EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT  4-16-23  VIDEO HOLY SPIRIT SPOKEN

Empowered by the Holy Spirit. Strong in the Lord and the power of His might. Empowered means to have the authority to act and change things. Empowered means you have the confidence and the ability to do things and expect good results. We are in empowered from on high.

1 Cor 4:20 God’s Way is not a matter of mere talk; it’s an empowered life. MSG

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1 Cor 4:20  The kingdom of God [the dominion of the Christ life] is about an empowered life and not just a matter of quoting your favorite teacher or Scripture! MIRROR

Eph 6:10  In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides].  AMP 

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EPH 6:10 In conclusion and with reference to the theme and context of this writing, I encourage you to realize your strength in the Master; your union with him is your limitless resource.  MIRROR

Rom 4:18 [For Abraham, human reason for] hope being gone, hoped in faith that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been promised, So [numberless] shall your descendants be.

19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered the [utter] impotence of his own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or [when he considered] the barrenness of Sarah’s [deadened] womb. 

20 No unbelief or distrust made him waver (doubtingly question) concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong and was empowered by faith as he gave praise and glory to God,

21 Fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to do what He had promised.  AMP

Luke 24:49 And behold, I will send forth upon you what My Father has promised; but remain in the city [Jerusalem] until you are clothed with power from on high. AMP

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Luke 24:49 What comes next is very important: I am sending what my Father promised to you, so stay here in the city until he arrives, until you’re equipped with power from on high.”   MSG

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

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Isa 11:2  the Spirit of Yahweh will rest upon him; the Spirit of Extraordinary Wisdom; the Spirit of Perfect Understanding, the Spirit of Wise Strategy, the Spirit of Mighty Power, the Spirit of Revelation,’ and the Spirit of the Fear of Yahweh. TPT 

Acts 2:1 On the day Pentecost was being fulfilled, all the disciples were gathered in one place.

²Suddenly they heard the sound of a violent blast of wind rushing into the house from out of the heavenly realm. The roar of the wind was so overpowering it was all anyone could bear!

³Then all at once a pillar of fire appeared before their eyes. It separated into tongues of fire that engulfed each one of them.  TPT

Ps 71:16 I come in the power of the Lord God, I post signs marking his right-of-way.

17 You got me when I was an unformed youth, God, and taught me everything I know.

Now I’m telling the world your wonders;

18 I’ll keep at it until I’m old and gray. God, don’t walk off and leave me until I get out the news Of your strong right arm to this world, news of your power to the world yet to come,  MSG

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Psalms 71:16 I will come forth in your mighty strength, O my Lord God. I’ll tell everyone that you alone are the perfect one.

¹⁷From my childhood you’ve been my teacher, and I’m still telling everyone of your miracle-wonders!

¹⁸God, now that I’m old and gray, don’t walk away. Give me grace to demonstrate to the next generation all your mighty miracles and your excitement, to show them your magnificent power!  TPT

Ps 145:12 Letting the world know of your power for good, the lavish splendor of your kingdom. MSG

Matt 12:28  “But if it’s by God’s power that I am sending the evil spirits packing, then God’s kingdom is here for sure. MSG

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Matt 12:28 But if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out the demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you [before you expected it]. AMP

Rom 1:20 By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse. MSG

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ROM 1:20 God is on display in creation; the very fabric of visible cosmos appeals to reason. It clearly bears witness to the ever present sustaining power and intelligence of the invisible God, leaving mankind without any valid excuse to ignore him. MIRROR

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

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Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death. AMP

1 Cor 2:4 and so nothing I said could have impressed you or anyone else. But the Message came through anyway. God’s Spirit and God’s power did it,

5 which made it clear that your life of faith is a response to God’s power, not to some fancy mental or emotional footwork by me or anyone else. MSG

1 Cor 12:6 God’s various expressions of power are in action everywhere; but God himself is behind it all. MSG

2 Cor 4:7 However, we possess this precious treasure [the divine Light of the Gospel] in [frail, human] vessels of earth, that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not from ourselves.  AMP

2 Cor 13:4 He was sheer weakness and humiliation when he was killed on the Cross, but oh, he’s alive now — in the mighty power of God! We weren’t much to look at, either, when we were humiliated among you, but when we deal with you this next time, we’ll be alive in Christ, strengthened by God. 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.

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

³¹As 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

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Acts 4:29 “And now they’re at it again! Take care of their threats and give your servants fearless confidence in preaching your Message,

30 as you stretch out your hand to us in healings and miracles and wonders done in the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

31 While they were praying, the place where they were meeting trembled and shook. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak God’s Word with fearless confidence.  MSG

Eph 1:19 oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him — endless energy, boundless strength!

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 1:19 I pray that you will be overwhelmed with an understanding of the magnitude of his power in the finished work of Christ. This is what results in the dynamic of your faith.

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

Phil 3:10 [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope]   AMP

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

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Col 2:10 And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life [in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead — Father, Son and Holy Spirit — and reach full spiritual stature]. And He is the Head of all rule and authority [of every angelic principality and power].  AMP

2 TIM 1:8 Do not let my imprisonment make you feel embarrassed about the testimony of Christ or your association with me! We are partners in the afflictions of the gospel and also in the intensity of God’s power! We experience a constant download of power in the midst of affliction!  MIRROR

1 John 5:4 Every God-begotten person conquers the world’s ways. The power that brings the world to its knees is our faith.

5 The person who wins out over the world’s ways is simply the one who believes Jesus is the Son of God.  TPT VIDEO HOLY SPIRIT BY SHAWN BOLZ

REMEMBER MERCY 4-14-23  VIDEO I WAS LOOKING AT JESUS 2

Sometimes we get so disturbed by what’s going on around us. The people who have made things difficult for us in our family, work, etc. The last thing we feel like being is merciful. But God is full of mercy and shows kindness without judgment. Mercy is a compassion or forgiveness or judgment towards someone even though it is within our power to be mean to them. Always be encouraging. Give an opportunity for mercy to move upon all. For if you extend mercy the others, in your time of need you will reap mercy.

Psalms 23:6 So why would I fear the future? Only goodness and tender love pursue me all the days of my life. Then afterward, when my life is through, I’ll return to your glorious presence to be forever with you! TPT

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Ps 23:6 Surely or only goodness, mercy, and unfailing love shall follow me all the days of my life, and through the length of my days the house of the Lord [and His presence] shall be my dwelling place.  AMP

Ps 25:6 Mark the milestones of your mercy and love, God; Rebuild the ancient landmarks!

7 Forget that I sowed wild oats; Mark me with your sign of love. Plan only the best for me, God!   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

Ps 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; mercy and loving-kindness and truth go before Your face. AMP

Ps 103:17 But the mercy and loving-kindness of the Lord are from everlasting to everlasting upon those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him, and His righteousness is to children’s children —  AMP

Luke 1:78 Because of and through the heart of tender mercy and loving-kindness of our God, a Light from on high will dawn upon us and visit [us]

79 To shine upon and give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct and guide our feet in a straight line into the way of peace.  AMP

Isa 30:18 But God’s not finished. He’s waiting around to be gracious to you. He’s gathering strength to show mercy to you. God takes the time to do everything right — everything. Those who wait around for him are the lucky ones. MSG

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Isa 30:18 For this reason the Lord is still waiting to show his favor to you

so he can show you his marvelous love. He waits to be gracious to you. He sits on his throne ready to show mercy to you. For Yahweh is the Lord of justice, faithful to keep his promises. Overwhelmed with bliss are all who will entwine their hearts in him, waiting for him to help them. Yes, the people of Zion who live in Jerusalem will weep no more. How compassionate he will be when he hears your cries for help! He will answer you when he hears your voice!  TPT 

Eph 2:4 Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love,

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

6 Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.  MSG

Mic 7:18 Who is a God like You, Who forgives iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He retains not His anger forever, because He delights in mercy and loving-kindness.  AMP

Zech 7:9  Thus has the Lord of hosts spoken: Execute true judgment and show mercy and kindness and tender compassion, every man to his brother; AMP

James 2:12 So speak and so act as [people should] who are to be judged under the law of liberty [the moral instruction given by Christ, especially about love].

13 For to him who has shown no mercy the judgment [will be] merciless, but mercy [full of glad confidence] exults victoriously over judgment.  AMP

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James 2:12 Talk and act like a person expecting to be judged by the Rule that sets us free.

13 For if you refuse to act kindly, you can hardly expect to be treated kindly. Kind mercy wins over harsh judgment every time.  MSG

Matthew 5:7 How blessed you are when you demonstrate tender mercy! For tender mercy will be demonstrated to you.  TPT

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Matt 5:7 Blessed (happy, to be envied, and spiritually prosperous — with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy!  AMP

Matthew 7:5 You’re being hypercritical and a hypocrite! First acknowledge and deal with your own ‘blind spots,’ and then you’ll be capable of dealing with the ‘blind spot’ of your friend. TPT

Matthew 23:23 Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and Pharisees—frauds and pretenders! For you are obsessed with peripheral issues, like insisting on paying meticulous tithes on the smallest herbs that grow in your gardens. These matters are fine, yet you ignore the most important duties of all: to walk in the love of God, to display mercy to others, and to live with integrity. Readjust your values and place first things first.  TPT

2 Cor 4:1 THEREFORE, SINCE we do hold and engage in this ministry by the mercy of God [granting us favor, benefits, opportunities, and especially salvation], we do not get discouraged (spiritless and despondent with fear) or become faint with weariness and exhaustion.  AMP

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2 COR 4:1 Since we are employed by the mercy of God, and not by our own qualifications, quitting is not an option.  MIRROR

Col 3:12 Clothe yourselves therefore, as God’s own chosen ones (His own picked representatives), [who are] purified and holy and well-beloved [by God Himself, by putting on behavior marked by] tenderhearted pity and mercy, kind feeling, a lowly opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, [and] patience [which is tireless and long-suffering, and has the power to endure whatever comes, with good temper].  AMP

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COL 3:12 You are the product of God’s love; he restored you to his original thought. You belong to him exclusively. It is like changing garments. Now that you have gotten rid of the old, clothe yourselves with inner compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience,   MIRROR

1 Tim 1:16 But I obtained mercy for the reason that in me, as the foremost [of sinners], Jesus Christ might show forth and display all His perfect long-suffering and patience for an example to [encourage] those who would thereafter believe on Him for [the gaining of] eternal life. AMP

Matt 9:13 Go figure out what this Scripture means: ‘I’m after mercy, not religion.’ I’m here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders.”   MSG

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Matt 9:13 Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy [that is, readiness to help those in trouble] and not sacrifice and sacrificial victims. For I came not to call and invite [to repentance] the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with God), but sinners (the erring ones and all those not free from sin). AMP

ROM 3:25 Jesus exhibits God’s mercy. In his blood conciliation God’s faith persuades mankind of his righteousness and the fact that he has brought closure to the historic record of their sins. Jesus is the unveiling of the Father’s heart towards us.  MIRROR  ▼▼▼

Rom 3:25 Whom God put forward [before the eyes of all] as a mercy seat and propitiation by His blood [the cleansing and life-giving sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation, to be received] through faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He had passed over and ignored former sins without punishment.  AMP

Heb 12:24 And to Jesus, the Mediator (Go-between, Agent) of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood which speaks [of mercy], a better and nobler and more gracious message than the blood of Abel [which cried out for vengeance].  AMP

Rom 9:16 So then [God’s gift] is not a question of human will and human effort, but of God’s mercy. [It depends not on one’s own willingness nor on his strenuous exertion as in running a race, but on God’s having mercy on him.]   AMP

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Rom 9:16 Compassion doesn’t originate in our bleeding hearts or moral sweat, but in God’s mercy.  MSG

1 Tim 1:13 Though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and was shamefully and outrageously and aggressively insulting [to Him], nevertheless, I obtained mercy because I had acted out of ignorance in unbelief.

14 And the grace (unmerited favor and blessing) of our Lord [actually] flowed out superabundantly and beyond measure for me, accompanied by faith and love that are [to be realized] in Christ Jesus. AMP

Heb 4:16 So let’s walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help. MSG

1 PET 1:3 Let us celebrate the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with articulate acclaim. According to his matchless mercy and tender compassions, he birthed us again when Jesus was raised from the dead. In him, we were rebooted to live the authentic life of our design; while participating in a living hope, witnessing the Father’s expectation of the ages unfold in us!  MIRROR

1 PET 2:10 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

Jude 1:21 staying right at the center of God’s love, keeping your arms open and outstretched, ready for the mercy of our Master, Jesus Christ. This is the unending life, the real life! MSG

Ps 66:20 Blessed be God, Who has not rejected my prayer nor removed His mercy and loving-kindness from being [as it always is] with me. AMP

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Psalms 66:20 I will forever praise this God who didn’t close his heart when I prayed

and never said no when I asked him for help. He never once refused to show me his tender love.  TPT

1 Peter 1:3Celebrate with praises the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has shown us his extravagant mercy. For his fountain of mercy has given us a new life—we are reborn to experience a living, energetic hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.  TPT

GOOD FRIDAY  4-7-23  VIDEO GOOD FRIDAY SKIT GUYS 2

Oh, the blood of Jesus. Blood is essential to life. Blood circulates throughout our bodies and delivers essential substances: like oxygen and nutrients to the bodies cells. It helps remove waste from the cells. There are 0.2 milligrams of gold in our blood to maintain our joints. Blood has DNA. White blood cells contain genetic material. All blood has DNA in it. Blood changes and maintains our lives and our bodies.

1 John 1:7  But if we [really] are living and walking in the Light, as He [Himself] is in the Light, we have [true, unbroken] fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses (removes) us from all sin and guilt [keeps us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations].  AMP

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1 JN 1:7  We are invited to explore the dimensions of the same light that engulfs God; when we see the light in his light, fellowship ignites! In this light, we understand how the blood of Jesus Christ is the removal of every distortion and stain of sin! 

HEB 10:19 And now we are brothers and sisters in God’s family because of the blood of Jesus, and he welcomes us to come into the most holy sanctuary in the heavenly realm—boldly and without hesitation.

²⁰ For he has dedicated a new, life-giving way for us to approach God. For just as the veil was torn in two, Jesus’ body was torn open to give us free and fresh access to him! TPT

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HEB 10:19 So, fellow family, what the blood of Jesus communicates, seals our immediate access into this ultimate place of sacred encounter, with unashamed confidence.

20 This is the official inauguration of a brand new way of life. The torn flesh of Jesus opened the veil for us. Our own flesh can no longer be a valid excuse to interrupt the expression of the life of our design from within our innermost shrine. MIR

Heb 9:22 [In fact] under the Law almost everything is purified by means of blood, and without the shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its guilt nor the remission of the due and merited punishment for sins.

23 By such means, therefore, it was necessary for the [earthly] copies of the heavenly things to be purified, but the actual heavenly things themselves [required far] better and nobler sacrifices than these.

24 For Christ (the Messiah) has not entered into a sanctuary made with [human] hands, only a copy and pattern and type of the true one, but [He has entered] into heaven itself, now to appear in the [very] presence of God on our behalf.

25 Nor did He [enter into the heavenly sanctuary to] offer Himself regularly again and again, as the high priest enters the [Holy of] Holies every year with blood not his own. foundation of the world. But as it now is, He has once for all at the consummation and close of the ages appeared to put away and abolish sin by His sacrifice [of Himself].    AMP  

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HEB 9:22 Thus, according to the law, all purging was by means of blood; forgiveness was specifically associated with the shedding of blood.

23 If the methods of the law were only a shadow prefiguring the heavenly reality, the fulfillment of these examples surely requires a stronger and more efficacious sacrifice.

24 In Christ we have so much more than a type, reflected in the tabernacle of holy places which was set up by human hands. He entered into the heavenly sphere itself, where he personally mirror-exhibits us face to face with God.

25 Neither was it necessary for him to ever repeat his sacrifice. The High Priests under the old shadow system stood proxy with substitute, animal sacrifices that had to be offered every year.

26 But Jesus did not have to suffer again and again since the fall of the world; the single sacrifice of himself, in the fulfillment of history, now reveals how he has brought sin to nought. He was made manifest once and for all, at the conclusion of the age, in order to do away with sin.  MIRROR

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

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

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

15 Through the Spirit, Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to make ourselves respectable, so that we can live all out for God.   MSG

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HEB 9:12 As High Priest, his permission to enter the Holy Place was not secured by the blood of beasts. By his own blood he obtained access on behalf of the human race. Only one act was needed for him to enter the most sacred place of grace and there to institute a ransom of perpetual consequence.

13 The blood of beasts and the ashes of the burnt sacrifice of a heifer could only achieve a very temporal and surface cleansing by being sprinkled on the guilty.

14 How much more effective was the blood of Christ, when he presented his own flawless life through the eternal Spirit before God, in order to purge your conscience from its frustration under the cul-de-sac rituals of the law. There is no comparison between a guilt and duty-driven, dead religious system, and the vibrancy of living your life free from a sin-consciousness! This is what the new testament priesthood is all about!

15 As fully representing mankind, Jesus’s death brought an end to the old, and introduced the New Testament. He thus redeemed us from the transgressions recorded under the first Covenant and identified us as heirs; qualifying us to participate in the full inheritance of all that he obtained on our behalf.  MIRROR

Rom 3:25 Whom God put forward [before the eyes of all] as a mercy seat and propitiation by His blood [the cleansing and life-giving sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation, to be received] through faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He had passed over and ignored former sins without punishment. AMP  ▼▼▼

Romans 3:25 Jesus’ God-given destiny was to be the sacrifice to take away sins, and now he is our mercy seat because of his death on the cross. We come to him for mercy, for God has made a provision for us to be forgiven by faith in the sacred blood of Jesus. This is the perfect demonstration of God’s justice, because until now, he had been so patient—holding back his justice out of his tolerance for us. So he covered over the sins of those who lived prior to Jesus’ sacrifice. TPT

Isa 52:14 [For many the Servant of God became an object of horror; many were astonished at Him.] His face and His whole appearance were marred more than any man’s, and His form beyond that of the sons of men — but just as many were astonished at Him,

15 So shall He startle and sprinkle many nations, and kings shall shut their mouths because of Him; for that which has not been told them shall they see, and that which they have not heard shall they consider and understand.  AMP

Or “sprinkle many nations” or “Many nations will marvel at him”. The words startle and sprinkle share a homonymic root. The idea is that Jesus would sprinkle to cleanse many with his redeeming blood and also that he would startle the nations with his resurrection power and endless life.

HEB 12:24 Jesus is the spokesman and arbitrator of the New Testament order. His blood signature sanctions mankind’s innocence. This is a complete new language that communicates better things, in that it is the very substance of what was spoken in the shadow-type message of the blood sacrifice that Abel brought.   MIRROR

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HEB 12:24 And we have come to Jesus who established a new covenant with his blood sprinkled upon the mercy seat; blood that continues to speak from heaven, “forgiveness,” a better message than Abel’s blood that cries from the earth, “justice.” TPT

Hebrews 13:20 Now may the God who brought us peace by raising from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ so that he would be the Great Shepherd of his flock; and by the power of the blood of the eternal covenant  TPT

Ephesians 2:13 Yet look at you now! Everything is new! Although you were once distant and far away from God, now you have been brought delightfully close to him through the sacred blood of Jesus—you have actually been united to Christ!  TPT    ▼▼▼

EPH 2:13 But now, wow! Everything has changed; you have discovered yourselves to be located in Christ. What once seemed so distant is now so near; his blood reveals your redeemed innocence and authentic genesis.  MIRROR

Col 1:20 Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe — people and things, animals and atoms — get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the Cross. MSG

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, MSG

1 John 2:2 When he served as a sacrifice for our sins, he solved the sin problem for good — not only ours, but the whole world’s.  MSG

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! MIRROR  ▼▼▼

1 PET 1:18 For you know that your lives were ransomed once and for all from the empty and futile way of life handed down from generation to generation. It was not a ransom payment of silver and gold, which eventually perishes,

¹⁹ but the precious blood of Christ—who like a spotless, unblemished lamb was sacrificed for us. TPT

Heb 10:10  God’s way — by which we are made fit for God by the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus.

11 Every priest goes to work at the altar each day, offers the same old sacrifices year in, year out, and never makes a dent in the sin problem.

12 As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was it! Then he sat down right beside God  MSG

Rev 1:5 And from Jesus Christ the faithful and trustworthy Witness, the Firstborn of the dead [first to be brought back to life] and the Prince (Ruler) of the kings of the earth. To Him Who ever loves us and has once [for all] loosed and freed us from our sins by His own blood,

6 And formed us into a kingdom (a royal race), priests to His God and Father — to Him be the glory and the power and the majesty and the dominion throughout the ages and forever and ever. Amen (so be it).  AMP

Rev 5:9 And they sang a new song: Worthy! Take the scroll, open its seals. Slain! Paying in blood, you bought men and women, Bought them back from all over the earth, Bought them back for God.

10 Then you made them a Kingdom, Priests for our God, Priest-kings to rule over the earth. MSG

REV 7:14 I said, “No Mister, I don’t; would you please explain this to me?” He answered, “This is co-raised mankind, brought out of their extreme claustrophobic spaces that they were trapped in. They have plunged their stained priestly garments in the blood of the Lamb and they were made white.”

15 Standing free and forgiven in their redeemed innocence and union, face to face before the throne of God, they are fully engaged, day and night in their priestly service of worship in the inner sanctuary. The One seated upon the throne is their tabernacle; he shelters them with his presence.

16 Here there is no memory of hunger or thirst nor a scorching sun to plague them!

17 For the little Lamb who occupies the center stage of the throne will shepherd them and lead them beside living springs of water and God shall blot out every hurtful memory of the tears they have cried!  MIRROR

Rom 5:9  Now that we are set right with God by means of this sacrificial death, the consummate blood sacrifice, there is no longer a question of being at odds with God in any way.

10 If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we’re at our best, just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life! MSG

Col 2:14-16. His body nailed to the cross hung there as the document of mankind‘s guilt; in dying our death he canceled the detailed handwritten record which testified against us. Every stain on our conscience, reminding of the sense of failure and guilt was fully blotted out.

15. In him dying mankind‘s death, he diffused every possible claim of accusation against the human race and thus made a public spectacle of every rule and authority in Gods brilliant triumph, demonstrated in him. The voice of the cross will never be silenced!

16.  Do not let anyone therefore bring a restriction on your freedom by reviving religious rules and regulations pertaining to eating and drinking, all Jewish festivals, new moons, and Sabbath have come to an end in Christ!  Mirror

1 Cor 10:16 The cup of blessing [of wine at the Lord’s Supper] upon which we ask [God’s] blessing, does it not mean [that in drinking it] we participate in and share a fellowship (a communion) in the blood of Christ (the Messiah)? The bread which we break, does it not mean [that in eating it] we participate in and share a fellowship (a communion) in the body of Christ?  AMP

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1 Corinthians 10:16 For when we pray for the blessing of the communion cup, isn’t this our co-participation with the blood of Jesus? And the bread that we distribute, isn’t this the bread of our co-participation with the body of Christ? TPT

Luke 22:20 And in like manner, He took the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament or covenant [ratified] in My blood, which is shed (poured out) for you.  AMP

Matt 26:28 For this is My blood of the new covenant, which [ratifies the agreement and] is being poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.  AMP

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THE HOLY SPIRIT IS CALLED THE SEAL 4-2-23  VIDEO THE SEAL

The Holy Spirit is called “the seal“. He is called the guarantee, the down payment. He is the promise of a future forever in heaven. The Greek word for seal means God has sealed believers through the Holy Spirit with a seven fold seal. Seal of security sealed tightly, and kept secure in God’s love. The Holy Spirit has sealed us for a future with the Father forever in heaven. Many believers fear the mark of the beast. We must understand that we have already been sealed with the Holy Spirit. I pray that we do recognize that we are sealed by Him.

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

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

¹⁶And 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.

¹⁷Then, by constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released deep inside you, and the resting place of his love will become the very source and root of your life.

18-19 Then you will be empowered to discover what every holy one experiences—the great magnitude of the astonishing love of Christ in all its dimensions. How deeply intimate and far-reaching is his love! How enduring and inclusive it is! Endless love beyond measurement that transcends our understanding—this extravagant love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God!  TPT

1 SEAL OF SECURITY

Job 11:15 Then can you lift up your face to Him without stain [of sin, and unashamed]; yes, you shall be steadfast and secure; you shall not fear.  AMP

Job 11:18  And you shall be secure and feel confident because there is hope; yes, you shall search about you, and you shall take your rest in safety.

19 You shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; yes, many shall sue for your favor.   AMP

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Job 11:18  Full of hope, you’ll relax, confident again; you’ll look around, sit back, and take it easy.

19 Expansive, without a care in the world, you’ll be hunted out by many for your blessing.   MSG

Ps 37:39 But the salvation of the [consistently] righteous is of the Lord; He is their Refuge and secure Stronghold in the time of trouble.

40 And the Lord helps them and delivers them; He delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they trust and take refuge in Him.  AMP

2. SEAL OF AUTHENCATION THAT MARKS US AS GOD’S VERY OWN

John 17:9 I am praying for them. I am not praying (requesting) for the world, but for those You have given Me, for they belong to You.

10 All [things that are] Mine are Yours, and all [things that are] Yours belong to Me; and I am glorified in (through) them. [They have done Me honor; in them My glory is achieved.]  AMP

Rom 1:6 And this includes you, called of Jesus Christ and invited [as you are] to belong to Him.  AMP

Gal 3:29 Also, since you are Christ’s family, then you are Abraham’s famous “descendant,” heirs according to the covenant promises.  MSG

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Gal 3:29  And if you belong to Christ [are in Him Who is Abraham’s Seed], then you are Abraham’s offspring and [spiritual] heirs according to promise.  AMP

Gal 5:24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus (the Messiah) have crucified the flesh (the godless human nature) with its passions and appetites and desires.

25 If we live by the [Holy] Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. [If by the Holy Spirit we have our life in God, let us go forward walking in line, our conduct controlled by the Spirit.]  AMP

Eph 2:19 That’s plain enough, isn’t it? You’re no longer wandering exiles. This kingdom of faith is now your home country. You’re no longer strangers or outsiders. You belong here, with as much right to the name Christian as anyone. God is building a home. He’s using us all — irrespective of how we got here — in what he is building. MSG  

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Ephesians 2:19 So, you are not foreigners or guests, but rather you are the children of the city of the holy ones, with all the rights as family members of the household of God. TPT

3 SEAL OF GENUINESS WHO YOU REALLY ARE

PHIL 3:9 So here I am; found in Christ! I was looking in the wrong place all along! My own duty-and-guilt-driven religious endeavor snared me in the cul-de-sac maize of self-righteousness, sponsored by the law of works! The faith of Christ reveals my identity; righteousness defines who God believes that I really am. This righteousness is sourced in God and endorses the authority of faith.  MIRROR

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Phil 3:9 And that I may [actually] be found and known as in Him, not having any [self-achieved] righteousness that can be called my own, based on my obedience to the Law’s demands (ritualistic uprightness and supposed right standing with God thus acquired), but possessing that [genuine righteousness] which comes through faith in Christ (the Anointed One), the [truly] right standing with God, which comes from God by [saving] faith.  AMP

John 3:15 and everyone who looks up to him, trusting and expectant, will gain a real life, eternal life. MSG

John 5:24 “It’s urgent that you listen carefully to this: Anyone here who believes what I am saying right now and aligns himself with the Father, who has in fact put me in charge, has at this very moment the real, lasting life and is no longer condemned to be an outsider. This person has taken a giant step from the world of the dead to the world of the living. MSG

John 6:40 This is what my Father wants: that anyone who sees the Son and trusts who he is and what he does and then aligns with him will enter real life, eternal life. My part is to put them on their feet alive and whole at the completion of time.”  MSG

4 SEAL OF OWNERSHIP

1 Cor 8:3 But if one loves God truly [with affectionate reverence, prompt obedience, and grateful recognition of His blessing], he is known by God [recognized as worthy of His intimacy and love, and he is owned by Him]. AMP

1 Cor 6:20 You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body.  AMP

1 COR 7:23 You are not for sale! The ransom God paid for your freedom now binds you to the lordship of his love. The sign over your life says, SOLD!  MIRROR

5 SEAL OF APPROVAL

1 Thess 2:4 But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the glad tidings (the Gospel), so we speak not to please men but to please God, Who tests our hearts [expecting them to be approved].  AMP

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1 Thess 2:4  Be assured that when we speak to you we’re not after crowd approval — only God approval. Since we’ve been put through that battery of tests, you’re guaranteed that both we and the Message are free of error, mixed motives, or hidden agendas. MSG

Ps 86:17  Show me a sign of [Your evident] goodwill and favor, that those who hate me may see it and be put to shame, because You, Lord, [will show Your approval of me when You] help and comfort me.  AMP

2 Tim 2:15 Study and be eager and do your utmost to present yourself to God approved (tested by trial), a workman who has no cause to be ashamed, correctly analyzing and accurately dividing [rightly handling and skillfully teaching] the Word of Truth.  AMP

HEB 11:39 Their lives were trophies to their faith, as the substance of what was visualized by their hope, and the evidence of things their natural eyes never saw.

40 God saw the perfect picture in us; we now complete the history of their lives. MIRROR

6 SEAL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

Job 29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me or clothed itself with me; my justice was like a robe and a turban or a diadem or a crown!  AMP

Isa 32:17 And the effect of righteousness will be peace [internal and external], and the result of righteousness will be quietness and confident trust forever. AMP

ROM 5:17 Death no longer has the final say. Life rules! If the effect of one man’s crash-landing engaged mankind in a death-dominated lifestyle how much more advantaged is the very same mankind now that they are the recipients of the boundless reservoirs of grace, empowering them to enjoy the dominion of life through the gift of righteousness because of that one man, Jesus Christ. Grace is out of all proportion in superiority to the transgression.   MIRROR

ROM 8:10 The revelation of Christ in you declares that your body is as good as dead to sin’s demands; sin cannot find any expression in a corpse. You co-died together with him. Yet your spirit is alive because of what righteousness reveals.

11 Our union with Christ further reveals that because the same Spirit that awakened the body of Jesus from the dead inhabits us, we equally participate in his resurrection. In the same act of authority whereby God raised Jesus from the dead, he co-restores your body to life by his indwelling Spirit.  MIRROR

7 SEAL OF A PROMISE TO BE FULFILLED-DOWN PAYMENT

Ephesians 1:14 He is given to us like an engagement ring, as the first installment of what’s coming! He is our hope-promise of a future inheritance which seals us until we have all of redemption’s promises and experience complete freedom—all for the supreme glory and honor of God!  TPT

2 Corinthians 1:21 Now, it is God himself who has anointed us. And he is constantly strengthening both you and us in union with Christ.

²²He knows we are his since he has also stamped his seal of love over our hearts and has given us the Holy Spirit like an engagement ring is given to a bride—a down payment of the blessings to come! TPT

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2 Cor 1:21 God affirms us, making us a sure thing in Christ, putting his Yes within us.

22 By his Spirit he has stamped us with his eternal pledge — a sure beginning of what he is destined to complete.  MSG

2 Cor 5:5 Now He Who has fashioned us [preparing and making us fit] for this very thing is God, Who also has given us the [Holy] Spirit as a guarantee [of the fulfillment of His promise].

6 So then, we are always full of good and hopeful and confident courage; we know that while we are at home in the body, we are abroad from the home with the Lord [that is promised us].  AMP

THE FATHER SEES OUR HEARTS 3-31-23 VIDEO

The Father sees our hearts. God the Father looks at the hearts of his people to see if they are on fire for the things of God. He has a passion for us and He looks to see how impassionate we are for Him. Is He our strong, desire, or devotion? Or are we looking towards someone or something else. His heart is on fire for us. Is our heart on fire for Him. Moses first met God as a fire as a burning bush that could never be put out. Fire symbolizes the presence of God for His children so He has made mankind in His image and likeness.

Ex 3:2 The Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, yet was not consumed. 

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Gen 1:27 God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God’s nature. He created them male and female. MSG

Deut 6:5 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being and with all your might.

6 And these words which I am commanding you this day shall be [first] in your [own] minds and hearts; [then]  AMP

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Deut 6:5 Love God, your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that’s in you, love him with all you’ve got!

6 Write these commandments that I’ve given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you  MSG

Rev 3:16 So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth!

17 For you say, I am rich; I have prospered and grown wealthy, and I am in need of nothing; and you do not realize and understand that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.  AMP

1 COR 16:22 Anyone who prefers the law above grace remains under the curse mentality. Jesus Christ has come; grace is the authority of his Lordship; we are so fond of him! He is the Messiah the world was waiting for.   MIRROR

1 COR 16:24 My love is with you; our lives are intertwined in Christ Jesus. I salute him with a bold Yes and Amen! Paul.  MIRROR

Psalms 31:23 Listen to me, all you godly ones: Love the Lord with passion! The Lord protects and preserves all those who are loyal to him. But he pays back in full all those who reject him in their pride.

²⁴So cheer up! Take courage, all you who love him. Wait for him to break through for you, all who trust in him!  TPT

1 Sam 16:7  But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.   AMP

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1 Sam 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed David in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah. AMP

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Acts 13:22 And when He had deposed him, He raised up David to be their king; of him He bore witness and said, I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart, who will do all My will and carry out My program fully.  AMP

Ps 9:1  I WILL praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will show forth (recount and tell aloud) all Your marvelous works and wonderful deeds!

2 I will rejoice in You and be in high spirits; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High!   AMP

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Psalms 9:1  I will worship you, Yahweh, with extended hands as my whole heart erupts with praise! I will tell everyone everywhere about your wonderful works!

²I will be glad and shout in triumph. I will sing praise to your exalted name, O Most High.  TPT

Heb 4:12  For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.

13 And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but all things are open and exposed, naked and defenseless to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do.  AMP

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Hebrews 4:12 For we have the living Word of God, which is full of energy, like a two-mouthed sword. It will even penetrate to the very core of our being where soul and spirit, bone and marrow meet! It interprets and reveals the true thoughts and secret motives of our hearts.

¹³There is not one person who can hide their thoughts from God, for nothing that we do remains a secret, and nothing created is concealed, but everything is exposed and defenseless before his eyes, to whom we must render an account.  

1 Thess 2:4 But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the glad tidings (the Gospel), so we speak not to please men but to please God, Who tests our hearts [expecting them to be approved]. AMP

Psalms 26:1 Yahweh, be my judge and declare me innocent! Clear my name, for I walk in integrity and trust you without wavering.

²Yahweh, you can scrutinize me. Refine my heart and probe my every thought. Put me to the test and you’ll find me true.

³I will never lose sight of your steadfast love for me. Your faithfulness has steadied my steps. TPT

Ps 33:21  What’s more, our hearts brim with joy since we’ve taken for our own his holy name.

22 Love us, God, with all you’ve got —  that’s what we’re depending on.  MSG

Proverbs 4:23 So above all, guard the affections of your heart, for they affect all that you are. Pay attention to the welfare of your innermost being, for from there flows the wellspring of life.  TPT

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

1 Peter 3:4 But let it be the inward adorning and beauty of the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible and unfading charm of a gentle and peaceful spirit, which [is not anxious or wrought up, but] is very precious in the sight of God.  AMP

Rom 5:5  Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us. AMP

Rom 12:2 Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.   MSG

1 John 5:21  Little children, keep yourselves from idols (false gods) — [from anything and everything that would occupy the place in your heart due to God, from any sort of substitute for Him that would take first place in your life]. Amen (so let it be). AMP

Heb 10:22 Let us all come forward and draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by faith (by that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water. AMP

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HEB 10:22 We are free to approach God with absolute confidence, fully persuaded in our hearts that nothing can any longer separate us. We are invited to draw near now! We are thoroughly cleansed, inside and out, with no trace of sin’s stains on our conscience or conduct. The sprinkled blood purges our inner thought-patterns; our bodies also are bathed in clean water.  MIRROR

Luke 6:45 The upright (honorable, intrinsically good) man out of the good treasure [stored] in his heart produces what is upright (honorable and intrinsically good), and the evil man out of the evil storehouse brings forth that which is depraved (wicked and intrinsically evil); for out of the abundance (overflow) of the heart his mouth speaks.

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Prov 27:19  As a face is reflected in water, so the heart reflects the real person. NLT

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Prov 27:19 As [in] water the face [is] to face, So the heart of man to man. YLT

Hos 6:6  I’m after love that lasts, not more religion. I want you to know God, not go to more prayer meetings.  MSG

1 Peter 3:15  Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you’re living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy.  MSG

Rom 12:11 Never lag in zeal and in earnest endeavor; be aglow and burning with the Spirit, serving the Lord.  AMP

Luke 12:33  Sell what you possess and give donations to the poor; provide yourselves with purses and handbags that do not grow old, an unfailing and inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

35 Keep your loins girded and your lamps burning,

36 And be like men who are waiting for their master to return home from the marriage feast, so that when he returns from the wedding and comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately.  AMP

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Luke 12:33 “Now, go and sell what you have and give to those in need; you will be making deposits in your account in heaven, an account that will never be taken from you. Your gifts will become a secure and unfailing treasure, deposited in heaven forever.

³⁴Where you deposit your treasure, that is where you fix your thoughts—and your heart will long to be there also.”

³⁵“Be prepared for action at a moment’s notice.

³⁶Be like servants anticipating their master’s return from a wedding celebration. They are ready at a moment’s notice to unlock and open the door for him.  TPT

THE CROSSROADS by Mary Dorian 3-26-23

Deut 2:2 Then God said,

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

1 Kings 18:21 Elijah challenged the people: “How long are you going to sit on the fence? If God is the real God, follow him; if it’s Baal, follow him. Make up your minds!” Nobody said a word; nobody made a move. MSG

Prov 8:2 On the top of the heights beside the way, where the paths meet, stands Wisdom [skillful and godly];  AMP

Jer 6:16 Thus says the Lord: Stand by the roads and look; and ask for the eternal paths, where the good, old way is; then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it!  AMP

Matt 19:6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder (separate). AMP

Acts 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they continued to speak the Word of God with freedom and boldness and courage. AMP

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Acts 4:31 While they were praying, the place where they were meeting trembled and shook. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak God’s Word with fearless confidence.  MSG

John 6:63 It is the Spirit Who gives life [He is the Life-giver]; the flesh conveys no benefit whatever [there is no profit in it]. The words (truths) that I have been speaking to you are spirit and life. AMP

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John 6:63 The Spirit can make life. Sheer muscle and willpower don’t make anything happen. Every word I’ve spoken to you is a Spirit-word, and so it is life-making. MSG

Eph 1:13 In Him you also who have heard the Word of Truth, the glad tidings (Gospel) of your salvation, and have believed in and adhered to and relied on Him, were stamped with the seal of the long-promised Holy Spirit. AMP

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Eph1:13 Now you [Gentiles] also have discovered yourselves to be equally included in him having witnessed 1the unveiled 2logic of God. What exciting news! Your salvation is publicly announced. Consistent with the promise of God, the Holy Spirit gives guarantee to the fact of your faith, like the stamp of a signet ring that certifies a document. You are in him!  Mirror

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. AMP

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Zech 4:6 “This is God’s Message to Zerubbabel: ‘You can’t force these things. They only come about through my Spirit,’ says God-of-the-Angel-Armies. MSG

Ps 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. AMP

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].  

19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble. AMP

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

19 But the road of wrongdoing gets darker and darker — travelers can’t see a thing; they fall flat on their faces.  MSG

Ps 97:11 Light-seeds are planted in the souls of God’s people, Joy-seeds are planted in good heart-soil. MSG

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Psalms 97:11 For he sows seeds of light within his devoted lovers, and seeds of joy burst forth for the lovers of God! TPT

Psalms 19:1 God’s splendor is a tale that is told, written in the stars. Space itself speaks his story through the marvels of the heavens. His truth is on tour in the starry vault of the sky, showing his skill in creation’s craftsmanship.

2 Each day gushes out its message to the next, night by night whispering its knowledge to all—

3 without a sound, without a word, without a voice being heard,

4 yet all the world can hear its echo. Everywhere its message goes out. What a heavenly home God has set for the sun, shining in the superdome of the sky! TPT

James 1:16 Do not be misled, my beloved brethren.

17 Every good gift and every perfect (free, large, full) gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of all [that gives] light, in [the shining of] Whom there can be no variation [rising or setting] or shadow cast by His turning [as in an eclipse]. AMP

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JAMES 1:16 My dear friends, do not go wandering off into deception.

17 The Father’s resolve stands in total contrast to the perverted passions of sin, claiming it’s illegitimate parenthood of mankind. MIRROR

Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.

4 And God saw that the light was good (suitable, pleasant) and He approved it; and God separated the light from the darkness. AMP

John 8:12 Once more Jesus addressed the crowd. He said, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not be walking in the dark, but will have the Light which is Life.

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2 Cor 4:6 For God Who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as [to beam forth] the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty and glory of God [as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed] in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah).  AMP

Luke 9:28 Now about eight days after these teachings, Jesus took with Him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray.

29 And as He was praying, the appearance of His countenance became altered (different), and His raiment became dazzling white [flashing with the brilliance of lightning].

30 And behold, two men were conversing with Him — Moses and Elijah,

31 Who appeared in splendor and majesty and brightness and were speaking of His exit [from life], which He was about to bring to realization at Jerusalem.

32 Now Peter and those with him were weighed down with sleep, but when they fully awoke, they saw His glory (splendor and majesty and brightness) and the two men who stood with Him.  AMP

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Luke 9:28 The following 1week, this conversation was endorsed when Jesus took Peter, John and Jacob [James] with him and ascended the mountain to pray.

29 And while he was praying his appearance was spectacularly changed by the radiance of God’s splendor bursting through his skin; his face and even his clothes became dazzling white like light.

30 Look! Both Moses and Elijah were there with him and talking to him.

31 Their appearance was equally glorious, and their conversation focussed on his departing and the fulfilling of everything the law and the prophets pointed to, which was about to take place in Jerusalem.

32 Then, Peter and company, weighed down with the enormity of the event and struggling to keep their eyes open, were suddenly wide awake to witness this glorious moment! They saw Jesus and the two men engulfed in splendor.  Mirror

Gen 5:24 And Enoch walked [in habitual fellowship] with God; and he was not, for God took him [home with Him]. AMP

2 Kings 2:11 As they still went on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire parted the two of them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

12 And Elisha saw it and he cried, My father, my father! The chariot of Israel and its horsemen! And he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.  AMP

Matt 5:14 You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

15 Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a peck measure, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

16 Let your light so shine before men that they may see your moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven. AMP

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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.

16 Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand — shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven. MSG

Matt 25:14 For it is like a man who was about to take a long journey, and he called his servants together and entrusted them with his property.

15 To one he gave five talents [probably about $5,000], to another two, to another one — to each in proportion to his own personal ability. Then he departed and left the country.

16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he gained five talents more.  AMP

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Matt 25:14 “It’s also like a man going off on an extended trip. He called his servants together and delegated responsibilities.

15 To one he gave five thousand dollars, to another two thousand, to a third one thousand, depending on their abilities. Then he left.

16 Right off, the first servant went to work and doubled his master’s investment. MSG

John 1:10 Although no one took any notice of him, he was no stranger to the world; he always was there and is himself the author of all things.

11 It was not as though he arrived on a foreign planet; he came to his own, yet his own did not 1recognize him.

12 Everyone who realizes their association in him, convinced that he is their original life and that his name defines them, God gives the assurance that they are indeed his offspring, begotten of him; he sanctions the legitimacy of their sonship.

13 These are the ones who discover their genesis in God, beyond their natural conception! This is not about our blood lineage or whether we were a wanted- or unwanted-child; this is about our God-begotteness. We are his dream come true and not the invention of our parents. You are indeed the greatest idea that God has ever had!  Mirror

CHANGING YOUR THINKING FROM IMPOSSIBLE TO POSSIBLE 3-24-23

VIDEO HEALING THE INCURABLE

Changing your thinking from impossible to possible. He is the God of the possible. Possible means it is able to be done or achieved, able to exist. It can happen for sure. by God creative power. When He created the Earth, God just spoke, and then it became. God speaks everything into existence from nothing to something. When He made man He used the dust of the Earth to make him in His own likeness. Mankind was made out of Gods very nature.

1 Cor 2:9 That’s why we have this Scripture text: No one’s ever seen or heard anything like this, Never so much as imagined anything quite like it — What God has arranged for those who love him.

10 But you’ve seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you. The Spirit, not content to flit around on the surface, dives into the depths of God, and brings out what God planned all along. MSG

JOHN 6:5 There was no getting away from the crowds though; when Jesus saw the multitude arrive he said to Phillip, “How do you think we are going to feed all these people?”

6 This wasn’t a trick question, but simply to engage their faith; he already knew exactly what he was going to do!

7 Phillip immediately concluded that this was impossible to do and far beyond a budget of any reasonable calculation; two hundred days wages could never buy enough for each person in the crowd to even get a little morsel of bread!

8 Then one of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.

9 pointed to a little boy who had five small loaves of inexpensive barley bread and two small fishes and remarked how insignificant they appeared amongst such a multitude of hungry people!

10 Jesus asked his disciples to get everybody seated – the place was ideal for a picnic since it was spring and the grass was lush and green! Thousands of people gathered!  

11 Jesus took the bread and fish and thanked God for it, then distributed it amongst the people; everyone was free to take as much as they wanted!

12 When the crowd had eaten their fill Jesus said to his disciples to gather up all the broken pieces to make sure that nothing is lost. 

13 So they did and filled twelve baskets with fragments after everybody had as much as they could eat!

14 The people who witnessed these signs began to be more and more convinced that Jesus must truly be that Prophet, the one whom their Scriptures pointed to.  MIRROR

Matthew 16:8 Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “You have such little faith! Why are you arguing with one another about having no bread?

⁹Are you so slow to understand? Have you forgotten the miracle of feeding the five thousand families and how each of you ended up with a basket full of fragments? 

Gen 1:1 First this: God created the Heavens and Earth — all you see, all you don’t see.  MSG

Gen 1:27  God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God’s nature. He created them male and female.

28 God blessed them: “Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth.”

Deut 4:32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from one end of the heavens to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever occurred or been heard of anywhere.

33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you heard, and live?

34 Or has God ever tried to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

35 To you it was shown, that you might realize and have personal knowledge that the Lord is God; there is no other besides Him.

36 Out of heaven He made you hear His voice, that He might correct, discipline, and admonish you; and on earth He made you see His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.

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

HEB 11:1 Persuasion confirms confident expectation and proves the unseen world to be more real than the seen. Faith celebrates as certain what hope visualizes as future.  MIRROR

HEB 11:3 Faith alone explains what is not apparent to the natural eye; how the ages were perfectly framed by the Word of God. Now we understand that everything visible has its origin in the invisible.   MIRROR ▼▼▼

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

LUKE 1:31 For behold, you will be mystically captured in your womb and conceive and bear a son. And you shall name him Jesus!

32 The eminence of his stature will be magnificent. He will be known as the son of the Most High. And the Lord God will return to him what already belongs to him, the throne of his father David!  

33 And he will reign as king over the house of Jacob and his kingdom will be without any boundaries.

34 And Mary asked the Messenger, “So how can this be possible while I am still a virgin?”

35 And he said to her, “Holy Spirit will overwhelm you – hovering over you in the power of the Most High. Therefore, this holy begotten one will be called, son of God!  MIRROR ▼

Luke 1:37  Nothing, you see, is impossible with God.” MSG

JN 3:4 Nicodemus did not understand this answer at all and said to him, “How can a person be born if they are already grown-up? Surely one cannot re-enter your mother’s womb and be born a second time?

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

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

7 Don’t be so surprised when I say to you: You couldn’t get here in the flesh unless you got here from above!

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

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

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

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

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

13 No one can fully engage in heaven’s perspective, unless one’s heavenly origin is realized! The Son of man declares mankind’s co-genesis from above!

14   Remember how Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so the son of man will be lifted up!    MIRROR ▼▼▼

John 3:4 “How can anyone,” said Nicodemus, “be born who has already been born and grown up? You can’t re-enter your mother’s womb and be born again. What are you saying with this ‘born-from-above’ talk?”

5 Jesus said, “You’re not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a person submits to this original creation — the ‘wind hovering over the water’ creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life — it’s not possible to enter God’s kingdom.

6 When you look at a baby, it’s just that: a body you can look at and touch. But the person who takes shape within is formed by something you can’t see and touch — the Spirit — and becomes a living spirit.

7 “So don’t be so surprised when I tell you that you have to be ‘born from above’ — out of this world, so to speak.

8 You know well enough how the wind blows this way and that. You hear it rustling through the trees, but you have no idea where it comes from or where it’s headed next. That’s the way it is with everyone ‘born from above’ by the wind of God, the Spirit of God.”

9 Nicodemus asked, “What do you mean by this? How does this happen?”

10 Jesus said, “You’re a respected teacher of Israel and you don’t know these basics? 11 Listen carefully. I’m speaking sober truth to you. I speak only of what I know by experience; I give witness only to what I have seen with my own eyes. There is nothing secondhand here, no hearsay. Yet instead of facing the evidence and accepting it, you procrastinate with questions.

12 If I tell you things that are plain as the hand before your face and you don’t believe me, what use is there in telling you of things you can’t see, the things of God?

13 “No one has ever gone up into the presence of God except the One who came down from that Presence, the Son of Man.

14 In the same way that Moses lifted the serpent in the desert so people could have something to see and then believe, it is necessary for the Son of Man to be lifted up — 

Mark 9:23 And Jesus said, [You say to Me], If You can do anything? [Why,] all things can be (are possible) to him who believes!  AMP ▼▼▼

Mark 9:23 Jesus said,“If? There are no ‘ifs’ among believers. Anything can happen.

Phil 4:11  Actually, I don’t have a sense of needing anything personally. I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances.

12 I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty.

13 Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am. MSG

Jer 32:17 Alas, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! There is nothing too hard or too wonderful for You —  AMP

Mark 11:24 For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it]. AMP

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Mark 11:24 That’s why I urge you to pray for absolutely everything, ranging from small to large. Include everything as you embrace this God-life, and you’ll get God’s everything. MSG

Heb 11:6  There is no substitute reward for faith. Faith’s return exceeds any other sense of achievement. Faith knows that God is; those who desire to respond to his invitation to draw near, realize by faith that he is life’s most perfect gift.  MIRROR

Mark 10:27 Jesus glanced around at them and said, With men [it is] impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.

28 Peter started to say to Him, Behold, we have yielded up and abandoned everything [once and for all and joined You as Your disciples, siding with Your party] and accompanied You [walking the same road that You walk].

29 Jesus said, Truly I tell you, there is no one who has given up and left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for My sake and for the Gospel’s 30 Who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this time — houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions — and in the age to come, eternal life. AMP

I WILL ANSWER YOU! 3-7-23  VIDEO SECRET PLACE

Because of your intimate relationship with the Father, in secret places, you can count on this, when you pray, He hears you and immediately help come your way. We abide in the secret place. A place of intimacy with Him. We are free to speak with Him from our heart. The secret place is your hideout where you can speak to God. Do you think when God prepares a table for us in the presence of enemies, that He hears us when we pray? Most certainly He does.

Psalms 91:15 I will answer your cry for help every time you pray, and you will feel my presence in your time of trouble. I will deliver you and bring you honor.

16 I will satisfy you with a full life and with all that I do for you. For you will enjoy the fullness of my salvation!”  TPT

Dan 9:20 While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy hill of my God — 

21 Yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the former vision, being caused to fly swiftly, came near to me and touched me about the time of the evening sacrifice. 

22 He instructed me and made me understand; he talked with me and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give you skill and wisdom and understanding.

23 At the beginning of your prayers, the word [giving an answer] went forth, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter and understand the vision.  AMP

Ps 91:1 HE WHO dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand].

2 I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust!  AMP

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Psalms 91:1 When you abide under the shadow of Shaddai, you are hidden in the strength of God Most High.

2 He’s the hope that holds me and the stronghold to shelter me, the only God for me, and my great confidence.  TPT

Song 2:14 [So I went with him, and when we were climbing the rocky steps up the hillside, my beloved shepherd said to me] O my dove, [while you are here] in the seclusion of the clefts in the solid rock, in the sheltered and secret place of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.  AMP

Ps 31:20 In the secret place of Your presence You hide them from the plots of men; You keep them secretly in Your pavilion from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be the Lord! For He has shown me His marvelous loving favor when I was beset as in a besieged city.

22 As for me, I said in my haste and alarm, I am cut off from before Your eyes. But You heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to You for aid.

23 O love the Lord, all you His saints! The Lord preserves the faithful, and plentifully pays back him who deals haughtily.

24 Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for and hope for and expect the Lord!  AMP

Ps 27:5 For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; in the secret place of His tent will He hide me; He will set me high upon a rock.

6 And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me; in His tent I will offer sacrifices and shouting of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.

7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud; have mercy and be gracious to me and answer me! AMP

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Psalms 27:6 In the day of trouble, he will treasure me in his shelter, under the cover of his tent. He will lift me high upon a rock, out of reach from all my enemies who surround me. Triumphant now, I’ll bring him my offerings of praise, singing and shouting with ecstatic joy! Yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh!

⁷Hear my cry. Show me mercy, and send the help I need!  TPT

Psalms 23:5 You become my delicious feast even when my enemies dare to fight.

You anoint me with the fragrance of your Holy Spirit; you give me all I can drink of you until my cup overflows.  TPT

Ps 18:6 In my distress [when seemingly closed in] I called upon the Lord and cried to my God; He heard my voice out of His temple (heavenly dwelling place), and my cry came before Him, into His [very] ears.  AMP

Psalms 18:10 He stretched heaven’s curtain open and came to my defense.

Swiftly he rode to earth as the stormy sky was lowered. He rode a chariot of thunderclouds amidst thick darkness; his steed was a cherub, soaring on outstretched wings of Spirit-Wind.  TPT

1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us.

15 And if (since) we [positively] know that He listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted us as our present possessions] the requests made of Him.   AMP  

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1 JOHN 5:14 Thus we engage in an unreserved conversation, face to face with the father; we know that it is his delight to be our audience in whatever we may ask him.

15 And convinced of his delight with us within this place of intimate conversation, it is clear that our every request is held in the same echo – we already have what we’ve asked for!  MIRROR

Psalms 6:9 Yes! Yahweh my healer has heard all my pleading and has taken hold of my prayers and answered them all.  TPT

Psalms 69:13 But I keep calling out to you, Yahweh! I know you will bend down to listen to me, for now is the season of favor. Because of your faithful love for me, your answer to my prayer will be my sure salvation.  TPT

Ps 141:2 Treat my prayer as sweet incense rising; my raised hands are my evening prayers.  MSG

Jonah 2:7 When my life was slipping away, I remembered God, And my prayer got through to you, made it all the way to your Holy Temple.

8 Those who worship hollow gods, god-frauds, walk away from their only true love.

9 But I’m worshiping you, God, calling out in thanksgiving! And I’ll do what I promised I’d do! Salvation belongs to God!”

10 Then God spoke to the fish, and it vomited up Jonah on the seashore. MSG

1 Thess 5:16 Be happy [in your faith] and rejoice and be glad-hearted continually (always);

17 Be unceasing in prayer [praying perseveringly];  AMP

James 5:16 Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].

17 Elijah was a human being with a nature such as we have [with feelings, affections, and a constitution like ours]; and he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and no rain fell on the earth for three years and six months. 

18 And [then] he prayed again and the heavens supplied rain and the land produced its crops [as usual].  AMP 

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JAMES 5:16 if you have wronged someone talk to him about it; pray for each other to maintain a healthy fellowship. Righteousness is the fuel of effective prayer.  

17 Elijah wasn’t superman, yet his prayers had supernatural results with global impact. Remember how he prayed. He prayed with such resolve that he stopped the rain for three and a half years!

18 He prayed again and everything was back to normal; rain and harvest in season!

Matt 21:22 And whatever you ask for in prayer, having faith and [really] believing, you will receive. AMP

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Matt 21:22 Absolutely everything, ranging from small to large, as you make it a part of your believing prayer, gets included as you lay hold of God.”   MSG

Luke 6:12 Now in those days it occurred that He went up into a mountain to pray, and spent the whole night in prayer to God. AMP▼▼▼

LUKE 6:12 It was during that time, that he again departed into the mountain to engage in prayer. He spent the night there; entwined in a face to face mirror-encounter, in the prayer of God.  MIRROR

Acts 12:5 So Peter was kept in prison, but fervent prayer for him was persistently made to God by the church (assembly).  AMP

Rom 8:26 Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans.

27 He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God.  MSG

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ROM 8:26 The Spirit also sighs within us with words too deep for articulation, assisting us in our prayers when we struggle to know how to pray properly. When we feel restricted in our flesh, he supersedes our clumsy efforts and hits bulls-eye every time.   

27 He who scrutinizes the heart understands the intention of the spirit. His intercession for the saints is consistent with the blue-print purpose of God.   MIRROR

Rom 12:12 cheerfully expectant. Don’t quit in hard times; pray all the harder. MSG

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ROM 12:12 Delight yourself in the pleasure of expectation; prayer prevails victoriously under pressure.   MIRROR

ROM 15:30 Being co-identified with you as members of a godly family through our Lord Jesus Christ and feeling the same spiritual love-bond toward one another, we are prayer partners before God joined in urgent passion.

31 Labor fervently in prayer with me that I will be rescued from the unbelievers in Judea, and also that my service to the saints in Jerusalem will be favorably received.  MIRROR

EPH 6:18 Prayer is an ongoing conversation; praying in the spirit includes every form of prayer, whether it be a prayer of request or a prayer of thanksgiving, or worship or interceding for all to realize their saintly innocence. Oh, and remember, you do not have to do all the talking! MIRROR

1 Peter 3:12 God looks on all this with approval, listening and responding well to what he’s asked; But he turns his back on those who do evil things. MSG

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1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with God), and His ears are attentive to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who practice evil [to oppose them, to frustrate, and defeat them]. AMP

IS GOD REALLY GOOD OR NOT  3-12-23  VIDEO “JESUS” SPOKEN WORD 2

Every believer will have to decide for himself if God is truly good. His goodness does not depend on how few trials or hard times we’ve had in our lives. It depends on us embracing and loving Him. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth will lead us back and guide us not just to have knowledge of His goodness, but to have hands on experience. God’s  claim of goodness is so important to Him, that we are invited to taste and see for ourselves. We have to lean and trust in His goodness in every situation. So I know God is good He will always be for us and not against us. No matter what trials come our way. He will always come to our aid. Everlasting Goodness is His name.

Ps 34:8 Open your mouth and taste, open your eyes and see — how good God is.

Blessed are you who run to him. MSG

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Ps 34:8  O taste and see that the Lord [our God] is good! Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who trusts and takes refuge in Him.  AMP

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Psalms 34:8 Drink deeply of the pleasures of this God. Experience for yourself the joyous mercies he gives to all who turn to hide themselves in him. TPT

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1 Peter 2:2 Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure (unadulterated) spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto [completed] salvation,

3 Since you have [already] tasted the goodness and kindness of the Lord.   AMP

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1 PET 2:3 Once you’ve tasted pure grace, you are spoild for life! Grace rules! The Lordship of Jesus is established upon the dynamic of his goodness.

4 The irresistible attraction seen in him, the living stone, is not at all compromised by the fact that man-made religious structures rejected him; he is esteemed most precious and remains the original and pivotal idea of God!

Ex 33:19 And God said, I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim My name, THE LORD, before you; for I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy and loving-kindness on whom I will show mercy and loving-kindness.  AMP

Ps 27:13 [What, what would have become of me] had I not believed that I would see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living!

14 Wait and hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage and let your heart be stout and enduring. Yes, wait for and hope for and expect the Lord.  AMP

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Ps 27:13 I’m sure now I’ll see God’s goodness in the exuberant earth.

14 Stay with God! Take heart. Don’t quit. I’ll say it again: Stay with God. MSG

Ps 31:19 Oh, how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear, revere, and worship You, goodness which You have wrought for those who trust and take refuge in You before the sons of men!  AMP

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Psalms 31:19 Lord, how wonderful you are! You have stored up so many good things for us, like a treasure chest heaped up and spilling over with blessings—all for those who honor and worship you! Everybody knows what you can do for those who turn and hide themselves in you. TPT

Psalms 23:6 So why would I fear the future? Only goodness and tender love pursue me all the days of my life. Then afterward, when my life is through, I’ll return to your glorious presence to be forever with you! TPT

Jer 31:12 They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion and shall flow together and be radiant with joy over the goodness of the Lord — for the corn, for the juice [of the grape], for the oil, and for the young of the flock and the herd. And their life shall be like a watered garden, and they shall not sorrow or languish any more at all.

2 COR 9:10 The inventor of seed and bread is also the one who supplies and multiplies your resources and increases the harvest of your righteousness! 

11 You are mutually enriched in every possible sense of the word and inseparably joined to one another in an undivided heart, without any hidden agenda. And together we, the conduit of your gifts, will set the stage for a joyous grace celebration to God!  

12 This is such a win-win situation: not only are the saints endorsed in their “I-am-ness” through this most practical translation of your generosity, but it also causes an abundant overflow of great gratitude to God as the testimony of his goodness finds tangible expression in your gifts!

13 And so the ripple effect continues! The gospel you communicate has found a very articulate voice in your giving and produces a rich harvest of glory to God. Your union with them further communicates the all-inclusive nature of the koinonia we all participate in.   MIRROR

Nah 1:7 The Lord is good, a Strength and Stronghold in the day of trouble; He knows (recognizes, has knowledge of, and understands) those who take refuge and trust in Him.  AMP

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Nah 1:7 God is good, a hiding place in tough times. He recognizes and welcomes

anyone looking for help,  MSG

Ps 84:11 For the Lord God is a Sun and Shield; the Lord bestows [present] grace and favor and [future] glory (honor, splendor, and heavenly bliss)! No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. AMP

Ps 103:1 BLESS (AFFECTIONATELY, gratefully praise) the Lord, O my soul; and all that is [deepest] within me, bless His holy name!

2 Bless (affectionately, gratefully praise) the Lord, O my soul, and forget not [one of] all His benefits — 

3 Who forgives [every one of] all your iniquities, Who heals [each one of] all your diseases,

4 Who redeems your life from the pit and corruption, Who beautifies, dignifies, and crowns you with loving-kindness and tender mercy;

5 Who satisfies your mouth [your necessity and desire at your personal age and situation] with good so that your youth, renewed, is like the eagle’s [strong, overcoming, soaring]!  AMP

2 Cor 5:21 For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness]. AMP

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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 became his innocence.  MIRROR

ROM 2:4 Do not underestimate God’s kindness. The wealth of his benevolence and his resolute refusal to let go of us is because he continues to hear the echo of his likeness in us! Thus his patient passion is to shepherd everyone into a radical mind shift. MIRROR

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Rom 2:4 Or are you [so blind as to] trifle with and presume upon and despise and underestimate the wealth of His kindness and forbearance and long-suffering patience? Are you unmindful or actually ignorant [of the fact] that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repent (to change your mind and inner man to accept God’s will)? AMP

Eph 2:7 He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come the immeasurable (limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His unmerited favor) in [His] kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ Jesus. AMP

2 Thess 1:11 With this in view we constantly pray for you, that our God may deem and count you worthy of [your] calling and [His] every gracious purpose of goodness, and with power may complete in [your] every particular work of faith (faith which is that leaning of the whole human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness). AMP

Titus 3:3 For we also were once thoughtless and senseless, obstinate and disobedient, deluded and misled; [we too were once] slaves to all sorts of cravings and pleasures, wasting our days in malice and jealousy and envy, hateful (hated, detestable) and hating one another.

4 But when the goodness and loving-kindness of God our Savior to man [as man] appeared,

5 He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but because of His own pity and mercy, by [the] cleansing [bath] of the new birth (regeneration) and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

6 Which He poured out [so] richly upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior.

7 [And He did it in order] that we might be justified by His grace (by His favor, wholly undeserved), [that we might be acknowledged and counted as conformed to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action], and that we might become heirs of eternal life according to [our] hope. AMP

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Titus 3:3 It wasn’t so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and stubborn, dupes of sin, ordered every which way by our glands, going around with a chip on our shoulder, hated and hating back.

4 But when God, our kind and loving Savior God, stepped in,

5 he saved us from all that. It was all his doing; we had nothing to do with it. He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit.

 6 Our Savior Jesus poured out new life so generously.

7 God’s gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. And there’s more life to come — an eternity of life! MSG

ISA 63:7 I will tell again of the faithful, gracious acts of Yahweh and praise him for everything he has done for us—the wonderful goodness, the riches of his mercy, which he has shown to the house of Israel, and the abundance of his endless love.TPT

Ps 86:5 You’re well-known as good and forgiving, bighearted to all who ask for help. MSG

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PS 86:5 Lord, you are so good to me, so kind in every wayand ready to forgive,for your grace-fountain keeps overflowing, drenching all your devoted lovers who pray to you. TPT

PS 100:5 For Yahweh is always good and ready to receive you. He’s so loving that it will amaze you—so kind that it will astound you! And he is famous for his faithfulness toward all. Everyone knows our God can be trusted, for he keeps his promises to every generation! TPT

RO 1:1 Paul, passionately engaged by Jesus Christ, identified in him to represent him. My mandate and message is to announce the goodness of God to mankind.  

2 This message is what the Scriptures are all about. It remains the central prophetic theme and content of inspired writing.  MIRROR

RECEIVING REVELATION 3-10-23  VIDEO REVEAL GOD 2

Revelation-the divine or supernatural disclosure previously unknown made known especially in a dramatic way. The Bible tells us is a great time of revelation that has begun and is still to come. It is for everyone, it will come on all people by prophesy, dreams, and visions. Dreams bring revelation. Joseph had dreams, Abraham had dreams. They all receive dreams that explain their destiny. When Joseph had a dream it revealed to him to leave and go to Egypt. The Father reveals the Son. The Son reveals the Father.

Joel 2:28  “And that’s just the beginning: After that — “I will pour out my Spirit on every kind of people: Your sons will prophesy, also your daughters. Your old men will dream, your young men will see visions.

29  I’ll even pour out my Spirit on the servants, men and women both. MSG

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Acts 2:16 But [instead] this is [the beginning of] what was spoken through the prophet Joel:  AMP

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

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Eph 1:17  [For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him, AMP

Gal 1:12 For indeed I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but [it came to me] through a [direct] revelation [given] by Jesus Christ (the Messiah).  AMP

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Gal 1:12 I didn’t receive it through the traditions, and I wasn’t taught it in some school. I got it straight from God, received the Message directly from Jesus Christ.  MSG

Rom 10:4  The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it. MSG

EPH 3:3 You must have heard how this mystery was revealed to me, in a dramatic disclosure that broke the silence of a long kept secret. I have previously written briefly about this. MIRROR

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 Eph 3:3 I got the inside story on this from God himself, as I just wrote you in brief. MSG

1 John 2:8 Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true (is realized) in Him and in you, because the darkness (moral blindness) is clearing away and the true Light (the revelation of God in Christ) is already shining.  AMP

REV 1:1 Jesus Christ unveiled! This is the revelation of God’s gift which was wrapped up in him, in order to clearly illustrate to his bond-servants that, which according to prophetic pointers, inevitably was to have happened in a brief moment of time. This message was vividly portrayed in symbolic pictures by his celestial prophetic-messenger, commissioned to communicate its mystery to his bond-servant John.  MIRROR

Acts 18:9 One night, the Lord spoke to Paul in a supernatural vision and said, “Don’t ever be afraid. Speak the words that I give you and don’t be intimidated,

¹⁰because I am with you. No one will be able to hurt you, for there are many in this city whom I call my own.”  TPT

2 COR 12:1 It would be inappropriate for me to boast about anything as though I achieved it by my own doing! My confident persuasion in what I have received by revelation of the Lord is not to be confused with arrogance!

2 I know of an encounter in Christ fourteen years ago, where a person was translated into the third heaven.

3 Only God knows whether it was in or out of the body; it does not really matter to me!

4 This person was caught up into paradise! There he heard words that could not be articulated into language; he understood a conversation that did not originate in human thought!  

5 Of this encounter I will confidently boast because it has nothing to do with anything that I did to promote myself! I would rather glory in that which emphasizes my failure to get it right by myself! Divine revelation is a gift, not a reward!  MIRROR

Gen 15:1 AFTER THESE things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I am your Shield, your abundant compensation, and your reward shall be exceedingly great.  AMP

1 Cor 14:1 You should seek after love, and you should truly want to have the spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.

2 I will explain why. Those who have the gift of speaking in different languages are not speaking to people; they are speaking to God. No one understands them; they are speaking secret things through the Spirit.

3 But those who prophesy are speaking to people to give them strength, encouragement, and comfort.

4 The ones who speak in different languages are helping only themselves, but those who prophesy are helping the whole church.   NCV

2 Peter 1:19 And we have the prophetic word [made] firmer still. You will do well to pay close attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dismal (squalid and dark) place, until the day breaks through [the gloom] and the Morning Star rises (comes into being) in your hearts.

20 [Yet] first [you must] understand this, that no prophecy of Scripture is [a matter] of any personal or private or special interpretation (loosening, solving).

21 For no prophecy ever originated because some man willed it [to do so — it never came by human impulse], but men spoke from God who were borne along (moved and impelled) by the Holy Spirit. AMP

2 PET 1:19 For us the appearing of the Messiah is no longer a future promise but a fulfilled reality. Now it is your turn to have more than a second-hand, hearsay testimony. Take my word as one would take a lamp at night; the day is about to dawn within you, in your own understanding. When the Morning Star appears, you no longer need the lamp; this will happen shortly on the horizon of your own hearts.

20 It is most important to understand that the prophetic word recorded in Scripture does not need our interpretation or opinion to make it valid.

21 The holy men who first spoke these words of old did not invent these thoughts, they simply voiced God’s oracles as they were individually inspired by the Holy Spirit. MIRROR

Isa 7:14 Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: Behold, the young woman who is unmarried and a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel [God with us].  AMP

LUKE 2:12 This is how you will know it’s him, you’ll find a little baby, wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a feeding-trough!

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 intention 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.

16 They departed with great urgency and searched until they found the trophy – Mary and Joseph with their little baby, who was lying in a feeding-trough.

17 Having now seen for themselves, they boldly shared the significance of their encounter and how the prophetic word was communicated to them concerning this child.  

18 Everyone who heard their story, was filled with wonder!

19 Mary treasured all these sayings, pondering them in her heart; and so forming, as in a mental mosaic, her picture of the Christ, who was to be. MIRROR

LUKE 2:26 Simeon had a Holy Spirit encounter and knew that he would not die before he sees the Lord’s Anointed.

27 Prompted in the spirit, he arrived at the temple as the parents of the child Jesus, brought him in, as prescribed in their tradition and law.

28 And Simeon, holding the little child in his arms began to speak eloquent praises to God and said,

29 My Master, I am fully satisfied; you can now release your bond-servant in peace. I am holding your incarnate word in my arms!

30 And my eyes have seen your salvation!   MIRROR

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LUKE 2:38 As Simeon concluded his prophetic song over the family, Anna 1mirror-echoed his words in a song of thanksgiving to God for the child. And from that day on, she told everyone in Jerusalem that their Darling, the anticipated Messiah-redeemer has come!  MIRROR

Gen 37:5  Now Joseph had a dream and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him still more. 

6 And he said to them, Listen now and hear, I pray you, this dream that I have dreamed: 

7 We [brothers] were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright, and behold, your sheaves stood round about my sheaf and bowed down! 

Gen 15:13 And [God] said to Abram, Know positively that your descendants will be strangers dwelling as temporary residents in a land that is not theirs [Egypt], and they will be slaves there and will be afflicted and oppressed for 400 years.

14 But I will bring judgment on that nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 

15 And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old (hoary) age.

16 And in the fourth generation they [your descendants] shall come back here [to Canaan] again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full and complete. AMP

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing without revealing His secret to His servants the prophets.  AMP

LUKE 10:22 All things were endowed on me by my Father. No one knows the son like the Father does and it is not possible to know the Father unless the son, who knows him intimately, unveils him to the one who wishes to see him. The only possible way to really know the son is through the Father’s eyes – and the only possible way to really know the Father is through the eyes of sonship!   MIRROR

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

8 The life-maps of God are right, showing the way to joy. The directions of God are plain

and easy on the eyes.

9 God’s reputation is twenty-four-carat gold, with a lifetime guarantee. The decisions of God are accurate down to the nth degree. MSG

Ps 119:55 I meditate on your name all night, God, treasuring your revelation, O God.

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

Isa 51:4  “Pay attention, my people. Listen to me, nations. Revelation flows from me.

My decisions light up the world.  MSG