Praise the Lord, even in bad circumstances 3-10-24 video SAY THANK YOU

The praise means to shine, to boast in the Lord, the glorify his name. Two Hebrew words, gives us an understanding of how to praise the Lord. One is HAILER, which means praise, and the name Yahweh, which is God‘s personal name in Hebrew. The other word that means praise is TEHILAH it is a praise song that is spontaneous that comes from the heart. It is unprepared it brings forth light, the sound of celebration, shout, and holy noise. Praise is spontaneous. It comes from the heart it’s not planned. It comes from a heart filled with gratitude. Even on the string instruments, they played and shifted the air. The book of Psalms is the book of praise to God. It shows what praise looks like. 

Ex 15:1 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to God, giving voice together, I’m singing my heart out to God — what a victory! He pitched horse and rider into the sea.

2 God is my strength, God is my song, and, yes! God is my salvation. This is the kind of God I have and I’m telling the world! This is the God of my father —  I’m spreading the news far and wide!

3 God is a fighter, pure God, through and through.

4 Pharaoh’s chariots and army he dumped in the sea, The elite of his officers he drowned in the Red Sea.

5 Wild ocean waters poured over them; they sank like a rock in the deep blue sea.

6 Your strong right hand, God, shimmers with power; your strong right hand shatters the enemy.

7 In your mighty majesty you smash your upstart enemies, You let loose your hot anger and burn them to a crisp.

8 At a blast from your nostrils the waters piled up; Tumbling streams dammed up, wild oceans curdled into a swamp.

9 The enemy spoke, “I’ll pursue, I’ll hunt them down, I’ll divide up the plunder, I’ll glut myself on them; I’ll pull out my sword, my fist will send them reeling.”

10 You blew with all your might and the sea covered them. They sank like a lead weight in the majestic waters.

11 Who compares with you among gods, O God? Who compares with you in power, in holy majesty, In awesome praises, wonder-working God?

12 You stretched out your right hand and the Earth swallowed them up.

13 But the people you redeemed, you led in merciful love; You guided them under your protection to your holy pasture.  MSG

Psalms 103:1 With my whole heart, with my whole life, and with my innermost being, I bow in wonder and love before you, the holy God!

²Yahweh, you are my soul’s celebration. How could I ever forget the miracles of kindness you’ve done for me?  TPT

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

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

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

Psalms 150:1 Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! Praise God in his holy sanctuary! Praise him in his stronghold in the sky!

²Praise him for his mighty miracles! Praise him for his magnificent greatness!

³Praise him with trumpets blasting! Praise him with piano and guitar! 

4 Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! Praise God in his holy sanctuary! Praise him in his stronghold in the sky!

5 Praise him with drums and dancing! Praise him with loud clashing of cymbals! Praise him upon the high-sounding cymbals!

⁶Let everyone everywhere join in the crescendo of ecstatic praise to Yahweh! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!  TPT

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Ps 150: 6 Let everything that has breath and every breath of life praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)  AMP

Psalms 115:16 The heavens belong to our God; they are his alone, but he has given us the earth and put us in charge. 

17-18 Dead people cannot praise the Lord, but we can! Those who sink to the silence of the grave can no longer give glory to God, but we can! So let’s praise the Lord and let it go on forever. Hallelujah, and praise the Lord!  TPT

2 Sam 6:5 David and the whole company of Israel were in the parade, singing at the top of their lungs and playing mandolins, harps, tambourines, castanets, and cymbals. MSG

Rev 5:8 The moment he took the scroll, the Four Animals and Twenty-four Elders fell down and worshiped the Lamb. Each had a harp and each had a bowl, a gold bowl filled with incense, the prayers of God’s holy people.

9 And they sang a new song: Worthy! Take the scroll, open its seals. Slain! Paying in blood, you bought men and women, Bought them back from all over the earth, Bought them back for God.

10 Then you made them a Kingdom, Priests for our God, Priest-kings to rule over the earth.

11 I looked again. I heard a company of Angels around the Throne, the Animals, and the Elders — ten thousand times ten thousand their number, thousand after thousand after thousand

12 in full song: The slain Lamb is worthy! Take the power, the wealth, the wisdom, the strength! Take the honor, the glory, the blessing!

13 Then I heard every creature in Heaven and earth, in underworld and sea, join in, all voices in all places, singing: To the One on the Throne! To the Lamb! The blessing, the honor, the glory, the strength, For age after age after age. MSG

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REV 5:8 The moment he took the scroll, the four Living Beings and the twenty four elders bowed down in worship in their priestly offices before the little Lamb. Each one had a stringed instrument and a typical temple vessel, a broad shallow saucer of pure gold, filled with incense – in the context of this imagery their praise represented the prayers and worship of the masses of saints – and every single one realized how sanctified they were because of the Lamb.

9 And they sang a new song saying, “We proclaim your excellent worth! You are the only one in the universe entitled to open the scroll and break its seals, since you were slaughtered in sacrifice and in your blood redeemed mankind’s authentic identity in God. You rescued them from everything that could possibly define society before and brought them out of the confines of their dwarfed mindsets. This includes the entire spectrum of people-groupings: our tribal identities, our language-specific dialect preferences, our political and religious associations, as well as every form of racial identity!

10 And you have made them unto God a realm of royalty to reign upon the earth as priests!

11 Then I saw wave upon wave of innumerable celestial messengers engulfing the throne and the elders and the Living Beings and I heard singing! It was a mass choir of multiple millions!

12 In their full capacity they exploded in song, proclaiming in unison, “The Lamb’s worth is now fully realized! Having been slain in sacrifice, the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing belong to him!”

13 At that point the entire universe burst out in praise! I heard every created being in the heavenly realm and upon the earth and under the earth and upon the ocean and everything within all these spheres, declaring to the One seated upon the throne and to the Lamb: “The most articulate language, the admiration, the supreme magnificence, the might until the ages of the ages!”

14 To which the four Living Beings added their endorsement and the elders prostrated themselves before the throne in silent worship!  MIRROR

REV 14:2 And I heard a voice emerge from the heavens. It was like the sound of a thunderous torrent of cascading waterfalls. Then arose a choir of voices accompanied by stringed instruments which sounded like harps.

3 There was a strange yet familiar newness to their song; almost as if it was reflected in the face of the throne and echoed in the faces of the living creatures and the elders – a song which could not be taught or learned. It is the song of the redeemed – represented here in the 144,000(’s) who were bought from the claim and clutches of the earth.  MIRROR

Psalms 146:1 Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! My innermost being will praise you, Lord!

²I will spend my life praising you and singing high praises to you, my God, every day of my life!  TPT

PS 147:1 Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! How beautiful it is when we sing our praises to the beautiful God, for praise makes you lovely before him and brings him great delight!

²Yahweh builds up Jerusalem; he gathers up the outcasts and brings them home.

³He heals the wounds of every shattered heart.

⁴He sets his stars in place, calling them all by their names.

⁵How great is our God! There’s absolutely nothing his power cannot accomplish, and he has infinite understanding of everything.

⁶Yahweh supports and strengthens the humble, but the ungodly will be brought down to the dust.

⁷Sing out with songs of thanksgiving to the Lord! Let’s sing our praises with melodies overflowing! TPT

REV 19:1 With this I heard a great multitude singing as with one voice in the heavens, saying Hallelujah! Salvation, glory and power belongs to our God!

Rev 19:6 And I seemed to hear the voices of a great multitude and the sound of many waters and of loud peals of thunder, which said, “Hallelujah! Because the Lord our God, the Ruler of all, has become King. Weymouth

Rom 15:9 As a result, the non-Jewish outsiders have been able to experience mercy and to show appreciation to God. Just think of all the Scriptures that will come true in what we do! For instance: Then I’ll join outsiders in a hymn-sing; I’ll sing to your name!

10 And this one: Outsiders and insiders, rejoice together!

11 And again: People of all nations, celebrate God! All colors and races, give hearty praise!   MSG

Ps 65:5  By fearful and glorious things [that terrify the wicked but make the godly sing praises] do You answer us in righteousness (rightness and justice), O God of our salvation, You Who are the confidence and hope of all the ends of the earth and of those far off on the seas;  AMP

Ps 98:4 Shout your praises to God, everybody! Let loose and sing! Strike up the band!

5 Round up an orchestra to play for God, Add on a hundred-voice choir.

6 Feature trumpets and big trombones, Fill the air with praises to King God.

7 Let the sea and its fish give a round of applause, With everything living on earth joining in.

8 Let ocean breakers call out, “Encore!” And mountains harmonize the finale — 

9 A tribute to God when he comes, When he comes to set the earth right. He’ll straighten out the whole world, He’ll put the world right, and everyone in it. MSG

Isa 12:5 “Sing praise-songs to God. He’s done it all! Let the whole earth know what he’s done!  MSG

LUKE 19:38 They shouted over and over, “Highest praises to God for the one who comes as King in the name of the Lord! Heaven’s peace and glory from the highest realm now comes to us !”

39 Some Jewish religious leaders who stood off from the procession said to Jesus, “Teacher, order your followers at once to stop saying these things!”

40 Jesus responded, “Listen to me. If my followers were silenced, the very stones would break forth with praises!”  TPT

WE ARE NOW DECLARED INNOCENT BY THE LOVE OF GOD 3-8-24

VIDEO JOHN CROWDE R DIVINE LOVE  

Innocence means that we have been set free from guilt, shame, and sin. We are made blameless by Christ. We stand acquitted as the result of faith. Let’s enjoy peace with God as a result of Christ love for us. We are freed from the guilt of our disloyalty. We are innocent in Christ and we are blameless.

ROM 5:1 The conclusion is clear: our blameless innocence has absolutely nothing to do with something we did to qualify ourselves; it is what happened to us, solely because of our Lord Jesus Christ’s doing. Faith, and not reward, is the only valid basis for righteousness! Let us now fully engage this seamless union in our face to face friendship with God!

2 Jesus is God’s face to face grace embrace of the entire human race. So here we are, standing tall in the joyful bliss of our redeemed innocence! We are God’s dream come true! This was God’s idea all along!

3 Our blissful boasting in him remains uninterrupted in times of trouble; we know that pressure reveals patience. Tribulation does not have what it takes to nullify what hope knows we have!  MIRROR

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Rom 5:1 By entering through faith into what God has always wanted to do for us — set us right with him, make us fit for him — we have it all together with God because of our Master Jesus.

2 And that’s not all: We throw open our doors to God and discover at the same moment that he has already thrown open his door to us. We find ourselves standing where we always hoped we might stand — out in the wide open spaces of God’s grace and glory, standing tall and shouting our praise.

3 There’s more to come: We continue to shout our praise even when we’re hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us,

Ps 19:13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then shall I be blameless, and I shall be innocent and clear of great transgression. AMP

Philippians 2:15 For then you will be seen as innocent, faultless, and pure children of God, even though you live in the midst of a brutal and perverse culture. For you will appear among them as shining lights in the universe, TPT

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PHIL 2:15 Your flawless innocence radiates attraction as beacons of light in the midst of a people who have forgotten their true sonship and whose lives have become distorted and perverse.  MIRROR

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, AMP

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1 Peter 3:18 Christ suffered and died for sins once and for all—the innocent for the guilty— to bring you near to God by his body being put to death and by being raised to life by the Spirit.  TPT

Ps 37:6 And He will make your uprightness and right standing with God go forth as the light, and your justice and right as [the shining sun of] the noonday.  AMP

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Ps 37:6 He will make your innocence radiate like the dawn, and the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun. TLB

1 John 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.

⁸If we boast that we have no sin, we’re only fooling ourselves and are strangers to the truth.

⁹But if we freely admit our sins when his light uncovers them, he will be faithful to forgive us every time. God is just to forgive us our sins because of Christ, and he will continue to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  TPT

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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!

8 To claim innocence by our own efforts under the law of personal performance, is to deceive ourselves and to deliberately ignore the truth. The truth about us, does not mean that we now have to go into denial as if we haven’t done anything wrong!

9 Our conversation takes on a brand new dynamic when we take sides with what God believes about us! God’s faithfulness and righteousness is the basis of our forgiveness and cleansing from every distortion. Jesus removed every bit of condemning evidence against us!   MIRROR

Isa 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has made to light upon Him the guilt and iniquity of us all.  AMP

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Isa 53:5 But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him — our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole. Through his bruises we get healed.

6 We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost. We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way. And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong, on him, on him.  MSG

Isa 53:11 He shall see [the fruit] of the travail of His soul and be satisfied; by His knowledge of Himself [which He possesses and imparts to others] shall My [uncompromisingly] righteous One, My Servant, justify many and make many righteous (upright and in right standing with God), for He shall bear their iniquities and their guilt [with the consequences, says the Lord].  AMP

Rom 8:10 But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells — even though you still experience all the limitations of sin — you yourself experience life on God’s terms.

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ROM 8:10 The revelation of Christ in you declares that your body is as good as dead to sin’s demands; sin cannot find any expression in a corpse. You co-died together with him. Yet your spirit is alive because of what righteousness reveals. MIRROR

1 Cor 6:11 And such some of you were [once]. But you were washed clean (purified by a complete atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin), and you were consecrated (set apart, hallowed), and you were justified [pronounced righteous, by trusting] in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the [Holy] Spirit of our God. AMP

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1 COR 6:11  Some of you can relate to that lifestyle, but look at you now! You have been cleansed, restored to total harmony [holiness] and made righteous. The name of the Lord Jesus declares your salvation; the Spirit of our God realizes salvation in you!   MIRROR

Hebrews 1:3 The Son is the dazzling radiance of God’s splendor, the exact expression of God’s true nature—his mirror image! He holds the universe together and expands it by the mighty power of his spoken word. He accomplished for us the complete cleansing of sins, and then took his seat on the highest throne at the right hand of the majestic One.  TPT

Ephesians 4:1 And in love he chose us before he laid the foundation of the universe! Because of his great love, he ordained us, so that we would be seen as holy in his eyes with an unstained innocence. TPT

EPH 1:4 He associated us in Christ before the fall of the world! Jesus is God’s mind made up about us! He always knew in his love that he would present us again face-to-face before him in blameless innocence.  MIRROR

1 Thess 5:23 May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together — spirit, soul, and body — and keep you fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ. MSG

Ps 119 1 BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, to be envied) are the undefiled (the upright, truly sincere, and blameless) in the way [of the revealed will of God], who walk (order their conduct and conversation) in the law of the Lord (the whole of God’s revealed will).  AMP

Jude 1:24 Now to Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling, and to present [you] unblemished (blameless and faultless) before the presence of His glory in triumphant joy and exultation [with unspeakable, ecstatic delight] — 

25 To the one only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory (splendor), majesty, might and dominion, and power and authority, before all time and now and forever (unto all the ages of eternity). Amen (so be it).   AMP

1 Corinthians 1:8 He will keep you steady and strong to the very end, making your character mature so that you will be found innocent on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹God is forever faithful and can be trusted to do this in you, for he has invited you to co-share the life of his Son, Jesus, the Anointed One, our King! TPT

Hebrews 7:26 He is the High Priest who perfectly fits our need—holy, without a trace of evil, without the ability to deceive, incapable of sin, and exalted beyond the heavens!  TPT

Hebrews 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.

²⁰For 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!

²¹And since we now have a magnificent High Priest to welcome us into God’s house, ²²we 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

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HEB 10:19 So, fellow family, what the blood of Jesus communicates, seals our immediate access into this ultimate place of sacred encounter, with unashamed confidence.

20 This is the official inauguration of a brand new way of life. The torn flesh of Jesus opened the veil for us. Our own flesh can no longer be a valid excuse to interrupt the expression of the life of our design from within our innermost shrine.

21 We have a High Priest in the house!

22 We are free to approach God with absolute confidence, fully persuaded in our hearts that nothing can any longer separate us. We are invited to draw near now! We are thoroughly cleansed, inside and out, with no trace of sin’s stains on our conscience or conduct. The sprinkled blood purges our inner thought-patterns; our bodies also are bathed in clean water.  MIRROR

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WHAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO THE FATHER  3-3-24 

VIDEO DAN MOHLER YOUR VAULE TO GOD

Important means of great significance. It is a value likely to have a profound effect on success, survival or well-being. Politics, when will Jesus return, are we in the end times? All these things have their place but what is truly important to God? Jesus tells us it’s important to serve all. Christ is more important than the law. It’s important that God is our vital need. We need Jesus. His presence is vitally important. The Holy Spirit is vitally important. Communion is vitally important. God’s word is important. Forgiveness is important to God. Don’t forget worshipping God, that’s important.

Matt 24:14  And this good news of the kingdom (the Gospel) will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then will come the end. AMP

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

16 He who believes [who adheres to and trusts in and relies on the Gospel and Him Whom it sets forth] and is baptized will be saved [from the penalty of eternal death]; but he who does not believe [who does not adhere to and trust in and rely on the Gospel and Him Whom it sets forth] will be condemned.

17 And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe: in My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages;

18 They will pick up serpents; and [even] if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well.

19 So then the Lord Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and He sat down at the right hand of God.

20 And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the message by the attesting signs and miracles that closely accompanied [it]. Amen (so be it).   AMP

1 Cor 7:19 For circumcision is nothing and counts for nothing, neither does uncircumcision, but [what counts is] keeping the commandments of God. AMP

Matthew 22:36-38 “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” Jesus answered him, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with every passion of your heart, with all the energy of your being, and with every thought that is within you.’ This is the great and supreme commandment. .”

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

⁴⁰Contained within these commandments to love you will find all the meaning of the Law and the Prophets.”  TPT

Matthew 23:23“Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and Pharisees—frauds and pretenders! For you are obsessed with peripheral issues, like insisting on paying meticulous tithes on the smallest herbs that grow in your gardens. These matters are fine, yet you ignore the most important duties of all: to walk in the love of God, to display mercy to others, and to live with integrity. Readjust your values and place first things first.

²⁴What blind guides! Nitpickers! You will spoon out a gnat from your drink, yet at the same time you’ve gulped down a camel without realizing it!  TPT

Mark 10:43 You are to lead by a different model. If you want to be the greatest, then live as one called to serve others.

⁴⁴The path to promotion comes by having the heart of a bond-slave who serves everyone.

⁴⁵For even the Son of Man did not come expecting to be served by everyone, but to serve everyone, and to give his life as the ransom price for the salvation of many.”  TPT  ▼▼▼

Mark 10:43 It’s not going to be that way with you. Whoever wants to be great must become a servant.

44 Whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave.

45 That is what the Son of Man has done: He came to serve, not to be served — and then to give away his life in exchange for many who are held hostage.”  MSG

Gal 6:3 For if any person thinks himself to be somebody [too important to condescend to shoulder another’s load] when he is nobody [of superiority except in his own estimation], he deceives and deludes and cheats himself.  AMP

1 Tim 3:14 Although I hope to come to you before long, I am writing these instructions to you so that,

15 If I am detained, you may know how people ought to conduct themselves in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and stay (the prop and support) of the Truth.

16 And great and important and weighty, we confess, is the hidden truth (the mystic secret) of godliness. He [God] was made visible in human flesh, justified and vindicated in the [Holy] Spirit, was seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, [and] taken up in glory.  AMP

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1 Tim 3:14 I hope to visit you soon, but just in case I’m delayed, I’m writing this letter so

15 you’ll know how things ought to go in God’s household, this God-alive church, bastion of truth.

16 This Christian life is a great mystery, far exceeding our understanding, but some things are clear enough: He appeared in a human body, was proved right by the invisible Spirit, was seen by angels. He was proclaimed among all kinds of peoples, believed in all over the world, taken up into heavenly glory.  MSG

HEB 8:6 Jesus is now the fulfillment of all those promises towards which the old practices were merely pointing; as when an arrow strikes the bulls-eye. The dispensation he now administers is far superior to the old. He is the arbitrator of a more effective covenant; sanctioned by its being an announcement of far greater benefit to mankind.  MIRROR

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Heb 8:6  But as it now is, He [Christ] has acquired a [priestly] ministry which is as much superior and more excellent [than the old] as the covenant (the agreement) of which He is the Mediator (the Arbiter, Agent) is superior and more excellent, [because] it is enacted and rests upon more important (sublimer, higher, and nobler) promises. AMP

Psalms 14:2 Yahweh looks down in love, looking over all of Adam’s sons and daughters. He’s looking to see if there is anyone who acts wisely, any who are searching for God and wanting to please him.  TPT

Ps 70:4 May all those who seek, inquire of and for You, and require You [as their vital need] rejoice and be glad in You; and may those who love Your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified!  AMP

John 15:5 “I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you’re joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can’t produce a thing. MSG

Phil 1:10 So that you may surely learn to sense what is vital, and approve and prize what is excellent and of real value [recognizing the highest and the best, and distinguishing the moral differences], and that you may be untainted and pure and unerring and blameless [so that with hearts sincere and certain and unsullied, you may approach] the day of Christ [not stumbling nor causing others to stumble]. AMP

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Phil 1:10 so that your love is sincere and intelligent, not sentimental gush. Live a lover’s life, circumspect and exemplary, a life Jesus will be proud of: MSG

Zeph 2:3 Seek the Lord [inquire for Him, inquire of Him, and require Him as the foremost necessity of your life], all you humble of the land who have acted in compliance with His revealed will and have kept His commandments; seek righteousness, seek humility [inquire for them, require them as vital]. It may be you will be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger. AMP

Luke 24:49 What comes next is very important: I am sending what my Father promised to you, so stay here in the city until he arrives, until you’re equipped with power from on high.”  MSG

Psalms 138:1 I thank you, Lord, and with all the passion of my heart I worship you in the presence of angels! Heaven’s mighty ones will hear my voice as I sing my loving praise to you.

²I bow down before your divine presence and bring you my deepest worship as I experience your tender love and your living truth. For the promises of your Word and the fame of your name have been magnified above all else!  TPT

Matt 4:4 Jesus answered by quoting Deuteronomy: “It takes more than bread to stay alive. It takes a steady stream of words from God’s mouth.”  MSG

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

Matt 6:14 For if you forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

15 But if you do not forgive others their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses.  AMP

Matt 18:21 Then Peter came up to Him and said, Lord, how many times may my brother sin against me and I forgive him and let it go? [As many as] up to seven times?

22 Jesus answered him, I tell you, not up to seven times, but seventy times seven!

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Mark 11:25 And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him and let it drop (leave it, let it go), in order that your Father Who is in heaven may also forgive you your [own] failings and shortcomings and let them drop. AMP

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

1 Cor 11:23 Let me go over with you again exactly what goes on in the Lord’s Supper and why it is so centrally important. I received my instructions from the Master himself and passed them on to you. The Master, Jesus, on the night of his betrayal, took bread.  MSG

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OPENING OUR EYES  3-1-24 VIDEO VIEWING YOUR LIFE THRU GODS LENS2

As we start this new month of March and welcome spring, let us by the power of the Holy Spirit open up the eyes of our heart. It is so we can see what has not been seen. The eyes of our heart are open to see God’s provision for us through the person of the Holy Spirit. The church has been given eyes to see.

Ephesians 1:18  I pray that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light, until you experience the full revelation of the hope of his calling— that is, the wealth of God’s glorious inheritances that he finds in us, his holy ones!

¹⁹ I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God’s power made available to you through faith. Then your lives will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through you! This is the mighty power  TPT

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Eph 1:18 your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for Christians, 19 oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him — endless energy, boundless strength!   MSG

2 Cor 4:17 These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us.

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

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

18 Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.  AMP

Job 19:27 see God myself, with my very own eyes. Oh, how I long for that day!  MSG

Psalms 27:13 Yet I believe with all my heart that I will see again your goodness, Yahweh, in the land of life eternal!  TPT

Ps 34:8 Open your mouth and taste, open your eyes and see — how good God is. Blessed are you who run to him. MSG

Ps 63:2 So here I am in the place of worship, eyes open, drinking in your strength and glory.

3 In your generous love I am really living at last! My lips brim praises like fountains. MSG

Ps 112:8 His heart is established and steady, he will not be afraid while he waits to see his desire established upon his adversaries.  AMP

1 Cor 2:9 But, on the contrary, as the Scripture says, What eye has not seen and ear has not heard and has not entered into the heart of man, [all that] God has prepared (made and keeps ready) for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, promptly obeying Him and gratefully recognizing the benefits He has bestowed]. 

10 Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the [Holy] Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God [the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man’s scrutiny].  AMP

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1 Cor 2:9 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

1 Cor 2:12 but he lets us in on it. God offers a full report on the gifts of life and salvation that he is giving us.

13 We don’t have to rely on the world’s guesses and opinions. We didn’t learn this by reading books or going to school; we learned it from God, who taught us person-to-person through Jesus, and we’re passing it on to you in the same firsthand, personal way. MSG

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1 Cor 2:12 Now we have not received the spirit [that belongs to] the world, but the [Holy] Spirit Who is from God, [given to us] that we might realize and comprehend and appreciate the gifts [of divine favor and blessing so freely and lavishly] bestowed on us by God.

13 And we are setting these truths forth in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the [Holy] Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual truths with spiritual language [to those who possess the Holy Spirit].   AMP

Isa 40:5 And the glory (majesty and splendor) of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. AMP

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Isa 40:5 Then God’s bright glory will shine and everyone will see it. Yes. Just as God has said.”  MSG

ISA 60: 4 Lift up your eyes higher! Look all around you and believe, for your sons are returning from far away and your daughters are being tenderly carried home. Watch as they all gather together, eager to come back to you!” Zion’s Wealth

5“Then you will see with understanding and be radiant.  Your heart will be thrilled and swell with joy. The fullness of the sea will flow to you  and the wealth of the nations will be transferred to you!  TPT

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Isa 60:4 Lift up your eyes round about you and see! They all gather themselves together, they come to you. Your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried and nursed in the arms.

5 Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and tremble with joy [at the glorious deliverance] and be enlarged; because the abundant wealth of the [Dead] Sea shall be turned to you, unto you shall the nations come with their treasures. AMP

Matthew 5:8 “What bliss you experience when your heart is pure! For then your eyes will open to see more and more of God. TPT

Matthew 13:13 That’s why I teach the people using parables, because they think they’re looking for truth, yet because their hearts are unteachable, they never discover it. Although they will listen to me, they never fully perceive the message I speak.

¹⁴The prophecy of Isaiah describes them perfectly: Although they listen carefully to everything I speak, they don’t understand a thing I say. They look and pretend to see,

but the eyes of their hearts are closed.

¹⁵Their minds are dull and slow to perceive, their ears are plugged and are hard of hearing, and they have deliberately shut their eyes to the truth. Otherwise they would open their eyes to see, and open their ears to hear, and open their minds to understand.

Then they would turn to me and I would instantly heal them.

¹⁶“But blissful are your eyes, for they see. Delighted are your ears, for they are open to hear all these things.

¹⁷Many prophets and godly people yearned to see these days of miracles that you’ve been favored to see. They would have given everything to hear the revelation you’ve been favored to hear.  TPT

JOHN 14:17 Your eternal companion is the Spirit of truth, whom those trapped in the sense-ruled world, just cannot 1get to grips with! Their visual horizon is veiled, and they are unable to understand what they cannot see. But, [in your acquaintance with me], you are familiar with this 2seamless, intimate union, and the Spirit’s continued presence within you.

18 At no time will you be orphaned or abandoned by me; I come to abide 1face to face with you. (I come to be no less face to face with you, than what I’ve always been face to face with the Father, from the beginning and for all eternity.  

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

1 Cor 13:12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

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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

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2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who said, “Let brilliant light shine out of darkness,” is the one who has cascaded his light into us—the brilliant dawning light of the glorious knowledge of God as we gaze into the face of Jesus Christ.  TPT

1 John 3:2 Beloved, we are [even here and] now God’s children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be [hereafter], but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall [as God’s children] resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He [really] is.  AMP

THE POWER OF UNITY 2-24-23 VIDEO THE POWER OF UNITY BILL JOHNSON 2

Unity transcends mere agreement; it is being an enduring oneness, rooted deeply in it’s meaning. It is not conformity it is seeing our differences and loving anyway.  It intertwines minds and hearts, tightly knit without separation—a unity with Christ and eachother. Marriage serves as a illustration of this profound unity

1 COR 12:12 What I was told is that you are divided into groups, where some side with Paul, others with Apollos, still others with Cephas, and even some who say, “we are the Messianic group”!

13 This is really ridiculous: can Christ be cut up into little relics? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into Paul’s name?  MIRROR

1 COR 12:19 Our individual significance only finds context in relationship to others!

20 The sum total of the members equals one body.

21 The eye perceives and the hand touches; they do not compete for importance. The head will never make the feet feel inferior! In the body there is no sense of, “I am positioned higher than you and therefore I do not need you!”

22 The members are not rated in importance with how visible and prominent they seem to be. The less visible parts are indispensable; it is impossible for the body to function without them.

23 Those members that seem to be of lesser visible value deserve the greater and more personal care. There is so much more to a person than a pretty face!

24 God so structured the body that every single part is equally valued; the less visible parts are often treated with even greater honor and more specific care.

25 Because of the delicate interdependence of the various parts of the body it is natural that no schism can be tolerated; instead every member considers the other with affectionate care.

26 It is impossible for one part of the body to suffer injury without the rest of the body being immediately alerted to it; the pain of the one is the pain of all. In the same way the complete person is honored, not just the fingers that skillfully play the harp. Everyone is equally included in the same joy.

27 You are the body of Christ; individually as much as you are his body corporately. Everyone of you mirrors him. He defines your form. The individual member does not give context to the body; the body gives context to the member.

28 Wherever God places you in the body is to co-compliment the full function of the ekklesia. The seemingly most prominent and visible gifts are the apostolic, then the prophetic, the teachers, the workers of miracles, those gifted with healing various diseases. Then there are those who can fulfill any role required of them for the moment; they are the ones who can stand in full support to assist any of the other gifts! The administrators are gifted to manage the various functions of the ekklesia with great skill. Then there are those gifted in languages. MIRROR

Psalms 133:1 How truly wonderful and delightful it is to see brothers and sisters living together in sweet unity!

²It’s as precious as the sacred scented oil flowing from the head of the high priest Aaron, dripping down upon his beard and running all the way down to the hem of his priestly robes.

³This harmony can be compared to the dew dripping from Mount Hermon, which flows down upon the hills of Zion. Indeed, that is where Yahweh has decreed his blessings will be found, the promise of life forevermore!  TPT

Ephesians 2:14 Our reconciling “Peace” is Jesus! He has made Jew and non-Jew one in Christ. By dying as our sacrifice, he has broken down every wall of prejudice that separated us and has now made us equal through our union with Christ.

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

Gal 3:26 For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.

27 For as many [of you] as were baptized into Christ [into a spiritual union and communion with Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah] have put on (clothed yourselves with) Christ.

28 There is [now no distinction] neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

29 And if you belong to Christ [are in Him Who is Abraham’s Seed], then you are Abraham’s offspring and [spiritual] heirs according to promise.  AMP

Phil 2:2 Fill up and complete my joy by living in harmony and being of the same mind and one in purpose, having the same love, being in full accord and of one harmonious mind and intention.

3 Do nothing from factional motives [through contentiousness, strife, selfishness, or for unworthy ends] or prompted by conceit and empty arrogance. Instead, in the true spirit of humility (lowliness of mind) let each regard the others as better than and superior to himself [thinking more highly of one another than you do of yourselves].

4 Let each of you esteem and look upon and be concerned for not [merely] his own interests, but also each for the interests of others.  AMP

JN 17:21 That they all may be one, exactly as you Father are mirrored in me and I in you, that they also will be exactly mirrored to be one in us – then the entire world will believe and be persuaded about your mission upon my life!

22 And I, [the Incarnate word]  have endued them with the same glorious esteem that you have given me so that their oneness may mirror ours.

23 I am in them as you are in me, and on this basis their seamless oneness may be entirely concluded. Thus the world will acknowledge your commission upon my life and know that my love for them mirrors your love for me.  MIRROR

1 COR 1:10 Friends, because we are surnamed and identified in the name of our master Jesus Christ, I urge you to speak with one voice; we share the same source as our reference; the idea of division is an illusion. We are a perfect match; accurately joined in the same thought and communicating the same resolve. MIRROR

Acts 2:42 And they steadfastly persevered, devoting themselves constantly to the instruction and fellowship of the apostles, to the breaking of bread [including the Lord’s Supper] and prayers.

43 And a sense of awe (reverential fear) came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were performed through the apostles (the special messengers).

44 And all who believed (who adhered to and trusted in and relied on Jesus Christ) were united and [together] they had everything in common;

45 And they sold their possessions (both their landed property and their movable goods) and distributed the price among all, according as any had need.

46 And day after day they regularly assembled in the temple with united purpose, and in their homes they broke bread [including the Lord’s Supper]. They partook of their food with gladness and simplicity and generous hearts,

47 Constantly praising God and being in favor and goodwill with all the people; and the Lord kept adding [to their number] daily those who were being saved [from spiritual death].  AMP

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Acts 2:42 They committed themselves to the teaching of the apostles, the life together, the common meal, and the prayers. 

43 Everyone around was in awe — all those wonders and signs done through the apostles!

44 And all the believers lived in a wonderful harmony, holding everything in common.

45 They sold whatever they owned and pooled their resources so that each person’s need was met.

46 They followed a daily discipline of worship in the Temple followed by meals at home, every meal a celebration, exuberant and joyful,

47 as they praised God. People in general liked what they saw. Every day their number grew as God added those who were saved. MSG

Eccl 4:12 By yourself you’re unprotected. With a friend you can face the worst. Can you round up a third? A three-stranded rope isn’t easily snapped.  MSG

1 Peter 3:8 Finally, all [of you] should be of one and the same mind (united in spirit), sympathizing [with one another], loving [each other] as brethren [of one household], compassionate and courteous (tenderhearted and humble).  AMP

ROM 15:6 The opinion of God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, speaks one global language in us inspired by the same passion.

7 This gives us all the more reason to embrace one another in friendship with the same warmth wherewith Christ embraced us into the welcome of God.  MIRROR

RO 6:5 We were like seeds planted together in the same soil, to be co-quickened to life. If we were included in his death we are equally included in his resurrection.  MIRROR

JOHN 15:4 Our seamless union, you in me and I in you, is pictured in the vine: the shoot cannot bear fruit outside of this union. In its abiding in the vine, fruit happens naturally – as with your abiding in me.

5 I am the vine and you are the branches; it is the one who understands this mutual union that naturally bears much fruit – which is impossible to happen apart from me. MIRROR

1 Cor 6:17 But the person who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him. AMP

Eph 2:16 Christ brought us together through his death on the Cross. The Cross got us to embrace, and that was the end of the hostility. MSG

Mark 10:9 So there you have it. What God has joined together, no one has the right to split apart.”  TPT

Phil 1:27 Only be sure as citizens so to conduct yourselves [that] your manner of life [will be] worthy of the good news (the Gospel) of Christ, so that whether I [do] come and see you or am absent, I may hear this of you: that you are standing firm in united spirit and purpose, striving side by side and contending with a single mind for the faith of the glad tidings (the Gospel). AMP

Eph 4:1  In light of all this, here’s what I want you to do. While I’m locked up here, a prisoner for the Master, I want you to get out there and walk — better yet, run! — on the road God called you to travel. I don’t want any of you sitting around on your hands. I don’t want anyone strolling off, down some path that goes nowhere.

2 And mark that you do this with humility and discipline — not in fits and starts, but steadily, pouring yourselves out for each other in acts of love,

3 alert at noticing differences and quick at mending fences.

4 You were all called to travel on the same road and in the same direction, so stay together, both outwardly and inwardly.

5 You have one Master, one faith, one baptism,

6 one God and Father of all, who rules over all, works through all, and is present in all. Everything you are and think and do is permeated with Oneness. MSG

Col 3:14 And above all these [put on] love and enfold yourselves with the bond of perfectness [which binds everything together completely in ideal harmony]. AMP

JEHOVAH, THE PROMISE KEEPING GOD 2-23-24 VIDEO PROMISES

A promise is a pledge to do something or to bring something to pass. A promise is a gift graciously bestowed or given. It’s not negotiated. It’s freely given. They are over 8810 promises in the Bible. When God gives you a promise know that His Word will never return void. Whatever it is that He promised, He will fulfill. Jesus promised people eternal life. God sometimes fulfills promises in a way that we could never have imagined. His  promises always will have their fulfillment at the proper time. God‘s promises are like the stars, the darker the night the brighter they shine.

Isa 55:10 Just as rain and snow descend from the skies and don’t go back until they’ve watered the earth, Doing their work of making things grow and blossom, producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry,

11 So will the words that come out of my mouth not come back empty-handed. They’ll do the work I sent them to do, they’ll complete the assignment I gave them. MSG  ▼▼▼

ISA 55:10 “As the snow and rain that fall from heaven and do not return until they have accomplished their purpose, soaking the earth and causing it to sprout with new life, providing seed to sow and bread to eat.

11 So also will be the word  that I speak; it does not return to me unfulfilled.  My

word performs my purpose and fulfills the mission I sent it out to accomplish.” TPT

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

28 And I give them the life of the ages and they shall never be lost neither shall anyone wrestle them out of my hand.

29 As for my Father, what he has given me is most precious and no-one can snatch them out of his hand!  MIRROR

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John 10:27 The sheep that are My own hear and are listening to My voice; and I know them, and they follow Me.

28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never lose it or perish throughout the ages. [To all eternity they shall never by any means be destroyed.] And no one is able to snatch them out of My hand.

29 My Father, Who has given them to Me, is greater and mightier than all [else]; and no one is able to snatch [them] out of the Father’s hand.  AMP

Gen 9:12 God continued, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and everything living around you and everyone living after you.

13 I’m putting my rainbow in the clouds, a sign of the covenant between me and the Earth.

14 From now on, when I form a cloud over the Earth and the rainbow appears in the cloud,

15 I’ll remember my covenant between me and you and everything living, that never again will floodwaters destroy all life.

16 When the rainbow appears in the cloud, I’ll see it and remember the eternal covenant between God and everything living, every last living creature on Earth.”

17 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I’ve set up between me and everything living on the Earth.”    MSG

Ps 12:6  God’s words are pure words, Pure silver words refined seven times In the fires of his word-kiln, Pure on earth as well as in heaven. MSG

*# 7 completeness or perfection

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

Gal 4:4 But when the proper time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to [the regulations of] the Law,  AMP

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Gal 4:4  But when the time arrived that was set by God the Father, God sent his Son, born among us of a woman, born under the conditions of the law so that he might redeem those of us who have been kidnapped by the law. MSG

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Rom 9:9 For this is what the promise said, About this time [next year] will I return and Sarah shall have a son.  AMP

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

GAL 3:16 It is on record that the promise [of the blessing of righteousness by God’s faith] was made to Abraham and to his seed, singular, [thus excluding his effort to produce Ishmael.] Isaac, the child of promise and not of the flesh mirrors the Messiah.

17 This is my reasoning: God endorsed the covenant of promise in Christ 430 years before the law was given. The law did not later replace the promise!

18 The law and the promise are not compatible; the one system nullifies the other. God gifts Abraham with heir-ship by promise   MIRROR

Heb 4:16 Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God’s unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].  AMP

2 Peter 3:9 God isn’t late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the End because he doesn’t want anyone lost. He’s giving everyone space and time to change. MSG

Josh 23:14 And behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth. Know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one thing of them has failed.  AMP

ISA 40 :1 Your God says to you: “Comfort, comfort my people a with gentle, compassionate words. 

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

3 A thunderous voice cries out in the wilderness:  “Prepare the way for Yahweh’s arrival! Make a highway straight through the desert for our God!

4 Every valley will be raised up,  every mountain brought low. The rugged terrain will become level ground and the rough places a plain.

5 Then Yahweh’s radiant glory will be unveiled, and all humanity will experience it together. l Believe it, for Yahweh has spoken his decree!”  TPT

ROM 15:8 I am convinced that the ministry of Jesus Christ was confirmation to the circumcised Jews of the truth of God’s promises to their fathers.  MIRROR

2 COR 1:20 In him the detail of every single promise of God is fulfilled; Jesus is God’s yes to your entire well being! In our union with him the Amen that echoes in us gives evidence to his glorious intent through us.

21 God himself authorizes our oneness with you in Christ. He is our anointing!   

22 His personal signet signature is the official stamp that sanctions the integrity of our ministry to you; this is the seal of the Spirit in our hearts.  MIRROR

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2 Cor 1:20 Whatever God has promised gets stamped with the Yes of Jesus. In him, this is what we preach and pray, the great Amen, God’s Yes and our Yes together, gloriously evident.

21 God affirms us, making us a sure thing in Christ, putting his Yes within us.

22 By his Spirit he has stamped us with his eternal pledge — a sure beginning of what he is destined to complete. MSG

2 Cor 5:5 The Spirit of God whets our appetite by giving us a taste of what’s ahead. He puts a little of heaven in our hearts so that we’ll never settle for less. MSG

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2 Corinthians 5:5 And this is no empty hope, for God himself is the one who has prepared us for this wonderful destiny. And to confirm this promise, he has given us the Holy Spirit, like an engagement ring, as a guarantee. TPT

Acts 2:39 For the promise [of the Holy Spirit] is to and for you and your children, and to and for all that are far away, [even] to and for as many as the Lord our God invites and bids to come to Himself.  AMP   ▼▼▼

Acts 2:39 The promise is targeted to you and your children, but also to all who are far away — whomever, in fact, our Master God invites.” MSG

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

Heb 6:12 Don’t drag your feet. Be like those who stay the course with committed faith and then get everything promised to them. MSG

HEB 8:6  Jesus is now the fulfillment of all those promises towards which the old practices were merely pointing; as when an arrow strikes the bulls-eye. The dispensation he now administers is far superior to the old. He is the arbitrator of a more effective covenant; sanctioned by its being an announcement of far greater benefit to mankind.  MIRROR

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Heb 8:6 But as it now is, He [Christ] has acquired a [priestly] ministry which is as much superior and more excellent [than the old] as the covenant (the agreement) of which He is the Mediator (the Arbiter, Agent) is superior and more excellent, [because] it is enacted and rests upon more important (sublimer, higher, and nobler) promises. AMP

2 Peter 1:4 By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.  AMP ▼▼▼

2 PET 1:4   This is exactly what God always had in mind for us; everyone of his abundant and priceless promises pointed to our restored participation in our godly origin. This is his gift to us. In this fellowship we have escaped the distorted influence of the corrupt cosmic virus of greed.   MIRROR

John 11:40 Jesus said to her, Did I not tell you and promise you that if you would believe and rely on Me, you would see the glory of God? AMP

1 Cor 1:9 God is faithful (reliable, trustworthy, and therefore ever true to His promise, and He can be depended on); by Him you were called into companionship and participation with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. AMP

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

 

I AM PREPARING A PLACE FOR YOU 2-11-24 VIDEO GOD OF ETERNITY

As Jesus got closer to the time when he would be crucified and leaving His disciples, He shared with them, that they would not be left orphans, but He was preparing a place for them. They had traveled, lived, slept, and ate together for the past years of his ministry. Now they were being told where He was going, and they could not come. God will not abandon us, nor leave us orphans here. Not only was Jesus preparing a place for them with Him, but He also was sending us a companion to be with them forever. Jesus told them He would living in them in unity and love. The home He was preparing is that they would be in Him, and He would be in them. Never forsaken. No matter what goes on in the world we will be with Jesus at home in heaven. The place of Jesus prepared for us by His death on the cross is that He would make His home in us and we would make our home in Him. We are with Him in the spirit in heaven right now, but we will also be with Him when we takeoff this meet suit and live with Him in heaven.

JOHN 14:1 Set your troubled hearts at ease by letting your belief conclude in God as you rest your confidence in me.  

2 What makes my Father’s house home, is your place in it! If this was not the ultimate conclusion of my mission, why would I even bother to do what I am about to do if it was not to prepare a place for you? I have come to persuade you of a place of seamless oneness where you belong.

3 The proportions of what I will accomplish are astonishing! I will prepare a highway for you, just as in the Oriental custom, where people would go before a king to level the roads to make it possible for royalty to journey with ease and comfort. Then I will personally come to escort you on this royal highway, guiding you to be where I am, in seamless, face to face oneness in the Father’s embrace. By fully identifying myself with you I have mirrored you in me so that you may be completely at home where I am! 

4 In fact, you have always known this way and where all this is leading me and where I am taking you.   MIRROR

Deut 4:31 God, your God, is above all a compassionate God. In the end he will not abandon you, he won’t bring you to ruin, he won’t forget the covenant with your ancestors which he swore to them. MSG

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

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

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

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

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

John 14:23 Jesus answered, If a person [really] loves Me, he will keep My word [obey My teaching]; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home (abode, special dwelling place) with him. AMP

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JOHN 14:23 Jesus answered, “This is so much more than a mere casual, suspicious or indifferent observation, whoever loves me will treasure my words and know my Father’s love and we will come face to face with this one and make our abode with each one individually.”  MIRROR

John 8:29 And He Who sent Me is ever with Me; My Father has not left Me alone, for I always do what pleases Him.

30 As He said these things, many believed in Him [trusted, relied on, and adhered to Him].  AMP

Eph 2:19 That’s plain enough, isn’t it? You’re no longer wandering exiles. This kingdom of faith is now your home country. You’re no longer strangers or outsiders. You belong here, with as much right to the name Christian as anyone. God is building a home. He’s using us all — irrespective of how we got here — in what he is building.

20 He used the apostles and prophets for the foundation. Now he’s using you, fitting you in brick by brick, stone by stone, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone

21 that holds all the parts together. We see it taking shape day after day — a holy temple built by God,

22 all of us built into it, a temple in which God is quite at home. MSG

John 17:11 “Holy Father, I am about to leave this world to return and be with you,

but my disciples will remain here. Holy Father, each one that you have given me,

keep them in your name so that they will be united as one, even as we are one.

¹²While I was with these that you have given me, I was guarding them and keeping them in your name. Not one of them is lost, except the one that was destined to be lost, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled. TPT

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JOHN 17:11 I am no longer in the world but they are – I am proceeding to be face to face with you holy Father; I ask for the protection of those whom you have given me in your name that they also may be one even as we are.

12 While I was with them in the world I guarded over the ones you have given me in your name and did not 1lose any, except the 1lost son who fulfilled what was written prophetically.  MIRROR

John 17:21 I pray for them all to be joined together as one even as you and I, Father, are joined together as one. I pray for them to become one with us so that the world will recognize that you sent me.

²²For the very glory you have given to me I have given them so that they will be joined together as one and experience the same unity that we enjoy.

²³You live fully in me and now I live fully in them so that they will experience perfect unity, and the world will be convinced that you have sent me, for they will see that you love each one of them with the same passionate love that you have for me.

²⁴“Father, I ask that you allow everyone that you have given to me to be with me where I am! Then they will see my full glory— the very splendor you have placed upon me because you have loved me even before the beginning of time. TPT

Eph 2:6 Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.  MSG

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Ephesians 2:6 He raised us up with Christ the exalted One, and we ascended with him into the glorious perfection and authority of the heavenly realm, for we are now co-seated as one with Christ!  TPT

2 COR 12:2 I know of an encounter in Christ fourteen years ago, where a person was translated into the third heaven.

3 Only God knows whether it was in or out of the body; it does not really matter to me!

4 This person was caught up into paradise! There he heard words that could not be articulated into language; he understood a conversation that did not originate in human thought!

5 Of this encounter I will confidently boast because it has nothing to do with anything that I did to promote myself! I would rather glory in that which emphasizes my failure to get it right by myself! Divine revelation is a gift, not a reward!  MIRROR

2 COR 5:8 Our confidence stems from knowing that even though it might feel at times that we are merely reduced to flesh, our greater reality is that we are entwined in the Lord. He is our permanent abode!MIRROR

Job 17:13 If all I have to look forward to is a home in the graveyard, if my only hope for comfort is a well-built coffin,

14 If a family reunion means going six feet under, and the only family that shows up is worms,

15 Do you call that hope? Who on earth could find any hope in that?  MSG

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

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

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

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

1 COR 15:52 This will happen in an instant, in a blink of the eye: the final trumpet will sound, then the dead shall be awoken out of their sleep and we, who are still alive, shall be instantly changed into a different kind of body.

53 For this corruptible must be clothed with incorruption and this mortal must be clothed with immortality.

54  “Death is swallowed up in victory!”

55 Oh death where is your sting? Oh grave, where is your victory?

56 The sting of death is sin; the strength of sin is the law.  

57 Your victory is not a maybe; because of the magnanimous doing of Jesus Christ, it is a given!

58 For this reason you can afford to be absolutely settled and rock-solid in faith’s persuasion and always ready to go beyond where you would have gone before. Your doing now is inspired by your knowing that you are in him. If his resurrection is yours then his victory over sin and death is equally yours. MIRROR

Heb 11:9 [Prompted] by faith he dwelt as a temporary resident in the land which was designated in the promise [of God, though he was like a stranger] in a strange country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs with him of the same promise. 

10 For he was [waiting expectantly and confidently] looking forward to the city which has fixed and firm foundations, whose Architect and Builder is God. AMP

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Heb 11:9 By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise.

10 Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations — the City designed and built by God. MSG

JOHN 6:39  My Sender’s desire is for me to rescue every single individual – this is his gift to me – that I will lose no detail of their original identity mirrored in me! My rescuing mission will conclude in their joint-resurrection! This is the completeness of time!  MIRROR

OUR GOD IS ON THE THRONE 2-9-24  VIDEO

No matter what is going on in the world, no matter what is going on in our lives, change, how you see things! Step into boldness. See the one who rules over all things.

The prayers of the Saints, which is us, have our place before the throne. If we keep our eyes on God, and where He is seated and our ears open to His voice, we can be brave, bold, and courageous.

Isa 9:7 His ruling authority will grow, and there’ll be no limits to the wholeness he brings. He’ll rule from the historic David throne over that promised kingdom. He’ll put that kingdom on a firm footing and keep it going With fair dealing and right living, beginning now and lasting always. The zeal of God-of-the-Angel-Armies will do all this. MSG

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ISA 9:7 Great and vast is his dominion. He will bring immeasurable peace and prosperity. He will rule on David’s throne and over David’s kingdom to establish and uphold it by promoting justice and righteousness from this time forward and forevermore.  TPT

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

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

3 And one called out to another, saying: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, Commander of Angel Armies! The whole earth is filled with his glory! The thunderous voice of the fiery angels caused the foundations of the thresholds to tremble as the cloud of glory filled the temple!  TPT

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Isa 6:1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Master sitting on a throne — high, exalted! — and the train of his robes filled the Temple.

2 Angel-seraphs hovered above him, each with six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two their feet, and with two they flew.”

3 And they called back and forth one to the other, Holy, Holy, Holy is God-of-the-Angel-Armies. His bright glory fills the whole earth.

4 The foundations trembled at the sound of the angel voices, and then the whole house filled with smoke.  MSG

ISA 40:21 Don’t you realize that God is the Creator? Don’t you hear the truth?  Haven’t you been told this from the beginning? Haven’t you understood this since he laid a firm foundation for the earth?

22 He sits enthroned high above the circle of the earth; to him the people of earth are like grasshoppers! He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, spreading it open like a tent to live in.

23 He reduces rulers to nothing and makes the elite of the earth as nothing at all.

24 They barely get planted and barely take root in their position of power when the Lord blows on them and they wither away, carried off like straw in the stormy wind. God Above All Others

25 The Holy One asks: “Can you find anyone or anything to compare to me? Where is the one equal to me?”

26 Lift up your eyes to the sky and see for yourself. Who do you think created the cosmos?  He lit every shining star and formed every glowing galaxy, and stationed them all where they belong. He has numbered, counted, and given each one a name. They shine because of God’s incredible power and awesome might; not one fails to appear! TPT

Matt 19:28 Jesus replied, “Yes, you have followed me. In the re-creation of the world, when the Son of Man will rule gloriously, you who have followed me will also rule, starting with the twelve tribes of Israel.

29 And not only you, but anyone who sacrifices home, family, fields — whatever — because of me will get it all back a hundred times over, not to mention the considerable bonus of eternal life.

30 This is the Great Reversal: many of the first ending up last, and the last first.  MSG

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LUKE 22:29 And I bequest a kingdom to you even as my Father has assigned a kingdom to me.  

30 We will eat and drink at the table I am serving in my kingdom; your co-seatedness with me around my table symbolizes twelve thrones endorsing your authority to bring context and closure to the indifference and ignorance of the tribes of Israel in their judgment of me. MIRROR

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1 COR 6:2 Having discovered how thoroughly God sanctified us in Christ, we now represent the principle of righteous judgment wherewith the whole world is to be judged; how can we possibly shrink from deciding a trivial matters within our own ranks? MIRROR

Matt 23:22 And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him Who sits upon it.  AMP

HEB 4:16 For this reason we can approach the authoritative throne of grace with bold utterance. We are welcome there in his embrace, and are reinforced with immediate effect in times of trouble.   MIRROR

REV 8:3 Then another celestial messenger arrived with a golden 1censer for frankincense and took charge of the 3altar in priestly fashion. Much 4perfume was given to him and this would be burned as a sweet smelling fragrance upon the golden altar before the throne to represent the 5prayers of every single saint.

4 And thus the smoke of the fragrant perfume infused with the silent prayers of the entire community of saints, rose before God out of the hand of the priestly ministry of the celestial messenger.  MIRROR

REV 19:5 And a voice proceeded from the environment of the throne saying, 1recount the amazing stories of God’s praise to all his bond-servants small and great, everyone who is awed by him!  MIRROR

Rev 21:3 Then I heard a mighty voice from the throne and I perceived its distinct words, saying, See! The abode of God is with men, and He will live (encamp, tent) among them; and they shall be His people, and God shall personally be with them and be their God.  AMP

REV 3:21-22 we now dine together in the throne room, 1celebrating your victory mirrored in mine! This is my gift to you; it is on exactly the same basis of 2my victory celebration and my joint seatedness with my Father in his throne-room!

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

Josh 1:6 Strength! Courage! You are going to lead this people to inherit the land that I promised to give their ancestors. MSG

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

Isa 43:2 When you’re in over your head, I’ll be there with you. When you’re in rough waters, you will not go down. When you’re between a rock and a hard place, it won’t be a dead end — 

3 Because I am God, your personal God, The Holy of Israel, your Savior. I paid a huge price for you: all of Egypt, with rich Cush and Seba thrown in!

4 That’s how much you mean to me! That’s how much I love you! I’d sell off the whole world to get you back, trade the creation just for you.

5 “So don’t be afraid: I’m with you. I’ll round up all your scattered children, pull them in from east and west.

6 I’ll send orders north and south: ‘Send them back. Return my sons from distant lands, my daughters from faraway places.

7 I want them back, every last one who bears my name, every man, woman, and child Whom I created for my glory, yes, personally formed and made each one.'”  MSG

Ps 56:3 What time I am afraid, I will have confidence in and put my trust and reliance in You.

4 By [the help of] God I will praise His word; on God I lean, rely, and confidently put my trust; I will not fear. What can man, who is flesh, do to me?  AMP

PRO 28:1 Guilty criminals experience paranoia even though no one threatens them. But the innocent lovers of God, because of righteousness, will have the boldness of a young, ferocious lion!  TPT

Acts 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they continued to speak the Word of God with freedom and boldness and courage.  AMP

Eph 3:12 In Whom, because of our faith in Him, we dare to have the boldness (courage and confidence) of free access (an unreserved approach to God with freedom and without fear).  AMP

Eph 3:14 My response is to get down on my knees before the Father,

15 this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth.

16 I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit — not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength — 

17 that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love,

18 you’ll be able to take in with all Christians the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights!

19 Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.  MSG

1 John 2:28 And now, children, stay with Christ. Live deeply in Christ. Then we’ll be ready for him when he appears, ready to receive him with open arms, with no cause for red-faced guilt or lame excuses when he arrives. MSG

1 JN 3:21 Beloved when we know what God knows to be true about us, then instead of condemning us, our hearts will endorse our innocence and 1free our conversation before God.  

2 Now, instead of begging God, we 1speak with confident liberty as sons. We also treasure the 3conclusion of his prophetic purpose [in redeeming our sonship] and 4fully accommodate ourselves to his desires and pleasure! Knowing the warmth in his 5eyes inspire 6poetic freedom in our every expression. MIRROR

1 JN 4:17 So now, with us awakening to 1our full inclusion in this love union, everything is perfect! Its completeness is not compromised in contradiction. Our 2confident conversation 3echoes this fellowship even in the face of 4crisis; because, as he is, so are we in this world – our lives are mirrored in him. We are as blameless in this life as Jesus is!This perfect love union is the source of our confidence whenever we 5face the scrutiny of contradiction.  MIRROR

1 JN 5:14 Thus we engage in an unreserved conversation, 2face to face with the father; we know that it is his delight to be our audience in whatever we may ask him.

15 And convinced of his delight with us within this place of intimate conversation, it is clear that our every request is held in the same echo – we already have what we’ve asked for!  MIRROR

THE GIFT OF GRACE 2-4-24 VIDEO ONE MINUTE

Grace is the chance to start fresh. It’s in the understanding of Grace that you have the key to letting go of the past. It’s undeserved favor. You can’t earn it. You can’t buy it but you can receive it. Grace is perpetual. It never runs out. Through Grace you receive right standing with God.

JOHN 1:17 The law was given through Moses; grace and truth have their genesis in Jesus Christ. Against the stark backdrop of the law, with Moses representing the condemned state of mankind, Jesus Christ unveils grace and truth!  MIRROR

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

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

Psalms 92:14 for in your presence they will still overflow and be anointed. Even in their old age they will stay fresh, bearing luscious fruit and abiding faithfully.

¹⁵Listen to them! With pleasure they still proclaim: “You’re so good! You’re my beautiful strength! You’ve never made a mistake with me.”  TPT

Matt 5:4 “You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.

5 “You’re blessed when you’re content with just who you are — no more, no less. That’s the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can’t be bought. MSG

James 4:6 But He gives us more and more grace (power of the Holy Spirit, to meet this evil tendency and all others fully). That is why He says, God sets Himself against the proud and haughty, but gives grace [continually] to the lowly (those who are humble enough to receive it).  AMP

Luke 2:40 And the Child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace (favor and spiritual blessing) of God was upon Him.  AMP

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Luke 2:40 There the child grew strong in body and wise in spirit. And the grace of God was on him.  MSG

John 1:14 And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth.  AMP

Acts 15:11 Don’t you believe that we are introduced to eternal life through the grace of our Lord Jesus—the same grace that has brought these people new life?” TPT

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

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

Rom 1:5 It is through Him that we have received grace (God’s unmerited favor) and [our] apostleship to promote obedience to the faith and make disciples for His name’s sake among all the nations,

6 And this includes you, called of Jesus Christ and invited [as you are] to belong to Him. AMP  ▼▼▼

ROM 1:5 The grace and commission we received from him, is to bring about a 1faith-inspired lifestyle in all the nations. His name is his claim on the human race.  

6 In Jesus Christ you individually discover 1who you are.  MIRROR

Rom 3:24 [All] are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace (His unmerited favor and mercy), through the redemption which is [provided] in Christ Jesus,  AMP

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ROM 3:24 While the law proved mankind’s dilemma, the grace of God announces the same mankind’s redemption in Jesus Christ! Their blameless innocence is a free gift! The gift-principle puts the idea of reward out of business! There is no exception – this belongs to every single person, Jew and Gentile alike!  Mankind’s righteousness is now redeemed. Jesus Christ is proof of God’s grace gift; he redeemed the glory of God in human life; mankind condemned in the language of religion, is now mankind justified in the language of the gospel!  MIRROR

ROM 5:15 The only similarity in the comparison between the 1crash-landing and the gift, is that both Adam and Christ represent the masses. However, the grace gift lavished upon mankind in the one man Jesus Christ supersedes the effect of Adam’s failure by far and is beyond comparison in significance to the idea of 2death and separation.

16 The principle of the gift speaks a different language and brings a radically different equation to the table. Whereas a single sin resulted in a judgment that concluded in condemnation; grace translates countless deviations into acquittal and innocence.

17 Death no longer has the final say. Life rules! If the effect of one man’s crash-landing engaged mankind in a death-dominated lifestyle how much more advantaged is the very same mankind now that they are the recipients of the boundless reservoirs of grace, empowering them to enjoy the dominion of life through the gift of righteousness because of that one man, Jesus Christ. Grace is out of all proportion in superiority to the transgression. MIRROR

ROM 5:20 The presence of the law made no difference, instead it merely highlighted the offence; but where sin increased, grace superseded it.

21 Death provided sin its platform and power to reign from; now grace has taken over sovereignty through righteousness to introduce unthreatened life under the Lordship of Jesus Christ over us.  A simple equation: We were not made sinners by our own disobedience; neither were we made righteous by our own obedience.

The same humanity represented in the one man Adam, is triumphantly represented in the one man Jesus Christ!  Adam’s transgression no longer holds the human race hostage.  MIRROR

ROM 6:14  Sin was your master while the law was your measure; now grace rules.  

15 Being under grace and not under the law most certainly does not mean that you now have a license to sin. MIRROR

ROM 11:6 Grace cannot suggest debt or obligation at the same time. The word grace can only mean what it says. The same argument goes for mankind’s good works; if salvation or any advantage for that matter is to be obtained according to prescribed regulations of conduct, then that’s it. No amount of grace can change the rules! Grace means grace and work means work.

7 The very thing Israel sought to obtain through their diligent labor they failed to get; yet those who embraced grace as God’s 1original intent hit the bull’s eye every time, leaving the rest groping around in the dark like blindfolded archers.  MIRROR

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

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

6 You certainly have the testimony of Christ evidenced in you 

7 In receiving the revelation of Jesus Christ as the principal influence in your life (his Lordship), you prove that you lack nothing and that his grace gifts fully compliment you.   MIRROR

1 COR 15:10 While my own doing completely disqualified me; his doing now defines me. I am what I am by the grace of God. I am because he is! His grace was not wasted on me; instead I am inspired to labor beyond the point of exhaustion, more than anything I ever did under the law of performance; whatever it is that I accomplish now has grace written all over it. I take no credit for it.  MIRROR

2 Corinthians 6:1 Now, since we are God’s coworkers, we beg you not to take God’s marvelous grace for granted, allowing it to have no effect on your lives.

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

2 COR 9:8 It is impossible to exaggerate the dimensions and detail of the grace of God! Plunge into the extravagance of grace where he exhibits the extreme dynamics of his bountiful dealing with us! We are already advantaged far beyond any calculation of personal merit to be completely self sufficient at all times in every possible situation that we might face! The overflow thereof amply supplies the needs of others in many creative ways to do good!  MIRROR

GAL 1:15 God’s eternal love dream separated me from my mother’s womb; his grace became my identity.     MIRROR

GAL 2:21 21 It is an insult to the grace of God to prefer Moses to Jesus! If the law could justify you then Jesus wasted his time dying your death! MIRROR

EPH 2:5 This is how grace rescued us: while we were yet in that state of deadness and indifference in our deviations, we were co-quickened together with Christ! We had nothing to do with it. Grace freed us, once and for all from the lies that we believed about ourselves under the performance-driven system, and now defines our authentic identity!

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

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

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

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

2 TIM 1:10 Everything that grace pointed to is now realized in Jesus Christ and brought into clear view through the gospel: Jesus is what grace reveals. He took death out of the equation and re-defines life; this is good news indeed!

11 Grace is my commission; it is my job and joy to proclaim this message and guide the nations into a full understanding of the love initiative of God.   MIRROR

Hebrews 4:16 So now we draw near freely and boldly to where grace is enthroned, to receive mercy’s kiss and discover the grace we urgently need to strengthen us in our time of weakness.  TPT

SURRENDER 2-2-2024  VIDEO SURRENDER

You did not have to make up excuses, nor do you have to hide anything or keep anything secret from the Father. Just give it over to him. Put it in his hands and don’t take it back. He can be trusted. Surrender means to quit fighting and submit to the authority of the highest power, the Lord God, Almighty. When you surrendered to the good news of the gospel no longer will you have to surrender to worry or fear or self hatred. A quote from Martin Luther, “I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all. But whenever I have placed it in God‘s hands I still possess”. Giving it up to God will result in peace. Surrender is trusting God because He is our safe place.

Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel (good news) of Christ, for it is God’s power working unto salvation [for deliverance from eternal death] to everyone who believes with a personal trust and a confident surrender and firm reliance, to the Jew first and also to the Greek, AMP

1 John 3:20 Whenever our hearts in [tormenting] self-accusation make us feel guilty and condemn us. [For we are in God’s hands.] For He is above and greater than our consciences (our hearts), and He knows (perceives and understands) everything [nothing is hidden from Him].

21 And, beloved, if our consciences (our hearts) do not accuse us [if they do not make us feel guilty and condemn us], we have confidence (complete assurance and boldness) before God,

22 And we receive from Him whatever we ask, because we [watchfully] obey His orders [observe His suggestions and injunctions, follow His plan for us] and [habitually] practice what is pleasing to Him.  AMP

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1 JN 3:20 So, even if our own hearts would accuse us of not really being true to ourselves, God is greater than our hearts and he has the full picture! His knowledge of us is not compromised.  

21 Beloved when we know what God knows to be true about us, then instead of condemning us, our hearts will endorse our innocence and 1free our conversation before God.  

22 Now, instead of begging God, we speak with confident liberty as sons. We also treasure the conclusion of his prophetic purpose [in redeeming our sonship] and fully accommodate ourselves to his desires and pleasure! Knowing the warmth in his eyes inspire poetic freedom in our every expression.  MIRROR

ROM 6:16 As much as you once gave permission to sin to trap you in its spiral of spiritual death and enslave you to its dictates, the obedience that faith ignites now, introduces a new rule, rightness with God; to this we willingly yield ourselves.  

17 The content of teaching that your heart embraced has set a new standard to become the pattern of your life; the grace of God ended sin’s dominance.  MIRROR ▼▼▼

Romans 6:16 Don’t you realize that grace frees you to choose your own master? But choose carefully, for you surrender yourself to become a servant—bound to the one you choose to obey. If you choose to love sin, it will become your master, and it will own you and reward you with death. But if you choose to love and obey God, he will lead you into perfect righteousness.

¹⁷And thanks be to God, for in the past you were servants of sin, but now your obedience is heart deep, and your life is being molded by truth through the teaching you are devoted to.   TPT

Ps 22:4 Our fathers trusted in You; they trusted (leaned on, relied on You, and were confident) and You delivered them.

5 They cried to You and were delivered; they trusted in, leaned on, and confidently relied on You, and were not ashamed or confounded or disappointed.  AMP   ▼▼▼

Psalms 22:4 ⁴Our fathers’ faith was in you—through the generations they trusted in you and you came through.

⁵Every time they cried out to you in their despair, you were faithful to deliver them;

you didn’t disappoint them.  TPT

Ps 25:1 UNTO YOU, O Lord, do I bring my life.

2 O my God, I trust, lean on, rely on, and am confident in You. Let me not be put to shame or [my hope in You] be disappointed; let not my enemies triumph over me.

3 Yes, let none who trust and wait hopefully and look for You be put to shame or be disappointed; let them be ashamed who forsake the right or deal treacherously without cause.

4 Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths.

5 Guide me in Your truth and faithfulness and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; for You [You only and altogether] do I wait [expectantly] all the day long. AMP

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

28 And I give them the life of the ages and they shall never be lost neither shall anyone wrestle them out of my hand.

29 As for my Father, what he has given me is most precious and no-one can snatch them out of his hand!  MIRROR

Phil 4:6  Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God.

7 And God’s peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] AMP

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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

Psalms 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

ROM 8:31 All these things point to one conclusion, God is for us! Who can prevail against us?  MIRROR

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

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HEB 10:22 We are free to approach God with absolute confidence, fully persuaded in our hearts that nothing can any longer separate us. We are invited to draw near now! We are thoroughly cleansed, inside and out, with no trace of sin’s stains on our conscience or conduct. The sprinkled blood purges our inner thought-patterns; our bodies also are bathed in clean water.  MIRROR

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

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Isa 41:10 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

Ps 112:7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is firmly fixed, trusting (leaning on and being confident) in the Lord.

8 His heart is established and steady, he will not be afraid while he waits to see his desire established upon his adversaries.  AMP ▼▼▼

Ps 112:7 Unfazed by rumor and gossip, Heart ready, trusting in God,

8 Spirit firm, unperturbed, Ever blessed, relaxed among enemies, MSG

John 20:31 But these are written (recorded) in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ (the Anointed One), the Son of God, and that through believing and cleaving to and trusting and relying upon Him you may have life through (in) His name [through Who He is].  AMP

1 Cor 1:9 God is faithful (reliable, trustworthy, and therefore ever true to His promise, and He can be depended on); by Him you were called into companionship and participation with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.    AMP

1 COR 10:13 Your situation is not unique! Every human life faces contradictions! Here is the Good News: God believes in your freedom! He has made it possible for you to triumph in every situation that you will ever encounter!  MIRROR  VIDEO