THE GIFT OF PEACE 6-18-21 VIDEO PEACE SPOKEN WORD 2

From the very first moment Jesus arrived on the earth to the moment he left, he gave us this gift of peace. Peace is essential. Peace was proclaimed when Jesus was born and remains essential and powerful until he returns again. Peace is defined as wholeness or completion independent of the worlds condition or adverse circumstances. Peace is given to mankind in spite of circumstances Jesus knew his coming would not bring peace to the world. It would be a shaking to religion but it would produce a kingdom they could not be shaken. Men of goodwill will not be shaken and they will inherit the kingdom they cannot be shaken. This peace can not be shaken.

LUKE 2:14 “Glory to God in the highest realms of heaven! For there is peaceand a good hopegiven to the sons of men.” TPT

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Luke 2:14 Glory to God in the highest [heaven], and on earth peace among men with whom He is well pleased [men of goodwill, of His favor]. AMP

ISA 9:6-7 A child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. The responsibility of complete dominion will rest on his shoulders, and his name will be: The Wonderful One! The Extraordinary Strategist! The Mighty God! The Father of Eternity! The Princeof Peace!⁷ Great and vast is his dominion. He will bring immeasurable peace and prosperity.He will rule on David’s throne and over David’s kingdom to establish and uphold it by promoting justice and righteousness from this time forward and forevermore. The marvelous passionthat the Lord Yahweh,Commander of Angel Armies, has for his peoplewill ensure that it is finished! TPT

Luke 8:22-24 On A certain day, he suggested to his disciples that they cross the lake by boat.

23 while sailing he fell into a deep sleep. Suddenly a massive storm broke up on them and the raging waves were surging dangerously over the boat and filling it with water.

24 They woke him with urgent cries, “Captain, Captain, we are drowning!” And he rose up to face a storm and ordered the wind and the waves to be quiet, and immediately there was a great calm. Mirror

Jn 16:33 I have spoken these things to you so in me you would know the sweet and assured resonance of my peace! In the world you encounter extreme and stressful times, but be of good cheer, I have conquered the world order! Mirror

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JN 16:33 And everything I’ve taught you is so that the peace which is in me will be in you and will give you great confidence as you rest in me. For in this unbelieving world you will experience trouble and sorrows, but you must be courageous, for I have conquered the world!” TPT

Luke 24:36 Now while they were talking about this, Jesus Himself took His stand among them and said to them, Peace (freedom from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin) be to you!  AMP

PHIL 4:7 then God’s wonderful peace that transcends human understanding, will make the answers known to you through Jesus Christ. TPT

PS 37:11 But the humble of heart will inherit every promiseand enjoy abundant peace. TPT

PS 4:8 Now, because of you, Lord, I will lie down in peace and sleep comes at once,for no matter what happens, I will live unafraid! TPT

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

Isa 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.   AMP

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ISA 53:5 But it was because of our rebellious deeds that he was piercedand because of our sins that he was crushed. He endured the punishment that made us completely whole, and inhis woundingwe found our healing. TPT

HEB 12:27-29 In the words of the prophet, “Yet once more will I shake every unstable system of man’s effort to rule himself.” God clearly indicates his plan to remove the old and replace it with the new. The second shaking supersedes any significance in the first shaking. Then it was a physical quaking of the earth; now the very foundations of every man-made  system was shaken to the core while the heavens were impacted by the announcement of his permanent rule on earth as it is mirrored in heaven.

28 We are fully associated in this immovable Kingdom; an authority that cannot be challenged or contradicted. Our participation echoes grace as we accommodate ourselves to God’s delight, yielding in awe to his firm embrace.  

29 His jealousy over us burns like fire.  MIRROR

Isa 54:10 For though the mountains should depart and the hills be shaken or removed, yet My love and kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace and completeness be removed, says the Lord, Who has compassion on you.  AMP

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ISA 54:10 Even if the mountains were to crumble and the hills disappear,
my heart of steadfast, faithful love will never leave you, and my covenant of peacewith you will never be shaken,” says Yahweh, whose love and compassionwill never give up on you. TPT

ISA 60:17 “I will replace your copper with gold, your iron with silver, your wood with copper, and your stone with iron. I will install peace and prosperity as your governmentand righteousness as your overseer.  TPT

Jn 14:27-29 Peace be with you! I give you my own peace, this will not be the kind of peace the world gives, it’s peace in the midst of trouble times therefore you have nothing to fear! Let not your heart be timid.

28 You have heard me say that I go away to come to be face to face with you; now if you were in love with me you would not be threatened by the idea of my departure, but you would rejoice since all be going to the father and my father is greater than me. From now on we will be present in a much closer capacity to you than what I could ever be well I am with you in the flesh!

29 What I need to tell you is to prepare you for what is about to happen, so that when it happens, you will not be shaken in your belief but stand strong. Mirror

Luke 24:36 Now while they were talking about this, Jesus Himself took His stand among them and said to them, Peace (freedom from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin) be to you!  AMP

Acts 10:36 You know the contents of the message which He sent to Israel, announcing the good news (Gospel) of peace by Jesus Christ, Who is Lord of all —  AMP

Rom 8:6 Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever]. AMP

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ROM 8:6 Thinking patterns are formed by reference, either the sensual appetites of the flesh and spiritual death, or zoe-life and total tranquillity flowing from a mind addicted to spirit realities. MIRROR

Rom 14:17  [After all] the kingdom of God is not a matter of [getting the] food and drink [one likes], but instead it is righteousness (that state which makes a person acceptable to God) and [heart] peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. AMP

Rom 16:20 And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) be with you. AMP

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Rom 16:20  and before you know it the God of peace will come down on Satan with both feet, stomping him into the dirt. Enjoy the best of Jesus! MSG

2 Cor 13:11 And that’s about it, friends. Be cheerful. Keep things in good repair. Keep your spirits up. Think in harmony. Be agreeable. Do all that, and the God of love and peace will be with you for sure. MSG

EPH 2:14-15 Our reconciling “Peace” is Jesus! He has made Jew and non-Jew one in Christ. By dying as our sacrifice, he has broken down every wall of prejudice that separated us and has now made us equal through our union with Christ.

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

Num 6:26 The Lord lift up His [approving] countenance upon you and give you peace (tranquility of heart and life continually).  AMP

Ps 55:18 Though many wish to fight and the tide of battle turns against me,
by your power I will be safe and secure; peace will be my portion. TPT

PHIL 4:7  And in this place of worship and gratitude you will witness how the peace of God within you echoes the awareness of your oneness in Christ Jesus beyond the reach of any thought that could possibly unsettle you. Just like the sentry guard secures a city, watching out in advance for the first signs of any possible threat, your hearts deepest feelings and the tranquility of your thoughts are fully guarded there.  MIRROR

Col 3:15 And let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds, in that peaceful state] to which as [members of Christ’s] one body you were also called [to live]. And be thankful (appreciative), [giving praise to God always]. AMP

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COL 3:15 Appoint the peace of Christ as umpire in your hearts. We are all identified in the same person; there is only one body. We are born to be a blessing and exhibit his benevolence. MIRROR

PROPHECY Mary Dorian 6-13-21

Isaiah 29:10-14 For Yahweh has poured out over you the spirit of a deep, deep sleep— putting the covers over your slumbering seers^[ and rocking all your prophets to sleep.”

¹¹ This entire prophetic revelation will become to you like the words of a sealed book. If it’s given to one who can read it with the command “Read this,” he responds, “I can’t because it is sealed.”

¹² Or if it’s given to one who is illiterate with the command “Read this,” he responds, “I can’t because I cannot read.”

¹³ This is what the Lord says about these people: “They come near to me with hollow words  and honor me superficially with their lips; all the while their hearts run far away from me! Their worship is nothing more than man-made rules.
¹⁴ So therefore, I will again jolt this people awake with astonishing wonders upon wonders! And the wisdom of their wise ones will fail, and the intelligent know-it-alls will have no explanations. TPT

Isaiah 30:10 They say to the seers: “Stop seeing your visions.” They say to the prophets: “Stop prophesying to us about what is right. Prophesy only pleasant things to us, even if they’re illusions!  TPT

Matthew 5:12  So leap for joy—since your heavenly reward is great. For you are being rejected the same way the prophets were before you.  TPT

Matthew 5:17 “If you think I’ve come to set aside the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets, you’re mistaken. I have come to bring to perfection all that has been written.  TPT

Matthew 7:12  “In everything you do, be careful to treat others in the same way you’d want them to treat you, for that is the essence of all the teachings of the Law and the Prophets.  TPT

Matthew 7:15-20 “Constantly be on your guard against phony prophets. They come disguised as lambs, appearing to be genuine, but on the inside they are like wild, ravenous wolves!

¹⁶ You can spot them by their actions, for the fruits of their character will be obvious. You won’t find sweet grapes hanging on a thorn bush, and you’ll never pick good fruit from a tumbleweed.

^17–19 So if the tree is good, it will produce good fruit; but if the tree is bad, it will bear only rotten fruit and deserves to be cut down and burned. ²⁰ You’ll know them by the obvious fruit of their lives and ministries.”  TPT

Matthew 11:12-15  From the moment John stepped onto the scene until now, the realm of heaven’s kingdom is bursting forth, and passionate people have taken hold of its power.

¹³ For all the prophets and the Torah prophesied until John appeared.

¹⁴ If you can receive this truth, John is the Elijah who was destined to come.

¹⁵ So listen and understand what I’m telling you.  TPT.   

Matthew 13:17 Many prophets and godly people yearned to see these days of miracles that you’ve been favored to see. They would have given everything to hear the revelation you’ve been favored to hear.  TPT

Matthew 23:29-37  “Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and Pharisees—frauds and imposters! You build memorials for the prophets your ancestors killed and decorate the monuments of the godly people your ancestors murdered. ³⁰ Then you boast, ‘If we had lived back then, we would not have joined them in killing the prophets.’

³¹ But your words and deeds testify that you are just like them and prove that you are indeed the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. ³² Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started!

³³ You are nothing but snakes in the grass, the offspring of poisonous vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell if you refuse to turn in repentance?

³⁴ “For this reason I will send you more prophets and wise men and teachers of truth. Some you will crucify, and some you will beat mercilessly with whips in your meeting houses, abusing and persecuting them from city to city.

³⁵ As your penalty, you will be held responsible for the righteous blood spilled and the murders of every godly person throughout your history—from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Jehoiada,^[a] whom you killed as he stood in the temple between the brazen altar and the Holy Place.

³⁶ I tell you the truth: the judgment for all these things will fall upon this generation!”

Jesus Prophesies Judgment Coming to Jerusalem

³⁷ “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem—you are the city that murders your prophets! You are the city that stones the very messengers who were sent^[b] to deliver you! So many times I have longed to gather a wayward people, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings—but you were too stubborn to let me.

Matthew 24:11-13 And many lying prophets will arise, deceiving multitudes and leading them away from the path of truth.

¹² There will be such an increase of the sin of lawlessness that those whose hearts once burned with passion for God and others will grow cold.

¹³ But hold your hope firmly to the end and you will experience life and deliverance. TPT

Mark 13:22-23 For there will be imposters falsely claiming to be God’s ‘Anointed One.’ And false prophetswill arise to perform miracle signs, and if it were possible, they would cause God’s chosen ones to wander off the right track.

²³ Be alert, for I prophesy all this will happen!”  TPT

Luke 11:49 That is why God’s wisdom is proclaiming: ‘I will send to them apostles and prophets though some they will murder and others they will persecute.’  TPT

John 4:44 Now Jesus knew that prophets are honored everywhere except in their own hometown. TPT

Acts 10:43  And not only us, but all of the prophets agree in their writings that everyone who believes in him receives complete forgiveness^[a] of sins through the power of his name.” TPT

Acts 13:38-41 So listen, friends! Through this Jesus, the forgiveness^[a] of sins is offered to you.

³⁹ Everyone who believes in him is set free from sin and guilt—something the law of Moses had no power to do.

⁴⁰ So be very careful that what the prophets warned about does not happen to you:

⁴¹ ‘Be amazed and in agony, you scoffers! For in your day I will do something so wonderful that when I perform mighty deeds among you, you won’t even believe that it was I who did it!’ ”^[   TPT

Acts 15:32  Then Judas and Silas, who were both prophets, spoke to them affirming wordsthat strengthened the believers.TPT

Acts 26:23  Moses and the prophets have said was destined to happen: that our Messiah had to suffer and die and be the first to rise from the dead, to release the bright light of truth both to our people and to the non-Jewish nations. TPT

Rom 1:2  My commission is to preach the good news. Yet it is not entirely new, but the fulfillment of the hope promised to us through his prophets in the sacred Scriptures.  TPT

Rom 11:2-6  God has not rejected his chosen, destined people! Haven’t you heard Elijah’s testimony in the Scriptures, and how he prays to God, agonizing over Israel?

³ “Lord, they’ve murdered your prophets; they’ve demolished your altars. Now I’m the only one left and they want to kill me!”

⁴ But what was the revelation^[c] God spoke to him in response?

“You are not alone. For I have preserved a remnant for myself—seven thousand others who are faithful and have refused to worship Baal.”

⁵ And that is but one example of what God is doing in this age of fulfillment, for God’s grace empowers his chosen remnant.

⁶ And since it is by God’s grace, it can’t be a matter of their good works; otherwise, it wouldn’t be a gift of grace, but earned by human effort.  TPT

1Cor 14:32  The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. TPT

Eph 3:5-6  There has never been a generation that has been given the detailed understanding of this glorious and divine mystery until now. He kept it a secret until this generation. God is revealing it only now to his sacred apostles and prophets by the Holy Spirit.

⁶ Here’s the secret: The gospel of grace has made you, non-Jewish believers, into coheirs of his promise through your union with him. And you have now become members of his body—one with the Anointed One!  TPT

Eph 4:11-13 And he has appointed some with grace to be apostles, and some with grace to be prophets, and some with grace to be evangelists, and some with grace to be pastors, and some with grace to be teachers.

¹² And their calling is to nurture and prepare all the holy believers to do their own works of ministry, and as they do this they will enlarge and build up the body of Christ.

¹³ These grace ministries will function until we all attain oneness into the faith, until we all experience the fullness of what it means to know the Son of God, and finally we become one into a perfect manwith the full dimensions of spiritual maturity and fully developed into the abundance of Christ.  TPT

James 5:10-11  My brothers and sisters, takethe prophets as your mentors. They have prophesied in the name of the Lordand it brought them great sufferings, yet they patiently endured.

¹¹ We honor them as our heroesbecause they remained faithful even while enduring great sufferings. And you have heard of all that Job went through and we can now see that the Lord ultimately treated him with wonderful kindness, revealing how tenderhearted he really is! TPT

1 Peter 1:10-12 This salvation was the focus of the prophets who prophesied of this outpouring of grace that was destined for you. They made a careful search and investigation of the meaning of their God-given prophecies

¹¹ as they probed into the mysteries of who would fulfill them and the time period when it would all take place. The Spirit of the Anointed One was in them^[a] and was pointing prophetically to the sufferings that Christ was destined to suffer and the glories that would be released afterward.

¹² God revealed to the prophets that their ministry was not for their own benefit^[b] but for yours. And now, you have heard these things from the evangelists^[c] who preached the gospel to you through the power of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—the gospel containing wonderful mysteries that even the angels long to get a glimpse of.  TPT

2Peter 1: 17-21  ¹⁷ Yes, Father God lavished upon him radiant glory and honor when his distinct voice spoke out of the realm of majestic glory, endorsing him with these words: This is my cherished Son, marked by my love. All my delight is found in him!

¹⁸ And we ourselves heard that voice resound from the heavens while we were with him on the holy mountain.

Prophecy

¹⁹ And so we have been given the prophetic word—the writtenmessage of the prophets, made more reliable and fully validated by the confirming voice of God on the Mount of Transfiguration. And you will continue to do well if you stay focused on it. For this prophetic message is like a piercing lightshining in a gloomy placeuntil the dawning of a new day, when the Morning Starrises in your hearts.

²⁰ You must understand this at the outset: Interpretation of scriptural prophecy requires the Holy Spirit, for it does not originate from someone’s own imagination.

²¹ No true prophecy comes from human initiative but is inspired by the moving of the Holy Spirit upon those who spoke the message that came from God. TPT

2 Peter 2:1  In the past there arose false prophetsamong God’s people, just as there will continue to be false teachers who will secretly infiltrate in your midst to divide you, bringing with them their destructive heresies. They will even deny the Master, who paid the price for them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.

2 Peter 2:15-16 They have wandered off the main road and have gone astray, because they are prophets who love profit—the wages they earn by wrongdoing. They are following the example of Balaam, son of Beor,

¹⁶ who was rebuked for evil by a donkey incapable of speech yet that spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.  TPT

1John 4:1-4  Delightfully loved friends, don’t trust every spirit, but carefully examine what they sayto determine if they are of God, because many false prophets have mingled into the world.

² Here’s the test for those with the genuine Spirit of God: they will confess Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh.

³ Everyone who does not acknowledge that Jesus is from God has the spirit of antichrist, which you heard was coming and is already active in the world.

⁴ Little children, you can be certain that you belong to God and have conquered them, for the One who is living in you is far greater than the one who is in the world. TPT

Acts 2:17-18  ‘This is what I will do in the last days—I will pour outmy Spirit on everybody and cause your sons and daughters to prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will experience dreams from God.

¹⁸ The Holy Spirit will come upon all my servants, men and women alike, and they will prophesy.  TPT

Rev19:10 At this I fell facedown at the angel’s feet to worship him, but he stopped me and said, “Don’t do this! For I am only a fellow servant with you and one of your brothers who clings to what Jesus testifies. Worship God. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”    ^TPT

FULLY PERSUSADED VIDEO persuaded 2

We are at a place of decision in our lives. It’s more than repeating the sinners prayer. It is the giving up of our old identity and ways of life to walk in the fullness of our life in Christ. Fully persuaded means to be completely convinced  of something. No evidence on the contrary will change your belief.

Rom 8:38-39  For I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers,

39 Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  AMP

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RO 8:38-39  This is my conviction, no threat whether it be in death or life; be it angelic beings, demon powers or political principalities, nothing known to us at this time, or even in the unknown future;

39 no dimension of any calculation in time or space, nor any device yet to be invented, has what it takes to separate us from the love of God demonstrated in Christ. Jesus is our ultimate authority.  MIRROR

Rom 4:20 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.

22 That is why his faith was credited to him as righteousness (right standing with God).  AMP

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RO 4:20-22  While he had every reason to doubt the promise, he did not hesitate for a moment but instead empowered by faith confidence, he continued to communicate God’s opinion. things that were not as though they were

21 Abraham’s confidence was his dress-code; he knew beyond doubt that the power of God to perform was equal to his promise.

22 The persuasion of God rubbed off on Abraham and became his personal conviction. This was the basis of his righteousness. MIRROR

2 Tim 1:5 I am calling up memories of your sincere and unqualified faith (the leaning of your entire personality on God in Christ in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), [a faith] that first lived permanently in [the heart of] your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am [fully] persuaded, [dwells] in you also.

6 That is why I would remind you to stir up (rekindle the embers of, fan the flame of, and keep burning) the [gracious] gift of God, [the inner fire] that is in you by means of the laying on of my hands [with those of the elders at your ordination].

7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.

8 Do not blush or be ashamed then, to testify to and for our Lord, nor of me, a prisoner for His sake, but [with me] take your share of the suffering [to which the preaching] of the Gospel [may expose you, and do it] in the power of God. AMP ▼▼▼

2 TIM 1:5-8 I rejoice in the pure faith that I see in you. Remember that you are the third generation of a strong lineage of faith: the same unwavering persuasion that indwelt your grandmother Lois also resides in your mother Eunice and is now abundantly evident in you.

6 This gives me all the more reason to remind you to fan the flame of God’s grace gift within you into a blazing hot fire. Your life and ministry mirrors mine; I endorsed the gift of God ‘s boldness within you when I laid my hands on you.

 7 Become fully acquainted with his gift in you, there is nothing timid about it; the dynamic of a mind liberated in the spirit of love is fearless and unstoppable.

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

2 Tim 3:14 But as for you, continue to hold to the things that you have learned and of which you are convinced, knowing from whom you learned [them],

15 And how from your childhood you have had a knowledge of and been acquainted with the sacred Writings, which are able to instruct you and give you the understanding for salvation which comes through faith in Christ Jesus [through the leaning of the entire human personality on God in Christ Jesus in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness]. AMP

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2 TIM 3;14 Yet you must continue to advance in strength with the truth wrapped around your heart, being assured by God that he’s the Onewho has truly taught you all these things.

¹⁵ Remember what you were taught from your childhood from the Holy Scrollswhich can impart to you wisdom to experience everlasting life through the faith of Jesus, the Anointed One!   TPT    

2 Tim 1:12  And this is why I am suffering as I do. Still I am not ashamed, for I know (perceive, have knowledge of, and am acquainted with) Him Whom I have believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on), and I am [positively] persuaded that He is able to guard and keep that which has been entrusted to me and which I have committed [to Him] until that day. AMP

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2 TIM 1:12  What I suffer because of this does not frighten me at all; faith has made him so apparent. I am absolutely persuaded that I am safe in him. We are no longer looking for a future event, or another day, the day  has come! Death is not doomsday; nothing can interrupt what he has done!  MIRROR

Acts 24:14 But this I confess to you, however, that in accordance with the Way [of the Lord], which they call a [heretical, division-producing] sect, I worship (serve) the God of our fathers, still persuaded of the truth of and believing in and placing full confidence in everything laid down in the Law [of Moses] or written in the prophets;

15 Having [the same] hope in God which these themselves hold and look for, that there is to be a resurrection both of the righteous and the unrighteous (the just and the unjust).

16 Therefore I always exercise and discipline myself [mortifying my body, deadening my carnal affections, bodily appetites, and worldly desires, endeavoring in all respects] to have a clear (unshaken, blameless) conscience, void of offense toward God and toward men. AMP

ACTS 11:8-10 But I promise you this—the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and you will be seized with power.You will be my messengersto Jerusalem, throughout Judea, the distant provinces—even to the remotest places on earth!”

⁹ Right after Jesus spoke those words, the disciples saw him being lifted into the sky, and disappearing into a cloud!

¹⁰ As they stared into the sky, watching Jesus ascend, two men in white robes suddenly appeared beside them.  TPT

John 14:31 But [Satan is coming and] I do as the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know (be convinced) that I love the Father and that I do only what the Father has instructed Me to do. [I act in full agreement with His orders.] Rise, let us go away from here.  AMP

PHIL 1:6 I pray with great faith for you, because I’m fully convinced that the One who began this gracious workin you will faithfully continue the process of maturing youuntil the unveilingof our Lord Jesus Christ! TPT

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PHIL 1:6 who is the initiator of the good work within you is also the one who executes its completeness as mirrored in Jesus Christ, who is the light of day. He is the fullness of time. MIRROR

HEB 6:9  Having said all this, my dear friends, I am fully convinced of God’s love for you; what God accomplished in salvation on your behalf is beyond comparison to anything you were familiar with before. Salvation realities echo what the law could only shadow.

10 God is not unfair, neither is he unaware of the affectionate way in which you have honored his Name, and the diligence you have  shown in your unrelenting religious service in keeping all the sacred rituals and ceremonies, even to this the present day.

11 I urge you to employ that same sincere devotion to now realize the fulfillment of everything that the old system anticipated.the old system anticipated. MIRROR

Heb 13:18 Keep praying for us, for we are convinced that we have a good (clear) conscience, that we want to walk uprightly and live a noble life, acting honorably and in complete honesty in all things.  AMP

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Heb 13:18 Pray for us. We have no doubts about what we’re doing or why, but it’s hard going and we need your prayers. All we care about is living well before God. MSG

1 Cor 2:4 And my language and my message were not set forth in persuasive (enticing and plausible) words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the [Holy] Spirit and power [a proof by the Spirit and power of God, operating on me and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them],

5 So that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men (human philosophy), but in the power of God.  AMP

HEB 12:2-3 We look away from the natural realm and we focus our attention and expectationonto Jesus who birthed faith within us and who leads us forward into faith’s perfection. His example is this: Because his heart was focused on the joy of knowing that you would be his, he endured the agony of the cross and conquered its humiliation, and now sits exalted at the right hand of the throne of God!

³ So consider carefully how Jesus faced such intense opposition from sinners who opposed their own souls, so that you won’t become worn down and cave in under life’s pressures. TPT

RO 15:19-21  [Even as my preaching has been accompanied] with the power of signs and wonders, [and all of it] by the power of the Holy Spirit. [The result is] that starting from Jerusalem and as far round as Illyricum, I have fully preached the Gospel

[faithfully executing, accomplishing, carrying out to the full the good news]

of Christ (the Messiah) in its entirety.

20 Thus my ambition has been to preach the Gospel, not where Christ’s name has already been known, lest I build on another man’s foundation;

21 But [instead I would act on the principle] as it is written, They shall see who have never been told of Him, and they shall understand who have never heard [of Him]. 

22 This [ambition] is the reason why I have so frequently been hindered from coming to visit you. AMP

The gospel was brought forth by Jesus Paul and Peter. They persuaded people to believe by both their words and demonstrations. So we are fully persuaded and we must do the same.

2 COR 5:20 The voice God has in Christ he now has in us; we are God’s ambassadors. Our lives exhibit the urgency of God to persuade everyone to realize the reconciliation of their redeemed identity. MIRROR

WHERE’S THE BEEF  6-6-21 VIDEO WHERE’S THE BEEF

There is a battle coming. The church needs to be ready. The goal is it would become skilled in the word of righteousness. That way we can handle corporately and individually anything that comes our way.

No fear of man. This is one of the yolks of bondage that we will be delivered from. Fear of Man’s opinion has kept us in a bad place. The Word sets us free from fear of man. The apostles proclaim the word during difficult days and change the world.

Amos 8:11 “Oh yes, Judgment Day is coming!” These are the words of my Master God. “I’ll send a famine through the whole country. It won’t be food or water that’s lacking, but my Word.

12 People will drift from one end of the country to the other, roam to the north, wander to the east. They’ll go anywhere, listen to anyone, hoping to hear God’s Word — but they won’t hear it.  MSG

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

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JOHN 15:3 Your personal pruning and dressing already happened in our Conversation; the word made flesh in my person and language is how the Father prepares and set you up for fruit bearing.  MIRROR

EPH 6: :14 Take your position: you have the truthwrapped around your hips like a soldier’s belt, holding the complete body armor together. Righteousness covers your heart like a bulletproof breastplate.

15 You wear your eagerness and passion to communicate the good news like soldier’s shoes. Announce peace; the battle has already been fought and won!  

16 It is most important to engage your faith as a man-size shield that covers your whole person and empowers you to extinguish the flame in every arrow of contradiction that you might face. The only visible part of you is your faith!  

17 Pondering redemption realities is your headgear that protects your mind; inspired thoughts give voice to God’s word—this is your spiritual sword.MIRROR

HEB 4:12 The message that God spoke to us in Christ is the most life giving and dynamic influence in us, cutting like a surgeon’s scalpel, sharper than a soldier’s sword, piercing to the deepest core of human conscience to the dividing of soul and spirit; ending the dominance of the sense realm and its neutralizing effect upon the human spirit. In this way man’s spirit is freed to become the ruling influence again in the thoughts and intentions of the heart. The scrutiny of this word detects every possible disease, discerning the body’s deepest secrets where joint and bone-marrow meet.  

13 The whole person is thoroughly exposed to his scrutinizing gaze. Every creature’s original form is on record in the Word.  MIRROR

HEB 5:12 For you should already be professors instructing others by now; but instead, you need to be taught from the beginning the basics of God’s prophetic oracles! You’re like childrenstill needing milk and not yet ready to digest solid food.

¹³ For every spiritual infant who lives on milk is not yet piercedby the revelation of righteousness.

¹⁴ But solid food is for the mature, whose spiritual senses perceive heavenly matters. And they have been adequately trained by what they’ve experienced to emergewith understanding of the difference between what is truly excellent and what is evil and harmful.  TPT

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HEB 5:12 By now youshould have been professors, able to teach the rest of the world, but you are still struggling with the ABC’s of God’s language in Christ.The difference between the prophetic shadow and the real is like that between milk and meat in your diet. You cannot live on baby food for the rest of your lives!

13 The revelation of righteousness is the meat of God’s word. Babes live on milk so does everyone who is not pierced in the ear of his heart by the revelation of Christ.  

14 This is the nourishment of the mature. They are those who have their faculties of perception trained as by gymnastic precision to distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant.  MIRROR

Heb 6:1 So come on, let’s leave the preschool fingerpainting exercises on Christ and get on with the grand work of art. Grow up in Christ. The basic foundational truths are in place: turning your back on “salvation by self-help” and turning in trust toward God;

2 baptismal instructions; laying on of hands; resurrection of the dead; eternal judgment.

3 God helping us, we’ll stay true to all that. But there’s so much more. Let’s get on with it! MSG

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Heb 6:1 Now is the time for us to progress beyond the basic message of Christand advance into perfection. The foundation has already been laid for us to build upon: turning away from our dead worksto embrace faith in God,

 ² teaching about different baptisms, impartation by the laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

³ So with God’s enablementwe will move on to deeper truths.  TPT

Deut 30:11  This commandment that I’m commanding you today isn’t too much for you, it’s not out of your reach.

12 It’s not on a high mountain — you don’t have to get mountaineers to climb the peak and bring it down to your level and explain it before you can live it.

13 And it’s not across the ocean — you don’t have to send sailors out to get it, bring it back, and then explain it before you can live it.

14 No. The word is right here and now — as near as the tongue in your mouth, as near as the heart in your chest. Just do it!

15 Look at what I’ve done for you today: I’ve placed in front of you Life and Good Death and Evil. MSG

WORD—PS 105:7 For he is the Lord our God, and his wise authoritycan be seen in all he does.
^8–9 For though a thousand generations may pass away, he is still true to his word. He has kept every promisehe made to Abraham and to Isaac.  TPT

ISA 40:8 But even though grass withers and the flower fades, the word of our God stands strong forever!”  TPT

John 1:1  IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself.  AMP

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JN 1:1 In the beginningthe Living Expressionwas already there. And the Living Expression was with God, yet fully God. TPT

Ps 138:2 I will worship toward Your holy temple and praise Your name for Your loving-kindness and for Your truth and faithfulness; for You have exalted above all else Your name and Your word and You have magnified Your word above all Your name!  AMP

TITUS 1:2-3which rests on the hope of eternal life. God, who never lies, has promised this before time began.

³ In his own time he unveiled his word through the preaching of the gospel, which was entrusted to me by the command of God our Life Giver.   TPT

HEB 6:18-19  So it is impossible for God to lie for we know that his promise and his vow will never change! And now we have run into his heart to hide ourselves in his faithfulness. This is where we find his strength and comfort, for he empowers us to seize what has already been established ahead of time—an unshakable hope!

¹⁹ We have this certain hope like a strong, unbreakable anchor holding our souls to God himself. Our anchor of hope is fastened to the mercy seatin the heavenly realm beyond the sacred threshold  TPT

NO FEAR OF MAN   ISA 8:13 Fear nothing and no one except Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies! Honor him as holy. Be in awe before him with deepest reverence TPT

Jn 12:42-43. Many of the chief rulers believe that Jesus was the Messiah but because of the Pharisees they would not openly confess him since I knew that they would be thrown out of the synagogue.

43. They love the opinion in recognition of people more than the opinion of God.  MIRROR

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JOHN 12:42-43 Yet there were many Jewish leaders who believed in Jesus, but because they feared the Pharisees they kept it secret, so they wouldn’t be ostracized by the assembly of the Jews.

⁴³ For they loved the glory that men could give them rather than the glory that came from God! TPT

Phil 1:14 And [also] most of the brethren have derived fresh confidence in the Lord because of my chains and are much more bold to speak and publish fearlessly the Word of God [acting with more freedom and indifference to the consequences].  AMP

Phil 2:16 Holding out [to it] and offering [to all men] the Word of Life, so that in the day of Christ I may have something of which exultantly to rejoice and glory in that I did not run my race in vain or spend my labor to no purpose.  AMP

Col 1:25-26 In it I became a minister in accordance with the divine stewardship which was entrusted to me for you [as its object and for your benefit], to make the Word of God fully known [among you] — 

26 The mystery of which was hidden for ages and generations [from angels and men], but is now revealed to His holy people (the saints),  AMP

COL 3:16 Let the word of Christ livein you richly, flooding you with all wisdom. Apply the Scriptures as you teach and instruct one another with the Psalms, and with festive praises, and with prophetic songs given to you spontaneously by the Spirit, so sing to God with all your hearts! TPT

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

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2 COR 3:18 We can all draw close to him with the veil removed from our faces. And with no veil we all become like mirrors who brightly reflect the glory of the Lord Jesus. We are being transfiguredinto his very image as we move from one brighter level of glory to another. And this glorious transfiguration comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.  TPT

A MERRY HEART-JOY AND LAUGHTER 6-4-21 Video RolandwhatisGod like

Maybe we need, after the past year of 2020, a time of real joy and laughter again. A joyful heart does cause laughter and that produces healing for the body. It boost our heart rate, increases our oxygen, boost our immunity, relieve stress and anxiety. It helps our brain concentrate by clearing the clouds of sadness over our minds and hearts. It releases endorphins. God told Abraham to name his son Isaac which means the sound of laughter. Laughter and joy are our weapons against the enemy.

Prov 17:22 A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. AMP

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PROV 17:22 A joyful, cheerful heart brings healing to both body and soul. But the one whose heart is crushed struggles with sickness and depression. TPT

Neh 8:8 So they read from the Book of the Law of God distinctly, faithfully amplifying and giving the sense so that [the people] understood the reading.

9 And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all of them, This day is holy to the Lord your God; mourn not nor weep. For all the people wept when they heard the words of the Law.

10 Then [Ezra] told them, Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet drink, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. And be not grieved and depressed, for the joy of the Lord is your strength and stronghold.

11 So the Levites quieted all the people, saying, Be still, for the day is holy. And do not be grieved and sad.

12 And all the people went their way to eat, drink, send portions, and make great rejoicing, for they had understood the words that were declared to them.  AMP

ISA 35:10 Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return with glee to Zion. They will enter with a song of rejoicing and be crowned with everlasting joy. Ecstatic joy will overwhelm them; weariness and grief will disappear! TPT

Job 8:20 Behold, as surely as God will never uphold wrongdoers, He will never cast away a blameless man.

21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter [Job] and your lips with joyful shouting.   AMP

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Job 8:20-21 0 “There’s no way that God will reject a good person, and there is no way he’ll help a bad one.

21 God will let you laugh again; you’ll raise the roof with shouts of joy,  MSG

Gen 17:17 Abraham fell flat on his face. And then he laughed, thinking, “Can a hundred-year-old man father a son? And can Sarah, at ninety years, have a baby?”

18 Recovering, Abraham said to God, “Oh, keep Ishmael alive and well before you!”

19 But God said, “That’s not what I mean. Your wife, Sarah, will have a baby, a son. Name him Isaac (Laughter). I’ll establish my covenant with him and his descendants, a covenant that lasts forever.

20 “And Ishmael? Yes, I heard your prayer for him. I’ll also bless him; I’ll make sure he has plenty of children — a huge family. He’ll father twelve princes; I’ll make him a great nation.

21 But I’ll establish my covenant with Isaac whom Sarah will give you about this time next year.”  MSG

Gen 21:3 Abraham named him Isaac.

4 When his son was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded.

5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born.

6 Sarah said, God has blessed me with laughter and all who get the news will laugh with me!

7 She also said, Whoever would have suggested to Abraham that Sarah would one day nurse a baby! Yet here I am! I’ve given the old man a son!

8 The baby grew and was weaned. Abraham threw a big party on the day Isaac was weaned.  MSG

PS 126:2-6 We laughed and laughed and overflowed with gladness. We were left shouting for joy and singing your praise. All the nations saw it and joined in, saying, “The Lord has done great miracles for them!”
³ Yes, he did mighty miracles and we are overjoyed!
⁴ Now, Lord, do it again! Restore us to our former glory! May streams of your refreshing flow over us until our dry hearts are drenched again.
⁵ Those who sow their tears as seedswill reap a harvest with joyful shouts of glee.
⁶ They may weep as they go out carrying their seed to sow, but they will return with joyful laughter and shouting with gladness as they bring back armloads of blessing and a harvest overflowing!  TPT

Ps 30:5 He gets angry once in a while, but across a lifetime there is only love.

The nights of crying your eyes out give way to days of laughter. MSG

Ps 100:2 Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourselves into his presence. MSG

Jer 30:19 Thanksgivings will pour out of the windows; laughter will spill through the doors. Things will get better and better. Depression days are over. They’ll thrive, they’ll flourish. The days of contempt will be over. MSG

Jer 33:11 But the time is coming when you’re going to hear laughter and celebration, marriage festivities, people exclaiming, “Thank God-of-the-Angel-Armies. He’s so good! His love never quits,” as they bring thank offerings into God’s Temple. I’ll restore everything that was lost in this land. I’ll make everything as good as new.’ I, God, say so.  MSG

1 Peter 1:8 You never saw him, yet you love him. You still don’t see him, yet you trust him — with laughter and singing.

9 Because you kept on believing, you’ll get what you’re looking forward to: total salvation.  MSG

Ps 4:7  More joy in one ordinary day Than they get in all their shopping sprees.

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

Ps 5:11-12 But you’ll welcome us with open arms when we run for cover to you.

Let the party last all night! Stand guard over our celebration.

12 You are famous, God, for welcoming God-seekers, for decking us out in delight. MSG

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PS 5:11-12 But let them all be glad, those who turn aside to hide themselves in you. May they keep shouting for joy forever! Overshadow them in your presence as they sing and rejoice. Then every lover of your name will burst forth with endless joy.¹² Lord, how wonderfully you bless the righteous. Your favor wraps around each one and covers them under your canopy of kindness and joy. TPT

PS 51:12  Let my passion for life be restored, tasting joyin every breakthrough you bring to me. Hold me close to you with a willing spirit  that obeys whatever you say. TPT

Ps 97:11 Light is sown for the [uncompromisingly] righteous and strewn along their pathway, and joy for the upright in heart [the irrepressible joy which comes from consciousness of His favor and protection].  AMP

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

Ps 37:13 The Lord laughs at [the wicked], for He sees that their own day [of defeat] is coming.  AMP

ISA 60:5 “Then you will understand and be radiant. Your heart will be thrilled and swell with joy. The fullness of the sea will flow to youand the wealthof the nations will be transferred to you! TPT

ISA 61:3-4 to strengthen those crushed by despair who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful bouquetin the place of ashes, the oil of blissinstead of tears, and the mantle of joyous praiseinstead of the spirit of heaviness. Because of this, they will be known as Mighty Oaksof Righteousness, plantedby Yahweh as a living display of his glory.
⁴ They will restore ruins from long ago and rebuild what was long devastated. They will renew ruined cities and desolations of past generations. TPT

John 15:11 I have spoken these things and to you so that my joy I will continuously infuse you-you don’t have to invent your own if you can tap into mine! This is ultimate bliss! Mirror

John 17:13. And now I come to be face-to-face with you father; I speak these things while I am still in the world that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. Mirror

John 16:20-22 During this brief time of my apparent absence you will mourn and grieve but while the religious world rejoices, your pain will give birth to joy!

21. The anguish a woman suffers when her hour has come to give birth, is soon forgotten and replaced with delight when another human life is born! Just like with childbirth where joy eclipses the labor pains, so your present sorrow will be vanquished and your hearts will erupt in joy when you realize how you captivate my gaze! And no one will be able to take this joy away from you! Mirror

Acts 2:28 You have made known to me the ways of life; You will enrapture me [diffusing my soul with joy] with and in Your presence.  AMP

Rom 14:17 [After all] the kingdom of God is not a matter of [getting the] food and drink [one likes], but instead it is righteousness (that state which makes a person acceptable to God) and [heart] peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. AMP

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RO 14:17 God’s royal dominion is not based on food and drink regulations, but righteousness, (likeness) friendship (peace) and joy in the Holy Spirit.  MIRROR

Isa 61:7 Instead of your [former] shame you shall have a twofold recompense; instead of dishonor and reproach [your people] shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double [what they had forfeited]; everlasting joy shall be theirs. AMP

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ISA 61:7 Because you received a double dose of shame and dishonor, you will inherit a double portion of endless joy and everlasting bliss! TPT

ATTAINTING THE VERY BEST  5-30-21  VIDEO SEEK MY FACE

We are moving forward in our journey to attain and make our own everything Jesus has given us to by his life, death, and resurrection. Paul the apostle is a wonderful example of a man always moving forward and pressing on. He pressed into the things of God even though he had many distractions and trials but he kept going. What Paul went through in trials pales in comparison to what was revealed to him. Our quest-our journey is to behold God face to face. And in this we find fulfillment and purpose in our life. God made a promise and we need to recognize it. God said that we would see him face-to-face. 

PHIL 3:10-12 Oh to comprehend the dynamic of his resurrection! His resurrection is evidence of our righteousness! In the revelation of God’s economy of inclusion, I actually co- suffered with him and co-died together with Christ!  

11 When confronted with death, I actually come face to face with my own resurrection!  

12 There may be blurry edges to my comprehending the full scope of resurrection life beyond the grave; but I pursue the complete conclusion of co-comprehending and fully grasping exactly that which Jesus Christ knew all along about me when he died my death; and to see me in his faith where I am so perfectly included when he rescued and raised me out of the grasp of death!  

13 I am not boasting about this new found righteousness as if I came up with the idea; on the contrary, I have distanced myself from everything the do it yourself -system of the law of works and willpower previously represented in my reference; now I am fully engaged with that which the prophetic pointed to. Christ is what we  were  reaching for all along! Here he is in our face; within our immediate grasp!  

14 I have the prize of mankind’s redeemed innocence in full view; just like a champion athlete in the public games I refuse to be distracted by anything else. God has invited us in Christ, to lift up our eyes and realize our identity in him.MIRROR

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PHIL 3:10-14  And I continually long to know the wonders of Jesus and to experience the overflowing power of his resurrection working in me. I will be one with him in his sufferings and become like him in his death.

¹¹ Only then will I be able to experience complete oneness with him in his resurrection from the realm of death.

¹² I admit that I haven’t yet acquired the absolute fullness that I’m pursuing, but I run with passion into his abundance so that I may reach the purpose for which Christ Jesus laid hold of me to make me his own.

¹³ I don’t depend on my own strength to accomplish this; however I do have one compelling focus: I forget all of the past as I fasten my heart to the future instead.

¹⁴ I run straight for the divine invitation of reaching the heavenly goal and gaining the victory-prize through the anointing of Jesus.  TPT

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Phil 3:10-14 [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]

11 That if possible I may attain to the [spiritual and moral] resurrection [that lifts me] out from among the dead [even while in the body].

12 Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own.

13 I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

14 I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.  AMP

MATT 6:33-34 So above all, constantly seek God’s kingdomand his righteousness, then all these less important things will be given to you abundantly.

³⁴ Refuse to worry about tomorrow, but deal with each challenge that comes your way, one day at a time. Tomorrow will take care of itself.” TPT

Ps 27:4 One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek, inquire for, and [insistently] require: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord [in His presence] all the days of my life, to behold and gaze upon the beauty [the sweet attractiveness and the delightful loveliness] of the Lord and to meditate, consider, and inquire in His temple.  AMP

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PS 27:4 Here’s the one thing I crave from Yahweh, the one thing I seek above all else:I want to live with him every moment in his house, beholding the marvelous beautyof Yahweh, filled with awe, delighting in his glory and grace.  I want to contemplatein his temple. TPT

PROV 1:10 When peer pressure compels you to go with the crowd and sinners invite you to join in, you must simply say, “No!” TPT

2 COR 4:8 Though we experience every kind of pressure, we’re not crushed. At times we don’t know what to do, but quitting is not an option. TPT

ROM 5:3-5 But that’s not all! Even in times of trouble we have a joyful confidence, knowing that our pressureswill develop in us patient endurance.

⁴ And patient endurance will refine our character, and proven character leads us back to hope.

⁵ And this hope is not a disappointing fantasy, because we can now experience the endless love of God cascading into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who lives in us! TPT

2 COR 11:26-29 In my difficult travels I’ve faced many dangerous situations: perilous rivers, robbers, foreigners, and even my own people. I’ve survived deadly peril in the city, in the wilderness, with storms at sea, and with spies posing as believers.

²⁷ I’ve toiled to the point of exhaustion and gone through many sleepless nights. I’ve frequently been deprived of food and water, left hungry and shivering out in the cold, lacking proper clothing.

²⁸ And besides these painful circumstances, I have the daily pressure of my responsibility for all the churches, with a deep concern weighing heavily on my heart for their welfare.

²⁹ I am not aloof, for who is desperate and weak and I do not feel their weakness? Who is led astray into sin and I do not burn with zeal to restore him?  TPT

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2 Cor 4:17 For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!], AMP

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2 COR 12:1-6 Although it may not accomplish a thing, I need to move on and boast about supernatural visions and revelations of the Lord.

² Someone I’m acquainted with, who is in union with Christ, was swept away fourteen years ago in an ecstatic experience. He was taken into the third heaven, but I’m not sure if he was in his body or out of his body—only God knows.

³ And I know that this man(again, I’m not sure if he was still in his body or taken out of his body—God knows)

⁴ was caught up in an ecstatic experience and brought into paradise, where he overheard many wondrous and inexpressible secretsthat were so sacred that no mortal is permitted to repeat them.

⁵ I’m ready to boast of such an experience, but for my own good I refuse to boast unless it concerns my weaknesses.

⁶ However, if I were to boast, it wouldn’t be ridiculous at all, for I would be speaking the truth. Yet I will refrain, lest others think higher of me than what I demonstrate with my life and teaching. TPT

PRO 24:10 If you faint when under pressure, you have need of courage. TPT

PRO 24:13-14 Revelation-knowledge is a delicacy, sweet like flowing honey that melts in your mouth. Eat as much of it as you can, my friend!
¹⁴ For then you will perceive what is true wisdom, your future will be bright, and this hope living within you will never disappoint you. TPT

HEB 12:3 So consider carefully how Jesus faced such intense opposition from sinners who opposed their own souls, so that you won’t become worn down and cave in under life’s pressures.  TPT

Ezek 39:29 After I’ve poured my Spirit on Israel, filled them with my life, I’ll no longer turn away. I’ll look them full in the face. Decree of God, the Master.” MSG

Gen 32:30 Jacob named the place Peniel (God’s Face) because, he said, “I saw God face-to-face and lived to tell the story!”  MSG

Mark 9:2  Six days after this, Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John and led them up on a high mountain apart by themselves. And He was transfigured before them and became resplendent with divine brightness.

3 And His garments became glistening, intensely white, as no fuller (cloth dresser, launderer) on earth could bleach them.

4 And Elijah appeared [there] to them, accompanied by Moses, and they were holding [a protracted] conversation with Jesus.

5 And Peter took up the conversation, saying, Master, it is good and suitable and beautiful for us to be here. Let us make three booths (tents) — one for You and one for Moses and one for Elijah.

6 For he did not [really] know what to say, for they were in a violent fright (aghast with dread).

7 And a cloud threw a shadow upon them, and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is My Son, the [most dearworthy] Beloved One. Be constantly listening to and obeying Him!  AMP

2 Cor 3:18 We can all draw close to him with the veil removed from our faces. And with no veil we all become like mirrors who brightly reflect the glory of the Lord Jesus. We are being transfiguredinto his very image as we move from one brighter level of glory to another. And this glorious transfiguration comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. TPT

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2 Cor 3:18 The days of window-shopping are over! In him every face is unveiled In gazing with wonder at the blueprint likeness of God displayed in human form, we suddenly realize that we are looking at ourselves! Every  feature of his image is mirrored  in  us!  This is the most radical  transformation engineered by the Spirit of the Lord; we are led from an inferior mindset to the revealed endorsement of our authentic identity. You  are his glory! MIRROR

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

1 COR 13:12-13 For now we see but a faint reflection of riddles and mysteriesas though reflected in a mirror, but one day we will see face-to-face. My understanding is incomplete now, but one day I will understand everything, just as everything about me has been fully understood.

¹³ Until then, there are three things that remain: faith, hope, and love—yet love surpasses them all. So above all else, let love be the beautiful prize for which you run. TPT

 “God‘s face is revealed in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit comes in power to transform lives, churches, and cities the face of God is in reach. His face expresses the heart of who he is and what he is like.“ Bill Johnson

PS 67:1-3 God, keep us near your mercy-fountain and bless us!  And when you look down on us, may your face beam with joy! Pause in his presence
² Send us out all over the world so that everyone everywhere will discover your ways and know who you are and see your power to save.

³ Let all the nations burst forth with praise; let everyone everywhere love and enjoy you! TPT

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Ps 67:1 GOD BE merciful and gracious to us and bless us and cause His face to shine upon us and among us — Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! — 

2 That Your way may be known upon earth, Your saving power (Your deliverances and Your salvation) among all nations.

3 Let the peoples praise You [turn away from their idols] and give thanks to You, O God; let all the peoples praise and give thanks to You. AMP

Num 6:24  God bless you and keep you,

25 God smile on you and gift you,

26 God look you full in the face and make you prosper. MSG

FAVOR 5-27-21  VIDEO UNDESERVED FAVOR 2

In order to grow in God‘s favor, we first must have favor. Favor is defined as preferential treatment shown to somebody. It denotes acceptance approval and pleasure. Favor is a reward. Jesus restored the favor of God to all mankind through his sacrifice. Joseph, Daniel, Abraham, Mary all had favor with the Lord. In spite of the world circumstances that came against them, they all achieve their destiny and were marked by God‘s favor. Also favor is grace. A gift or a blessing brought to the church the believers by the Holy Spirit.  It is not earned it is divine influence upon our hearts.

Job 22:28 You shall also decide and decree a thing, and it shall be established for you; and the light [of God’s favor] shall shine upon your ways.

29 When they make [you] low, you will say, [There is] a lifting up; and the humble person He lifts up and saves.

30 He will even deliver the one [for whom you intercede] who is not innocent; yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.  AMP

Ps 89:17 You are their strength. What glory! Our power is based on your favor! TLB

Ps 30:5 For His anger is but for a moment, but His favor is for a lifetime or in His favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.  AMP 

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

HEB 11:5-6 Faith translated Enoch from this life and he was taken up into heaven! He never had to experience death; he just disappeared from this world because God promoted him. For before he was translated to the heavenly realm his life had become a pleasure to God.

⁶ And without faith living within us it would be impossible to please God. For we come to God in faithknowing that he is real and that he rewards the faith of those who passionately seek him. TPT

Ps 41:11 By this I know that You favor and delight in me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.

12 And as for me, You have upheld me in my integrity and set me in Your presence forever.  AMP

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PS 41:11-12 Then I’ll know you’re pleased with me when you allow me to taste victory over all my foes.
¹² Now stand up for me and don’t let me fall, for I’ve walked with integrity. Keep me before your face forever. TPT

Ps 80:19 Restore us, O Lord God of hosts; cause Your face to shine [in pleasure, approval, and favor on us], and we shall be saved!  AMP

Ps 145:16 You open Your hand and satisfy every living thing with favor.  AMP

Hos 10:12  Sow for yourselves according to righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God); reap according to mercy and loving-kindness. Break up your uncultivated ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, to inquire for and of Him, and to require His favor, till He comes and teaches you righteousness and rains His righteous gift of salvation upon you.  AMP

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

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PS 84:11 For the Lord God is brighter than the brilliance of a sunrise! Wrapping himself around me like a shield, he is so generous with his gifts of grace and glory. Those who walk along his paths with integrity will never lack one thing they need, for he provides it all!  TPT

PROV 16:15 Life-giving light streams from the presence of a king,and his favor is showered upon those who please him. TPT

Isa 30:18 And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him [for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship}  AMP

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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. TPT

Luke 1:28-30  And he came to her and said, Hail, O favored one [endued with grace]! The Lord is with you! Blessed (favored of God) are you before all other women!

29 But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled and disturbed and confused at what he said and kept revolving in her mind what such a greeting might mean.

30 And the angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found grace (free, spontaneous, absolute favor and loving-kindness) with God.  AMP   ▼▼▼

LU 1:28-30 Gabriel appeared to her and said, “Rejoice, beloved young woman, for the Lord is with youand you are anointed with great favor.”

²⁹ Mary was deeply troubled over the words of the angel and bewildered over what this may mean for her.

³⁰ But the angel reassured her, saying, “Do not yield to your fear, Mary, for the Lord has found delight in you and has chosen to surprise you with a wonderful gift.  TPT

LU 2:52 As Jesus grew, so did his wisdom and maturity. The favor of men increased upon his life, for he was greatly loved by God.    TPT

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Luke 2:52 And Jesus kept on hewing a pioneer path ahead, making steady progress in wisdom and maturity and in favor in the presence of God and with men. WUEST

Acts 4:33 And with great strength and ability and power the apostles delivered their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace (loving-kindness and favor and goodwill) rested richly upon them all.  AMP

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ACTS 4:33 The apostles gave powerful testimonies about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great measures of gracerested upon them all.  TPT

Acts 20:32 And now [brethren], I commit you to God [I deposit you in His charge, entrusting you to His protection and care]. And I commend you to the Word of His grace [to the commands and counsels and promises of His unmerited favor]. It is able to build you up and to give you [your rightful] inheritance among all God’s set-apart ones (those consecrated, purified, and transformed of soul).  AMP

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ACTS 20:32 “And so now, I entrust you into God’s hands and the message of his grace, which is all that you need to become strong. All of God’s blessings are imparted through the message of his grace, which he provides as the spiritual inheritance given to all of his holy ones.  TPT

Rom 4:4 If you’re a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don’t call your wages a gift. 

5 But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it’s something only God can do, and you trust him to do it — you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked — well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift. MSG

1 Cor 1:4-6 I thank my God at all times for you because of the grace (the favor and spiritual blessing) of God which was bestowed on you in Christ Jesus,

5 [So] that in Him in every respect you were enriched, in full power and readiness of speech [to speak of your faith] and complete knowledge and illumination [to give you full insight into its meaning].

6 In this way [our] witnessing concerning Christ (the Messiah) was so confirmed and established and made sure in you  AMP   ▼▼▼

1 COR 1:4-6 I am always thanking my God for you because he has given you such free and open access to his grace through your union with Jesus, the Messiah.

⁵ In him you have been made extravagantly rich in every way. You have been endowed with a wealth of inspired utteranceand the riches that come from your intimate knowledge of him.

⁶ For the reality of the truth of Christ is seen among you and strengthenedthrough your experience of him.  TPT

2 Cor 5:18 But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself [received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself] and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation [that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him].

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

20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ’s personal representatives] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor [now offered you] and be reconciled to God.

2 Cor 9:8 And God is able to make all grace (every favor and earthly blessing) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation].  AMP

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2 COR 9:8 Yes, God is more than ready to overwhelm you with every form of grace, so that you will have more than enough of everything—every moment and in every way. He will make you overflow with abundance in every good thing you do.  TPT

1 Peter 4:10 As each of you has received a gift (a particular spiritual talent, a gracious divine endowment), employ it for one another as [befits] good trustees of God’s many-sided grace [faithful stewards of the extremely diverse powers and gifts granted to Christians by unmerited favor].  AMP

Rev 22:21 The grace (blessing and favor) of the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) be with all the saints (God’s holy people, those set apart for God, to be, as it were, exclusively His). Amen (so let it be)!  AMP

 2 COR 6:2 For he says, I listened to you at the time of my favor. And the day when you needed salvation, I came to your aid. So can’t you see? Now is the time to respond to his favor! Now is the day of salvation!  TPT

HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE 5-23-21  VIDEO

Pentecost to those in the Jewish faith is a holy celebration. It occurs 50 days after Passover. It is the feast that celebrates the giving of the Torah, and it  celebrates the harvest.  It is also the time when God would decide their financial blessing for the rest of the year. It was to last 30 days after pentecost.  God brought Israel out of Egypt at passover but 50 days later God calls them His people. Christians celebrate Pentecost as the birthday of the church and the power of the Holy Spirit as promised by Jesus coming to the apostles and the people who were hearing what was happening in the upper room He call us His people now and causes our finances to be bleed through Jesus. In the Old Testament God spread  over the tabernacle with fire. Fire represents the Holy Spirit now. The fiery presence provided light and guidance in the old testament but in the New Testament God guides and comforts us with the Holy Spirit in our bodies. We become the fiery tabernacle or the temple of the Holy Spirit overlaid with fire. Remember you have received the full measure of the Holy Spirit. As you pour yourself out, there’s always a refreshment of more.

ACTS 2:1-4 On the day Pentecost was being fulfilled, all the disciples were gathered in one place.

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

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

⁴ They were all filled and equippedwith the Holy Spirit and were inspiredto speak in tongues—empowered by the Spirit to speak in languages they had never learned! TPT

ACTS 2:7-12 Bewildered, they said to one another, “Aren’t these all Galileans? ⁸ So how is it that we hear them speaking in our own languages?

⁹ We are northeastern Iranians, northwestern Iranians, Elamites, and those from Mesopotamia, Judea, east central Turkey, the coastal areas of the Black Sea, Asia,

¹⁰ north central Turkey, southern Turkey, Egypt, Libyans who are neighbors of Cyrene, visitors from all over the Roman Empire, both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs.

¹¹ Yet we hear them speaking of God’s mighty wonders in our own dialects!”

 ¹² They all stood there, dumbfounded and astonished, saying to one another, “What is this phenomenon?” TPT

ACTS 2:14-18 Peter stood up with the eleven apostlesand shoutedto the crowd. “Listen carefully, my fellow Jewsand residents of Jerusalem. You need to clearly understand what’s happening here.

¹⁵ These people are not drunk like you think they are, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.

¹⁶ This is the fulfillment of what was prophesied through the prophet Joel, for God says:

¹⁷ ‘This is what I will do in the last days—I will pour outmy Spirit on everybody and cause your sons and daughters to prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will experience dreams from God.

¹⁸ The Holy Spirit will come upon all my servants, men and women alike, and they will prophesy.  TPT

The prophecy of David talks about Jesus and it sees Jesus resurrection.

ACTS 2:31-36 So when peering into the future, David prophesiedof the Messiah’s resurrection. And God revealed to him that the Messiah would not be abandoned to the realm of death, nor would his body experience decay.

³² “Can’t you see it? God has resurrected Jesus, and we all have seen him!

³³ “Then God exalted him to his right hand upon the throne of highest honor. And the Father gave him the authority to send the promised Holy Spirit, which is being poured outupon us today. This is what you’re seeing and hearing!

³⁴ “David wasn’t the one who ascended into heaven, but the one who prophesied: ‘Yahwehsaid to my Lord,  I honor you by enthroning you beside me,
³⁵ until I make your enemies a footstool beneath your feet.’

³⁶ “Now everyone in Israelcan know for certainthat Jesus, whom you crucified, is the one God has madeboth Lordand the Messiah.”  TPT

The people in the crowd react to the birth of the church. Harvest begins and it is still going on, can’t be stopped, is going on right till today and beyond.

ACTS 2:39-41 For God’s promise of the Holy Spirit is for youand your families, for those yet to be bornand for everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

⁴⁰ Peter preached to them and warned them with these words: “Be rescued from the wayward and perverse culture of this world!”

⁴¹ Those who believed the word that day numbered three thousand. They were all baptized and added to the church. TPT

Pentecost to the Jews was the six day of creation. It represents the leading of the Jewish people out of the wilderness into the promised land and into a place of rest.

HEB 4:6-10 Those who first heard the good news of deliverance failed to enter into that realm of faith’s rest because of their unbelieving hearts. Yet the fact remains that we still have the opportunity to enter into the faith-rest life and experience the fulfillment of the promise!

⁷ For God still has ordained a day for us to enter into called “Today.” For it was long afterwards that God repeated it in David’s words, “If only today you would listen to his voice and do not harden your hearts!”

⁸ Now if this promise of “rest” was fulfilled when Joshua brought the people into the land, God wouldn’t have spoken later of another “rest” yet to come.

⁹ So we conclude that there is still a full and complete Sabbath-restwaiting for believersto experience.

¹⁰ As we enter into God’s faith-rest life we cease from our own works, just as God celebrates his finished works and rests in them. TPT

Jer 31:33-34  “This is the brand-new covenant that I will make with Israel when the time comes. I will put my law within them — write it on their hearts! — and be their God. And they will be my people.

34 They will no longer go around setting up schools to teach each other about God. They’ll know me firsthand, the dull and the bright, the smart and the slow. I’ll wipe the slate clean for each of them. I’ll forget they ever sinned!” God’s Decree.  MSG .   Also Pentecost was a demonstration of the law been written on our hearts not on stone like the Torah.

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

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2 COR 3:3 As a result of our ministry, you are living letters written by Christ, not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God—not carved onto stone tabletsbut on the tablets of tender hearts.  TPT

Num 9:15  And on the day that the tabernacle was erected, the cloud [of God’s presence] covered the tabernacle, that is, the Tent of the Testimony; and at evening it was over the tabernacle, having the appearance of [a pillar of] fire until the morning. 

16 So it was constantly; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.   AMP

Luke 3:16 But John intervened: “I’m baptizing you here in the river. The main character in this drama, to whom I’m a mere stagehand, will ignite the kingdom life, a fire, the Holy Spirit within you, changing you from the inside out.

17 He’s going to clean house — make a clean sweep of your lives. He’ll place everything true in its proper place before God; everything false he’ll put out with the trash to be burned.”  MSG

1 THESS 5:19 Never restrain or put out the fire of the Holy Spirit. TPT

LU 12:49 “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already ablaze with fiery passion for God! TPT

2 TIM 1:6-7 I’m writing to encourage you to fan into a flame and rekindlethe fire of the spiritual gift God imparted to you when I laid my hands upon you.

⁷ For God will never give you the spirit of fear, but the Holy Spirit who gives you mighty power, love, and self-control. TPT

HEB 1:7  And about his angels he says, “I make my angels swift winds, and my ministersfiery flames.”   TPT

ROM 12:1 Beloved friends, what should be our proper response to God’s marvelous mercies? To surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifices. And live in holiness, experiencing all that delights his heart. For this becomes your genuine expression of worship. TPT

ROM 8:9 But when the Spirit of Christ empowers your life, you are not dominated by the flesh but by the Spirit. And if you are not joined to the Spirit of the Anointed One, you are not of him. TPT

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Rom 8:9 But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within you [directs and controls you]. But if anyone does not possess the [Holy] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God].  AMP

1 COR 6:19-20 Have you forgotten that your body is now the sacred temple of the Spirit of Holiness, who lives in you? You don’t belong to yourself any longer, for the gift of God, the Holy Spirit, lives inside your sanctuary.

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

1 COR 3:16-17 Don’t you realize that together you have become God’s inner sanctuaryand that the Spirit of God makes his permanent home in you?

¹⁷ Now, if someone desecratesGod’s inner sanctuary, God will desecrate him, for God’s inner sanctuary is holy, and that is exactly who you are.  TPT

Acts 19:3 “How were you baptized, then?” asked Paul “In John’s baptism.”

4 “That explains it,” said Paul. “John preached a baptism of radical life-change so that people would be ready to receive the One coming after him, who turned out to be Jesus. If you’ve been baptized in John’s baptism, you’re ready now for the real thing, for Jesus.”

5 And they were. As soon as they heard of it, they were baptized in the name of the Master Jesus.

6 Paul put his hands on their heads and the Holy Spirit entered them. From that moment on, they were praising God in tongues and talking about God’s actions. MSG

Luke 24:47 and then a total life-change through the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed in his name to all nations — starting from here, from Jerusalem!

48 You’re the first to hear and see it. You’re the witnesses.

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

Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth.   AMP

ACTS 4:29-31 So now, Lord, listen to their threats to harm us. Empower us, as your servants, to speak the word of God freely and courageously.

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

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

EPH 5:18 And don’t get drunk with wine, which is rebellion; instead be filled continually with the Holy Spirit.  TPT

HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE 5-23-21  VIDEO

Pentecost to those in the Jewish faith is a holy celebration. It occurs 50 days after Passover. It is the feast that celebrates the giving of the Torah, and it  celebrates the harvest.  It is also the time when God would decide their financial blessing for the rest of the year. It was to last 30 days after pentecost.  God brought Israel out of Egypt at passover but 50 days later God calls them His people. Christians celebrate Pentecost as the birthday of the church and the power of the Holy Spirit as promised by Jesus coming to the apostles and the people who were hearing what was happening in the upper room He call us His people now and causes our finances to be bleed through Jesus. In the Old Testament God spread  over the tabernacle with fire. Fire represents the Holy Spirit now. The fiery presence provided light and guidance in the old testament but in the New Testament God guides and comforts us with the Holy Spirit in our bodies. We become the fiery tabernacle or the temple of the Holy Spirit overlaid with fire. Remember you have received the full measure of the Holy Spirit. As you pour yourself out, there’s always a refreshment of more.

ACTS 2:1-4 On the day Pentecost was being fulfilled, all the disciples were gathered in one place.

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

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

⁴ They were all filled and equippedwith the Holy Spirit and were inspiredto speak in tongues—empowered by the Spirit to speak in languages they had never learned! TPT

ACTS 2:7-12 Bewildered, they said to one another, “Aren’t these all Galileans? ⁸ So how is it that we hear them speaking in our own languages?

⁹ We are northeastern Iranians, northwestern Iranians, Elamites, and those from Mesopotamia, Judea, east central Turkey, the coastal areas of the Black Sea, Asia,

¹⁰ north central Turkey, southern Turkey, Egypt, Libyans who are neighbors of Cyrene, visitors from all over the Roman Empire, both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs.

¹¹ Yet we hear them speaking of God’s mighty wonders in our own dialects!”

 ¹² They all stood there, dumbfounded and astonished, saying to one another, “What is this phenomenon?” TPT

ACTS 2:14-18 Peter stood up with the eleven apostlesand shoutedto the crowd. “Listen carefully, my fellow Jewsand residents of Jerusalem. You need to clearly understand what’s happening here.

¹⁵ These people are not drunk like you think they are, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.

¹⁶ This is the fulfillment of what was prophesied through the prophet Joel, for God says:

¹⁷ ‘This is what I will do in the last days—I will pour outmy Spirit on everybody and cause your sons and daughters to prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will experience dreams from God.

¹⁸ The Holy Spirit will come upon all my servants, men and women alike, and they will prophesy.  TPT

The prophecy of David talks about Jesus and it sees Jesus resurrection.

ACTS 2:31-36 So when peering into the future, David prophesiedof the Messiah’s resurrection. And God revealed to him that the Messiah would not be abandoned to the realm of death, nor would his body experience decay.

³² “Can’t you see it? God has resurrected Jesus, and we all have seen him!

³³ “Then God exalted him to his right hand upon the throne of highest honor. And the Father gave him the authority to send the promised Holy Spirit, which is being poured outupon us today. This is what you’re seeing and hearing!

³⁴ “David wasn’t the one who ascended into heaven, but the one who prophesied: ‘Yahwehsaid to my Lord,  I honor you by enthroning you beside me,
³⁵ until I make your enemies a footstool beneath your feet.’

³⁶ “Now everyone in Israelcan know for certainthat Jesus, whom you crucified, is the one God has madeboth Lordand the Messiah.”  TPT

The people in the crowd react to the birth of the church. Harvest begins and it is still going on, can’t be stopped, is going on right till today and beyond.

ACTS 2:39-41 For God’s promise of the Holy Spirit is for youand your families, for those yet to be bornand for everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

⁴⁰ Peter preached to them and warned them with these words: “Be rescued from the wayward and perverse culture of this world!”

⁴¹ Those who believed the word that day numbered three thousand. They were all baptized and added to the church. TPT

Pentecost to the Jews was the six day of creation. It represents the leading of the Jewish people out of the wilderness into the promised land and into a place of rest.

HEB 4:6-10 Those who first heard the good news of deliverance failed to enter into that realm of faith’s rest because of their unbelieving hearts. Yet the fact remains that we still have the opportunity to enter into the faith-rest life and experience the fulfillment of the promise!

⁷ For God still has ordained a day for us to enter into called “Today.” For it was long afterwards that God repeated it in David’s words, “If only today you would listen to his voice and do not harden your hearts!”

⁸ Now if this promise of “rest” was fulfilled when Joshua brought the people into the land, God wouldn’t have spoken later of another “rest” yet to come.

⁹ So we conclude that there is still a full and complete Sabbath-restwaiting for believersto experience.

¹⁰ As we enter into God’s faith-rest life we cease from our own works, just as God celebrates his finished works and rests in them. TPT

Jer 31:33-34  “This is the brand-new covenant that I will make with Israel when the time comes. I will put my law within them — write it on their hearts! — and be their God. And they will be my people.

34 They will no longer go around setting up schools to teach each other about God. They’ll know me firsthand, the dull and the bright, the smart and the slow. I’ll wipe the slate clean for each of them. I’ll forget they ever sinned!” God’s Decree.  MSG .   Also Pentecost was a demonstration of the law been written on our hearts not on stone like the Torah.

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

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2 COR 3:3 As a result of our ministry, you are living letters written by Christ, not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God—not carved onto stone tabletsbut on the tablets of tender hearts.  TPT

Num 9:15  And on the day that the tabernacle was erected, the cloud [of God’s presence] covered the tabernacle, that is, the Tent of the Testimony; and at evening it was over the tabernacle, having the appearance of [a pillar of] fire until the morning. 

16 So it was constantly; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.   AMP

Luke 3:16 But John intervened: “I’m baptizing you here in the river. The main character in this drama, to whom I’m a mere stagehand, will ignite the kingdom life, a fire, the Holy Spirit within you, changing you from the inside out.

17 He’s going to clean house — make a clean sweep of your lives. He’ll place everything true in its proper place before God; everything false he’ll put out with the trash to be burned.”  MSG

1 THESS 5:19 Never restrain or put out the fire of the Holy Spirit. TPT

LU 12:49 “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already ablaze with fiery passion for God! TPT

2 TIM 1:6-7 I’m writing to encourage you to fan into a flame and rekindlethe fire of the spiritual gift God imparted to you when I laid my hands upon you.

⁷ For God will never give you the spirit of fear, but the Holy Spirit who gives you mighty power, love, and self-control. TPT

HEB 1:7  And about his angels he says, “I make my angels swift winds, and my ministersfiery flames.”   TPT

ROM 12:1 Beloved friends, what should be our proper response to God’s marvelous mercies? To surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifices. And live in holiness, experiencing all that delights his heart. For this becomes your genuine expression of worship. TPT

ROM 8:9 But when the Spirit of Christ empowers your life, you are not dominated by the flesh but by the Spirit. And if you are not joined to the Spirit of the Anointed One, you are not of him. TPT

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Rom 8:9 But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within you [directs and controls you]. But if anyone does not possess the [Holy] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God].  AMP

1 COR 6:19-20 Have you forgotten that your body is now the sacred temple of the Spirit of Holiness, who lives in you? You don’t belong to yourself any longer, for the gift of God, the Holy Spirit, lives inside your sanctuary.

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

1 COR 3:16-17 Don’t you realize that together you have become God’s inner sanctuaryand that the Spirit of God makes his permanent home in you?

¹⁷ Now, if someone desecratesGod’s inner sanctuary, God will desecrate him, for God’s inner sanctuary is holy, and that is exactly who you are.  TPT

Acts 19:3 “How were you baptized, then?” asked Paul “In John’s baptism.”

4 “That explains it,” said Paul. “John preached a baptism of radical life-change so that people would be ready to receive the One coming after him, who turned out to be Jesus. If you’ve been baptized in John’s baptism, you’re ready now for the real thing, for Jesus.”

5 And they were. As soon as they heard of it, they were baptized in the name of the Master Jesus.

6 Paul put his hands on their heads and the Holy Spirit entered them. From that moment on, they were praising God in tongues and talking about God’s actions. MSG

Luke 24:47 and then a total life-change through the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed in his name to all nations — starting from here, from Jerusalem!

48 You’re the first to hear and see it. You’re the witnesses.

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

Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth.   AMP

ACTS 4:29-31 So now, Lord, listen to their threats to harm us. Empower us, as your servants, to speak the word of God freely and courageously.

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

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

EPH 5:18 And don’t get drunk with wine, which is rebellion; instead be filled continually with the Holy Spirit.  TPT

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The theme of breakthrough appears everywhere in the world but one of the names of our God is “breakthrough“. He breaks us out of bondage and sickness and sin. He also breaks us out to receive his promises. God‘s love for us brings Him on the scene. When we need Him the most the God of the breakthrough is  in our lives with the result of us moving in both influence and favor. Our God brings breakthrough healing for our bodies when we feel pain and hopelessness.

2 Sam 5:20  And David came to Baal-perazim, and he smote them there, and said, The Lord has broken through my enemies before me, like the bursting out of great waters. So he called the name of that place Baal-perazim [Lord of breaking through].  AMP

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2 Sam 5:20  “Go up,” God replied. “Count on me. I’ll help you beat them.” David then went straight to Baal Perazim, and smashed them to pieces. Afterwards David said, “God exploded on my enemies like a gush of water.” That’s why David named the place Baal Perazim (The-Master-Who-Explodes).  MSG

Mic 2:13  The Breaker [the Messiah] will go up before them. They will break through, pass in through the gate and go out through it, and their King will pass on before them, the Lord at their head.  AMP

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Mic 2:13 Then I, God, will burst all confinements and lead them out into the open. They’ll follow their King. I will be out in front leading them.”   MSG

PS 40:3 A new song for a new day rises up in me every time I think about how he breaks through for me!Ecstatic praise pours out of my mouth until everyone hears how God has set me free. Many will see his miracles; they’ll stand in awe of God and fall in love with him! TPT

PS 18:6 in my distress I cried out to you, the delivering God, and from your temple-throne you heard my troubled cry, and my sobs went right into your heart. TPT

PS 18:16-19 He rescued me from the mighty waters and drew me to himself!
¹⁷ Even though I was helpless in the hands of my hateful, strong enemy,  you were good to deliver me.
¹⁸ When I was at my weakest, my enemies attacked— but the Lord held on to me.¹⁹ His love broke open the way,  and he brought me into a beautiful, broad place. He rescued me—because his delight is in me! TPT

PS 90:14 Let the sunrise of your love end our dark night.Break through our clouded dawn again! Only you can satisfy our hearts, filling us with songs of joy to the end of our days. TPT

ROM 8:28 So we are convinced that every detail of our lives is continually woven together for good, for we are his lovers who have been called to fulfill his designed purpose.  TPT

Psalm 66:12 You’ve allowed our enemies to prevail against us. We’ve passed through fire and flood, yet in the end you always bring us out better than we were before, saturated with your goodness. TPT

PS 34:19 Even when bad things happen to the good and godly ones,the Lord will save them and not let them be defeated by what they face. TPT

Job 10:12 You have granted me life and favor, and Your providence has preserved my spirit.  AMP

Job 22:28-30 You’ll decide what you want and it will happen; your life will be bathed in light.

29 To those who feel low you’ll say, ‘Chin up! Be brave!’ and God will save them.

30 Yes, even the guilty will escape, escape through God’s grace in your life.” MSG

PS 31:21 The name of the Lord is blessed and lifted high!For his marvelous miracle of mercy protected me when I was overwhelmed by my enemies.TPT

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 86:17 Make a show of how much you love me so the bullies who hate me will stand there slack-jawed, As you, God, gently and powerfully put me back on my feet. MSG

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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

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PS 86:17 Send me a miraculous sign to show me how much you love me, so that those who hate me will see it and be ashamed. Don’t they know that you, Lord, are my comforter, the one who comes to help me? TPT

Jer 30:17-19 As for you, I’ll come with healing, curing the incurable, Because they all gave up on you and dismissed you as hopeless —  that good-for-nothing Zion.’

18 “Again, God’s Message: “‘I’ll turn things around for Jacob. I’ll compassionately come in and rebuild homes. The town will be rebuilt on its old foundations; the mansions will be splendid again.

19 Thanksgivings will pour out of the windows; laughter will spill through the doors. Things will get better and better. Depression days are over. They’ll thrive, they’ll flourish. The days of contempt will be over.  MSG

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

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

PS 31:2 Rescue me quickly when I cry out to you. At the sound of my prayer may your ear be turned to me. Be my strong shelter and hiding place on high. Pull me into victory and breakthrough. TPT

PS 32:7 Lord, you are my secret hiding place, protecting me from these troubles, surrounding me with songs of gladness! Your joyous shouts of rescue release my breakthrough. Pause in his presence TPT

PS 51:12 Let my passion for life be restored, tasting joyin every breakthrough you bring to me. Hold me close to you with a willing spirit that obeys whatever you say. TPT

PS 79:9 Our hero, come and rescue us! O God of the breakthrough, for the glory of your name, come and help us! Forgive and restore us; heal us and cover us in your love. TPT

PS 130:5 This is why I wait upon you, expecting your breakthrough,for your Word brings me hope. TPT

PS 145:7 Our hearts bubble over as we celebrate the fame of your marvelous beauty, bringing bliss to our hearts. We shout with ecstatic joy over your breakthrough for us. 

8 You’re kind and tenderhearted to those who don’t deserve it and very patient with people who fail you. Your love is like a flooding river overflowing its banks with kindness. TPT

ISAAC SOWED IN THE TIME OF FAMINE  Gen 26:12 Isaac planted crops in that land and took in a huge harvest. God blessed him.

13 The man got richer and richer by the day until he was very wealthy.

14 He accumulated flocks and herds and many, many servants, so much so that the Philistines began to envy him.  MSG

Psalm 84:6 Even when their paths wind through the dark valley of tears, they dig deep to find a pleasant pool where others find only pain. He gives to them a brook of blessing filled from the rain of an outpouring.
⁷ They grow stronger and stronger with every step forward,and the God of all gods will appear before them in Zion.  TPT

PS 66:12 You’ve allowed our enemies to prevail against us. We’ve passed through fire and flood,yet in the end you always bring us out better than we were before,saturated with your goodness.TPT

Isa 60:1 Rise up in splendor and be radiant, for your light has dawned, and Yahweh’s Glory now streams from you!

2 look carefully! Darkness blankets the earth, and thick gloom covers the nations, but Yahweh arises upon you and the brightness of his glory appears over you!

3 nations will be attracted to your radiant light and kings to the sunrise glory of your new day.

4 lift up your eyes higher! Look all around you And believe, for your sons are returning from far away and your daughters are being tenderly carried home. Watch as they all gather together, eager to come back to you!

5 then you’ll understand and be radiant. Your heart will be thrilled and swell with joy. The fullness of the sea will flow to you and the wealth of the nations will be transferred to you!  TPT

Isa 40:1 Your God says to you; “comfort, comfort my people with gentle compassionate words.

2 Speak tenderly from the heart to revive those in Jerusalem, and proclaim that their warfare is over! Her debt of sin is paid for, and she will not be treated as guilty. Prophesied to her that she has received from the hand of Yahweh twice as many blessings as all her sins.” TPT

Ezek 34:27 The trees in the orchards will bear fruit, the ground will produce, they’ll feel content and safe on their land, and they’ll realize that I am GOD when I break them out of their slavery and rescue them from their slave masters. MSG

Num 6:24 God bless you and keep you,

25 God smile on you and gift you,

26 God look you full in the face and make you prosper. MSG

2 Cor 1:2 Grace (favor and spiritual blessing) to you and [heart] peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).AMP

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