YOU ARE WORTHY 9-29-24

You Are Worthy VIDEO THIS IS WHO YOU ARE IN THE MIND OF GOD 2

Holy spirit is speaking to each one of us today. He is bringing a wave of refreshment over our minds and hearts. The world does not recognize or understand the value and worth you are to Christ. The word worthy means to have value, have importance. You are worthy not because of anything you have done, because God called you and created you.

Luke 12:7 And he pays even greater attention to you, down to the last detail — even numbering the hairs on your head! So don’t be intimidated by all this bully talk. You’re worth more than a million canaries. MSG

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LUKE 12:7 You are fully known, even down to the most, seemingly insignificant detail – every individual hair on your head is counted! You have nothing to fear – innumerable flocks of sparrows could not possibly compete with what you are worth!  MIRROR

1 Peter 3:4  But let it be the inward adorning and beauty of the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible and unfading charm of a gentle and peaceful spirit, which [is not anxious or wrought up, but] is very precious in the sight of God.  AMP

LUKE 15:19 I will convince him that I am no longer worthy to be called his son and beg him to employ me as one of his hired servants!

20 And with that, he got up and began the return journey to his father. He was yet a long way from home when his father saw him and, filled with compassion, ran to his son, flung his arms around his neck and kissed him fondly.

21 When the son caught his breath, he began his rehearsed sinner’s prayer, Father, I have sinned before heaven and in your face, I am not worthy to be known as your son…

22 The father wasn’t paying any attention to this and didn’t give him a chance to finish his rehearsed plea; he merely instructed his slaves to immediately bring out the best robe and clothe him in it and give him a ring to put on his finger and shoes for his feet!

23 In full anticipation for his son’s return, he now also had the grain-fattened calf brought and slaughtered. It was party-time! So, “with our minds flooded with joy, let the merry celebrations begin!”  

24 This is the reason for our joy: my son here, was dead, and he was revived! He seemed to be lost forever, but here he is, found! And so they began their merry celebrations. MIRROR

John 1:27  It is He Who, coming after me, is preferred before me, the string of Whose sandal I am not worthy to unloose. AMP

Matt 11:7 When John’s disciples left to report, Jesus started talking to the crowd about John. “What did you expect when you went out to see him in the wild? A weekend camper?

8 Hardly. What then? A sheik in silk pajamas? Not in the wilderness, not by a long shot.

9 What then? A prophet? That’s right, a prophet! Probably the best prophet you’ll ever hear.

10 He is the prophet that Malachi announced when he wrote, ‘I’m sending my prophet ahead of you, to make the road smooth for you.‘ MSG

2 Cor 3:6 [It is He] Who has qualified us [making us to be fit and worthy and sufficient] as ministers and dispensers of a new covenant [of salvation through Christ], not [ministers] of the letter (of legally written code) but of the Spirit; for the code [of the Law] kills, but the [Holy] Spirit makes alive.  AMP

COL 1:13 He rescued us from the dominion of darkness and relocated us into the kingdom where the love of his Son rules. 

14 In God’s mind mankind is associated in Christ; in his blood sacrifice we were ransomed; our redemption was secured; our 1sins were completely done away with.  MIRROR

ISA 43:1 1Now, this is what Yahweh says :“Listen, Jacob, to the One who created you,

Israel, to the one who shaped who you are. Do not fear, for I, your Kinsman-Redeemer, will rescue you. I have called you by name, and you are mine.

2 When you pass through the deep, stormy sea, you can count on me to be there with you. When you pass through raging rivers, you will not drown. When you walk through persecution like fiery flames, you will not be burned; the flames will not harm you,

3 for I am your Savior, Yahweh, your mighty God, the Holy One of Israel! I give up Egypt as the price to set you free, Cush and Seba in exchange to bring you back.

4 Since you are cherished and precious in my eyes, and because I love you dearly and want to honor you, I willingly give up nations in exchange for you— a man to save your life. TPT

PS 139:14-18 I thank you, God, for making me so mysteriously complex! Everything you do is marvelously breathtaking. It simply amazes me to think about it! How thoroughly you know me, Lord!

15 You even formed every bone in my body when you created me in the secret place;

carefully, skillfully you shaped me from nothing to something.

16 You saw who you created me to be before I became me!  Before I’d ever seen the light of day, the number of days you planned for me were already recorded in your book.

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

JOHN 3:16 The entire cosmos is the object of God’s affection! And he is not about to abandon his creation – the gift of his Son is for mankind to realize their origin in him who mirrors their authentic birth – begotten not of flesh but of the Father!   MIRROR

Matt 6:26 Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds.

27 “Has anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch?

28 All this time and money wasted on fashion — do you think it makes that much difference? Instead of looking at the fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop,

29 but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them.

30 “If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers — most of which are never even seen — don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you?  MSG

Rom 8:28 That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

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

30 After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun. MSG

EPH 2:10 We are engineered by his design; he molded and manufactured us in Christ. We are his workmanship, his poetry. We are fully fit to do good, equipped to give attractive evidence of his likeness in us in everything we do.   MIRROR

GAL 2:20 So here I am dead and alive at the same time! I’m dead to the old me I was trying to be and alive to the real me which is Christ in me! Co-crucified, now co-alive! What a glorious entanglement! I was in him in his death; now I discover that he is infused in me, in my life! For the first time, I’m free to be me in my skin, immersed in his faith in our joint-sonship! He loves me and believes in me! He is God’s gift to me!   MIRROR

Gen 1:27 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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2 Thess 1:5 All this trouble is a clear sign that God has decided to make you fit for the kingdom. You’re suffering now,

6 but justice is on the way. When the Master Jesus appears out of heaven in a blaze of fire with his strong angels, he’ll even up the score by settling accounts with those who gave you such a bad time.

7 His coming. will be the break we’ve been waiting for MSG

Heb 2:10 It makes good sense that the God who got everything started and keeps everything going now completes the work by making the Salvation Pioneer perfect through suffering as he leads all these people to glory.

11 Since the One who saves and those who are saved have a common origin, Jesus doesn’t hesitate to treat them as family, MSG

ISA 40:31 But those who entwine their hearts with Yahweh  will experience divine strength. They will rise up on soaring wings and fly like eagles, run their races without growing weary, and walk through life without giving up. TPT

ROM 5:8 Herein is the extremity of God’s love gift: mankind was rotten to the core when Christ died their death.

9 If God could love us that much when we were ungodly and guilty, how much more are we free to realize his love now that we are declared innocent by his blood? (God does not love us more now that we are reconciled to him; we are now free to realize how much he loved us all along!  MIRROR

EPH 1:3 Let’s celebrate God! He lavished every blessing heaven has upon us in Christ!

4 He associated us in Christ before the fall of the world! Jesus is God’s mind made up about us! He always knew in his love that he would present us again face-to-face before him in blameless innocence. MIRROR

1 Cor 7:23 All of you, slave and free both, were once held hostage in a sinful society. Then a huge sum was paid out for your ransom. So please don’t, out of old habit, slip back into being or doing what everyone else tells you. MSG

Acts 20:28  “Now it’s up to you. Be on your toes — both for yourselves and your congregation of sheep. The Holy Spirit has put you in charge of these people — God’s people they are — to guard and protect them. God himself thought they were worth dying for.  MSG

1 THES 2:11 Just like a father would instruct his children, so we engaged ourselves with you to remind you of your origin in God,

12  inspiring you to live in the daily awareness of your true value and identity. In God’s opinion you are royalty.

ARMED WITH THE WORD 9-15-24

ARMED WITH THE WORD 9-15-24 VIDEO

We need to be armed with the word of God. This is warfare. It’s not demon focused, it’s Word focused. Promises of God focused. Our right confession is the door to the supernatural for us. Jesus is the word of God made flesh. He was tempted like we have been tempted and He used, His living self words to defeat the enemy. One of the most important verses in the Bible is the Word did not just appear to be made human. The Word became flesh. The Word is now. Flesh Word is in us. Jesus is conquered death and overcome the world by the power of His Word .

Mark 11:22 And Jesus, replying, said to them, Have faith in God [constantly].

23 Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him.

24 For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it].  AMP

LUKE 4:1 And Jesus, fully infused and prompted by Holy Spirit, intentionally turns back, away from the river Jordan into the wilderness and embarks on a forty day fast in order to victoriously face the same diabolic scrutiny that snared humanity in Adam and Eve, and later dramatically displayed in Israel’s forty year detour in the wilderness of their unbelief. And Jesus, 1fully infused and prompted by Holy Spirit, intentionally turns back, away from the river Jordan into the wilderness and embarks on a forty day fast in order to victoriously face the same diabolic scrutiny that snared humanity in Adam and Eve, and later dramatically displayed in Israel’s forty year detour in the wilderness of their unbelief.

2 When the forty days were concluded, he felt famished, having not taken anything to eat at all.

3 The Devil had an immediate suggestion, “If you really are the son of God, then prove it and do your magic! Tell this stone to become a loaf of bread!”

4 And Jesus answered, “It is written that man shall not live on bread alone.”

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

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!

7 It’s all yours if you worship me.  

8 Jesus responded with, “Get out of my face Satan! Scripture says, you shall worship the Lord your God with undivided 1adoration

9 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.

13 This concluded the devil’s scrutiny and he departed until an opportune time. MIRROR

JOHN 1:1 I go back to the very beginning, is to find the Word already present there; face to face with God. The one mirrors the other! The Word is I am; God’s eloquence echoes and 4concludes in him. The Word equals God. MIRROR

JOHN 1:14 Suddenly the invisible, eternal Word takes on visible form – the Incarnation, on display in a flesh and blood Person, as in a mirror! In him, and now confirmed in us! The most accurate tangible exhibit of God’s eternal thought finds expression in human life! The Word became a human being; we are his address; he resides in us! He captivates our gaze! The glory we see there is not a religious replica; he is the authentic begotten Son. The glory (that we lost in Adam) returns in fullness! Only grace can communicate truth in such complete context! MIRROR

Deut 30:14 But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your mind and in your heart, so that you can do it.

15 See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil.  AMP

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Deut 30:14 No. The word is right here and now — as near as the tongue in your mouth, as near as the heart in your chest. Just do it!

15 Look at what I’ve done for you today: I’ve placed in front of you Life and Good Death and Evil. MSG

PS 68:11 God Almighty declares the word of the gospel with power, and the warring women of Zion deliver its message:  God Almighty declares the word of the gospel with power, and the warring women of Zion deliver its message:  TPT

ISA 40:8 But even though grass withers and the flower fades, the word of our God stands strong forever!”   TPT

Matt 13:23 As for what was sown on good soil, this is he who hears the Word and grasps and comprehends it; he indeed bears fruit and yields in one case a hundred times as much as was sown, in another sixty times as much, and in another thirty.

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Matt 13:23 “The seed cast on good earth is the person who hears and takes in the News, and then produces a harvest beyond his wildest dreams.” MSG

Luke 1:2 Exactly as they were handed down to us by those who from the [official] beginning [of Jesus’ ministry] were eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word [that is, of the doctrine concerning the attainment through Christ of salvation in the kingdom of God],  AMP

LUKE 8:21 To which he responded, my mother and immediate family are those who keep hearing and consistently and fully engage my word without hesitance.   MIRROR

LUKE 11:27-Overawed by all this, a woman in the crowd cried out, “Blessed is the mother who bore you and the breasts that nursed you!”

 28 To which Jesus responded, “No! Much rather see the bigger picture and realize that the real blessing of my mission is fulfilled in people who hear my words and embrace the treasure they carry!  MIRROR

John 2:22 Later, after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this. They then put two and two together and believed both what was written in Scripture and what Jesus had said.  MSG

JOHN 15:3 Your personal pruning and dressing already happened in our conversation; The word made flesh in my person and language is how the Father prepares and sets you up for fruit bearing.  MIRROR

Acts 4:31 While they were praying, the place where they were meeting trembled and shook. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak God’s Word with fearless confidence. MSG

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

JOHN 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

COL 2:12 For we’ve been buried with him into his death. Our “baptism into death” also means we were raised with him when we believed in God’s resurrection power, the power that raised him from death’s realm.

13This “realm of death” describes our former state, for we were held in sin’s grasp. But now, we’ve been resurrected out of that “realm of death” never to return, for we are forever alive and forgiven of all our sins!

14 He canceled out every legal violation we had on our record and the old arrest warrant that stood to indict us. He erased it all—our sins, our stained soul—he deleted it all and they cannot be retrieved! Everything we once were in Adam has been placed onto his cross and nailed permanently there as a public display of cancellation.

15 Then Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of darkness, stripping away from them every weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse us. And by the power of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of triumph. He was not their spiritual authority and power to accuse us. And by the power of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of triumph. He was not their prisoner; they were his!    TPT

LUKE 10:18-19 Jesus responded, “I often contemplate the extent of Satan’s demise, having fallen from the heavens like the flash of a shooting star!”    

19 See, I have given you authority to trample upon 3serpents and scorpions and every powerful symbolic disguize of the enemy. Nothing shall by any means nullify your authentic identity! Your likeness is secured in me!  MIRROR

Acts 13:49 And so the Word of the Lord [concerning eternal salvation through Christ] scattered and spread throughout the whole region.  AMP

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

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Acts 19:20  In such ways it became evident that the Word of the Master was now sovereign and prevailed in Ephesus. MSG

ROM 10:8 Righteousness announced by God’s faith, is the authentic conversation! Here, every definition of distance in time, space, or even indifference and hostility, is cancelled. The word is no longer a distant prophetic pointer in the mouths of Moses and Elijah! They announced its destiny to be mirrored in the incarnation! “The Word is extremely close to you. It spills over from your heart and becomes dynamic conversation in your mouth!”  MIRROR

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

HEB 1:1-3 Throughout our history God has spoken to our ancestors by his prophets in many different ways. The revelation he gave them was only a fragment at a time, building one truth upon another.

2 But to us living in these last days, God now speaks to us openly in the language of a Son, the appointed Heir of everything, for through him God created the panorama of all things and all time.

3The Son is the dazzling radiance of God’s splendor, the exact expression of God’s true nature—his mirror image! He holds the universe together and expands it by the mighty power of his spoken word. He accomplished for us the complete cleansing of sins, and then took his seat on the highest throne at the right hand of the majestic One.  TPT

REV 12:10-13 Then I heard a triumphant voice in heaven proclaiming: “Now salvation and power are set in place, and the kingdom reign of our God and the ruling authority of his Anointed One are established. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who relentlessly accused them day and night before our God, has now been defeated—cast out once and for all!

11They conquered him completely through the blood of the Lamb and the powerful word of his testimony.  They triumphed because they did not love and cling to their own lives, even when faced with death..  TPT

DON’T STOP PRAYING 9-13-24

DON’T STOP PRAYING 9-13-24  VIDEO JESUS SHOWED ME WHAT PRAYER

We are sometimes discouraged in our prayers. We believe they should be answered and visible immediately. But sometimes that is not the case. We must remain persistent. Persistent Means continuing firmly in a course of action in spite of opposition. Persistence in prayer may draw the attention of the enemy. He may try to stop you from praying. But angels are assigned to you at this time.

Dan 10:10 A hand touched me and pulled me to my hands and knees.

11 “‘Daniel,’ he said, ‘man of quality, listen carefully to my message. And get up on your feet. Stand at attention. I’ve been sent to bring you news.’ “When he had said this, I stood up, but I was still shaking.

12 “‘Relax, Daniel,’ he continued, ‘don’t be afraid. From the moment you decided to humble yourself to receive understanding, your prayer was heard, and I set out to come to you.

13 But I was waylaid by the angel-prince of the kingdom of Persia

14 and was delayed for a good three weeks. But then Michael, one of the chief angel-princes, intervened to help me. I left him there with the prince of the kingdom of Persia. And now I’m here to help you understand what will eventually happen to your people. The vision has to do with what’s ahead.’ MSG

LUKE 2:26 Simeon had a Holy Spirit encounter and knew that he would not die before he sees the Lord’s Anointed.

27 Prompted in the spirit, he arrived at the temple as the parents of the child Jesus, brought him in, as prescribed in their tradition and law.

28 And Simeon, holding the little child in his arms began to speak eloquent praises to God and said,

29 My Master, I am fully satisfied; you can now release your bond-servant in peace. I am holding your incarnate word in my arms!

30 And my eyes have seen your salvation!

31 The very salvation which prophetically and perfectly mirrors your face in every individual human life!

32 A light concluding in the ultimate unveiling of the Gentiles as well as the glory of his people Israel.  MIRROR

Luke 2:36 Anna the prophetess was also there, a daughter of Phanuel from the tribe of Asher. She was by now a very old woman. She had been married seven years

37 and a widow for eighty-four. She never left the Temple area, worshiping night and day with her fastings and prayers.

38 At the very time Simeon was praying, she showed up, broke into an anthem of praise to God, and talked about the child to all who were waiting expectantly for the freeing of Jerusalem. MSG

PHIL 1:20 My thoughts are not trapped in my head! They roam free in expectation that I will not be ashamed by any contradiction! My immediate circumstances do not distract from my message! I am convinced that our conversation now and always will continue to give accurate account of the magnificence of Christ. The message is incarnate in me; whether I live or die, it makes no difference.  

21 Christ defines my life; death cannot threaten or diminish that.   MIRROR

Jer 29:12 “When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I’ll listen.

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

14 I’ll make sure you won’t be disappointed.” God’s Decree. “I’ll turn things around for you. I’ll bring you back from all the countries into which I drove you” — God’s Decree — “bring you home to the place from which I sent you off into exile. You can count on it.  MSG

Matt 6:5  “And when you come before God, don’t turn that into a theatrical production either. All these people making a regular show out of their prayers, hoping for stardom! Do you think God sits in a box seat?

6 “Here’s what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.

7 “The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer-ignorant. They’re full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God.

8 Don’t fall for that nonsense. This is your Father you are dealing with, and he knows better than you what you need.

9 With a God like this loving you, you can pray very simply. Like this: Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are.

10 Set the world right; Do what’s best —  as above, so below.

11 Keep us alive with three square meals.

12 Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others.

13 Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You’re in charge! You can do anything you want! You’re ablaze in beauty! Yes. Yes. Yes.

14 “In prayer there is a connection between what God does and what you do. You can’t get forgiveness from God, for instance, without also forgiving others.

15 If you refuse to do your part, you cut yourself off from God’s part. MSG

Matt 14:23 And after He had dismissed the multitudes, He went up into the hills by Himself to pray. When it was evening, He was still there alone.  AMP

PS 103:20  So bless the Lord, all his messengers of power, for you are his mighty heroes who listen intently to the voice of his word to do it.

21 Bless and praise the Lord, you mighty warriors, ministers who serve him well and fulfill his desires.

22 I will bless and praise the Lord with my whole heart! Let all his works throughout the earth, wherever his dominion stretches—let everything bless the Lord!   TPT

PS 91:15 I will answer your cry for help every time you pray, and you will feel my presence in your time of trouble. I will deliver you and bring you honor. TPT

Luke 18:1 Jesus told them a story showing that it was necessary for them to pray consistently and never quit.

2 He said, “There was once a judge in some city who never gave God a thought and cared nothing for people.

3 A widow in that city kept after him: ‘My rights are being violated. Protect me!’

4 “He never gave her the time of day. But after this went on and on he said to himself, ‘I care nothing what God thinks, even less what people think.

5 But because this widow won’t quit badgering me, I’d better do something and see that she gets justice — otherwise I’m going to end up beaten black and blue by her pounding.'”

6 Then the Master said, “Do you hear what that judge, corrupt as he is, is saying?

7 So what makes you think God won’t step in and work justice for his chosen people, who continue to cry out for help? Won’t he stick up for them?

8 I assure you, he will. He will not drag his feet. But how much of that kind of persistent faith will the Son of Man find on the earth when he returns?” MSG

1 THES 5:16 Let joy be your continual feast.

17 Make your life a prayer.  TPT

John 16:26 Then you can make your requests directly to him in relation to this life I’ve revealed to you. I won’t continue making requests of the Father on your behalf.

27 I won’t need to. Because you’ve gone out on a limb, committed yourselves to love and trust in me, believing I came directly from the Father, the Father loves you directly.

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JN 16:26 In that day you will make your requests in my name without a middleman – there will be no need for me to question the Father on your behalf.  

27 The Father himself is so fond of you and is pleased with your affection for me and your belief that I proceeded from his immediate presence.  MIRROR

1 Cor 14:15 So what’s the solution? The answer is simple enough. Do both. I should be spiritually free and expressive as I pray, but I should also be thoughtful and mindful as I pray. I should sing with my spirit, and sing with my mind.

16 If you give a blessing using your private prayer language, which no one else understands, how can some outsider who has just shown up and has no idea what’s going on know when to say “Amen”?  MSG

1 Cor 14:18 I’m grateful to God for the gift of praying in tongues that he gives us for praising him, which leads to wonderful intimacies we enjoy with him. I enter into this as much or more than any of you. MSG

Eph 6:18 In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. Pray hard and long. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep each other’s spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out. MSG

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EPH 6:18  Pray passionately in the Spirit, as you constantly intercede with every form of prayer at all times. Pray the blessings of God upon all his believers.  TPT

1 Tim 2:8 I desire therefore that in every place men should pray, without anger or quarreling or resentment or doubt [in their minds], lifting up holy hands.  AMP

2 Chron 6:19 Even so, I’m bold to ask: Pay attention to these my prayers, both intercessory and personal, O God, my God. Listen to my prayers, energetic and devout, that I’m setting before you right now. MSG

Job 22:27 You will make your prayer to Him, and He will hear you, and you will pay your vows.

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

Ps 42:8 Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of my life. AMP

Ps 88:2 Let my prayer come before You and really enter into Your presence; incline Your ear to my cry!  AMP

Hab 3:1 A prayer of the prophet Habakkuk, with orchestra:

2 God, I’ve heard what our ancestors say about you, and I’m stopped in my tracks, down on my knees. Do among us what you did among them. Work among us as you worked among them. And as you bring judgment, as you surely must, remember mercy.  MSG

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

Rom 12:12 cheerfully expectant. Don’t quit in hard times; pray all the harder. MSG

Phil 4:6 Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns.

7 Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.  MSG

Col 4:2  Pray diligently. Stay alert, with your eyes wide open in gratitude. MSG

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.

16 Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with.

17 Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn’t rain, and it didn’t — not a drop for three and a half years. MSG

TEARING OFF THE ROOF 9-8-24

TEARING OFF THE ROOF 9-8-24 by Mary Dorian VIDEO TEAR OFF THE ROOF

Tear up the Roof” Tear is a verb meaning to pull apart something by force. To move very quickly in an excited manner.

Luke 5:17 Then, one day, while he was teaching, the following dramatic incident happened. There were Pharisees and Scholars of the law also sitting in his audience along with people coming from every village in Galilee and Judea as well as the outskirts of Jerusalem. The very atmosphere was charged with the presence of the Lord to heal

18 Meanwhile, there were people desperately trying to get into the house where Jesus was teaching; they were carrying a man on a bed who suffered from severe convulsions that left him paralyzed. If only they could get him close to where Jesus was teaching. But, because of the crowd they were unable to.  

19 Then, having no alternative, they got onto the roof and proceeded to break the roof open by taking the tiles off and then lowering him down on his bed to exactly where Jesus was.  

20 And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Your sins are forgiven!”  Mirror

Luke 5:24 Now, let me show you the connection here and help you see for yourselves that the son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins!” Jesus then again addressed the paraplegic man saying, “Arise, lift up your pallet and be on your way home!”  

25 The lame man instantly responded, got up, took his bedroll and left for home, magnifying God all the way!

26 Everyone were beside themselves with ecstatic joy! Overawed, they continued to praise God, mesmerized with the wonder of the paradox they have just witnessed!

Mirror

Luke 2:13 The next moment, a heavenly host of multitudes of celestial messengers joined and erupted in accolades of praise telling the God-story!

14 God’s highest and grandest 1intention in the heavens is dove-tailed upon earth in unbroken, incarnate oneness; in being human, he exibits his delight in mankind!  

15 Then, as the celestial heralds withdrew into the heavens, the shepherds immediately determined to go to Bethlehem and witness with their own eyes, the prophetic word which has now come to pass, as they have learned from the Lord. Mirror

Luke 8:42 His only daughter was dying, and she was only twelve years old. Jesus immediately went with him, but the dense crowd was thronging them.

43 Amongst them was a woman who was suffering from an issue of blood for twelve years; she had spent all she owned on physicians, but not one of them could heal her.  

44 She squeezed though the throng of people and touched the hem of Jesus’ garment and was instantly cured!

45 Surprisingly, Jesus immediately wanted to know who it was that touched him. But no one stepped forward; then Peter said to him, how can you ask that? Throngs of people are crowding you and many are obviously touching you

46 Jesus answered, “Someone has touched me differently; I felt a surge of power emanating from me.”

47 Then, realizing that she could not remain unnoticed, she approached Jesus, trembling and knelt before him and proceeded to tell everyone her story and that she felt heat going though her body as she touched the hem of his garment and was instantly cured!   

48 And he said to her, Daughter, 3your faith has saved you, continue on your life’s journey 1in this place of our 2joint-oneness and peace. Mirror

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Luke 8:42  because his twelve-year-old daughter, his only child, was dying. Jesus went with him, making his way through the pushing, jostling crowd.

43 In the crowd that day there was a woman who for twelve years had been afflicted with hemorrhages. She had spent every penny she had on doctors but not one had been able to help her.

44 She slipped in from behind and touched the edge of Jesus’ robe. At that very moment her hemorrhaging stopped.

45 Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When no one stepped forward, Peter said, “But Master, we’ve got crowds of people on our hands. Dozens have touched you.”

46 Jesus insisted, “Someone touched me. I felt power discharging from me.”

47 When the woman realized that she couldn’t remain hidden, she knelt trembling before him. In front of all the people, she blurted out her story — why she touched him and how at that same moment she was healed.

48 Jesus said, “Daughter, you took a risk trusting me, and now you’re healed and whole. Live well, live blessed!”  MSG

John 5:5 Among the many sick people lying there was a man who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

6 When Jesus saw him lying there, he knew that the man had been crippled for a long time. Jesus said to him, “Do you truly long to be well?”

7 The sick man answered, “Sir, there’s no way I can get healed, for I have no one to lower me into the water when the angel comes. As soon as I try to crawl to the edge of the pool, someone else jumps in ahead of me.”

8 Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your sleeping mat and you will walk!”   9Immediately he stood up—he was healed! So he rolled up his mat and walked again! Now Jesus worked this miracle on the Sabbath.  TPT

1 Cor 15:14 And face it — if there’s no resurrection for Christ, everything we’ve told you is smoke and mirrors, and everything you’ve staked your life on is smoke and mirrors.

15 Not only that, but we would be guilty of telling a string of barefaced lies about God, all these affidavits we passed on to you verifying that God raised up Christ — sheer fabrications, if there’s no resurrection.

16 If corpses can’t be raised, then Christ wasn’t, because he was indeed dead.

17 And if Christ wasn’t raised, then all you’re doing is wandering about in the dark, as lost as ever.

18 It’s even worse for those who died hoping in Christ and resurrection, because they’re already in their graves.

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. MSG

1 Cor 15:30 And why do you think I keep risking my neck in this dangerous work?

31 I look death in the face practically every day I live. Do you think I’d do this if I wasn’t convinced of your resurrection and mine as guaranteed by the resurrected Messiah Jesus?

32 Do you think I was just trying to act heroic when I fought the wild beasts at Ephesus, hoping it wouldn’t be the end of me? Not on your life! It’s resurrection, resurrection, always resurrection, that undergirds what I do and say, the way I live. If there’s no resurrection, “We eat, we drink, the next day we die,” and that’s all there is to it. MSG

Rom 8:24 For what we already experience confirms our hope and continues to fuel our expectation for what we still cannot see. In the final visible completeness of the harvest, hope has fulfilled its function.

25 In the meantime our expectation takes us beyond visual confirmation into a place of patient contentment. Mirror

Deut 2:3 “You’ve been going around in circles in these hills long enough; go north. MSG

John 10:10 A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of. MSG

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

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

Ps 55:18 My life is well and whole, secure in the middle of danger Even while thousands are lined up against me. MSG

Prov 4:23  Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that’s where life starts.

24 Don’t talk out of both sides of your mouth; avoid careless banter, white lies, and gossip. MSG

Matt 6:25  “If you decide for God, living a life of God-worship, it follows that you don’t fuss about what’s on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body.

26 Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds. MSG

John 1:4 His life is the light that defines our lives. (In his life we discover the light of life.) Mirror

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

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

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

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

Col 2:10 We are complete in him! Jesus mirrors our wholeness and 1endorses our true identity. He is “I am” in us!  Mirror

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

21 God is both the author and conclusion of the glory on display in the 1Ekklesia, mirrored in Christ Jesus. The encore continues throughout every generation, not only in this age but also in the countless ages to come. Amen! Mirror

HEARING GODS VOICE 9-6-24

HEARING GOD’S VOICE 9-6-24  VIDEO DR HEARS THE AUDIBLE VOICE 2

This is one of the greatest benefits of our salvation. To hear the voice of God. To hear Him speak to us as our heavenly Father. Sometimes we have to just get still and quiet before the Lord, so we can hear His voice. God talks in a still small voice. Hearing God‘s voice is easy when you think His voice is His presence. God‘s voice is not to condemn us, but to guide us. You can have a conversation with God. He will tell you about your future. His voice is so powerful and His voice changes things.

JHN 5:30 The dynamic of my doing is in my union with my Father; my intimate acquaintance with his voice is what inspires me – as I hear, I discern and my judgment is just; there is no conflicting interest here – my Father’s commission is my mission in life! MIRROR

JOHN 10:3 The gate warden lets him in and the sheep recognize his voice; he calls his sheep by name and leads them out.  

4 And when he leads them out, he goes before them and the sheep follow him; for they are familiar with his voice.

5 They will never follow the stranger but flee from him since they do not know his voice.”  MIRROR

Ps 46:10  “Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me, your High God, above politics, above everything.” 

11 Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God of angel armies protects us. MSG

1 Kings 19:12  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

Deut 28:1 If you listen obediently to the Voice of God, your God, and heartily obey all his commandments that I command you today, God, your God, will place you on high, high above all the nations of the world.

2 All these blessings will come down on you and spread out beyond you because you have responded to the Voice of God, your God:  MSG

Rom 8:1 With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud.

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

HEB 3:15 Every day is an extension of God’s today; hear his voice, do not harden your heart. The stubborn rebellion of Israel brought them nowhere. MIRROR

 ROM 10:17-18 So, this faith is sourced in discerned hearing; the kind of hearing that recognizes the authentic unveiling of Christ as the fountainhead of faith. Has God not given mankind a fair chance to hear?  MIRROR

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

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

LUKE 11:28 To which Jesus responded, “No! Much rather see the bigger picture and realize that the real blessing of my mission is fulfilled in people who hear my words and embrace the treasure they carry!  MIRROR

JOHN 5:24 Most certainly do I say unto you that this is the vital transition from dead religion into the very life of the ages – embrace the Son’s word with the same persuasion as you would the Father’s and you will not know any judgment – the Son gives voice to the Father!

25 Oh how I desire for you to get this! The prophetic hour has come! This is the moment for the dead to hear the voice of the Son of God – C’mon! Hear and live!

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PS 29:3-4 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!  TPT

JER 33:2-3 2“I, Yahweh, made the earth, formed its contours, and set it in place. Yahweh is my name. I say to you, cry out to me and I will answer you. I will reveal to you great things, guarded secrets that you never could have known.  TPT

ISA 30:20-21 Even though the Lord may allow you to go through a season of hardship and difficulty, he himself will be there with you. He will not hide himself from you, for your eyes will constantly see him as your Teacher.

21 When you turn to the right or turn to the left, you will hear his voice behind you to guide you, saying, This is the right path; follow it.”  TPT

Heb 2:1 It’s crucial that we keep a firm grip on what we’ve heard so that we don’t drift off. 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

Ps 85:8 I will listen [with expectancy] to what God the Lord will say, for He will speak peace to His people, to His saints (those who are in right standing with Him) — but let them not turn again to [self-confident] folly.  AMP

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Ps 85:8 I can’t wait to hear what he’ll say. God’s about to pronounce his people well, The holy people he loves so much, so they’ll never again live like fools. MSG

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),  AMP

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

2 Peter 1:17  For when He was invested with honor and glory from God the Father and a voice was borne to Him by the [splendid] Majestic Glory [in the bright cloud that overshadowed Him, saying], This is My beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased and delight,

18 We [actually] heard this voice borne out of heaven, for we were together with Him on the holy mountain.

19 And we have the prophetic word [made] firmer still. You will do well to pay close attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dismal (squalid and dark) place, until the day breaks through [the gloom] and the Morning Star rises (comes into being) in your hearts.  AMP

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2 Peter 1:17 Jesus resplendent with light from God the Father as the voice of Majestic Glory spoke: “This is my Son, marked by my love, focus of all my delight.”

18 We were there on the holy mountain with him. We heard the voice out of heaven with our very own ears.

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. MSG

TEARING OFF THE ROOF 9-8-24

TEARING OFF THE ROOF 9-8-24 by Mary Dorian VIDEO TEAR OFF THE ROOF

Tear up the Roof” Tear is a verb meaning to pull apart something by force. To move very quickly in an excited manner.

Luke 5:17 Then, one day, while he was teaching, the following dramatic incident happened. There were Pharisees and Scholars of the law also sitting in his audience along with people coming from every village in Galilee and Judea as well as the outskirts of Jerusalem. The very atmosphere was charged with the presence of the Lord to heal

18 Meanwhile, there were people desperately trying to get into the house where Jesus was teaching; they were carrying a man on a bed who suffered from severe convulsions that left him paralyzed. If only they could get him close to where Jesus was teaching. But, because of the crowd they were unable to.  

19 Then, having no alternative, they got onto the roof and proceeded to break the roof open by taking the tiles off and then lowering him down on his bed to exactly where Jesus was.  

20 And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Your sins are forgiven!”  Mirror

Luke 5:24 Now, let me show you the connection here and help you see for yourselves that the son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins!” Jesus then again addressed the paraplegic man saying, “Arise, lift up your pallet and be on your way home!”  

25 The lame man instantly responded, got up, took his bedroll and left for home, magnifying God all the way!

26 Everyone were beside themselves with ecstatic joy! Overawed, they continued to praise God, mesmerized with the wonder of the paradox they have just witnessed!

Mirror

Luke 2:13 The next moment, a heavenly host of multitudes of celestial messengers joined and erupted in accolades of praise telling the God-story!

14 God’s highest and grandest 1intention in the heavens is dove-tailed upon earth in unbroken, incarnate oneness; in being human, he exibits his delight in mankind!  

15 Then, as the celestial heralds withdrew into the heavens, the shepherds immediately determined to go to Bethlehem and witness with their own eyes, the prophetic word which has now come to pass, as they have learned from the Lord. Mirror

Luke 8:42 His only daughter was dying, and she was only twelve years old. Jesus immediately went with him, but the dense crowd was thronging them.

43 Amongst them was a woman who was suffering from an issue of blood for twelve years; she had spent all she owned on physicians, but not one of them could heal her.  

44 She squeezed though the throng of people and touched the hem of Jesus’ garment and was instantly cured!

45 Surprisingly, Jesus immediately wanted to know who it was that touched him. But no one stepped forward; then Peter said to him, how can you ask that? Throngs of people are crowding you and many are obviously touching you

46 Jesus answered, “Someone has touched me differently; I felt a surge of power emanating from me.”

47 Then, realizing that she could not remain unnoticed, she approached Jesus, trembling and knelt before him and proceeded to tell everyone her story and that she felt heat going though her body as she touched the hem of his garment and was instantly cured!   

48 And he said to her, Daughter, 3your faith has saved you, continue on your life’s journey 1in this place of our 2joint-oneness and peace. Mirror

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Luke 8:42  because his twelve-year-old daughter, his only child, was dying. Jesus went with him, making his way through the pushing, jostling crowd.

43 In the crowd that day there was a woman who for twelve years had been afflicted with hemorrhages. She had spent every penny she had on doctors but not one had been able to help her.

44 She slipped in from behind and touched the edge of Jesus’ robe. At that very moment her hemorrhaging stopped.

45 Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When no one stepped forward, Peter said, “But Master, we’ve got crowds of people on our hands. Dozens have touched you.”

46 Jesus insisted, “Someone touched me. I felt power discharging from me.”

47 When the woman realized that she couldn’t remain hidden, she knelt trembling before him. In front of all the people, she blurted out her story — why she touched him and how at that same moment she was healed.

48 Jesus said, “Daughter, you took a risk trusting me, and now you’re healed and whole. Live well, live blessed!”  MSG

John 5:5 Among the many sick people lying there was a man who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

6 When Jesus saw him lying there, he knew that the man had been crippled for a long time. Jesus said to him, “Do you truly long to be well?”

7 The sick man answered, “Sir, there’s no way I can get healed, for I have no one to lower me into the water when the angel comes. As soon as I try to crawl to the edge of the pool, someone else jumps in ahead of me.”

8 Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your sleeping mat and you will walk!”   9Immediately he stood up—he was healed! So he rolled up his mat and walked again! Now Jesus worked this miracle on the Sabbath.  TPT

1 Cor 15:14 And face it — if there’s no resurrection for Christ, everything we’ve told you is smoke and mirrors, and everything you’ve staked your life on is smoke and mirrors.

15 Not only that, but we would be guilty of telling a string of barefaced lies about God, all these affidavits we passed on to you verifying that God raised up Christ — sheer fabrications, if there’s no resurrection.

16 If corpses can’t be raised, then Christ wasn’t, because he was indeed dead.

17 And if Christ wasn’t raised, then all you’re doing is wandering about in the dark, as lost as ever.

18 It’s even worse for those who died hoping in Christ and resurrection, because they’re already in their graves.

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. MSG

1 Cor 15:30 And why do you think I keep risking my neck in this dangerous work?

31 I look death in the face practically every day I live. Do you think I’d do this if I wasn’t convinced of your resurrection and mine as guaranteed by the resurrected Messiah Jesus?

32 Do you think I was just trying to act heroic when I fought the wild beasts at Ephesus, hoping it wouldn’t be the end of me? Not on your life! It’s resurrection, resurrection, always resurrection, that undergirds what I do and say, the way I live. If there’s no resurrection, “We eat, we drink, the next day we die,” and that’s all there is to it. MSG

Rom 8:24 For what we already experience confirms our hope and continues to fuel our expectation for what we still cannot see. In the final visible completeness of the harvest, hope has fulfilled its function.

25 In the meantime our expectation takes us beyond visual confirmation into a place of patient contentment. Mirror

Deut 2:3 “You’ve been going around in circles in these hills long enough; go north. MSG

John 10:10 A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of. MSG

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

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

Ps 55:18 My life is well and whole, secure in the middle of danger Even while thousands are lined up against me. MSG

Prov 4:23  Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that’s where life starts.

24 Don’t talk out of both sides of your mouth; avoid careless banter, white lies, and gossip. MSG

Matt 6:25  “If you decide for God, living a life of God-worship, it follows that you don’t fuss about what’s on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body.

26 Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds. MSG

John 1:4 His life is the light that defines our lives. (In his life we discover the light of life.) Mirror

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

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

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

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

Col 2:10 We are complete in him! Jesus mirrors our wholeness and 1endorses our true identity. He is “I am” in us!  Mirror

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

21 God is both the author and conclusion of the glory on display in the 1Ekklesia, mirrored in Christ Jesus. The encore continues throughout every generation, not only in this age but also in the countless ages to come. Amen! Mirror

THE TRUE PURPOSE OF THE CROSS 9-1-24

THE TRUE PURPOSE OF THE CROSS 9-1-24

VIDEO PEOPLE THANKING AT THE CROSS

What is the purpose of the cross in our lives? Taking up the way of the cross is to really find ourselves, to be set free from the prison of the world system. It is not the American dream that is our purpose, but it is a way of life in the eternal kingdom of God. Taking up the cross is dying to ourselves and living in and for Christ alone. For the joy that was set before him, He endured the cross. The Pharisees didn’t comprehend Jesus and His mission. It was not about Himself but serving mankind. The result of Jesus laying down His life on the cross is you and I are new creations.

Mk 8:34 Jesus had his disciples and the crowd gather around him. And he said to them: “If you truly want to follow me, you should at once completely disown your own life. And you must be willing to share my cross and experience it as your own, as you continually surrender to my ways.

35 For if you let your life go for my sake and for the sake of the gospel, you will continually experience true life. But if you choose to keep your life for yourself, you will forfeit what you try to keep.

36 For what use is it to gain all the wealth and power of this world, with everything it could offer you, at the cost of your own life?

37 And what could be more valuable to you than your own soul?   TPT

deny himself [forget, ignore, disown, and lose sight of himself and his own interests]

John 3:16 The entire cosmos is the object of God’s affection! And he is not about to abandon his creation – the gift of his Son is for mankind to realize their origin in him who mirrors their authentic birth – begotten not of flesh but of the Father! MIRROR

Matt 27:40 “You bragged that you could tear down the Temple and then rebuild it in three days — so show us your stuff! Save yourself! If you’re really God’s Son, come down from that cross!”  MSG

Heb 12:2 Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed — that exhilarating finish in and with God — he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.

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RO 6:6  We perceive that our old lifestyle was co-crucified together with him; this concludes that the vehicle that accommodated sin in us, was scrapped and rendered entirely useless. Our slavery to sin has come to an end.

7 If nothing else stops you from doing something wrong, death certainly does.

8 Faith sees us joined in his death and alive with him in his resurrection.

9 It is plain for all to see that death lost its dominion over Christ in his resurrection; he need not ever die again to prove a further point.

10 His appointment with death was 1once-off. As far as sin is concerned, he is dead. The reason for his death was to take away the sin of the world; his life now exhibits our union with the life of God.  

11 This reasoning is equally relevant to you. Calculate the cross; there can only be one logical conclusion: he died your death; that means you died to sin, and are now alive to God. Sin-consciousness can never again feature in your future! You are in Christ Jesus; his Lordship is the authority of this union.  

12 You are under no obligation to sin; it has no further rights to dominate your dead declared body. Therefore let it not entice you to obey its lusts.  MIRROR

1 Cor 1:17  God didn’t send me out to collect a following for myself, but to preach the Message of what he has done, collecting a following for him. And he didn’t send me to do it with a lot of fancy rhetoric of my own, lest the powerful action at the center — Christ on the Cross — be trivialized into mere words.

18 The Message that points to Christ on the Cross seems like sheer silliness to those hellbent on destruction, but for those on the way of salvation it makes perfect sense. This is the way God works, and most powerfully as it turns out. MSG

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1 COR 1:17 My mandate was not about winning members for some ‘Christian club’ through baptism! I am commissioned to declare the Good News without any strings attached; nothing to distract from the powerful effect of the revelation of the cross of Christ.  

18 To their own loss the message of the cross seems foolish to some; but to us who discover our salvation there, it is the dynamic of God. MIRROR

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.

15 The new creation in Christ steals the show; not whether someone is circumcised or not! (God associated us in Christ; when he died we died, when he was raised we were raised together with him in newness of life.)

16 Our union with Christ sets the pace and makes us the true Israel, not whether we are Jew or Gentile, circumcised or not! Oh, what peace we discover in his mercy! This rule is the new law we submit ourselves to as the principle of our daily walk!MIRROR

Phil 2:8 Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death — and the worst kind of death at that: a crucifixion MSG

COL 2:13-This “realm of death” describes our former state, for we were held in sin’s grasp. But now, we’ve been resurrected out of that “realm of death” never to return, for we are forever alive and forgiven of all our sins!

14 He canceled out every legal violation we had on our record and the old arrest warrant that stood to indict us. He erased it all—our sins, our stained soul—he deleted it all and they cannot be retrieved! Everything we once were in Adam has been placed onto his cross and nailed permanently there as a public display of cancellation.

15 Then Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of darkness, stripping away from them every weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse us. And by the power of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of triumph. He was not their prisoner; they were his!   TPT

1 COR 2:7 We voice words of wisdom that were hidden in silence for timeless ages; a mystery unfolding God’s Masterful plan whereby he would redeem his glory in man. Our glorification has always been God’s agenda, even before time was.  

8 Neither the politicians nor the religious leaders of the day had a clue about this mystery; if they did, they would never have crucified the Lord whose death redeemed our glory!  MIRROR

Gal 3:1 You crazy Galatians! Did someone put a hex on you? Have you taken leave of your senses? Something crazy has happened, for it’s obvious that you no longer have the crucified Jesus in clear focus in your lives. His sacrifice on the Cross was certainly set before you clearly enough.

2 Let me put this question to you: How did your new life begin? Was it by working your heads off to please God? Or was it by responding to God’s Message to you?

3 Are you going to continue this craziness? For only crazy people would think they could complete by their own efforts what was begun by God. If you weren’t smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how do you suppose you could perfect it?

4 Did you go through this whole painful learning process for nothing? It is not yet a total loss, but it certainly will be if you keep this up!  MSG

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

14 And now, because of that, the air is cleared and we can see that Abraham’s blessing is present and available for non-Jews. MSG

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

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

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

8 He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need,

9 letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ,

10 a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.

11 It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living,

12 part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.  MSG

EPH 2:15  Ethnic hatred has been dissolved by the crucifixion of his precious body on the cross. The legal code that stood condemning every one of us has now been repealed by his command. His triune essence has made peace between us by starting over—forming one new race of humanity, Jews and non-Jews fused together in himself!

16 Two have now become one, and we live restored to God and reconciled in the body of Christ. Through his crucifixion, hatred died.  TPT

Col 1:22  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

1 Peter 2:24 He personally bore our sins in His [own] body on the tree [as on an altar and offered Himself on it], that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed.  AMP

Gal 2:20 Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

21 I am not going to go back on that. Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God’s grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily. MSG

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