HAPPY EASTER RESURRECTION POWER 4-20-25 VIDEO SKIT GUYS PETER TOMB

From the very beginning of creation till now, it was always God‘s intention that we would be Spirit like He is. To be in the Spirit means you are more conscious of God and the things of God and his presence rather than the things of this world. Just like our creator, we are spirit and where the spirit is there is freedom. John was able to receive by the Holy Spirit Divine revelation beyond ordinary perception. He John received revelation light. Living light in the spirit. He was no longer on Patmos, but translated into heaven. JOHN 20:1 The first day of the Sabbaths, Maria from Magdala came to the tomb while it was still very early and saw that the stone was lifted out of the grave.

2 She left the tomb at once and ran to find Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus was so fond of, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the grave and we have no idea where they put him!”

3 So Peter and the other disciple immediately went to the tomb.

4 They were both running but the other brother out-ran Peter and arrived at the tomb first.

5 He stooped down and observed with careful attention the strips of linen cloth lying there, yet he did not enter. 

6 Then Simon Peter also arrived and went straight into the tomb and took a long look at the grave cloths lying there.

7 He also noticed that the cloth that was wrapped around the head of Jesus, was not lying with the other strips of linen cloth, but neatly rolled up separately.

8 Then the other disciple who arrived there first also went in and he saw and was convinced!

9 It was as if they could not fully grasp that this was indeed what was predicted in Scripture, that Jesus was destined to rise up out of death.  

10 The disciples went away to face their own thoughts.  MIRROR

JOHN 20:11 But Maria remained facing the tomb, weeping. Then she stooped down and gazed into the tomb.

12 She saw two celestial messengers, dressed in dazzling white and seated, one at the head and the other at the feet where Jesus’ body had been lying.

13 They asked her, “Woman why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They took my Lord away and I do not know where they have put him.”

14 As she said this she looked around [as if she instinctively felt the presence of someone behind her] and saw Jesus standing but did not immediately recognize him.

15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for? She thought he was the gardener and said, “Sir, if you have taken him away, please tell me where you put him so that I may fetch him!”

16 Jesus said to her, “Mariam!” she turned in her step and exclaimed, “Raboni!” which is Aramaic for, my Teacher! 

17 “You’ll have to let go of me, so that I may continue on to the Father. Go and tell my friends that I am ascending to my Father and your Father; to my God and your God!”    

18 So Maria the Magdalene went to the disciples and announced to them, “I saw the Lord!” And she told them all that he told her.

19 That evening of the first day of the week, the disciples were gathered in a room with the doors locked because they were afraid of the Jews. Suddenly Jesus stepped into their midst and said, “Shalom!”

20 Then he showed them his scarred hands and side and having now seen the Lord for themselves, they were exceedingly glad!

21 Again he repeated his salutation and said, “Peace be unto you! Just as the Father has commissioned me so do I now send you!”

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

JOHN 11:25 “Martha,” Jesus said, “You don’t have to wait until then. I am the Resurrection, and I am Life Eternal. Anyone who clings to me in faith, even though he dies, will live forever.

26 And the one who lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”  TPT

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

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

1 COR 6:14 Now the God who raised up our Lord from the grave will awaken and raise us up through his mighty power! TPT

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1 COR 6:14 God reveals in dramatic fashion the value he places on the human body by our joint resurrection with Jesus from the dead.   MIRROR

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

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

6-7 Could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the Cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life — no longer at sin’s every beck and call! What we believe is this:

8 If we get included in Christ’s sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection.

9 We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word.

10 When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us.

11 From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God. That’s what Jesus did. MSG

1 Peter 1:3 What a God we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our Master Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we’ve been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for,

4 including a future in heaven — and the future starts now!  MSG

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

4 We are reintroduced to an imperishable inheritance, which has been flawlessly preserved for us in the heavenly realm, where neither Adam’s fall, nor mankind’s failure to justify themselves, could possibly contaminate, discredit or diminish the original portion of our true sonship realized in Christ Jesus!   MIRROR

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

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

Rom 8:11  It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s!  MSG

1 Thess 4:14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him through Jesus those who have fallen asleep [in death].

15 For this we declare to you by the Lord’s [own] word, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall in no way precede [into His presence] or have any advantage at all over those who have previously fallen asleep [in Him in death]. AMP

Job 19:25 For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, and at last He [the Last One] will stand upon the earth.  AMP

PHIL 3:10  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!  MIRROR

Isa 25:8 Yes, he’ll banish death forever. And God will wipe the tears from every face. He’ll remove every sign of disgrace From his people, wherever they are. Yes! God says so!   MSG

1 Cor 15:21 There is a nice symmetry in this: Death initially came by a man, and resurrection from death came by a man.

22 Eveybody dies in Adam; everybody comes alive in Christ.

23 But we have to wait our turn: Christ is first, then those with him at his Coming,

24 the grand consummation when, after crushing the opposition, he hands over his kingdom to God the Father.

25 He won’t let up until the last enemy is down — 

26 and the very last enemy is death!  MSG

Rev 21:4 He’ll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good — tears gone, crying gone, pain gone — all the first order of things gone.”  MSG

John 8:51 I say this with absolute confidence. If you practice what I’m telling you, you’ll never have to look death in the face.”  MSG

1 Cor 15:42  So it is with the resurrection of the dead. [The body] that is sown is perishable and decays, but [the body] that is resurrected is imperishable (immune to decay, immortal). 

43 It is sown in dishonor and humiliation; it is raised in honor and glory. It is sown in infirmity and weakness; it is resurrected in strength and endued with power.

44 It is sown a natural (physical) body; it is raised a supernatural (a spiritual) body. [As surely as] there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.

45 Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life].  AMP 

Ps 49:15 But me? God snatches me from the clutch of death, he reaches down and grabs me. MSG

1 Cor 15:55 Who got the last word, oh, Death? Oh, Death, who’s afraid of you now?

56 It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power.

57 But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three — sin, guilt, death — are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!   MSG

GOOD FRIDAY THE BLOOD 4-18-25 VIDEO PHIL WICKHAM SUNDAYS COMIN

When God said to Moses “I Am that I Am“  it was the most profound revelation in all of the word. Moses suddenly saw the future he saw beyond time in space. He saw realms of eternity and future generations to come. He saw the One who would bring eternal life by His blood. And new DNA by His blood. And new priesthood came by His blood. By His blood, everything was reconciled.

JN 8:56 Your father Abraham was leaping with joy to see my day! What he saw made him exceedingly glad!

57 Then the Jews said, “Ha! You’re not even fifty years old and you claim to have seen Abraham!”

58 “Most certainly do I say unto you that before Abraham was born, I am!”  MIRROR

JN 8:23 Jesus said to them, “You draw your conclusions from the sense ruled world here below – my source points to a different dimension, a realm which is above the horizon of the senses.

24 That is why I said that you will die in your sins because you are not convinced about who I am, you wouldn’t know who you are! Your unbelief in my I-am-ness will keep you trapped in this death-ruled dimension, the very dimension that I have come to deliver you from!”  MIRROR

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JOHN 8:23-24  Jesus spoke up and said, “You are all from the earth; I am from above. I am not from this world like you are.

24 That’s why I’ve told you that you will all die in your sins if you fail to believe that I AM who I AM.”  TPT

HEB 7:16 This new office is not based on the law of precepts constrained by the frailty of the flesh, but by the authority of an indestructible life.  MIRROR

HEB 7:25  Through him mankind’s approach to God is forever secured; he continues to communicate the full accomplishment of their salvation.  MIRROR

Heb 2:6 It says in Scripture, What is man and woman that you bother with them; why take a second look their way?

7 You made them not quite as high as angels, bright with Eden’s dawn light;

8 Then you put them in charge of your entire handcrafted world. When God put them in charge of everything, nothing was excluded. But we don’t see it yet, don’t see everything under human jurisdiction.

9 What we do see is Jesus, made “not quite as high as angels,” and then, through the experience of death, crowned so much higher than any angel, with a glory “bright with Eden’s dawn light.” In that death, by God’s grace, he fully experienced death in every person’s place.

10 It makes good sense that the God who got everything started and keeps everything going now completes the work by making the Salvation Pioneer perfect through suffering as he leads all these people to glory. MSG

HEB 1:1 Now faith brings our hopes into reality and becomes the foundation needed to acquire the things we long for. It is all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen.

2 This testimony of faith is what previous generations were commended for.

3 Faith empowers us to see that the universe was created and beautifully coordinated by the power of God’s words! He spoke and the invisible realm gave birth to all that is seen.  TPT

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

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

21 And since we now have a magnificent High Priest to welcome us into God’s house, 22 we come closer to God and approach him with an open heart, fully convinced that nothing will keep us at a distance from him. For our hearts have been sprinkled with blood to remove impurity, and we have been freed from an accusing conscience. Now we are clean, unstained, and presentable to God inside and out!  TPT

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

COL 1:20  He initiated the reconciliation of all things to himself. Through the blood of the cross God restored the original harmony. His reign of peace now extends to every visible thing upon the earth as well as those invisible things which are in the heavenly realm.  MIRROR

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

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

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

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

16-17 Like a will that takes effect when someone dies, the new covenant was put into action at Jesus’ death. His death marked the transition from the old plan to the new one, canceling the old obligations and accompanying sins, and summoning the heirs to receive the eternal inheritance that was promised them. He brought together God and his people in this new way. MSG

Heb 10:7 So I said, “I’m here to do it your way, O God, the way it’s described in your Book.”

8 When he said, “You don’t want sacrifices and offerings,” he was referring to practices according to the old plan.

9 When he added, “I’m here to do it your way,” he set aside the first in order to enact the new plan —  MSG

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HEB 10:9 Also by saying, “I am commissioned to fulfil your will,” he announces the final closure of the first in order to introduce the second.  MIRROR

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

1 JN 1:7  But if we keep living in the pure light that surrounds him, we share unbroken fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, continually cleanses us from all sin. TPT

Acts 20:28 Take care and be on guard for yourselves and the whole flock over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you bishops and guardians, to shepherd (tend and feed and guide) the church of the Lord or of God which He obtained for Himself [buying it and saving it for Himself] with His own blood.  AMP

Eph 1:7-10 Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people — free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free!  MSG

Romans 5:9 And there is still much more to say of his unfailing love for us! For through the blood of Jesus we have heard the powerful declaration, “You are now righteous in my sight.” And because of the sacrifice of Jesus, you will never experience the wrath of God. TPT

REV 1:5  May this grace and peace of Jesus Christ overwhelm you! He is the first born from the dead and embodies the evidence and testimony of everything that God believes about you. He heads up the authority in which we reign as kings on the earth. His crown endorses our crown! He always loves us and loosed us once and for all from the dominion of sin in the shedding of his blood!  MIRROR

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

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

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

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

22 Now that you’ve cleaned up your lives by following the truth, love one another as if your lives depended on it.

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

Matt 26:28 This is my blood, God’s new covenant poured out for many people for the forgiveness of sins.

29 “I’ll not be drinking wine from this cup again until that new day when I’ll drink with you in the kingdom of my Father.”  MSG

John 6:53 But Jesus didn’t give an inch. “Only insofar as you eat and drink flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of the Son of Man, do you have life within you.

54 The one who brings a hearty appetite to this eating and drinking has eternal life and will be fit and ready for the Final Day.

55 My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

56 By eating my flesh and drinking my blood you enter into me and I into you.

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

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

59 He said these things while teaching in the meeting place in Capernaum.  MSG

1 Cor 10:16 When we drink the cup of blessing, aren’t we taking into ourselves the blood, the very life, of Christ? And isn’t it the same with the loaf of bread we break and eat? Don’t we take into ourselves the body, the very life, of Christ?

17 Because there is one loaf, our many-ness becomes one-ness — Christ doesn’t become fragmented in us. Rather, we become unified in him. We don’t reduce Christ to what we are; he raises us to what he is. MSG

COMMUNION

GOOD FRIDAY THE BLOOD 4-18-25 VIDEO PHIL WICKHAM SUNDAYS COMIN

When God said to Moses “I Am that I Am“  it was the most profound revelation in all of the word. Moses suddenly saw the future he saw beyond time in space. He saw realms of eternity and future generations to come. He saw the One who would bring eternal life by His blood. And new DNA by His blood. And new priesthood came by His blood. By His blood, everything was reconciled.

JN 8:56 Your father Abraham was leaping with joy to see my day! What he saw made him exceedingly glad!

57 Then the Jews said, “Ha! You’re not even fifty years old and you claim to have seen Abraham!”

58 “Most certainly do I say unto you that before Abraham was born, I am!”  MIRROR

JN 8:23 Jesus said to them, “You draw your conclusions from the sense ruled world here below – my source points to a different dimension, a realm which is above the horizon of the senses.

24 That is why I said that you will die in your sins because you are not convinced about who I am, you wouldn’t know who you are! Your unbelief in my I-am-ness will keep you trapped in this death-ruled dimension, the very dimension that I have come to deliver you from!”  MIRROR

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JOHN 8:23-24  Jesus spoke up and said, “You are all from the earth; I am from above. I am not from this world like you are.

24 That’s why I’ve told you that you will all die in your sins if you fail to believe that I AM who I AM.”  TPT

HEB 7:16 This new office is not based on the law of precepts constrained by the frailty of the flesh, but by the authority of an indestructible life.  MIRROR

HEB 7:25  Through him mankind’s approach to God is forever secured; he continues to communicate the full accomplishment of their salvation.  MIRROR

Heb 2:6 It says in Scripture, What is man and woman that you bother with them; why take a second look their way?

7 You made them not quite as high as angels, bright with Eden’s dawn light;

8 Then you put them in charge of your entire handcrafted world. When God put them in charge of everything, nothing was excluded. But we don’t see it yet, don’t see everything under human jurisdiction.

9 What we do see is Jesus, made “not quite as high as angels,” and then, through the experience of death, crowned so much higher than any angel, with a glory “bright with Eden’s dawn light.” In that death, by God’s grace, he fully experienced death in every person’s place.

10 It makes good sense that the God who got everything started and keeps everything going now completes the work by making the Salvation Pioneer perfect through suffering as he leads all these people to glory. MSG

HEB 1:1 Now faith brings our hopes into reality and becomes the foundation needed to acquire the things we long for. It is all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen.

2 This testimony of faith is what previous generations were commended for.

3 Faith empowers us to see that the universe was created and beautifully coordinated by the power of God’s words! He spoke and the invisible realm gave birth to all that is seen.  TPT

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

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

21 And since we now have a magnificent High Priest to welcome us into God’s house, 22 we come closer to God and approach him with an open heart, fully convinced that nothing will keep us at a distance from him. For our hearts have been sprinkled with blood to remove impurity, and we have been freed from an accusing conscience. Now we are clean, unstained, and presentable to God inside and out!  TPT

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

COL 1:20  He initiated the reconciliation of all things to himself. Through the blood of the cross God restored the original harmony. His reign of peace now extends to every visible thing upon the earth as well as those invisible things which are in the heavenly realm.  MIRROR

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

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

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

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

16-17 Like a will that takes effect when someone dies, the new covenant was put into action at Jesus’ death. His death marked the transition from the old plan to the new one, canceling the old obligations and accompanying sins, and summoning the heirs to receive the eternal inheritance that was promised them. He brought together God and his people in this new way. MSG

Heb 10:7 So I said, “I’m here to do it your way, O God, the way it’s described in your Book.”

8 When he said, “You don’t want sacrifices and offerings,” he was referring to practices according to the old plan.

9 When he added, “I’m here to do it your way,” he set aside the first in order to enact the new plan —  MSG

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HEB 10:9 Also by saying, “I am commissioned to fulfil your will,” he announces the final closure of the first in order to introduce the second.  MIRROR

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

1 JN 1:7  But if we keep living in the pure light that surrounds him, we share unbroken fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, continually cleanses us from all sin. TPT

Acts 20:28 Take care and be on guard for yourselves and the whole flock over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you bishops and guardians, to shepherd (tend and feed and guide) the church of the Lord or of God which He obtained for Himself [buying it and saving it for Himself] with His own blood.  AMP

Eph 1:7-10 Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people — free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free!  MSG

Romans 5:9 And there is still much more to say of his unfailing love for us! For through the blood of Jesus we have heard the powerful declaration, “You are now righteous in my sight.” And because of the sacrifice of Jesus, you will never experience the wrath of God. TPT

REV 1:5  May this grace and peace of Jesus Christ overwhelm you! He is the first born from the dead and embodies the evidence and testimony of everything that God believes about you. He heads up the authority in which we reign as kings on the earth. His crown endorses our crown! He always loves us and loosed us once and for all from the dominion of sin in the shedding of his blood!  MIRROR

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

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

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

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

22 Now that you’ve cleaned up your lives by following the truth, love one another as if your lives depended on it.

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

Matt 26:28 This is my blood, God’s new covenant poured out for many people for the forgiveness of sins.

29 “I’ll not be drinking wine from this cup again until that new day when I’ll drink with you in the kingdom of my Father.”  MSG

John 6:53 But Jesus didn’t give an inch. “Only insofar as you eat and drink flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of the Son of Man, do you have life within you.

54 The one who brings a hearty appetite to this eating and drinking has eternal life and will be fit and ready for the Final Day.

55 My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

56 By eating my flesh and drinking my blood you enter into me and I into you.

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

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

59 He said these things while teaching in the meeting place in Capernaum.  MSG

1 Cor 10:16 When we drink the cup of blessing, aren’t we taking into ourselves the blood, the very life, of Christ? And isn’t it the same with the loaf of bread we break and eat? Don’t we take into ourselves the body, the very life, of Christ?

17 Because there is one loaf, our many-ness becomes one-ness — Christ doesn’t become fragmented in us. Rather, we become unified in him. We don’t reduce Christ to what we are; he raises us to what he is. MSG

COMMUNION

THE RIVERS OF LIVING WATER  4-13-25 VIDEO KEITH

We are filled to overflowing with the rivers of life. The rivers of life are the Holy Spirit. The ministry of the rivers of living water has a Greater Glory. When the veil was torn by the Holy Spirit, we were freed from the Old to receive the new. He is the river of living water. The Holy Spirit is our freedom. The Holy Spirit has brought the river of life into each one of us. We have a greater capacity than Enoch for entering into the heavenly realms, because we have the river of life rushing on the inside of us. The capacity of the Enoch had to enter heaven and to be glorified is amazing. But our capacity is even greater.

Heb 11:5  By an act of faith, Enoch skipped death completely. “They looked all over and couldn’t find him because God had taken him.” We know on the basis of reliable testimony that before he was taken “he pleased God.”  MSG

2 COR 3:7 Even the ministry that was characterized by chiseled letters on stone tablets came with a dazzling measure of glory, though it produced death. The Israelites couldn’t bear to gaze on the glowing face of Moses because of the radiant splendor shining from his countenance—a glory destined to fade away.

8 Yet how much more radiant is this new and glorious ministry of the Spirit that shines from us!

9 For if the former ministry of condemnation was ushered in with a measure of glory, how much more does the ministry that imparts righteousness far excel in glory.

10 What once was glorious no longer holds any glory because of the increasingly greater glory that has replaced it.

11 The fading ministry came with a portion of glory, but now we embrace the unfading ministry of a permanent impartation of glory.

12 So then, with this amazing hope living in us, we step out in freedom and boldness to speak the truth.  TPT

2 COR 3:16 The moment anyone returns to the Lord the veil is gone

17 The Lord and the Spirit are one; his Lordship sanctions our freedom. A freedom from rules chiseled in stone to the voice of our redeemed design echoing in our hearts!

18 Now, we all, with new understanding, see ourselves in him as in a mirror. The days of window-shopping are over! In him every face is unveiled. In gazing with wonder at the likeness of Elohim displayed in human form, we suddenly realize that we are looking into a mirror, where every feature of their image, articulated in the Lord, is reflected within us! The Spirit of the Lord engineers this radical transformation; we are led from an inferior mind-set to the revealed endorsement of our authentic identity.  From the fading glory of our own achievement, to the discovery of the most amazing reality, that we are God’s glory!  MIRROR

Matt 27:51 At that moment, the Temple curtain was ripped in two, top to bottom. There was an earthquake, and rocks were split in pieces.

52 What’s more, tombs were opened up, and many bodies of believers asleep in their graves were raised.

53 (After Jesus’ resurrection, they left the tombs, entered the holy city, and appeared to many.) MSG

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

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ROM 8:2 The law of the Spirit is the liberating force of life in Christ. This leaves me with no further obligation to the law of sin and death. Spirit has superseded the sin enslaved senses as the principle law of our lives.  MIRROR

JN 7:37 On the final day, the crescendo of the eight-day Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus, knowing that he is the completeness of every prophetic picture and promise, cried out with a loud voice, If anyone is thirsty, let him come and stand face-to-face with me and drink! 

38 In your realizing that I am what the Scriptures are all about, you will discover uniquely for yourself, face to face with me, that you are what I am all about and rivers of living waters will gush out of your innermost being!

39 Jesus spoke about the Spirit whom those who would believe that he is the conclusion of Scripture were about to grasp since who Jesus was in all of his majestic splendor was not yet fully acknowledged and thus the Spirit was not yet evident. MIRROR

Rev 22:1 Then the Angel showed me Water-of-Life River, crystal bright. It flowed from the Throne of God and the Lamb,

2 right down the middle of the street. The Tree of Life was planted on each side of the River, producing twelve kinds of fruit, a ripe fruit each month. The leaves of the Tree are for healing the nations. MSG

Jer 17:13 O Lord, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be put to shame. They who depart from You and me [Your prophet] shall [disappear like] writing upon the ground, because they have forsaken the Lord, the Fountain of living waters.  AMP

John 4:10 Jesus answered, “If you knew the generosity of God and who I am, you would be asking me for a drink, and I would give you fresh, living water.” MSG\\

JN 4:13 Jesus answered her, “This well cannot quench the thirst that I am talking about. Anyone drinking from it will thirst again!”  

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

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JN 4:13 Jesus answered, “If you drink from Jacob’s well, you’ll be thirsty again,

14 but if anyone drinks the living water I give them, they will never be thirsty again. For when you drink the water I give you, it becomes a gushing fountain of the Holy Spirit, flooding you with endless life!” TPT

ISA 44:3 I will pour refreshing water on the thirsty and streams on the dry ground. I will pour out my Spirit on your children, my blessing upon your descendants.

4 They will spring up like grass blanketing a meadow, like poplars growing by gushing streams. TPT

ISA 58:11 Yahweh will always guide you where to go and what to do. He will fill you with refreshment even when you are in a dry, difficult place. He will continually restore strength to you, so you will flourish like a well-watered garden and like an ever-flowing, trustworthy spring of blessing. TPT

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Isa 58:11 I will always show you where to go. I’ll give you a full life in the emptiest of places —  firm muscles, strong bones. You’ll be like a well-watered garden, a gurgling spring that never runs dry. MSG

Ps 46:4 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

5 God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God will help her right early [at the dawn of the morning].  AMP

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Ps 46:4 River fountains splash joy, cooling God’s city, this sacred haunt of the Most High.

5 God lives here, the streets are safe, God at your service from crack of dawn.

RIVER-overflowing stream” depicts the onrush of God’s glory and divine peace. Effects of the operation of the Holy Spirit in & thru the believer

Rev 21:6  Then he said, “It’s happened. I’m A to Z. I’m the Beginning, I’m the Conclusion. From Water-of-Life Well I give freely to the thirsty. AMP

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

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Rev 22:17  The [Holy] Spirit and the bride (the church, the true Christians) say, Come! And let him who is listening say, Come! And let everyone come who is thirsty [who is painfully conscious of his need of those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported, and strengthened]; and whoever [earnestly] desires to do it, let him come, take, appropriate, and drink the water of Life without cost.  AMP

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

John 3:5 Jesus answered, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and [even] the Spirit, he cannot [ever] enter the kingdom of God.

6 What is born of [from] the flesh is flesh [of the physical is physical]; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.  AMP

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John 3:5 Jesus said, “You’re not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a person submits to this original creation — the ‘wind hovering over the water’ creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life — it’s not possible to enter God’s kingdom.

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

Ezek 36:25 I’ll pour pure water over you and scrub you clean.

26 I’ll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I’ll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that’s God-willed, not self-willed MSG

ISA 33:21 Glorious Yahweh will be there for us in a land with broad rivers and life-giving streams, where the hostile, majestic ships will not sail.

22 The Lord Yahweh is our Judge, our Lawgiver, and our King; he will save us completely!

23 Your ropes hang loose, your mast is not secure, and your sail is not unfurled. Then there will be a great plunder, such an abundant treasure divided that even the lame will seize their rich share.

24 No one living in Zion will say, “I am sick,” for all who live there will have their sin forgiven.  TPT

JOY UNSPEAKABLE AND FULL OF GLORY 4-11-25 VIDEO LAUGHING

The world is not able to offer you joy. It can give some happiness, but nothing that lasts. Money can give you some happiness, but it does not last. The joy that the Father gives us is eternal just like He is.

1 PET 1:8 So even though you have never seen Jesus in the flesh you love him; even at times where he seems remote and invisible, your awareness of your union in him continues to ignite belief! You are leaping with indescribable and exuberant joy as you hold him in high esteem!

9 In this place of joy, you are beyond the reach of any harm. Joy gives your faith a voice announcing the perfection of your soul’s salvation.   MIRROR

Job 8:21 God will let you laugh again; you’ll raise the roof with shouts of joy,

22 With your enemies thoroughly discredited, their house of cards collapsed.”  MSG

Neh 8:10 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.  AMP

Ps 5:11 But let all those who take refuge and put their trust in You rejoice; let them ever sing and shout for joy, because You make a covering over them and defend them; let those also who love Your name be joyful in You and be in high spirits.

12 For You, Lord, will bless the [uncompromisingly] righteous [him who is upright and in right standing with You]; as with a shield You will surround him with goodwill (pleasure and favor.  AMP

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. 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.  TPT

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

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

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Ps 16:11 You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. AMP

Ps 32:11 Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you [uncompromisingly] righteous [you who are upright and in right standing with Him]; shout for joy, all you upright in heart!  AMP

Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?  AMP

Ps 96:12 Let Wilderness turn cartwheels, Animals, come dance, Put every tree of the forest in the choir — 

13 An extravaganza before God as he comes, As he comes to set everything right on earth, Set everything right, treat everyone fair.  MSG

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PS 96:12  Let the skies sing for joy! Let the earth join in the chorus. Let oceans thunder and fields echo this ecstatic praise until every swaying tree of every forest joins in, Lifting up their songs of joyous praise to him!

13 For here he comes, the Lord God, and he’s ready to judge the world. He will do what’s right and can be trusted to always do what’s fair. TPT

Isa 55:12 So you’ll go out in joy, you’ll be led into a whole and complete life. The mountains and hills will lead the parade, bursting with song. All the trees of the forest will join the procession, exuberant with applause.  MSG

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ISA 55:12 ‘For you will leave your exile with joy and be led home wrapped in peace. The mountains and hills in front of you will burst into singing and the trees of the field will applaud! ‘  TPT

Ps 67:4 Let all far-flung people become happy and shout their happiness because You judge them fair and square, you tend the far-flung peoples.

5 God! Let people thank and enjoy you. Let all people thank and enjoy you.

6 Earth, display your exuberance! You mark us with blessing, O God, our God.

7 You mark us with blessing, O God. Earth’s four corners — honor him!  MSG

Ps 126:5 So those who planted their crops in despair will shout hurrahs at the harvest,

6 So those who went off with heavy hearts will come home laughing, with armloads of blessing. MSG

ISA 12:3 With triumphant joy you will drink deeply from the wells of salvation.

4 In that glorious day, you will say to one another, “Give thanks to the Lord and ask him for more!  Tell the world about all that he does! Let them know how magnificent he is!”   TPT

ISA 61:2 I am sent to announce a new season of Yahweh’s grace  and a time of God’s recompense on his enemies,  to comfort all who are in sorrow,

3 to strengthen those crushed by despair who mourn in Zion—to give them a beautiful bouquet in the place of ashes, the oil of bliss instead of tears, and the mantle of joyous praise instead of the spirit of heaviness.  Because of this, they will be known as Mighty Oaks of Righteousness, planted by Yahweh as a living display of his glory.TPT

HEB 12:2  ‘We look away from the natural realm and we focus our attention and expectation onto 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! TPT

LUKE 10:20  But much more important than your excitement about spirits being subject to you [in my name] rejoice in the awareness that your names are engraved in the heavens. It is time for you to re-discover who you are from heavens perspective!  

21 Just then, Jesus began to leap with ecstatic joy in the Holy Spirit and burst out into praise, “Oh my Father, Lord of heaven and earth, I mirror your delight! You hid these things from the eloquent scholars of the day and unveiled it to babes! Yes Father, this joyous unveiling  is your glory! This is the radiance of your face!” MIRROR

JOHN 15:11 I have spoken these things unto you so that my joy will continuously infuse you – you don’t have to invent your own if you can tap into mine! This is the ultimate bliss!  MIRROR

John 16:20 Then fix this firmly in your minds: You’re going to be in deep mourning while the godless world throws a party. You’ll be sad, very sad, but your sadness will develop into gladness.

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

22 The sadness you have right now is similar to that pain, but the coming joy is also similar. When I see you again, you’ll be full of joy, and it will be a joy no one can rob from you.

23 You’ll no longer be so full of questions. “This is what I want you to do: Ask the Father for whatever is in keeping with the things I’ve revealed to you.

24 Ask in my name, according to my will, and he’ll most certainly give it to you. Your joy will be a river overflowing its banks!   MSG

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

Rom 14:17 God’s kingdom isn’t a matter of what you put in your stomach, for goodness’ sake. It’s what God does with your life as he sets it right, puts it together, and completes it with joy. MSG

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ROM 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

1 Peter 4:13 Instead, be glad that you are in the very thick of what Christ experienced. This is a spiritual refining process, with glory just around the corner. MSG

LUKE 6:22 Your blissful state remains uninterrupted when, because of your association with me as the son of man, people hate, de-friend, gossip, block and exclude you, or even slander and embarrass you by dragging your name through the mud, making you out to be somebody evil! Your social standing and recognition is no longer based on how popular you are in the typical religious world.

23 Hey, instead of sulking about it, click your heels and do a happy dance! You are tapped into heaven’s currency and cannot be bought! You are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses! These religious leaders, who are so stoked on their currency of condemnation and judgment are the very same fanatics who murdered your fathers, the prophets who saw my day!  MIRROR

ROM 15:13 Now may God, the fountain of hope, fill you to overflowing with uncontainable joy and perfect peace as you trust in him. And may the power of the Holy Spirit continually surround your life with his super-abundance until you radiate with hope! TPT

BEING A CONTENDER  4-6-24 by Mary Dorian VIDEO CRAZY PEOPLE

Are you someone who wishes for the best and wants to see something wonderful happen but in reality, never takes an action or are you a contender? Someone who won’t give up-A fighter who keeps going to you see the results. Beloved spiritual power is not for the faint of heart. It is for the Contenders.

1 Cor 9:24 You’ve all been to the stadium and seen the athletes race. Everyone runs; one wins. Run to win. 

25 All good athletes train hard. They do it for a gold medal that tarnishes and fades. You’re after one that’s gold eternally.

26 I don’t know about you, but I’m running hard for the finish line. I’m giving it everything I’ve got. No sloppy living for me!

27 I’m staying alert and in top condition. I’m not going to get caught napping, telling everyone else all about it and then missing out myself. MSG

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1Corinthians 9:24  Athletes run a race to win; their aim is to receive the prize not just to compete! This is why I preach, to persuade you and not just to entertain you!  

25 The athlete knows how to draw from focused inner strength in order to win the crown; for them all their effort translates into a mere moment celebrated by a fading wreath of honor. For us to win your faith is of imperishable value!

26 I run with certain victory in my every step! I am not shadow boxing when I preach!

27 I deliberately compare myself to the sacrifice and dedication of a champion athlete; in similar fashion I would pummel my body and subdue it! I would deny myself many things in my pursuit to win your faith so that you will not have any excuse to reject my message. I want you, not your money!   Mirror

Prov 28:4 Those who forsake the law [of God and man] praise the wicked, but those who keep the law [of God and man] contend with them.  AMP

Isa 50:8-9 The One who makes me righteous is close to me. Who would dare challenge me now? Who would be my opponent? Let him stand before me! Who is my accuser?

Let him confront me!

9 It is the Lord Yahweh who empowers me; who would condemn me?  My accusers will all fade away like worn-out, moth-eaten clothes. The One who makes me righteous is close to me. Who would dare challenge me now? Who would be my opponent? Let him stand before me! Who is my accuser? Let him confront me! TPT

Mic 6:1 HEAR NOW what the Lord says: Arise, contend and plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.  AMP

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Mic 6:1 Listen now, listen to God: “Take your stand in court. If you have a complaint, tell the mountains; make your case to the hills. MSG

John 18:33-37 Than Pilate went back into the court room and summoned Jesus to him and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

34 Jesus responded, “Are these your own thoughts or did others suggest this about me?”

35 Pilate replied, “Am I a Jew, why would I bother to speculate about you? Your own people and priests handed you over to me. What have you done to make them do this?

36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom has nothing in common with the political or religious systems of this world; it does not originate out of their structures. If it did my subordinates would fight for me and resist my handover to the Jews.”

37 Pilate then said, “So you are a king?” Jesus replied, “You say that I am a king. My destiny was to be born in the flesh and for this purpose have I come into the world to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who recognizes their true origin, hears my voice.”

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1 Tim 6:12 Run hard and fast in the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to, the life you so fervently embraced in the presence of so many witnesses.

13 I’m charging you before the life-giving God and before Christ, who took his stand before Pontius Pilate and didn’t give an inch:  MSG

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1Tim 6:12 So fight with faith for the winner’s prize! Lay your hands upon eternal life, to which you were called and about which you made the good confession before the multitude of witnesses!

13 So now, I instruct you before the God of resurrection life and before Jesus, the Anointed One, who demonstrated a beautiful testimony even before Pontius Pilate, TPT

 2 Tim 4:7 This is the only race worth running. I’ve run hard right to the finish, believed all the way.

8 All that’s left now is the shouting — God’s applause! Depend on it, he’s an honest judge. He’ll do right not only by me, but by everyone eager for his coming. MSG

2Tim4:7-8  Like a champion athlete I have run my race and completed the course; I have carefully 1attended to the faith! (The word 1tereo means to attend carefully, to guard.)

8 My wreath of righteousness awaits me as testimony to the Lord’s righteous judgment. He will crown me in that day, the moment I step out of this body. I will not be the only one receiving a wreath of honor; everyone, 1loving the brilliance of his appearing will be jointly crowned!  Mirror

Romans 8:37 On the contrary, in the thick of these things our triumph remains beyond dispute. His love has placed us above the reach of any onslaught.

38 This is my conviction; no threat whether it be in death or life; be it celestial messengers, 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 unveiled in our Lord, Jesus Christ.  Mirror

Acts 23:9 This sparked an even greater uproar among them. Finally, some of the separated ones who were religious scholars stood up and protested strongly, saying, “We find nothing wrong with this man. It could be that the Spirit has spoken to him or an angel came to him.”

10 When the shouting match became intense, the commander, fearing they would tear Paul to pieces, intervened and ordered his soldiers to go in to their meeting and seize him and take him back to their headquarters.

11 That night our Lord appeared to Paul and stood before him and said, “Receive miracle power. For just as you have spoken for me in Jerusalem, you will also speak for me in Rome. TPT

EPH 6:12  People are not the enemy,  to target one another is to engage in the wrong combat. We represent the authority of the victory of Christ in the spiritual realm. We are positioned there (in Christ); we confront the mind games and structures of darkness, religious thought patterns, governing and conditioning human behavior.  

13 It is most important therefore to acquaint yourself with every aspect of God’s armor. You are fully fit to powerfully defeat any onslaught or contradiction on any day of confrontation, triumphantly standing your ground. The days where the law of hardships, annoyances and labor dictated your life are over!

14 Take your position: you have the truth [of who you are in Christ] wrapped 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!  Mirror

 Jude 3 Dear friends, I’ve dropped everything to write you about this life of salvation that we have in common. I have to write insisting — begging! — that you fight with everything you have in you for this faith entrusted to us as a gift to guard and cherish.  MSG

Phil 1:27 Meanwhile, live in such a way that you are a credit to the Message of Christ. Let nothing in your conduct hang on whether I come or not. Your conduct must be the same whether I show up to see things for myself or hear of it from a distance. Stand united, singular in vision, contending for people’s trust in the Message, the good news,

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John 12:30 Jesus replied, “This voice was not for my sake but for yours!

31 Now is the judgment of this world; this is the moment where the ruler of the world-system is 1conclusively cast out!

32 When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all of mankind and every definition of judgment unto me!   Mirror

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

Hebrews 11:6 ‘And without faith living within us it would be impossible to please God. For we come to God in faith knowing that he is real and that he rewards the faith of those who passionately seek him.’ TPT

Hebrews11:13  These heroes all died still clinging to their faith, not even receiving all that had been promised them. But they saw beyond the horizon the fulfillment of their promises and gladly embraced it from afar. They all lived their lives on earth as those who belonged to another realm.

14 For clearly, those who live this way are longing for the appearing of a heavenly city. 15 And if their hearts were still remembering what they left behind, they would have found an opportunity to go back.

16 But they couldn’t turn back for their hearts were fixed on what was far greater, that is, the heavenly realm!  So because of this God is not ashamed in any way to be called their God, for he has prepared a heavenly city for them. TPT

Heb 12:1-3 Do you see what this means — all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running — and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins.

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

3 When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!

 In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, to say nothing of what Jesus went through — all that bloodshed!  MSG

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Hebrews 12:1 1As for us, we have all of these great witnesses who encircle us like clouds. So we must let go of every wound that has pierced us and the sin we so easily fall into. Then we will be able to run life’s marathon race with passion and determination, for the path has been already marked out before us.

2 We look away from the natural realm and we focus our attention and expectation onto 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.

4 After all, you have not yet reached the point of sweating blood in your opposition to sin.   TPT

TAKING BACK OUR SPIRITUAL INHERITANCE 3-30-25 VIDEO

Mankind lost their spiritual inheritance in the garden of Eden because of Adam and Eve. Inheritance in the Bible means to receive an irrevocable gift. Inheritance signifies both material possessions, but most important spiritual blessings and promises passed down from one generation to the next. Mysteries to be understood inheritances can be unattended to or uncared or unoccupied, but they are for the taking. Inheritance does not depend on us. It depends on Christ. We have inherited the kingdom with the Son. We have eternal life as our inheritance. And the heathen.

Matt 13:11 He replied, “You’ve been given insight into God’s kingdom. You know how it works. Not everybody has this gift, this insight; it hasn’t been given to them.

12 Whenever someone has a ready heart for this, the insights and understandings flow freely. But if there is no readiness, any trace of receptivity soon disappears. MSG

1 COR 4:1 This is how one should regard us (so called, Apostles): we are the under-rowers of Captain Christ; responsible for the engine room as it were! We are entrusted with the administration of the mysteries of God. MIRROR

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1 Cor 4:1 Don’t imagine us leaders to be something we aren’t. We are servants of Christ, not his masters. We are guides into God’s most sublime secrets, not security guards posted to protect them. MSG

Eph 1:17-18 But I do more than thank. I ask — ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory — to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally,

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

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EPH 1:17 I pray that the Father of glory, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would impart to you the riches of the Spirit of wisdom and the Spirit of revelation to know him through your deepening intimacy with him.

18 I pray that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light, until you experience the full revelation of the hope of his calling —that is, the wealth of God’s glorious inheritances that he finds in us, his holy ones!   TPT

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

Ps 2:8 What do you want? Name it: Nations as a present? continents as a prize?

9 You can command them all to dance for you, Or throw them out with tomorrow’s trash.”   MSG

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 8:17 Because we are his offspring, we are certainly also his heirs; God himself is our portion and we are his! We are co-heirs in Christ. Since we were represented and included in his suffering we equally participate in the glory of his resurrection.  MIRROR

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Rom 8:17 And we know we are going to get what’s coming to us — an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through.  MSG

Gal 3:15 Friends, let me give you an example from everyday affairs of the free life I am talking about. Once a person’s will has been ratified, no one else can annul it or add to it.

16 Now, the promises were made to Abraham and to his descendant. You will observe that Scripture, in the careful language of a legal document, does not say “to descendants,” referring to everybody in general, but “to your descendant” (the noun, note, is singular), referring to Christ.

17 This is the way I interpret this: A will, earlier ratified by God, is not annulled by an addendum attached 430 years later, thereby negating the promise of the will.

18 No, this addendum, with its instructions and regulations, has nothing to do with the promised inheritance in the will. What is the point, then, of the law, the attached addendum? It was a thoughtful addition to the original covenant promises made to Abraham.  MSG

Eph 1:11 In Him we also were made [God’s] heritage (portion) and we obtained an inheritance; for we had been foreordained (chosen and appointed beforehand) in accordance with His purpose, Who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His [own] will,  AMP

Eph 1:14 That [Spirit] is the guarantee of our inheritance [the firstfruits, the pledge and foretaste, the down payment on our heritage], in anticipation of its full redemption and our acquiring [complete] possession of it — to the praise of His glory. AMP

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

Col 1:12 Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God’s holy people) in the Light.

13 [The Father] has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

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Col 1:12 thanking the Father who makes us strong enough to take part in everything bright and beautiful that he has for us.

13 God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He’s set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much,  MSG

Col 3:23-24 Work from the heart for your real Master, for God,

24 confident that you’ll get paid in full when you come into your inheritance. Keep in mind always that the ultimate Master you’re serving is Christ. MSG

HEB 9:15  As fully representing mankind, Jesus’s death brought an end to the old, and introduced the New Testament. He thus redeemed us from the transgressions recorded under the first Covenant and identified us as heirs; qualifying us to participate in the full inheritance of all that he obtained on our behalf.  MIRROR

Heb 9:16-17 Like a will that takes effect when someone dies, the new covenant was put into action at Jesus’ death. His death marked the transition from the old plan to the new one, canceling the old obligations and accompanying sins, and summoning the heirs to receive the eternal inheritance that was promised them. He brought together God and his people in this new way.

18 Even the first plan required a death to set it in motion. MSG

1 Peter 1:3 What a God we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our Master Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we’ve been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for,

4 including a future in heaven — and the future starts now!

5 God is keeping careful watch over us and the future. The Day is coming when you’ll have it all — life healed and whole. MSG

Ps 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait and hope and look for the Lord [in the end] shall inherit the earth. AMP

Prov 3:35 The wise shall inherit glory (all honor and good) but shame is the highest rank conferred on [self-confident] fools. AMP

Prov 8:21 That I may cause those who love me to inherit [true] riches and that I may fill their treasuries. AMP

Zech 8:12 For there shall the seed produce peace and prosperity; the vine shall yield her fruit and the ground shall give its increase and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit and possess all these things. AMP

MATT 25:34 ‘Then the King will turn to those on his right and say, ‘You have a special place in my Father’s heart. Come and experience the full inheritance of the kingdom realm that has been destined for you from before the foundation of the world! ‘  TPT

Rom 4:13That famous promise God gave Abraham — that he and his children would possess the earth — was not given because of something Abraham did or would do. It was based on God’s decision to put everything together for him, which Abraham then entered when he believed.  MSG

1 Cor 15:50  I need to emphasize, friends, that our natural, earthy lives don’t in themselves lead us by their very nature into the kingdom of God. Their very “nature” is to die, so how could they “naturally” end up in the Life kingdom?

51 But let me tell you something wonderful, a mystery I’ll probably never fully understand. We’re not all going to die — but we are all going to be changed. MSG

Heb 1:14 Are not the angels all ministering spirits (servants) sent out in the service [of God for the assistance] of those who are to inherit salvation?  AMP

Heb 6:17 When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee — 

18 God can’t break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable. We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go.

19 It’s an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God MSG

Ps 2:8 Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations as Your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth as Your possession.  AMP

Rev 21:5 The Enthroned continued, “Look! I’m making everything new. Write it all down — each word dependable and accurate.”

6 Then he said, “It’s happened. I’m A to Z. I’m the Beginning, I’m the Conclusion. From Water-of-Life Well I give freely to the thirsty.

7 Conquerors inherit all this. I’ll be God to them, they’ll be sons and daughters to me.

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TAKING BACK OUR SPIRITUAL INHERITANCE 3-30-25 VIDEO

Mankind lost their spiritual inheritance in the garden of Eden because of Adam and Eve. Inheritance in the Bible means to receive an irrevocable gift. Inheritance signifies both material possessions, but most important spiritual blessings and promises passed down from one generation to the next. Mysteries to be understood inheritances can be unattended to or uncared or unoccupied, but they are for the taking. Inheritance does not depend on us. It depends on Christ. We have inherited the kingdom with the Son. We have eternal life as our inheritance. And the heathen.

Matt 13:11 He replied, “You’ve been given insight into God’s kingdom. You know how it works. Not everybody has this gift, this insight; it hasn’t been given to them.

12 Whenever someone has a ready heart for this, the insights and understandings flow freely. But if there is no readiness, any trace of receptivity soon disappears. MSG

1 COR 4:1 This is how one should regard us (so called, Apostles): we are the under-rowers of Captain Christ; responsible for the engine room as it were! We are entrusted with the administration of the mysteries of God. MIRROR

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1 Cor 4:1 Don’t imagine us leaders to be something we aren’t. We are servants of Christ, not his masters. We are guides into God’s most sublime secrets, not security guards posted to protect them. MSG

Eph 1:17-18 But I do more than thank. I ask — ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory — to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally,

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

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EPH 1:17 I pray that the Father of glory, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would impart to you the riches of the Spirit of wisdom and the Spirit of revelation to know him through your deepening intimacy with him.

18 I pray that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light, until you experience the full revelation of the hope of his calling —that is, the wealth of God’s glorious inheritances that he finds in us, his holy ones!   TPT

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

Ps 2:8 What do you want? Name it: Nations as a present? continents as a prize?

9 You can command them all to dance for you, Or throw them out with tomorrow’s trash.”   MSG

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 8:17 Because we are his offspring, we are certainly also his heirs; God himself is our portion and we are his! We are co-heirs in Christ. Since we were represented and included in his suffering we equally participate in the glory of his resurrection.  MIRROR

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Rom 8:17 And we know we are going to get what’s coming to us — an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through.  MSG

Gal 3:15 Friends, let me give you an example from everyday affairs of the free life I am talking about. Once a person’s will has been ratified, no one else can annul it or add to it.

16 Now, the promises were made to Abraham and to his descendant. You will observe that Scripture, in the careful language of a legal document, does not say “to descendants,” referring to everybody in general, but “to your descendant” (the noun, note, is singular), referring to Christ.

17 This is the way I interpret this: A will, earlier ratified by God, is not annulled by an addendum attached 430 years later, thereby negating the promise of the will.

18 No, this addendum, with its instructions and regulations, has nothing to do with the promised inheritance in the will. What is the point, then, of the law, the attached addendum? It was a thoughtful addition to the original covenant promises made to Abraham.  MSG

Eph 1:11 In Him we also were made [God’s] heritage (portion) and we obtained an inheritance; for we had been foreordained (chosen and appointed beforehand) in accordance with His purpose, Who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His [own] will,  AMP

Eph 1:14 That [Spirit] is the guarantee of our inheritance [the firstfruits, the pledge and foretaste, the down payment on our heritage], in anticipation of its full redemption and our acquiring [complete] possession of it — to the praise of His glory. AMP

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

Col 1:12 Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God’s holy people) in the Light.

13 [The Father] has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

AMP  ↓↓↓

Col 1:12 thanking the Father who makes us strong enough to take part in everything bright and beautiful that he has for us.

13 God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He’s set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much,  MSG

Col 3:23-24 Work from the heart for your real Master, for God,

24 confident that you’ll get paid in full when you come into your inheritance. Keep in mind always that the ultimate Master you’re serving is Christ. MSG

HEB 9:15  As fully representing mankind, Jesus’s death brought an end to the old, and introduced the New Testament. He thus redeemed us from the transgressions recorded under the first Covenant and identified us as heirs; qualifying us to participate in the full inheritance of all that he obtained on our behalf.  MIRROR

Heb 9:16-17 Like a will that takes effect when someone dies, the new covenant was put into action at Jesus’ death. His death marked the transition from the old plan to the new one, canceling the old obligations and accompanying sins, and summoning the heirs to receive the eternal inheritance that was promised them. He brought together God and his people in this new way.

18 Even the first plan required a death to set it in motion. MSG

1 Peter 1:3 What a God we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our Master Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we’ve been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for,

4 including a future in heaven — and the future starts now!

5 God is keeping careful watch over us and the future. The Day is coming when you’ll have it all — life healed and whole. MSG

Ps 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait and hope and look for the Lord [in the end] shall inherit the earth. AMP

Prov 3:35 The wise shall inherit glory (all honor and good) but shame is the highest rank conferred on [self-confident] fools. AMP

Prov 8:21 That I may cause those who love me to inherit [true] riches and that I may fill their treasuries. AMP

Zech 8:12 For there shall the seed produce peace and prosperity; the vine shall yield her fruit and the ground shall give its increase and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit and possess all these things. AMP

MATT 25:34 ‘Then the King will turn to those on his right and say, ‘You have a special place in my Father’s heart. Come and experience the full inheritance of the kingdom realm that has been destined for you from before the foundation of the world! ‘  TPT

Rom 4:13That famous promise God gave Abraham — that he and his children would possess the earth — was not given because of something Abraham did or would do. It was based on God’s decision to put everything together for him, which Abraham then entered when he believed.  MSG

1 Cor 15:50  I need to emphasize, friends, that our natural, earthy lives don’t in themselves lead us by their very nature into the kingdom of God. Their very “nature” is to die, so how could they “naturally” end up in the Life kingdom?

51 But let me tell you something wonderful, a mystery I’ll probably never fully understand. We’re not all going to die — but we are all going to be changed. MSG

Heb 1:14 Are not the angels all ministering spirits (servants) sent out in the service [of God for the assistance] of those who are to inherit salvation?  AMP

Heb 6:17 When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee — 

18 God can’t break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable. We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go.

19 It’s an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God MSG

Ps 2:8 Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations as Your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth as Your possession.  AMP

Rev 21:5 The Enthroned continued, “Look! I’m making everything new. Write it all down — each word dependable and accurate.”

6 Then he said, “It’s happened. I’m A to Z. I’m the Beginning, I’m the Conclusion. From Water-of-Life Well I give freely to the thirsty.

7 Conquerors inherit all this. I’ll be God to them, they’ll be sons and daughters to me.

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GOD IS DOING A NEW THING 3-28-25 VIDEO

The God we know is not the One who stands still. He’s always moving forward. He’s going to do and demonstrate a new thing in His church as well as a new thing in your personal life. It’s new wine. It’s interesting that the first public miracle that Jesus did was bringing new wine for a marriage. It represents a new way of seeing things. Seeing yourself and the kingdom. Jesus came to make us brand new. Not like the Pharisees who wanted to remain the same. Old wineskins religion does not move forward till it changes to new wine skins.  He gives us a new heart and a new spirit. You have been made beautiful and brand new.

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

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

JOHN 2:1 Three days later there was a wedding in Cana, a village in Galilee which Jesus’ mother attended.

2 Jesus and his followers were also invited.

3 When Mary learned that they had run out of wine, she informed Jesus.

4 He responded with, “Well Ma’am, that’s their problem – or do you want me to steal the show here at somebody else’s wedding, when my hour of fulfilling my mission has not yet come?

5 Mary proceeded to line up the waiters to assist Jesus, “Do whatever he tells you to!”

6 Now there were six empty stone water pots used for the ceremonial cleansing of the Jews. They could hold approximately twenty gallons each.

7 Jesus asked the waiters to fill these stone jars with water, to the brim.

8 And then instructed them to immediately draw from the containers and present it to the governor of the feast; which they did without hesitation.

9 The host of the event tasted the water that has now become wine, but had no clue as to its vintage or origin. The servants didn’t tell him a word, so he called the bridegroom.

10 “Why would you keep the best wine for last?” Everybody serves the better wine first, so that by the time the cheaper wine is served, no-one can tell the difference – and here you surprise us all by bringing this excellent wine from your storehouse. Even though we already had much to drink, it is impossible not to tell its superiority!  

11 In this first of the signs which Jesus performed at a wedding in Cana of Galilee, he gave everyone a foretaste of the beauty and intention of his mission. And his disciples believed in him.   MIRROR

Luke 5:37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the fresh wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled and the skins will be ruined (destroyed).

38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.  AMP

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Luke 5:37 And you don’t put wine in old, cracked bottles;

38 you get strong, clean bottles for your fresh vintage wine. MSG

MATT 9:16 And who would mend worn-out clothing with new fabric? When the new cloth shrinks it will rip, making the hole worse than before.

17 And who would pour fresh, new wine into an old wineskin? Eventually the wine will ferment and make the wineskin burst, losing everything—the wine is spilled and the wineskin ruined. Instead, new wine is always poured into a new wineskin so that both are preserved.”  TPT

Hos 6:2  In a couple of days we’ll feel better. By the third day he’ll have made us brand-new, Alive and on our feet, fit to face him.

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

Acts 2: 12 Their heads were spinning; which left them totally perplexed about what they were witnessing. They talked back and forth, confused: What’s going on here?

13 Others joked, They’re drunk on cheap wine.

14 Then Peter stood up and began to speak with great liberty,

15 It is only the third hour of the day, so, this cannot be the effect of an intoxication of wine; what you are witnessing, is of a different dimension.

16 This is what was prophesied by Joel.

17 In the conclusion of time says God, from out of myself, I will infuse my Spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.

18 Indeed, in those days will I infuse my Spirit from my inmost self, upon my male and female bond servants. MIRROR

ACTS 2:12 They all stood there, dumbfounded and astonished, saying to one another, “What is this phenomenon?”

13 But others poked fun at them and said, “They’re just drunk on new wine.”

14 Peter stood up with the eleven apostles and shouted to the crowd. “Listen carefully, my fellow Jews and 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 out my 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

Joel 3:18 “What a day! Wine streaming off the mountains, Milk rivering out of the hills, water flowing everywhere in Judah, A fountain pouring out of God’s Sanctuary, watering all the parks and gardens!  MSG

ISA 43:18-19  “Stop dwelling on the past. Don’t even remember these former things.

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

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Isa 43:18  “Forget about what’s happened; don’t keep going over old history.

19 Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new. It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it? There it is! I’m making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands. MSG

Rev 21:5  The Enthroned continued, “Look! I’m making everything new. Write it all down — each word dependable and accurate.”

6 Then he said, “It’s happened. I’m A to Z. I’m the Beginning, I’m the Conclusion. From Water-of-Life Well I give freely to the thirsty.

7 Conquerors inherit all this. I’ll be God to them, they’ll be sons and daughters to me. MSG

Lam 3:22 It is because of the Lord’s mercy and loving-kindness that we are not consumed, because His [tender] compassions fail not. 

23 They are new every morning; great and abundant is Your stability and faithfulness. 

24 The Lord is my portion or share, says my living being (my inner self); therefore will I hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him. AMP

Rom 6:4  We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life.

5 For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be [one with Him in sharing] His resurrection [by a new life lived for God].

6 We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin.  AMP

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

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

Ezek 36:26 I’ll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I’ll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that’s God-willed, not self-willed.

27 I’ll put my Spirit in you and make it possible for you to do what I tell you and live by my commands.  MSG

EPH 4:23-24  Thus you are habitually renewed in your innermost mind. This will cause you to be completely re-programmed in the way you think about yourself!

24 Remain fully immersed in this God-shaped new person from above! You are created in the image and likeness of God. This is what righteousness and true holiness are all about.   MIRROR

Eccl 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men’s hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.  AMP

Matt 4:19 Jesus said to them, “Come with me. I’ll make a new kind of fisherman out of you. I’ll show you how to catch men and women instead of perch and bass.”

20 They didn’t ask questions, but simply dropped their nets and followed. MSG

Rom 3:21 But in our time something new has been added. What Moses and the prophets witnessed to all those years has happened.

22 The God-setting-things-right that we read about has become Jesus-setting-things-right for us. And not only for us, but for everyone who believes in him. For there is no difference between us and them in this. MSG

KNOWING GOD FOR WHO HE REALLY IS 3-23-25 VIDEO GRAHAM COOKE KNOW

God wants us to know Him. Not to know Him casually but intimately. He wants us to know that we are safe with Him. He is the great I am. Yahweh. He is ABBA, father. He is a self-sufficient one. Our deliver. The most high. He is our provider. He is our protector. He is the master. He is above all things. He acknowledges his Word above His name. He is His word.

Ex 34:5 God descended in the cloud and took up his position there beside him and called out the name, God.

6 God passed in front of him and called out, “God, God, a God of mercy and grace, endlessly patient — so much love, so deeply true — 

7 loyal in love for a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, rebellion, and sin. Still, he doesn’t ignore sin. He holds sons and grandsons responsible for a father’s sins to the third and even fourth generation.”  MSG

Ex 6:3  I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as The Strong God, but by my name God (I-Am-Present) I was not known to them.

4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the country in which they lived as sojourners.

5 But now I’ve heard the groanings of the Israelites whom the Egyptians continue to enslave and I’ve remembered my covenant.  MSG

Ex 6:6 Therefore tell the Israelites: “I am God. I will bring you out from under the cruel hard labor of Egypt. I will rescue you from slavery. I will redeem you, intervening with great acts of judgment.

7 I’ll take you as my own people and I’ll be God to you. You’ll know that I am God, your God who brings you out from under the cruel hard labor of Egypt.

8 I’ll bring you into the land that I promised to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and give it to you as your own country. I AM God.”  MSG

PS 145:8-9  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.

9 God, everyone sees your goodness, for your tender love is blended into everything you do. TPT

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Ps 145:8 The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and abounding in mercy and loving-kindness.

9 The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works [the entirety of things created].  AMP

Deut 7:9 Know this: God, your God, is God indeed, a God you can depend upon. He keeps his covenant of loyal love with those who love him and observe his commandments for a thousand generations.  MSG

REV 1:8  The God who is Lord over all things says: I am the Alpha and the Omega – my I-am-ness defines time – I am present, past and future.  MIRROR ↓↓↓

Rev 1:8 The Master declares, “I’m A to Z. I’m The God Who Is, The God Who Was, And The God About To Arrive. I’m the Sovereign-Strong.”  MSG

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

2 Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.

3 God spoke: “Light!” And light appeared. MSG

Ps 19:1 THE HEAVENS declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows and proclaims His handiwork.

2 Day after day pours forth speech, and night after night shows forth knowledge. AMP

James 1:17-18  Every good gift and every perfect (free, large, full) gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of all [that gives] light, in [the shining of] Whom there can be no variation [rising or setting] or shadow cast by His turning [as in an eclipse].

18 And it was of His own [free] will that He gave us birth [as sons] by [His] Word of Truth, so that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures [a sample of what He created to be consecrated to Himself].  AMP

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James 1:17  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.MSG

ROM 8:15 Slavery is such a poor substitute for sonship! They are opposites; the one leads forcefully through fear while sonship responds fondly to Abba Father.

16 His Spirit bears joint witness within our spirit to confirm the fact that we began in God.

17 Because we are his offspring, we are 1certainly also his heirs; God himself is our portion and we are his! We are co-heirs in Christ. 2Since we were represented and included in his suffering we equally participate in the glory of his resurrection. MIRROR ↓↓↓

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

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

17 And we know we are going to get what’s coming to us — an unbelievable inheritnce! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we’re certainly going to go through the good times with him!  MSG

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

Ps 18:2 The Lord is my Rock, my Fortress, and my Deliverer; my God, my keen and firm Strength in Whom I will trust and take refuge, my Shield, and the Horn of my salvation, my High Tower.  AMP

Isa 12:2 Behold, God, my salvation! I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord God is my strength and song; yes, He has become my salvation. AMP

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ISA 12:2  Behold—God is my salvation!  I am confident, unafraid, and I will trust in you.” Yes! The Lord Yah is my might and my melody; he has become my salvation!  TPT

Ps 17:7 Show Your marvelous loving-kindness, O You Who save by Your right hand those who trust and take refuge in You from those who rise up against them.

8 Keep and guard me as the pupil of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings AMP

Gen 22:14  So Abraham called the name of that place The Lord Will Provide. And it is said to this day, On the mount of the Lord it will be provided. AMP

JER 30:17-18  For I, Yahweh, say to you who were once called ‘Outcast,’ I will heal your wounds.  And to you who were once called ‘Forgotten Zion,’ I will restore your health.”

18 Yahweh says: “See, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his families. The city will be rebuilt on its mound with the city fortress in its rightful place. TPT

JER 33:6  ‘“Nevertheless, I will heal them, restore them, and give them prosperity and lasting peace. ‘  TPT

Ex 15:3-4 God is a fighter, pure God, through and through.

4 Pharaoh’s chariots and army he dumped in the sea, The elite of his officers he drowned in the Red Sea. MSG

Isa 42:13 God steps out like he means business. You can see he’s primed for action. He shouts, announcing his arrival; he takes charge and his enemies fall into line. MSG

2 Thess 3:3 Yet the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen [you] and set you on a firm foundation and guard you from the evil [one].  AMP

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2 Thess 3:3 But the Master never lets us down. He’ll stick by you and protect you from evil. MSG

2 Thess 3:16 Now may the Lord of peace Himself grant you His peace (the peace of His kingdom) at all times and in all ways [under all circumstances and conditions, whatever comes]. The Lord [be] with you all.

17 I, Paul, write you this final greeting with my own hand. This is the mark and sign [that it is not a forgery] in every letter of mine. It is the way I write [my handwriting and signature].

18 The grace (spiritual blessing and favor) of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) be with you all. Amen (so be it).   AMP

Ps 138:2 I kneel in worship facing your holy temple and say it again: “Thank you!” Thank you for your love, thank you for your faithfulness; Most holy is your name, most holy is your Word. MSG