JOEL’S PROPHECY  7-25-21  BY MARY DORIAN

Acts 2:16-21 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.

¹⁹ I will reveal startling signs and wonders in the sky above and mighty miracles on the earth below. Blood and fire and pillars of cloudswill appear.

²⁰ For the sun will be turned darkand the moon blood-red before that great and awesome appearance of the day of the Lord.

²¹ But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ ” TPT

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Acts 2:16-21 This is what the prophet Joel announced would happen:  “In the Last Days,” God says, “I will pour out my Spirit on every kind of people: Your sons will prophesy, also your daughters; Your young men will see visions, your old men dream dreams.

18 When the time comes, I’ll pour out my Spirit On those who serve me, men and women both, and they’ll prophesy.

19 I’ll set wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth below, Blood and fire and billowing smoke,

20 the sun turning black and the moon blood-red, Before the Day of the Lord arrives, the Day tremendous and marvelous;

21 And whoever calls out for help to me, God, will be saved.” MSG

1 Corth 2:10-12  These profound 1mysteries of God’s eternal resolve are now unveiled in us; nothing is hidden from Holy Spirit, who explores the innermost thoughts of God.  

11 Just as a person’s spirit knows their own thoughts beyond the public eye, even so the Spirit of God is our faith decoder to access the thoughts of God.  

12 The Spirit proceeding from God unveils the gifts of his generosity. He has graced us with understanding so that we may know what he has always had in mind for us; this is so unlike the secular spirit of the wisdom of the world where everything has a price tag! Mirror

 Eph 3:19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! AMP

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EPH 3:19 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! TPT

John 14:16-17 In my prayerful engagement with the Father, he will give you another close companion to be with you – in such an intimate way that my immediate presence will continue to be 4inseparably one with you in timeless ages to come!

17 Your eternal companion is the Spirit of truth, whom those trapped in the sense-ruled world, just cannot get to grips with! Their visual horizon is veiled, and they are unable to understand what they cannot see. But, you are familiar with this seamless, intimate union, and the Spirit’s continued presence within you.  Mirror

Joel 2:28And afterward I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. AMP

Zech 4:12 And a second time I said to him, What are these two olive branches which are beside the two golden tubes or spouts by which the golden oil is emptied out?

13 And he answered me, Do you not know what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

14 Then said he, These are the two sons of oil [Joshua the high priest and Zerubbabel the prince of Judah, the two anointed ones] who stand before the Lord of the whole earth [as His anointed instruments].  AMP

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Zech 4:12 And while you’re at it, the two branches of the olive trees that feed oil to the lamps — what do they mean?”

13 He said, “You haven’t figured that out?” I said, “No, sir.”

14 He said, “These are the two who stand beside the Master of the whole earth and supply golden lamp oil worldwide.”  MSG

Zech 4:1 AND THE angel who talked with me came again and awakened me, like a man who is wakened out of his sleep.

2 And said to me, What do you see? I said, I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl [for oil] on the top of it and its seven lamps on it, and [there are] seven pipes to each of the seven lamps which are upon the top of it

3 And there are two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl and the other upon the left side of it [feeding it continuously with oil].

4 So I asked the angel who talked with me, What are these, my lord?

5 Then the angel who talked with me answered me, Do you not know what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

6 Then he said to me, This [addition of the bowl to the candlestick, causing it to yield a ceaseless supply of oil from the olive trees] is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit [of Whom the oil is a symbol], says the Lord of hosts.

7 For who are you, O great mountain [of human obstacles]? Before Zerubbabel [who with Joshua had led the return of the exiles from Babylon and was undertaking the rebuilding of the temple, before him] you shall become a plain [a mere molehill]! And he shall bring forth the finishing gable stone [of the new temple] with loud shoutings of the people, crying, Grace, grace to it!  AMP

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Zech 4:1 The Messenger-Angel again called me to attention. It was like being wakened out of deep sleep.

2 He said, “What do you see?”I answered, “I see a lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top. Seven lamps, each with seven spouts, are set on the bowl.

3 And there are two olive trees, one on either side of the bowl.”

4 Then I asked the Messenger-Angel, “What does this mean, sir?”

5 The Messenger-Angel said, “Can’t you tell?” “No, sir,” I said.

Then he said,

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

7 ‘So, big mountain, who do you think you are? Next to Zerubbabel you’re nothing but a molehill. He’ll proceed to set the Cornerstone in place, accompanied by cheers: Yes! Yes! Do it!'”  MSG

Isa 59:19 In the west they’ll fear the name of God, in the east they’ll fear the glory of God, For he’ll arrive like a river in flood stage, whipped to a torrent by the wind of God.  MSG

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Isa 59:19 So [as the result of the Messiah’s intervention] they shall [reverently] fear the name of the Lord from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him and put him to flight [for He will come like a rushing stream which the breath of the Lord drives].  AMP

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ISA 59:19 From the west to the lands of the rising sun, the glory and the name of Yahweh will be held in highest reverence,for he will break in as a flooding, rushingriver driven on by the breath of Yahweh! TPT

 Acts 9:10 Now there was in Damascus a disciple named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he answered, Here am I, Lord. AMP

Acts 10:11 And he saw the sky opened and something like a great sheet lowered by the four corners, descending to the earth.

12 It contained all kinds of quadrupeds and wild beasts and creeping things of the earth and birds of the air.

13 And there came a voice to him, saying, Rise up, Peter, kill and eat.

14 But Peter said, No, by no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unhallowed or [ceremonially] unclean.

15 And the voice came to him again a second time, What God has cleansed and pronounced clean, do not you defile and profane by regarding and calling common and unhallowed or unclean.

16 This occurred three times; then immediately the sheet was taken up to heaven.  AMP

Acts 10:27 And as [Peter] spoke with him, he entered the house and found a large group of persons assembled;

28 And he said to them, You yourselves are aware how it is not lawful or permissible for a Jew to keep company with or to visit or [even] to come near or to speak first to anyone of another nationality, but God has shown and taught me by words that I should not call any human being common or unhallowed or [ceremonially] unclean.

29 Therefore when I was sent for, I came without hesitation or objection or misgivings. So now I ask for what reason you sent for me.

30 And Cornelius said, This is now the fourth day since about this time I was observing the ninth hour (three o’clock in the afternoon) of prayer in my lodging place; [suddenly] a man stood before me in dazzling apparel,

31 And he said, Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and harkened to, and your donations to the poor have been known and preserved before God [so that He heeds and is about to help you].

32 Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who is surnamed Peter; he is staying in the house of Simon the tanner by the seaside.

33 So at once I sent for you, and you [being a Jew] have done a kind and courteous and handsome thing in coming. Now then, we are all present in the sight of God to listen to all that you have been instructed by the Lord to say.

34 And Peter opened his mouth and said: Most certainly and thoroughly I now perceive and understand that God shows no partiality and is no respecter of persons,

35 But in every nation he who venerates and has a reverential fear for God, treating Him with worshipful obedience and living uprightly, is acceptable to Him and sure of being received and welcomed [by Him].  AMP

Dan 5:11 There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the Spirit of the holy God [or gods], and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him; and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father — the king, I say, your father — appointed him master of the magicians, enchanters or soothsayers, Chaldeans, and astrologers,

12 Because an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding to interpret dreams, clarify riddles, and solve knotty problems were found in this same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.  AMP

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Dan 5:11 There is a man in your kingdom who is full of the divine Holy Spirit. During your father’s time he was well known for his intellectual brilliance and spiritual wisdom. He was so good that your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, made him the head of all the magicians, enchanters, fortunetellers, and diviners. 12 There was no one quite like him. He could do anything — interpret dreams, solve mysteries, explain puzzles. His name is Daniel, but he was renamed Belteshazzar by the king. Have Daniel called in. He’ll tell you what is going on here.”  MSG

Matt 9:37  “What a huge harvest!” he said to his disciples. “How few workers! 38 On your knees and pray for harvest hands!” 

38 On your knees and pray for harvest hands!” MSG

Rev 14:15 Another celestial messenger appeared out of the most holy place of the temple and with a loud voice addressed the One seated upon the cloud, saying, “Thrust forth your pruning hook, your hour has come – this is your moment to reap for the earth’s harvest is ready.”  Mirror

Jer 8:20 The crops are in, the summer is over, but for us nothing’s changed. We’re still waiting to be rescued.

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

Rom 8:19 Our lives now represent the one event every creature anticipates with held breath, standing on tip-toe as it were to witness the unveiling of the sons of God. Can you hear the drum-roll?

8:20 Every creature suffered abuse through Adam’s fall; they were discarded like a squeezed-out orange. Creation did not volunteer to fall prey to the effect of the fall. Yet within this stark setting, hope prevails.

8:21 All creation knows that the glorious liberty of the sons of God sets the stage for their own release from decay.  Mirror

Hab 2:14 But [the time is coming when] the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.  AMP

MERCIES ARE NEW EVERY MORNING. 7-23-21  VIDEO

Mercies. God made a covenant of mercy with Israel because they belong to him. So he was always there for them. God extends mercy to all who He loves. Mankind‘s mercy is based on actions however God‘s mercy is based on love. God is merciful to all of mankind he made them in his image and likeness. God‘s judgments are for his children and they are for mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. And the day of judgment for those who belong to God… Mercy WILL WIN. So we can look forward to that day. We could extend mercy to those who need it. Jesus sprinkled his blood on the mercy seat. His blood is everlasting. Jesus fulfills the covenant of mercy that he made with David. That’s why they cried out son of David have mercy on me.

PS 5:7 But I know that you will welcome me into your house, for I am covered by your covenant of mercy and love.So I come to your sanctuarywith deepest awe to bow in worship and adore you. TPT

Luke 1:54 He embraced his chosen child, Israel; he remembered and piled on the mercies, piled them high. MSG

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

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

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

2 Sam 24:14 And David said to Gad, I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, for His mercies are many and great; but let me not fall into the hands of man.  AMP

Neh 9:31 Yet in Your great mercies You did not utterly consume them or forsake them, for You are a gracious and merciful God. AMP

Ps 106:7 Our fathers in Egypt understood not nor appreciated Your miracles; they did not [earnestly] remember the multitude of Your mercies nor imprint Your loving-kindness [on their hearts], but they were rebellious and provoked the Lord at the sea, even at the Red Sea. AMP

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PS 106:7 Our fathers who were delivered from Egypt didn’t fully understand your wonders, and they took you for granted. Over and over you showed them such tender love and mercy! Yet they were barely beyond the Red Sea when they rebelled against you. TPT

RO 11:32 Actually, God considers all of humanity to be prisoners of their unbelief, so that he can unlock our hearts and show his tender mercies to all who come to him. TPT   ▼▼▼

RO 11:32 In God’s calculation the mass of mankind is trapped in unbelief. This qualifies all mankind for his mercy. MIRROR

Ps 145:9 The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works [the entirety of things created]. AMP

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

Ps 119:156 Your mercies, God, run into the billions; following your guidelines, revive me.  MSG

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PS 119:156 Your tender mercies are what I need, O God; give me back my life again through the revelation of your judgments. TPT

LU 1:78-79 The splendor-light of heaven’s glorious sunrise is about to break upon us in holy visitation, all because the merciful heart of our God is so very tender.⁷⁹ The word from heaven will come to uswith dazzling light to shine upon those
 who live in darkness, near death’s dark shadow. And he will illuminate the path that leads to the way of peace.” TPT

JAMES 2:13 and remember that judgment is merciless for the one who judges others without mercy. So by showing mercy, you take dominion over judgment TPT

Ps 9:7 But the Lord shall remain and continue forever; He has prepared and established His throne for judgment.

8 And He will judge the world in righteousness (rightness and equity); He will minister justice to the peoples in uprightness.

9 The Lord also will be a refuge and a high tower for the oppressed, a refuge and a stronghold in times of trouble (high cost, destitution, and desperation).

10 And they who know Your name [who have experience and acquaintance with Your mercy] will lean on and confidently put their trust in You, for You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek (inquire of and for) You [on the authority of God’s Word and the right of their necessity].  AMP

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PS 9:7-10 But Yahweh, our mighty God, reigns forever! He sits enthroned as King ready to render his verdicts and judge all with righteousness.
⁸ He will issue his decrees of judgment,deciding what is right for the entire world, dispensing justice to all.
9 All who are oppressed may come to Yahweh as a high shelter in the time of trouble, a perfect hiding place.
¹⁰ For everyone who knows your wonderful name keeps putting their trust in you.
They can count on you for help no matter what. O Lord, you will never, no never, neglect those who come to you.  TPT

Heb 2:17 So it is evident that it was essential that He be made like His brethren in every respect, in order that He might become a merciful (sympathetic) and faithful High Priest in the things related to God, to make atonement and propitiation for the people’s sins.

18 For because He Himself [in His humanity] has suffered in being tempted (tested and tried), He is able [immediately] to run to the cry of (assist, relieve) those who are being tempted and tested and tried [and who therefore are being exposed to suffering].  AMP

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HEB 2:17-18 This is why he had to be a man and take hold of our humanity in every way. He made us his brothers and sisters and became our merciful and faithful King-Priestbefore God; as the One who removed our sins to make us one with him.

¹⁸ He suffered and endured every test and temptation, so that he can help us every time we pass through the ordeals of life. TPT

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

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

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

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

1 Chron 16:34 O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever!  AMP

Ps 57:10 For Your mercy and loving-kindness are great, reaching to the heavens, and Your truth and faithfulness to the clouds. AMP

Ps 59:10 My God in His mercy and steadfast love will meet me; God will let me look [triumphantly] on my enemies (those who lie in wait for me).  AMP

PS 89:1-4 This forever-song I singof the gentle love of God! Young and old alike will hear about your faithful, steadfast love—never failing!
² Here’s my chorus: “Your mercy grows through the ages. Your faithfulness is firm, rising up to the skies.”³ I heard the Lord say, “My covenant has been made,and I’m committed forever to my chosen one, David.⁴ I have made my oath that there will be sons of David forever,sons that are kings through every generation. Pause in his presence TPT

Matt 15:22 And behold, a woman who was a Canaanite from that district came out and, with a [loud, troublesomely urgent] cry, begged, Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is miserably and distressingly and cruelly possessed by a demon! AMP

Matt 9:27 As Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed Him, shouting loudly, Have pity and mercy on us, Son of David! AMP

Isa 16:5 Then in mercy and loving-kindness shall a throne be established, and One shall sit upon it in truth and faithfulness in the tent of David, judging and seeking justice and being swift to do righteousness.  AMP

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

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

Luke 1:50 His mercy flows in wave after wave on those who are in awe before him. MSG

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LU 1:50 The kindness of God in the gift of life, from birth to birth, is forever celebrated in awe!  MIRROR

Rom 9:15-16 For He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion (pity) on whom I will have compassion. 

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

RO 9:15-16 Moses saw the glory of God’s goodness; he saw God’s mercy and the kindness of his compassion.  

16 God’s mercy is not a reward for good behavior; it is not a wreath given to the fastest athlete.  MIRROR

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

Rom 12:1 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life — and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.  MSG

FULLY PERSUADED 7-18-21  VIDEO SPOKEN GODS WORD 2

Persuaded means someone believes something from their heart that they know to be true in spite of logic. Letting go of human reasoning and believe in God is conviction. Persuade is to be convince beyond a shadow of a doubt. So convinced you can live in a revelation even before it comes to pass in the natural. The opposite of persuade is to be hard hearted. Jesus moved in power and his words and miracles persuaded people to change their heart. Jesus came to persuade and convinced the world that God love them. 

Jer 15:19 Therefore thus says the Lord [to Jeremiah]: If you return [and give up this mistaken tone of distrust and despair], then I will give you again a settled place of quiet and safety, and you will be My minister; and if you separate the precious from the vile [cleansing your own heart from unworthy and unwarranted suspicions concerning God’s faithfulness], you shall be My mouthpiece. [But do not yield to them.] Let them return to you — not you to [the people]. AMP

Joel 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.  AMP

PS 95:7-11 For we are those he cares for, and he is the God we worship.So drop everything else and listen to his voice! For this is what he’s saying: “Today, when I speak, don’t even think about turning a deaf ear to me like they did when they tested me at Meribah and Massah, the place where they argued with me, their Creator. Your ancestors challenged me over and over with their complaining,even though I had convinced them of my power and love. They still doubted my care for them.
¹⁰ So for forty long years I was grieved and disgusted by them. I described them as wicked wanderers whose hearts would not follow my ways or keep my words.
¹¹ So I made a vow in my anger and declared, ‘They will not enter the resting place I’ve planned for them!’ So don’t you ever be hard-hearted or stubborn like they were!” TPT

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

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

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ROM 8:38 So now I live with the confidence that there is nothing in the universe with the power to separate us from God’s love. I’m convinced that his love will triumph over death, life’s troubles, fallen angels, or dark rulers in the heavens. There is nothing in our present or future circumstances that can weaken his love.  TPT

John 3:16 For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. AMP

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

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

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

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

Acts 28:23 So when they had set a day with him, they came in large numbers to his lodging. And he fully set forth and explained the matter to them from morning until night, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.

24 And some were convinced and believed what he said, and others did not believe.

25 And as they disagreed among themselves, they began to leave, [but not before] Paul had added one statement [more]: The Holy Spirit was right in saying through Isaiah the prophet to your forefathers:

26 Go to this people and say to them, You will indeed hear and hear with your ears but will not understand, and you will indeed look and look with your eyes but will not see [not perceive, have knowledge of or become acquainted with what you look at, at all].

27 For the heart (the understanding, the soul) of this people has grown dull (stupid, hardened, and calloused), and their ears are heavy and hard of hearing and they have shut tight their eyes, so that they may not perceive and have knowledge and become acquainted with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their souls and turn [to Me and be converted], that I may heal them. 

28 So let it be understood by you then that [this message of] the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen [to it]! 

29 And when he had said these things, the Jews went away, arguing and disputing among themselves.

30 After this Paul lived there for two entire years [at his own expense] in his own rented lodging, and he welcomed all who came to him,

31 Preaching to them the kingdom of God and teaching them about the Lord Jesus Christ with boldness and quite openly, and without being molested or hindered.  AMP

2 Cor 5:11 Therefore, being conscious of fearing the Lord with respect and reverence, we seek to win people over [to persuade them]. But what sort of persons we are is plainly recognized and thoroughly understood by God, and I hope that it is plainly recognized and thoroughly understood also by your consciences (your inborn discernment). AMP

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2 COR 5:11 Since we are those who stand in holy awe of the Lord, we make it our passion to persuade others to turn to him. We know that our lives are transparent before the God who knows us fully, and I hope that we are also well known to your consciences.   TPT

1 COR 2:4 The message I preached and how I preached it was not an attempt to sway you with persuasive arguments but to prove to you the almighty power of God’s Holy Spirit.

⁵ For God intended that your faith not be established on man’s wisdom but by trusting in his almighty power.  TPT

JN 12:11 for his miracle testimony was irrefutable and was persuading many of the Jews living in Jerusalem to believe in Jesus. TPT

JN 12:17-19  All the eyewitnesses of the miracle Jesus performed when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead kept spreading the news about Jesus to everyone.

¹⁸ The news of this miracle of resurrection caused the crowds to swell as great numbers of people welcomed him into the city with joy.

19 But the Pharisees were disturbed by this and said to each other, “We won’t be able to stop this. The whole world is going to run after him!” TPT

Acts 26:28 Then Agrippa said to Paul, You think it a small task to make a Christian of me [just offhand to induce me with little ado and persuasion, at very short notice].

29 And Paul replied, Whether short or long, I would to God that not only you, but also all who are listening to me today, might become such as I am, except for these chains. AMP

LUKE 3:3 John went preaching and baptizing throughout the Jordan Valley. He persuaded people to turn away from their sins and turn to Godfor the freedom of forgiveness,

4 fulfilling what was written in the book of the prophet Isaiah: “Listen! You will hear a thunderous voice in the lonely wilderness telling you to wake up and get your heart ready for the coming of the Lord Yahweh. Make straight every twisted thing in your lives.

^5–6 Bring into the light every dark way. Make right every wrong. Remove injustice. Every heart of pride will humbly bow before him. Every deception will be exposed and replaced by the truth to prepare everyone everywhere to see the Life of God!” TPT

John 17:21 The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind — Just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, So they might be one heart and mind with us. Then the world might believe that you, in fact, sent me. MSG

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

HEB 6:9-12 Even though we speak like this, beloved, we are fully convinced that there are more beautiful and excellent things, which flow from your salvation.

10 For God, the Faithful One, is not unfair. How can he forget the beautiful work you have done for him? He remembers the love you demonstrate as you continually serve his beloved ones for the glory of his name.

¹¹ But we long to see you passionately advance until the end and you find your hope fulfilled.

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

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Heb 6:9-12 I’m sure that won’t happen to you, friends. I have better things in mind for you — salvation things!

10 God doesn’t miss anything. He knows perfectly well all the love you’ve shown him by helping needy Christians, and that you keep at it.

11 And now I want each of you to extend that same intensity toward a full-bodied hope, and keep at it till the finish.

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

1 Kings 18:21 Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you halt and limp between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him! But if Baal, then follow him. And the people did not answer him a word.  AMP

Gal 6:14 But far be it from me to glory [in anything or anyone] except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) through Whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world!  AMP

In light of all the things that we are going through what are you persuaded for? What passion drives your heart? Controls your actions? Multitudes multitudes in the valley of decision. How long will you waver between two opinions.

CHANGING YOUR THOUGHTS 7-16-21  VIDEO

If you change your thoughts to agree with the Holy Spirit you will achieve your destiny. What you think in your heart will be what comes to pass. We tend to think from our heart. God thinks better thoughts about us and people than we can imagine. Jesus could see peoples thoughts and he knew their hearts. Let your heart change your thinking let it change your mind so that you can receive and speak the words of life.

Rom 8:6 Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life.

7 Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing.

8 And God isn’t pleased at being ignored.

9 But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won’t know what we’re talking about.

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

7 A mind focused on flesh  is distracted from God with no inclination to his life-laws. Flesh and spirit are opposing forces.

8 It is impossible for those immersed in flesh to at the same time accommodate themselves to the opinion, desire and interest of God.

9 But you are not ruled by a flesh-consciousness, but by a spirit-consciousness,  God’s Spirit is at home in you. Anyone who does not see themselves fully clothed and identified in the Spirit of Christ, cannot be themselves.  MIRROR

James 1:8 [For being as he is] a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), [he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels, decides]. AMP  ▼▼▼

JAMES 1:8 When you are half-hearted and wavering it leaves you unstable. Can you really expect to receive anything from the Lord when you’re in that condition? TPT

ISA 55:8-9 “For my thoughts about mercyare not like your thoughts, and my ways are different from yours.
⁹ As high as the heavens are above the earth, so my ways and my thoughts are higher than yours. TPT

Ps 33:11 The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts of His heart through all generations.  AMP

PS 139:17-18 Every single moment you are thinking of me! How precious and wonderful to consider that you cherish me constantly in your every thought! O God, your desires toward me are more than the grains of sand on every shore! When I awake each morning, you’re still with me. TPT

1 Cor 2:16  For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart.  AMP

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1 COR 2:16 There is no other basis to teach from but to echo the mind of Christ; he is the Master mind personified within us! MIRROR

PHIL 2:4 To discover your own completeness in Christ frees you to turn your attention away from yourself to others!

5 The way Jesus saw himself is the only valid way to see yourself!

6 His being God’s equal in form and likeness was official; his Sonship did not steal the limelight from his Father! Neither did his humanity distract from the deity of God!

7 His mission however, was not to prove his deity, but to embrace our humanity. Emptied of his reputation as God, he fully embraced our physical human form; born in our resemblance he identified himself as the servant of the human race. His love enslaved him to us!

8 And so we have the drama of the cross in context: the man Jesus Christ who is fully God, becomes fully man to the extent of willingly dying humanity’s death at the hands of his own creation. He embraced the curse and shame of the lowest kind in dying a criminal’s death. MIRROR

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

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

Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will imprint My laws upon their minds, even upon their innermost thoughts and understanding, and engrave them upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

11 And it will nevermore be necessary for each one to teach his neighbor and his fellow citizen or each one his brother, saying, Know (perceive, have knowledge of, and get acquainted by experience with) the Lord, for all will know Me, from the smallest to the greatest of them.  AMP

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HEB 8:10- Now, instead of documenting my laws on stone, I will chisel them into your mind and engrave them in your inner consciousness; it will no longer be a one-sided affair. I will be your God and you will be my people, not by compulsion but by mutual desire.

11 Knowing me will no longer be a Sunday-school lesson, or something taught by persuasive words of doctrine, neither will they know me on account of family tradition or door to door evangelism. Everyone, from the most unlikely to the most prominent people in society, will know me inwardly.  MIRROR

PHIL 4:8 Keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real, honorable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure and holy, merciful and kind. And fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God, praising him always.  TPT

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Phil 4:8 Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious — the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. MSG            

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PHIL  4:8 Now let this be your conclusive reasoning: consider that which is true about everyone as evidenced in Christ. Live overwhelmed by God’s opinion of you! Acquaint yourselves with the revelation of righteousness; realize God’s likeness in you. Make it your business to declare mankind’s redeemed innocence. Think friendship. Discover how famous everyone is in the light of the gospel; mankind is in God’s limelight! Ponder how elevated you are in Christ. Study stories that celebrate life.   MIRROR

2 Tim 2:7 Think over these things I am saying [understand them and grasp their application], for the Lord will grant you full insight and understanding in Constantly keep in mind Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [as] risen from the dead, [as the prophesied King] descended from David, according to the good news (the Gospel everything  that I preach.  AMP

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2 Tim 2:7 Think it over. God will make it all plain.

8 Fix this picture firmly in your mind: Jesus, descended from the line of David, raised from the dead. It’s what you’ve heard from me all along. MSG

EPH 4:22 For in the truth of your union in him [in his death and resurrection], you have stripped off that old identity like a filthy worn-out garment. Ignorance and lust corrupted you and cheated you into wearing it in the first place.

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

PS 119:52 Your revelation-light is eternal; I’m encouraged every time I think about your truth! TPT

Matt 5:8 “You’re blessed when you get your inside world — your mind and heart — put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.  MSG

Luke 13:24 “Whether few or many is none of your business. Put your mind on your life with God. The way to life — to God! — is vigorous and requires your total attention. A lot of you are going to assume that you’ll sit down to God’s salvation banquet just because you’ve been hanging around the neighborhood all your lives. MSG

1 Peter 1:13 So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. MSG

Ps 19:13  Clean the slate, God, so we can start the day fresh! Keep me from stupid sins, from thinking I can take over your work; Then I can start this day sun-washed,

scrubbed clean of the grime of sin.  MSG

Prov 3:21 Dear friend, guard Clear Thinking and Common Sense with your life;

don’t for a minute lose sight of them.  MSG

Eccl 10:2 Wise thinking leads to right living; Stupid thinking leads to wrong living.  MSG

Prov 15:15 All the days of the desponding and afflicted are made evil [by anxious thoughts and forebodings], but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of circumstances]. AMP

Ps 94:19 In the multitude of my [anxious] thoughts within me, Your comforts cheer and delight my soul! AMP

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PS 94:19 Whenever my busy thoughts were out of control, the soothing comfort of your presence calmed me down and overwhelmed me with delight. TPT

MATT 9:4 Jesus supernaturally perceived their thoughts, and said to them, “Why do you carry such evil in your hearts? TPT

LUKE 5:22 Jesus knew exactly what they were thinking and asked them, “Why do you even reason like this in your hearts?  MIRROR

1 COR 1:30 For it is not from man that we draw our life but from God as we are being joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. And now he is our God-given wisdom, our virtue, our holiness, and our redemption.  TPT

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1 Cor 1:30 Everything that we have — right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start — comes from God by way of Jesus Christ.  MSG

NOT OF THIS WORLD 7-11-21 VIDEO SPOKEN HEAVEN2

If 2020 showed us anything, it showed us how the world and the things of this world do not last forever. But we are not of this world. We are citizens of heaven. The world is not our home but our mission is to bring people into the kingdom of heaven. We’re already registered as citizens of heaven. our mission is to go into all the world.

Jesus prepared his disciples for what would happen next. We also we read in the word and listen to the Holy Spirit and we become ready for what is coming next. We now are the light of this world. 

PHIL 3:20-21 Our citizenship is referenced in our joint position with Christ in heavenly places! heaven is not our goal, it is our starting point! Our understanding is sourced in a Savior; we fully embrace the Lord Jesus Christ!

21 The salvation that Jesus is the author of, re-fashions these bodies of clay and elevates us to fully participate in the same pattern of his heavenly glory! The severe contradiction that we might often face in the frailty of the flesh, is by far surpassed by the glorious splendor displayed in his human body raised from the dead; according to the working of God’s dynamic power he imprints the mirror pattern of his likeness in us. Thus he subdues all things to himself.   MIRROR

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PHIL 3:20-21 But we are a colonyof heaven on earth as we cling tightly to our life-giver, the Lord Jesus Christ,

²¹ who will transform our humble bodiesand transfigure us into the identical likeness of his glorified body. And using his matchless power, he continually subdues everything to himself.  TPT

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

JN 14:17-20 Your eternal companion is the Spirit of truth, whom those trapped in the sense-ruled world, just cannot get to grips with! Their visual horizon is veiled, and they are unable to understand what they cannot see. But, [in your acquaintance with me], you are familiar with this seamless, intimate union, and the Spirit’s continued presence within you.

18 At no time will you be orphaned or abandoned by me; I come to abide face to face with you. (I come to be no less face to face with you, than what I’ve always been face to face with the Father, from the beginning and for all eternity.  

19 In yet a little while the world will no longer see me, but I will be tangibly visible to you in the very life we share together.

20 In that day you will know that we are in seamless union with one another! I am in my Father, you are in me and I am in you!MIRROR

JN 14:27-28 Peace be with you! I give you my own peace – this is not the kind the world gives – this is peace in the midst of troubled times; therefore you have nothing to fear! Let not your hearts be timid.

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

JN 15:18-19 15:18 Know that the world-system hated me first whenever you encounter their resistance against you.

19 If your lives were the product of the world-system you would enjoy their applause and friendship; but they can’t stand you because their mold no longer has any hold on you, now that you have discovered your authentic identity in my declaration of who you are by design.  MIRROR

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JN 15:18-19 “Just remember, when the unbelieving world hates you, they first hated me.

¹⁹ If you were to give your allegiance to the world, they would love and welcome you as one of their own. But because you won’t align yourself with the values of this world, they will hate you. I have chosen you and taken you out of the world to be mine.  TPT

MATT 5:14-16 “Your lives light up the world. For how can you hide a city that stands on a hilltop?

¹⁵ And who would light a lamp and then hide it in an obscure place? Instead, it’s placed where everyone in the house can benefit from its light.

¹⁶ So don’t hide your light! Let it shine brightly before others, so that your commendable workswill shine as light upon them, and then they will give their praise to your Father in heaven.” TPT

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Matt 5:14 “Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill.

15 If I make you light-bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I’m putting you on a light stand.

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

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

HEB 11:13-16 These heroes all died still clinging to their faith, not even receiving all that had been promised them. But they saw beyond the horizon the fulfillment of their promises and gladly embraced it from afar. They all lived their lives on earth as those who belonged to another realm.

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

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

HEB 12:23 And as members of the churchof the Firstbornall our names have been legally registeredas citizens of heaven! And we have come before God who judges all, and who lives among the spirits of the righteous who have been made perfect in his eyes!TPT

John 16:33 I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.] AMP

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

JN 17:11-18  “Holy Father, I am about to leave this worldto return and be with you, but my disciples will remain here. Holy Father, each one that you have given me, keep them in your name so that they will be united as one, even as we are one.
¹² While I was with these that you have given me, I was guarding them and keeping them in your name. Not one of them is lost, except the one that was destined to be lost, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

¹³ “But now I am returning to you so Father, I praythat they will experience and enter into my joyous delight in youso that it is fulfilled in them and overflows.
¹⁴ I have given them your message and that is why the unbelieving world hates them. For their allegiance is no longer to this world because I am not of this world.
¹⁵ I am not asking that you remove them from the world, but I ask that you guard their hearts from evil,¹⁶ For they no longer belong to this world any more than I do.

17 “Your Word is truth! So make them holy by the truth.18 I have commissioned them to represent mejust as you commissioned me to represent you. TPT

JN 17:20-21 “And I ask not only for these disciples, but also for all those who will one day believe in me through their message.
²¹ I pray for them all to be joined together as oneeven as you and I, Father, are joined together as one. I pray for them to become one with usso that the world will recognize that you sent me.TPT

EPH 2:6 We are co-included in his resurrection. We are also co-elevated in his ascension to be equally present in the throne room of the heavenly realm where we are co-seated with him in his executive authority. We are fully represented in Christ Jesus.  MIRROR

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Eph 2:6 And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One).  AMP

EPH 6:12 Your hand-to-hand combat is not with human beings, but with the highest principalities and authorities operating in rebellion under the heavenly realms. For they are a powerful class of demon-godsand evil spirits that holdthis dark world in bondage.  TPT

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

1 COR 2:12 For we did not receive the spirit of this world system but the Spirit of God, so that we might come to understand and experience all that grace has lavished upon us. TPT

1 COR 6:2-3 Don’t you realize that we, the holy ones, will judge the universe? If the unbelieving world is under your jurisdiction, you should be fully competent to settle these trivial lawsuits among yourselves.

³ For surely you know that we will one day judgeangels, let alone these everyday matters.  TPT

2 COR 5:19-20 In other words, it was through the Anointed One that God was shepherding the world, not even keeping records of their transgressions, and he has entrusted to us the ministry of opening the door of reconciliation to God.

²⁰ We are ambassadorsof the Anointed One who carry the message of Christ to the world, as though God were tenderly pleadingwith them directly through our lips. So we tenderly plead with you on Christ’s behalf, “Turn back to God and be reconciled to him.”   TPT

GAL 6:14 May my boasting be in nothing but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. The religious-systems and applause of this world have no appeal to me. As far as they are concerned, I am like a dead person. MIRROR

COL 2:20  For you were included in the death of Christ and have died with him to the religious system and powers of this world. Don’t retreat back to being bullied by the standards and opinions of religion— TPT

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COL 2:2O If it is true that you were included in Christ’s death, then the religious systems of this world with its rules and regulations no longer apply to you. What further relevance would there be for you to continue to live under the influence of mankind’s doctrines and ideas?  MIRROR

COL 3:1-3 Christ’s resurrection is your resurrection too. This is why we are to yearn for all that is above, for that’s where Christ sits enthroned at the place of all power, honor, and authority!

² Yes, feast on all the treasures of the heavenly realm and fill your thoughts with heavenly realities, and not with the distractions of the natural realm.

³ Your crucifixionwith Christ has severed the tie to this life, and now your true life is hidden away in God in Christ. TPT

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COL 3:1-3 See yourselves co-raised with Christ! Now ponder with persuasion the consequence of your co-inclusion in him. Relocate yourselves mentally! Engage your thoughts with throne room realities where you are co-seated with Christ in the executive authority of God’s right hand.

2 Becoming affectionately acquainted with throne room thoughts will keep you from being distracted again by the earthly [soul-ruled] realm.

3 Your union with his death broke the association with that world; see yourselves located in a fortress where your life is hidden with Christ in God!   MIRROR

Mark 16:15 And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach and publish openly the good news (the Gospel) to every creature [of the whole human race]. AMP

Eph 1:23 The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ’s body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence. MSG

Scriptures for Healing Incurable. JULY 10 2021 BY Mary Dorian

John 20:23 “If you 1forgive someone’s sins, they are gone and forgotten. If you don’t 2let go, then you are 2stuck with them.”  Mirror

Ps 32:10-11 So my conclusion is this: Many are the sorrows and frustrations of those who don’t come clean with God. But when you trust in the Lord for forgiveness, his wraparound love will surround you.
¹¹ So celebrate the goodness of God! He shows this kindness to everyone who is his.
Go ahead—shout for joy, all you upright ones who want to please him! TPT

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Ps 32:10-11 God-defiers are always in trouble; God-affirmers find themselves loved every time they turn around.

11 Celebrate God. Sing together — everyone! All you honest hearts, raise the roof! MSG

HEB 9:22-28 Actually, nearly everything under the law was purified with blood, since forgiveness only comes through an outpouring of blood.

²³ And so it was necessary for all the earthly symbolsof the heavenly realities to be purified with these animal sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required a superior sacrifice than these. ²⁴ For the Messiah did not enter into the earthly tabernacle made by men, which was but an echo of the true sanctuary, but he entered into heaven itself to appear before the faceof God in our place.

²⁵ Under the old system year after year the high priest entered the most holy sanctuary with blood that was not his own. But the Messiah did not need to repeatedly offer himself year after year,

²⁶ for that would mean he must suffer repeatedly ever since the fall of the world.^[c] But now he has appeared at the fulfillment of the ages to abolish^[d] sin once and for all by the sacrifice of himself!

²⁷ Every human being is appointed to die once, and then to face God’s judgment.

²⁸ But when we die we will be face-to-face with Christ, the One who experienced death once for all to bear the sins of many!^[f] And now to those who eagerly await him, he will appear a second time; not to deal with sin, but to bring us the fullness of salvation.^TPT

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Heb 9:22-28 9:22 Thus, according to the law, all purging was by means of blood; 1forgiveness was specifically associated with the shedding of blood.  

9:23 If the methods of the law were only a shadow prefiguring the heavenly reality, the fulfillment of these examples surely requires a stronger and more efficacious sacrifice.

9:24 In Christ we have so much more than a type, reflected in the tabernacle of holy places which was set up by human hands. He entered into the heavenly sphere itself, where he personally mirror-exhibits us face to face with God.  

9:25 Neither was it necessary for him to ever repeat his sacrifice. The High Priests under the old shadow system stood proxy with substitute, animal sacrifices that had to be offered every year.

9:26 But Jesus did not have to suffer again and again since the fall of the world; the single sacrifice of himself, in the fulfillment of history, now reveals how he has brought sin to nought. He was made manifest once and for all, at the conclusion of the age, in order to do away with sin.   

9:27 So, every person’s 1once-off appointment with death is mirrored in the full consequence of 2this very judgment, which Jesus now disengaged!  

9:28 Thus, in this context [of everyone’s appointment with death], Jesus is the ultimate sacrifice. What the first, shadow-dispensation merely prophetically pointed to, he fulfilled once and for all, when he was presented as an offering, to take upon himself the sins of the entire human race! Now, with sin no longer on the agenda, he appears a second time, out of this death, to be clearly seen in everyone’s whole-hearted embrace of him as Savior!  MIRROR

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

Acts 13:38-40  “So listen, friends! Through this Jesus, the forgiveness^[a] of sins is offered to you.

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

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

Romans 4:25  Jesus was handed over to be crucified for the forgiveness of our sins and was raised back to life to prove that he had made us right with God! TPT

Matthew 26:28 For this is the blood that seals the new covenant. It will be poured out for many for the complete forgiveness of sins. TPT

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

Matthew 9:4-7 Jesus supernaturally perceived their thoughts, and said to them, “Why do you carry such evil in your hearts?

⁵ Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or, ‘Stand up and walk!’?

⁶ But now, to convince you that the Son of Man has been given authority to forgive sins, I say to this man, ‘Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk home.’ ”

⁷ Immediately the man sprang to his feet and left for home. TPT

Winning over trials and temptations 7-9-21 VIDEO SUCESS WALT AND JORDAN

Trials are a test. Temptations are the desire to engage in short term urges that will ultimately threaten your long-term goals or destiny. Temptation come often by looking at scripture in a wrong light.  Victory come by seeing scripture in the right context. 

PS 119:61 Even when temptations encircle me with evil,I won’t forget for a moment to follow your commands.⁶² In the middle of the night I awake to give thanks to you because of all your revelation-light—so right and true! TPT

PS 7:17 They dig a pit for others to fall into, not knowing that they will be the very ones who will fall into it.
¹⁶ Every pit-digger who works to trap and harm others will be trapped by his own treachery. Thankful Praise

¹⁷ But I will give my thanks to you, Yahweh, for you make everything right in the end.
I will sing my highest praise to the God of the Highest Place!  TPT

PROV 28:10 Those who tempt the lovers of God with an evil schemewill fall into their own traps.But the innocent who resist temptation will experience reward. TPT

HEB 2:18 He suffered and endured every test and temptation, so that he can help us every time we pass through the ordeals of life. TPT

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Heb 2:18 For because He Himself [in His humanity] has suffered in being tempted (tested and tried), He is able [immediately] to run to the cry of (assist, relieve) those who are being tempted and tested and tried [and who therefore are being exposed to suffering]. AMP

Heb 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning.

16 Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God’s unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it]. AMP

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HEB 4:15 As High Priest he fully identifies with us in the context of our frail human lives. Having subjected it to close scrutiny, he proved that the human frame was master over sin. His sympathy with us is not to be seen as excusing weaknesses which are the result of a faulty design, but rather as a trophy to mankind.  

16 For this reason we can approach the authoritative throne of grace with bold utterance. We are welcome there in his embrace, and are reinforced with immediate effect in times of trouble. MIRROR

LUKE 4:5-8 The devil lifted Jesus high into the sky, and in a flash showed him all the kingdoms and regions of the world.

^6–7 The devil then said to Jesus, “All of this, with all its power, authority, and splendor, is mine to give to whomever I wish. Just do one thing, and you will have it all. Simply bow down to worship me, and it will be yours! You will possess everything!”

8 Jesus rebuked him and said, “Satan, get behind me! For it is written in the Scriptures, ‘Only One is worthy of adoration; therefore, worship only the Lord your God and love him supremely.’ ” TPT  

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LUKE 4:5 He then showed him all the kingdom’s of the inhabited world in a split second.

4:6 And said to him, I will give you the glory and control of all these kingdoms since it was handed over to me and I can do with it whatever I please!

4:7 It’s all yours if you worship me.  

4:8 Jesus responded with, “Get out of my face Satan! Scripture says, you shall worship the Lord your God with undivided adoration.” MIRROR

LUKE 4:9-12 Next, the devil took Jesus to Jerusalem, set him on the highest point of the temple, and tempted him, saying, “If you really are the Son of God, jump down in front of all the people.

^10–11 For it is written in the Scriptures, ‘God has given his angels instructions to protect you from harm. For angels’ hands will hold you up and keep you from hurting even one foot on a stone.’  TPT

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LUK 4:9-12  Then he led him to Jerusalem and brought him to the wing of the temple and challenged him to cast himself down, if he really is the son of God.  

10 It is written, he says, that God would command his celestial messengers to protect you from any harm.

11 They would bear you up on their hands and protect you so that you will not even stumble over a stone.  

12 Again, Jesus quoted Deuteronomy and said, you shall not put the Lord your God to the test. Testing is not trusting.  MIRROR

JAMES 1:13 Do not say, “I am scrutinized by God” when you feel enticed. He is not in the teasing business; evil offers no attraction to God for God to be tempted by it, neither is he experimenting with your design!

14 Temptation employs lust to lure someone into a trap, one is deceived by the attraction of the bait. Your own private desires can snare you

15 When passion conceives, it becomes the parent of sin. Sin’s mission is to murder you.

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

17 Without exception God’s gifts are only good; it’s perfection cannot be flawed. They come from above; proceeding like light rays from its source, the Father of lights, with whom there is no distortion, or even a shadow of shifting to obstruct, or intercept the light; nor any hint of a hidden agenda.

18 It was according to the Father’s delightful resolve that he birthed us; giving authentic, incarnate expression to the Word.  MIRROR   ▼▼▼

JAMES 1:13-18 When you are tempted don’t ever say, “God is tempting me,” for God is incapable of being tempted by evil and he is never the source of temptation.

¹⁴ Instead it is each person’s own desires and thoughts that drag them into evil and lurethem away into darkness.

¹⁵ Evil desires give birth to evil actions. And when sin is fully mature it can murder you!

¹⁶ So my friends, don’t be fooled by your own desires!

¹⁷ Every giftGod freely gives us is good and perfect, streaming down from the Father of lights, who shines from the heavens with no hidden shadow or darknessand is never subject to change.

¹⁸ God was delightedto give us birth by the truth of his infallible Wordso that we would fulfill his chosen destiny for us and become the favorite ones out of all his creation! TPT

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JAMES 1:19 Consequently my beloved friends, give your immediate attention to the Word that reveals your true origin; do not ponder the contradiction. Rather remain silent, than to quickly give your vote and voice to the emotions that arise in the heat of the moment!   MIRROR

Heb 12:3 Just think of Him Who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself [reckon up and consider it all in comparison with your trials], so that you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting in your minds. AMP

2 COR 10:3-4 For although we live in the natural realm, we don’t wage a military campaign employing human weapons, using manipulation to achieve our aims. Instead, our spiritual weapons are energized with divine power to effectively dismantle the defenses behind which people hide.

⁵ We can demolish every deceptive fantasythat opposes God and break through every arrogant attitude that is raised up in defiance of the true knowledge of God. We capture, like prisoners of war, every thoughtand insist that it bow in obedience to the Anointed One.  TPT

JAMES 1:2-4 My fellow believers, when it seems as though you are facing nothing but difficulties, see it as an invaluable opportunity to experience the greatest joy that you can!

³ For you know that when your faith is testedit stirs up in you the power of endurance.

⁴ And then as your endurance grows even stronger, it will release perfection into every part of your being until there is nothing missing and nothing lacking. TPT

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JAMES 1:2 Temptations and contradictions come in different shapes, sizes, and intervals; their intention is always to suck you into their energy field. However, my friends, your joy in who you know you are leads you out triumphantly every time.  

3 Here is the secret: joy is not something you have to fake, it is the fruit of what your faith knows to be true about you! You know that the proof of faith results in a persuasion that remains constant in contradiction.

 4 steadfastness provides you with a consistent environment, and so patience prevails and proves your perfection; how entirely whole you are and without any shortfall. MIRROR

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

1 PET 1:6 May the thought of this cause you to jump for joy, even though lately you’ve had to put up with the grief of many trials

⁷ But these only reveal the sterling coreof your faith, which is far more valuable than gold that perishes, for even gold is refined by fire. Your authentic faith will result in even more praise, glory, and honor when Jesus the Anointed One is revealed. TPT  ▼▼▼

1 Peter 1:6 I know how great this makes you feel, even though you have to put up with every kind of aggravation in the meantime.

7 Pure gold put in the fire comes out of it proved pure; genuine faith put through this suffering comes out proved genuine. When Jesus wraps this all up, it’s your faith, not your gold, that God will have on display as evidence of his victory. MSG

2 PET 2:9 If the Lord Yahweh rescued Lot, he knows how to continually rescue the godly from their trials and to reserve the ungodly for punishment on the day of judgment. TPT

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2 Peter 2:9 Now if [all these things are true, then be sure] the Lord knows how to rescue the godly out of temptations and trials, and how to keep the ungodly under chastisement until the day of judgment and doom, AMP

PS 34:17 Yet when holy lovers of God cry out to him with all their hearts, the Lord will hear them and come to rescue them from all their troubles. TPT

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

1 COR 10:13 We all experiencetimes 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 escape that will bring you out of it victoriously. TPT