RESURRECTION LIFE 4-17-22 VIDEO OUR RISEN SAVIOR 2 #4

What began on Friday look like total defeat changed totally bringing victory. And now everything is different!!!

We certainly do not doubt Jesus rose from the dead. He also descended into the deepest pit of human despair and took those enemies captive and brought them before the Father for the judgment fully setting free all of mankind.

Luke 24:1 Very early that Sunday morning, the women made their way to the tomb, carrying the spices they had prepared. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Jesus’ mother Mary.

²Arriving at the tomb they discovered that the huge stone covering the entrance had been rolled aside,

³so they went in to look. But the tomb was empty. The body of Jesus was gone!

⁴They stood there, stunned and perplexed. Suddenly, two men appeared above them in dazzling white robes shining like lightning.

⁵Terrified, the women fell to the ground on their faces. The men in white said to them, “Why would you look for the Living One in a tomb? He is not here, for he has risen!

⁶Have you forgotten what he said to you while he was still in Galilee:

⁷‘The destiny of the Son of Man is to be handed over to sinful men, to be nailed to a cross, and on the third day to rise again’?”

⁸All at once they remembered his words. 

9 Leaving the tomb, they went to break the news to the Eleven and to all the others of what they had seen and heard.

¹¹When the disciples heard the testimony of the women, it made no sense, and they were unable to believe what they heard.

¹²But Peter jumped up and ran the entire distance to the tomb to see for himself. Stooping down, he looked inside and discovered it was empty! There was only the linen sheet lying there. Staggered by this, he walked away, wondering what it meant. TPT

LUKE 24:13 Later that same day, two of Jesus’ disciples were walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus, a journey of about seventeen miles.  5 HOURS

14-15 They were in the midst of a discussion about all the events of the last few days when Jesus walked up and accompanied them in their journey.

¹⁶They were unaware that it was actually Jesus walking alongside them, for God prevented them from recognizing him.  TPT

Luke 24:25 Jesus said to them, “Why are you so thick-headed? Why do you find it so hard to believe every word the prophets have spoken?

²⁶Wasn’t it necessary for the Messiah to experience all these sufferings and afterward to enter into his glory?”

²⁷And beginning with Moses and all the prophets he carefully unveiled to them the revelation of himself throughout the Scriptures.

²⁸As they approached the village, Jesus walked on ahead, telling them he was going on to a distant place.

²⁹They urged him to remain there with them and pleaded, “Stay with us. It will be dark soon.” So Jesus went with them into the village.

³⁰Joining them at the table for supper, he took bread and blessed it and broke it, then gave it to them.

³¹All at once their eyes were opened and they realized he was Jesus! Then suddenly, in a flash, Jesus vanished from before their eyes!

³²Stunned, they looked at each other and said, “Why didn’t we recognize him? Didn’t our hearts burn with the flames of holy passion while we walked beside him? He unveiled for us such profound revelation from the Scriptures!” 

33 “They left at once and hurried back to Jerusalem to tell the other disciples. When they found the Eleven and the other disciples all together,  TPT

LUKE 24:36-37 While they were still discussing all of this, Jesus suddenly appeared right in front of their eyes! Startled and terrified, the disciples were convinced they were seeing a ghost. Standing there among them he said, “Be at peace. I am the living God. Don’t be afraid.

38 Why are you so frightened? Don’t let doubt enter your hearts.

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

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

41 The disciples were ecstatic, yet dumbfounded, unable to fully comprehend it. Knowing that they were still wondering if he was real, Jesus said, “Here, let me show you. Give me something to eat.”

42-43 They handed him a piece of broiled fish and some honeycomb. And they watched him eat.”  TPT

JOHN 20:19 That evening of the first day of the week, the disciples were gathered in a room with the doors locked because they were afraid of the Jews. Suddenly Jesus stepped into their midst and said, “Shalom

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

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

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

23 “If you forgive someone’s sins, they are gone and forgotten. If you don’t let go, then you are stuck with them.” MIRROR

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John 20:22-23 And then he breathed upon them and said, “Receive holy spirit. If you forgive any men’s sins, they are forgiven, and if you hold them unforgiven, they are unforgiven.”  PHILLIPS

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

EPH 4: 8 Scripture confirms that he arrested every possible threat that held mankind hostage! [“he took captivity captive”] And in his resurrection, he led us as trophies in his triumphant procession on high. Consider the genius of God, in the incarnate Christ, he repossessed what belonged to us by design, in human form; this is his grace-gift to us!

9 The fact that he ascended confirms his victorious descent into the deepest pits of human despair.  “No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, even the son of man.” 

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

EPH 4:24 Remain fully immersed in this God-shaped new person from above! You are created in the image and likeness of God. This is what righteousness and true holiness are all about. MIRROR

Acts 2:24 God destroyed the cords of death and raised him up, because it was impossible for death’s power to hold him prisoner.

²⁵This is the very thing David prophesied about him: ‘I continually see the Lord in front of me. He’s at my right hand, and I am never shaken.

²⁶No wonder my heart is glad and my glory celebrates! My mouth is filled with his praises, and I have hope that my body will live

²⁷because you will not leave my soul among the dead, nor will you allow your sacred one to experience decay.

²⁸For you have revealed to me the pathways to life, and seeing your face fills me with euphoria!’

²⁹“My fellow Jews, I can tell you there is no doubt that our noted patriarch has both died and been buried in his tomb, which remains to this day. So you can see that he was not referring to himself with those words.

³⁰But as a prophet, he knew God’s faithful promise, made with God’s unbreakable oath, that one of his descendants would take his throne.

³¹So when peering into the future, David prophesied of the Messiah’s resurrection. And God revealed to him that the Messiah would not be abandoned to the realm of death, nor would his body experience decay.

³²“Can’t you see it? God has resurrected Jesus, and we all have seen him!  TPT

ROM 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.

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

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

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

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

1 Cor 15:12  Now, let me ask you something profound yet troubling. If you became believers because you trusted the proclamation that Christ is alive, risen from the dead, how can you let people say that there is no such thing as a resurrection?

13 If there’s no resurrection, there’s no living Christ.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2 COR 4:10 Wherever we go, whatever we encounter in our bodies, we bear witness within us of the fact that Jesus died our death; in this same body, we now exhibit his life. The fact that we co-died in his death confirms that we now co-live in his resurrection!  MIRROR

Philippians 3:10 And I continually long to know the wonders of Jesus and to experience the overflowing power of his resurrection working in me. I will be one with him in his sufferings and become like him in his death.

¹¹Only then will I be able to experience complete oneness with him in his resurrection from the realm of death.  TPT

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

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

Col 3:1 IF THEN you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, thus sharing His resurrection from the dead], aim at and seek the [rich, eternal treasures] that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 

2 And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on the earth.

3 For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.  AMP

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

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

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

Rom 8:11 And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.

12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh [we are not obligated to our carnal nature], to live [a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates] of the flesh.

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RO 8:11 Our union with Christ further reveals that because the same Spirit that awakened the body of Jesus from the dead inhabits us, we equally participate in his resurrection. In the same act of authority whereby God raised Jesus from the dead, he co-restores your body to life by his indwelling Spirit.  

12 We owe flesh nothing.   MIRROR

Eph 2:5 Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation).

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

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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.  MIRROR

Col 2:12  [Thus you were circumcised when] you were buried with Him in [your] baptism, in which you were also raised with Him [to a new life] through [your] faith in the working of God [as displayed] when He raised Him up from the dead.  AMP ▼▼▼

COL 2:12 In the same parallel [your co-circumcision in his death], your co-burial and joint-resurrection is now demonstrated in baptism; your co-inclusion in Christ is what God’s faith knew when he powerfully raised him from the dead.  MIRROR

1 THESS 4:16 In their awakening, the dead will all, first-hand witness the Lord stepping out of the invisible heavenly realm into their immediate visible horizon with an inciting shout, announcing his triumphant reign in the trumpet-like billowing voice of God.

17 In the wake of their arising, we will all be gathered into a large dense multitude of an innumerable throng of people, united as one, like the particles of water in a cloud, and we will encounter the Lord in the very air we breathe and so shall we continually celebrate our I-am-ness in our union with him.  MIRROR   

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GOOD FRIDAY 4-15-22  VIDEO LAMB OF GOD SACRIFICED 2

What made good Friday so good? Through the actions of one man, mankind, from the past present and those to come were restored and brought to newness of life. Jesus was not born of earth he is from heaven. Jesus had to be born by the spirit so mankind could be totally saved. It was sealed and confirmed in the spirit beginning in the garden of Gethsemane. In the beginning Jesus ministry Satan tempted him in the wilderness Jesus was not going to give into the temptations. Satan withdrew for a more opportune time.  That time was when Jesus was at the garden at the time the battle for mankind was restored. It was done in the Spirit settled in heaven. Then Jesus settled in the earth on the cross. Sickness sin and death were all defeated. salvation doesn’t just mean that you will go to heaven When you die. But you are safe from the curse, the curse of the law.

Matt 26:36  Then Jesus went with them to a garden called Gethsemane and told his disciples, “Stay here while I go over there and pray.”

37 Taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he plunged into an agonizing sorrow.

38 Then he said, “This sorrow is crushing my life out. Stay here and keep vigil with me.”

39 Going a little ahead, he fell on his face, praying, “My Father, if there is any way, get me out of this. But please, not what I want. You, what do you want?”

40 When he came back to his disciples, he found them sound asleep. He said to Peter, “Can’t you stick it out with me a single hour?

41 Stay alert; be in prayer so you don’t wander into temptation without even knowing you’re in danger. There is a part of you that is eager, ready for anything in God. But there’s another part that’s as lazy as an old dog sleeping by the fire.”

42 He then left them a second time. Again he prayed, “My Father, if there is no other way than this, drinking this cup to the dregs, I’m ready. Do it your way.”

43 When he came back, he again found them sound asleep. They simply couldn’t keep their eyes open.

44 This time he let them sleep on, and went back a third time to pray, going over the same ground one last time.

45 When he came back the next time, he said, “Are you going to sleep on and make a night of it? My time is up, the Son of Man is about to be handed over to the hands of sinners.

46 Get up! Let’s get going! My betrayer is here.”  MSG

1 Cor 15:45  We follow this sequence in Scripture: The First Adam received life, the Last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.

46 Physical life comes first, then spiritual —  

47 a firm base shaped from the earth, a final completion coming out of heaven.

48 The First Man was made out of earth, and people since then are earthy; the Second Man was made out of heaven, and people now can be heavenly.

49 In the same way that we’ve worked from our earthy origins, let’s embrace our heavenly ends. MSG

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1 Corinthians 15:45 For it is written: The first man, Adam, became a living soul.

The last Adam became the life-giving Spirit. 

⁴⁶However, the spiritual didn’t come first. The natural precedes the spiritual. 

⁴⁷The first man was from the dust of the earth; the second Man is Yahweh, from the realm of heaven. 

⁴⁸The first one, made from dust, has a race of people just like him, who are also made from dust. The One sent from heaven has a race of heavenly people who are just like him. 

⁴⁹Once we carried the likeness of the man of dust, but now let us carry the likeness of the man of heaven.  TPT

ROM 5:12 One person opened the door to sin. Sin introduced (spiritual) death. Both sin and death had a global impact. No one escaped its tyranny.  

13 The law did not introduce sin; it was just not pointed out yet.

14 In the mean time death dominated everyone’s lifestyle, from Adam till Moses,

15 The only similarity in the comparison between the crash-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 death 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.

5:18 The conclusion is clear: if one offence condemns the entire human race; then in principle, the righteousness of one vindicates the entire human race.  

19 The disobedience of the one exhibits mankind as sinners; the obedience of another exhibits mankind as righteous. MIRROR

ROM 5:21 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

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Romans 5:21 And just as sin reigned through death, so also this sin-conquering grace will reign as king through righteousness, imparting eternal life through Jesus, our Lord and Messiah!  TPT

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

15 The new creation in Christ steals the show; not whether someone is circumcised or not!  

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

GAL 2:19 The law demanded my death; grace reveals that in God’s mind Jesus died that death. So as far as the law is concerned, I’m a dead man but as far as God is concerned I’m alive! MIRROR

1 JOHN 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! MIRROR

EPH 2:13 But now, wow! Everything has changed; you have discovered yourselves to be located in Christ. What once seemed so distant is now so near; his blood reveals your redeemed innocence and authentic genesis. 

14 It is in him that we are one and at peace with everyone; he dissolved every definition of division.  MIRROR

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

¹⁴Our 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. TPT

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

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Colossians 1:20And by the blood of his cross, everything in heaven and earth is brought back to himself— back to its original intent, restored to innocence again! TPT

Hebrews 9:12And he has entered once and forever into the Holiest Sanctuary of All, not with the blood of animal sacrifices, but the sacred blood of his own sacrifice. And he alone has made our salvation secure forever!

¹³Under the old covenant the blood of bulls, goats, and the ashes of a heifer were sprinkled on those who were defiled and effectively cleansed them outwardly from their ceremonial impurities. 

¹⁴Yet how much more will the sacred blood of the Messiah thoroughly cleanse our consciences! For by the power of the eternal Spirit he has offered himself to God as the perfect Sacrifice that now frees us from our dead works to worship and serve the living God. TPT

Heb 1:3  He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the out-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God’s] nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the divine Majesty on high, AMP 

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

HEB 10:10 So, by this fulfilled will, in the mind of God and by his resolution he declares mankind immediately sanctified through one sacrifice; the presentation of the body of Jesus Christ.

11 Every priest continually repeats the same daily rituals and sacrifices, knowing that they have always proved incapable of removing sins.

12 But now we have an exception. In complete contrast to the previous priesthood, this priest offered a single sacrifice of perpetual efficacy for sins. To celebrate the perfection of what was attained through his single sacrifice, he sat down as the executive authority of God.  He occupies the highest seat of dominion to endorse mankind’s innocence! “Having accomplished purification of sins, he sat down.”)

13 His seat of authority is established upon the fully realized, prophetic expectation that all his enemies would be subdued. He would most certainly stand in triumph with his feet on their necks. MIRROR

Hebrews 12:24And we have come to Jesus who established a new covenant with his blood sprinkled upon the mercy seat; blood that continues to speak from heaven, “forgiveness,” a better message than Abel’s blood that cries from the earth, “justice.” TPT

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

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

1 Corinthians 1:18  To preach the message of the cross seems like sheer nonsense to those who are on their way to destruction, but to us who are being saved, it is the mighty power of God released within us. TPT

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

Isa 53:10  Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief and made Him sick. When You and He make His life an offering for sin [and He has risen from the dead, in time to come], He shall see His [spiritual] offspring, He shall prolong His days, and the will and pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. AMP

GUILT  Lev 7:1 THIS IS the law of the guilt or trespass offering; it is most holy or sacred: 

2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the guilt or trespass offering; the blood of it shall the priest dash against the altar round about.   AMP

Heb 1:3  He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the out-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God’s] nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the divine Majesty on high, AMP  

John 5:2  Now there is in Jerusalem a pool near the Sheep Gate. This pool in the Hebrew is called Bethesda, having five porches (alcoves, colonnades, doorways).

3 In these lay a great number of sick folk — some blind, some crippled, and some paralyzed (shriveled up) — waiting for the bubbling up of the water.  AMP

John 10:7 So Jesus said again, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that I Myself am the Door for the sheep.

8 All others who came [as such] before Me are thieves and robbers, but the [true] sheep did not listen to and obey them.

9 I am the Door; anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out [freely], and will find pasture.  AMP

John 7:37  On the final and climactic day of the Feast, Jesus took his stand. He cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

38 Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me this way, just as the Scripture says.”  MSG

REV 22:1 And he pointed me to a river with crystal clear, living waters, flowing out of God’s throne, endorsing the reign of the Lamb.  

2 The Tree of Life is the central theme throughout the City – right down the middle of the street, as well as on each side of the River, producing twelve varieties of ripe fruit, all year round. The leaves of the Tree are for the healing of the nations.  MIRROR

REV 7:17 For the little Lamb who occupies the center stage of the throne will shepherd them and lead them beside living springs of water and God shall blot out every hurtful memory of the tears they have cried!  MIRROR

Hebrews 13:20 Now may the God who brought us peace by raising from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ so that he would be the Great Shepherd of his flock; and by the power of the blood of the eternal covenant 

²¹may he work perfection into every part of you giving you all that you need to fulfill your destiny. And may he express through you all that is excellent and pleasing to him through your life-union with Jesus the Anointed One who is to receive all glory forever! Amen!  TPT

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DO IT ANYWAY 4-8-22 VIDEO IMPOSSIBLE MADE POSSIBLE 2 2

Sometimes we feel afraid really confused about taking a new step forward in our lives. The word says “Do it anyway“. Trust me even if you feel afraid, I will be with you. When the pressure feels at its strongest you can trust God to make away for you.

Fear is the opposite of trust. Trust God no matter how much fear tries to stop you do it anyway! God raise his promises from the dead. It seems at times there’s no way or nothing left to believe. But God will raises the promises if it when they seem dead that’s resurrection power.

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.

⁵You become my delicious feast even when my enemies dare to fight. You anoint me with the fragrance of your Holy Spirit; you give me all I can drink of you until my cup overflows.

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

Isaiah 43:18-19 Stop dwelling on the past. Don’t even remember these former things. I am doing something brand new, something unheard of. Even now it sprouts and grows and matures. Don’t you perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and open up flowing streams in the desert. TPT

Ps 119:32  I’ll run the course you lay out for me if you’ll just show me how. MSG

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Ps 119:32 I will [not merely walk, but] run the way of Your commandments, when You give me a heart that is willing.  AMP

Ps 119:41 Let your love, God, shape my life with salvation, exactly as you promised;

42 Then I’ll be able to stand up to mockery because I trusted your Word. MSG

Prov 2:7 “For the Lord has a hidden storehouse of wisdom made accessible to his godly ones. He becomes your personal bodyguard as you follow his ways, protecting and guarding you as you choose what is right.

9 Then you will discover all that is just, proper, and fair, and be empowered to make the right decisions as you walk into your destiny.”  TPT

Luke 1:79 Shining on those in the darkness, those sitting in the shadow of death, Then showing us the way, one foot at a time, down the path of peace. MSG

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Luke 1:79 The word from heaven will come to us with dazzling light to shine upon those who live in darkness, near death’s dark shadow. And he will illuminate the path that leads to the way of peace.” TPT

John 14:1 “Don’t worry or surrender to your fear. For you’ve believed in God, now trust and believe in me also. 

²My Father’s house has many dwelling places. If it were otherwise, I would tell you plainly, because I go to prepare a place for you. 

³And when everything is ready, I will come back and take you to myself so that you will be where I am. 

⁴And you already know the way to the place where I’m going.”

⁵Thomas said to him, “Master, we don’t know where you’re going, so how could we know the way there?”

⁶Jesus explained, “I am the Way, I am the Truth, and I am the Life. No one comes next to the Father except through union with me. To know me is to know my Father too. TPT

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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.

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

5 Thomas said, “No, we don’t get it; we have no idea where you are going with this – how could we possibly have known the way?”

6 Jesus said, “My I-am-ness [mirrored in you] is your way; this is your truth and also your life! Every single person is now brought face to face with the Father entirely because of my doing.”  MIRROR

Job 32:8 But I see I was wrong — it’s God’s Spirit in a person, the breath of the Almighty One, that makes wise human insight possible.  MSG

Judg 6:15 Gideon said to Him, Oh Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Behold, my clan is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.

16 The Lord said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man.

17 Gideon said to Him, If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You Who talks with me.  AMP

Judg 6:21 Then the Angel of the Lord reached out the tip of the staff that was in His hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes, and there flared up fire from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then the Angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.

22 And when Gideon perceived that He was the Angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face!

23 The Lord said to him, Peace be to you, do not fear; you shall not die.

24 Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, The Lord is Peace. To this day it still stands in Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.  AMP

Judg 6:36- And Gideon said to God, If You will deliver Israel by my hand as You have said,

37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that You will deliver Israel by my hand, as You have said.

38 And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the dew out of the fleece, he wrung from it a bowlful of water.

39 And Gideon said to God, Let not your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Let me make trial only this once with the fleece, I pray you; let it now be dry only upon the fleece and upon all the ground let there be dew.

40 And God did so that night, for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.  AMP

Judg 8:22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule over us — you and your son and your son’s son also — for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian.

23 And Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.  AMP

1 Sam 14:6 Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come on now, let’s go across to these uncircumcised pagans. Maybe God will work for us. There’s no rule that says God can only deliver by using a big army. No one can stop God from saving when he sets his mind to it.”  MSG

2 Chron 14:11 Asa cried to the Lord his God, O Lord, there is none besides You to help, and it makes no difference to You whether the one You help is mighty or powerless. Help us, O Lord our God! For we rely on You, and we go against this multitude in Your name. O Lord, You are our God; let no man prevail against You! AMP

Ex 4:10 And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not eloquent or a man of words, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and have a heavy and awkward tongue. 

11 And the Lord said to him, Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the dumb, or the deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 

12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you shall say. 

13 And he said, Oh, my Lord, I pray You, send by the hand of [some other] whom You will [send]. 

14 Then the anger of the Lord blazed against Moses; He said, Is there not Aaron your brother, the Levite? I know he can speak well. Also, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be overjoyed. 

15 You must speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you what you shall do. 

16 He shall speak for you to the people, acting as a mouthpiece for you, and you shall be as God to him.   AMP

Num 11:23 The Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord’s hand (His ability and power) become short (thwarted and inadequate)? You shall see now whether My word shall come to pass for you or not.  AMP

HEB 11:8 By faith Abraham acknowledged the call of God which gave him his identity and destiny, as evidence of his inheritance as he journeyed into the unknown.  

9 Nothing but his faith seemed permanent while Abraham camped in tents like a stranger in the land of promise. His sons Isaac and Jacob joined him as sojourners; equally persuaded that they were heirs of the same promise.

10 His faith saw a city with permanent foundations, designed and constructed by God.

11 Sarah’s testimony of faith is just as amazing: she conceived and bore a child when it was humanly impossible. She believed that God would be faithful to his promise, and gave that belief authority over her life.  

12 Faith brought into reality an offspring beyond calculation; from one as good as dead children would be born more numerous than the stars and as impossible to count as the grains of sand on every distant sea shore.  MIRROR

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Hebrews 11:8 Faith motivated Abraham to obey God’s call and leave the familiar to discover the territory he was destined to inherit from God. So he left with only a promise and without even knowing ahead of time where he was going, Abraham stepped out in faith. 

⁹He lived by faith as an immigrant in his promised land as though it belonged to someone else. He journeyed through the land living in tents with Isaac and Jacob who were persuaded that they were also co-heirs of the same promise.

¹⁰His eyes of faith were set on the city with unshakable foundations, whose architect and builder is God himself. 

¹¹Sarah’s faith embraced God’s miracle power to conceive even though she was barren and was past the age of childbearing, for the authority of her faith rested in the One who made the promise, and she tapped into his faithfulness.

¹²In fact, so many children were subsequently fathered by this aged man of faith—one who was as good as dead, that he now has offspring as innumerable as the sand on the seashore and as the stars in the sky!  TPT

HEB 11:17 Faith became a more tangible evidence of the promise than even Isaac could ever be to Abraham. Isaac neither fulfilled nor replaced the promise. Inspired by what faith saw, Abraham was ready to do the ridiculous; to sacrifice his only son, convinced that not even Isaac’s death could nullify the promise that God had made to him. MIRROR

HEB 11: 18 Yet Abraham knew that God had said that his lineage of faith would be traced through Isaac!  MIRROR

Hebrews 11:6 And without faith living within us it would be impossible to please God. For we come to God in faith knowing that he is real and that he rewards the faith of those who passionately seek him. TPT

Gen 15:1  After all these things, this word of God came to Abram in a vision: “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I’m your shield. Your reward will be grand!”   MSG

LUKE 1:30 The Messenger spoke to her and immediately re-assured her to have no fear – “God is head over heels in love with you! This is your moment to discover how favored you have always been!

31 For behold, you will be mystically captured in your womb and conceive and bear a son. And you shall name him Jesus!

32 The eminence of his stature will be magnificent. He will be known as the son of the Most High. And the Lord God will return to him what already belongs to him, the throne of his father David!  

33 And he will reign as king over the house of Jacob and his kingdom will be without any boundaries.

34 And Mary asked the Messenger, “So how can this be possible while I am still a virgin?”

35 And he said to her, “Holy Spirit will overwhelm you – hovering over you in the power of the Most High. Therefore, this holy begotten one will be called, son of God! MIRROR ▼

LUKE 1:38 Then Mary responded, saying, “This is amazing! I will be a mother for the Lord! As his servant, I accept whatever he has for me. May everything you have told me come to pass.” And the angel left her.  TPT

Psalms 56:3 But in the day that I’m afraid, I lay all my fears before you and trust in you with all my heart. TPT

Psalms 78:52 Then, like a shepherd leading his sheep, God led his people out of tyranny, guiding them through the wilderness like a flock.

⁵³Safely and carefully God led them out, with nothing to fear. But their enemies he led into the sea. He took care of them there once and for all!

⁵⁴Eventually God brought his people to the Holy Land, to a land of hills that he had prepared for them.

⁵⁵He drove out and scattered all the peoples occupying the land, staking out an inheritance, a portion for each of Israel’s tribes.  TPT

Proverbs 16:3 Before you do anything, put your trust totally in God and not in yourself. Then every plan you make will succeed. TPT

THINGS ARE CHANGING  4-3-2022  VIDEO TIMELINE2

Just like seasons change and give way to a new season, so we are in a time of change. In the midst of tough world circumstances, there’s a sense of change in the air. A change means the process of doing and being something or someone different. Change will always bring corresponding actions. The tribe of Issachar was well known for being able to discern the times the new times. It’s a changing of the guard.

Example: the priesthood with the law and Aaron gave way to the new priesthood of Jesus. Now we are a new royal priesthood.  If we can’t change and do the new things we’re living in the old things. We must as Gods people discern the times and learn how to act to set the course to accelerate His purposes on the earth. 

Luke 12:56 Frauds! You know how to tell a change in the weather, so don’t tell me you can’t tell a change in the season, the God-season we’re in right now. MSG

Jer 8:7 Cranes know when it’s time to move south for winter. And robins, warblers, and bluebirds know when it’s time to come back again. But my people? My people know nothing, not the first thing of God and his rule.

8 “‘How can you say, “We know the score. We’re the proud owners of God’s revelation”? Look where it’s gotten you — stuck in illusion. Your religion experts have taken you for a ride!  MSG

Isa 48:3 For a long time now, I’ve let you in on the way I work: I told you what I was going to do beforehand, then I did it and it was done, and that’s that.

4 I know you’re a bunch of hardheads, obstinate and flint-faced,

5 So I got a running start and began telling you what was going on before it even happened. That is why you can’t say, ‘My god-idol did this.’ ‘My favorite god-carving commanded this.’

6 You have all this evidence confirmed by your own eyes and ears. Shouldn’t you be talking about it? And that was just the beginning. I have a lot more to tell you, things you never knew existed.

7 This isn’t a variation on the same old thing. This is new, brand-new, something you’d never guess or dream up. When you hear this you won’t be able to say, ‘I knew that all along.’

8 You’ve never been good listeners to me. You have a history of ignoring me, A sorry track record of fickle attachments —  rebels from the womb. MSG

Luke 19:41 And as they proceeded, he burst into tears at the sight of the city!  

42 Oh Jerusalem, this is your moment! If only you perceived your peace, right here, right now! But now it is hidden from view!

43 For soon your adversaries will encircle you and besiege you with barricades, shutting you in from every side.

44 And whatever defined you and your children historically, will be brought down and levelled to the ground – not a single  stone will remain upon another! This will mirror your failure to perceive 1the relevance of this moment!  MIRROR

Heb 7:12 If there is a new order of priesthood, there must obviously be a new law.  

13 The person who is prophetically implicated as being the leader of this new priesthood belongs to a completely different tribe. This implies a complete break with tradition because no one from any tribe other than the Levites ever touched the altar.

14 History is clear that the Lord’s lineage is from Judah, concerning whom Moses made no mention of a priestly office.

15 Of far greater significance and even more apparent is the fact that Jesus is mirrored in Melchizedek in whom the new priestly office arises.

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

17 Thus Scripture confirms his perpetual priesthood exactly according to the pattern of Melchizedek.

18 This new order brought about an immediate end to the previous inferior and useless system of laws and commandments.

19 In its ability to reunite mankind with God, the law did not succeed even once; that is why it was superseded by the introduction of a far superior hope, a new order in which we are perfectly represented before God.

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7:24 But there will be no successor to the Priesthood of Jesus because he remains forever.    MIRROR

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

10 Once you were not a people [at all], but now you are God’s people; once you were unpitied, but now you are pitied and have received mercy.  AMP

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1 Peter 2:9 But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God’s instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you —  

10 from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted.  MSG

Matt 11:12 For a long time now people have tried to force themselves into God’s kingdom.

13 But if you read the books of the Prophets and God’s Law closely, you will see them culminate in John, teaming up with him in preparing the way for the Messiah of the kingdom.

14 Looked at in this way, John is the ‘Elijah’ you’ve all been expecting to arrive and introduce the Messiah. MSG

RO 13:11 You must understand the urgency and context of time; it is most certainly now the hour to wake up at once out of the hypnotic state of slumber and unbelief. Salvation has come.

12 It was night for long enough; the day has arrived. Cease immediately with any action associated with the darkness of ignorance. Clothe yourselves in the radiance of light as soldiers would wear their full weaponry.

13 Our lives exhibit the kind of conduct consistent with the day, in contrast to the parade of the night of intoxicated licentiousness and lust, with all the quarrels and jealousy it ignites.

14 By being fully clothed in Christ makes it impossible for the flesh to even imagine to find any further expression or fulfillment in lust. Jesus is Lord of your life.  MIRROR

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Romans 13:11 To live like this is all the more urgent, for time is running out and you know it is a strategic hour in human history. It is time for us to wake up! For our full salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

¹² Night’s darkness is dissolving away as a new day of destiny dawns. So we must once and for all strip away what is done in the shadows of darkness, removing it like filthy clothes. And once and for all we clothe ourselves with the radiance of light as our weapon.

¹³ We must live honorably, surrounded by the light of this new day, not in the darkness of drunkenness and debauchery, not in promiscuity and sensuality, not being argumentative or jealous of others.

¹⁴ Instead fully immerse yourselves into the Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, and don’t waste even a moment’s thought on your former identity to awaken its selfish desires. TPT

 2 Cor 5:17 Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!  AMP

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

Matt 3:8 Bring forth fruit that is consistent with repentance [let your lives prove your change of heart];  AMP

Mark 1:14 Now after John was arrested and put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the good news (the Gospel) of the kingdom of God,

15 And saying, The [appointed period of] time is fulfilled (completed), and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent (have a change of mind which issues in regret for past sins and in change of conduct for the better) and believe (trust in, rely on, and adhere to) the good news (the Gospel).  AMP

Isa 42:9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.

10 Sing to the Lord a new song, and His praise from the end of the earth! You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, the islands and coastal regions and the inhabitants of them [sing a song such as has never been heard in the heathen world]! AMP  ▼▼▼

 Isa 42:9-10 Take note: The earlier predictions of judgment have been fulfilled. I’m announcing the new salvation work. Before it bursts on the scene, I’m telling you all about it.”

10 Sing to God a brand-new song, sing his praises all over the world! Let the sea and its fish give a round of applause, with all the far-flung islands joining in. MSG

Philippians 3:7 Yet all of the accomplishments that I once took credit for, I’ve now forsaken them and I regard it all as nothing compared to the delight of experiencing Jesus Christ as my Lord!

⁸To truly know him meant letting go of everything from my past and throwing all my boasting on the garbage heap. It’s all like a pile of manure to me now, so that I may be enriched in the reality of knowing Jesus Christ and embrace him as Lord in all of his greatness.

⁹My passion is to be consumed with him and not cling to my own “righteousness” based in keeping the written Law. My only “righteousness” will be his, based on the faithfulness of Jesus Christ—the very righteousness that comes from God.  TPT

Phil 1:9 And this I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more and extend to its fullest development in knowledge and all keen insight [that your love may display itself in greater depth of acquaintance and more comprehensive discernment],

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

Prov 4:1 HEAR, MY sons, the instruction of a father, and pay attention in order to gain and to know intelligent discernment, comprehension, and interpretation [of spiritual matters].

2 For I give you good doctrine [what is to be received]; do not forsake my teaching. AMP

Ephesians 4:14 And then our immaturity will end! And we will not be easily shaken by trouble, nor led astray by novel teachings or by the false doctrines of deceivers who teach clever lies. 

¹⁵But instead we will remain strong and always sincere in our love as we express the truth. All our direction and ministries will flow from Christ and lead us deeper into him, the anointed Head of his body, the church.

¹⁶For his “body” has been formed in his image and is closely joined together and constantly connected as one. And every member has been given divine gifts to contribute to the growth of all; and as these gifts operate effectively throughout the whole body, we are built up and made perfect in love. TPT

Eph 4:23 And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude],  AMP

LUKE 3:8 Now, bear fruit that matches the awakening of your authentic identity and your redeemed innocence! Quit seeking your origin in Abraham – your true lineage is found in God’s faith; not in Abraham’s efforts to bear children! See beyond mere flesh and discover God’s power raising the offspring of Abraham out of these stones! MIRROR

Dan 2:21  He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding!  AMP

Ps 31:15 My times are in Your hands; deliver me from the hands of my foes and those who pursue me and persecute me. AMP

Jer 29:11  I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out — plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.

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

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

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

THE PEOPLE OF GOD by Mary Dorian 3-27-22

Matthew 24:4 Jesus answered, “At that time deception will run rampant. So beware that you are not fooled! 

⁵For many will appear on the scene claiming my authority or saying about themselves, ‘I am the Anointed One,’ and they will lead many astray.

⁶“You will hear of wars and revolutions on every side, with more rumors of wars to come. Don’t panic or give in to your fears, for the breaking apart of the world’s systems is destined to happen. But it won’t yet be the end; it will still be unfolding.

⁷“Nations will go to war against nations and kingdoms against kingdoms. And there will be terrible earthquakes, horrible epidemics, and famines in place after place. ⁸This is how the birth pains of the new age will begin!”

⁹“You can expect to be persecuted, even killed; for you will be hated by all the nations because of your love for me. 

¹⁰Then many will stop following me and fall away, and they will betray one another and hate one another. 

¹¹And many lying prophets will arise, deceiving multitudes and leading them away from the path of truth. 

¹²There will be such an increase of the sin of lawlessness that those whose hearts once burned with passion for God and others will grow cold. 

¹³But hold your hope firmly to the end and you will experience life and deliverance.

¹⁴“Yet through it all, the good news of heaven’s kingdom will be proclaimed all over the world, providing every nation with a demonstration of the reality of God. And after that the end of this age will arrive.”  TPT

Joel 2:25 And I will restore or replace for you the years that the locust has eaten — the hopping locust, the stripping locust, and the crawling locust, My great army which I sent among you.

26 And you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord, your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you. And My people shall never be put to shame.

27 And you shall know, understand, and realize that I am in the midst of Israel and that I the Lord am your God and there is none else. My people shall never be put to shame.

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

29 Even upon the menservants and upon the maidservants in those days will I pour out My Spirit.

30 And I will show signs and wonders in the heavens, and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

31 The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.

32 And whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered and saved, for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the remnant [of survivors] shall be those whom the Lord calls.   AMP

Ezek 37:1THE HAND of the Lord was upon me, and He brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.

2 And He caused me to pass round about among them, and behold, there were very many [human bones] in the open valley or plain, and behold, they were very dry.

3 And He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, You know! 

4 Again He said to me, Prophesy to these bones and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 

5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath and spirit to enter you, and you shall live;

6 And I will lay sinews upon you and bring up flesh upon you and cover you with skin, and I will put breath and spirit in you, and you [dry bones] shall live; and you shall know, understand, and realize that I am the Lord [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service].

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a [thundering] noise and behold, a shaking and trembling and a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

8 And I looked and behold, there were sinews upon [the bones] and flesh came upon them and skin covered them over, but there was no breath or spirit in them.

9 Then said He to me, Prophesy to the breath and spirit, son of man, and say to the breath and spirit, Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath and spirit, and breathe upon these slain that they may live.

10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath and spirit came into [the bones], and they lived and stood up upon their feet, an exceedingly great host.  AMP

Acts 2:19 I will reveal startling signs and wonders in the sky above and mighty miracles on the earth below. Blood and fire and pillars of clouds will appear.

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

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

Acts 2:22 Peter continued, “People of Israel, listen to the facts. Jesus, the Victorious, was a man on a divine mission whose authority was clearly proven. For you know how God performed many powerful miracles, signs, and wonders through him. 

²³This Man’s destiny was prearranged, for God knew that Jesus would be handed over to you to be crucified and that you would execute him on a cross by the hands of lawless men. Yet it was all part of his predetermined plan. 

²⁴God destroyed the cords of death and raised him up, because it was impossible for death’s power to hold him prisoner. 

²⁵This is the very thing David prophesied about him: ‘I continually see the Lord in front of me. He’s at my right hand, and I am never shaken.

²⁶No wonder my heart is glad and my glory celebrates! My mouth is filled with his praises, and I have hope that my body will live

²⁷because you will not leave my soul among the dead, nor will you allow your sacred one to experience decay.

²⁸For you have revealed to me the pathways to life, and seeing your face fills me with euphoria!’

²⁹“My fellow Jews, I can tell you there is no doubt that our noted patriarch has both died and been buried in his tomb, which remains to this day. So you can see that he was not referring to himself with those words. 

³⁰But as a prophet, he knew God’s faithful promise, made with God’s unbreakable oath, that one of his descendants would take his throne. 

³¹So when peering into the future, David prophesied of the Messiah’s resurrection. And God revealed to him that the Messiah would not be abandoned to the realm of death, nor would his body experience decay.

³²“Can’t you see it? God has resurrected Jesus, and we all have seen him!

³³“Then God exalted him to his right hand upon the throne of highest honor. And the Father gave him the authority to send the promised Holy Spirit, which is being poured out upon us today. This is what you’re seeing and hearing!

³⁴“David wasn’t the one who ascended into heaven, but the one who prophesied:

‘Yahweh said to my Lord, I honor you by enthroning you beside me,

³⁵until I make your enemies a footstool beneath your feet.’

³⁶“Now everyone in Israel can know for certain that Jesus, whom you crucified, is the one God has made both Lord and the Messiah.”

³⁷When they heard this they were crushed and realized what they had done to Jesus. Deeply moved, they said to Peter and the other apostles, “What do we need to do, brothers?”  TPT

John 3:8 You know well enough how the wind blows this way and that. You hear it rustling through the trees, but you have no idea where it comes from or where it’s headed next. That’s the way it is with everyone ‘born from above’ by the wind of God, the Spirit of God.”  MSG

JN 3:16  The entire cosmos is the object of God’s affection! And he is not about to abandon his creation – the gift of his Son is for mankind to realize their origin in him who mirrors their authentic birth – begotten not of flesh but of the Father!   In this persuasion the life of the ages echoes within the individual and announces that the days of regret and sense of lost-ness are over! MIRROR

JN 3:19 And this is the crisis: the light is here right now, yet people are so addicted to their own darkness that they prefer a life of labors, annoyances and hardships!

20 When someone is engaged in something worthless, they often fear exposure and feel threatened by the light!  MIRROR

Rom 4:1 So how do we fit what we know of Abraham, our first father in the faith, into this new way of looking at things?

2 If Abraham, by what he did for God, got God to approve him, he could certainly have taken credit for it. But the story we’re given is a God-story, not an Abraham-story.

3 What we read in Scripture is, “Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own.”

4 If you’re a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don’t call your wages a gift. 5 But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it’s something only God can do, and you trust him to do it — you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked — well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift.

6 David confirms this way of looking at it, saying that the one who trusts God to do the putting-everything-right without insisting on having a say in it is one fortunate man:

7 Fortunate those whose crimes are carted off, whose sins are wiped clean from the slate.

8 Fortunate the person against whom the Lord does not keep score.

9 Do you think for a minute that this blessing is only pronounced over those of us who keep our religious ways and are circumcised? Or do you think it possible that the blessing could be given to those who never even heard of our ways, who were never brought up in the disciplines of God? We all agree, don’t we, that it was by embracing what God did for him that Abraham was declared fit before God?

10 Now think: Was that declaration made before or after he was marked by the covenant rite of circumcision? That’s right, before he was marked.

11 That means that he underwent circumcision as evidence and confirmation of what God had done long before to bring him into this acceptable standing with himself, an act of God he had embraced with his whole life. MSG

1 Cor 3:3  As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything’s going your way?

4 When one of you says, “I’m on Paul’s side,” and another says, “I’m for Apollos,” aren’t you being totally infantile?

5 Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us — servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment.

6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow.

7 It’s not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow.

8 Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages.

9 What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God’s field in which we are working. MSG

Rom 14:23 But the man who has doubts (misgivings, an uneasy conscience) about eating, and then eats [perhaps because of you], stands condemned [before God], because he is not true to his convictions and he does not act from faith. For whatever does not originate and proceed from faith is sin [whatever is done without a conviction of its approval by God is sinful].  AMP

Matt 12:17 This was in fulfillment of what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah,

18 Behold, My Servant Whom I have chosen, My Beloved in and with Whom My soul is well pleased and has found its delight. I will put My Spirit upon Him, and He shall proclaim and show forth justice to the nations.

19 He will not strive or wrangle or cry out loudly; nor will anyone hear His voice in the streets;

20 A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering (dimly burning) wick He will not quench, till He brings justice and a just cause to victory.  AMP

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Matthew 12:17 in order to fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah:

¹⁸Take a careful look at my servant, my chosen one. I love him dearly and I find all my delight in him. I will breathe my Spirit upon him and he will decree justice to the nations.

¹⁹He will not quarrel or raise his voice in public.

²⁰He won’t brush aside the bruised and broken. He will be gentle with the weak and feeble, until his victory releases justice.  TPT

2 Tim 1:6 That is why I would remind you to stir up (rekindle the embers of, fan the flame of, and keep burning) the [gracious] gift of God, [the inner fire] that is in you by means of the laying on of my hands [with those of the elders at your ordination].

7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.  AMP

If there is a new order of priesthood, there must obviously be a new law. (Melchizedek reveals a new basis for righteousness, related not to a person’s effort to keep the law by their own willpower, but based upon the perfect work of Christ. This new law is called the law of faith [Rom 3:27], the law of perfect liberty [Jas 1:25], and the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus [Rom 8:2].)

7:13 The person who is prophetically implicated as being the leader of this new priesthood belongs to a completely different tribe. This implies a complete break with tradition because no one from any tribe other than the Levites ever touched the altar.

7:14 History is clear that the Lord’s lineage is from Judah, concerning whom Moses made no mention of a priestly office.

7:15 Of far greater significance and even more apparent is the fact that Jesus is mirrored in Melchizedek in whom the new priestly office arises.

7:16 This new office is not based on the law of precepts constrained by the frailty of the flesh, but by the authority of an indestructible life. (As demonstrated in his resurrection.)

7:17 Thus Scripture confirms his perpetual priesthood exactly according to the pattern of Melchizedek.

7:18 This new order brought about an immediate end to the previous inferior and useless system of laws and commandments.

7:19 In its ability to reunite mankind with God, the law did not succeed even once; that is why it was superseded by the introduction of a far superior hope, a new order in which we are perfectly represented before God.

7:20 The previous priesthood was reduced to a mere tradition and passed on through natural descent from father to son. God had no say in the matter.

7:21 To give irrefutable integrity to the new Messianic priesthood, it was written, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.’” (Psalm 110:4.)

7:22 Melchizedek mirrors Christ in the highest office of priesthood as 1endorsing the human race. Jesus is now the living proof of God’s covenant pledge to benefit mankind in a far better way than under any previous arrangement. (The word ἔγγυος 1egguos, surety, official endorsement.)

7:23 The fact that there were so many priests shows how frequently they died and had to be replaced.

7:24 But there will be no successor to the Priesthood of Jesus because he remains forever.

FOLLOWING HARD AFTER GOD 3-20-22 VIDEO MAN RELINQUISHES

The impulses and feelings we have to pursue God came from Him. His calling. To pursue is to seek after, it includes a deep desire in the heart that nothing except the desire for filled will satisfy.

Ps 53:2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any who understood, who sought (inquired after and desperately required) God.

Eccl 3:11  He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men’s hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. AMP

Ps 63:8 My whole being follows hard after You and clings closely to You; Your right hand upholds me.  AMP

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Psalms 63:8  With passion I pursue and cling to you. Because I feel your grip on my life, I keep my soul close to your heart. TPT

John 6:44 No one is able to come to Me unless the Father Who sent Me attracts and draws him and gives him the desire to come to Me, and [then] I will raise him up [from the dead] at the last day.  AMP

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John 6:44 The only way people come to me is by the Father who sent me—he pulls on their hearts to embrace me. And those who are drawn to me, I will certainly raise them up in the last day.”  TPT

Psalms 42:1 I long to drink of you, O God, to drink deeply from the streams of pleasure flowing from your presence. My longings overwhelm me for more of you!

My soul thirsts, pants, and longs for the living God. I want to come and see the face of God. TPT

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Ps 42:1 AS THE hart pants and longs for the water brooks, so I pant and long for You, O God.

2 My inner self thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?  AMP

Philippians 3:4 It’s true that I once relied on all that I had become. I had a reason to boast and impress people with my accomplishments—more than others—for my pedigree was impeccable.

⁵I was born a true Hebrew of the heritage of Israel as the son of a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin. I was circumcised eight days after my birth and was raised in the strict tradition of Orthodox Judaism, living a separated and devout life as a Pharisee. 

⁶And concerning the righteousness of the Torah, no one surpassed me; I was without a peer. Furthermore, as a fiery defender of the truth, I persecuted the messianic believers with religious zeal.

⁷Yet all of the accomplishments that I once took credit for, I’ve now forsaken them and I regard it all as nothing compared to the delight of experiencing Jesus Christ as my Lord! 

⁸To truly know him meant letting go of everything from my past and throwing all my boasting on the garbage heap. It’s all like a pile of manure to me now, so that I may be enriched in the reality of knowing Jesus Christ and embrace him as Lord in all of his greatness.

⁹My passion is to be consumed with him and not cling to my own “righteousness” based in keeping the written Law. My only “righteousness” will be his, based on the faithfulness of Jesus Christ—the very righteousness that comes from God. 

¹⁰And I continually long to know the wonders of Jesus and to experience the overflowing power of his resurrection working in me. I will be one with him in his sufferings and become like him in his death. 

¹¹Only then will I be able to experience complete oneness with him in his resurrection from the realm of death.

¹²I admit that I haven’t yet acquired the absolute fullness that I’m pursuing, but I run with passion into his abundance so that I may reach the purpose for which Christ Jesus laid hold of me to make me his own. 

¹³I don’t depend on my own strength to accomplish this; however I do have one compelling focus: I forget all of the past as I fasten my heart to the future instead. 

¹⁴I run straight for the divine invitation of reaching the heavenly goal and gaining the victory-prize through the anointing of Jesus.  TPT

1 Peter 4:2 Then you’ll be able to live out your days free to pursue what God wants instead of being tyrannized by what you want.  MSG

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1 PET 4:2 So live the rest of your earthly life no longer concerned with human desires but consumed with what brings pleasure to God.   TPT

Matt 6:33  Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

34 “Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes. MSG

1 Timothy 6:11 Timothy, you are God’s man, so run from all these errors. Instead, chase after true holiness, justice, faithfulness, love, hope, and tender humility. 

¹²So fight with faith for the winner’s prize! Lay your hands upon eternal life, to which you were called and about which you made the good confession before the multitude of witnesses! TPT

2 Tim 2:22 Shun youthful lusts and flee from them, and aim at and pursue righteousness (all that is virtuous and good, right living, conformity to the will of God in thought, word, and deed); [and aim at and pursue] faith, love, [and] peace (harmony and concord with others) in fellowship with all [Christians], who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.  AMP   ▼▼▼

2 TIM 2:22  The best way to consistently escape the snare and distractions of youthful lusts, which are often typified by an all-consuming longing for forbidden pleasures, is to pursue and engage your life actively in everything that celebrates your redeemed oneness. Instead of a sin-consciousness, cultivate a righteousness-consciousness.  MIRROR

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

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

1 Peter 3:11 Let him turn away from wickedness and shun it, and let him do right. Let him search for peace (harmony; undisturbedness from fears, agitating passions, and moral conflicts) and seek it eagerly. [Do not merely desire peaceful relations with God, with your fellowmen, and with yourself, but pursue, go after them!]  AMP

Ps 27:8 You have said, Seek My face [inquire for and require My presence as your vital need]. My heart says to You, Your face (Your presence), Lord, will I seek, inquire for, and require [of necessity and on the authority of Your Word].  AMP

John 17:3 And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand) You, the only true and real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent.  AMP

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JOHN 17:3 This life of the ages, invites them to engage in the inexhaustible adventure of knowing you, the only true God and Jesus as the Christ whom you have commissioned!  MIRROR

Ps 69:32 The humble shall see it and be glad; you who seek God, inquiring for and requiring Him [as your first need], let your hearts revive and live!  AMP

Psalms 105:4 Seek more of his strength! Seek more of him! Let’s always be seeking the light of his face. TPT

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Ps 105:4  Seek, inquire of and for the Lord, and crave Him and His strength (His might and inflexibility to temptation); seek and require His face and His presence [continually] evermore. AMP

Ps 63:1 God — you’re my God!  I can’t get enough of you! I’ve worked up such hunger and thirst for God, traveling across dry and weary deserts.

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

Isa 55:6  Seek, inquire for, and require the Lord while He may be found [claiming Him by necessity and by right]; call upon Him while He is near.  AMP

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Isa 55:6 Seek God while he’s here to be found, pray to him while he’s close at hand. MSG

Amos 5:8  Seek Him Who made the [cluster of stars called] Pleiades and [the constellation] Orion, Who turns the shadow of death or deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, Who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth — the Lord is His name —  AMP

HEB 11:6 And without faith living within us it would be impossible to please God. For we come to God in faithknowing that he is real and that he rewards the faith of those who give all their passion and strength into seeking him. TPT

Acts 17:27 so we could seek after God, and not just grope around in the dark but actually find him. He doesn’t play hide-and-seek with us. He’s not remote; he’s near.

28 We live and move in him, can’t get away from him! One of your poets said it well: ‘We’re the God-created. MSG

Romans 8:5 Those who are motivated by the flesh only pursue what benefits themselves. But those who live by the impulses of the Holy Spirit are motivated to pursue spiritual realities. TPT

1 Cor 14:1 Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it — because it does. Give yourselves to the gifts God gives you. Most of all, try to proclaim his truth. MSG

Luke 6:21 Blessed (happy — with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition — and to be envied) are you who hunger and seek with eager desire now, for you shall be filled and completely satisfied! Blessed (happy — with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition — and to be envied) are you who weep and sob now, for you shall laugh!   AMP

 PS 105:3 Shine and make your joyful boast in him, you lovers of God. Let’s be happy and keep rejoicing no matter what.4 Seek more of his strength! Seek more of him!Let’s always be seeking the light of his face. TPT

REAL VICTORY 3-18-22 VIDEO

Sometimes in the midst of a hard battle, it feels like victory will never occur or happen. But in Christ we are more than conquerors. Victory is overcoming an obstacle and winning over a difficult problem or circumstance. There is a reward given to us who count ourselves victorious because of Jesus. Whatever you are facing today you have the victory in Jesus.

REV 12:11 Mikael and his celestial messengers conquered the Dragon because of the blood of the little Lamb and the word of their testimony! They did not believe that the agape of life discovered in Christ can be threatened or terminated in death!  MIRROR

Isa 45:24  “They will say that only through me are victory and strength to be found;

but all who hate me will suffer disgrace.

25 I, the Lord, will rescue all the descendants of Jacob, and they will give me praise.  TEV

Matt 12:20 A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering (dimly burning) wick He will not quench, till He brings justice and a just cause to victory.

21 And in and on His name will the Gentiles (the peoples outside of Israel) set their hopes.  AMP

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Matthew 12:20 He won’t brush aside the bruised and broken. He will be gentle with the weak and feeble, until his victory releases justice.

²¹And the fame of his name will birth hope among the people.  TPT

1 John 5:4 For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith.

5 Who is it that is victorious over [that conquers] the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on that fact]?  AMP

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1 John 5:4 You see, every child of God overcomes the world, for our faith is the victorious power that triumphs over the world. 

⁵So who are the world conquerors, defeating its power? Those who believe that Jesus is the Son TPT

Romans 8:35 Who could ever divorce us from the endless love of God’s Anointed One? Absolutely no one! For nothing in the universe has the power to diminish his love toward us. Troubles, pressures, and problems are unable to come between us and heaven’s love. What about persecutions, deprivations, dangers, and death threats? No, for they are all impotent to hinder omnipotent love, 

³⁶even though it is written: All day long we face death threats for your sake, God. We are considered to be nothing more than sheep to be slaughtered!

³⁷Yet even in the midst of all these things, we triumph over them all, for God has made us to be more than conquerors, and his demonstrated love is our glorious victory over everything!

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

³⁹There is no power above us or beneath us—no power that could ever be found in the universe that can distance us from God’s passionate love, which is lavished upon us through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One! TPT

1 Sam 30:6 David was greatly distressed, for the men spoke of stoning him because the souls of them all were bitterly grieved, each man for his sons and daughters. But David encouraged and strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

7 David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, I pray you, bring me the ephod. And Abiathar brought him the ephod.

8 And David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them? The Lord answered him, Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all.  AMP

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1 Sam 30:19 Nothing was missing, small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken; David recovered all.

20 Also David captured all the flocks and herds [which the enemy had], and the people drove those animals before him and said, This is David’s spoil.  AMP

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1 Sam 30:23 “Families don’t do this sort of thing! Oh no, my brothers!” said David as he broke up the argument. “You can’t act this way with what God gave us! God kept us safe. He handed over the raiders who attacked us.

24 Who would ever listen to this kind of talk? The share of the one who stays with the gear is the share of the one who fights — equal shares. Share and share alike!”

25 From that day on, David made that the rule in Israel — and it still is.

26 On returning to Ziklag, David sent portions of the plunder to the elders of Judah, his neighbors, with a note saying, “A gift from the plunder of God’s enemies!”  MSG

2 Cor 2:14 But thanks be to God, Who in Christ always leads us in triumph [as trophies of Christ’s victory] and through us spreads and makes evident the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere,

15 For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which exhales] unto God, [discernible alike] among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing:  AMP

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

15 We are a sweet savor of Christ to God evident in everyone we meet. The fragrance of Christ is recognized in all to salvation. The same gospel that announces the fragrant victory of Christ declares the odor of death; the defeat of destruction in everyone! MIRROR

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

Isa 30:18  And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him [for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship]!  AMP

Ps 55:18 He has redeemed my life in peace from the battle that was against me [so that none came near me], for they were many who strove with me.

19 God will hear and humble them, even He Who abides of old — Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! — because in them there has been no change [of heart], and they do not fear, revere, and worship God.  AMP

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PS  55:18 Though many wish to fight and the tide of battle turns against me,

by your power I will be safe and secure; peace will be my portion.

19  God himself will hear me! God-Enthroned through everlasting ages,

the God of unchanging faithfulness—he will put them in their place, all those who refuse to love and revere him! Pause in his presence  TPT

Prov 21:30 Nothing clever, nothing conceived, nothing contrived, can get the better of God.

31 Do your best, prepare for the worst — then trust God to bring victory. MSG

Heb 13:6 So we take comfort and are encouraged and confidently and boldly say, The Lord is my Helper; I will not be seized with alarm [I will not fear or dread or be terrified]. What can man do to me?  AMP

Zech 4:6 Then he said to me, This [addition of the bowl to the candlestick, causing it to yield a ceaseless supply of oil from the olive trees] is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit [of Whom the oil is a symbol], says the Lord of hosts. AMP

James 4:7 So be subject to God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him], and he will flee from you.  AMP

Psalms 46:10  Surrender your anxiety. Be still and realize that I am God. I am God above all the nations, and I am exalted throughout the whole earth.

¹¹ Here he stands! The Commander! The mighty Lord of Angel Armies is on our side! The God of Jacob fights for us! Pause in his presence  TPT

REV 2:7  Now listen up with your inner ears! Hear with understanding what the Spirit is saying to the ekklesias: to the individual who continues to see their triumph mirrored in mine  I will give to feast from the fruit of the tree of life in the paradise of God. MIRROR

REV 2:26  Seeing my victory as your victory makes you the overcomer. By embracing the completeness of my works as your 2treasure, you realize my authority in you to possess the nations.

27 You will shepherd the nations with a royal scepter and shatter their alienated mindsets’ like a potter’s vessel of clay.   

28 In the same way that my shepherding mission is sourced in the Father I have extended it to you! I also give you the Morning Star!  MIRROR

REV 3:5 Everyone who sees their victory in me, I will clothe in white garments – and they will realize that I am not in the business of fulfilling their law and performance based fears by blotting out their names from the Book of Life! Instead, I am the one who endorses their identity face to face before my Father and his celestial shepherd-messengers. MIRROR

REV 3:12 It is in your individual, continual association with your victory in me that I will make you to be like a strong pillar in the inner shrine of God’s sanctuary, supporting the entire structure of my God-habitation within you! A place to be your permanent abode ‘from whence you will never have to depart. And I will engrave upon you the name of my God, also the name of the city  of my God, the new Jerusalem that descends from heaven; as well as my own new Name!  MIRROR

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

REV 21:7 The conquering one inherits all things and I will be God to him and he will be my son.    MIRROR

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Rev 21:7 He who is victorious shall inherit all these things, and I will be God to him and he shall be My son.  AMP

Phil 1:28 And do not [for a moment] be frightened or intimidated in anything by your opponents and adversaries, for such [constancy and fearlessness] will be a clear sign (proof and seal) to them of [their impending] destruction, but [a sure token and evidence] of your deliverance and salvation, and that from God. AMP 

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Phil 1:28 not flinching or dodging in the slightest before the opposition. Your courage and unity will show them what they’re up against: defeat for them, victory for you — and both because of God. MSG

GOD’S CREATIVE POWER 3-13-22 VIDEO THE PATCH

Gods created power is manifested by the words that he speaks. He speaks and it happens.  When we find the word that God has spoken and we speak it we will have what we say. Do not be in snared by the words of your mouth. Faith filled words will put you over but fear filled words will defeat you. Words are the most powerful thing in the universe. There is a creative power of God‘s word in our hearts. God spoke and the new covenant was put into place. When Jesus spoke there was power. It effected people and things. He spoke to the wind, demons, the fig tree, even to the dead to rise. When Jesus spoke things happened. God always spoke first and then what He said came into being. He never does anything without saying it first. Greater works bring forth by the words out of our mouth. God said I have told my people they can have what they say but they are saying what they have. When you speak to someone who is hurting and your words leave them feeling worse than when you started you have missed the mark. 

Prov 6:2 You are snared with the words of your lips, you are caught by the speech of your mouth.  AMP

Hebrews 11:3  Faith alone explains what is not apparent to the natural eye; how the ages were perfectly framed by the Word of God. Now we understand that everything visible has its origin in the invisible.  MIRROR

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Hebrews 11:3Faith empowers us to see that the universe was created and beautifully coordinated by the power of God’s words! He spoke and the invisible realm gave birth to all that is seen. TPT

Ps 50:1  The God of gods — it’s God! — speaks out, shouts, “Earth!” welcomes the sun in the east, farewells the disappearing sun in the west. MSG

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Psalms 50:1The God of gods, the mighty Lord himself, has spoken!

He shouts out over all the people of the earth in every brilliant sunrise and every beautiful sunset, saying, “Listen to me!”  TPT

Isa 52:6  Now it’s time that my people know who I am, what I’m made of — yes, that I have something to say. Here I am!”  MSG

Lam 3:37  Who do you think “spoke and it happened”? It’s the Master who gives such orders.

38 Doesn’t the High God speak everything, good things and hard things alike, into being? MSG

Heb 4:12 God means what he says. What he says goes. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey.

13 Nothing and no one is impervious to God’s Word. We can’t get away from it — no matter what. MSG

Mark 11:23 and nothing will be too much for you. This mountain, for instance: Just say, ‘Go jump in the lake’ — no shuffling or shilly-shallying — and it’s as good as done.

24 That’s why I urge you to pray for absolutely everything, ranging from small to large. Include everything as you embrace this God-life, and you’ll get God’s everything. MSG  ▼▼▼

Mark 11:23Listen to the truth I speak to you: Whoever says to this mountain with great faith and does not doubt, ‘Mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the midst of the sea,’ and believes that what he says will happen, it will be done. 

²⁴This is the reason I urge you to boldly believe for whatever you ask for in prayer—be convinced that you have received it and it will be yours.  TPT

Matt 17:20 “Because you’re not yet taking God seriously,” said Jesus. “The simple truth is that if you had a mere kernel of faith, a poppy seed, say, you would tell this mountain, ‘Move!’ and it would move. There is nothing you wouldn’t be able to tackle.”  MSG

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

John 14:12 I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father.   AMP

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John 14:12“I tell you this timeless truth: The person who follows me in faith, believing in me, will do the same mighty miracles that I do—even greater miracles than these because I go to be with my Father! TPT

Isa 45:8 Let fall in showers, you heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness [the pure, spiritual, heaven-born possibilities that have their foundation in the holy being of God]; let the earth open, and let them [skies and earth] sprout forth salvation, and let righteousness germinate and spring up [as plants do] together; I the Lord have created it.  AMP

John 3:34 For since He Whom God has sent speaks the words of God [proclaims God’s own message], God does not give Him His Spirit sparingly or by measure, but boundless is the gift God makes of His Spirit!  AMP

Matthew 16:19  I will give you the keys of heaven’s kingdom realm to forbid on earth that which is forbidden in heaven, and to release on earth that which is released in heaven.”  TPT

Psalms 119:89 Standing firm in the heavens and fastened to eternity is the Word of God.

⁹⁰Your faithfulness flows from one generation to the next; all that you created sits firmly in place to testify of you.  TPT

Matthew 12:34  But you who are known as the Pharisees are rotten to the core like venomous snakes. How can your words be good if you are rotten within? For what has been stored up in your hearts will be heard in the overflow of your words! When virtue is stored within, the hearts of good, upright people will produce good fruit. But when evil is hidden within, those who are evil will produce evil fruit. 

³⁶You can be sure of this: when the day of judgment comes, everyone will be held accountable for every careless word he has spoken. ³⁷Your very words will be used as evidence, and your words will declare you either innocent or guilty.” TPT

Ezek 36:26  A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.  AMP

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

Isa 55:11 So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any effect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. AMP

John 3:31 “For the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks from the natural realm. But the One who comes from above is above everything and speaks of the highest realm of all!

³²His message is about what he has seen and experienced, even though people don’t accept it.

³³Yet those who embrace his message know in their hearts that it’s the truth.

³⁴“The One whom God has sent to represent him will speak the words of God, because God has poured out upon him the fullness of the Holy Spirit without limitation. TPT

2 Cor 13:3 You who have been demanding proof that Christ speaks through me will get more than you bargained for. You’ll get the full force of Christ, don’t think you won’t.

4 He was sheer weakness and humiliation when he was killed on the Cross, but oh, he’s alive now — in the mighty power of God! We weren’t much to look at, either, when we were humiliated among you, but when we deal with you this next time, we’ll be alive in Christ, strengthened by God. MSG

Rom 10:17 So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself). AMP

Proverbs 4:20 Listen carefully, my dear child, to everything that I teach you,

and pay attention to all that I have to say.

²¹Fill your thoughts with my words until they penetrate deep into your spirit.

²²Then, as you unwrap my words, they will impart true life and radiant health into the very core of your being.

²³So above all, guard the affections of your heart, for they affect all that you are.

Pay attention to the welfare of your innermost being, for from there flows the wellspring of life. TPT

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

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

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

Deut 32:1  Listen, Heavens, I have something to tell you. Attention, Earth, I’ve got a mouth full of words.

2 My teaching, let it fall like a gentle rain, my words arrive like morning dew, Like a sprinkling rain on new grass, like spring showers on the garden.

3 For it’s God’s Name I’m preaching — respond to the greatness of our God! MSG

1 Kings 17:1 ELIJAH THE Tishbite, of the temporary residents of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before Whom I stand, there shall not be dew or rain these years but according to My word. AMP

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1 Kings 17:1 And then this happened: Elijah the Tishbite, from among the settlers of Gilead, confronted Ahab: “As surely as God lives, the God of Israel before whom I stand in obedient service, the next years are going to see a total drought — not a drop of dew or rain unless I say otherwise.”  MSG

Ex 8:13  And the Lord did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courtyards and villages, and out of the fields.  AMP

Numbers 14:20 And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to your word. AMP

BLESSINGS 3-11-22  VIDEO BLESSED SPOKEN WORD 2

What does it mean to be blessed. Blessings come from a Greek word that describes the believer as being in a inevitable position for receiving God‘s favor. Blessings are an  extension of Gods grace. It is to be made holy, endowed with divine favor and protection. Blessings bring relief and pleasure as a welcome contrast to what one has previously experience. Blessings equal Gods original plan He does not want us to be sick, broke, lonely or sad. He wants us  to be rich in every area of our lives. We are supposed to be blessed. We are supposed to make the world jealous.

Prov 10:22  God’s blessing makes life rich; nothing we do can improve on God. MSG  ▼▼▼

Prov 10:22 The blessing of the Lord — it makes [truly] rich, and He adds no sorrow with it [neither does toiling increase it].  AMP

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PROV 10:22 True enrichment comes from the blessing of the Lord, with rest and contentmentin knowing that it all comes from him. TPT

Ps 127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of [anxious] toil — for He gives [blessings] to His beloved in sleep.  AMP

Heb 6:1 THEREFORE LET us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ (the Messiah), advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual maturity. Let us not again be laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith [by which you turned] to God,

2 With teachings about purifying, the laying on of hands, the resurrection from the dead, and eternal judgment and punishment. [These are all matters of which you should have been fully aware long, long ago.]

3 If indeed God permits, we will [now] proceed [to advanced teaching].  AMP

Heb 6:13 When God made his promise to Abraham, he backed it to the hilt, putting his own reputation on the line.

14 He said, “I promise that I’ll bless you with everything I have — bless and bless and bless!” 

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GAL 3:13-14  Christ redeemed us from the curse as consequence of our failure to keep the law. In his cross he concentrated the total curse of the human race upon himself. In his abandoning himself to death, he absorbed and dissolved the horror of the curse in his own person. Scripture declares that anyone hanging on a tree embodies the curse.

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

GAL 3:8 Scripture records prophetically that the mass of non-Jewish nations would be justified by faith and not by their own ability to be righteous. This announcement by God over Abraham is the gospel in advance. God saw every nation included in the same principle of the faith that Abraham pioneered. “In you all the nations of the earth are equally represented in the blessing of faith.”  

9 As did Abraham so do we now find our source in the blessing of faith. MIRROR

Gen 26:12 Then Isaac sowed seed in that land and received in the same year a hundred times as much as he had planted, and the Lord favored him with blessings.

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Gen 26:12  Isaac planted crops in that land and took in a huge harvest. God blessed him. MSG

2 Cor 9:6 [Remember] this: he who sows sparingly and grudgingly will also reap sparingly and grudgingly, and he who sows generously [that blessings may come to someone] will also reap generously and with blessings.  AMP

Deut 28:2 All these blessings will come down on you and spread out beyond you because you have responded to the Voice of God, your God:

3 God’s blessing inside the city, God’s blessing in the country;

4 God’s blessing on your children, the crops of your land, the young of your livestock, the calves of your herds, the lambs of your flocks.

5 God’s blessing on your basket and bread bowl;

6 God’s blessing in your coming in, God’s blessing in your going out.

7 God will defeat your enemies who attack you. They’ll come at you on one road and run away on seven roads.

8 God will order a blessing on your barns and workplaces; he’ll bless you in the land that God, your God, is giving you.

9 God will form you as a people holy to him, just as he promised you, if you keep the commandments of God, your God, and live the way he has shown you.

10 All the peoples on Earth will see you living under the Name of God and hold you in respectful awe.

11 God will lavish you with good things: children from your womb, offspring from your animals, and crops from your land, the land that God promised your ancestors that he would give you.

12 God will throw open the doors of his sky vaults and pour rain on your land on schedule and bless the work you take in hand. You will lend to many nations but you yourself won’t have to take out a loan.

13 God will make you the head, not the tail; you’ll always be the top dog, never the bottom dog, as you obediently listen to and diligently keep the commands of God, your God, that I am commanding you today.  MSG

Deut 15:6 When the Lord your God blesses you as He promised you, then you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.  AMP

Deut 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,

20 by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”  NASB

Ps 21:1 Adonai, the king finds joy in your strength; what great joy he displays in your victory!

2 You give him his heart’s desire; you don’t refuse the prayer from his lips. (Selah)

3 For you come to meet him with the best blessings, you place a crown of fine gold on his head.

4 He asks you for life; you give it to him, years and years forever and ever.

5 Your victory brings him great glory; you confer on him splendor and honor. CJB

Ezek 37:26  I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will give blessings to them and multiply them and will set My sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.  AMP

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Ezek 37:26  I’ll make a covenant of peace with them that will hold everything together, an everlasting covenant. I’ll make them secure and place my holy place of worship at the center of their lives forever. MSG

Gen 28:11 He came to a certain place and camped for the night since the sun had set. He took one of the stones there, set it under his head and lay down to sleep.

12 And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground and it reached all the way to the sky; angels of God were going up and going down on it.

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

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

Num 6:24 God bless you and keep you,

25 God smile on you and gift you,

26 God look you full in the face and make you prosper. MSG

Psalms 67:1 God, keep us near your mercy-fountain and bless us! And when you look down on us, may your face beam with joy! Pause in his presence

²Send us out all over the world so that everyone everywhere will discover your ways and know who you are and see your power to save.

³Let all the nations burst forth with praise; let everyone everywhere love and enjoy you!

⁴Then how glad the nations will be when you are their King. They will sing, they will shout, for you give true justice to the people. Yes! You, Lord, are the shepherd of the nations! Pause in his presence

⁵No wonder the peoples praise you! Let all the people praise you more!

⁶The harvest of the earth is here! God, the very God we worship, keeps us satisfied at his banquet of blessings.

⁷And the blessings keep coming! All the ends of the earth will give him the honor he deserves and be in awe of him!  TPT

Jer 17:7  “But blessed is the man who trusts me, God, the woman who sticks with God.

8 They’re like trees replanted in Eden, putting down roots near the rivers —  Never a worry through the hottest of summers, never dropping a leaf, Serene and calm through droughts, bearing fresh fruit every season.  MSG

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 40:4  Blessed are you who give yourselves over to God, turn your backs on the world’s “sure thing,” ignore what the world worships; MSG

Ps 41:2  The Lord will protect him and keep him alive; he shall be called blessed in the land; and You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

3 The Lord will sustain, refresh, and strengthen him on his bed of languishing; all his bed You [O Lord] will turn, change, and transform in his illness.  AMP

Prov 29:18 If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves;

But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed. MSG  

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Proverbs 29:18 When there is no clear prophetic vision, people quickly wander astray.

But when you follow the revelation of the Word, heaven’s bliss fills your soul.  TPT

Rom 4:7 Blessed and happy and to be envied are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered up and completely buried.

8 Blessed and happy and to be envied is the person of whose sin the Lord will take no account nor reckon it against him.  AMP

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Rom 4:7 Here’s what David says: What happy fulfillment is ahead for those whose rebellion has been forgiven and whose sins are covered by blood.

⁸What happy progress comes to them when they hear the Lord speak over them, “I will never hold your sins against you!”  TPT

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ROM 4:7 Oh what happy progress one makes with the weight of sin and guilt removed and one’s slate wiped clean!  

4:8 “How blessed is the one who receives a receipt instead of an invoice for their sins.”   MIRROR

Ps 126:2 We laughed and laughed and overflowed with gladness. We were left shouting for joy and singing your praise. All the nations saw it and joined in, saying,“The Lord has done great miracles for them!”³ Yes, he did mighty miracles and we are overjoyed!⁴ Now, Lord, do it again! Restore us to our former glory! May streams of your refreshing flow over us until our dry hearts are drenched again.
⁵ Those who sow their tears as seeds will reap a harvest with joyful shouts of glee.⁶ They may weep as they go out carrying their seed to sow, but they will return with joyful laughter and shouting with gladness as they bring back armloads of blessing and a harvest overflowing! TPT

James 5:11 You know how we call those blessed (happy) who were steadfast [who endured]. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the Lord’s [purpose and how He richly blessed him in the] end, inasmuch as the Lord is full of pity and compassion and tenderness and mercy. AMP   

Eph 1:3 How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. MSG

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

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