JESUS OUR LIVING HOPE 5-11-25  VIDEO

He has set the captives free. We are no longer held in bondage. No longer captive. Captive means a person whose ability to help or act freely is then held in bondage. He came to set us free. The God of all ages step down from the Glory to set everyone free. We are free from every form of captivity; drugs, alcohol, self-hatred, fear, anxiety, feelings of being unlove, worry, whatever is tormenting you in your life you are free from that now. We can  live our lives in freedom. Freedom from death and fear of death because of the resurrection power of Jesus.

Matt 12:20 He won’t walk over anyone’s feelings, won’t push you into a corner. Before you know it, his justice will triumph;

21 the mere sound of his name will signal hope, even among far-off unbelievers. MSG

1 Peter 1:3 What a God we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our Master Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we’ve been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for,

4 including a future in heaven — and the future starts now!

5 God is keeping careful watch over us and the future. The Day is coming when you’ll have it all — life healed and whole.

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

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

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

2I  am sent to announce a new season of Yahweh’s grace and a time of God’s recompense on his enemies,  to comfort all who are in sorrow,  TPT

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LUKE 4:18 He opened the scroll and rolled it out in order to find the specific place where the following was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to announce glad tidings to a starving people; he has commissioned me to announce the freedom of forgiveness [their true I-am-ness] to those held captive at spear-point by their guilt and shame; also, the blind may now look up and be restored in their sight! I am anointed to send out those who are bruised and traumatized, into the freedom of their redeemed innocence.  MIRROR

John 8:34 Jesus said, “I tell you most solemnly that anyone who chooses a life of sin is trapped in a dead-end life and is, in fact, a slave.

35 A slave is a transient, who can’t come and go at will. The Son, though, has an established position, the run of the house.

36 So if the Son sets you free, you are free through and through. MSG

1 Tim 2:6  who offered himself in exchange for everyone held captive by sin, to set them all free. Eventually the news is going to get out.

7 This and this only has been my appointed work: getting this news to those who have never heard of God, and explaining how it works by simple faith and plain truth. MSG

2 Tim 2:24 In your position as someone completely dedicated to the Lord there is no virtue in winning an argument but losing the person! I would much rather have you exhibit a sensitive courtesy towards all people; skillfully educate them and keep your cool under pressure.

25 Your gentle way of instructing those who oppose you will inevitably lead them to see what God believes concerning them and give them the best possible chance to acknowledge the truth.

26 And so they will escape the intoxicating influence of the fallen mindset and the enslaving dictates of the Devil.   MIRROR

2 COR 3:17  The Lord and the Spirit are one; his Lordship sanctions our freedom. A freedom from rules chiselled in stone to the voice of our redeemed design echoing in our hearts!

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 transformation; we are led from an inferior mind-set to the revealed endorsement of our authentic identity MIRROR

GAL 5:1 Christ defines your faith; he is your freedom from anything from which the law could never free you! Find your firm footing in this freedom. Do not let religion trip you up again and harness you to a system of rules and obligations!  MIRROR

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.

3 God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it.  MSG

Gal 3:13 Christ purchased our freedom [redeeming us] from the curse (doom) of the Law [and its condemnation] by [Himself] becoming a curse for us, for it is written [in the Scriptures], Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified); 

14 To the end that through [their receiving] Christ Jesus, the blessing [promised] to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we through faith might [all] receive [the realization of] the promise of the [Holy] Spirit.  AMP   ↓↓↓

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

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

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ [the Messiah Himself] died for sins once for all, the Righteous for the unrighteous (the Just for the unjust, the Innocent for the guilty), that He might bring us to God. In His human body He was put to death, but He was made alive in the spirit,

19 In which He went and preached to the spirits in prison,  AMP

EPH 4:7 The gift of Christ measures the extravagant dimensions of grace; where everyone is equally advantaged.  

8 Scripture confirms that he arrested every possible threat that held mankind hostage! [“he took captivity captive”] And in his resurrection, he led us as trophies in his triumphant procession on high. Consider the genius of God, in the incarnate Christ, he repossessed what belonged to us by design, in human form; this is his grace-gift to us!

9 The fact that he ascended confirms his victorious descent into the deepest pits of human despair.  

10 He now occupies the ultimate rank of authority, from the lowest regions of our darkness into which he reached in order to rescue us, to the highest authority in the heavens, having executed his mission to the full.

11 What God has in us, is gift wrapped to the world: some are commissioned to pioneer, others are gifted prophetically, some as announcers of good news, some as shepherds with a real gift to care and nurture, and others have a gift to ignite instruction through revelation knowledge.  MIRROR

1 Cor 2:8 The experts of our day haven’t a clue about what this eternal plan is. If they had, they wouldn’t have killed the Master of the God-designed life on a cross.

9 That’s why we have this Scripture text: No one’s ever seen or heard anything like this, Never so much as imagined anything quite like it — What God has arranged for those who love him.

10 But you’ve seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you. The Spirit, not content to flit around on the surface, dives into the depths of God, and brings out what God planned all along. MSG

Rom 6:17 But thank God you’ve started listening to a new master,

18 one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!

19 I’m using this freedom language because it’s easy to picture. You can readily recall, can’t you, how at one time the more you did just what you felt like doing — not caring about others, not caring about God — the worse your life became and the less freedom you had? And how much different is it now as you live in God’s freedom, your lives healed and expansive in holiness?

20 As long as you did what you felt like doing, ignoring God, you didn’t have to bother with right thinking or right living, or right anything for that matter.

21 But do you call that a free life? What did you get out of it? Nothing you’re proud of now. Where did it get you? A dead end.

22 But now that you’ve found you don’t have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way!

23 Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God’s gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.  MSG

Ps 118:5 Out of my deep anguish and pain I prayed, and God, you helped me as a father. You came to my rescue and broke open the way into a beautiful and broad place.

6 Now I know, Lord, that you are for me, and I will never fear what man can do to me. TPT

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

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

Luke 19:38 Crying, Blessed (celebrated with praises) is the King Who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven [freedom there from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin] and glory (majesty and splendor) in the highest [heaven]!  AMP

Titus 2:14 He offered himself as a sacrifice to free us from a dark, rebellious life into this good, pure life, making us a people he can be proud of, energetic in goodness.MSG

1 Cor 15:55 Who got the last word, oh, Death? Oh, Death, who’s afraid of you now?

56 It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power.

57 But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three — sin, guilt, death — are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God! MSG

1 Peter 5:14 Salute one another with a kiss of love [the symbol of mutual affection]. To all of you that are in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), may there be peace (every kind of peace and blessing, especially peace with God, and freedom from fears, agitating passions, and moral conflicts). Amen (so be it).  AMP

WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH 5-9-25 VIDEO NORVEL WORSHIP 2

There is only one way to worship God the Father. That is in spirit and in truth. This kind of worship brings heaven down to earth. Whenever we gather it like this, God‘s presence is tangible. You can touch Him. Real worship is worshiping from a heart of thanksgiving and gratitude. Touching God. Remembering He is a spirit And so are we. This is how we touch Him.

John 4:23 But the time is coming — it has, in fact, come — when what you’re called will not matter and where you go to worship will not matter. “It’s who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship.

24 God is sheer being itself — Spirit. Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration.”  MSG

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JOHN 4:23 The end of an era has arrived – the future is here! Whatever prophetic values were expressed in external devotional forms and rituals are now eclipsed in true spirit worship from within, face to face with the Father – acknowledging our genesis in him – this is his delight! The Father’s desire is the worshipper more than the worship!  

24 God is Spirit and not a holy mountain or a sacred city with man-made shrines! Return to your Source – the Father is our true fountainhead!  MIRROR

PHIL 3:3  We give “circumcision” its true spiritual meaning! Our worship is not defined by anything external that would even remotely resemble the law of works and religious rituals! We worship God in the certainty of our redeemed innocence and rejoice in the finished work of Jesus Christ. Faith-righteousness gives substance to spiritual worship; the flesh occupies the religious mind with its own futile efforts to attain to righteousness. I am convinced that circumcision or any work of the law can add nothing to the righteousness that Jesus secured on our behalf.  MIRROR

Gen 28:13 Then God was right before him, saying, “I am God, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. I’m giving the ground on which you are sleeping to you and to your descendants.

14 Your descendants will be as the dust of the Earth; they’ll stretch from west to east and from north to south. All the families of the Earth will bless themselves in you and your descendants.

15 Yes. I’ll stay with you, I’ll protect you wherever you go, and I’ll bring you back to this very ground. I’ll stick with you until I’ve done everything I promised you.”

16 Jacob woke up from his sleep. He said, “God is in this place — truly. And I didn’t even know it!”

17 He was terrified. He whispered in awe, “Incredible. Wonderful. Holy. This is God’s House. This is the Gate of Heaven.”

18 Jacob was up first thing in the morning. He took the stone he had used for his pillow and stood it up as a memorial pillar and poured oil over it.

19 He christened the place Bethel (God’s House). The name of the town had been Luz until then. MSG

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

2 Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. MSG

Ps 150:1 Hallelujah! Praise God in his holy house of worship, praise him under the open skies;

2 Praise him for his acts of power, praise him for his magnificent greatness;

3 Praise with a blast on the trumpet, praise by strumming soft strings;

4 Praise him with castanets and dance, praise him with banjo and flute;

5 Praise him with cymbals and a big bass drum, praise him with fiddles and mandolin.

6 Let every living, breathing creature praise God! Hallelujah! MSG

COL 3:15  Let your heart be always guided by the peace of the Anointed One, who called you to peace as part of his one body. And always be thankful.

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

17 Let every activity of your lives and every word that comes from your lips be drenched with the beauty of our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One. And bring your constant praise to God the Father because of what Christ has done for you! TPT

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COL 3:16 Give the clarity of God’s conversation in Christ permanent residence in you; allow it’s magnificence to permeate your entire being. Celebrate God. From this rich reservoir of the heart, continue to instruct one another with inspired thoughts; making music with stringed instruments and spirit infused songs that articulate the nuances of grace. MIRROR

Ps 84:1  What a beautiful home, God of the Angel Armies! I’ve always longed to live in a place like this,

2 Always dreamed of a room in your house, where I could sing for joy to God-alive!

Ps 84:10 One day spent in your house, this beautiful place of worship, beats thousands spent on Greek island beaches. I’d rather scrub floors in the house of my God than be honored as a guest in the palace of sin. MSG

PS 63:1 O God of my life, I’m lovesick for you in this weary wilderness. I thirst with the deepest longings to love you more, with cravings in my heart that can’t be described. Such yearning grips my soul for you, my God!

2 I’m energized every time I enter your heavenly sanctuary to seek more of your power and drink in more of your glory.

3 For your tender mercies mean more to me than life itself. How I love and praise you, God!

4 Daily I will worship you passionately and with all my heart. My arms will wave to you like banners of praise.

5 I overflow with praise when I come before you, for the anointing of your presence satisfies me like nothing else.

6-7 I lie awake each night thinking of you and reflecting on how you help me like a father. I sing through the night under your splendor-shadow, offering up to you my songs of delight and joy!

8 With passion I pursue and cling to you. Because I feel your grip on my life, I keep my soul close to your heart. TPT

PS 95:1 Come on, everyone! Let’s sing for joy to the Lord! Let’s shout our loudest praises to our God who saved us!

2 Everyone come meet his face with a thankful heart. Don’t hold back your praises; make him great by your shouts of joy!

3 For the Lord is the greatest of all, King-God over all other gods!

4 In one hand he holds the mysteries of the earth, and in the other he holds the highest mountain peaks.

5 He’s the owner of every ocean, the engineer and sculptor of earth itself!

6 Come and kneel before this Creator-God; come and bow before the mighty God, our majestic maker!

7-9 For we are those he cares for, and he is the God we worship. So drop everything else and listen to his voice! For this is what he’s saying: “Today, when I speak, don’t even think about turning a deaf ear to me like they did when they tested me at Meribah and Massah, the place where they argued with me, their Creator. Your ancestors challenged me over and over with their complaining, even though I had convinced them of my power and love. They still doubted my care for them. TPT

Heb 13:14  This “insider world” is not our home. We have our eyes peeled for the City about to come.

15 Let’s take our place outside with Jesus, no longer pouring out the sacrificial blood of animals but pouring out sacrificial praises from our lips to God in Jesus’ name. MSG

Ps 145:3 God is magnificent; he can never be praised enough. There are no boundaries to his greatness.

4 Generation after generation stands in awe of your work; each one tells stories of your mighty acts.

5 Your beauty and splendor have everyone talking; I compose songs on your wonders.

6 Your marvelous doings are headline news; I could write a book full of the details of your greatness.

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. MSG

Deut 10:21 He’s your praise! He’s your God! He did all these tremendous, these staggering things that you saw with your own eyes. MSG

Dan 2:19 That night the answer to the mystery was given to Daniel in a vision. Daniel blessed the God of heaven,

20 saying, “Blessed be the name of God, forever and ever. He knows all, does all:

21 He changes the seasons and guides history, He raises up kings and also brings them down, he provides both intelligence and discernment,

22 He opens up the depths, tells secrets, sees in the dark — light spills out of him!

23 God of all my ancestors, all thanks! all praise! You made me wise and strong. And now you’ve shown us what we asked for. You’ve solved the king’s mystery.”  MSG

REV 4:8 And the four Living Beings each had six wings pointing upward, these wings were rotating continually in a full circle. They had eyes everywhere, engaging with their complete horizon within and without! Day and night they continued without pause to proclaim, Holy! Holy! Holy is the God whose Lordship is the supreme authority over all things, whose I-am-ness defines time – present, past and future.  

9 And whenever the Living Beings would repeat their esteem of his glorious reputation and worth and the inexhaustible goodness of the grace of the One seated upon the throne, the One whose life spans across the perpetuity of the ages,  

10 then the twenty four representatives of the entire co-enthroned, co-seated ekklesia would descend from their thrones and prostrate themselves in the awesome presence of him who forever sits enthroned; the One whose life spans the perpetuity of the ages! And they would worship him and cast their crowns before the throne saying,

11 “Our Lord and our God! You are worthy to take the glory and the honor for the dynamic competence displayed in every detail of all of creation! Yes, everything owes their existence to your resolve and for your pleasure we were created!”  MIRROR

Jonah 2:9 But I’m worshiping you, God, calling out in thanksgiving! And I’ll do what I promised I’d do! Salvation belongs to God!

Ps 100:1 On your feet now — applaud God! 

2 Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourselves into his presence.

3 Know this: God is God, and God, God. He made us; we didn’t make him. We’re his people, his well-tended sheep.

4 Enter with the password: “Thank you!” Make yourselves at home, talking praise. Thank him. Worship him.

5 For God is sheer beauty, all-generous in love, loyal always and ever. MSG

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LET THERE BE LIGHT 5-3-25  VIDEO LIGHT NEVER DIES 2

The most important and most powerful created work of God is light. Without light, there would be no form of life. All miracles begin with the command of God. Let there be light. The light is not sunlight or moonlight or starlight. But the calling down of the presence of the Lord of glory upon our planet without form. The Hebrew word for light means elimination, or lighting. Jesus was and is the term of light of life. He is the light of the world who overcame darkness.

GEN 1:3  And then God announced, “Let there be light,” and light burst forth!

4 And God saw the light as pleasing and beautiful; he used the light to dispel the darkness.  TPT

GEN 1:5 ‘God called the light “Day,” and the darkness “Night.” And so, evening gave way to morning—the first day. ‘  TPT

James 1:17 Without exception God’s gifts are only good; it’s perfection cannot be flawed. They come from above proceeding like light rays from its source, the Father of lights, with whom there is no distortion, or even a shadow of shifting to obstruct, or intercept the light; nor any hint of a hidden agenda.  

18 It was according to the Father’s delightful resolve that he birthed us; giving authentic, incarnate expression to the Word. Just like the first-fruits mirror the harvest, so we mirror the conclusion of his workmanship in the core of our being.  MIRROR

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James 1:17 Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle.  

18 He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the crown of all his creatures. MSG

Ps 36:9 You’re a fountain of cascading light, and you open our eyes to light. MSG

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

2 They were together—face-to-face, in the very beginning.

3 And through his creative inspiration this Living Expression made all things, for nothing has existence apart from him!

4 A fountain of life was in him, for his life is light for all humanity.

5 And this Light never fails to shine through darkness—Light that darkness could not overcome!  TPT

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

5 The darkness was pierced and could not comprehend or diminish this light.  

6 Then there was this man John commissioned by God;

7 his mission was to draw attention to the light of their lives so that what they witnessed in him would cause them to believe.

8 His ministry was not to distract from the light, as if he himself was the light but rather to point out the light Source.

9 A new day for mankind has come. The authentic light of life that illuminates everyone was about to dawn in the world!  

10 Although no one took any notice of him, he was no stranger to the world; he always was there and is himself the author of all things.   MIRROR

Ex 14:20 The Cloud was now between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. The Cloud enshrouded one camp in darkness and flooded the other with light. The two camps didn’t come near each other all night. MSG

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

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

Job 33:28 But God stepped in and saved me from certain death. I’m alive again! Once more I see the light!’  MSG

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Job 33:28 He pulls our souls back from certain destruction so we’ll see the light — and live in the light! MSG

Ps 27:1 Light, space, zest —  that’s God! So, with him on my side I’m fearless, afraid of no one and nothing. MSG

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PS 27:1 Yahweh is my revelation-light and the source of my salvation. I fear no one!

I’ll never turn back and run, for you, Yahweh, surround and protect me. TPT

2 COR 4:6 The light source is founded in the same God who said, “Light, be!” And light shone out of darkness! He lit the lamp in our understanding so that we may clearly recognize the features of his likeness in the face of Jesus Christ reflected within us.  

7 And now, in the glow of this glorious light and with unveiled faces we discover this treasure where it was hidden all along, in these frail skin-suits made of clay. We did not invent ourselves; we are God’s idea to begin with and the dynamic of his doing and amazing engineering!   MIRROR

JN 8:12 And Jesus continued to say, “I am the light of the world – whoever journeys with me shall not walk in darkness but will radiate the light of life!”  MIRROR

Rom 13:11 But make sure that you don’t get so absorbed and exhausted in taking care of all your day-by-day obligations that you lose track of the time and doze off, oblivious to God.

12 The night is about over, dawn is about to break. Be up and awake to what God is doing! God is putting the finishing touches on the salvation work he began when we first believed.

13 We can’t afford to waste a minute, must not squander these precious daylight hours in frivolity and indulgence, in sleeping around and dissipation, in bickering and grabbing everything in sight.

14 Get out of bed and get dressed! Don’t loiter and linger, waiting until the very last minute. Dress yourselves in Christ, and be up and about!  MSG

PS 56:13 For you have saved my soul from death and my feet from stumbling

so that I can walk before the Lord bathed in his life-giving light.  TPT

PS 97:11  For he sows seeds of light within his devoted lovers, and seeds of joy burst forth for the lovers of God!  TPT

Ps 112:4 Light arises in the darkness for the upright, gracious, compassionate, and just [who are in right standing with God].  AMP

Mic 7:8 Don’t, enemy, crow over me. I’m down, but I’m not out. I’m sitting in the dark right now, but God is my light. MSG

Matt 4:16 People sitting out their lives in the dark saw a huge light; Sitting in that dark, dark country of death, they watched the sun come up.

17 This Isaiah-prophesied sermon came to life in Galilee the moment Jesus started preaching. He picked up where John left off: “Change your life. God’s kingdom is here.”  MSG

Matt 5:14-16  “Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill.

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

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

Luke 1:78 Through the heartfelt mercies of our God, God’s Sunrise will break in upon us,

79 Shining on those in the darkness, those sitting in the shadow of death, Then showing us the way, one foot at a time, down the path of peace. MSG

LU 11:36  So, with light dispelling every trace of darkness within you, your entire life becomes a beaming, radiant light!   MIRROR

JN 9:5 The repeated presence of my “I-am-ness” in the world is the light of the world! I am the light of the cosmos!”  MIRROR

JN 12:35 Then Jesus said, “Yet a little while the light is in your midst; walk in accordance with the light that you have, [resonate with; echo] then you will not be overtaken by darkness. For the one who walks in darkness has no idea where to go.

36 So long as you have (echo; resonate) the light, live persuaded in the conclusion of light; oh that you might realize your authentic origin as the sons of light!   MIRROR

2 Cor 4:6 It started when God said, “Light up the darkness!” and our lives filled up with light as we saw and understood God in the face of Christ, all bright and beautiful. MSG

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, [God’s] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.  AMP

EPH 1:18 I pray that your thoughts will be flooded with light and inspired insight; that you will clearly picture his intent in identifying you in him so that you may know how precious you are to him. What God possesses in your redeemed innocence is his treasure and the glorious trophy of his inheritance! You are God’s portion. You are the sum total of his assets and the measure of his wealth!   MIRROR

1 JN 1:7  We are invited to explore the dimensions of the same light that engulfs God; when we see the light in his light, fellowship ignites! In this light, we understand how the blood of Jesus Christ is the removal of every distortion and stain of sin! We are invited to explore the dimensions of the same light that engulfs God; when we see the light in his light, fellowship ignites! In this light, we understand how the blood of Jesus Christ is the removal of every distortion and stain of sin! MIRROR

Eph 5:8 You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You’re out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it!

9 The good, the right, the true — these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours.

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1 Thess 5:5 For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we do not belong either to the night or to darkness.

6 Accordingly then, let us not sleep, as the rest do, but let us keep wide awake (alert, watchful, cautious, and on our guard) and let us be sober (calm, collected, and circumspect). AMP

THE COMFORTER IS HERE 5-2-25 VIDEO

Sometimes we are so caught up in the cares of this world that we need help. We need to be comforted so we can trust that everything will be OK. The Father is our comforter in our times of trouble. He never leaves us and is always by our side. 

2 Corinthians 1:3 All praises belong to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he is the Father of tender mercy and the God of endless comfort.

4 He always comes alongside us to comfort us in every suffering so that we can come alongside those who are in any painful trial. We can bring them this same comfort that God has poured out upon us.

5 And just as we experience the abundance of Christ’s own sufferings, even more of God’s comfort will cascade upon us through our union with Christ. TPT

Ps 23:4 ‘Even when your path takes me through the valley of deepest darkness, fear will never conquer me, for you already have! Your authority is my strength and my peace. The comfort of your love takes away my fear. I’ll never be lonely, for you are near.  TPT

Isa 41:10 Don’t panic. I’m with you. There’s no need to fear for I’m your God. I’ll give you strength. I’ll help you. I’ll hold you steady, keep a firm grip on you.  MSG

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

Ps 119:76 Oh, love me — and right now! — hold me tight! just the way you promised.

77 Now comfort me so I can live, really live; your revelation is the tune I dance to. MSG

Isaiah 61:2 am sent to announce a new season of Yahweh’s grace and a time of God’s recompense on his enemies, to comfort all who are in sorrow,

3 to strengthen those crushed by despair who mourn in Zion—to give them a beautiful bouquet in the place of ashes, the oil of bliss instead of tears,  and the mantle of joyous praise  instead of the spirit of heaviness.  Because of this, they will be known as Mighty Oaks of Righteousness, planted by Yahweh as a living display of his glory. TPT    

Ps 119:50 This is my comfort and consolation in my affliction: that Your word has revived me and given me life. AMP

Rom 15:4 Whatever was written about him includes and represents us. We take instruction and encouragement from his patience, while Scripture is our close companion to remind us of our true spiritual identity. We anticipate the future with delight.  Mirror

Ps 9:9  God’s a safe-house for the battered, a sanctuary during bad times.

10 The moment you arrive, you relax; you’re never sorry you knocked. MSG ↓↓↓

Ps 9:9  All who are oppressed may come to Yahweh as a high shelter in the time of trouble, a perfect hiding place.

10 For everyone who knows your wonderful name keeps putting their trust in you. They can count on you for help no matter what. O Lord, you will never, no never, neglect those who come to you. TPT

Ps 46:1 God is a safe place to hide, ready to help when we need him.

2 We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom, courageous in seastorm and earthquake,

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Jer 31:13 Then will the maidens rejoice in the dance, and the young men and old together. For I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoice after their sorrow.  AMP

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Jer 31:13 Young women will dance and be happy, young men and old men will join in. I’ll convert their weeping into laughter, lavishing comfort, invading their grief with joy. MSG

John 16:33 I’ve told you all this so that trusting me, you will be unshakable and assured, deeply at peace. In this godless world you will continue to experience difficulties. But take heart! I’ve conquered the world.”  MSG

Isaiah 49:13  Sing for joy, you heavens! Shout, you earth, and rejoice with dancing, shouting, and glee! Burst into joyous songs, you mountains, for Yahweh has comforted his beloved people. He will show tenderness and compassion to his suffering ones. Sing for joy, you heavens! Shout, you earth, and rejoice with dancing, shouting, and glee! Burst into joyous songs, you mountains, for Yahweh has comforted his beloved people. He will show tenderness and compassion to his suffering ones. TPT

Matt 5:4 Blessed and enviably happy [with a happiness produced by the experience of God’s favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His matchless grace] are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted!  AMP

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

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

Deut 31:6 “Be strong. Take courage. Don’t be intimidated. Don’t give them a second thought because GOD, your God, is striding ahead of you. He’s right there with you. He won’t let you down; he won’t leave you.”

7 Then Moses summoned Joshua. He said to him with all Israel watching, “Be strong. Take courage. You will enter the land with this people, this land that GOD promised their ancestors that he’d give them. You will make them the proud possessors of it.

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

1 Peter 5:7 Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.  AMP

John 14:25 “I’m telling you these things while I’m still living with you.

26 The Friend, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will make everything plain to you. He will remind you of all the things I have told you.

27 I’m leaving you well and whole. That’s my parting gift to you. Peace. I don’t leave you the way you’re used to being left — feeling abandoned, bereft. So don’t be upset. Don’t be distraught.  MSG

John 14:16 I will talk to the Father, and he’ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you.

17 This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can’t take him in because it doesn’t have eyes to see him, doesn’t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!  MSG

John 15:26 “When the Friend I plan to send you from the Father comes — the Spirit of Truth issuing from the Father — he will confirm everything about me.

27 You, too, from your side must give your confirming evidence, since you are in this with me from the start. MSG

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John 15:26 “And I will send you the Divine Encourager from the very presence of my Father. He will come to you, the Spirit of Truth, emanating from the Father, and he will speak to you about me.

27 And you will tell everyone the truth about me, for you have walked with me from the start.” TPT

1 Peter 5:10 And then, after your brief suffering, the God of all loving grace, who has called you to share in his eternal glory in Christ, will personally and powerfully restore you and make you stronger than ever. Yes, he will set you firmly in place and build you up.

11 And he has all the power needed to do this —forever! Amen. TPT

John 16:7 So let me say it again, this truth: It’s better for you that I leave. If I don’t leave, the Friend won’t come. But if I go, I’ll send him to you.

8 “When he comes, he’ll expose the error of the godless world’s view of sin, righteousness, and judgment:

9 He’ll show them that their refusal to believe in me is their basic sin;

10 that righteousness comes from above, where I am with the Father, out of their sight and control;

11 that judgment takes place as the ruler of this godless world is brought to trial and convicted.

12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t handle them now.

13 But when the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won’t draw attention to himself, but will make sense out of what is about to happen and, indeed, out of all that I have done and said.

14 He will honor me; he will take from me and deliver it to you. MSG

Jer 31:2  This is the way God put it: “They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Israel, out looking for a place to rest,

3 met God out looking for them!” God told them, “I’ve never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love!

Ps 56 8 You’ve kept track of all my wandering and my weeping. You’ve stored my many tears in your bottle—not one will be lost. For they are all recorded in your book of remembrance.

9 The very moment I call to you for a father’s help the tide of battle turns and my enemies flee. This one thing I know: God is on my side!

10 I trust in the Lord. And I praise him! I trust in the Word of God. And I praise him!

11 What harm could man do to me? With God on my side, I will not be afraid of what comes. My heart overflows with praise to God and for his promises. I will always trust in him.  TPT

Col 2:2 [For my concern is] that their hearts may be braced (comforted, cheered, and encouraged) as they are knit together in love, that they may come to have all the abounding wealth and blessings of assured conviction of understanding, and that they may become progressively more intimately acquainted with and may know more definitely and accurately and thoroughly that mystic secret of God, [which is] Christ (the Anointed One).  AMP

THE COMFORTER IS HERE 5-2-25 VIDEO

Sometimes we are so caught up in the cares of this world that we need Help help. We need to be comforted so we can trust that everything will be OK. The father is our comforter in our times of trouble. He never leaves us and is always by our side. 

2 Corinthians 1:3 All praises belong to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he is the Father of tender mercy and the God of endless comfort.

4 He always comes alongside us to comfort us in every suffering so that we can come alongside those who are in any painful trial. We can bring them this same comfort that God has poured out upon us.

5 And just as we experience the abundance of Christ’s own sufferings, even more of God’s comfort will cascade upon us through our union with Christ. TPT

Ps 23:4 ‘Even when your path takes me through the valley of deepest darkness, fear will never conquer me, for you already have! Your authority is my strength and my peace. The comfort of your love takes away my fear. I’ll never be lonely, for you are near.  TPT

Isa 41:10 Don’t panic. I’m with you. There’s no need to fear for I’m your God. I’ll give you strength. I’ll help you. I’ll hold you steady, keep a firm grip on you.  MSG

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

Ps 119:76 Oh, love me — and right now! — hold me tight! just the way you promised.

77 Now comfort me so I can live, really live; your revelation is the tune I dance to. MSG

Isaiah 61:2 am sent to announce a new season of Yahweh’s grace and a time of God’s recompense on his enemies, to comfort all who are in sorrow,

3 to strengthen those crushed by despair who mourn in Zion—to give them a beautiful bouquet in the place of ashes, the oil of bliss instead of tears,  and the mantle of joyous praise  instead of the spirit of heaviness.  Because of this, they will be known as Mighty Oaks of Righteousness, planted by Yahweh as a living display of his glory.  TPT    

Ps 119:50 This is my comfort and consolation in my affliction: that Your word has revived me and given me life. AMP

Rom 15:4 Whatever was written about him includes and represents us. We take instruction and encouragement from his patience, while Scripture is our close companion to remind us of our true spiritual identity. We anticipate the future with delight.  Mirror

Ps 9:9  God’s a safe-house for the battered, a sanctuary during bad times.

10 The moment you arrive, you relax; you’re never sorry you knocked. MSG ↓↓↓

Ps 9:9  All who are oppressed may come to Yahweh as a high shelter in the time of trouble, a perfect hiding place.

10 For everyone who knows your wonderful name keeps putting their trust in you. They can count on you for help no matter what. O Lord, you will never, no never, neglect those who come to you. TPT

Ps 46:1 God is a safe place to hide, ready to help when we need him.

2 We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom, courageous in seastorm and earthquake,

 MSG

Jer 31:13 Then will the maidens rejoice in the dance, and the young men and old together. For I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoice after their sorrow.  AMP

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Jer 31:13 Young women will dance and be happy, young men and old men will join in. I’ll convert their weeping into laughter, lavishing comfort, invading their grief with joy. MSG

John 16:33 I’ve told you all this so that trusting me, you will be unshakable and assured, deeply at peace. In this godless world you will continue to experience difficulties. But take heart! I’ve conquered the world.”  MSG

Isaiah 49:13  Sing for joy, you heavens! Shout, you earth, and rejoice with dancing, shouting, and glee! Burst into joyous songs, you mountains, for Yahweh has comforted his beloved people. He will show tenderness and compassion to his suffering ones. Sing for joy, you heavens! Shout, you earth, and rejoice with dancing, shouting, and glee! Burst into joyous songs, you mountains, for Yahweh has comforted his beloved people. He will show tenderness and compassion to his suffering ones. TPT

Matt 5:4 Blessed and enviably happy [with a happiness produced by the experience of God’s favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His matchless grace] are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted!  AMP

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

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

Deut 31:6 “Be strong. Take courage. Don’t be intimidated. Don’t give them a second thought because GOD, your God, is striding ahead of you. He’s right there with you. He won’t let you down; he won’t leave you.”

7 Then Moses summoned Joshua. He said to him with all Israel watching, “Be strong. Take courage. You will enter the land with this people, this land that GOD promised their ancestors that he’d give them. You will make them the proud possessors of it.

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

1 Peter 5:7 Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.  AMP

John 14:25 “I’m telling you these things while I’m still living with you.

26 The Friend, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will make everything plain to you. He will remind you of all the things I have told you.

27 I’m leaving you well and whole. That’s my parting gift to you. Peace. I don’t leave you the way you’re used to being left — feeling abandoned, bereft. So don’t be upset. Don’t be distraught.  MSG

John 14:16 I will talk to the Father, and he’ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you.

17 This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can’t take him in because it doesn’t have eyes to see him, doesn’t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!  MSG

John 15:26 “When the Friend I plan to send you from the Father comes — the Spirit of Truth issuing from the Father — he will confirm everything about me.

27 You, too, from your side must give your confirming evidence, since you are in this with me from the start. MSG

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John 15:26 “And I will send you the Divine Encourager from the very presence of my Father. He will come to you, the Spirit of Truth, emanating from the Father, and he will speak to you about me.

27 And you will tell everyone the truth about me, for you have walked with me from the start.” TPT

1 Peter 5:10 And then, after your brief suffering, the God of all loving grace, who has called you to share in his eternal glory in Christ, will personally and powerfully restore you and make you stronger than ever. Yes, he will set you firmly in place and build you up.

11 And he has all the power needed to do this —forever! Amen. TPT

John 16:7 So let me say it again, this truth: It’s better for you that I leave. If I don’t leave, the Friend won’t come. But if I go, I’ll send him to you.

8 “When he comes, he’ll expose the error of the godless world’s view of sin, righteousness, and judgment:

9 He’ll show them that their refusal to believe in me is their basic sin;

10 that righteousness comes from above, where I am with the Father, out of their sight and control;

11 that judgment takes place as the ruler of this godless world is brought to trial and convicted.

12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t handle them now.

13 But when the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won’t draw attention to himself, but will make sense out of what is about to happen and, indeed, out of all that I have done and said.

14 He will honor me; he will take from me and deliver it to you. MSG

Jer 31:2  This is the way God put it: “They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Israel, out looking for a place to rest,

3 met God out looking for them!” God told them, “I’ve never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love!

Ps 56 8 You’ve kept track of all my wandering and my weeping. You’ve stored my many tears in your bottle—not one will be lost. For they are all recorded in your book of remembrance.

9 The very moment I call to you for a father’s help the tide of battle turns and my enemies flee. This one thing I know: God is on my side!

10 I trust in the Lord. And I praise him! I trust in the Word of God. And I praise him!

11 What harm could man do to me? With God on my side, I will not be afraid of what comes. My heart overflows with praise to God and for his promises. I will always trust in him.  TPT

Col 2:2 [For my concern is] that their hearts may be braced (comforted, cheered, and encouraged) as they are knit together in love, that they may come to have all the abounding wealth and blessings of assured conviction of understanding, and that they may become progressively more intimately acquainted with and may know more definitely and accurately and thoroughly that mystic secret of God, [which is] Christ (the Anointed One).  AMP

What is your Testimony?  By Mary Dorian 4-27-25

A testimony is a declaration or affirmation of faith about how God has worked in your life. It is your personal declaration about how God rescued you and gave you new life

Rev 12:11 And they have overcome (conquered) him by means of the blood of the Lamb and by the utterance of their testimony, for they did not love and cling to life even when faced with death [holding their lives cheap till they had to die for their witnessing].

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Rev 12:11 They defeated him through the blood of the Lamb and the bold word of their witness. They weren’t in love with themselves; they were willing to die for Christ. MSG

Matt 10:18 Don’t be upset when they haul you before the civil authorities. Without knowing it, they’ve done you — and me — a favor, given you a platform for preaching the kingdom news!

19 And don’t worry about what you’ll say or how you’ll say it. The right words will be there;

20 the Spirit of your Father will supply the words. MSG

Matt 18:18 “Take this most seriously: A yes on earth is yes in heaven; a no on earth is no in heaven. What you say to one another is eternal. I mean this.

19 When two of you get together on anything at all on earth and make a prayer of it, my Father in heaven goes into action.

20 And when two or three of you are together because of me, you can be sure that I’ll be there.”  MSG

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

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Acts 1:8 What you’ll get is the Holy Spirit. And when the Holy Spirit comes on you, you will be able to be my witnesses in Jerusalem, all over Judea and Samaria, even to the ends of the world.” MSG

Matt 24:14 All during this time, the good news — the Message of the kingdom — will be preached all over the world, a witness staked out in every country. And then the end will come. MSG

John 1:19 When Jews from Jerusalem sent a group of priests and officials to ask John who he was, he was completely honest.

20 He didn’t evade the question. He told the plain truth: “I am not the Messiah.”

21 They pressed him, “Who, then? Elijah?” “I am not.” “The Prophet?” “No.”

22 Exasperated, they said, “Who, then? We need an answer for those who sent us. Tell us something — anything! — about yourself.”

23 “I’m thunder in the desert: ‘Make the road straight for God!’ I’m doing what the prophet Isaiah preached.”

24 Those sent to question him were from the Pharisee party. MSG

John 3:11 Nicodemus, hear me, our conversation stems from what we, mankind, have always borne witness to; we endorse what we have observed; how is it that your religious perspectives keep you so blinded to this?

12 If I speak incarnate language to you and you are not persuaded about our common origin, how will you be persuaded about heavenly things?

13 No one can fully engage in heaven’s perspective, unless one’s heavenly origin is realized! The Son of man declares mankind’s co-genesis from above!  Mirror

1 Pet 3:15 ‘with gentleness and respect. Maintain a clean conscience, so that those who slander you for living a pure life in Christ will have to lie about you and will be ashamed because of their slander. ‘ Tpt

1 Peter 3:15 Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you’re living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy. MSG

Ps 66:16 Come and hear, all you who reverently and worshipfully fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me!

17 I cried aloud to Him; He was extolled and high praise was under my tongue.  AMP

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Ps 66:16 All you lovers of God who want to please him, come and listen, and I’ll tell you what he did for me.

17 I cried aloud to him with all my heart, and he answered me! Now my mouth overflows with the highest praise. Tpt

John 3:33 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

1 John 5:10 He who believes in the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him] has the testimony [possesses this divine attestation] within himself. He who does not believe God [in this way] has made Him out to be and represented Him as a liar, because he has not believed (put his faith in, adhered to, and relied on) the evidence (the testimony) that God has borne regarding His Son.

11 And this is that testimony (that evidence): God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

12 He who possesses the Son has that life; he who does not possess the Son of God does not have that life.

13 I write this to you who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) the name of the Son of God [in the peculiar services and blessings conferred by Him on men], so that you may know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that you [already] have life, yes, eternal life.  AMP

2 Timothy 1:1 The amazing news of announcing this life which is unveiled in Christ Jesus is what my ministry is all about! The promise is a Person! I, Paul, am a man on a mission; God’s delightful desire sponsors me!  

2 Dear Timothy, you are my son in everything that grace, mercy and peace communicate. This life has only one reference: God is our Father and Jesus is our Master and brother; the Christ life rules!

3 I love the constant thought of you; I am aware of our union in Christ 24/7. Prayer is such a permanent thing when we discover God’s grace-echo in our worship! Our conscience celebrates our pre-creation innocence before God!

4 I am reminded of your tears and my heart takes such joyful courage at the thought of being with you soon.  Mirror

Rom 10:17The point is, Before you trust, you have to listen. But unless Christ’s Word is preached, there’s nothing to listen to.

18 But haven’t there been plenty of opportunities for Israel to listen and understand what’s going on? Plenty, I’d say. Preachers’ voices have gone ’round the world, Their message to earth’s seven seas. MSG

Matt 10:32 “Stand up for me against world opinion and I’ll stand up for you before my Father in heaven. MSG

Ps 71:15 I’ll write the book on your righteousness, talk up your salvation the livelong day, never run out of good things to write or say.

16 I come in the power of the Lord God, I post signs marking his right-of-way.

17 You got me when I was an unformed youth, God, and taught me everything I know. Now I’m telling the world your wonders;

18 I’ll keep at it until I’m old and gray. God, don’t walk off and leave me until I get out the news Of your strong right arm to this world, news of your power to the world yet to come,   MSG

John 5:39 You search and investigate and pore over the Scriptures diligently, because you suppose and trust that you have eternal life through them. And these [very Scriptures] testify about Me!  AMP

Acts 10:43 To Him all the prophets testify (bear witness) that everyone who believes in Him [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him, giving himself up to Him] receives forgiveness of sins through His name.

44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who were listening to the message.  AMP

Isaiah 61:1-3 ‘The mighty Spirit of Lord Yahweh is wrapped around me because Yahweh has anointed me, as a messenger to preach good news to the poor. He sent me to heal the wounds of the brokenhearted, to tell captives, “You are free,” and to tell prisoners, “Be free from your darkness.”

2 I am sent to announce a new season of Yahweh ’s grace and a time of God’s recompense on his enemies , to comfort all who are in sorrow,

3 to strengthen those crushed by despair who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful bouquet in the place of ashes, the oil of bliss instead of tears, and the mantle of joyous praise instead of the spirit of heaviness. Because of this, they will be known as Mighty Oaks of Righteousness, planted by Yahweh as a living display of his glory.’ TPT

THE HOLY SPIRIT AND GLORY 4-25-25 VIDEO WHAT MARKS US AS CHRISTIANS

In the coming days, we the body of Christ shall move in greater power of the Holy Spirit and glory. We shall know him in greater ways even than before. He will testify to us of the fulfillment of the finished work of Jesus. Holy Spirit releases, revelation, and prophecy. My spirit releases power beyond the might of man. The Holy Spirit guides us. The spirit gives us rest. The spirit raised Jesus from the dead. Holy spirit will reveal to us the face of God.

JN 14:26 The Holy Spirit is about to become your close companion, sent by my Father in my name to represent me, to teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have spoken to you. Thus my word will continue to find a voice in you.. MIRROR

1 Cor 2:10 But you’ve seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you. The Spirit, not content to flit around on the surface, dives into the depths of God, and brings out what God planned all along.

11 Who ever knows what you’re thinking and planning except you yourself? The same with God — except that he not only knows what he’s thinking,

12 but he lets us in on it. God offers a full report on the gifts of life and salvation that he is giving us.  MSG

John 16:12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t handle them now.

13 But when the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won’t draw attention to himself, but will make sense out of what is about to happen and, indeed, out of all that I have done and said.

14 He will honor me; he will take from me and deliver it to you.

15 Everything the Father has is also mine. That is why I’ve said, ‘He takes from me and delivers to you.’  MSG

2 COR 3:17 The Lord and the Spirit are one; his Lordship sanctions our freedom. A freedom from rules chiselled in stone to the voice of our redeemed design echoing in our hearts!   MIRROR

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2 Cor 3:17 They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We’re free of it!

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

John 14:16 I will talk to the Father, and he’ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you.

17 This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can’t take him in because it doesn’t have eyes to see him, doesn’t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!  MSG

Joel 2:28 “And that’s just the beginning: After that —  “I will pour out my Spirit on every kind of people: Your sons will prophesy, also your daughters. Your old men will dream, your young men will see visions.

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

Zech 4:6 “This is God’s Message to Zerubbabel: ‘You can’t force these things. They only come about through my Spirit,’ says God-of-the-Angel-Armies.

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

Gen 1:1 First this: God created the Heavens and Earth — all you see, all you don’t see.

2 Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss. MSG

Heb 2:4 All the while God was validating it with gifts through the Holy Spirit, all sorts of signs and miracles, as he saw fit.  MSG

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HEB 2:4  Then God added his witness to theirs. He validated their ministry with signs, astonishing wonders, all kinds of powerful miracles, and by the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which he distributed as he desired. TPT

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

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ROM 8:14 The original life of the Father revealed in his Son is the life the Spirit now 1conducts within us.   MIRROR

ISA 63:14  ‘As a herder leads his cattle to find rest in a fertile valley, the Spirit of Yahweh led them into rest. In the same way, you led your people to win for yourself a glorious name!” ‘  TPT

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  “The Holy Spirit is the one who gives life, that which is of the natural realm is of no help. The words I speak to you are Spirit and life. But there are still some of you who won’t believe.”  TPT

Isa 63:14 Like a herd of cattle led to pasture, the Spirit of God gave them rest.” That’s how you led your people! That’s how you became so famous! MSG

Rom 8:11 It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s!  MSG

ROM 8:2 ‘For God achieved what the law was unable to accomplish, because the law was limited by the weakness of human nature. Yet God sent us his Son in human form to identify with human weakness. Clothed with humanity, God’s Son gave his body to be the sin-offering so that God could once and for all condemn the guilt and power of sin. ‘TPT

ROM 8:4 ‘So now every righteous requirement of the law can be fulfilled through the Anointed One living his life in us. And we are free to live, not according to our flesh, but by the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit! ‘  TPT

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

 JN 15:26  But when the close Companion comes, who I shall send to you from the immediate presence of the Father, the Spirit of the truth who originates and proceeds out of the Father, this One will confirm everything about me. MIRROR

EPH 4:30  The Holy Spirit is your signet ring from God to confirm that you are redeemed to live your life in the light of day; any conduct that belongs to the night grieves him.

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Rom 8:26 Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans.  MSG

Rom 15:13 Oh! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope! MSG

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ROM 15:13  God who is the engineer of expectation fills you to the brim with tranquil delight. The dynamic of the Holy Spirit causes faith to exceed any possible hesitation in hope.  MIRROR

HAPPY EASTER RESURRECTION POWER 4-20-25 VIDEO SKIT GUYS PETER TOMB

From the very beginning of creation till now, it was always God‘s intention that we would be Spirit like He is. To be in the Spirit means you are more conscious of God and the things of God and his presence rather than the things of this world. Just like our creator, we are spirit and where the spirit is there is freedom. John was able to receive by the Holy Spirit Divine revelation beyond ordinary perception. He John received revelation light. Living light in the spirit. He was no longer on Patmos, but translated into heaven. JOHN 20:1 The first day of the Sabbaths, Maria from Magdala came to the tomb while it was still very early and saw that the stone was lifted out of the grave.

2 She left the tomb at once and ran to find Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus was so fond of, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the grave and we have no idea where they put him!”

3 So Peter and the other disciple immediately went to the tomb.

4 They were both running but the other brother out-ran Peter and arrived at the tomb first.

5 He stooped down and observed with careful attention the strips of linen cloth lying there, yet he did not enter. 

6 Then Simon Peter also arrived and went straight into the tomb and took a long look at the grave cloths lying there.

7 He also noticed that the cloth that was wrapped around the head of Jesus, was not lying with the other strips of linen cloth, but neatly rolled up separately.

8 Then the other disciple who arrived there first also went in and he saw and was convinced!

9 It was as if they could not fully grasp that this was indeed what was predicted in Scripture, that Jesus was destined to rise up out of death.  

10 The disciples went away to face their own thoughts.  MIRROR

JOHN 20:11 But Maria remained facing the tomb, weeping. Then she stooped down and gazed into the tomb.

12 She saw two celestial messengers, dressed in dazzling white and seated, one at the head and the other at the feet where Jesus’ body had been lying.

13 They asked her, “Woman why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They took my Lord away and I do not know where they have put him.”

14 As she said this she looked around [as if she instinctively felt the presence of someone behind her] and saw Jesus standing but did not immediately recognize him.

15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for? She thought he was the gardener and said, “Sir, if you have taken him away, please tell me where you put him so that I may fetch him!”

16 Jesus said to her, “Mariam!” she turned in her step and exclaimed, “Raboni!” which is Aramaic for, my Teacher! 

17 “You’ll have to let go of me, so that I may continue on to the Father. Go and tell my friends that I am ascending to my Father and your Father; to my God and your God!”    

18 So Maria the Magdalene went to the disciples and announced to them, “I saw the Lord!” And she told them all that he told her.

19 That evening of the first day of the week, the disciples were gathered in a room with the doors locked because they were afraid of the Jews. Suddenly Jesus stepped into their midst and said, “Shalom!”

20 Then he showed them his scarred hands and side and having now seen the Lord for themselves, they were exceedingly glad!

21 Again he repeated his salutation and said, “Peace be unto you! Just as the Father has commissioned me so do I now send you!”

22 Having said this he breathed an effusion of Spirit upon them and said, “Take Holy Spirit as your Companion.”   MIRROR

JOHN 11:25 “Martha,” Jesus said, “You don’t have to wait until then. I am the Resurrection, and I am Life Eternal. Anyone who clings to me in faith, even though he dies, will live forever.

26 And the one who lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”  TPT

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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

1 COR 6:14 Now the God who raised up our Lord from the grave will awaken and raise us up through his mighty power! TPT

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1 COR 6:14 God reveals in dramatic fashion the value he places on the human body by our joint resurrection with Jesus from the dead.   MIRROR

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.

6-7 Could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the Cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life — no longer at sin’s every beck and call! What we believe is this:

8 If we get included in Christ’s sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection.

9 We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word.

10 When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us.

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

1 Peter 1:3 What a God we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our Master Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we’ve been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for,

4 including a future in heaven — and the future starts now!  MSG

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1 PET 1:3 Let us celebrate the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with articulate acclaim. According to his matchless mercy and tender compassions, he birthed us again when Jesus was raised from the dead. In him, we were rebooted to live the authentic life of our design; while participating in a living hope, witnessing the Father’s expectation of the ages unfold in us!  

4 We are reintroduced to an imperishable inheritance, which has been flawlessly preserved for us in the heavenly realm, where neither Adam’s fall, nor mankind’s failure to justify themselves, could possibly contaminate, discredit or diminish the original portion of our true sonship realized in Christ Jesus!   MIRROR

EPH 1:20 Do you want to measure the mind and muscle of God? Consider the force which he unleashed in Jesus Christ when he raised him from the dead and forever seated him enthroned as his executive authority in the realm of the heavens. Jesus is God’s right hand of power! He was raised up from the deepest dungeons of human despair to the highest region of heavenly bliss!  MIRROR

John 6:40 This is what my Father wants: that anyone who sees the Son and trusts who he is and what he does and then aligns with him will enter real life, eternal life. My part is to put them on their feet alive and whole at the completion of time.” MSG

Rom 8:11  It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s!  MSG

1 Thess 4:14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him through Jesus those who have fallen asleep [in death].

15 For this we declare to you by the Lord’s [own] word, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall in no way precede [into His presence] or have any advantage at all over those who have previously fallen asleep [in Him in death]. AMP

Job 19:25 For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, and at last He [the Last One] will stand upon the earth.  AMP

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 face to face with my own resurrection! 

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

Isa 25:8 Yes, he’ll banish death forever. And God will wipe the tears from every face. He’ll remove every sign of disgrace From his people, wherever they are. Yes! God says so!   MSG

1 Cor 15:21 There is a nice symmetry in this: Death initially came by a man, and resurrection from death came by a man.

22 Eveybody dies in Adam; everybody comes alive in Christ.

23 But we have to wait our turn: Christ is first, then those with him at his Coming,

24 the grand consummation when, after crushing the opposition, he hands over his kingdom to God the Father.

25 He won’t let up until the last enemy is down — 

26 and the very last enemy is death!  MSG

Rev 21:4 He’ll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good — tears gone, crying gone, pain gone — all the first order of things gone.”  MSG

John 8:51 I say this with absolute confidence. If you practice what I’m telling you, you’ll never have to look death in the face.”  MSG

1 Cor 15:42  So it is with the resurrection of the dead. [The body] that is sown is perishable and decays, but [the body] that is resurrected is imperishable (immune to decay, immortal). 

43 It is sown in dishonor and humiliation; it is raised in honor and glory. It is sown in infirmity and weakness; it is resurrected in strength and endued with power.

44 It is sown a natural (physical) body; it is raised a supernatural (a spiritual) body. [As surely as] there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.

45 Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life].  AMP 

Ps 49:15 But me? God snatches me from the clutch of death, he reaches down and grabs me. MSG

1 Cor 15:55 Who got the last word, oh, Death? Oh, Death, who’s afraid of you now?

56 It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power.

57 But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three — sin, guilt, death — are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!   MSG

HAPPY EASTER RESURRECTION POWER 4-20-25 VIDEO

JOHN 20:1 The first day of the Sabbaths, Maria from Magdala came to the tomb while it was still very early and saw that the stone was lifted out of the grave.

2 She left the tomb at once and ran to find Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus was so fond of, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the grave and we have no idea where they put him!”

3 So Peter and the other disciple immediately went to the tomb.

4 They were both running but the other brother out-ran Peter and arrived at the tomb first.

5 He stooped down and observed with careful attention the strips of linen cloth lying there, yet he did not enter.  

6 Then Simon Peter also arrived and went straight into the tomb and took a long look at the grave cloths lying there.

7 He also noticed that the cloth that was wrapped around the head of Jesus, was not lying with the other strips of linen cloth, but neatly rolled up separately.

8 Then the other disciple who arrived there first also went in and he saw and was convinced!

9 It was as if they could not fully grasp that this was indeed what was predicted in Scripture, that Jesus was destined to rise up out of death.  

10 The disciples went away to face their own thoughts.  MIRROR

JOHN 20:11 But Maria remained facing the tomb, weeping. Then she stooped down and gazed into the tomb.

12 She saw two celestial messengers, dressed in dazzling white and seated, one at the head and the other at the feet where Jesus’ body had been lying.

13 They asked her, “Woman why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They took my Lord away and I do not know where they have put him.”

14 As she said this she looked around [as if she instinctively felt the presence of someone behind her] and saw Jesus standing but did not immediately recognize him.

15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for? She thought he was the gardener and said, “Sir, if you have taken him away, please tell me where you put him so that I may fetch him!”

16 Jesus said to her, “Mariam!” she turned in her step and exclaimed, “Raboni!” which is Aramaic for, my Teacher! 

17 “You’ll have to let go of me, so that I may continue on to the Father. Go and tell my friends that I am ascending to my Father and your Father; to my God and your God!”    

18 So Maria the Magdalene went to the disciples and announced to them, “I saw the Lord!” And she told them all that he told her.

19 That evening of the first day of the week, the disciples were gathered in a room with the doors locked because they were afraid of the Jews. Suddenly Jesus stepped into their midst and said, “Shalom!”

20 Then he showed them his scarred hands and side and having now seen the Lord for themselves, they were exceedingly glad!

21 Again he repeated his salutation and said, “Peace be unto you! Just as the Father has commissioned me so do I now send you!”

22 Having said this he breathed an effusion of Spirit upon them and said, “Take Holy Spirit as your Companion.”   MIRROR

JOHN 11:25 “Martha,” Jesus said, “You don’t have to wait until then. I am the Resurrection, and I am Life Eternal. Anyone who clings to me in faith, even though he dies, will live forever.

26 And the one who lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”  TPT

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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

1 COR 6:14 Now the God who raised up our Lord from the grave will awaken and raise us up through his mighty power! TPT

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1 COR 6:14 God reveals in dramatic fashion the value he places on the human body by our joint resurrection with Jesus from the dead.   MIRROR

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.

6-7 Could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the Cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life — no longer at sin’s every beck and call! What we believe is this:

8 If we get included in Christ’s sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection.

9 We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word.

10 When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us.

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

1 Peter 1:3 What a God we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our Master Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we’ve been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for,

4 including a future in heaven — and the future starts now!  MSG

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1 PET 1:3 Let us celebrate the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with articulate acclaim. According to his matchless mercy and tender compassions, he birthed us again when Jesus was raised from the dead. In him, we were rebooted to live the authentic life of our design; while participating in a living hope, witnessing the Father’s expectation of the ages unfold in us!  

4 We are reintroduced to an imperishable inheritance, which has been flawlessly preserved for us in the heavenly realm, where neither Adam’s fall, nor mankind’s failure to justify themselves, could possibly contaminate, discredit or diminish the original portion of our true sonship realized in Christ Jesus!   MIRROR

EPH 1:20 Do you want to measure the mind and muscle of God? Consider the force which he unleashed in Jesus Christ when he raised him from the dead and forever seated him enthroned as his executive authority in the realm of the heavens. Jesus is God’s right hand of power! He was raised up from the deepest dungeons of human despair to the highest region of heavenly bliss!  MIRROR

John 6:40 This is what my Father wants: that anyone who sees the Son and trusts who he is and what he does and then aligns with him will enter real life, eternal life. My part is to put them on their feet alive and whole at the completion of time.” MSG

Rom 8:11  It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s!  MSG

1 Thess 4:14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him through Jesus those who have fallen asleep [in death].

15 For this we declare to you by the Lord’s [own] word, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall in no way precede [into His presence] or have any advantage at all over those who have previously fallen asleep [in Him in death]. AMP

Job 19:25 For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, and at last He [the Last One] will stand upon the earth.  AMP

EPH 1:20  Do you want to measure the mind and muscle of God? Consider the force which he unleashed in Jesus Christ when he raised him from the dead and forever seated him enthroned as his executive authority in the realm of the heavens. Jesus is God’s right hand of power! He was raised up from the deepest dungeons of human despair to the highest region of heavenly bliss!  MIRROR

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 face to face with my own resurrection! 

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

Isa 25:8 Yes, he’ll banish death forever. And God will wipe the tears from every face. He’ll remove every sign of disgrace From his people, wherever they are. Yes! God says so!   MSG

1 Cor 15:21 There is a nice symmetry in this: Death initially came by a man, and resurrection from death came by a man.

22 Eveybody dies in Adam; everybody comes alive in Christ.

23 But we have to wait our turn: Christ is first, then those with him at his Coming,

24 the grand consummation when, after crushing the opposition, he hands over his kingdom to God the Father.

25 He won’t let up until the last enemy is down — 

26 and the very last enemy is death!  MSG

Rev 21:4 He’ll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good — tears gone, crying gone, pain gone — all the first order of things gone.”  MSG

John 8:51 I say this with absolute confidence. If you practice what I’m telling you, you’ll never have to look death in the face.”  MSG

1 Cor 15:42  So it is with the resurrection of the dead. [The body] that is sown is perishable and decays, but [the body] that is resurrected is imperishable (immune to decay, immortal). 

43 It is sown in dishonor and humiliation; it is raised in honor and glory. It is sown in infirmity and weakness; it is resurrected in strength and endued with power.

44 It is sown a natural (physical) body; it is raised a supernatural (a spiritual) body. [As surely as] there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.

45 Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life].  AMP  

Ps 49:15 But me? God snatches me from the clutch of death, he reaches down and grabs me. MSG

1 Cor 15:55 Who got the last word, oh, Death? Oh, Death, who’s afraid of you now?

56 It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power.

57 But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three — sin, guilt, death — are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!   MSG

GOOD FRIDAY THE BLOOD 4-18-25 VIDEO PHIL WICKHAM SUNDAYS COMIN

When God said to Moses “I Am that I Am“  it was the most profound revelation in all of the word. Moses suddenly saw the future he saw beyond time in space. He saw realms of eternity and future generations to come. He saw the One who would bring eternal life by His blood. And new DNA by His blood. And new priesthood came by His blood. By His blood, everything was reconciled.

JN 8:56 Your father Abraham was leaping with joy to see my day! What he saw made him exceedingly glad!

57 Then the Jews said, “Ha! You’re not even fifty years old and you claim to have seen Abraham!”

58 “Most certainly do I say unto you that before Abraham was born, I am!”  MIRROR

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

24 That is why I said that you will die in your sins because you are not convinced about who I am, you wouldn’t know who you are! Your unbelief in my I-am-ness will keep you trapped in this death-ruled dimension, the very dimension that I have come to deliver you from!”  MIRROR

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JOHN 8:23-24  Jesus spoke up and said, “You are all from the earth; I am from above. I am not from this world like you are.

24 That’s why I’ve told you that you will all die in your sins if you fail to believe that I AM who I AM.”  TPT

HEB 7:16 This new office is not based on the law of precepts constrained by the frailty of the flesh, but by the authority of an indestructible life.  MIRROR

HEB 7:25  Through him mankind’s approach to God is forever secured; he continues to communicate the full accomplishment of their salvation.  MIRROR

Heb 2:6 It says in Scripture, What is man and woman that you bother with them; why take a second look their way?

7 You made them not quite as high as angels, bright with Eden’s dawn light;

8 Then you put them in charge of your entire handcrafted world. When God put them in charge of everything, nothing was excluded. But we don’t see it yet, don’t see everything under human jurisdiction.

9 What we do see is Jesus, made “not quite as high as angels,” and then, through the experience of death, crowned so much higher than any angel, with a glory “bright with Eden’s dawn light.” In that death, by God’s grace, he fully experienced death in every person’s place.

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. MSG

HEB 1:1 Now faith brings our hopes into reality and becomes the foundation needed to acquire the things we long for. It is all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen.

2 This testimony of faith is what previous generations were commended for.

3 Faith empowers us to see that the universe was created and beautifully coordinated by the power of God’s words! He spoke and the invisible realm gave birth to all that is seen.  TPT

HEB 10:19  And now we are brothers and sisters in God’s family because of the blood of Jesus, and he welcomes us to come into the most holy sanctuary in the heavenly realm—boldly and without hesitation.

20 For he has dedicated a new, life-giving way for us to approach God. For just as the veil was torn in two, Jesus’ body was torn open to give us free and fresh access to him!

21 And since we now have a magnificent High Priest to welcome us into God’s house, 22 we come closer to God and approach him with an open heart, fully convinced that nothing will keep us at a distance from him. For our hearts have been sprinkled with blood to remove impurity, and we have been freed from an accusing conscience. Now we are clean, unstained, and presentable to God inside and out!  TPT

EPH 2:13 et look at you now! Everything is new! Although you were once distant and far away from God, now you have been brought delightfully close to him through the sacred blood of Jesus—you have actually been united to Christ! TPT

COL 1:20  He initiated the reconciliation of all things to himself. Through the blood of the cross God restored the original harmony. His reign of peace now extends to every visible thing upon the earth as well as those invisible things which are in the heavenly realm.  MIRROR

Heb 9:12 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.

13 If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior,

14 think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out.

15 Through the Spirit, Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to make ourselves respectable, so that we can live all out for God.

16-17 Like a will that takes effect when someone dies, the new covenant was put into action at Jesus’ death. His death marked the transition from the old plan to the new one, canceling the old obligations and accompanying sins, and summoning the heirs to receive the eternal inheritance that was promised them. He brought together God and his people in this new way. MSG

Heb 10:7 So I said, “I’m here to do it your way, O God, the way it’s described in your Book.”

8 When he said, “You don’t want sacrifices and offerings,” he was referring to practices according to the old plan.

9 When he added, “I’m here to do it your way,” he set aside the first in order to enact the new plan —  MSG

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HEB 10:9 Also by saying, “I am commissioned to fulfil your will,” he announces the final closure of the first in order to introduce the second.  MIRROR

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

1 JN 1:7  But if we keep living in the pure light that surrounds him, we share unbroken fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, continually cleanses us from all sin. TPT

Acts 20:28 Take care and be on guard for yourselves and the whole flock over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you bishops and guardians, to shepherd (tend and feed and guide) the church of the Lord or of God which He obtained for Himself [buying it and saving it for Himself] with His own blood.  AMP

Eph 1:7-10 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!  MSG

Romans 5:9 And there is still much more to say of his unfailing love for us! For through the blood of Jesus we have heard the powerful declaration, “You are now righteous in my sight.” And because of the sacrifice of Jesus, you will never experience the wrath of God. TPT

REV 1:5  May this grace and peace of Jesus Christ overwhelm you! He is the first born from the dead and embodies the evidence and testimony of everything that God believes about you. He heads up the authority in which we reign as kings on the earth. His crown endorses our crown! He always loves us and loosed us once and for all from the dominion of sin in the shedding of his blood!  MIRROR

1 Peter 1:18 It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in.

19 He paid with Christ’s sacred blood, you know. He died like an unblemished, sacrificial lamb.

20 And this was no afterthought. Even though it has only lately — at the end of the ages — become public knowledge, God always knew he was going to do this for you.

21 It’s because of this sacrificed Messiah, whom God then raised from the dead and glorified, that you trust God, that you know you have a future in God.

22 Now that you’ve cleaned up your lives by following the truth, love one another as if your lives depended on it.

23 Your new life is not like your old life. Your old birth came from mortal sperm; your new birth comes from God’s living Word. Just think: a life conceived by God himself!  MSG

Matt 26:28 This is my blood, God’s new covenant poured out for many people for the forgiveness of sins.

29 “I’ll not be drinking wine from this cup again until that new day when I’ll drink with you in the kingdom of my Father.”  MSG

John 6:53 But Jesus didn’t give an inch. “Only insofar as you eat and drink flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of the Son of Man, do you have life within you.

54 The one who brings a hearty appetite to this eating and drinking has eternal life and will be fit and ready for the Final Day.

55 My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

56 By eating my flesh and drinking my blood you enter into me and I into you.

57 In the same way that the fully alive Father sent me here and I live because of him, so the one who makes a meal of me lives because of me.

58 This is the Bread from heaven. Your ancestors ate bread and later died. Whoever eats this Bread will live always.”

59 He said these things while teaching in the meeting place in Capernaum.  MSG

1 Cor 10:16 When we drink the cup of blessing, aren’t we taking into ourselves the blood, the very life, of Christ? And isn’t it the same with the loaf of bread we break and eat? Don’t we take into ourselves the body, the very life, of Christ?

17 Because there is one loaf, our many-ness becomes one-ness — Christ doesn’t become fragmented in us. Rather, we become unified in him. We don’t reduce Christ to what we are; he raises us to what he is. MSG

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