HOW DO YOU SEE YOURSELF?  8-28-22

As we consider the days that we are in, there is something so magnificent being offered to us. It is greater than anything the world could ever offer. We must see ourselves “in Christ “. See ourselves as we truly are. 

JOHN 6:63 It is the Spirit that quickens the poetry of life – the flesh (muscle and willpower) is useless without the spirit. The words that I speak unto you they are spirit and life! I communicate from a different dimension and perspective giving voice and substance to every prophetic shadow and purpose.

64 I notice that there are those among you who are not persuaded about me. It was clear from the start that even amongst Jesus’ close followers there were signs of unbelief and treason.

65  I was addressing your hesitance to believe in me when I said to you that no one is forcing you to see yourself mirrored in me – you do not need to go into make-believe-mode or fake your faith – it is the Father’s gift to you!

66 Because of this conversation many of his followers went back to their old ways and would no longer be associated with Jesus.

67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “Don’t feel obliged to stay – you are also free to go if you wish!”

68 Simon Peter said, Lord, who is there to go back to – which mirror should we gaze into? Your words resonate the life of the ages!  MIRROR

Rom 6:11 From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God. That’s what Jesus did. MSG

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

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Romans 8:2For the “law” of the Spirit of life flowing through the anointing of Jesus has liberated us from the “law” of sin and death. TPT

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Rom 8:1 No condemnation now hangs over the head of those who are “in” Jesus Christ. For the new spiritual principle of life “in” Christ lifts me out of the old vicious circle of sin and death. PHILLIPS

Rom 8:39 high or low, thinkable or unthinkable — absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us. MSG

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Romans 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 Cor 1:4 Every time I think of you — and I think of you often! — I thank God for your lives of free and open access to God, given by Jesus.

5 There’s no end to what has happened in you — it’s beyond speech, beyond knowledge.

6 The evidence of Christ has been clearly verified in your lives.  MSG

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1 COR 4:1  I am always so happy for you when I consider how greatly advantaged you are because of God’s grace unveiled in Jesus Christ.

5 Your knowledge of Christ is based on so much more than hearsay; every aspect of your life gives eloquent expression to the rich reservoir of your union in him.

6 You certainly have the testimony of Christ evidenced in you.  MIRROR

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.

31 That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.”   MSG

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1 COR 1:30  Of God’s doing are we in Christ. He is both the genesis and genius of our wisdom; a wisdom that reveals how righteous, sanctified and redeemed we already are in him.

31 He is our claim to fame.   MIRROR

1 Cor 15:19 If all we get out of Christ is a little inspiration for a few short years, we’re a pretty sorry lot.

20 But the truth is that Christ has been raised up, the first in a long legacy of those who are going to leave the cemeteries.

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

22 Everybody dies in Adam; everybody comes alive in Christ. MSG

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1 COR 15:19 If our hope in Christ was restricted to only benefit us in this life then imagine the severity of our disappointment if it all had to come to an abrupt end when we died.

20 However this very moment the risen Christ represents everyone who has ever died; exactly like the first fruit represents the complete harvest.

21 The same mankind who died in a man was raised again in a man.

22 In Adam all died; in Christ all are made alive.  MIRROR

2 COR 2:14 I am overwhelmed with gratitude! Wherever my travels take me I am so aware that God leads us as trophies in his victory parade. What he knows to be true about us diffuses through us like a perfume of sweet aroma everywhere we go, celebrating the success of the cross. MIRROR

2 Cor 12:2 For instance, I know a man who, fourteen years ago, was seized by Christ and swept in ecstasy to the heights of heaven. I really don’t know if this took place in the body or out of it; only God knows.

3-4 I also know that this man was hijacked into paradise — again, whether in or out of the body, I don’t know; God knows. There he heard the unspeakable spoken, but was forbidden to tell what he heard.

5 This is the man I want to talk about. But about myself, I’m not saying another word apart from the humiliations. MSG

GAL 3:26  What Jesus Christ believes to be true about you is the final confirmation of mankind’s redeemed sonship. His faith is the only valid reference to your belief!

27 To be immersed in Christ is to be fully clothed with him! He is your brand new wardrobe confirming your sonship!

28 Nothing resembles your previous identity as Jew or Gentile, bond or free, male or female, Billabong or Gucci, now you are all defined in oneness with Christ! He is your significance and makes you beautiful!   MIRROR

Gal 6:15 For neither is circumcision [now] of any importance, nor uncircumcision, but [only] a new creation [the result of a new birth and a new nature in Christ Jesus, the Messiah]. AMP

Ephesians 1:3 Every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm has already been lavished upon us as a love gift from our wonderful heavenly Father, the Father of our Lord Jesus—all because he sees us wrapped into Christ. This is why we celebrate him with all our hearts!

⁴And in love he chose us before he laid the foundation of the universe! Because of his great love, he ordained us, so that we would be seen as holy in his eyes with an unstained innocence.  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

Ephesians 2:10 We have become his poetry, a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it!  TPT

PHIL 4:13 In every situation I am strong in the one who empowers me from within to be who I am!  MIRROR

COL 2:10 We are complete in him! Jesus mirrors our wholeness and endorses our true identity. He is “I am” in us!

11 You were in Christ when he died; which means that his death is your true circumcision. This is not hypothetical; this is the real deal. Thus, sin’s authority in the human body was stripped of its control over you.  

12 In the same parallel [your co-circumcision in his death], your co-burial and joint-resurrection is now demonstrated in baptism; your co-inclusion in Christ is what God’s faith knew when he powerfully raised him from the dead.  

13 You were once spiritually dead, as confirmed in your constant failure, being bound to a lifestyle ruled by the distorted desires of the flesh; but now God made you alive together with him and thus graciously restored our innocence and dignity, having forgiven us all our short falling.  MIRROR

1 Thess 1:10 And [how you] look forward to and await the coming of His Son from heaven, Whom He raised from the dead — Jesus, Who personally rescues and delivers us out of and from the wrath [bringing punishment] which is coming [upon the impenitent] and draws us to Himself [investing us with all the privileges and rewards of the new life in Christ, the Messiah].  AMP

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1 THESS 1:10 And all along you remain focused on the Son of God who reveals our joint-origin in the heavenlies. He endorsed our redeemed innocence in his resurrection! He has drawn us to himself and rescued us from every definition of judgment!  MIRROR

VIDEO REAL BLOOD OF JESUS

1 Corinthians 11:23 I have handed down to you what came to me by direct revelation from the Lord himself. The same night in which he was handed over, he took bread ²⁴and gave thanks. Then he distributed it to the disciples and said, “Take it and eat your fill. It is my body, which is given for you. Do this to remember me.”

²⁵He did the same with the cup of wine after supper and said, “This cup seals the new covenant with my blood. Drink it—and whenever you drink this, do it to remember me.” TPT

John 6:53 And Jesus said to them, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, you cannot have any life in you unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood [unless you appropriate His life and the saving merit of His blood].

54 He who feeds on My flesh and drinks My blood has (possesses now) eternal life, and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day.

55 For My flesh is true and genuine food, and My blood is true and genuine drink.

56 He who feeds on My flesh and drinks My blood dwells continually in Me, and I [in like manner dwell continually] in him.  AMP

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JN 6:53  Amen amen, I say unto you that you have (echo) no real life in yourselves until you consume the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood.

54  Your every meal is a celebration of the incarnation; to eat my flesh and drink my blood is to digest me like your body is designed to digest food and it becomes flesh; this echoes the life of the ages and communicates the fact that you are co-risen with me in the final conclusion of my work of redemption. 

55 My flesh is food in its truest form and my blood is drink in its truest form.

56 The eating of my flesh and drinking of my blood is the celebration of our seamless union – you in me and I in you – because you won’t find you until you find me!  

6:57 As the living Father has sent me and also sustains me so will I sustain the one eating me. I live through my Father – just like my daily food sustains me, so his life permanently resides in me – now you may also continually and habitually feast on me and live through me!

58 This is the bread that stepped down out of the heavenly sphere – there is no comparison with the manna your fathers received from heaven.  MIRROR

This is why communion is so important. Paul thought about communion directly by Jesus himself. Communion allows us to become absolutely one with Jesus and to live in the power of his resurrection and his glorified body and life giving blood. We see who Christ is to communion and why we are in him.

1 Cor 11:26 What you must solemnly realize is that every time you eat this bread and every time you drink this cup, you reenact in your words and actions the death of the Master. You will be drawn back to this meal again and again until the Master returns. You must never let familiarity breed contempt.  MSG

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GOD’S GOODNESS PREPARE FOR A NEW SEASON 8-19-22  VIDEO GODS LOVE

As we prepare for a new beginning for new season, we anticipate in the midst of worldly problems that our Father will crown this new season and new year coming with His goodness. Harvest time blessings. God will show and shower us with His goodness. With all that God could show Moses He chose to show him His goodness. God‘s goodness is demonstrated by His actions. God wants us to know Him and to know His goodness. His goodness is His kindness. Loving-kindness-steadfast love; grace; mercy; faithfulness; goodness; devotion.” This word is used 240 times in the Old Testament. In general, Goodness three basic meanings, which always interact: “strength,” “steadfastness,” and “love.”  It is also of generosity. It is not only a matter of loyalty, but also of mercy. The weaker party seeks the protection and blessing and protector, the stronger party remains committed to His promise.

Ps 73:1 No doubt about it! God is good — good to good people, good to the good-hearted.

2 But I nearly missed it, missed seeing his goodness.

3 I was looking the other way, looking up to the people  MSG

Psalms 65:11 You crown the earth with the fruits of your goodness. Wherever you go, the tracks of your chariot wheels drip with oil.  TPT

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Ps 65:11 You crown the year with Your bounty and goodness, and the tracks of Your [chariot wheels] drip with fatness. AMP

Ex 33:19 And God said, I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim My name, THE LORD, before you; for I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy and loving-kindness on whom I will show mercy and loving-kindness. AMP

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Ex 33:19 God said, “I will make my Goodness pass right in front of you; I’ll call out the name, God, right before you. I’ll treat well whomever I want to treat well and I’ll be kind to whomever I want to be kind.”   MSG

Psalms 23:6 So why would I fear the future? Only goodness and tender love pursue me all the days of my life. Then afterward, when my life is through, I’ll return to your glorious presence to be forever with you!  TPT

Ps 107:8 Oh, that men would praise [and confess to] the Lord for His goodness and loving-kindness and His wonderful works to the children of men!

9 For He satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with good. AMP

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Psalms 107:8 So lift your hands and thank God for his marvelous kindness and for all his miracles of mercy for those he loves.

⁹How he satisfies the souls of thirsty ones and fills the hungry with goodness!  TPT

Ps 145:7 The fame of your goodness spreads across the country; your righteousness is on everyone’s lips.

8 God is all mercy and grace — not quick to anger, is rich in love.

9 God is good to one and all; everything he does is suffused with grace.

10 Creation and creatures applaud you, God.  MSG

Jer 31:12 The people will climb up Zion’s slopes shouting with joy, their faces beaming because of God’s bounty — Grain and wine and oil, flocks of sheep, herds of cattle. Their lives will be like a well-watered garden, never again left to dry up.  MSG

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Jer 31:12 They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion and shall flow together and be radiant with joy over the goodness of the Lord — for the corn, for the juice [of the grape], for the oil, and for the young of the flock and the herd. And their life shall be like a watered garden, and they shall not sorrow or languish any more at all. AMP

Jer 31:14 I will satisfy fully the life of the priests with abundance [of offerings shared with them], and My people will be satisfied with My goodness, says the Lord. AMP ▼▼▼

Jer 31:14 I’ll make sure that their priests get three square meals a day and that my people have more than enough.'” God’s Decree.  MSG

Hos 6:6 For I desire and delight in dutiful steadfast love and goodness, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of and acquaintance with God more than burnt offerings. AMP

Rom 15:14 Personally I am satisfied about you, my brethren, that you yourselves are rich in goodness, amply filled with all [spiritual] knowledge and competent to admonish and counsel and instruct one another also. AMP

2 Cor 9:9  As it is written, He [the benevolent person] scatters abroad; He gives to the poor; His deeds of justice and goodness and kindness and benevolence will go on and endure forever! 

10 And [God] Who provides seed for the sower and bread for eating will also provide and multiply your [resources for] sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness [which manifests itself in active goodness, kindness, and charity]. AMP

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2 Cor 9:9  As one psalmist puts it, He throws caution to the winds, giving to the needy in reckless abandon. His right-living, right-giving ways never run out, never wear out.

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

11 wealthy in every way, so that you can be generous in every way, producing with us great praise to God. MSG

Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness,

23 Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law [that can bring a charge]. AMP

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Gal 5:22  But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard — things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments,

23 not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.

Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. MSG

Eph 2:7 He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come the immeasurable (limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His unmerited favor) in [His] kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ Jesus.  AMP

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Eph 2:7  Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. MSG

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Eph 2:7 Imagine how God is now able for timeless perpetuity to exhibit the trophy of the wealth of his grace demonstrated in his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. Grace exhibits excessive evidence of the success of the cross.

8 Your salvation is not a reward for good behavior! It was a grace thing from start to finish; you had no hand in it. Even the gift to believe simply reflects his faith!  MIRROR

PS 100:5 For the Lord is always good and ready to receive you. He’s so loving that it will amaze you— so kind that it will astound you! And he is famous for his faithfulness toward all. Everyone knows our God can be trusted,for he keeps his promises to every generation! TPT

PS 107:1  Let everyone give all their praise and thanks to the Lord! Here’s why—he’s better than anyone could ever imagine. Yes, he’s always loving and kind, and his faithful love never ends. TPT

Titus 3:4 But when the goodness and loving-kindness of God our Savior to man [as man] appeared,

5 He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but because of His own pity and mercy, by [the] cleansing [bath] of the new birth (regeneration) and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

6 Which He poured out [so] richly upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior.

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TITUS 3:4 But then, oh happy day! It was the generosity of God and his fondness for mankind that dawned on us like a shaft of light. Our days of darkness were over! Light shone everywhere and we became aware: God rescued the human race!

5 Salvation is not a reward for good behavior. It has absolutely nothing to do with anything that we have done. God’s mercy saved us. The Holy Spirit endorses in us what happened to us when Jesus Christ died and was raised! When we heard the glad announcement of salvation it was like taking a deep warm bath! Our minds were thoroughly cleansed and re-booted into newness of life!

6 Holy Spirit is the extravagant Administrator of the salvation of Jesus Christ; gushing forth within us like an artesian well. MIRROR

Ephesians 5:9 And the supernatural fruits of his light will be seen in you—goodness, righteousness, and truth.

¹⁰Then you will learn to choose what is beautiful to our Lord. TPT

Col 1:4  For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus [the leaning of your entire human personality on Him in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness] and of the love which you [have and show] for all the saints (God’s consecrated ones), AMP

Rom 2:4 Or are you [so blind as to] trifle with and presume upon and despise and underestimate the wealth of His kindness and forbearance and long-suffering patience? Are you unmindful or actually ignorant [of the fact] that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repent (to change your mind and inner man to accept God’s will)? AMP

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RO 2:4  Do the riches of his extraordinary kindness make you take him for granted and despise him? Haven’t you experienced how kind and understanding he has been to you? Don’t mistake his tolerance for acceptance. Do you realize that all the wealth of his extravagant kindnessis meant to melt your heart and lead you into repentance  TPT

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

Ps 85:12 Oh yes! God gives Goodness and Beauty; our land responds with Bounty and Blessing. MSG

Ps 103:5 He wraps you in goodness — beauty eternal. He renews your youth — you’re always young in his presence. MSG

Isa 42:21 God intended, out of the goodness of his heart, to be lavish in his revelation. MSG

Isa 45:8  “Open up, heavens, and rain. Clouds, pour out buckets of my goodness! Loosen up, earth, and bloom salvation; sprout right living. I, God, generate all this.  MSG

FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH 8-14-22 VIDEO

Many said fight the good fight FOR faith. But Paul says fight the good fight OF faith. The full measure of faith has been given to us through Christ. Circumstances rise to challenge this faith, but faith always wins. You’re in a fight but you’ve already won. Jesus can never lose the battle. It’s our trust in Jesus when circumstances tell us otherwise.  Jesus during the time here on earth looked and responded to those who live in faith no matter what their circumstances. His faith brought immediate results. Miracles, no waiting but in his hometown they were indifferent. We are encouraged to hold fast to our faith because it is alive and full of power.

1 Tim 6:11 But you, Timothy, man of God: Run for your life from all this. Pursue a righteous life — a life of wonder, faith, love, steadiness, courtesy.

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

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

14 Keep this command to the letter, and don’t slack off. Our Master, Jesus Christ, is on his way.

15 He’ll show up right on time, his arrival guaranteed by the Blessed and Undisputed Ruler, High King, High God.  MSG

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1 Tim 6:11 But as for you, O man of God, flee from all these things; aim at and pursue righteousness (right standing with God and true goodness), godliness (which is the loving fear of God and being Christlike), faith, love, steadfastness (patience), and gentleness of heart.

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

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

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

John 6:47 I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, he who believes in Me [who adheres to, trusts in, relies on, and has faith in Me] has (now possesses) eternal life.  AMP

Heb 4:14  Inasmuch then as we have a great High Priest Who has [already] ascended and passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession [of faith in Him].  AMP

Rom 4:16 Therefore, [inheriting] the promise is the outcome of faith and depends [entirely] on faith, in order that it might be given as an act of grace (unmerited favor), to make it stable and valid and guaranteed to all his descendants — not only to the devotees and adherents of the Law, but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, who is [thus] the father of us all.

17 As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations. [He was appointed our father] in the sight of God in Whom he believed, Who gives life to the dead and speaks of the nonexistent things that [He has foretold and promised] as if they [already] existed. AMP    ▼▼▼

RO 4: 16 Therefore since faith sponsors the gift of grace, the promise is equally secured for all the children. The law has no exclusive claim on anyone.  Faith is our source, and that makes Abraham our father.

17 When God changed Abram’s name to Abraham, he made a public statement that he would be the father of all nations. Here we see Abraham faced with God’s faith; the kind of faith that resurrects the dead and calls things which are not [visible yet] as though they were.  MIRROR

Gal 3:9 So those now who live by faith are blessed along with Abraham, who lived by faith — this is no new doctrine!

10 And that means that anyone who tries to live by his own effort, independent of God, is doomed to failure. Scripture backs this up: “Utterly cursed is every person who fails to carry out every detail written in the Book of the law.”

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: “The one who does these things [rule-keeping]continues to live by them.”  MSG

2 Cor 4:13 We’re not keeping this quiet, not on your life. Just like the psalmist who wrote, “I believed it, so I said it,” we say what we believe.

14 And what we believe is that the One who raised up the Master Jesus will just as certainly raise us up with you, alive.

15 Every detail works to your advantage and to God’s glory: more and more grace, more and more people, more and more praise!

16 So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace.

17 These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us.

18 There’s far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can’t see now will last forever. MSG

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2 COR 4: 13 We echo the exact same spirit of faith David had when he wrote: “I believe and so I speak!” We too believe and so we speak! Our persuasion is our conversation.

14 This resurrection life we enjoy in Jesus fully includes you.

15 Whatever we go through in the gospel is to advantage you! We live for you! As grace abounds in more and more people so does the volume of gratitude in the accomplished mission of Jesus break through the sound barrier to exhibit the heart dream of God.  

16 We have much reason to be brave! There might be a lot of wear and tear on the outside; but don’t be distracted by that! On the inside we are celebrating daily revival!

17 We are fully engaged in an exceedingly superior reality; the extent and weight of this glory make any degree of suffering vanish into insignificance! The suffering is fleeting and ever so slight by comparison to the weight and enduring effect of this glory we participate in for all eternity.

18 We are not keeping any score of what seems so obvious to the senses on the surface; it is fleeting and irrelevant; it is the unseen eternal realm within us which has our full attention and captivates our gaze!   MIRROR

Galatians 5:9 Don’t you know that when you allow even a little lie into your heart, it can permeate your entire belief system?

¹⁰Deep in my heart I have confidence that the Lord, who lives in you, will bring you back around to the truth. And I’m convinced that those who trouble you, whoever they think they are, will bear the penalty!  TPT

1 Corinthians 16:13 Remember to stay alert and hold firmly to all that you believe. Be mighty and full of courage.  TPT

1Thessalonians 5:8 But since we belong to the day, we must stay alert and clearheaded by placing the breastplate of faith and love over our hearts, and a helmet of the hope of salvation over our thoughts.

⁹For God has not destined us for wrath but to possess salvation through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One. TPT

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1 THESS 5:8 So let us clothe ourselves with day-garments, protecting our sober seeing by having our hearts fully guarded by the breastplate of love-inspired faith, and having our minds encircled, like a helmet, with an expectation which is consistent with what salvation declares!

9 For God did not set us up for disappointment; he is not teasing us with desires that we desperately reach for but cannot attain! He has brought us to a place where we are surrounded by the poetry of what salvation communicates in the lordship of Jesus Christ.  MIRROR

2 Thess 1:11 With this in view we constantly pray for you, that our God may deem and count you worthy of [your] calling and [His] every gracious purpose of goodness, and with power may complete in [your] every particular work of faith (faith which is that leaning of the whole human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness). AMP

Hebrews 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, bone and marrow meet! It interprets and reveals the true thoughts and secret motives of our hearts. TPT

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HEB 4:12 The message 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 a person’s spirit is freed to become the ruling influence again in the thoughts and intentions of their heart. The scrutiny of this living Sword-Logos detects every possible disease, discerning the body’s deepest secrets where joint and bone-marrow meet.   MIRROR

James 5:15 And the prayer [that is] of faith will save him who is sick, and the Lord will restore him; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. AMP

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James 5:15 Believing-prayer will heal you, and Jesus will put you on your feet. And if you’ve sinned, you’ll be forgiven — healed inside and out.  MSG

Matt 8:8 Oh, no,” said the captain. “I don’t want to put you to all that trouble. Just give the order and my servant will be fine.

9 I’m a man who takes orders and gives orders. I tell one soldier, ‘Go,’ and he goes; to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

10 Taken aback, Jesus said, “I’ve yet to come across this kind of simple trust in Israel, the very people who are supposed to know all about God and how he works.

11 This man is the vanguard of many outsiders who will soon be coming from all directions — streaming in from the east, pouring in from the west, sitting down at God’s kingdom banquet alongside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

12 Then those who grew up ‘in the faith’ but had no faith will find themselves out in the cold, outsiders to grace and wondering what happened.”  MSG

Matt 9:22 Jesus turned around and, seeing her, He said, Take courage, daughter! Your faith has made you well. And at once the woman was restored to health. AMP

Matt 9:29 Then He touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith and trust and reliance [on the power invested in Me] be it done to you;  AMP

Matt 13:58 But Jesus said, “A prophet is taken for granted in his hometown and his family.” He didn’t do many miracles there because of their hostile indifference. MSG

Matt 17:20 He said to them, Because of the littleness of your faith [that is, your lack of firmly relying trust]. For truly I say to you, if you have faith [that is living] like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.  AMP

Matt 21:22 And whatever you ask for in prayer, having faith and [really] believing, you will receive. AMP

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Matthew 21:22Everything you pray for with the fullness of faith you will receive!” TPT

John 11:26  And everyone who lives believing in me does not ultimately die at all. Do you believe this?”   MSG

Rom 1:17  God’s way of putting people right shows up in the acts of faith, confirming what Scripture has said all along: “The person in right standing before God by trusting him really lives.”  MSG

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ROM 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

Hebrews 10:38And he also says, “My righteous ones will live from my faith. But if fear holds them back, my soul is not content with them!”

³⁹But we are certainly not those who are held back by fear and perish; we are among those who have faith and experience true life!  TPT

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HEB 10:38 Righteousness by God’s faith defines life; reverting to the law of works grieves God’s work of grace.  MIRROR

ROM 3:28 This leaves us with only one logical conclusion, mankind is justified by God’s faith and not by their ability to keep the law. MIRROR

EPH 3:12 His faith in us gives our lives integrity. We echo and articulate the original conversation publicly. He is our platform to a global audience.  MIRROR

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Eph 3:12  When we trust in him, we’re free to say whatever needs to be said, bold to go wherever we need to go. MSG

HEB 11:6  There is no substitute reward for faith. Faith’s return exceeds any other sense of achievement. Faith knows that God is; those who desire to respond to his invitation to draw near, realize by faith that he is life’s most perfect gift.  MIRROR

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Heb 11:6 It’s impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.  MSG

HEARING THE VOICE OF GOD  8-12-22  VIDEO HEARING GODS VOICE IN 5

Hearing and knowing the Father‘s voice are so important in living our lives here on earth. God can sound different ways at different times. We can hear through the Word.  His voice is revealed to us through His living Word. It’s not the worlds voice but it’s Gods voice.

Deut 4:32 Ask questions. Find out what has been going on all these years before you were born. From the day God created man and woman on this Earth, and from the horizon in the east to the horizon in the west — as far back as you can imagine and as far away as you can imagine — has as great a thing as this ever happened? Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

33 Has a people ever heard, as you did, a god speaking out of the middle of the fire and lived to tell the story?  MSG

VOICE-through the idea of disclosure; a tone, articulate, an address (for any purpose), to shine or make manifest, especially by rays;  – fire, light, an illuminator, brilliancy: light-bearing, phosphorus

Acts 7:29 When Moses heard that, realizing that the word was out, he ran for his life and lived in exile over in Midian. During the years of exile, two sons were born to him.

30 “Forty years later, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, an angel appeared to him in the guise of flames of a burning bush.

31 Moses, not believing his eyes, went up to take a closer look. He heard God’s voice: 32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Frightened nearly out of his skin, Moses shut his eyes and turned away.

33 “God said, ‘Kneel and pray. You are in a holy place, on holy ground.

34 I’ve seen the agony of my people in Egypt. I’ve heard their groans. I’ve come to help them. So get yourself ready; I’m sending you back to Egypt.’   MSG

Ex 19:19 As the trumpet blast grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him with a voice.  AMP

Ezek 43:2 Oh! The bright Glory of the God of Israel rivered out of the east sounding like the roar of floodwaters, and the earth itself glowed with the bright Glory. MSG

Psalms 29:4 The voice of the Lord echoes through the skies and seas. The Glory-God reigns as he thunders in the clouds. So powerful is his voice, so brilliant and bright— how majestic as he thunders over the great waters!

⁵His tympanic thunder topples the strongest of trees. His symphonic sound splinters the mighty forests.

⁶Now he moves Zion’s mountains by the might of his voice, shaking the snowy peaks with his earsplitting sound!

⁷The lightning-fire flashes, striking as he speaks. TPT

1 Kings 19:11 And He said, Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord. And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake;

12 And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire [a sound of gentle stillness and] a still, small voice.

13 When Elijah heard the voice, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, What are you doing here, Elijah?  AMP

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1 Kings 19:11 Then he was told, “Go, stand on the mountain at attention before God. God will pass by.” A hurricane wind ripped through the mountains and shattered the rocks before God, but God wasn’t to be found in the wind; after the wind an earthquake, but God wasn’t in the earthquake;

12 and after the earthquake fire, but God wasn’t in the fire; and after the fire a gentle and quiet whisper.

13 When Elijah heard the quiet voice, he muffled his face with his great cloak, went to the mouth of the cave, and stood there. A quiet voice asked, “So Elijah, now tell me, what are you doing here?”  MSG

JN 10:27 My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me.  MIRROR

RO 10:17 So, this faith is sourced in discerned hearing; the kind of hearing that recognizes the authentic unveiling of Christ as the fountainhead of faith

18 Has God not given mankind a fair chance to hear?   MIRROR

John 8:47 Anyone on God’s side listens to God’s words. This is why you’re not listening — because you’re not on God’s side.”  MSG

John 6:63 The Spirit can make life. Sheer muscle and willpower don’t make anything happen. Every word I’ve spoken to you is a Spirit-word, and so it is life-making. MSG

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JN 6:63 It is the Spirit that quickens the poetry of life – the flesh (muscle and willpower) is useless without the spirit. The words that I speak unto you they are spirit and life! I communicate from a different dimension and perspective giving voice and substance to every prophetic shadow and purpose.  MIRROR

JOHN 3:29 The Bridegroom’s best man does not compete for attention – he is appointed to support the groom and to greatly rejoice when he hears his voice! This is my joy – this is what I have come for!

30 The significance of my prophetic mission was simply to elevate him!

31 We are dealing with two dimensions here, the one coming from above presides over all – while the reasoning from a mere earthly perspective is confined to communicate from an earthly point of view. The conversation realized as originating in heaven has the final say.

32 Even though I have seen and heard heavenly things, it seems to me that no one embraces what I have borne witness to! By trying to protect a fading prophetic perspective, you are missing the entire point! The shadow is eclipsed by the substance, not the other way around!

33 Whoever lays a hold of this testimony has the evidence of God’s truth embossed like the impression of a signet ring resonating in their inner consciousness.

34 For the one sent from God communicates God’s gift language from the limitless resource of the Spirit.  MIRROR

2 Tim 3:16 Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God’s will in thought, purpose, and action),

17 So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.  AMP

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2 TIM 3:16 Jesus Christ and his work of salvation is the theme of Scripture. The value of scripture in its most complete context is always found in God’s prophetic voice inspiring a thorough education in the revelation of righteousness! This is what carries the breath of God and gives substance and proof to accurately gauge what is being taught.  MIRROR

Isa 30:21 And if you leave God’s paths and go astray, you will hear a Voice behind you say, “No, this is the way; walk here.” TLB

HEB 4:7 So, now again many years later, he points specifically to an extended opportunity when he announces in David’s prophecy, “Today when hearing my voice, do not do so with a calloused heart. Be faith sensitive.” MIRROR

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

Mark 4:24 And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure [of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure [of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you — and more [besides] will be given to you who hear.  AMP

Psalms 85:8 Now I’ll listen carefully for your voice and wait to hear whatever you say. Let me hear your promise of peace— the message every one of your godly lovers longs to hear. Don’t let us in our ignorance turn back from following you.

⁹For I know your power and presence shines on all your devoted lovers.

Your glory always hovers over all who bow low before you.  TPT

REV 3:22 Now listen up with your inner ears! Hear with understanding what the Spirit is saying to the ekklesia!  MIRROR

Matt 13:9 He who has ears [to hear], let him be listening and let him consider and perceive and comprehend by hearing.  AMP

Prov 20:12  Ears that hear and eyes that see —  we get our basic equipment from God! MSG

Rom 8:14 God’s Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go! MSG

Amos 8:11  “Oh yes, Judgment Day is coming!” These are the words of my Master God.

“I’ll send a famine through the whole country. It won’t be food or water that’s lacking, but my Word.

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

Matt 13:15  For this nation’s heart has grown gross (fat and dull), and their ears heavy and difficult of hearing, and their eyes they have tightly closed, lest they see and perceive with their eyes, and hear and comprehend the sense with their ears, and grasp and understand with their heart, and turn and I should heal them.  AMP

2 Tim 4:3 For the time is coming when [people] will not tolerate (endure) sound and wholesome instruction, but, having ears itching [for something pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold,

4 And will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off into myths and man-made fictions.

5 As for you, be calm and cool and steady, accept and suffer unflinchingly every hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fully perform all the duties of your ministry. AMP

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2 Timothy 4:3For the time is coming when they will no longer listen and respond to the healing words of truth because they will become selfish and proud. They will seek out teachers with soothing words that line up with their desires, saying just what they want to hear.

 ⁴They will close their ears to the truth and believe nothing but fables and myths. So be alert to all these things and overcome every form of evil. Carry in your heart the passion of your calling as a church planter and evangelist, and fulfill your ministry calling. TPT

2 Peter 1:19  We couldn’t be more sure of what we saw and heard — God’s glory, God’s voice. The prophetic Word was confirmed to us. You’ll do well to keep focusing on it. It’s the one light you have in a dark time as you wait for daybreak and the rising of the Morning Star in your hearts.

20 The main thing to keep in mind here is that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of private opinion.

21 And why? Because it’s not something concocted in the human heart. Prophecy resulted when the Holy Spirit prompted men and women to speak God’s Word. MSG

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HEARING THE VOICE OF GOD  8-12-22  VIDEO HEARING GODS VOICE IN 5

Hearing and knowing the Father‘s voice are so important in living our lives here on earth. God can sound different ways at different times. We can hear through the Word.  His voice is revealed to us through His living Word. It’s not the worlds voice but it’s Gods voice.

Deut 4:32 Ask questions. Find out what has been going on all these years before you were born. From the day God created man and woman on this Earth, and from the horizon in the east to the horizon in the west — as far back as you can imagine and as far away as you can imagine — has as great a thing as this ever happened? Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

33 Has a people ever heard, as you did, a god speaking out of the middle of the fire and lived to tell the story?  MSG

VOICE-through the idea of disclosure; a tone, articulate, an address (for any purpose), to shine or make manifest, especially by rays;  – fire, light, an illuminator, brilliancy: light-bearing, phosphorus

Acts 7:29 When Moses heard that, realizing that the word was out, he ran for his life and lived in exile over in Midian. During the years of exile, two sons were born to him.

30 “Forty years later, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, an angel appeared to him in the guise of flames of a burning bush.

31 Moses, not believing his eyes, went up to take a closer look. He heard God’s voice: 32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Frightened nearly out of his skin, Moses shut his eyes and turned away.

33 “God said, ‘Kneel and pray. You are in a holy place, on holy ground.

34 I’ve seen the agony of my people in Egypt. I’ve heard their groans. I’ve come to help them. So get yourself ready; I’m sending you back to Egypt.’   MSG

Ex 19:19 As the trumpet blast grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him with a voice.  AMP

Ezek 43:2 Oh! The bright Glory of the God of Israel rivered out of the east sounding like the roar of floodwaters, and the earth itself glowed with the bright Glory. MSG

Psalms 29:4 The voice of the Lord echoes through the skies and seas. The Glory-God reigns as he thunders in the clouds. So powerful is his voice, so brilliant and bright— how majestic as he thunders over the great waters!

⁵His tympanic thunder topples the strongest of trees. His symphonic sound splinters the mighty forests.

⁶Now he moves Zion’s mountains by the might of his voice, shaking the snowy peaks with his earsplitting sound!

⁷The lightning-fire flashes, striking as he speaks. TPT

1 Kings 19:11 And He said, Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord. And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake;

12 And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire [a sound of gentle stillness and] a still, small voice.

13 When Elijah heard the voice, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, What are you doing here, Elijah?  AMP

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1 Kings 19:11 Then he was told, “Go, stand on the mountain at attention before God. God will pass by.” A hurricane wind ripped through the mountains and shattered the rocks before God, but God wasn’t to be found in the wind; after the wind an earthquake, but God wasn’t in the earthquake;

12 and after the earthquake fire, but God wasn’t in the fire; and after the fire a gentle and quiet whisper.

13 When Elijah heard the quiet voice, he muffled his face with his great cloak, went to the mouth of the cave, and stood there. A quiet voice asked, “So Elijah, now tell me, what are you doing here?”  MSG

JN 10:27 My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me.  MIRROR

RO 10:17 So, this faith is sourced in discerned hearing; the kind of hearing that recognizes the authentic unveiling of Christ as the fountainhead of faith

18 Has God not given mankind a fair chance to hear?   MIRROR

John 8:47 Anyone on God’s side listens to God’s words. This is why you’re not listening — because you’re not on God’s side.”  MSG

John 6:63 The Spirit can make life. Sheer muscle and willpower don’t make anything happen. Every word I’ve spoken to you is a Spirit-word, and so it is life-making. MSG

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JN 6:63 It is the Spirit that quickens the poetry of life – the flesh (muscle and willpower) is useless without the spirit. The words that I speak unto you they are spirit and life! I communicate from a different dimension and perspective giving voice and substance to every prophetic shadow and purpose.  MIRROR

JOHN 3:29 The Bridegroom’s best man does not compete for attention – he is appointed to support the groom and to greatly rejoice when he hears his voice! This is my joy – this is what I have come for!

30 The significance of my prophetic mission was simply to elevate him!

31 We are dealing with two dimensions here, the one coming from above presides over all – while the reasoning from a mere earthly perspective is confined to communicate from an earthly point of view. The conversation realized as originating in heaven has the final say.

32 Even though I have seen and heard heavenly things, it seems to me that no one embraces what I have borne witness to! By trying to protect a fading prophetic perspective, you are missing the entire point! The shadow is eclipsed by the substance, not the other way around!

33 Whoever lays a hold of this testimony has the evidence of God’s truth embossed like the impression of a signet ring resonating in their inner consciousness.

34 For the one sent from God communicates God’s gift language from the limitless resource of the Spirit.  MIRROR

2 Tim 3:16 Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God’s will in thought, purpose, and action),

17 So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.  AMP

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2 TIM 3:16 Jesus Christ and his work of salvation is the theme of Scripture. The value of scripture in its most complete context is always found in God’s prophetic voice inspiring a thorough education in the revelation of righteousness! This is what carries the breath of God and gives substance and proof to accurately gauge what is being taught.  MIRROR

Isa 30:21 And if you leave God’s paths and go astray, you will hear a Voice behind you say, “No, this is the way; walk here.” TLB

HEB 4:7 So, now again many years later, he points specifically to an extended opportunity when he announces in David’s prophecy, “Today when hearing my voice, do not do so with a calloused heart. Be faith sensitive.” MIRROR

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

Mark 4:24 And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure [of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure [of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you — and more [besides] will be given to you who hear.  AMP

Psalms 85:8 Now I’ll listen carefully for your voice and wait to hear whatever you say. Let me hear your promise of peace— the message every one of your godly lovers longs to hear. Don’t let us in our ignorance turn back from following you.

⁹For I know your power and presence shines on all your devoted lovers.

Your glory always hovers over all who bow low before you.  TPT

REV 3:22 Now listen up with your inner ears! Hear with understanding what the Spirit is saying to the ekklesia!  MIRROR

Matt 13:9 He who has ears [to hear], let him be listening and let him consider and perceive and comprehend by hearing.  AMP

Prov 20:12  Ears that hear and eyes that see —  we get our basic equipment from God! MSG

Rom 8:14 God’s Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go! MSG

Amos 8:11  “Oh yes, Judgment Day is coming!” These are the words of my Master God.

“I’ll send a famine through the whole country. It won’t be food or water that’s lacking, but my Word.

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

Matt 13:15  For this nation’s heart has grown gross (fat and dull), and their ears heavy and difficult of hearing, and their eyes they have tightly closed, lest they see and perceive with their eyes, and hear and comprehend the sense with their ears, and grasp and understand with their heart, and turn and I should heal them.  AMP

2 Tim 4:3 For the time is coming when [people] will not tolerate (endure) sound and wholesome instruction, but, having ears itching [for something pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold,

4 And will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off into myths and man-made fictions.

5 As for you, be calm and cool and steady, accept and suffer unflinchingly every hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fully perform all the duties of your ministry. AMP

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2 Timothy 4:3For the time is coming when they will no longer listen and respond to the healing words of truth because they will become selfish and proud. They will seek out teachers with soothing words that line up with their desires, saying just what they want to hear.

 ⁴They will close their ears to the truth and believe nothing but fables and myths. So be alert to all these things and overcome every form of evil. Carry in your heart the passion of your calling as a church planter and evangelist, and fulfill your ministry calling. TPT

2 Peter 1:19  We couldn’t be more sure of what we saw and heard — God’s glory, God’s voice. The prophetic Word was confirmed to us. You’ll do well to keep focusing on it. It’s the one light you have in a dark time as you wait for daybreak and the rising of the Morning Star in your hearts.

20 The main thing to keep in mind here is that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of private opinion.

21 And why? Because it’s not something concocted in the human heart. Prophecy resulted when the Holy Spirit prompted men and women to speak God’s Word. MSG

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Transformed- Made in the Image and Likeness of God. by MARY DORIAN 8-7-22

Gen 1:26 God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth.

27 So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.

28 And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth.  AMP

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Gen 1:26 God spoke: “Let us make human beings in our image, make them

reflecting our nature. So they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, And, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth.”

27 God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God’s nature.

He created them male and female.

28 God blessed them: “Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth.”

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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 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].

3 For by the grace (unmerited favor of God) given to me I warn everyone among you not to estimate and think of himself more highly than he ought [not to have an exaggerated opinion of his own importance], but to rate his ability with sober judgment, each according to the degree of faith apportioned by God to him.  AMP

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ROM 12:2 Do not allow current religious tradition to mold you into its pattern of reasoning. Like an inspired artist, give attention to the detail of God’s desire to find expression in you. Become acquainted with perfection. To accommodate yourself to the delight and good pleasure of him will transform your thoughts afresh from within.

 3 His grace gift inspires me to say to you that your thinking must be consistent with everything that is within you according to the measure of faith that God has apportioned to every individual. Let the revelation of redemption shape your thoughts. MIRROR

John 20:17 Jesus said to her, Do not cling to Me [do not hold Me], for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brethren and tell them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God. AMP

Heb 9:11 But when the Messiah arrived, high priest of the superior things of this new covenant, he bypassed the old tent and its trappings in this created world and went straight into heaven’s “tent” — the true Holy Place — once and for all.

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

JOHN 20:26 The next Sunday evening, Jesus again just showed up in their midst even though all the doors were locked and greeted them with, “Peace be unto you!” This time Thomas was with them.

27 Jesus immediately turned to Thomas and said to him, “Give me your finger and touch my hands so you that can see for yourself; and give me your hand and thrust it into my side! Replace your skepticism with persuasion!”

28 Without hesitation Thomas responded to Jesus with, “My Lord and my God!” MIRROR

Acts 1:3 To them also He showed Himself alive after His passion (His suffering in the garden and on the cross) by [a series of] many convincing demonstrations [unquestionable evidences and infallible proofs], appearing to them during forty days and talking [to them] about the things of the kingdom of God.

4 And while being in their company and eating with them, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father had promised, Of which [He said] you have heard Me speak.  AMP

 Acts 1:9  These were his last words. As they watched, he was taken up and disappeared in a cloud.

10 They stood there, staring into the empty sky. Suddenly two men appeared — in white robes!

11 They said, “You Galileans! — why do you just stand here looking up at an empty sky? This very Jesus who was taken up from among you to heaven will come as certainly — and mysteriously — as he left.” MSG

Luke 24:36 While they were saying all this, Jesus appeared to them and said, “Peace be with you.”  

37 They thought they were seeing a ghost and were scared half to death.

38 He continued with them, “Don’t be upset, and don’t let all these doubting questions take over.

39 Look at my hands; look at my feet — it’s really me. Touch me. Look me over from head to toe. A ghost doesn’t have muscle and bone like this.”  MSG ▼▼▼

Luke 24:39 See my pierced hands and feet. See for yourselves, it is I, standing here alive. Touch me and know that my wounds are real. A spirit does not have a body of flesh and bone as you see that I have.”

⁴⁰Then he showed them his pierced hands and feet and let them touch his wounds.

⁴¹The disciples were ecstatic, yet dumbfounded, unable to fully comprehend it.

Knowing that they were still wondering if he was real, Jesus said, “Here, let me show you. Give me something to eat.”  TPT

JOHN 21:13 Jesus took the bead and handed it to them and also the fish.

14 This was the third time Jesus appeared to the disciples since he rose from the dead. MIRROR

Phil 3:10 I gave up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally, experience his resurrection power, be a partner in his suffering, and go all the way with him to death itself.

11 If there was any way to get in on the resurrection from the dead, I wanted to do it.

12 I’m not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me.

13 Friends, don’t get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I’ve got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward — to Jesus.

14 I’m off and running, and I’m not turning back.

15 So let’s keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision — you’ll see it yet!

16 Now that we’re on the right track, let’s stay on it.

17 Stick with me, friends. Keep track of those you see running this same course, headed for this same goal. MSG

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

11 When confronted with death, I actually come 1face to face with my own resurrection

12 which the prophetic pointed. Christ is whom we were reaching for all along! Here he is in our face; within our immediate grasp 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! To know even as I have always been known! 

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 DIY-system of the law of works and willpower previously represented in my reference; now I am fully engaged with that to!

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 1invited us in Christ, to lift up our eyes and realize our identity in him.

15 We who have discovered our perfect righteousness have our thoughts anchored in Christ. If you still see yourself as imperfect, God will reveal to you that you are wasting your time to imagine that you can become more accepted and righteous than what you already are!

16 So then, let the message of grace set the pace.  

17 You are free to mimic me as we together impact the lives of many others to follow in our footsteps.   MIRROR

1 COR 15:51 Ponder this mystery, I want to show you something that you have never seen before: everyone will be awakened out of sleep; we will 3all experience exactly the same change.

52 This will happen in an instant, in a blink of the eye: the final trumpet will sound, then the dead shall be awoken out of their sleep and we, who are still alive, shall be instantly changed into a different kind of body. MIRROR

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1 Cor 15:51 Take notice! I tell you a mystery (a secret truth, an event decreed by the hidden purpose or counsel of God). We shall not all fall asleep [in death], but we shall all be changed (transformed)

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the [sound of the] last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead [in Christ] will be raised imperishable (free and immune from decay), and we shall be changed (transformed).  AMP

Mark 9:1 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, there are some standing here now who won’t experience death until they see God’s kingdom realm manifest with power!”

²After 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!

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

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

⁵Peter 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.)

⁷Just 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!”

⁸Then suddenly, as they looked around, they saw only Jesus with them, for Moses and Elijah had faded away. TPT

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

2 Cor 3:18 All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him. MSG

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2 COR 3:18 Now, we all, with new understanding, see ourselves in him as in a mirror. The days of window-shopping are over! In him every face is unveiled. In gazing with wonder at the blueprint of God displayed in human form, we suddenly realize that we are looking into a mirror, where every feature of his image, articulated in Christ, is reflected within us! The Spirit of the Lord engineers this radical 4transformation; we are led from an inferior 5mind-set to the revealed 5endorsement of our authentic identity.  

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CHANGE YOUR THINKING 8-5-22  VIDEO GOD’S THOUGHTS TODD WHITE

Thoughts, can bring you a sense of peace, or a sense of anxiety and fear. God‘s thoughts for us and our thoughts and imaginations we bring into the sense of well-being.

Our minds helps the physical body. Let His thoughts be our thoughts. The thoughts for good. He has more thoughts about us than the sand in the seashore. In Hebrew the heros of faith had God‘s thoughts and they did mighty exploits.

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

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Psalms 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

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

Isa 55:8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord.

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.  AMP

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Isa 55:8  “I don’t think the way you think. The way you work isn’t the way I work.” God’s Decree.

9 “For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think.  MSG

Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.  AMP

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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.  MSG

Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinks within himself, so is he. but in his heart he resents the fact that he has to pay for your meal. TPT

John 2:24 But Jesus [for His part] did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all [men];

25 And He did not need anyone to bear witness concerning man [needed no evidence from anyone about men], for He Himself knew what was in human nature. [He could read men’s hearts.]  AMP

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JOHN 2:24 Jesus however did not make much of their apparent support – he wouldn’t entrust himself to them since he knew all things.  

25 He knew that their brief belief was simply based on the surface hype of the moment and not upon that which he was about to redeem in their innermost being. He knew them  better than what they knew themselves! He had no need for anyone’s theory about the human species to confirm what he always knew to be true about them.    MIRROR

Rom 2:16 On that day when, as my Gospel proclaims, God by Jesus Christ will judge men in regard to the things which they conceal (their hidden thoughts).  AMP

HEB 4:12  The message 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 a person’s spirit is freed to become the ruling influence again in the thoughts and intentions of their heart. The scrutiny of this living Sword-Logos detects every possible disease, discerning the body’s deepest secrets where joint and bone-marrow meet. MIRROR

Psalms 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

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Ps 139:17  Your thoughts — how rare, how beautiful! God, I’ll never comprehend them!

18 I couldn’t even begin to count them —  any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you! MSG

Col 1:21 You yourselves are a case study of what he does. At one time you all had your backs turned to God, thinking rebellious thoughts of him, giving him trouble every chance you got.

22 But now, by giving himself completely at the Cross, actually dying for you, Christ brought you over to God’s side and put your lives together, whole and holy in his presence.

23 You don’t walk away from a gift like that! You stay grounded and steady in that bond of trust, constantly tuned in to the Message, careful not to be distracted or diverted. There is no other Message — just this one. Every creature under heaven gets this same Message. I, Paul, am a messenger of this Message.  MSG

Acts 15:8 And God, who can’t be fooled by any pretense on our part but always knows a person’s thoughts, gave them the Holy Spirit exactly as he gave him to us. MSG

1 Cor 14:20 Brethren, do not be children [immature] in your thinking; continue to be babes in [matters of] evil, but in your minds be mature [men].  AMP

Hebrews 11:17 Faith operated powerfully in Abraham for when he was put to the test he offered up Isaac. Even though he received God’s promises of descendants, he was willing to offer up his only son!

¹⁸For God had promised,

¹⁹Abraham’s faith made it logical to him that God could raise Isaac from the dead, and symbolically, that’s exactly what happened.  TPT

HEB 11:20 power of faith prompted Isaac to impart a blessing to his sons, Jacob and Esau, concerning their prophetic destinies. TPT

Hebrews 11:26 He found his true wealth in suffering abuse for being anointed, more than in anything the world could offer him, for his eyes looked with wonder not on the immediate, but on the ultimate—faith’s great reward!

²⁷Holding faith’s promise Moses abandoned Egypt and had no fear of Pharaoh’s rage because he persisted in faith as if he had seen God who is unseen.  TPT

Psalms 3:4 I have cried out to you, Yahweh, from your holy presence. You send me a Father’s help. Pause in his presence

⁵So now I’ll lie down and sleep like a baby— then I’ll awake in safety, for you surround me with your glory.

⁶Even though ten thousand dark powers prowl around me, I won’t be afraid.  TPT

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Ps 3:4 With my voice I cry to the Lord, and He hears and answers me out of His holy hill. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

5 I lay down and slept; I wakened again, for the Lord sustains me.

6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people who have set themselves against me round about.  AMP

Ps 32:7 You are a hiding place for me; You, Lord, preserve me from trouble, You surround me with songs and shouts of deliverance. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!  AMP

Phil 4:8 For the rest, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things [fix your minds on them].

9 Practice what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and model your way of living on it, and the God of peace (of untroubled, undisturbed well-being) will be with you. AMP

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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.

9 These things are consistent with all that I teach and live; you can confidently practice what you hear and see in me. The peace that inevitably follows this lifestyle is more than a fuzzy feeling; this is God himself endorsing our seamless oneness.  MIRROR

2 TIM 2:7 Ponder my words; the Lord will give you insight which will inspire you in every contradiction that you face.

8 Make my gospel emphasis the focus of your thoughts: Jesus Christ is the seed of David, he is the promised Messiah; his resurrection from the dead is the proof.  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 everything.

8  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) that I preach. AMP

Rom 8:7 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. MSG

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

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HEB 12:3 Ponder how he overcame all the odds stacked against him; this will boost your soul-energy when you feel exhausted.  MIRROR

1 Peter 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;  Loins- area of reproduction