”

39 Jesus was prophesying about the Holy Spirit that believers were being prepared to receive. But the Holy Spirit had not yet been poured out upon them, because Jesus had not yet been unveiled in his full splendor.  TPT

JOHN 4:14 Whoever drinks from the source of this water that I shall give will never thirst again; because the water that I give becomes an artesian well bursting from within, defining the life of the ages!   MIRROR

REV 21:6 And he said to me, everything is now fully accomplished. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the sum total of the entire prophetic conversation concerning mankind’s redemption. I am both the origin and the conclusion of all things. Anyone thirsty can come and drink freely from the gift of the waters of life direct from its source!  MIRROR

Rev 22:17 “Come!” say the Spirit and the Bride. Whoever hears, echo, “Come!” Is anyone thirsty? Come! All who will, come and drink, Drink freely of the Water of Life!  MSG

POWER OF GOD 8-25-24 VIDEO BELIEVING GODS REPORT 222

This book, the Bible, we read is a historical and supernatural record of the power of our God. His power is demonstrated and recorded in the Bible so that we can grab hold of who He is and how powerful He is. We can be assured of His presence and power. The Lord Yahweh has stretched out His mighty arm and created the heavens in the Earth by His awesome power. Nothing is impossible for Him. He has given us the power to forgive the power to heal the power to be His children.

Ex 10:1 THE LORD said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, for I have made his heart hard, and his servants’ hearts, that I might show these My signs [of divine power] before him, 

2 And that you may recount in the ears of your son and of your grandson what I have done in derision of the Egyptians and what things I have [repeatedly] done there — My signs [of divine power] done among them — that you may recognize and know that I am the Lord.   AMP

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Ex 10:1 God said to Moses: “Go to Pharaoh. I’ve made him stubborn, him and his servants, so that I can force him to look at these signs

2 and so you’ll be able to tell your children and grandchildren how I toyed with the Egyptians, like a cat with a mouse; you’ll tell them the stories of the signs that I brought down on them, so that you’ll all know that I am God.”  MSG

ROM 9:17 God employed Pharaoh as a prophetic figure to demonstrate the drama of mankind’s salvation from their slavery to an inferior identity. Scripture records God’s conversation with Pharaoh,  “But to show you my power working in you, I raised you up so that my Name  might be declared throughout all the earth.” MIRROR

Ex 15:6 Your strong right hand, God, shimmers with power; your strong right hand shatters the enemy. MSG

Ex 14:19 The angel of God that had been leading the camp of Israel now shifted and got behind them. And the Pillar of Cloud that had been in front also shifted to the rear.

20 The Cloud was now between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. The Cloud enshrouded one camp in darkness and flooded the other with light. The two camps didn’t come near each other all night.

21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and God, with a terrific east wind all night long, made the sea go back. He made the sea dry ground. The seawaters split.

22 The Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground with the waters a wall to the right and to the left.

23 The Egyptians came after them in full pursuit, every horse and chariot and driver of Pharaoh racing into the middle of the sea.

24 It was now the morning watch. God looked down from the Pillar of Fire and Cloud on the Egyptian army and threw them into a panic.

25 He clogged the wheels of their chariots; they were stuck in the mud. The Egyptians said, “Run from Israel! God is fighting on their side and against Egypt!”

26 God said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea and the waters will come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots, over their horsemen.”

27 Moses stretched his hand out over the sea: As the day broke and the Egyptians were running, the sea returned to its place as before. God dumped the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. MSG

Deut 4:37 And because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them, and brought you out from Egypt with His own Presence, by His mighty power,

38 Driving out nations from before you, greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day; AMP

Deut 9:1  HEAR, O Israel. You are to cross the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you are, cities great and fortified up to the heavens,

2 A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?

3 Know therefore this day that the Lord your God is He Who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall dispossess them and make them perish quickly, as the Lord has promised you. 

Neh 1:10 Now these are Your servants and Your people, whom You have redeemed by Your great power and by Your strong hand.  AMP

Job 36:7 He never takes his eyes off the righteous; he honors them lavishly, promotes them endlessly. MSG

 Ps 59:16 But I will sing of Your mighty strength and power; yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy and loving-kindness in the morning; for You have been to me a defense (a fortress and a high tower) and a refuge in the day of my distress.  AMP

Jer 32:27 Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is there anything too hard for Me?  AMP

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Jer 32:27 “Stay alert! I am God, the God of everything living. Is there anything I can’t do?  MSG

JER 32:17 17“Lord Yahweh, you stretched out your mighty arm and created the heavens and the earth by your awesome power. Nothing is impossible with you!  TPT

1 Chron 29:11 To you, O God, belong the greatness and the might, the glory, the victory, the majesty, the splendor; Yes! Everything in heaven, everything on earth; the kingdom all yours! You’ve raised yourself high over all.

12 Riches and glory come from you, you’re ruler over all; You hold strength and power in the palm of your hand to build up and strengthen all.

13 And here we are, O God, our God, giving thanks to you, praising your splendid Name. MSG

Zeph 3:17 Your God is present among you, a strong Warrior there to save you. Happy to have you back, he’ll calm you with his love and delight you with his songs. MSG

ISA 40:26 Lift up your eyes to the sky and see for yourself. Who do you think created the cosmos?  He lit every shining star and formed every glowing galaxy, and stationed them all where they belong. He has numbered, counted, and given each one a name. They shine because of God’s incredible power and awesome might; not one fails to appear!  TPT

ISA 40:28  ‘But those who entwine their hearts with Yahweh will experience divine strength. They will rise up on soaring wings and fly like eagles, run their races without growing weary, and walk through life without giving up. ‘ 

29 He empowers the feeble and infuses the powerless with increasing strength.

30 Even young people faint and get exhausted; athletic ones may stumble and fall.

31 But those who entwine their hearts with Yahweh  will experience divine strength. They will rise up on soaring wings and fly like eagles, run their races without growing weary, and walk through life without giving up.   TPT

Deut 8:18 But you shall [earnestly] remember the Lord your God, for it is He Who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.  AMP

Zech 4:6  Then he said to me, This [addition of the bowl to the candlestick, causing it to yield a ceaseless supply of oil from the olive trees] is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit [of Whom the oil is a symbol], says the Lord of hosts.

7 For who are you, O great mountain [of human obstacles]? Before Zerubbabel [who with Joshua had led the return of the exiles from Babylon and was undertaking the rebuilding of the temple, before him] you shall become a plain [a mere molehill]! And he shall bring forth the finishing gable stone [of the new temple] with loud shoutings of the people, crying, Grace, grace to it!  AMP

Matt 28:18 Jesus approached and, breaking the silence, said to them, All authority (all power of rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

19 Go then and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

20 Teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days (perpetually, uniformly, and on every occasion), to the [very] close and consummation of the age. Amen (so let it be).   AMP

MATT 28:18 “Receive this truth: Whatever you forbid on earth will be considered to be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will be considered to be released in heaven.

19 Again, I give you an eternal truth: If two of you agree to ask God for something in a symphony of prayer, my heavenly Father will do it for you.

20 For wherever two or three come together in honor of my name, I am right there with them!” TPT

Mark 3:15 And to have authority and power to heal the sick and to drive out demons:  AMP

LUKE 6:19 Everyone in the crowd was pressing in to touch him, because power was surging from him and he healed them all, one by one.   MIRROR

LUKE 10:19 See, I have given you authority to trample upon serpents and scorpions and every powerful symbolic disguize of the enemy. Nothing shall by any means nullify your authentic identity! Your likeness is secured in me! MIRROR

ACTS 1:8 ‘But I promise you this—the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and you will be seized with power. You will be my messengers to Jerusalem, throughout Judea, the distant provinces —even to the remotest places on earth!”’

JOHN 14:12 I want you to be fully convinced about this, anyone whose belief concludes in who I am, will also do the works that I do. And because of my relocation to continue to be face to face with my Father, my works will be greatly multiplied through you; the Father is as present in you as he is in me.   MIRROR

Acts 4:10 Let it be known and understood by all of you, and by the whole house of Israel, that in the name and through the power and authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Whom you crucified, [but] Whom God raised from the dead, in Him and by means of Him this man is standing here before you well and sound in body.  AMP

Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel (good news) of Christ, for it is God’s power working unto salvation [for deliverance from eternal death] to everyone who believes with a personal trust and a confident surrender and firm reliance, to the Jew first and also to the Greek,   AMP

John 20:23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven. If you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”  NLB

1 Cor 1:24 But to those who are called, whether Jew or Greek (Gentile), Christ [is] the Power of God and the Wisdom of God.  AMP

Eph 3:20 Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams] —  AMP

RESCUE-REDEEMED-MADE RIGHTEOUS 8-18-24  VIDEO LIVING YOUR

We who are in Christ have been rescued redeemed, and made righteous through His blood. So then whatever circumstances, we are in no matter what we will win! God has not ever left us! Redeemed is a great exchange that happened in Christ. He exchanged his life for yours, to give you a brand new life. Holding onto the past has been defeated. You have a fresh start in Christ. We have freedom from captivity. Able to live in right relationship with God. God has given us his approval because we’ve been made right in His sight.

2 Cor 1:10 [For it is He] Who rescued and saved us from such a perilous death, and He will still rescue and save us; in and on Him we have set our hope (our joyful and confident expectation) that He will again deliver us [from danger and destruction and draw us to Himself],  AMP

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2 Cor 1:10 And he did it, rescued us from certain doom. And he’ll do it again, rescuing us as many times as we need rescuing. MSG

2 TIM 4:16 No one dared associate themselves with me during my preliminary hearing, instead they all scattered; I hold nothing against them!

17 Throughout my trial, I was so aware of the Lord’s tangible presence; he strengthened me with dynamic boldness and assured me that my life will be an accurate conduit of the message articulated in its most complete context, for all the nations to hear! And I was snatched from the very jaws of the lion!

18 I am so persuaded that the same Lord who delivered me out of the Lion’s jaws, also safeguards me from getting snared by the subtle attempts of the law-guys to break in on the effortless rhythm of grace that I am addicted to! Our salvation celebrates his heavenly kingdom. We live our lives from a dominion far superior to the systems of the world; there is no fading to the glory of his kingdom! His eternal intent spans the ages!  MIRROR

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2 Tim 4:16 At my preliminary hearing no one stood by me. They all ran like scared rabbits. But it doesn’t matter — 

17 the Master stood by me and helped me spread the Message loud and clear to those who had never heard it. I was snatched from the jaws of the lion!

18 God’s looking after me, keeping me safe in the kingdom of heaven. All praise to him, praise forever! Oh, yes! MSG

Job 5:19 From one disaster after another he delivers you; no matter what the calamity, the evil can’t touch you —  MSG

Gal 1:3 So I greet you with the great words, grace and peace!

4 We know the meaning of those words because Jesus Christ rescued us from this evil world we’re in by offering himself as a sacrifice for our sins. God’s plan is that we all experience that rescue.

5 Glory to God forever! Oh, yes! MSG

2 PET 2:9 ‘If the Lord Yahweh rescued Lot , he knows how to continually rescue the godly from their trials and to reserve the ungodly for punishment on the day of judgment. ‘ TPT

Matt 16:26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life [his blessed life in the kingdom of God]? Or what would a man give as an exchange for his [blessed] life [in the kingdom of God]?  AMP

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Matt 16:26 What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?  MSG

Job 33:28 But God stepped in and saved me from certain death. I’m alive again! Once more I see the light!’  MSG

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Job 33:28 [God] has redeemed my life from going down to the pit [of destruction], and my life shall see the light!  AMP

Ps 55:18 My life is well and whole, secure in the middle of danger Even while thousands are lined up against me. MSG

PS 107:2 So, go ahead—let everyone know it! Tell the world how he broke through

and delivered you from the power of darkness and has gathered us together from all over the world. He has set us free to be his very own!  TPT

ISA 35:8 There will be a highway of holiness called the Sacred Way. The impure will not be permitted on this road, but it will be accessible to God’s people.  And not even fools will lose their way.

9 The lion will not be found there; no wild beast will travel on it—they will not be found there. But the redeemed will find a pathway on it. TPT

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Isa 35:8 There will be a highway called the Holy Road. No one rude or rebellious is permitted on this road. It’s for God’s people exclusively —  impossible to get lost on this road. Not even fools can get lost on it.

9 No lions on this road, no dangerous wild animals —  Nothing and no one dangerous or threatening. Only the redeemed will walk on it.  MSG

Lam 3:58 O Lord, You have pleaded the causes of my soul [You have managed my affairs and You have protected my person and my rights]; You have rescued and redeemed my life!  AMP

1 Peter 1:18 It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in.

19 He paid with Christ’s sacred blood, you know. He died like an unblemished, sacrificial lamb.

20 And this was no afterthought. Even though it has only lately — at the end of the ages — become public knowledge, God always knew he was going to do this for you.

21 It’s because of this sacrificed Messiah, whom God then raised from the dead and glorified, that you trust God, that you know you have a future in God. MSG

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1 PET 1:18 It is clear to see that you were ransomed from the futile, fallen mindset that you inherited from your fathers. This was not concluded by the currency of your own labor, represented by the fluctuating values of gold and silver, and the economy of your religious efforts;

19 but you were redeemed with the priceless blood of Christ. He is the ultimate sacrifice; spotless and without blemish. Jesus completes the prophetic picture!   

20 He was always destined in God’s prophetic thought; God knew even before the fall of the world order that his Son would be the Lamb, to be made manifest in these last days, because of you!

21 He is the conclusive cause of your belief in God. Seeing then how perfectly you fit into the scheme of things, it is no wonder that your faith in God’s act of raising Jesus from the dead becomes the glorious reference to your own new birth! The glory that God gave Jesus by raising him from the dead, is the conclusion of everything that your faith longed for!  MIRROR

Isa 43:1 But now, God’s Message, the God who made you in the first place, Jacob, the One who got you started, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, I’ve redeemed you. I’ve called your name. You’re mine.

2 When you’re in over your head, I’ll be there with you. When you’re in rough waters, you will not go down. When you’re between a rock and a hard place, it won’t be a dead end —  MSG

2 Cor 5:21 How? you say. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God. MSG

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2 COR 5:21 This is the divine exchange: he who knew no sin embraced our distortion; he appeared to be without form; this was the mystery of God’s prophetic poetry. He was disguised in our distorted image and marred with our iniquities; he took our sorrows, our pain and our shame to his grave and birthed his righteousness in us. He took our sins and we 3became his innocence. MIRROR

PS 5:12 Lord, how wonderfully you bless the righteous. Your favor wraps around each one and covers them under your canopy of kindness and joy.  TPT

Ps 37:25 I have been young and now am old, yet have I not seen the [uncompromisingly] righteous forsaken or their seed begging bread.  AMP

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Ps 37:25 I once was young, now I’m a graybeard —  not once have I seen an abandoned believer, or his kids out roaming the streets. MSG

Prov 4:18 But the path of the [uncompromisingly] just and righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines more and more (brighter and clearer) until [it reaches its full strength and glory in] the perfect day [to be prepared]. AMP

Prov 4:18 The ways of right-living people glow with light; the longer they live, the brighter they shine.  MSG

Prov 10:7 The memory of the [uncompromisingly] righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked shall rot.  AMP

Hab 2:4 “Look at that man, bloated by self-importance —  full of himself but soul-empty. But the person in right standing before God through loyal and steady believing is fully alive, really alive. MSG

Rom 8:30  And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being].  AMP  

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Rom 8:30 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 COR 3:9- How much more radiant would the ministry of the Spirit be.

9 If the ministry of condemnation had a glimpse of glory, the glory that the ministry of righteousness now communicates is beyond comparison!  

10 What seemed glorious and important at the time has been reduced to total obscurity and irrelevance.

11 The fragile and fading glory of the flesh is dwarfed into insignificance by the unfading glory of the Spirit!  MIRROR

Gal 2:16 We know very well that we are not set right with God by rule-keeping but only through personal faith in Jesus Christ. How do we know? We tried it — and we had the best system of rules the world has ever seen! Convinced that no human being can please God by self-improvement, we believed in Jesus as the Messiah so that we might be set right before God by trusting in the Messiah, not by trying to be good. MSG

GAL 3:11 Habakkuk confirms conclusively that righteousness by God’s faith is the only basis to life; this terminates any possible justification before God based on moral behavior.  MIRROR

HEB 10:38-39 Righteousness by God’s faith defines life; reverting to the law of works grieves God’s work of grace.

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

RESCUE-REDEEMED-MADE RIGHTEOUS 8-18-24  VIDEO LIVING YOUR

We who are in Christ have been rescued redeemed, and made righteous through His blood. So then whatever circumstances, we are in no matter what we will win! God has not ever left us! Redeemed is a great exchange that happened in Christ. He exchanged his life for yours, to give you a brand new life. Holding onto the past has been defeated. You have a fresh start in Christ. We have freedom from captivity. Able to live in right relationship with God. God has given us his approval because we’ve been made right in His sight.

2 Cor 1:10 [For it is He] Who rescued and saved us from such a perilous death, and He will still rescue and save us; in and on Him we have set our hope (our joyful and confident expectation) that He will again deliver us [from danger and destruction and draw us to Himself],  AMP

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2 Cor 1:10 And he did it, rescued us from certain doom. And he’ll do it again, rescuing us as many times as we need rescuing. MSG

2 TIM 4:16 No one dared associate themselves with me during my preliminary hearing, instead they all scattered; I hold nothing against them!

17 Throughout my trial, I was so aware of the Lord’s tangible presence; he strengthened me with dynamic boldness and assured me that my life will be an accurate conduit of the message articulated in its most complete context, for all the nations to hear! And I was snatched from the very jaws of the lion!

18 I am so persuaded that the same Lord who delivered me out of the Lion’s jaws, also safeguards me from getting snared by the subtle attempts of the law-guys to break in on the effortless rhythm of grace that I am addicted to! Our salvation celebrates his heavenly kingdom. We live our lives from a dominion far superior to the systems of the world; there is no fading to the glory of his kingdom! His eternal intent spans the ages!  MIRROR

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2 Tim 4:16 At my preliminary hearing no one stood by me. They all ran like scared rabbits. But it doesn’t matter — 

17 the Master stood by me and helped me spread the Message loud and clear to those who had never heard it. I was snatched from the jaws of the lion!

18 God’s looking after me, keeping me safe in the kingdom of heaven. All praise to him, praise forever! Oh, yes! MSG

Job 5:19 From one disaster after another he delivers you; no matter what the calamity, the evil can’t touch you —  MSG

Gal 1:3 So I greet you with the great words, grace and peace!

4 We know the meaning of those words because Jesus Christ rescued us from this evil world we’re in by offering himself as a sacrifice for our sins. God’s plan is that we all experience that rescue.

5 Glory to God forever! Oh, yes! MSG

2 PET 2:9 ‘If the Lord Yahweh rescued Lot , he knows how to continually rescue the godly from their trials and to reserve the ungodly for punishment on the day of judgment. ‘ TPT

Matt 16:26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life [his blessed life in the kingdom of God]? Or what would a man give as an exchange for his [blessed] life [in the kingdom of God]?  AMP

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Matt 16:26 What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?  MSG

Job 33:28 But God stepped in and saved me from certain death. I’m alive again! Once more I see the light!’  MSG

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Job 33:28 [God] has redeemed my life from going down to the pit [of destruction], and my life shall see the light!  AMP

Ps 55:18 My life is well and whole, secure in the middle of danger Even while thousands are lined up against me. MSG

PS 107:2 So, go ahead—let everyone know it! Tell the world how he broke through

and delivered you from the power of darkness and has gathered us together from all over the world. He has set us free to be his very own!  TPT

ISA 35:8 There will be a highway of holiness called the Sacred Way. The impure will not be permitted on this road, but it will be accessible to God’s people.  And not even fools will lose their way.

9 The lion will not be found there; no wild beast will travel on it—they will not be found there. But the redeemed will find a pathway on it. TPT

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Isa 35:8 There will be a highway called the Holy Road. No one rude or rebellious is permitted on this road. It’s for God’s people exclusively —  impossible to get lost on this road. Not even fools can get lost on it.

9 No lions on this road, no dangerous wild animals —  Nothing and no one dangerous or threatening. Only the redeemed will walk on it.  MSG

Lam 3:58 O Lord, You have pleaded the causes of my soul [You have managed my affairs and You have protected my person and my rights]; You have rescued and redeemed my life!  AMP

1 Peter 1:18 It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in.

19 He paid with Christ’s sacred blood, you know. He died like an unblemished, sacrificial lamb.

20 And this was no afterthought. Even though it has only lately — at the end of the ages — become public knowledge, God always knew he was going to do this for you.

21 It’s because of this sacrificed Messiah, whom God then raised from the dead and glorified, that you trust God, that you know you have a future in God. MSG

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1 PET 1:18 It is clear to see that you were ransomed from the futile, fallen mindset that you inherited from your fathers. This was not concluded by the currency of your own labor, represented by the fluctuating values of gold and silver, and the economy of your religious efforts;

19 but you were redeemed with the priceless blood of Christ. He is the ultimate sacrifice; spotless and without blemish. Jesus completes the prophetic picture!   

20 He was always destined in God’s prophetic thought; God knew even before the fall of the world order that his Son would be the Lamb, to be made manifest in these last days, because of you!

21 He is the conclusive cause of your belief in God. Seeing then how perfectly you fit into the scheme of things, it is no wonder that your faith in God’s act of raising Jesus from the dead becomes the glorious reference to your own new birth! The glory that God gave Jesus by raising him from the dead, is the conclusion of everything that your faith longed for!  MIRROR

Isa 43:1 But now, God’s Message, the God who made you in the first place, Jacob, the One who got you started, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, I’ve redeemed you. I’ve called your name. You’re mine.

2 When you’re in over your head, I’ll be there with you. When you’re in rough waters, you will not go down. When you’re between a rock and a hard place, it won’t be a dead end —  MSG

2 Cor 5:21 How? you say. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God. MSG

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2 COR 5:21 This is the divine exchange: he who knew no sin embraced our distortion; he appeared to be without form; this was the mystery of God’s prophetic poetry. He was disguised in our distorted image and marred with our iniquities; he took our sorrows, our pain and our shame to his grave and birthed his righteousness in us. He took our sins and we 3became his innocence. MIRROR

PS 5:12 Lord, how wonderfully you bless the righteous. Your favor wraps around each one and covers them under your canopy of kindness and joy.  TPT

Ps 37:25 I have been young and now am old, yet have I not seen the [uncompromisingly] righteous forsaken or their seed begging bread.  AMP

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Ps 37:25 I once was young, now I’m a graybeard —  not once have I seen an abandoned believer, or his kids out roaming the streets. MSG

Prov 4:18 But the path of the [uncompromisingly] just and righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines more and more (brighter and clearer) until [it reaches its full strength and glory in] the perfect day [to be prepared]. AMP

Prov 4:18 The ways of right-living people glow with light; the longer they live, the brighter they shine.  MSG

Prov 10:7 The memory of the [uncompromisingly] righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked shall rot.  AMP

Hab 2:4 “Look at that man, bloated by self-importance —  full of himself but soul-empty. But the person in right standing before God through loyal and steady believing is fully alive, really alive. MSG

Rom 8:30  And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being].  AMP  

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Rom 8:30 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 COR 3:9- How much more radiant would the ministry of the Spirit be.

9 If the ministry of condemnation had a glimpse of glory, the glory that the ministry of righteousness now communicates is beyond comparison! 

10 What seemed glorious and important at the time has been reduced to total obscurity and irrelevance.

11 The fragile and fading glory of the flesh is dwarfed into insignificance by the unfading glory of the Spirit!  MIRROR

Gal 2:16 We know very well that we are not set right with God by rule-keeping but only through personal faith in Jesus Christ. How do we know? We tried it — and we had the best system of rules the world has ever seen! Convinced that no human being can please God by self-improvement, we believed in Jesus as the Messiah so that we might be set right before God by trusting in the Messiah, not by trying to be good. MSG

GAL 3:11 Habakkuk confirms conclusively that righteousness by God’s faith is the only basis to life; this terminates any possible justification before God based on moral behavior.  MIRROR

HEB 10:38-39 Righteousness by God’s faith defines life; reverting to the law of works grieves God’s work of grace.

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

GOD IS LOYAL 8-16-24 VIDEO FAITHFULLNESS BILL JOHNSON 222

God is loyal to all who call upon Him. He will never forsake you. To be loyal means to be faithful to one’s words or commitments, to be unshakable. Loyalty is consistent and faithful to be devoted to be responsible. All these attributes are in the Father‘s nature. He is looking to see these characteristics in the body of Christ today. Not people who run away when things get tough.

Deut 7:12 And this is what will happen: When you, on your part, will obey these directives, keeping and following them, God, on his part, will keep the covenant of loyal love that he made with your ancestors:

13 He will love you, he will bless you, he will increase you. He will bless the babies from your womb and the harvest of grain, new wine, and oil from your fields; he’ll bless the calves from your herds and lambs from your flocks in the country he promised your ancestors that he’d give you. MSG

Jer 9:24  If you brag, brag of this and this only: That you understand and know me. I’m God, and I act in loyal love. I do what’s right and set things right and fair, and delight in those who do the same things. These are my trademarks.” God’s Decree. MSG

Ps 36:5 God’s love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic,

6 His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks. MSG

2 Tim 2:13 If we give up on him, he does not give up — for there’s no way he can be false to himself. MSG

Ps 100:5 For God is sheer beauty, all-generous in love, loyal always and ever. MSG

Lam 3:22 God’s loyal love couldn’t have run out, his merciful love couldn’t have dried up.

23 They’re created new every morning. How great your faithfulness!

24 I’m sticking with God (I say it over and over). He’s all I’ve got left. MSG

HEB 10:23 ‘So now wrap your heart tightly around the hope that lives within us, knowing that God always keeps his promises!  TPT

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Heb 10:23 Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word.  MSG

Neh 1:5 I said, “God, God-of-Heaven, the great and awesome God, loyal to his covenant and faithful to those who love him and obey his commands: MSG

Ps 66:20 Blessed be God: he didn’t turn a deaf ear, he stayed with me, loyal in his love. MSG

Prov 11:21 Count on this: The wicked won’t get off scot-free, and God’s loyal people will triumph.

1 Thess 5:24 Faithful is He Who is calling you [to Himself] and utterly trustworthy, and He will also do it [fulfill His call by hallowing and keeping you].   

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1 Thess 5:24 The One who called you is completely dependable. If he said it, he’ll do it! MSG

2 Cor 1:18 As surely as God is trustworthy and faithful and means what He says, our speech and message to you have not been Yes [that might mean] No.  AMP

Ps 100:5 For the Lord is good; His mercy and loving-kindness are everlasting, His faithfulness and truth endure to all generations. AMP

Hab 2:4 “Look at that man, bloated by self-importance —  full of himself but soul-empty. But the person in right standing before God through loyal and steady believing is fully alive, really alive. MSG

Rom 11:4 And do you remember God’s answer? I still have seven thousand who haven’t quit, Seven thousand who are loyal to the finish.

5 It’s the same today. There’s a fiercely loyal minority still — not many, perhaps, but probably more than you think.

6 They’re holding on, not because of what they think they’re going to get out of it, but because they’re convinced of God’s grace and purpose in choosing them. If they were only thinking of their own immediate self-interest, they would have left long ago. MSG

HEB 10:38 Righteousness by God’s faith defines life; reverting to the law of works grieves God’s work of grace.

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

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Heb 10:38 But anyone who is right with me thrives on loyal trust; if he cuts and runs, I won’t be very happy.

39 But we’re not quitters who lose out. Oh, no! We’ll stay with it and survive, trusting all the way. MSG

Prov 14:28 The mark of a good leader is loyal followers; leadership is nothing without a following. MSG

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PROV 14:28 A king glories in the number of his loyal followers, but a dwindling population spells ruin for any leader.  TPT

Phil 2:20 I have no one quite like Timothy. He is loyal, and genuinely concerned for you.

21 Most people around here are looking out for themselves, with little concern for the things of Jesus.

22 But you know yourselves that Timothy’s the real thing. He’s been a devoted son to me as together we’ve delivered the Message. MSG

2 TIM 2:3 Picture yourself as a soldier who endures hardship for the cause of Christ.

4 A soldier does not get himself distracted by civilian pursuits; he fully engages himself with the job at hand.

5 An athlete stands no chance of winning the trophy if he cheats in his training.

6 A farmer understands how much hard work goes into a harvest.  

7 Ponder my words; the Lord will give you insight which will inspire you in every contradiction that you face.  MIRROR

2 TIM 4:5 ‘So be alert to all these things and overcome every form of evil. Carry in your heart the passion of your calling as a church planter and evangelist, and fulfill your ministry calling. ‘  TPT

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2 TIM 4:5 But you be vigilant in all things, don’t allow the devastating things that you suffer to get to you! Continue in the full persuasion of your ministry as herald of the Good News; you cannot have a more poetic job description! MIRROR

Josh 1:9 Have not I commanded you? Be strong, vigorous, and very courageous. Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. AMP

PS 112:7 They will not live in fear or dread of what may come, for their hearts are firm, ever secure in their faith.

8 Steady and strong, they will not be afraid, but will calmly face their every foe until they all go down in defeat.

9 Never stingy and always generous to those in need, they lived lives of influence and honor that will never be forgotten, for they were full of good deeds. TPT

Heb 12:1 Do you see what this means — all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running — and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins.

2 Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed — that exhilarating finish in and with God — he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. MSG

HEAVENLY AUTHORITY 8-11-24  VIDEO

Since heavenly authority has been put into the hands of believers, what should we do with it? The Father has given us authority. Authority means the right ability and power to do something. We have the same authority that Jesus has. When we share the Word it is His authority because He is the Word. We have the authority to forgive sin, just like Jesus did.

LUKE 10:18 Jesus responded, “I often contemplate the extent of Satan’s demise, having fallen from the heavens like the flash of a shooting star!”

19 See, I have given you authority to trample upon serpents and scorpions and every powerful symbolic disguize of the enemy. Nothing shall by any means nullify your authentic identity! Your likeness is secured in me!

20 But much more important than your excitement about spirits being subject to you [in my name] rejoice in the awareness that your names are engraved in the heavens. It is time for you to re-discover who you are from heavens perspective! MIRROR

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Luke 10:18 Jesus said, “I know. I saw Satan fall, a bolt of lightning out of the sky.

19 See what I’ve given you? Safe passage as you walk on snakes and scorpions, and protection from every assault of the Enemy. No one can put a hand on you.

20 All the same, the great triumph is not in your authority over evil, but in God’s authority over you and presence with you. Not what you do for God but what God does for you — that’s the agenda for rejoicing.”  MSG

Job 38:12 Have you commanded the morning since your days began and caused the dawn to know its place,

13 So that [light] may get hold of the corners of the earth and shake the wickedness [of night] out of it?  AMP

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Job 38:12 “And have you ever ordered Morning, ‘Get up!’ told Dawn, ‘Get to work!’

13 So you could seize Earth like a blanket and shake out the wicked like cockroaches?  MSG

MATT 28:18 Then Jesus came close to them and said, “All authority of the universe has been given to me.

19 Now wherever you go, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

20 And teach them to faithfully follow all that I have commanded you. And never forget that I am with you every day, even to the completion of this age.” TPT

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Matt 28:18 Jesus, undeterred, went right ahead and gave his charge: “God authorized and commanded me to commission you:

19 Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

20 Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. I’ll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age.”  MSG

Mark 1:22 They were surprised at his teaching — so forthright, so confident — not quibbling and quoting like the religion scholars. MSG

Mark 1:27 And they were all so amazed and almost terrified that they kept questioning and demanding one of another, saying, What is this? What new (fresh) teaching! With authority He gives orders even to the unclean spirits and they obey Him!  AMP

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Mark 1:27 Everyone there was incredulous, buzzing with curiosity. “What’s going on here? A new teaching that does what it says? He shuts up defiling, demonic spirits and sends them packing!”  MSG

Prov 29:2 When the [uncompromisingly] righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked man rules, the people groan and sigh. AMP

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Prov 29:2 When good people run things, everyone is glad, but when the ruler is bad, everyone groans. MSG

Matt 7:29 For He was teaching as One Who had [and was] authority, and not as [did] the scribes. AMP

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Matt 7:29 It was apparent that he was living everything he was saying — quite a contrast to their religion teachers! This was the best teaching they had ever heard. MSG

Matt 9:6 But in order that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins and remit the penalty, He then said to the paralyzed man, Get up! Pick up your sleeping pad and go to your own house.

7 And he got up and went away to his own house.

8 When the crowds saw it, they were struck with fear and awe; and they recognized God and praised and thanked Him, Who had given such power and authority to men.

AMP   

JOHN 20:22 Having said this he breathed an effusion of Spirit upon them and said, “Take Holy Spirit as your Companion.”

23 “If you forgive someone’s sins, they are gone and forgotten. If you don’t let go, then you are stuck with them.”  MIRROR

Matt 10:1 AND JESUS summoned to Him His twelve disciples and gave them power and authority over unclean spirits, to drive them out, and to cure all kinds of disease and all kinds of weakness and infirmity.  AMP

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Matt 10:1 The prayer was no sooner prayed than it was answered. Jesus called twelve of his followers and sent them into the ripe fields. He gave them power to kick out the evil spirits and to tenderly care for the bruised and hurt lives. MSG

Mark 6:7 Jesus called the Twelve to him, and sent them out in pairs. He gave them authority and power to deal with the evil opposition.

8-9 He sent them off with these instructions: “Don’t think you need a lot of extra equipment for this. You are the equipment. No special appeals for funds. Keep it simple.

MSG

JOHN 1:12 But those who embraced him and took hold of his name he gave authority to become the children of God!  TPT

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John 1:12 But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name — AMP

John 7:18 He who speaks on his own authority seeks to win honor for himself. [He whose teaching originates with himself seeks his own glory.] But He Who seeks the glory and is eager for the honor of Him Who sent Him, He is true; and there is no unrighteousness or falsehood or deception in Him. AMP

Acts 4:10 Let it be known and understood by all of you, and by the whole house of Israel, that in the name and through the power and authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Whom you crucified, [but] Whom God raised from the dead, in Him and by means of Him this man is standing here before you well and sound in body.  AMP

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Acts 4:10  I’ll be completely frank with you — we have nothing to hide. By the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the One you killed on a cross, the One God raised from the dead, by means of his name this man stands before you healthy and whole. MSG

ACTS 4:29 So now, Lord, listen to their threats to harm us. Empower us, as your servants, to speak the word of God freely and courageously.

30 Stretch out your hand of power through us to heal, and to move in signs and wonders by the name of your holy Son, Jesus!”

31 As they prayed the earth shook beneath them, causing the building they were in to tremble. Each one of them was filled with the Holy Spirit, and they proclaimed the word of God with unrestrained boldness.  TPT

2 Cor 10:8 You may think I overstate the authority he gave me, but I’m not backing off. Every bit of my commitment is for the purpose of building you up, after all, not tearing you down. MSG

2 Cor 13:10 I’m writing this to you now so that when I come I won’t have to say another word on the subject. The authority the Master gave me is for putting people together, not taking them apart. I want to get on with it, and not have to spend time on reprimands. MSG

Eph 1:20 All this energy issues from Christ: God raised him from death and set him on a throne in deep heaven,

21 in charge of running the universe, everything from galaxies to governments, no name and no power exempt from his rule. And not just for the time being, but forever.

22 He is in charge of it all, has the final word on everything. At the center of all this, Christ rules the church.

23 The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ’s body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence. MSG

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EPH 1:20 Do you want to measure the mind and muscle of God? Consider the force which he unleashed in Jesus Christ when he raised him from the dead and forever seated him enthroned as his executive authority in the realm of the heavens. Jesus is God’s right hand of power! He was raised up from the deepest dungeons of human despair to the highest region of heavenly bliss!  

21 Infinitely above all the combined forces of rule, authority, dominion or governments; he is ranked superior to any name that could ever be given to anyone of this age or any age still to come in the eternal future.

22 I want you to see this: he subjected all these powers under his feet. He towers head and shoulders above everything. He is the head;

23 the Ekklesia is his body. The completeness of his being that fills all in all resides in us! God cannot make himself more visible or exhibit himself more accurately. MIRROR

Col 2:10 When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything.

11 Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It’s not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you’re already in — insiders — not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin. MSG

Eph 3:10 Through Christians like yourselves gathered in churches, this extraordinary plan of God is becoming known and talked about even among the angels! 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

1 Cor 6:3 Do you not know also that we [Christians] are to judge the [very] angels and pronounce opinion between right and wrong [for them]? AMP

HEAVENLY AUTHORITY 8-11-24  VIDEO

Since heavenly authority has been put into the hands of believers, what should we do with it? The Father has given us authority. Authority means the right ability and power to do something. We have the same authority that Jesus has. When we share the Word it is His authority because He is the word. We have the authority to forgive sin, just like Jesus did.

LUKE 10:18 Jesus responded, “I often contemplate the extent of Satan’s demise, having fallen from the heavens like the flash of a shooting star!”

19 See, I have given you authority to trample upon serpents and scorpions and every powerful symbolic disguize of the enemy. Nothing shall by any means nullify your authentic identity! Your likeness is secured in me!

20 But much more important than your excitement about spirits being subject to you [in my name] rejoice in the awareness that your names are engraved in the heavens. It is time for you to re-discover who you are from heavens perspective! MIRROR

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Luke 10:18 Jesus said, “I know. I saw Satan fall, a bolt of lightning out of the sky.

19 See what I’ve given you? Safe passage as you walk on snakes and scorpions, and protection from every assault of the Enemy. No one can put a hand on you.

20 All the same, the great triumph is not in your authority over evil, but in God’s authority over you and presence with you. Not what you do for God but what God does for you — that’s the agenda for rejoicing.”  MSG

Job 38:12 Have you commanded the morning since your days began and caused the dawn to know its place,

13 So that [light] may get hold of the corners of the earth and shake the wickedness [of night] out of it?  AMP

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Job 38:12 “And have you ever ordered Morning, ‘Get up!’ told Dawn, ‘Get to work!’

13 So you could seize Earth like a blanket and shake out the wicked like cockroaches?  MSG

MATT 28:18 Then Jesus came close to them and said, “All authority of the universe has been given to me.

19 Now wherever you go, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

20 And teach them to faithfully follow all that I have commanded you. And never forget that I am with you every day, even to the completion of this age.” TPT

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Matt 28:18 Jesus, undeterred, went right ahead and gave his charge: “God authorized and commanded me to commission you:

19 Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

20 Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. I’ll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age.”  MSG

Mark 1:22 They were surprised at his teaching — so forthright, so confident — not quibbling and quoting like the religion scholars. MSG

Mark 1:27 And they were all so amazed and almost terrified that they kept questioning and demanding one of another, saying, What is this? What new (fresh) teaching! With authority He gives orders even to the unclean spirits and they obey Him!  AMP

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Mark 1:27 Everyone there was incredulous, buzzing with curiosity. “What’s going on here? A new teaching that does what it says? He shuts up defiling, demonic spirits and sends them packing!”  MSG

Prov 29:2 When the [uncompromisingly] righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked man rules, the people groan and sigh. AMP

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Prov 29:2 When good people run things, everyone is glad, but when the ruler is bad, everyone groans. MSG

Matt 7:29 For He was teaching as One Who had [and was] authority, and not as [did] the scribes. AMP

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Matt 7:29 It was apparent that he was living everything he was saying — quite a contrast to their religion teachers! This was the best teaching they had ever heard. MSG

Matt 9:6 But in order that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins and remit the penalty, He then said to the paralyzed man, Get up! Pick up your sleeping pad and go to your own house.

7 And he got up and went away to his own house.

8 When the crowds saw it, they were struck with fear and awe; and they recognized God and praised and thanked Him, Who had given such power and authority to men.

AMP   

JOHN 20:22 Having said this he breathed an effusion of Spirit upon them and said, “Take Holy Spirit as your Companion.”

23 “If you forgive someone’s sins, they are gone and forgotten. If you don’t let go, then you are stuck with them.”  MIRROR

Matt 10:1 AND JESUS summoned to Him His twelve disciples and gave them power and authority over unclean spirits, to drive them out, and to cure all kinds of disease and all kinds of weakness and infirmity.  AMP

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Matt 10:1 The prayer was no sooner prayed than it was answered. Jesus called twelve of his followers and sent them into the ripe fields. He gave them power to kick out the evil spirits and to tenderly care for the bruised and hurt lives. MSG

Mark 6:7 Jesus called the Twelve to him, and sent them out in pairs. He gave them authority and power to deal with the evil opposition.

8-9 He sent them off with these instructions: “Don’t think you need a lot of extra equipment for this. You are the equipment. No special appeals for funds. Keep it simple.

MSG

JOHN 1:12 But those who embraced him and took hold of his name he gave authority to become the children of God!  TPT

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John 1:12 But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name — AMP

John 7:18 He who speaks on his own authority seeks to win honor for himself. [He whose teaching originates with himself seeks his own glory.] But He Who seeks the glory and is eager for the honor of Him Who sent Him, He is true; and there is no unrighteousness or falsehood or deception in Him. AMP

Acts 4:10 Let it be known and understood by all of you, and by the whole house of Israel, that in the name and through the power and authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Whom you crucified, [but] Whom God raised from the dead, in Him and by means of Him this man is standing here before you well and sound in body.  AMP

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Acts 4:10  I’ll be completely frank with you — we have nothing to hide. By the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the One you killed on a cross, the One God raised from the dead, by means of his name this man stands before you healthy and whole. MSG

ACTS 4:29 So now, Lord, listen to their threats to harm us. Empower us, as your servants, to speak the word of God freely and courageously.

30 Stretch out your hand of power through us to heal, and to move in signs and wonders by the name of your holy Son, Jesus!”

31 As they prayed the earth shook beneath them, causing the building they were in to tremble. Each one of them was filled with the Holy Spirit, and they proclaimed the word of God with unrestrained boldness.  TPT

2 Cor 10:8 You may think I overstate the authority he gave me, but I’m not backing off. Every bit of my commitment is for the purpose of building you up, after all, not tearing you down. MSG

2 Cor 13:10 I’m writing this to you now so that when I come I won’t have to say another word on the subject. The authority the Master gave me is for putting people together, not taking them apart. I want to get on with it, and not have to spend time on reprimands. MSG

Eph 1:20 All this energy issues from Christ: God raised him from death and set him on a throne in deep heaven,

21 in charge of running the universe, everything from galaxies to governments, no name and no power exempt from his rule. And not just for the time being, but forever.

22 He is in charge of it all, has the final word on everything. At the center of all this, Christ rules the church.

23 The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ’s body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence. MSG

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EPH 1:20 Do you want to measure the mind and muscle of God? Consider the force which he unleashed in Jesus Christ when he raised him from the dead and forever seated him enthroned as his executive authority in the realm of the heavens. Jesus is God’s right hand of power! He was raised up from the deepest dungeons of human despair to the highest region of heavenly bliss!  

21 Infinitely above all the combined forces of rule, authority, dominion or governments; he is ranked superior to any name that could ever be given to anyone of this age or any age still to come in the eternal future.

22 I want you to see this: he subjected all these powers under his feet. He towers head and shoulders above everything. He is the head;

23 the Ekklesia is his body. The completeness of his being that fills all in all resides in us! God cannot make himself more visible or exhibit himself more accurately. MIRROR

Col 2:10 When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything.

11 Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It’s not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you’re already in — insiders — not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin. MSG

Eph 3:10 Through Christians like yourselves gathered in churches, this extraordinary plan of God is becoming known and talked about even among the angels! 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

1 Cor 6:3 Do you not know also that we [Christians] are to judge the [very] angels and pronounce opinion between right and wrong [for them]? F AMP

WHO YOU ARE 8-9-24 VIDEO SEE YOURSELF DAN MOHLER

We have shared about who God is these past few weeks. Tonight we want to share on who you are. Many Christians are looking for their identity and purpose in life. We will get ready to see that you are much more than you think you are.

Jer 50:20 In those days and at that time, says the Lord, the iniquity of Israel will be sought, but there will be none, and the sins of Judah [will be sought], but none will be found, for I will pardon those whom I cause to remain as a remnant (the preserved ones who come forth after a long tribulation). AMP

Matt 10:31 So don’t be intimidated by all this bully talk. You’re worth more than a million canaries.  MSG

John 15:3 You are cleansed and pruned already, because of the word which I have given you [the teachings I have discussed with you].

4 Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me.

5 I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.  AMP

John 15:14 You are my friends when you do the things I command you.

15 I’m no longer calling you servants because servants don’t understand what their master is thinking and planning. No, I’ve named you friends because I’ve let you in on everything I’ve heard from the Father.

16 “You didn’t choose me, remember; I chose you, and put you in the world to bear fruit, fruit that won’t spoil. As fruit bearers, whatever you ask the Father in relation to me, he gives you.  MSG

Acts 3:25 These prophets, along with the covenant God made with your ancestors, are your family tree. God’s covenant-word to Abraham provides the text: ‘By your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

26 But you are first in line: God, having raised up his Son, sent him to bless you as you turn, one by one, from your evil ways.”  MSG

GAL 3:26  What Jesus Christ believes to be true about you is the final confirmation of mankind’s redeemed sonship. His faith is the only valid reference to your belief!

27 To be immersed in Christ is to be fully clothed with him! He is your brand new wardrobe confirming your sonship!  

28 Nothing resembles your previous identity as Jew or Gentile, bond or free, male or female, Billabong or Gucci, now you are all defined in oneness with Christ! He is your significance and makes you beautiful!

29 Since Christ is the seed of promise, it is only in our realizing our union with him [in the incarnation] that we are equally related to Abraham and heirs of the promise. Faith and not flesh relates us to Abraham. MIRROR

Rom 8:15 This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike “What’s next, Papa?”

16 God’s Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children.  MSG

1 Cor 3:21 I don’t want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else. Everything is already yours as a gift — 

22 Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, the future — all of it is yours,

23 and you are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God. MSG

2 Cor 3:3 You show and make obvious that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, not written with ink but with [the] Spirit of [the] living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.   AMP

Eph 3:14 For this reason [seeing the greatness of this plan by which you are built together in Christ], I bow my knees before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

15 For Whom every family in heaven and on earth is named [that Father from Whom all fatherhood takes its title and derives its name].

16 May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the [Holy] Spirit [Himself indwelling your innermost being and personality]. AMP

Matt 5:14 “Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill.

15 If I make you light-bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I’m putting you on a light stand.  MSG

Eph 5:8 For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light [lead the lives of those native-born to the Light].  AMP

1 PET 2:9  You are proof of the authentic [generation; you give testimony to the original idea of the royalty of true priesthood you are a perfect prototype of the mass of the human race. You are the generation of people who exhibit the conclusion of the prophetic, poetic thought of God that has come full circle. You publish the excellence of his elevation and display that your authentic identity has been rescued out of obscurity and brought into his spectacular light!

10 You were once a people without identity, but have now discovered the integrity of your original identity in God; where there was no mercy you have now received much mercy!  MIRROR

Phil 2:15 That you may show yourselves to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated, children of God without blemish (faultless, unrebukable) in the midst of a crooked and wicked generation [spiritually perverted and perverse], among whom you are seen as bright lights (stars or beacons shining out clearly) in the [dark] world,  AMP

1 Thess 5:4 But friends, you’re not in the dark, so how could you be taken off guard by any of this?

5 You’re sons of Light, daughters of Day. We live under wide open skies and know where we stand. MSG

1 John 4:4 My dear children, you come from God and belong to God. You have already won a big victory over those false teachers, for the Spirit in you is far stronger than anything in the world. MSG

Rom 6:17 But thank God you’ve started listening to a new master,

18 one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!

19 I’m using this freedom language because it’s easy to picture. You can readily recall, can’t you, how at one time the more you did just what you felt like doing — not caring about others, not caring about God — the worse your life became and the less freedom you had? And how much different is it now as you live in God’s freedom, your lives healed and expansive in holiness?  MSG

JOHN 14:18-20 At no time will you be orphaned or abandoned by me; I come to abide face to face with you. 

19 In yet a little while the world will no longer see me, but I will be tangibly visible to you in the very life we share together.

20 In that day you will know that we are in seamless union with one another! I am in my Father, you are in me and I am in you!  MIRROR

ROM 8:9 But you are not ruled by a flesh-consciousness, (law of works), Anyone who does not see themselves fully clothed and identified in the Spirit of Christ, cannot be themselves.  MIRROR

1 COR 3:9 We are co-employed by God. You are God’s agricultural field; or in another context, you are his building and he is the architect and engineer of the life of your design. MIRROR

1 COR 3:23 As much as Christ is inseparably God’s own, you are the property of Christ. You are one with him.  MIRROR

1 COR 6:19 Have you forgotten that your body is now the sacred temple of the Spirit of Holiness, who lives in you? You don’t belong to yourself any longer, for the gift of God, the Holy Spirit, lives inside your sanctuary.

20 You were God’s expensive purchase, paid for with tears of blood, so by all means, then, use your body to bring glory to God!  TPT

1 COR 12:27 You are the body of Christ; individually as much as you are his body corporately. Everyone of you mirrors him. He defines your form. The individual member does not give context to the body; the body gives context to the member.  MIRROR

2 COR 3:3 The fact that you are a Christ-Epistle shines as bright as day! This is what our ministry is all about. The Spirit of God is the living ink. Every trace of the Spirit’s influence on the heart is what gives permanence to this conversation. We are not talking law-language here; this is more dynamic and permanent than letters chiselled in stone. This conversation is embroidered in your inner consciousness. MIRROR

2 COR 5:21 This is the divine exchange: he who knew no sin embraced our distortion; he appeared to be without form; this was the mystery of God’s prophetic poetry. He was disguised in our distorted image and marred with our iniquities; he took our sorrows, our pain and our shame to his grave and birthed his righteousness in us. He took our sins and we became his innocence.  MIRROR

GAL 4:7 Can you see how foolish it would be for a son to continue to live his life with a slave mentality? Your sonship qualifies you to immediately participate in all the wealth of God’s inheritance which is yours because of Christ.   MIRROR

EPH 2:19 The conclusion is clear; you are no longer frowned upon as a foreigner; you are where you belong and part of an intimate family.

20 Your lives now give tangible definition to the spiritual structure, having been built into it by God upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles. Jesus Christ himself is the chief cornerstone.  MIRROR

EPH 3:14 So I kneel humbly in awe before the Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah,

15 the perfect Father of every father and child in heaven and on the earth.

16 And I pray that he would unveil within you the unlimited riches of his glory and favor until supernatural strength floods your innermost being with his divine might and explosive power.  TPT

COL 2:9 For he is the complete fullness of deity living in human form.

10 And our own completeness is now found in him. We are completely filled with God as Christ’s fullness overflows within us. He is the Head of every kingdom and authority in the universe!  TPT

1 JN 4:4 My darling children, you have nothing to fear; do not doubt for a moment the legitimacy of your sonship! You originate in God and have already conquered the worldly religious system because of the unveiling of Christ in you! His living presence in you is far superior to the futile anti-Christ mindsets present in the world! MIRROR