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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Phil 3:10-14 [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Num 6:24  God bless you and keep you,

25 God smile on you and gift you,

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

FAVOR 5-27-21  VIDEO UNDESERVED FAVOR 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ISA 30:18 For this reason the Lord is still waiting to show his favor to you so he can show you his marvelous love. He waits to be gracious to you. He sits on his throne ready to show mercy to you. For Yahweh is the Lord of justice, faithful to keep his promises. Overwhelmed with bliss are all who will entwine their hearts in him, waiting for him to help them. TPT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE 5-23-21  VIDEO

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE 5-23-21  VIDEO

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BREAKTHROUGH 5-16-21  VIDEO autism healed 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Num 6:24 God bless you and keep you,

25 God smile on you and gift you,

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

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

VIDEO BREAKTHROUGH JOB 2

ENCOUNTERING GOD 5-14-21  VIDEO LARRY

Encounter is to have a face-to-face meeting, to contact, to experience. The Bible is full of many places where God encountered mankind. One encounter with Him will change everything. God is not a God of the dead but a God of the living. During the time of Jesus‘ transfiguration they saw him as who he really was and how he really looks. Experience finding God when we seek God we encounter Him because He wants to be seen. When we encounter God we encounter love because God is love.

Eph 5:10 And try to learn [in your experience] what is pleasing to the Lord [let your lives be constant proofs of what is most acceptable to Him]. AMP

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

3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned. 

4 And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses! And he said, Here am I. 

5 God said, Do not come near; put your shoes off your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. 

6 Also He said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.   AMP

Luke 20:37-38  But that the dead are raised [from death] — even Moses made known and showed in the passage concerning the [burning] bush, where he calls the Lord, The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.  

38 Now He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all men are alive [whether in the body or out    AMP

ISA 6:1-3  In the year that King Uzziah died, I clearly saw the Lord. He was seated on his exalted throne, towering high above me. His long, flowing robe of splendor spread throughout the temple.

² Standing above him were the angels of flaming fire, each with six wings: with two wings they covered their faces in reverence, with two wings they covered their feet, and with two wings they flew.

³ And one called out to another, saying:  “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Commander of Angel Armies! The whole earth is filled with his glory!”  TPT

ISA 6:5-8 Then I stammered and said, “Woe is me! I’m destroyed—doomed as a sinful man! For my words are tainted and I live among people who talk the same way. King Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies! My eyes have gazed upon him!”

⁶ Then out of the smoke, one of the angels of fire flew to me. He had in his hands a burning coal he had taken from the altar with tongs.

 ⁷ He touched my lips with it and said, “See? The burning coal from the altar has touched your lips. Your guilt is taken away; your sin is blotted out.”

⁸ Then I heard the Lord saying, “Whom should I send to my people? Who will go to represent us?” I spoke up and said, “I will be the one. Send me.” TPT

Gen 32:24 And Jacob was left alone, and a Man wrestled with him until daybreak. 

25 And when [the Man] saw that He did not prevail against [Jacob], He touched the hollow of his thigh; and Jacob’s thigh was put out of joint as he wrestled with Him. 

26 Then He said, Let Me go, for day is breaking. But [Jacob] said, I will not let You go unless You declare a blessing upon me. 

27 [The Man] asked him, What is your name? And [in shock of realization, whispering] he said, Jacob [supplanter, schemer, trickster, swindler]! 

28 And He said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob [supplanter], but Israel [contender with God]; for you have contended and have power with God and with men and have prevailed. 

29 Then Jacob asked Him, Tell me, I pray You, what [in contrast] is Your name? But He said, Why is it that you ask My name? And [the Angel of God declared] a blessing on [Jacob] there. 

30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel [the face of God], saying, For I have seen God face to face, and my life is spared and not snatched away.  AMP

MK 9:2-7 After six days, Jesus took Peter and the two brothers, Jacob and John, and hiked up a high mountain to be alone. And Jesus’ appearance was dramatically altered, for he was transfigured before their very eyes!

³ His clothing sparkled and became glistening white—whiter than any bleach in the world could make them.

⁴ Then suddenly, right in front of them, Moses and Elijah appeared, and they spoke with Jesus.

⁵ Peter blurted out, “Good Teacher, this is so amazing to see the three of you together! Why don’t we stay here and set up three shelters: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah?”

⁶ (For all of the disciples were in total fear, and Peter didn’t have a clue what to say.)

⁷ Just then, a radiant cloud began to spread over them, enveloping them all. And God’s voice suddenly spoke from the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son and you need to always listen to him!” TPT

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2 PET 1:16 We were not retelling some masterfully crafted legend when we informed you of the power and appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, for we saw his magnificence and splendor unveiled before our very eyes.

¹⁷ Yes, Father God lavished upon him radiant glory and honor when his distinct voice spoke out of the realm of majestic glory, endorsing him with these words: This is my cherished Son, marked by my love. All my delight is found in him!  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 COR 3:18  The days of window-shopping are over! In him every face is 1unveiled. In gazing with wonder at the blueprint likeness of God displayed in human form, we suddenly realize that we are  looking at ourselves!  Every  feature of his image is mirrored in us!  This is the most radical transformation engineered by the Spirit of the Lord; we are led from an inferior mindset to the revealed endorsement of our authentic identity. You are his glory! MIRROR

ACTS 17:26-28 From one man, Adam, he made every man and woman and every race of humanity, and he spread us over all the earth. He sets the boundaries of people and nations, determining their appointed times in history.

27 He has done this so that every person would long for God, feel their way to him, and find him—for he is the God who is easy to discover!

²⁸ It is through him that we live and function and have our identity; just as your own poets have said, ‘Our lineage comes from him.  TPT

The Greek word means “kindred” or “family” (taken from his genes).

Jer 29:13 Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a vital necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.  AMP

PRO 8:17 I will show my love to those who passionately love me. For they will search and search continually until they find me. TPT

Jer 33:3 Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand).  AMP

1 Chron 16:11 Seek the Lord and His strength; yearn for and seek His face and to be in His presence continually! AMP

Zeph 3:17 The Lord your God is in the midst of you, a Mighty One, a Savior [Who saves]! He will rejoice over you with joy; He will rest [in silent satisfaction] and in His love He will be silent and make no mention [of past sins, or even recall them]; He will exult over you with singing. AMP

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

PS 34:10 Even the strong and the wealthygrow weak and hungry, but those who passionately pursue the Lordwill never lack any good thing. TPT

Deut 31:8 God is striding ahead of you. He’s right there with you. He won’t let you down; he won’t leave you. Don’t be intimidated. Don’t worry.”  MSG

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Deut 31:8 It is the Lord Who goes before you; He will [march] with you; He will not fail you or let you go or forsake you; [let there be no cowardice or flinching, but] fear not, neither become broken [in spirit — depressed, dismayed, and unnerved with alarm].  AMP

EPH 3:18-20 Then you will be empowered to discover what every holy one experiences—the great magnitudeof the astonishing love of Christ in all its dimensions. How deeply intimate and far-reaching is his love! How enduring and inclusive it is! Endless love beyond measurement that transcends our understanding—this extravagant love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God!

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

Ex 24:9  Then they climbed the mountain — Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel —  

10 and saw the God of Israel. He was standing on a pavement of something like sapphires — pure, clear sky-blue.

11 He didn’t hurt these pillar-leaders of the Israelites: They saw God; and they ate and drank. MSG

Gen 5:24 Enoch walked steadily with God. And then one day he was simply gone: God took him. MSG

Zech 3:7 Thus says the Lord of hosts: If you will walk in My ways and keep My charge, then also you shall rule My house and have charge of My courts, and I will give you access [to My presence] and places to walk among these who stand here.  AMP

Jn 14:21 The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.]

WHAT WILL IT TAKE  5-9-29  VIDEO LOVE HOPE AND FAITH

What will it take for us to walk in our destiny? To receive our healing? For us to see the next generation of our family walking their inheritance. What will it take for us to get out of debt? What will it take for us to move in the power of the Holy Spirit? What will it take for us to see ourselves as God sees us? What will it take to be set free from all bondage?

1 COR 13:9 Our present knowledge and our prophecies are but partial,

¹⁰ but when love’s perfection arrives, the partial will fade away.

¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke about childish matters, for I saw things like a child and reasoned like a child. But the day came when I matured, and I set aside my childish ways.   TPT

RIGHTEOUSNESS  RO 1:17 Herein lies the secret of the power of the Gospel; there is no good news in it until the righteousness of God  is revealed! The dynamic of the gospel is the revelation of God’s faith as the only valid basis for our belief. The prophets wrote in advance about the fact that God believes that righteousness  reveals the life of our design. “Righteousness by his (God’s) faith defines life.” MIRROR

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

12  Law and faith have nothing in common! Law measures man’s doing and experience as defining his life.  MIRROR

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Gal 3:11 The obvious impossibility of carrying out such a moral program should make it plain that no one can sustain a relationship with God that way. The person who lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him. Doing things for God is the opposite of entering into what God does for you. Habakkuk had it right: “The person who believes God, is set right by God — and that’s the real life.”

12 Rule-keeping does not naturally evolve into living by faith, but only perpetuates itself in more and more rule-keeping, a fact observed in Scripture: ”  MSG

Rom 3:25 God sacrificed Jesus on the altar of the world to clear that world of sin. Having faith in him sets us in the clear. God decided on this course of action in full view of the public — to set the world in the clear with himself through the sacrifice of Jesus, finally taking care of the sins he had so patiently endured.

26 This is not only clear, but it’s now — this is current history! God sets things right. He also makes it possible for us to live in his rightness.

27 So where does that leave our proud Jewish insider claims and counterclaims? Canceled? Yes, canceled. What we’ve learned is this: God does not respond to what we do; we respond to what God does.

28 We’ve finally figured it out. Our lives get in step with God and all others by letting him set the pace, not by proudly or anxiously trying to run the parade.  MSG

FAITH RO 4:16 The promise depends on faith so that it can be experienced as a grace-gift, and now it extends to all the descendants of Abraham. This promise is not only meant for those who obey the law, but also to those who enter into the faith of Abraham, the father of us all.  TPT

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

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

2 Cor 4:13 Yet we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, I have believed, and therefore have I spoken. We too believe, and therefore we speak,  AMP

2 Cor 5:7  For we walk by faith [we regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man’s relationship to God and divine things, with trust and holy fervor; thus we walk] not by sight or appearance.  AMP

HEB 11:1-3  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 generationswere commended for. ³ Faith empowers us to see that the universe was created and beautifully coordinatedby the power of God’s words! He spoke and the invisible realm gave birth to all that is seen. TPT

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HEB 11:1-3 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. 

2 People of previous generations received the testimony of their hope in faith. It was faith that made their hope tangible

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

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

HOPE Ps 31:24 Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for and hope for and expect the Lord!  AMP

Ps 42:5 Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God.  AMP

Rom 15:4 For whatever was thus written in former days was written for our instruction, that by [our steadfast and patient] endurance and the encouragement [drawn] from the Scriptures we might hold fast to and cherish hope.  AMP

Rom 15:13 May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith] that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing (bubbling over) with hope.  AMP

2 COR 1:10 He has rescued us from terrifying encounters with death. And now we fasten our hopes on him to continue to deliver us from death yet again, TPT

2 COR 3:12 So then, with this amazing hope living in us, we step out in freedom and boldness to speak the truth. TPT

HEB 6:19 We have this certain hope like a strong, unbreakable anchor holding our souls to God himself. Our anchor of hope is fastened to the mercy seat^] in the heavenly realm beyond the sacred threshold, TPT

LOVE  1 COR 14:1 Be love driven in your pursuit of spiritual gifts; desire earnestly to speak with inspired revelation.  MIRROR

MATT 22:37-39 Jesus answered him, “ ‘Lovethe Lord your God with every passion of your heart, with all the energy of your being, and with every thought that is within you.’

³⁸ This is the great and supreme commandment.

³⁹ And the second is like it in importance: ‘You must love your friendin the same way you love yourself.’ TPT

Jn 13:34 I give you a new commandment, keep on loving one another just as I have loved you, my love for you is the source of your love for one another. MIRROR

Jn 15:9 The love of the Father for me is my love for you, abide in my love for you!

10 By treasuring the Prophetic conclusion of my life you will remain constantly engulfed in my love even as I treasure the completeness of my Father‘s prophetic purpose and abide in his love embrace.  MIRROR

RO 8:35 Who could ever divorce us from the endless love of God’s Anointed One? Absolutely no one! For nothing in the universe has the power to diminish his love toward us. Troubles, pressures, and problems are unable to come between us and heaven’s love. What about persecutions, deprivations, dangers, and death threats? No, for they are all impotent to hinder omnipotent love,  

Rom 13:8 Don’t run up debts, except for the huge debt of love you owe each other. When you love others, you complete what the law has been after all along.  MSG

1 Cor 16:14 Let everything you do be done in love (true love to God and man as inspired by God’s love for us). AMP

2 Cor 13:11  Finally, brethren, farewell (rejoice)! Be strengthened (perfected, completed, made what you ought to be); be encouraged and consoled and comforted; be of the same [agreeable] mind one with another; live in peace, and [then] the God of love [Who is the Source of affection, goodwill, love, and benevolence toward men] and the Author and Promoter of peace will be with you. AMP

1 COR 13:4 Love is large in being passionate about life and relentlessly patient in bearing the offenses and injuries of others with kindness. Love is completely content and strives for nothing. Love has no desire to make others feel inferior and has no need to sing its own praises.

5 Love is predictable and does not behave out of character. Love is not ambitious. Love is not spiteful and gets no mileage out of another’s mistakes.  

6 Love sees no joy in injustice. Love’s delight is in everything that truth celebrates.

7 Love is a fortress where everyone feels protected rather than exposed! Love’s persuasion is persistent! Love believes. Love never loses hope and always remains constant in contradiction.

8 Love never loses its altitude! Prophecies  will  cease. Tongues will pause. The quest for knowledge will be inappropriate when perfection is grasped.  MIRROR

Matt 5:43 “You’re familiar with the old written law, ‘Love your friend,’ and its unwritten companion, ‘Hate your enemy.’

44 I’m challenging that. I’m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer,

45 for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best — the sun to warm and the rain to nourish — to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty.

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48 “In a word, what I’m saying is, Grow up. You’re kingdom subjects. Now live like it. Live out your God-created identity. Live generously and graciously toward others, the way God lives toward you.  MSG

RIGHTEOUSNESS, FAITH, HOPE, LOVE

HEALING THE BROKEN HEARTED 5-7-21  VIDEO

Hearts can be broken because of loss. Loss of a loved one. Loss of a relationship. Loss means to lose something or someone of great value. We are told to speak to the brokenhearted and the Lord will heal and restore them. Nothing helps a broken heart to heal faster than unconditional love.

Jer 8:21 For my dear broken people, I’m heartbroken. I weep, seized by grief.

22 Are there no healing ointments in Gilead? Isn’t there a doctor in the house?

So why can’t something be done to heal and save my dear, dear people? MSG

Jer 6:14 My people are broken — shattered! — and they put on band-aids,

Saying, ‘It’s not so bad. You’ll be just fine.’ But things are not ‘just fine’!  MSG

PRO 18:14 The will to live sustains you when you’re sick, but depression crushes courage and leaves you unable to cope.   TPT

Ps 25:17 The troubles of my heart are multiplied; bring me out of my distresses. AMP

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

PS 34:18-19 The Lord is close to all whose hearts are crushed by pain, and he is always ready to restore the repentant one.¹⁹ Even when bad things happen to the good and godly ones, the Lord will save them and not let them be defeatedby what they face.TPT

PS 147:3 He heals the wounds of every shattered heart.
⁴ He sets his stars in place, calling them all by their names.
⁵ How great is our God! There’s absolutely nothing his power cannot accomplish, and he has infinite understanding of everything.
⁶ Yahweh supports and strengthens the humble, but the ungodly will be brought down to the dust. TPT

PS 73:26 Lord, so many times I fail; I fall into disgrace. But when I trust in you, I have a strong and glorious presenceprotecting and anointing me. Forever you’re all I need! TPT

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Ps 73:26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the Rock and firm Strength of my heart and my Portion forever.  AMP

Ps 147:3 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds [curing their pains and their sorrows].  AMP

Isa 41:10  Fear not [there is nothing to fear], for I am with you; do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you; yes, I will hold you up and retain you with My [victorious] right hand of rightness and justice.  AMP

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ISA 41:10 Do not yield to fear, for I am always near. Never turn your gaze from me, for I am your faithful God. I will infuse you with my strength and help you in every situation. I will hold you firmly with my victorious right hand.’TPT

PROV 4:20-23 Listen carefully, my dear child, to everything that I teach you, and pay attention to all that I have to say.²¹ Fill your thoughts with my words until they penetrate deep into your spirit.
²² Then, as you unwrap my words,they will impart true life and radiant health  into the very core of your being.
²³ So above all, guard the affections of your heart,for they affect all that you are.  Pay attention to the welfare of your innermost being, for from there flows the wellspringof life. TPT

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.     AMP

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

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

Isa 61:1  THE SPIRIT of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed and qualified me to preach the Gospel of good tidings to the meek, the poor, and afflicted; He has sent me to bind up and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the [physical and spiritual] captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those who are bound, AMP

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ISA 61:1  The mighty Spirit of Lord Yahwehis wrapped aroundme because Yahweh has anointed me, as a messenger to preach good news to the poor. He sent me to heal the wounds of the brokenhearted, to tell captives, “You are free,”and to tell prisoners, “Be free from your darkness.” TPT

Isa 53:3  He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him.

4 Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy].  AMP

Matt 11:29 Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls. 

30 For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good — not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne. AMP

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MATT 11:29-30 Simply join your life with mine. Learn my ways and you’ll discover that I’m gentle, humble, easy to please. You will find refreshment and rest in me

³⁰ For all that I require of you will be pleasant and easy to bear.” TPT

2 Cor 1:8 For we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about the affliction and oppressing distress which befell us in [the province of] Asia, how we were so utterly and unbearably weighed down and crushed that we despaired even of life [itself].

9 Indeed, we felt within ourselves that we had received the [very] sentence of death, but that was to keep us from trusting in and depending on ourselves instead of on God Who raises the dead.

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

Job 36:5 Behold! God is mighty, and yet despises no one nor regards anything as trivial; He is mighty in power of understanding and heart. AMP

Jer 29:11 I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out — plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.

12 “When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I’ll listen.

13 “When you come looking for me, you’ll find me. Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else,  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 streamsin the desert.  TPT

1 COR 2:9  It is written: “What has been concealed for ages in a realm inaccessible to the senses; what no human eye could catch a glimpse of, nor man’s ear could even hear a whisper of, neither could the inquiring mind decipher the code of that mystery which God has already 1fully arranged and was ready to reveal to 2those who love him.”   MIRROR

RO 8:18 I am convinced that any suffering we endure is less than nothing compared to the magnitude of glorythat is about to be unveiled within us.TPT

PS 55:22 So here’s what I’ve learned through it all: Leave all your cares and anxieties at the feet of the Lord,and measureless grace will strengthen you. TPT

PRO 3:5 Trust in the Lord completely, and do not rely on your own opinions. With all your heart rely on him to guide you, and he will lead you in every decision you make. TPT

ISA 57:10 Though all your wanderings wearied you, you never said, ‘I give up.’ Your strength was renewed so that you did not faint. TPT

JN 14:27 “I leave the gift of peace with you—my peace. Not the kind of fragile peace given by the world, but my perfect peace. Don’t yield to fear or be troubled in your hearts—instead, be courageous!TPT

RO 5:8 But Christ proved God’s passionate love for us by dying in our place while we were still lost and ungodly!TPT

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

RO 8:39 There is no power above us or beneath us—no power that could ever be found in the universe that can distance us from God’s passionate love, which is lavished upon us through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One!TPT

1 PET 5:7 Pour out all your worries and stress upon him and leave them there, for he always tenderly cares for you. TPT

REV 21:4 He will wipe awayevery tear from their eyes and eliminate death entirely. No one will mourn or weep any longer. The pain of wounds will no longer exist, for the old orderhas ceased.” TPT

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

GOD REMBERS HIS PROMISES 5-2-21 VIDEO

God always remembers all His promises. Even when we feel things are delayed He will bring everything He has “spoken” to pass. He remembers what He said. He does not forget or delayed His promises. God is eternal and always faithful to His word.

2 Chron 6:15-17 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.

16 Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father that which You promised him, saying, There shall not fail a man in My sight to sit on the throne of Israel, provided your children are careful to walk in My law as you, David, have walked before Me.

17 Now then, O Lord, God of Israel, let Your word to Your servant David be verified.  AMP

PS 12:6 For every word Yahweh speaks is sure and reliable. 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

Ps 92:12-15  The [uncompromisingly] righteous shall flourish like the palm tree [be long-lived, stately, upright, useful, and fruitful]; they shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon [majestic, stable, durable, and incorruptible].

13 Planted in the house of the Lord, they shall flourish in the courts of our God.

14 [Growing in grace] they shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap [of spiritual vitality] and [rich in the] verdure [of trust, love, and contentment].

15 [They are living memorials] to show that the Lord is upright and faithful to His promises; He is my Rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.  AMP

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

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Acts 20:32 “Now I’m turning you over to God, our marvelous God whose gracious Word can make you into what he wants you to be and give you everything you could possibly need in this community of holy friends. MSG

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. AMP

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1 COR 1:20 God’s wisdom puts the rest out of business! They have all closed shop; the philosophers, the academics, the smooth-talkers, the lot! MIRROR

2 COR 7:1 Dearly beloved, these promises engage us with elevated thoughts and free us from the frustrating efforts of the flesh to compete with the innocence of the spirit in our divine devotion.  MIRROR

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2 COR 7:1 For every word Yahweh speaks is sure and reliable.  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

PS 33:9-12 He breathed words and worlds were birthed.“Let there be,” and there it was— springing forth the moment he spoke, no sooner said than done!
¹⁰ With his breath he scatters the schemes of nations who oppose him; they will never succeed.
¹¹ His destiny-plan for the earth stands sure. His forever-plan remains in place and will never fail.
¹² Blessed and prosperous is that nation who has God as their Lord! They will be the people he has chosen for his own. TPT

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

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

HEB 8:6 But now Jesus the Messiahhas accepted a priestly ministry which far surpasses theirs, since he is the catalystof a better covenant which contains far more wonderful promises!  TPT

2 PET 3:9This 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

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2 Peter 3:9 The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people’s conception of slowness, but He is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance.  AMP

Isa 49:15 [And the Lord answered] Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.

16 Behold, I have indelibly imprinted (tattooed a picture of) you on the palm of each of My hands; [O Zion] your walls are continually before Me.  AMP

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ISA 49:15-16 Yahweh responds, “But how could a loving mother forget her nursing childand not deeply love the one she bore? Even if a there is a mother who forgets her child, I could never, no never, forget you.
¹⁶ Can’t you see? I have carved your name on the palms of my hands! Your walls are always my concernTPT

Mal 3:16 Then those who feared the Lord talked often one to another; and the Lord listened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him of those who reverenced and worshipfully feared the Lord and who thought on His name.

17 And they shall be Mine, says the Lord of hosts, in that day when I publicly recognize and openly declare them to be My jewels (My special possession, My peculiar treasure). And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. AMP

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Mal 3:16-18 Then those whose lives honored God got together and talked it over. God saw what they were doing and listened in. A book was opened in God’s presence and minutes were taken of the meeting, with the names of the God-fearers written down, all the names of those who honored God’s name.

17 God-of-the-Angel-Armies said, “They’re mine, all mine. They’ll get special treatment when I go into action. I treat them with the same consideration and kindness that parents give the child who honors them.

18 Once more you’ll see the difference it makes between being a person who does the right thing and one who doesn’t, between serving God and not serving him. MSG

Isa 62:6 I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem, who will never hold their peace day or night; you who [are His servants and by your prayers] put the Lord in remembrance [of His promises], keep not silence,  AMP ▼▼▼

ISA 62:6  Jerusalem, I have stationed intercessors on your walls who will never be silent, day or night. You “reminders” of Yahweh, take no rest, TPT

1 Cor 10:13 For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also provide the way out (the means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently.  AMP

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I COR 10:13 We all experience times of testing, which is normal for every human being. But God will be faithful to you. He will screen and filter the severity, nature, and timing of every test or trial you faceso that you can bear it. And each test is an opportunity to trust him more, for along with every trial God has provided for you a way of escapethat will bring you out of it victoriously TPT

2 Tim 2:13 If we are faithless [do not believe and are untrue to Him], He remains true (faithful to His Word and His righteous character), for He cannot deny Himself. AMP

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2 TIM 2:13  But even if we are faithless, he will still be full of faith, for he never wavers in his faithfulness to us! TPT

Heb 10:23 So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess and our acknowledgement of it, for He Who promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His word. AMP

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

Ps 119:11 I’ve banked your promises in the vault of my heart so I won’t sin myself bankrupt.  MSG

Ps 147:5 Our Lord is great, with limitless strength; we’ll never comprehend what he knows and does MSG

Titus 1:2 My aim is to raise hopes by pointing the way to life without end. This is the life God promised long ago — and he doesn’t break promises! MSG

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

2 Peter 1:4 We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you — your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.  MSG

Heb 11:33 Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for themselves. They were protected from lions,  MSG