FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH 9-29-19 VIDEO MICHAEL JR

Fighting the good fight of faith. You’re in a fight but you’ve already won. Jesus can never lose the battle. It’s our trust in Jesus when circumstances tell us otherwise. We fight this battle by lane hold of eternal life and keeping the good confession.

1 Tim 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold of the eternal life to which you were summoned and [for which] you confessed the good confession [of faith] before many witnesses.

13 In the presence of God, Who preserves alive all living things, and of Christ Jesus, Who in His testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I [solemnly] charge you.

14 To keep all His precepts unsullied and flawless, irreproachable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Anointed One), AMP

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1 TIM 6:12 So fight with faith for the winner’s prize! Lay your hands upon eternal life, for this is your calling—celebrating in faith 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,

14 that you follow this commission faithfully with a clear conscience^[a] and without blemish until the appearing of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.TPT

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John 19:10 So Pilate said to Him, Will You not speak [even] to me? Do You not know that I have power (authority) to release You and I have power to crucify You? AMP

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John 10:18 No one takes it away from Me. On the contrary, I lay it down voluntarily. [I put it from Myself.] I am authorized and have power to lay it down (to resign it) and I am authorized and have power to take it back again. These are the instructions (orders) which I have received [as My charge] from My Father. AMP

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JN 10:18  I surrender my own life, and no one has the power to take my life from me. I have the authority to lay it down and the power to take it back again. This is the destiny my Father has set before me.” TPT

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Heb 4:14 Inasmuch then as we have a great High Priest Who has [already] ascended and passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, 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, AMP

 

2 Tim 4:7 I have fought the good (worthy, honorable, and noble) fight, I have finished the race, I have kept (firmly held) the faith.

8 [As to what remains] henceforth there is laid up for me the [victor’s] crown of righteousness [for being right with God and doing right], which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me and recompense me on that [great] day — and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved and yearned for and welcomed His appearing (His return).   AMP

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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

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2 TIM 4:7 I have fought an excellent fight. I have finished my full course and I’ve kept my heart full of faith.

⁸ There’s a crown of righteousness waiting in heaven for me, and I know that my Lord will reward me on his day of righteous judgment. And this crown is not only waiting for me, but for all who love and long for his unveiling. TPT

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2 Tim 4:7 Like A champion athlete I have run my race and completed the course; I have carefully attended to the faith!

8 My wreath of righteousness awaits me as a testimony to the Lord righteous judgment. He will crowned 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, loving the brilliance of his appearing will be jointly crowned! Mirror

 

Heb 11:1 The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what we can’t see. MSG

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HEB 11:1 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. TPT

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

 

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; we target 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 wrapped around your hips like a soldiers 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 a soldiers 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 flames in every arrow of contradiction that you might face. The only visible part of you is your faith!

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

18 Prayer is an ongoing conversation; praying in the spirit includes every form of prayer, weather it be a prayer request or prayer of Thanksgiving, or worship or interceding for all to realize their saintly innocence. Oh, and remember you do not have to do all the talking! Always be attentive to the voice of the spirit. Mirror

 

2 Cor 10: 3 For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons.

4 For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds,

5 [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One),   AMP

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2 Cor 10:4. The dynamic of our strategy is revealed in God‘s ability to disengage mindsets and perceptions that have helped people captive in pseudo-fortress for centuries!

5 Every like the idea and argument positioned against the knowledge of God is cast down and exposed to be a mere invention of our own imagination. We arrest every thought they could possibly trigger an opposing threat to our redeemed identity and innocence at spearpoint! The caliber of our weapon is empowered by the revelation of the ultimate consequence of the obedience of Christ. Mirror

ETERNAL LIFE

JN 3:15 so that those who truly believe in him will not perish but be given eternal life. TPT

 

JN 5:39 “You are busy analyzing the Scriptures, frantically poring over them in hopes of gaining eternal life. Everything you read points to me,

⁴⁰ yet you still refuse to come to me so I can give you the life you’re looking for—eternal life TPT

 

John 6:54  Eternal life comes to the one who eats my body and drinks my blood, and I will raise him up in the last day. TPT

 

John 17:2 [Just as] You have granted Him power and authority over all flesh (all humankind), [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him.

3 And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand) You, the only true and real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent. AMP

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JN 17:2 You have already given me authority over all people so that I may give
the gift of eternal life to all those that you have given to me.
³ Eternal life means to know and experience you as the only true God, and to know and experience Jesus Christ, as the Son whom you have sent. TPT

 

Rom 6:22 But now since you have been set free from sin and have become the slaves of God, you have your present reward in holiness and its end is eternal life.

23 For the wages which sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord. AMP

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RO 6:22  But now, as God’s loving servants, you live in joyous freedom from the power of sin. So consider the benefits you now enjoy—you are brought deeper into the experience of true holiness that ends with eternal life!

²³ For sin’s meager wages is death, but God’s lavish gift is life eternal, found in your union with our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One. TPT

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Ro  6:22. Consider your life now; there are no outstanding debt; you owe to sin nothing! A life bonded to God yields the sacred expression of his character, and completes in your experience what life was always meant to be.

23 The reward of the law is death the gift of grace is life! The bottom line is this: sin employs you like a soldier for its cause and reward you with death: God gifts you with the highest quality of life all wrapped up in Christ Jesus as our leader. Mirror

 

Titus 3:7 [And He did it in order] that we might be justified by His grace (by His favor, wholly undeserved), [that we might be acknowledged and counted as conformed to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action], and that we might become heirs of eternal life according to [our] hope. AMP

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TITUS 3:7 So as a gift of his love, and since we are faultless— innocent before his face—we can now become heirs of all things, all because of an overflowing hope of eternal life. TPT

 

1 John 2:25 And this is what He Himself has promised us — the life, the eternal [life]. AMP

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1 JN 2:25 And he himself has promised us the never-ending life of the ages to come! TPT

1 John 5:13 My purpose in writing is simply this: that you who believe in God’s Son will know beyond the shadow of a doubt that you have eternal life, the reality and not the illusion.   MSG

 

PHIL 3:9 My passion is to be consumed with him and not clinging to my own “righteousness” based in keeping the written Law. My “righteousness” will be his, based on the faithfulness of Jesus Christ—the very righteousness that comes from God.

¹⁰ And I continually long to know the wonders of Jesus more fully and to experience the overflowing power of his resurrection working in me. I will be one with him in his sufferings and I will be one with him in his death.

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

¹² I admit that I haven’t yet acquired the absolute fullness that I’m pursuing, but I run with passion into his abundance so that I may reach the purpose that Jesus Christ has called me to fulfill and wants me to discover.

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

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

COMMUNION

 

 

 

 

 

RESTITUTION-RESTORATION 9-27-19 VIDEO

Restitution is restoration. The law of return that is right up to date. Just as if no time had gone by. Right where you should be as if everything were in place all the time. It means to set an order. Restore means to redeem to be brought back to healed to be made new.

Acts 3:17 And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance [not aware of what you were doing], as did your rulers also.

18 Thus has God fulfilled what He foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ (the Messiah) should undergo ill treatment and be afflicted and suffer.

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

20 And that He may send [to you] the Christ (the Messiah), Who before was designated and appointed for you — even Jesus,

21 Whom heaven must receive [and retain] until the time for the complete restoration of all that God spoke by the mouth of all His holy prophets for ages past [from the most ancient time in the memory of man]. AMP

 

Zech 9:12 Return to the stronghold [of security and prosperity], you prisoners of hope; even today do I declare that I will restore double your former prosperity to you.   AMP

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Zech 9:12 Come home, hope-filled prisoners! This very day I’m declaring a double bonus — everything you lost returned twice-over! MSG

 

Job 42:12 God blessed Job’s later life even more than his earlier life. He ended up with fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand teams of oxen, and one thousand donkeys.

13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.

14 He named the first daughter Dove, the second, Cinnamon, and the third, Darkeyes.

15 There was not a woman in that country as beautiful as Job’s daughters. Their father treated them as equals with their brothers, providing the same inheritance.

16 Job lived on another hundred and forty years, living to see his children and grandchildren — four generations of them!

17 Then he died — an old man, a full life. MSG

 

Joel 2:25 “I’ll make up for the years of the locust, the great locust devastation — Locusts savage, locusts deadly, fierce locusts, locusts of doom,

That great locust invasion I sent your way.

26 You’ll eat your fill of good food. You’ll be full of praises to your God, The God who has set you back on your heels in wonder. Never again will my people be despised.

27 You’ll know without question that I’m in the thick of life with Israel, That I’m your God, yes, your God, the one and only real God. Never again will my people be despised.

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

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

1 Cor 15:45 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

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1 Corinthians 15:45  For it is written: The first man, Adam, became a living soul. The last Adam became the life-giving Spirit. TPT

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1 Cor 15:45 It is recorded in Scripture have the first Adam became a living soul; the last Adam is a life radiating spirit. Mirror

 

2 Cor 5:19 It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favor). AMP

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2 Cor 5:19  In other words, it was through the Anointed One that God was shepherding the world, not even keeping records of their transgressions, and he has entrusted to us the ministry of opening the door of reconciliation to God. TPT

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2 Cor 5:19 Our Ministry declares that Jesus did not act independently of God. Christ is the proof that God reconcile the total cosmos to himself. Deity and humanity embraced in Christ; the fallen state of mankind was deleted; their trespasses would no longer count against them! God has placed this message in us. He now announces his friendship with every individual from within us! Mirror

 

Rev 22:2 Through the middle of the broadway of the city; also, on either side of the river was the tree of life with its twelve varieties of fruit, yielding each month its fresh crop; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing and the restoration of the nations. AMP

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Rev 22:2  The river was flowing in the middle of the street of the city, and on either side of the river was the Tree of Life, with its twelve kinds of ripe fruit according to each month of the year. The leaves of the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations. TPT

 

Titus 3:7 God’s gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. And there’s more life to come — an eternity of life!

Ps 51:12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Ps 80:3 Restore us again, O God; and cause Your face to shine [in pleasure and approval on us], and we shall be saved!

 

Jer 30:17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal your wounds, says the Lord, because they have called you an outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no one seeks after and for whom no one cares!

 

Luke 9:11 But when the crowds learned of it, [they] followed Him; and He welcomed them and talked to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who needed restoration to health.

Matt 14:36 And begged Him to let them merely touch the fringe of His garment; and as many as touched it were perfectly restored.

 

Ps 119:37 Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity (idols and idolatry); and restore me to vigorous life and health in Your ways.

 

1 Sam 2:8 He puts poor people on their feet again; he rekindles burned-out lives with fresh hope, Restoring dignity and respect to their lives — a place in the sun! For the very structures of earth are God’s; he has laid out his operations on a firm foundation.

9 He protectively cares for his faithful friends, step by step, but leaves the wicked to stumble in the dark. No one makes it in this life by sheer muscle! MSG

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

Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man came to find and restore the lost.” MSG

Ps 126:6 He who goes forth bearing seed and weeping [at needing his precious supply of grain for sowing] shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. AMP

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Ps 126:6  They may weep as they go out carrying their seed to sow,
but they will return with joyful laughter and shouting with gladness as they bring back armloads of blessing and a harvest overflowing! TPT

 

John 10:10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows). AMP

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John 10:10  A thief has only one thing in mind—he wants to steal, slaughter, and destroy. But I have come to give you everything in abundance, more than you expect —life in its fullness until you overflow!   TPT

Gal 3:13 Christ redeemed us from that self-defeating, cursed life by absorbing it completely into himself. Do you remember the Scripture that says, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”? That is what happened when Jesus was nailed to the Cross: He became a curse, and at the same time dissolved the curse.

14 And now, because of that, the air is cleared and we can see that Abraham’s blessing is present and available for non-Jews, too. We are all able to receive God’s life, his Spirit, in and with us by believing — just the way Abraham received it. MSG

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Gal 3:13 Yet, Christ paid the full price to set us free from the curse of the law. He absorbed it completely as he became a curse in our place. For it is written: “Everyone who is hung upon a tree is doubly cursed.”

¹⁴ Jesus, our Messiah, was cursed in our place and in so doing, dissolved the curse from our lives, so that all the blessings of Abraham can be poured out upon even non-Jewish believers. And now God gives us the promise of the wonderful Holy Spirit who lives within us when we believe in him. TPT

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Gal 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse as consequence of our failure to keep the law. In his cross he concentrated the total curse of the human race upon himself. In his abandoning himself to death, he absorbed and dissolve the horror of the curse in his own person. Scripture declares that anyone that hangs on a tree embodies the curse.

14 This act of Christ released the blessing of Abraham upon the Gentiles! Now we are free to receive the blessing of the spirit. Mirror

 

Ps 55:18 He has redeemed my life in peace from the battle that was against me [so that none came near me], for they were many who strove with me. AMP

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

 

Isa 35:8 And a highway shall be there, and a way; and it shall be called the Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for the redeemed; the wayfaring men, yes, the simple ones and fools, shall not err in it and lose their way.

9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; they shall not be found there. But the redeemed shall walk on it.

10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. AMP

 

1 Peter 1:18 You must know (recognize) that you were redeemed (ransomed) from the useless (fruitless) way of living inherited by tradition from [your] forefathers, not with corruptible things [such as] silver and gold, AMP

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

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1 Pet 1:18 It is clear to see that you were ransomed from the futile common fallen mindset that you inherited from your fathers, not by the currency of your own labor, represented by the function in values of gold and silver and the economy of your religious efforts. Mirror

 

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

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John 17:5 And now, Father, glorify Me along with Yourself and restore Me to such majesty and honor in Your presence as I had with You before the world existed.

 

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

 

Isa 58:8 Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your healing (your restoration and the power of a new life) shall spring forth speedily; your righteousness (your rightness, your justice, and your right relationship with God) shall go before you [conducting you to peace and prosperity], and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.

 

 

 

SECRET OF HIS POWER 9-20-19 VIDEO

His secret of his powers is walking in the fullness of his promises. His word, His promises have a great power for those who walk in them. He will make all His promises come to pass. A promise means that the one who has given the promises is expected to fulfill them. His word is his promise.

2 Cor 1:20 For as many as are the promises of God, they all find their Yes [answer] in Him [Christ]. For this reason we also utter the Amen (so be it) to God through Him [in His Person and by His agency] to the glory of God.

21 But it is God Who confirms and makes us steadfast and establishes us [in joint fellowship] with you in Christ, and has consecrated and anointed us [enduing us with the gifts of the Holy Spirit];

22 [He has also appropriated and acknowledged us as His by] putting His seal upon us and giving us His [Holy] Spirit in our hearts as the security deposit and guarantee [of the fulfillment of His promise]. AMP

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2 Cor 1:20 In Him the detail of every single promise of God is fulfilled; Jesus is God’s yes to your total well being! In our union with Him the amen that echoes in us is evidence to His glorious intent through us.

21 God himself endorses this union that we enjoy in Christ.

22 His personal signet signature is the official stamp that sanctions our integrity; the Spirit seals God’s guarantee in our own heart. Mirror

 

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

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Acts 4:31 At that moment the earth shook beneath them, causing the building they were in to tremble. Each one of them was filled with the Holy Spirit, and they proclaimed the word of God with unrestrained boldness. TPT

 

Gen 6:18 But I will establish My covenant (promise, pledge) with you, and you shall come into the ark — you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. AMP

 

Gen 17:2 And I will make My covenant (solemn pledge) between Me and you and will multiply you exceedingly.

3 Then Abram fell on his face, and God said to him,

4 As for Me, behold, My covenant (solemn pledge) is with you, and you shall be the father of many nations. AMP

Galatians 3:16 Remember the royal proclamation God spoke over Abraham and to Abraham’s child? God said that his promises were made to pass on to Abraham’s “Child,” not children. And who is this “Child?” It’s the Son of promise, Jesus, the anointed Messiah!

^17–18 This means that the covenant between God and Abraham was fulfilled in Messiah and cannot be altered. Yet the written law was not even given to Moses until 430 years later, after God had “signed” his contract with Abraham! The law, then, doesn’t supersede the promise since the royal proclamation was given before the law. If that were the case, it would have nullified what God said to Abraham. We receive all the promises because of the Promised One—not because we keep the law! TPT

 

1 Kings 6:12 Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes, execute My precepts, and keep all My commandments to walk in them, then I will fulfill to you My promises which I made to David your father. AMP

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2 Chron 6:15 You Who have kept Your promises to my father David and fulfilled with Your hand what You spoke with Your mouth, as it is today. 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

 

PS 25:14 There’s a private place reserved for the lovers of God, where they sit near him and receive the revelation-secrets of his promises, TPT

 

Ps 91:8 Only a spectator shall you be [yourself inaccessible in the secret place of the Most High] as you witness the reward of the wicked. AMP

Isa 61:11 For as [surely as] the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring forth, so [surely] the Lord God will cause rightness and justice and praise to spring forth before all the nations [through the self-fulfilling power of His word]. AMP

 

Psalm 12:6 For every word God speaks is sure and every promise pure. His truth is tested, found to be flawless, and ever faithful. It’s as pure as silver refined seven times in a crucible of clay TPT

2 Cor 7:1 With promises like this to pull us on, dear friends, let’s make a clean break with everything that defiles or distracts us, both within and without. Let’s make our entire lives fit and holy temples for the worship of God. MSG ▼▼▼

2 Cor 7:1 Beloved ones, with promises like these, and because of our deepest respect and worship of God, we must remove everything from our lives that contaminates body and spirit, and continue to complete the development of holiness within us. TPT

 

Hebrews 8:6 But now Jesus the Messiah has accepted a priestly ministry which far surpasses theirs, since he is the catalyst of a better covenant which contains far more wonderful promises! TPT

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Heb 8:6 Jesus is now the fulfillment of all those promises towards which the old practices were merely pointing; as when an arrow strikes the bull’s-eye. The dispensation he now administers Is far superior to the old. He is the arbitrator of a more affective covenant; sanctioned by it’s being an announcement of a far greater benefit to mankind. Mirror

Heb 11:37 We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood; stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless —

38 The world didn’t deserve them! — making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world.

39 Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised.

40 God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours. MSG

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Hebrews 11:37 Some of these faith champions were brutally killed by stoning, being sawn in two or slaughtered by the sword. These lived in faith as they went about wearing goatskins and sheepskins for clothing. They lost everything they possessed, they endured great afflictions, and they were cruelly mistreated.

³⁸ They wandered the earth living in the desert wilderness, in caves, on barren mountains and in holes in the earth. Truly, the world was not even worthy of them, not realizing who they were.

³⁹ These were the true heroes, commended for their faith, yet they lived in hope without receiving the fullness of what was promised them.

⁴⁰ But now God has invited us to live in something better than what they had—faith’s fullness! This is so that they could be brought to finished perfection alongside of us. TPT

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Heb 11:37 While some were stoned to death, others (like Isaiah the prophet) were sawn asunder with the wood saw. There were yet others who were tempted by the promise a possible release from their torture, and then were brutally slaughtered with a sword. Many became wandering refugees with nothing but sheep and goat skins for clothing. They lost everything and were harassed and tormented.

38 The world did not recognize their worth. These Faith heroes were often driven from their homes and forced to live in the desert and mountains; sleeping like animals in caves and holes in the ground.

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

40 God saw the perfect picture in it; we now complete the history of their lives. (Everything that the shadows prefigured has now found its substance through Christ in us.) Mirror

 

2 Peter 1:4 By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature. AMP

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2 Peter 1:4 As a result of this, he has given you magnificent promises that are beyond all price, so that through the power of these tremendous promises you can experience partnership with the divine nature, by which you have escaped the corrupt desires that are of the world. TPT

2 Peter 3:9 This means that, contrary to man’s perspective, the Lord is not late with his promise to return, as some measure lateness. But rather, his “delay” simply reveals his loving patience toward you, because he does not want any to perish but all to come to repentance. TPT

 

Revelation 19:13  He wore a robe dipped in blood, and his title is called the Word of God. TPT

 

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

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John 1:1  In the very beginning the Living Expression was already there. And the Living Expression was with God, yet fully God. TPT

 

John 1:14 And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth. AMP

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John 1:14 And so the Living Expression became a man and lived among us!
 And we gazed upon the splendor of his glory, the glory of the One and Only
who came from the Father overflowing with tender mercy and truth! TPT

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John 1:14 Suddenly the invisible eternal Word takes on visible form! The incarnation! In him, and now confirmed and us! The most accurate tangible display of God‘s eternal thought finds expression in human life! The Word became a human being; we are his address; he resides in us! He captivates our gaze! The glory we see there is not a religious replica; He is the authentic begotten son. The glory is again fully unveiled! Only Grace can communicate truth in such a complete context! Mirror

 

Acts 19:20 Thus the Word of the Lord [concerning the attainment through Christ of eternal salvation in the kingdom of God] grew and spread and intensified, prevailing mightily. AMP   ▼▼▼

Acts 19:20  The power of God caused the word to spread, and the people were greatly impacted. TPT

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

 

1 Thess 2:13 And we also [especially] thank God continually for this, that when you received the message of God [which you heard] from us, you welcomed it not as the word of [mere] men, but as it truly is, the Word of God, which is effectually at work in you who believe [exercising its superhuman power in those who adhere to and trust in and rely on it]. AMP

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1 Thessalonians 2:13 This is why we continually thank God for your lives, because you received our message wholeheartedly. You embraced it not as the fabrication of men but as the word of God. And the word continues to be an energizing force in you who believe. TPT

James 1:22 But be doers of the Word [obey the message], and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth].

23 For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his [own] natural face in a mirror; AMP

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James 1:22 Don’t just listen to the Word of Truth and not respond to it, for that is the essence of self-deception. So always let his Word become like poetry written and fulfilled by your life!

²³ If you listen to the Word and don’t live out the message you hear, you become like the person who looks in the mirror of the Word to discover the reflection of his face in the beginning. TPT

 

Heb 6:12 Don’t drag your feet. Be like those who stay the course with committed faith and then get everything promised to them. MSG

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Heb 6:12 So don’t allow your hearts to grow dull or lose your enthusiasm, but follow the example of those who fully received what God has promised because of their strong faith and patient endurance. TPT

 

 

 

 

 

 

INCREASE IS COMING 9-1-19 VIDEO

Increase is coming. Summer is ending, autumn is coming. And with autumn comes an increased harvest for what you have sowed! Increase to become more in size, quantity, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, and wealth to advance. It’s to multiply to enlarge. It is the opposite of decreasing. It is time for the righteous to take their place. For the body of Christ to rise up.

Gen 12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you [with abundant increase of favors] and make your name famous and distinguished, and you will be a blessing [dispensing good to others].

3 And I will bless those who bless you [who confer prosperity or happiness upon you] and curse him who curses or uses insolent language toward you; in you will all the families and kindred of the earth be blessed [and by you they will bless themselves]. AMP

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Gen 12:2 I’ll make you a great nation and bless you. I’ll make you famous;

you’ll be a blessing.

3 I’ll bless those who bless you; those who curse you I’ll curse. All the families of the Earth will be blessed through you.” MSG

Psalm 85:12 Yes, the Lord keeps raining down blessing after blessing, and prosperity will drench the land with a bountiful harvest.
¹³ For deliverance and peace are his forerunners, preparing a path for his steps. TPT

 

Ps 115:14 Oh, let God enlarge your families — giving growth to you, growth to your children.

15 May you be blessed by God, by God, who made heaven and earth.

16 The heaven of heavens is for God, but he put us in charge of the earth. MSG ▼▼▼

Psalm 115:14 God himself will fill you with more. Blessings upon blessings will be heaped upon you and upon your children from the maker of heaven and earth, the very God who made you!
¹⁶ The heavens belong to our God; they are his alone, but he has given us the earth and put us in charge. TPT

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

Ps 105:24 There [the Lord] greatly increased His people and made them stronger than their oppressors. AMP

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PS 105:24 God made them very fruitful, and they multiplied incredibly until they were greater in number than those who ruled them. TPT

 

PROV 9:11 Wisdom will extend your life, making every year more fruitful than the one before. TPT

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

 

Job 8:7 And though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase. AMP

 

Isa 9:7 His ruling authority will grow, and there’ll be no limits to the wholeness he brings. He’ll rule from the historic David throne over that promised kingdom. He’ll put that kingdom on a firm footing and keep it going With fair dealing and right living, beginning now and lasting always. The zeal of God-of-the-Angel-Armies will do all this.   MSG

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Isa 9:7 Great and vast is his dominion. He will bring immeasurable peace and prosperity. He will rule on David’s throne and over David‘s kingdom to establish and uphold it by promoting justice and righteousness from this time forward and forever more. The marvelous compassion that the Lord Yahweh commander of the angel armies, has for his people will ensure that it is finished! TPT

Acts 9:31 Things calmed down after that and the church had smooth sailing for a while. All over the country — Judea, Samaria, Galilee — the church grew. They were permeated with a deep sense of reverence for God. The Holy Spirit was with them, strengthening them. They prospered wonderfully. MSG

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Acts 9:31 After this, the church all over Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a season of peace. The congregations grew larger and larger, with the believers being empowered and encouraged by the Holy Spirit. They worshiped God in wonder and awe, and walked in the fear of the Lord. TPT

 

2 Cor 9:10 This most generous God who gives seed to the farmer that becomes bread for your meals is more than extravagant with you. He gives you something you can then give away, which grows into full-formed lives, robust in God, MSG

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2 Cor 9:10  This generous God who supplies abundant seed for the farmer, which becomes bread for our meals, is even more extravagant toward you. First he supplies every need, plus more. Then he multiplies the seed as you sow it, so that the harvest of your generosity will grow. TPT

 

Eph 2:21 In Him the whole structure is joined (bound, welded) together harmoniously, and it continues to rise (grow, increase) into a holy temple in the Lord [a sanctuary dedicated, consecrated, and sacred to the presence of the Lord]. AMP

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Eph 2:21  This entire building is under construction and is continually growing under his supervision until it rises up completed as the holy temple of the Lord himself. TPT

1 Thess 3:12 And may the Master pour on the love so it fills your lives and splashes over on everyone around you, just as it does from us to you.

13 May you be infused with strength and purity, filled with confidence in the presence of God our Father when our Master Jesus arrives with all his followers. MSG

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

 

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

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

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2 Cor 3:18 The Days of window-shopping are over! In him every face is unveiled. In gazing with wonder at the loveliness of God displayed in human form, we suddenly realize that we are looking into a mirror, for every feature of his image articulated in Christ is reflected within us! This radical transformation is engineered by the Spirit of the Lord; we are lead from an inferior mindset to the revealed endorsement of our authentic identity. Mirror

 

Col 1:10 That you may walk (live and conduct yourselves) in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him and desiring to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and steadily growing and increasing in and by the knowledge of God [with fuller, deeper, and clearer insight, acquaintance, and recognition].

11 [We pray] that you may be invigorated and strengthened with all power according to the might of His glory, [to exercise] every kind of endurance and patience (perseverance and forbearance) with joy, AMP

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Colossians 1:10 We pray that you would walk in the ways of true righteousness, pleasing God in every good thing you do. Then you’ll become fruit-bearing branches, yielding to his life, and maturing in the rich experience of knowing God in his fullness!

¹¹ And we pray that you would be energized with all his explosive power from the realm of his magnificent glory, filling you with great hope. TPT

 

2 Thess 1:3 We ought and indeed are obligated [as those in debt] to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, as is fitting, because your faith is growing exceedingly and the love of every one of you each toward the others is increasing and abounds. AMP

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2 Thessalonians 1:3 We feel a personal responsibility to continually be thanking God for you, our spiritual family, every time we pray. And we have every reason to do so because your faith is growing marvelously beyond measure. The unselfish love each of you share for one another is increasing and overflowing! TPT

 

1 Peter 1:2 Who were chosen and foreknown by God the Father and consecrated (sanctified, made holy) by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and to be sprinkled with [His] blood: May grace (spiritual blessing) and peace be given you in increasing abundance [that spiritual peace to be realized in and through Christ, freedom from fears, agitating passions, and moral conflicts]. AMP

Col 2:7 Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him], being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving. AMP

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Col 2:7 Just like the roots of a tree, draw your sustenance and strength from him. Like a building rising up out of its foundations your life makes the full stature of Christ visible; standing tall in his shoes, firm in your faith posture. The language of gratitude that overflows from your lips reflects the exact expression of what you were taught. Mirror

 

2 Peter 1:8 For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you, they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful unto the [full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). AMP

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

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Ephesians 3:20  Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you. TPT

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

 

Jer 3:16 “And this is what will happen: You will increase and prosper in the land. The time will come” — God’s Decree! — “when no one will say any longer, ‘Oh, for the good old days! Remember the Ark of the Covenant?’ It won’t even occur to anyone to say it — ‘the good old days.’ The so-called good old days of the Ark are gone for good. MSG

 

Jer 3:16 And it shall be that when you have multiplied and increased in the land in those days, says the Lord, they shall no more say, The ark of the covenant of the Lord. It shall not come to mind, nor shall they [seriously] remember it, nor shall they miss or visit it, nor shall it be repaired or made again [for instead of the ark, which represented God’s presence, He will show Himself to be present throughout the city]. AMP