WHO IS THE CHURCH? 2-14-21  VIDEO

We the church exist to see the kingdom of God established and operating on the earth. The word Ekklesia means those gathered to accomplish some thing or a group of people called out for a purpose. A new authority keys to open every door no barriers has been given to the church power was passed on from Jesus to the church at Pentecost. The church represents a new government on the earth. We are a “legislative assembly” or “selected ones.” This is not a religious term at all, but a political and governmental term that is used many times in classical Greek for a group of people who have been summoned and gathered together to govern the affairs of a city. For Jesus to use this term means he is giving the keys of governmental authority in his kingdom to the church.

ISA 9:6-7 A child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. The responsibility of complete dominionwill rest on his shoulders, and his name will be: The Wonderful One! The Extraordinary Strategist! The Mighty God!  The Father of Eternity! The Prince of Peace!
⁷ Great and vast is his dominion. He will bring immeasurable peace and prosperity.
 He will rule on David’s throne and over David’s kingdom to establish and uphold it by promoting justice and righteousnessfrom this time forward and forevermore.The marvelous passionthat the Lord Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, has for his people will ensure that it is finished! TPT

Matt 16:18 And now I’m going to tell you who you are, really are. You are Peter, a rock. This is the rock on which I will put together my church, a church so expansive with energy that not even the gates of hell will be able to keep it out.

19 “And that’s not all. You will have complete and free access to God’s kingdom, keys to open any and every door: no more barriers between heaven and earth, earth and heaven. A yes on earth is yes in heaven. A no on earth is no in heaven.” MSG

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MATT 16:18 I give you the name Peter, a stone. And this truth of who I am will be the bedrock foundation on which I will build my church—my legislative assembly,  and the power of deathwill not be able to overpower it

¹⁹ I will give you the keysof 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

Eph 3:10. Every visible authority and government in the arena of the heavenlies is now witness to the display of the wisdom of God. The church acts like a prism that disperses the varied magnitude of God in human form. Mirror

Matt 9:37 Then He said to His disciples, The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few.

38 So pray to the Lord of the harvest to force out and thrust laborers into His harvest. AMP

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Matt 10:1 The prayer was no sooner prayed than it was answered. Jesus called twelve of his followers and sent them into the ripe fields. He gave them power to kick out the evil spirits and to tenderly care for the bruised and hurt lives. MSG

ACTS 2:1  On the day Pentecost was being fulfilled, all the disciples were gathered in one place.

 ² Suddenly they heard the sound of a violent blast of windrushing into the housefrom out of the heavenly realm. The roar of the wind was so overpowering it was all anyone could bear!

³ Then all at once a pillar of fire appeared before their eyes. It separated into tongues of fire that engulfedeach one of them.

⁴ They were all filled and equippedwith the Holy Spirit and were inspiredto speak in tongues—empowered by the Spirit to speak in languages they had never learned! TPT

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

21 Infinitely above all combined forces of rule authority, dominion or governments; he is ranked superior to any name that could ever be given to anyone of this age or any age still to come in the eternal future.

22 I want you to see this: he subjected all the powers under his feet. He towers head and shoulders above everything. He is the head;

23 the Ekklesia is his body. The completeness of his being that fills all in all resides in us! God cannot make himself more visible or exhibit himself more accurately. Mirror

Col 2:9 Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don’t need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him.

10 When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything. MSG

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COL 2:9 For he is the complete fullness of deity living in human form.

¹⁰ And our own completeness is now found in him. We are completely filled with God as Christ’s fullness overflows within us. He is the Headof every kingdom and authority in the universe!  TPT

REV 2:26 To everyone who is victorious and continues to do my works to the very end I will give you authority over the nations

²⁷ to shepherd them with a royal scepter. And the rebellious will be shattered as clay pots—

²⁸ even as I also received authority from the presence of my Father. I will give the morning starto the one who experiences victory.

²⁹ So the one whose heart is open let him listen carefully to what the Spirit is presently saying to all the churches. TPT

Acts 9:31 Things calmed down after that and the church had smooth sailing for a while. All over the country — Judea, Samaria, Galilee — the church grew. They were permeated with a deep sense of reverence for God. The Holy Spirit was with them, strengthening them. They prospered wonderfully.  MSG

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ACTS 9:31 After this, the church all over Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a season of peace. The congregations grew larger and larger, with the believers being empowered and encouraged by the Holy Spirit. They worshiped God in wonder and awe, and walked in the fear of the Lord. TPT

1 COR 3:16 Don’t you realize that together you have become God’s inner sanctuaryand that the Spirit of God makes his permanent home in you?

¹⁷ Now, if someone desecratesGod’s inner sanctuary, God will desecrate him, for God’s inner sanctuary is holy, and that is exactly who you are. TPT

1 Cor 12:27 You are the body of Christ; individually as much as you are his body corporately. Everyone of you mirrors him. He defined your form. The individual member does not give context to the body; the body gives context to the member.

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

29 Everyone is not an apostle, or a prophet, or a teacher, or a miracle worker!

30 All are not specifically gifted as healers. We all do not necessarily speak in tongues. Are all equally accurate in their interpretation of what was said in the foreign tongue?

31 While you were keen to discover which are your favorite gifts, allow me to introduce to you the summit bonum of life this transcends all!

31 Speaking In tongues is not the point; love is. It is neither angelic eloquence, nor the mastery of human language that persuades. It doesn’t matter how poetic, Prophetic, or profound I may sound; my conversation is reduced to a hollow noise of clanging brass symbols if loves echo is absent. Mirror

1 Cor 14:12  So it is with yourselves; since you are so eager and ambitious to possess spiritual endowments and manifestations of the [Holy] Spirit, [concentrate on] striving to excel and to abound [in them] in ways that will build up the church. AMP

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1 Cor 14:12  It’s no different with you. Since you’re so eager to participate in what God is doing, why don’t you concentrate on doing what helps everyone in the church? MSG

Eph 4:11 What God has in us, is gift wrapped to the world: some are commissioned

to pioneer, others are gifted prophetically, some as announcers of good news, some as shepherds with the real gift of care and nurture, and others have the gift to ignite instruction through revelation knowledge.

12 Each expression of his gift is to fully equipped and enable you for the work of the ministry so you may mutually contribute in your specific function and give definition to the visible body of Christ.

13 The purpose of these ministry gifts is to present everyone on par and in oneness of faith; believing exactly what the Son of God believes and knowing accurately what he knows concerning us. Standing face-to-face and equal stature to the measure of the completeness of Christ. Mirror

Eph 5:27 That He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things [that she might be holy and faultless].  AMP

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Eph 5:27. This intimate language presents the church to himself, to his delightful approval without any distraction or reminder of the blemished past; no wrinkles or scar of sin’s abuse remains; she stands before him in immaculate innocence. Mirror

Eph 5:30 We are his flesh and bone body; bearing his image and likeness. We give tangible expression of him.

31 Marriage reflects this union: a man would separate himself from his own parents to be glued to his wife; that’s two separate people are now merged into one new identity. Do individuals become one flesh! Mirror

Col 1:18 And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body. He was supreme in the beginning and — leading the resurrection parade — he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone.  MSG

Matt 28:18 Jesus, undeterred, went right ahead and gave his charge: “God authorized and commanded me to commission you:

19 Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

20 Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. I’ll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age.”  MSG

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MATT 28:18 Then Jesus came close to them and said, “All the authority of the universe has been given to me.

¹⁹ Now go in my authority and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

²⁰ And teach them to faithfully followall that I have commanded you. And never forget that I am with you every day, even to the completion of this age.” TPT

PREACHING THE GOOD NEWS 2-12-2021 VIDEO GOOD NEWS

Preaching bringing a message of the Gospel with sign and wonders accompanying it.

GOSPEL  derived from the word which meant “the story concerning God.”  good message.  It proclaims tidings of deliverance. “Good news” is its significance.  It means a gift from God. It is the proclamation of the forgiveness of sins and sonship with God restored through Christ. It means remission of sins and reconciliation with God.  The gospel is such that neither requires our works nor commands us to do anything, but announces the offered grace of the forgiveness of sin and eternal salvation. Here we do nothing, but only receive what is offered through the word.” The gospel, then, is the message of God, the teaching of Christianity, the redemption in and by Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, offered to all mankind.  Jesus is more than a messenger of the gospel; He is the gospel.  It is termed “the gospel of the grace of God”   “the gospel of the kingdom”   “the gospel of Christ”, “the gospel of peace, “the glorious gospel,” “the everlasting gospel,” “the gospel of salvation” . We preach Jesus.

RESULT OF GOSPEL PREACHING

Matt 4:23 And He went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good news (Gospel) of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every weakness and infirmity among the people.  AMP

Matt 9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news (the Gospel) of the kingdom and curing all kinds of disease and every weakness and infirmity.  AMP

Matt 11:5 The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed (by healing) and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up and the poor have good news (the Gospel) preached to them.  AMP

Luke 9:6 And departing, they went about from village to village, preaching the Gospel and restoring the afflicted to health everywhere.  AMP

LU 16:16 The law of Moses and the revelation of the prophets have prepared you for the arrival of the kingdom realm announced by John. And now, when this wonderful news of God’s kingdom realm is preached, people’s hearts burn with extreme passion to press in and receiveTPT

Rom 15:19 [Even as my preaching has been accompanied] with the power of signs and wonders, [and all of it] by the power of the Holy Spirit. [The result is] that starting from Jerusalem and as far round as Illyricum, I have fully preached the Gospel [faithfully executing, accomplishing, carrying out to the full the good news] of Christ (the Messiah) in its entirety.  AMP

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Rom 15:19 The message was confirmed in every sign and miracle in the power of the Holy Spirit. Thus, I went full circle from Jerusalem to Iconium proclaiming the glad tidings of Christ in its complete context. Mirror

DISCERN 2 Cor 11:4. You Will know by the echo within you whether the Jesus somebody else preaches is the same Jesus we proclaim to you. You will recognize the same spirit; if it is a different spirit, it’s not the same gospel! Why would you politely put up with deception, even if it comes to a package in prominent names and titles. Mirror

Gal 2:5 We want you to know that we are sold out to keep the gospel undeluded for your sake; had we compromise the message ever so slightly to accommodate their opinion, the whole Gentile world would have felt cheated! We see such a future for the pure gospel in you. Mirror

Gal 2:11 Later, when Peter came to Antioch, I had a face-to-face confrontation with him because he was clearly out of line.

12 Here’s the situation. Earlier, before certain persons had come from James, Peter regularly ate with the non-Jews. But when that conservative group came from Jerusalem, he cautiously pulled back and put as much distance as he could manage between himself and his non-Jewish friends. That’s how fearful he was of the conservative Jewish clique that’s been pushing the old system of circumcision.

13 Unfortunately, the rest of the Jews in the Antioch church joined in that hypocrisy so that even Barnabas was swept along in the charade.

14 But when I saw that they were not maintaining a steady, straight course according to the Message, I spoke up to Peter in front of them all: “If you, a Jew, live like a non-Jew when you’re not being observed by the watchdogs from Jerusalem, what right do you have to require non-Jews to conform to Jewish customs just to make a favorable impression on your old Jerusalem cronies?”  MSG

1 Cor 1:23 We go right on proclaiming Christ, the Crucified. Jews treat this like an anti-miracle — and Greeks pass it off as absurd.

24 But to us who are personally called by God himself — both Jews and Greeks — Christ is God’s ultimate miracle and wisdom all wrapped up in one. MSG

Gal 1:8 I and any of my team would stand equally disqualified, even if we claim to have an angelic visitation, if we preach were to stray ever so slightly from the gospel of the first hand work of Christ.

19 Let me be blatant and clear about this: any gospel that does not emphasize the success of the cross is counterfeit and produces nothing but the curse!

10 God is my complete persuasion. I answered to him alone, not to anyone else. Christ employees me; I am addicted to his grace. Popular religious opinion will not influence me to compromise my message. Mirror

2 Cor 4:5 Remember, our Message is not about ourselves; we’re proclaiming Jesus Christ, the Master. All we are is messengers, errand runners from Jesus for you.

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

Col 1:28 We preach Christ, warning people not to add to the Message. We teach in a spirit of profound common sense so that we can bring each person to maturity. To be mature is to be basic. Christ! No more, no less.  MSG

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COL 1:28 Christ is our message! We preach to awaken hearts and bring every person into the full understanding of truth. It has become my inspiration and passion in ministry to labor with a tireless intensity, with his power flowing through me, to present to every believer the revelation of being his perfect one in Jesus Christ. TPT  ▼▼▼

Col 1:28 This is the essence and focus of our message, we awaken everyone’s mind, instructing every individual by bringing them into full understanding in order that we may prove everyone perfect in Christ. Mirror

Rom 10:8 But the faith-righteousness we receive speaks to us in these words of Moses:

“God’s living message is very close to you, as close as your own heart beating in your chest and as near as the tongue in your mouth.”  TPT

Rom 10:15 What gives someone the urgency to declare these things? It is recorded in the prophetic scripture, “how lovely on the mountains are the feet of them leaping with the exciting news victory. Because of their eyewitness encounter they are qualified to run with the gospel of peace and announce the consequence glad tidings of good things that will benefit everyone.“ Mirror

Rom 15:20 I have placed such a fond value on the fact that I could pioneer the glad tidings in many of these areas without building on someone else’s interpretation of Christ.

21 Isaiah prophesied that “those who have never been told about him, will be startled to see him clearly; even though they have never heard of him, they will understand his message.“ Mirror

2 Tim 4:2 Herald and preach the Word! Keep your sense of urgency [stand by, be at hand and ready], whether the opportunity seems to be favorable or unfavorable. [Whether it is convenient or inconvenient, whether it is welcome or unwelcome, you as preacher of the Word are to show people in what way their lives are wrong.] And convince them, rebuking and correcting, warning and urging and encouraging them, being unflagging and inexhaustible in patience and teaching.

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

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

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

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2 TIM 4:2-5 proclaim the Word of God and stand upon it no matter what! Rise to the occasion and preach when it is convenient and when it is not. Preach in the full expression of the Holy Spirit—with wisdom and patience as you instruct and teach the people.

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

⁴ They will close their ears to the truth and believe nothing but fables and myths.

⁵ So be alert to all these things and overcome every form of evil. Carry in your heart the passion of your calling as a church planterand evangelist, and fulfill your ministry calling. TPT

ACTS 20:24 “But whether I live or die is not important, for I don’t esteem my life as indispensable. It’s more important for me to fulfill my destiny and to finish the ministry my Lord Jesus has assigned to me, which is to faithfully preach the wonderful news of God’s grace.  TPT

Eph 6:15 And having shod your feet in preparation [to face the enemy with the firm-footed stability, the promptness, and the readiness produced by the good news] of the Gospel of peace.  AMP

Isa 52:7How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace, who brings good tidings of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns!  AMP

1 Peter 1:25 But the Word of the Lord (divine instruction, the Gospel) endures forever. And this Word is the good news which was preached to you.  AMP

Ro 16:25 I am not talking “here say theory“; I own the gospel I proclaim! This is my message! I salute God who empowers you dramatically and establishes you to be strong and immovable in the face of contradiction. Jesus Christ is the disclosure of the very mystery that was concealed in silence before time or human history were recorded Mirror

REV 14:6Then I witnessed another angel flying in the sky, carrying a message of eternal good newsto announce to the earth—to every tribe, language, people, and nation.  TPT

 Or “having a message of goodness for eternal ages.” The Aramaic can be translated “carrying a message with blood, for he had the everlasting good news to proclaim.”

Eph 6:19 My most urgent request is for clarity of utterance every time I open my mouth to speak. I desire that my words will be gifted with inspiration, bold articulation to the mystery of the gospel. Mirror

THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCE  2-7-2021 VIDEO CHURCH LIFE OR

One of the issues we face as the  American Church is it we have great truth of scriptures that have become doctrine instead of experience. Experience means to encounter to see for yourself, to contact God for yourself. Jesus shares hands on experience with the disciples in doing the work of the kingdom. We must experience God for ourselves not by hearsay.

MATT 23:13 “Great sorrow awaitsyou religious scholars and you Pharisees—such frauds and pretenders! You do all you can to keep people from experiencing the reality of heaven’s kingdom realm.Not only do you refuse to enter in, you also forbid anyone else from entering in! TPT

Matt 3:7  When John realized that a lot of Pharisees and Sadducees were showing up for a baptismal experience because it was becoming the popular thing to do, he exploded: “Brood of snakes! What do you think you’re doing slithering down here to the river? Do you think a little water on your snakeskins is going to make any difference?

8 It’s your life that must change, not your skin!

9 And don’t think you can pull rank by claiming Abraham as father. Being a descendant of Abraham is neither here nor there. Descendants of Abraham are a dime a dozen.

10 What counts is your life. Is it green and blossoming? Because if it’s deadwood, it goes on the fire.

11 “I’m baptizing you here in the river, turning your old life in for a kingdom life. The real action comes next: The main character in this drama — compared to him I’m a mere stagehand — will ignite the kingdom life within you, a fire within you, the Holy Spirit within you, changing you from the inside out.

12 He’s going to clean house — make a clean sweep of your lives. He’ll place everything true in its proper place before God; everything false he’ll put out with the trash to be burned.”  MSG

HEB 12:18-23 For we are not coming, as Moses did, to a physical mountain with its burning fire, thick clouds of darkness and gloom, and with a raging whirlwind.

¹⁹ We are not those who are being warned by the jarring blast of a trumpet and the thundering voice; the fearful voice that they begged to be silenced.

²⁰ They couldn’t handle God’s command that said, “If so much as an animal approaches the mountain it is to be stoned to death!”

²¹ The astounding phenomena Moses witnessed caused him to shudder with fear and he could only say, “I am trembling in terror!”

²² By contrast, we have already comenear to God in a totally different realm, the Zion-realm, for we have entered the city of the Living God, which is the New Jerusalem in heaven! We have joined the festal gathering of myriads of angelsin their joyous celebration!

²³ And as members of the churchof the Firstbornall our names have been legally registeredas citizens of heaven! And we have come before God who judges all, and who lives among the spirits of the righteous who have been made perfect in his eyes TPT

Ex 29:46 And they shall know [from personal experience] that I am the Lord their God, Who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them; I am the Lord their God.  AMP

Job 42:5 I admit I once lived by rumors of you; now I have it all firsthand — from my own eyes and ears!

6 I’m sorry — forgive me. I’ll never do that again, I promise! I’ll never again live on crusts of hearsay, crumbs of rumor.”   MSG

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

Heb 8:10 Now, Instead of documenting my laws on stone, I will chisel them into your mind and engrave them in your inner consciousness; it will no longer be a one side of the pier. I will be your God and you will be my people, not by compulsion but my mutual desire.

11 Knowing Me will no longer be a Sunday school lesson, or something taught by persuasive words of doctrine neither will they know me on account of family tradition or door to door evangelism. Everyone from the most unlikely to the most prominent people in society, will know me inwardly. Mirror

WOMEN AT THE WELL—John 4:39 Many of the Samaritans from that village committed themselves to him because of the woman’s witness: “He knew all about the things I did. He knows me inside and out!”

40 They asked him to stay on, so Jesus stayed two days.

41 A lot more people entrusted their lives to him when they heard what he had to say.

42 They said to the woman, “We’re no longer taking this on your say-so. We’ve heard it for ourselves and know it for sure. He’s the Savior of the world!” MSG

John 14:12 I want you to be fully convinced about this, anyone who’s belief concludes in who I am, will also do the works that I do. And because of my relocation to continue to be face-to-face with my Father, the works that the believer will do, will be of greater proportion and global influence; the Father is as present in you as he is in me.  Mirror

2 Cor 13:5 Test yourselves to make sure you are solid in the faith. Don’t drift along taking everything for granted. Give yourselves regular checkups. You need firsthand evidence, not mere hearsay, that Jesus Christ is in you. Test it out. If you fail the test, do something about it.  MSG

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2 Cor 13:5 I implore you to examine faith for yourselves in order to test what it is that you really believe. Faith is so much more then the mere veneer of superstitious belief in a historic Christ; faith is about realizing Jesus Christ in you, in the midst of contradiction! Just as ore is placed into a crucible, where the doss is separated from the gold in the furnace, come to the conclusion for yourselves of his indwelling! Should it appear to you that Christ is absent in your life, look again, you have obviously done the test wrong! Mirror

Rom 5:2 Jesus is God’s face to face grace embrace of the entire human race. So here we are, standing tall and the joyful bliss of our redeemed innocence! We are God’s  dream come true! This was God’s  idea all along! Mirror

Eph 3:19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!   AMP

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Eph 3:19 I desire for you to become intimately acquainted with the love of Christ on the deepest possible level; far beyond on the reach of mere academic, intellectual grasp. Within the scope of this equation God finds the ultimate expression of their image and likeness in you. Mirror

Mal 3:12 “You’ll be voted ‘Happiest Nation.‘ You’ll experience what it’s like to be a country of grace.” God-of-the-Angel-Armies says so. MSG

John 8:32 Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you.”  MSG

JOHN 17:13 “But now I am returning to you so Father, I praythat they will experience
 and enter into my joyous delight in you so that it is fulfilled in them and overflows. TPT

1 Cor 7:22 I’m simply trying to point out that under your new Master you’re going to experience a marvelous freedom you would never have dreamed of. On the other hand, if you were free when Christ called you, you’ll experience a delightful “enslavement to God” you would never have dreamed of. MSG

Gal 1:4 We know the meaning of those words because Jesus Christ rescued us from this evil world we’re in by offering himself as a sacrifice for our sins. God’s plan is that we all experience that rescue.

5 Glory to God forever! Oh, yes! MSG

PHIL 3:10-14 And I continually long to know the wonders of Jesus more fully and to experience the overflowing power of his resurrection working in me. I will be one with him in his sufferings and I will be one with him in his death.

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

¹² I 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 that Jesus Christ has called me to fulfill and wants me to discover.

¹³ I 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.

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

2 Peter 1:1  I, Simon Peter, am a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. I write this to you whose experience with God is as life-changing as ours, all due to our God’s straight dealing and the intervention of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ. MSG

1 John 1:3 We saw it, we heard it, and now we’re telling you so you can experience it along with us, this experience of communion with the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ.  MSG

1 John 1:6 If we claim that we experience a shared life with him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we’re obviously lying through our teeth — we’re not living what we claim.

7 But if we walk in the light, God himself being the light, we also experience a shared life with one another, as the sacrificed blood of Jesus, God’s Son, purges all our sin.  MSG

1 John 3:16 This is how we’ve come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves.  MSG

1 John 3:24 As we keep his commands, we live deeply and surely in him, and he lives in us. And this is how we experience his deep and abiding presence in us: by the Spirit he gave us.  MSG

Heb 4:11 Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience it for ourselves], that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience [into which those in the wilderness fell]. AMP

1 Cor 14:3 But when you proclaim his truth in everyday speech, you’re letting others in on the truth so that they can grow and be strong and experience his presence with you.  MSG

Eph 5:10 And try to learn [in your experience] what is pleasing to the Lord [let your lives be constant proofs of what is most acceptable to Him]. AMP

Phil 4:23 Receive and experience the amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, deep, deep within yourselves.  MSG

HEALING REALITY MINDSET CHANGE 2-6-2021

Mark 16:15 Then he said, “Go into the world. Go everywhere and announce the Message of God’s good news to one and all.

16 Whoever believes and is baptized is saved; whoever refuses to believe is damned.

17 “These are some of the signs that will accompany believers: They will throw out demons in my name, they will speak in new tongues,

18 they will take snakes in their hands, they will drink poison and not be hurt, they will lay hands on the sick and make them well.”

19 Then the Master Jesus, after briefing them, was taken up to heaven, and he sat down beside God in the place of honor.

20 And the disciples went everywhere preaching, the Master working right with them, validating the Message with indisputable evidence.]   MSG

Matt 17:15 Lord, do pity and have mercy on my son, for he has epilepsy (is moonstruck) and he suffers terribly; for frequently he falls into the fire and many times into the water.

16 And I brought him to Your disciples, and they were not able to cure him.

17 And Jesus answered, O you unbelieving (warped, wayward, rebellious) and thoroughly perverse generation! How long am I to remain with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to Me.

18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was cured instantly.

19 Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked privately, Why could we not drive it out?

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 5:1 After these events there was another feast of the Jews in Jerusalem. Jesus determined to be there. At the sheep gate in Jerusalem there was a pool called Bethesda; in Aramaic it means home of grace and kindness – it had five porches. Many ailing people were lying in the shade of these porches, blind, crippled and withered, waiting for the stirring of the water. A shepherd messenger would go down into the pool occasionally to stir the water; the first person to then into the pool would be healed of whatever it was they were suffering from. There was also a man who had an infirmity for 38 years. Jesus saw the man and realize that he had been there for a very long time; he asked him, “do you really desire to be made well?“ The man answered him sir I have no one to help me to get me in the pool when the water is stirred; by the time I get there someone else has already gotten there before me! Jesus said to awaken arise pick up your bed and walk! And it once the man became whole and picked up his bed and began to walk! That this was on the Sabbath day. The Jews were immediately offended and rebuke the man for picking up his bed on a day when no work was allowed according to their law! He answered them the man who healed me told me to pick up my bed and walk! They were very keen to know who this man was. but the man didn’t know who it was who he told him since Jesus already left unnoticed and they were throngs of people around. Then a little later Jesus found him in the synagogue and said see! You have become whole do not continue in your old distorted mindset; then nothing worse can happen to you! Mirror

John 9:3  Jesus said, “You’re asking the wrong question. You’re looking for someone to blame. There is no such cause-effect here. Look instead for what God can do.   

1 Cor 10:3 The Fact that we are living in a physical world in human bodies of the flesh does not mean that we engage ourselves in a combat dictated to by the typical “tit for tat” strategies of the politics of the day.

4 The dynamic of our strategy is revealed in God’s ability to disengage mindsets and perceptions that have held people captive in a pseudo-fortress for centuries!

5 Every lofty idea and argument positioned against the knowledge of God is cast down and exposed to be a mere invention of our own imagination. We arrest every thought that could possibly trigger an opposing threat to our redeemed Identity and innocence at spearpoint! The cavalier of our weapon is empowered by the revelation of the ultimate consequence of the obedience of Christ.!  Mirror

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

2 Cor 1:9 We felt like we’d been sent to death row, that it was all over for us. As it turned out, it was the best thing that could have happened. Instead of trusting in our own strength or wits to get out of it, we were forced to trust God totally — not a bad idea since he’s the God who raises the dead!  MSG

Ps 44:5 Through You shall we push down our enemies; through Your name shall we tread them under who rise up against us.

6 For I will not trust in and lean on my bow, neither shall my sword save me.  AMP

Jer 17:5 God’s Message: “Cursed is the strong one who depends on mere humans, Who thinks he can make it on muscle alone and sets God aside as dead weight.

6 He’s like a tumbleweed on the prairie, out of touch with the good earth. He lives rootless and aimless in a land where nothing grows.

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

James 5:14 Is anyone among you sick? He should call in the church elders (the spiritual guides). And they should pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Lord’s name.

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

Cor 16:13 Be Wide-awake and constant in your faith, courageous and invincible. Mirror

THE ANOINTING (THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT) 2-5-21 VIDEO ANOINT STEVEN

CHRIST means Anointing!  Anointed, a term applied to the priests who were anointed with the Holy oil,  by His Holy power and Spirit, so as to mould their characters that they bear his likeness. The anointing is to be covered by the power of the Holy Spirit. The anointing breaks the yoke of slavery to sin the sickness to death. Anointing is to have the full measure of the Holy Spirit. As in Jesus it’s unstoppable. There’s a transference of anointing. Anointing oil is a symbol of the Holy Spirit.

1 John 2:27 But as for you, the anointing (the sacred appointment, the unction) which you received from Him abides [permanently] in you; [so] then you have no need that anyone should instruct you. But just as His anointing teaches you concerning everything and is true and is no falsehood, so you must abide in (live in, never depart from) Him [being rooted in Him, knit to Him], just as [His anointing] has taught you [to do]. AMP

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1 John 2:27  But they’re no match for what is embedded deeply within you — Christ’s anointing, no less! You don’t need any of their so-called teaching. Christ’s anointing teaches you the truth on everything you need to know about yourself and him, uncontaminated by a single lie. Live deeply in what you were taught.  MSG

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1 John 2:27 I am convinced that the effect of his touch within you is permanent; This is the Christ-annointing that teaches you all things, so that you do not need any teacher whose doctrine does not resonate with truth. Deception cannot compete with spiritual-resonance. Mirror

LU 5:17 One day many Jewish religious leaders, known as Phariseesalong with many religious scholars came from every village of Galilee, throughout Judea, and even from Jerusalem to hear Jesus teach. And the power of the Lord God surged through him to instantly heal. TPT

POWER-Ability, abundance, meaning, might (worker of) miracle power, strength, mighty (wonderful) work. The power which the resurrection of Christ has, for instructing, reforming, elevating, tranquilizing, the soul,

ISA 61:3 The mighty Spirit of Lord Yahwehis wrapped aroundmebecause Yahweh has anointed me, as a messenger to preach good news to the poor.  He sent me to heal the wounds of the brokenhearted,to tell captives, “You are free,” and to tell prisoners, “Be free from your darkness.”
² I am sent to announce a new seasonof Yahweh’s graceand a time of God’s recompense on his enemies,  to comfort all who are in sorrow,
³ to strengthen those crushed by despair who mourn in Zion—to give them a beautiful bouquetin the place of ashes,the oil of blissinstead of tears, and the mantle of joyous praise instead of the spirit of heaviness. Because of this, they will be known as Mighty Oaksof Righteousness, plantedby Yahweh as a living display of his glory. TPT

LU 4:18-21 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, and he has anointed me to be hopefor the poor, freedom for the brokenhearted, and new eyesfor the blind, and to preach to prisoners,‘You are set free!’ I have come to share the message of Jubilee, for the time of God’s great acceptancehas begun.”

²⁰ After he read this he rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the minister, and sat down. Everyone stared at Jesus, wondering what he was about to say.

²¹ Then he added, “These Scriptures came true today in front of you.” TPT 

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Luke 4:18 God’s Spirit is on me; he’s chosen me to preach the Message of good news to the poor, Sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, To set the burdened and battered free,

19 to announce, “This is God’s year to act!”

20 He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the assistant, and sat down. Every eye in the place was on him, intent.

21 Then he started in, “You’ve just heard Scripture make history. It came true just now in this place.”   MSG

Luke 4:14 Then Jesus went back full of and under the power of the [Holy] Spirit into Galilee, and the fame of Him spread through the whole region round about. AMP

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LU 4:14 Then Jesus, armed with the Holy Spirit’s power, returned to Galilee, and his fame spread throughout the region.  TPT

Isa 10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. KJV

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ISA 10:27 In that day the Lord will remove the heavy burden from your shoulders and break off the yoke of bondage from your necks because of the heavy anointing upon you  TPT OIL KEEPS THE YOKE OFF

Ex 29:7 Then take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.  AMP

1 Sam 16:12 Jesse sent for him. He was brought in, the very picture of health — bright-eyed, good-looking. GOD said, “Up on your feet! Anoint him! This is the one.”

13 Samuel took his flask of oil and anointed him, with his brothers standing around watching. The Spirit of GOD entered David like a rush of wind, God vitally empowering him for the rest of his life. Samuel left and went home to Ramah.

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Acts 2:1 AND WHEN the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all assembled together in one place,

2 When suddenly there came a sound from heaven like the rushing of a violent tempest blast, and it filled the whole house in which they were sitting.

3 And there appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which were separated and distributed and which settled on each one of them.

4 And they were all filled (diffused throughout their souls) with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other (different, foreign) languages (tongues), as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression [in each tongue in appropriate words]. AMP  ▼▼▼

ACTS 2:1-4  On the day Pentecost was being fulfilled, all the disciples were gathered in one place.

² Suddenly they heard the sound of a violent blast of windrushing into the housefrom out of the heavenly realm. The roar of the wind was so overpowering it was all anyone could bear!

³ Then all at once a pillar of fire appeared before their eyes. It separated into tongues of fire that engulfedeach one of them.

⁴ They were all filled and equippedwith the Holy Spirit and were inspiredto speak in tongues—empowered by the Spirit to speak in languages they had never learned! TPT

2 Cor 1:21. God himself authorizes our oneness with you in Christ. He is our anointing. Mirror

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2 Cor 1:21 But it is God Who confirms and makes us steadfast and establishes us [in joint fellowship] with you in Christ, and has consecrated and anointed us [enduing us with the gifts of the Holy Spirit]; AMP

PS 84:9 God, your wrap-around presence is our defense. In your kindness look upon the faces of your anointed ones TPT

JN 20:31 But all that is recorded here is so that you will fully believethat Jesus is the Anointed One, the Son of God, and that through your faith in him you will experience eternal lifeby the power of his name! TPT

ACTS 4:26-31 Look at how the kings of the earth take their stand, with the rulers scheming and conspiring together against Godand his anointed Messiah!’

²⁷ “In fact, Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with Jews and non-Jews, met together to take their stand against your holy servant, Jesus the Messiah.

²⁸ They did to him all that your purpose and will had determined, according to the destiny you had marked out for him.

²⁹ So now, Lord, listen to their threats to harm us. Empower us, as your servants, to speak the word of God freely and courageously.

³⁰ Stretch out your hand of power through us to heal, and to move in signs and wonders by the name of your holy Son, Jesus!”

³¹ At that moment the earth shook beneath them, causing the building they were in to tremble. Each one of them was filled with the Holy Spirit, and they proclaimed the word of God with unrestrained boldness. TPT

Acts 10:38 Then Jesus arrived from Nazareth, anointed by God with the Holy Spirit, ready for action. He went through the country helping people and healing everyone who was beaten down by the Devil. He was able to do all this because God was with him. MSG

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ACTS 10:38 “Jesus of Nazareth was anointed by God with the Holy Spirit and with great power. He did wonderful things for others and divinely healed all who were under the tyranny of the devil, for God had anointed him.   TPT

ROM 5:1 Our faith in Jesus transfers God’s righteousness to us and he now declares us flawless in his eyes. This means we can now enjoy true and lasting peacewith God, all because of what our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, has done for us.  TPT

1 PET 2:5 Come and be his “living stones” who are continually being assembled into a sanctuary for God. For now you serve as holy priests, offering up spiritual sacrifices that he readily accepts through Jesus Christ.  TPT

Eph 1:13-14 Now to you Gentiles also have discovered your selves to be equally included in him have a witness the unveiled logic of God. What exciting news! Your salvation is publicly announce. Consistent with the promise of God, the Holy Spirit gives guarantee to the fact of your faith, like a stamp of a signet ring that certifies a document. You are in him!

14 The Holy Spirit is our tangible link to the inheritance that was ransomed and preserve for us. God‘s glorious plan for mankind is in the theme of our celebration. Mirror   ▼▼▼

EPH 1:13 And because of him, when you who are not Jews heard the revelationof truth, you believed in the wonderful news of salvation. Now we have been stamped with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit.

¹⁴ He is given to us like an engagement ringis given to a bride, as the first installment of what’s coming! He is our hope-promise of a future inheritancewhich seals us until we have all of redemption’s promises and experience complete freedom—all for the supreme glory and honor of God!  TPT

1 Cor 3:16 Do you not discern and understand that you [the whole church at Corinth] are God’s temple (His sanctuary), and that God’s Spirit has His permanent dwelling in you [to be at home in you, collectively as a church and also individually]?

17 If anyone does hurt to God’s temple or corrupts it [with false doctrines] or destroys it, God will do hurt to him and bring him to the corruption of death and destroy him. For the temple of God is holy (sacred to Him) and that [temple] you [the believing church and its individual believers] are.  AMP  

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1 COR 3:16-17 Don’t you realize that together you have become God’s inner sanctuaryand that the Spirit of God makes his permanent home in you?

¹⁷ Now, if someone desecratesGod’s inner sanctuary, God will desecrate him, for God’s inner sanctuary is holy, and that is exactly who you are. TPT

1 Cor 6:19 Do you not realize that your body is the sacred shrine of the Spirit of God, echoing within you. You do not own your own light! You are bought and paid for. All of you are his. Live your life conscious of how your irreplaceable priceless you are. You host God in your skin. Mirror

FULLNESS 1-31-21 VIDEO

The Holy Spirit has a goal for you today. He has a plan to build you up, to restore you or even more awakening you to a level of godliness maybe you’ve never known before. Fullness means the totality of Yahweh. All his divine power and attributes. All of his nature, his wisdom, his life, and his love. His existence has been permeated to Christ to land on you! Fullness can be given away. Jesus gave it to us so we can give it to the world that needs to know him.

Fully and fullness means there’s no greater amount given. It’s been given completely however there is a continuous refreshing and stirring of his fullness because God is eternal and we  grow from glory to glory.

JN 1:16 And now out of his fullness we are fulfilled! And from him we receive grace heaped upon more grace! TPT

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John 1:16 He is the source of our completeness. Everyone may now realize their own completeness as evidenced in him. This is Grace mirrored in Grace! Mirror

Eph 1:23 Which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills all in all [for in that body lives the full measure of Him Who makes everything complete, and Who fills everything everywhere with Himself]. AMP

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Eph 1;23 The Ekklesia is his body. The completeness of his being that fills all in all resides in us! God cannot make himself more visible or exhibit himself more accurately. Mirror

Eph 1:1 Paul, employed  by the delightful resolve of God and commissioned to represent Jesus Christ to the saints in Ephesus and also to every believer in Christ Jesus.

2 I greet you with the grace and peace that proceeds from God the father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

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

5 He is the architect of our design; his heart dream realized in our coming of age in Christ.

6 His grace plan is to be celebrated: he greatly endeared us and highly favored us in Christ. His love for his son is his love for us.

7 Since we are fully represented in him, his blood is the ransom that secures our redemption. His forgiving or sin measures the wealth of his grace.

8 This grace shown towards us communicates a wisdom and discernment of our worth that completely surpasses any definition.

9 The secret is out! His cherish love dream now unfolds in front of our very eyes.

10 In the economy of the fullness of time, everything, culminates in Christ. All that is in heaven and all that is on earth is reconciled in him. Jesus is a consummation of the ages! Mirror

Col 1:19  For it has pleased [the Father] that all the divine fullness (the sum total of the divine perfection, powers, and attributes) should dwell in Him permanently.

20 And God purposed that through (by the service, the intervention of) Him [the Son] all things should be completely reconciled back to Himself, whether on earth or in heaven, as through Him, [the Father] made peace by means of the blood of His cross.

21 And although you at one time were estranged and alienated from Him and were of hostile attitude of mind in your wicked activities,

22 Yet now has [Christ, the Messiah] reconciled [you to God] in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in His [the Father’s] presence.

23 [And this He will do] provided that you continue to stay with and in the faith [in Christ], well-grounded and settled and steadfast, not shifting or moving away from the hope [which rests on and is inspired by] the glad tidings (the Gospel), which you heard and which has been preached [as being designed for and offered without restrictions] to every person under heaven, and of which [Gospel] I, Paul, became a minister. AMP

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COL 1:19-23 For God is satisfied to have all his fullnessdwelling in Christ. 

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!

^21–22 Even though you were once distant from him, living in the shadows of your evil thoughts and actions, he reconnected you back to himself. He released his supernatural peace to you through the sacrifice of his own body as the sin-payment on your behalf so that you would dwell in his presence. And now there is nothing between you and Father God, for he sees you as holy, flawless, and restored,

²³ if indeed you continue to advance in faith, assured of a firm foundation to grow upon. Never be shaken from the hope of the gospel you have believed in. And this is the glorious news I preach all over the world.  TPT

Col 2:9 Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don’t need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him.

10 When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything.  MSG

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COL 2:9 For he is the complete fullness of deity living in human form.

¹⁰ And our own completeness is now found in him. We are completely filled with God as Christ’s fullness overflows within us. He is the Headof every kingdom and authority in the universe! TPT

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Col 2:9 All Deity resides in him in human body! He proves that human life is taylor-made for God!

10 And we are in him! Jesus mirrors our completeness and endorses our true identity. He is I am in us! Mirror

Eph 3:19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! AMP

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EPH 3:19 Then you will be empowered to discover what every holy one experiences—the great magnitudeof the astonishing love of Christ in all its dimensions. How deeply intimate and far-reaching is his love! How enduring and inclusive it is! Endless love beyond measurement that transcends our understanding—this extravagant love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God!  TPT

Col 2:11 Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It’s not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you’re already in — insiders — not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin.  MSG

Jer 31:25 For I will [fully] satisfy the weary soul, and I will replenish every languishing and sorrowful person. AMP

Acts 2:4 And they were all filled (diffused throughout their souls) with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other (different, foreign) languages (tongues), as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression [in each tongue in appropriate words]. AMP

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ACTS 2:4 They were all filled and equippedwith the Holy Spirit and were inspired^[ to speak in tongues—empowered by the Spirit to speak in languages they had never learned! TPT

Acts 6:5 And the suggestion pleased the whole assembly, and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith (a strong and welcome belief that Jesus is the Messiah) and full of and controlled by the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte (convert) from Antioch.  AMP

Col 1:28 Him we preach and proclaim, warning and admonishing everyone and instructing everyone in all wisdom (comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God), that we may present every person mature (full-grown, fully initiated, complete, and perfect) in Christ (the Anointed One). AMP

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COL 1:28 Christ is our message! We preach to awaken hearts and bring every person into the full understanding of truth. It has become my inspiration and passion in ministry to labor with a tireless intensity, with his power flowing through me, to present to every believer the revelation of being his perfect one in Jesus Christ. TPT

Heb 10:36 For you have need of steadfast patience and endurance, so that you may perform and fully accomplish the will of God, and thus receive and carry away [and enjoy to the full] what is promised. AMP

James 1:4 But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be [people] perfectly and fully developed [with no defects], lacking in nothing. AMP

1 John 4:18 There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life — fear of death, fear of judgment — is one not yet fully formed in love. MSG

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1 Jn 4:18 Fear cannot co-exist in this love realm. The perfect love union that we are talking about expels fear. Fear holds onto an expectation of crisis and judgment and interprets it all as due punishment. It echoes torment and only registers in someone who does not yet realize the completeness of the love union. Mirror

2 Tim 3:17 So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work. AMP

HEB 13:21 may 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 pleasingto him through your life-union with Jesus the Anointed One who is to receive all glory forever! Amen! TPT

1 Peter 5:10  And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace [Who imparts all blessing and favor], Who has called you to His [own] eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will Himself complete and make you what you ought to be, establish and ground you securely, and strengthen, and settle you.

11 To Him be the dominion (power, authority, rule) forever and ever. Amen (so be it).

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1 PET 5:10-11 And then, after your brief suffering, the God of all loving grace, who has called you to share in his eternal glory in Christ, will personally and powerfully restore you and make you stronger than ever. Yes, he will set you firmly in place and build you up.

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

Eph 1:23 The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ’s body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence. MSG

Eph 5:18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but ever be filled and stimulated with the [Holy] Spirit.

THE REWARD OF FAITH- BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE 1-29-2021

VIDEO GOD SPOKEN WORD 2

Believe in the Hebrew means to be firm. Believing is to remain firm. Firm in your devotion to God. Just like a stake in the ground supports a tent even in the storm.

“Believe in“  means more than just knowing something is true. Believe means staking your hope, obedience and your very life on God. Every hero of faith received a reward for believing God. To stand firm in life requires belief in God. When we believe and have taken a firm stand then we take an action which is rewarded.

Abraham believed God. He was firm even during the storms of his life.   Because of Abraham‘s firm belief in God it allowed him to even consider sacrificing his son Isaac. Abraham trusted God. His stance produced as he became the father of all nations, generations and a blessing for his children. 

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

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

John 6:28 They then said, What are we to do, that we may [habitually] be working the works of God? [What are we to do to carry out what God requires?]

29 Jesus replied, This is the work (service) that God asks of you: that you believe in the One Whom He has sent [that you cleave to, trust, rely on, and have faith in His Messenger].  AMP

Gen 15:6 And he [Abram] believed in (trusted in, relied on, remained steadfast to) the Lord, and He counted it to him as righteousness (right standing with God). AMP

Gen 22:16-17 I solemnly promise you, by the glory of my own name, decrees Yahweh, because you have obeyed my voice and did not withhold from me your son your beloved son, I will greatly bless you! I will make sure your seed becomes as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sands of the seashore. Your offspring will take possession of the city gates of their enemies.

18 Because you have obeyed me the entire world will be blessed through your seed. TPT

James 2:19 You can believe all you want that there is one true God, that’s wonderful! But even the demons know this and tremble with fear before him, yet they’re unchanged—they remain demons.

²⁰ O feeble sons of Adam, do you need further evidence that faith divorced from good works is phony?

²¹ Wasn’t our ancestor Abraham found righteous before God because of his works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?

²² Can’t you see how his action cooperated with his faith and by his action faith found its full expression?

²³ So in this way the Scripture was fulfilled: Because Abraham believed God, his faith was exchanged for God’s righteousness.  So he became known as the lover of God!

²⁴ So now it’s clear that a person is seen as righteous in God’s eyes not merely by faith alone, but by his works.

²⁵ And the same is true of the prostitute named Rahab who was found righteous in God’s eyes by her works, for she received the spies into her home and helped them escape from the city by another route.

²⁶ For just as a human body without the spirit is a dead corpse, so faith without the expression of good works is dead!  TPT

Gen 26:4-5 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven, and I will one day give them all these lands. I will bless all the nations of the earth through your offspring because Abraham was faithful to me. He listen to my voice and yielded his heart to follow my direction. He kept my commandments, my instructions, and my teachings. TPT

Heb 11:17 Faith became a more tangible evidence of the promise then 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 own son, convinced that not even Isaac’s death could nullify the promise that God has made him.

18 Yet Abraham knew that God had said that his lineage of faith would be traced to Isaac! Mirror

Gen 15:1. Afterwards, the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision and said, “Abram, don’t yield to fear, for I am your faithful shield and your abundant reward.“ TPT

Heb 11:11 Because of faith also Sarah herself received physical power to conceive a child, even when she was long past the age for it, because she considered [God] Who had given her the promise to be reliable and trustworthy and true to His word.  

12 So from one man, though he was physically as good as dead, there have sprung descendants whose number is as the stars of heaven and as countless as the innumerable sands on the seashore. AMP

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Heb 11:11 Sarah’s testimony of faith is just as amazing; she conceived and bore a child when it was humanly impossible. She believe 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 shore.    Mirror

MOSES Heb 11:27 The rage of the king did not scare him when he abandoned Egypt; faith, giving substance to the invisible, made him brave.

28 His faith saw the Paschal lamb and the sprinkled blood on the door post as the salvation of the people.

29 By Faith they crossed the  Red Sea on dry ground, but the Egyptian’s drowned when they follow them.  Mirror

NOAH  Heb 11:7 Noah received divine instructions to save his household from judgment; faith prompted him to construct the ark immediately, long before the rains were evident. His faith demonstrated the difference between judgment and justification. Mirror

Heb 12:1 So now the stage is set for us; all the faith heroes cheer us on, as it were like a great multitude of spectators in an amphitheater. This is our moment. As with an athlete who is determined to win, it would be silly to carry any baggage of the old law-system that would weigh one down. Make sure you do not get your feet clogged up with sin-consciousness. Become absolutely streamlined in faith. Run the race of your spiritual life with total persuasion. Mirror

MATT 8:26 But Jesus reprimanded them. “Why are you gripped with fear? Where is your faith?” Then he stood up and rebukedthe storm and said, “Be still!” And instantly it became perfectly calm.

²⁷ The disciples were astonished by this miracle and said to one another, “Who is this Man? Even the wind and waves obey his Word.”  TPT

MK 16:16-20 Whoever believes the good news and is baptized will be saved, and whoever does not believe the good news will be condemned.

¹⁷ And these miracle signs will accompany those who believe: They will drive out demons in the power of my name. They will speak in tongues.

¹⁸ They will be supernaturally protected from snakes and from drinking anything poisonous. And they will lay hands on the sick and heal them.”

¹⁹ After saying these things, Jesus was lifted up into heaven and sat down at the place of honor at the right hand of God!

²⁰ And the apostles went out announcing the good news everywhere, as the Lord himself consistently worked with them, validating the message they preached with miracle-signs that accompanied them!  TPT

Luke 8:13 “The seeds in the gravel are those who hear with enthusiasm, but the enthusiasm doesn’t go very deep. It’s only another fad, and the moment there’s trouble it’s gone.

14 “And the seed that fell in the weeds — well, these are the ones who hear, but then the seed is crowded out and nothing comes of it as they go about their lives worrying about tomorrow, making money, and having fun.

15 “But the seed in the good earth — these are the good-hearts who seize the Word and hold on no matter what, sticking with it until there’s a harvest.  MSG

John 1:12 But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name —  AMP

Jn 1:50 Jesus said, “so you believe me because I said that I saw you sitting under the tree? You haven’t seen anything yet!

51 Truely I saying to you, because of who I am, You will surely see this communication between the heavenly sphere and earth throne wide open and the angelic shepherd-messengers of God ascending and descending upon the incarnate Son of Man, heaven and earth meet in the incarnate one! Mirror

Jn 14:10 Are You not convinced that I am in the Father and the Father is it me? We are in seamless union. The words that I speak to you are not my independent opinion or ideas; the Father in me addresses you; this conversation then translates into the Fathers action unveiled in my doing.

11 The fact that the Father seems distant or invisible to you does not mean that he is absent. In me he is very present with you! You cannot claim to know me while you ignore him, we are inseparable. I dare you to believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me, if it seems far-fetched, then believe me because of what I have done and what I am about to do. It’s the Father in me who defines me. The work exhibits his resolve.

12 I I want you to be fully convinced about this, anyone whose belief concludes in who I am, will also do the works that I do. And because of my relocation to continue to be face-to-face with my Father, the works that the believer will do, will be of greater proportion and of global influence; the Father is as present in you as he is in me.

13 And whatever you desire in my name, that I will do that the Father may be glorified in the Son. Your sonship is endorsed in my Sonship.

14 If you ask me anything, and knowing what my name entitles you to, that will I perform. Mirror

Ro 3:22 Jesus is what God believes about you! In him the righteousness of God is on display in such a way that everyone may be equally persuaded about what God believes about them, regardless of who they are; there is no distinction. Mirror

Eph 1:19 I pray that you will be overwhelmed with an understanding of the magnitude of his power in the finished work of Christ. This is what results in the dynamic of your faith. Mirror

Heb 10:39 But we are not of the quitting kind; we possess a persuasion of soul that believes against all the odds. Mirror

Heb 10:35 Do not let this happy trust in the Lord die away, no matter what happens. Remember your reward!   TLB

TRANSFORMATION  1-24-2021 VIDEO STILL GOD 2

We are being changed from one degree of glory to another. Transformation means to change into something new. Changing from a Caterpillar to a butterfly making a thorough change or dramatic change in form, appearance and character. It is a change from the inside out. For us it means to change our thoughts, and our thinking to be agreeable with God. Sometimes change and transformation can feel scary. But God can be trusted.  We are changed from the old man into the new.  But it feels hard to have a desire for transformation because the old ways seems so much more comfortable.

ISA 55:8-11 For my thoughts about mercyare not like your thoughts, and my ways are different from yours.
⁹ As high as the heavens are above the earth, so my ways and my thoughts are higher than yours.¹⁰ “As the snow and rain that fall from heavendo not return until they have accomplished their purpose, soaking the earth and causing it to sprout with new life, providing seed to sow and bread to eat.
¹¹ So also will be the wordthat I speak; it does not return to me unfulfilled. My word performs my purpose and fulfills the mission I sent it out to accomplish.” TPT

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

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Rom 2:4 Do not underestimate God‘s kindness. The wealth of his benevolence and his resolute refusal to let go of us is because he continues to hear the echo of his likeness in us! That’s his patient passion is to shepherd everyone into a radical mind shift. Mirror

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

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

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Rom 12:2 Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.   MSG

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Rom 12:2 Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity. PHILLIPS

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

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

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

2 Cor 5:17 Now in light of your co-inclusion in his death and resurrection, whatever 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

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 were you are co-seated with Christ in the executive authority of God right hand.

2 Becoming affectionately acquainted with Throne room thoughts will keep you from being distracted again by the earthly soul ruled realm.  Mirror

Col 3:9 That Old life was a lie, foreign to our design! Those garments of disguise are now thoroughly stripped off us in our understanding of our union with Christ and his death and resurrection. We are no longer obligated to live under the identity and rule of the robes we wore before, neither are we cheating anyone through false pretensions.

10 We Stand fully identified in the new creation renewed in knowledge according to the pattern of the exact image of our creator. MIRROR

Joel 2:13 Change your life, not just your clothes. Come back to God, your God.

And here’s why: God is kind and merciful. He takes a deep breath, puts up with a lot,

This most patient God, extravagant in love, always ready to cancel catastrophe. MSG

Mark 1:8 I’m baptizing you here in the river, turning your old life in for a kingdom life. His baptism — a holy baptism by the Holy Spirit — will change you from the inside out.”

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Phil 3:21 The Salvation that Jesus is the author of, refashions these bodies of clay and elevates us to fully participate in the same pattern of his heavenly glory! The severe contradictions that we might often face in the frailty of the flesh, is by far suppressed by the glorious splendor displayed in his human body raised from the dead; according to the working of God’s dynamic power. He imprints the mirror pattern of his likeness in us. Thus he subdues of things to himself. Mirror

LU 5:37-39 And who pours new wine into an old wineskin? If someone did, the old wineskin would burst and the new wine would be lost.

³⁸ New wine must always be poured into new wineskins.

³⁹ Yet you say, ‘The old ways are better,’ and you refuse to even taste the new that I bring.” TPT

Luke 8:37-45  Later, a great many people from the Gerasene countryside got together and asked Jesus to leave — too much change, too fast, and they were scared. So Jesus got back in the boat and set off.

38 The man whom he had delivered from the demons asked to go with him, but he sent him back, saying,

39 “Go home and tell everything God did in you.” So he went back and preached all over town everything Jesus had done in him.

40 On his return, Jesus was welcomed by a crowd. They were all there expecting him. 41 A man came up, Jairus by name. He was president of the meeting place. He fell at Jesus’ feet and begged him to come to his home

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

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

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

Eph 4:22 Now you are free to strip off that old identity like a filthy worn out garment. Lust corrupted you and cheated you into wearing it.

23 Be renewed in your innermost mind. This will cause you to be completely re-programmed in the way you should think about yourself!

24 Immerse yourself into this God shaped new person from above! You were created in the image and likeness of God. That is what righteousness and true holiness are all about. Mirror

MATT 26:28-29 or this is the blood that seals the new covenant. It will be poured out for many for the complete forgiveness of sins.

²⁹ The next time we drink this, I will be with you and we will drink it together with a new understanding in the kingdom realm of my Father. TPT

Jn 6:32 Jesus reminded them that it wasn’t Moses who gave them the bread from heaven. My father is the one who gives real bread from heaven.

33 For the bread from God that comes down from heaven is that which gives life to the entire world!

34 They said, oh Lord, this is the bread we crave! Give us this bread.

35 Jesus said I am the bread of life! He that comes face-to-face with me shall never hunger and he who finds his faith resting in me shall never thirst! Mirror

JN 6:48-50 I am the true Bread of Life.

⁴⁹ Your ancestors ate manna in the desert and died.

⁵⁰ But standing here before you is the true Bread that comes out of heaven, and when you eat this Bread you will never die. TPT

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Jn 6:48  I am the bread of life!

49  Your fathers eat manna in the wilderness and died there in the wilderness.

50 This, is what you have here in me standing face-to-face with you, is very substance of your life; the bread  descending out of the heavenly sphere for everyone to eat their fill and not die. Mirror

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

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

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

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

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

58 This is the Bread that step down out of the heavenly sphere there is no comparison with the manna your fathers receive from heaven they ate and they died now feast on me and celebrate the life of ages. Mirror

Mic 4:7 I will transform the battered into a company of the elite. I will make a strong nation out of the long lost, A showcase exhibit of God’s rule in action, as I rule from Mount Zion, from here to eternity.  MSG

PRAY BIG PRAYERS 1-22-2021 VIDEO PRAY BIG 2

Until you are settled in your identity in God you will not find the courage to pray big prayers or to believe for big miracles. Daniel had the boldness to pray for city, for healing. He knew that the earth was the Lord did it all belong to him.  In his authority we can without begging, without worrying know he hears us pray and nothing is impossible.

John 14:13 And I will do [I Myself will grant] whatever you ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], so that the Father may be glorified and extolled in (through) the Son. 

14 [Yes] I will grant [I Myself will do for you] whatever you shall ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM].   AMP

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Jn 14:13 And whatever you desire in my name, that will I do that the Father may be glorified in the Son. Your sonship is endorsed in My sonship.

14 If You ask me anything, and knowing what my name entitles you to, that will I performed. Mirror

JN 16:23-24For here is eternal truth: When that time comes you won’t need to ask me for anything, but instead you will go directly to the Father and ask him for anything you desire and he will give it to you, because of your relationship with me.

²⁴ Until now you’ve not been bold enough to ask the Father for a single thing in my name, but now you can ask, and keep on asking him! And you can be sure that you’ll receive what you ask for, and your joy will have no limits! TPT

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Jn 16:23 In that day of your awakening to our inseparable union, you should ask me no more questions; instead you should certainly ask the father directly in my name knowing that my name represents the extent of all the father has already accomplished on mankind‘s behalf and he will happily grant you your request and take all questions of possible doubt or uncertainty out of the equation.

24 Until Now you’ve not required anything in my name– when you realize what is yours in my name, then make your request and lay hold of that so that your joy may burst it’s banks!  Mirror

Mark 11:24 For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it].  AMP

Eph 3:20 Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams] — 

21 To Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen (so be it).  AMP

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Eph 3:20  God can do anything, you know — far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.

21 Glory to God in the church! Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus! Glory down all the generations! Glory through all millennia! Oh, yes! MSG

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EPH 3:20-21 Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you.

²¹ Now we offer up to God all the glorious praise that rises from every church in every generation through Jesus Christ—and all that will yet be manifest through time and eternity. Amen!  TPT

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Eph 3:20 We Celebrate Elohim who is super charges us powerfully from within. Our biggest request or most amazing dream cannot match the extravagant portion of their thoughts towards us.

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

Ekklesia often is translated the church, it comes from EK a preposition always denoting origin.

Klesia from a word identified by name or surname Ekklesia is the expression of God’s image and likeness redeemed in human life.

How powerful are  our prayers that are offered up by Jesus to the father and they become as incense. The prayers release their mighty power being poured on the earth. Effects of prayer show themselves by natural signs and wonders. Lightning illuminates the define truth, earthquakes shakes the kingdoms of men into their foundation. Voices carry the word of the Lord. Only the sons of God could pray these kind of effective prayers because of who we are.

Rev 8:3 And another angel came and stood over the altar. He had a golden censer, and he was given very much incense (fragrant spices and gums which exhale perfume when burned), that he might mingle it with the prayers of all the people of God (the saints) upon the golden altar before the throne. 

4 And the smoke of the incense (the perfume) arose in the presence of God, with the prayers of the people of God (the saints), from the hand of the angel.

5 So the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and cast it upon the earth. Then there followed peals of thunder and loud rumblings and blasts and noises, and flashes of lightning and an earthquake.  AMP

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Rev 8:3 Then another Angel, carrying a gold censer, came and stood at the Altar. He was given a great quantity of incense so that he could offer up the prayers of all the holy people of God on the Golden Altar before the Throne.

4 Smoke billowed up from the incense-laced prayers of the holy ones, rose before God from the hand of the Angel.

5 Then the Angel filled the censer with fire from the Altar and heaved it to earth. It set off thunders, voices, lightnings, and an earthquake.  MSG

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

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1 PET 2:9 But you are God’s chosen treasure—priests who are kings, a spiritual “nation” set apart as God’s devoted ones. He called you out of darkness to experience his marvelous light, and now he claims you as his very own. He did this so that you would broadcast his glorious wonders throughout the world.  TPT

Eph 1:22 And He has put all things under His feet and has appointed Him the universal and supreme Head of the church [a headship exercised throughout the church], 

23 Which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills all in all [for in that body lives the full measure of Him Who makes everything complete, and Who fills everything everywhere with Himself].  AMP

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EPH 1:22-23 And he alone is the leader and source of everything needed in the church. God has put everything beneath the authority of Jesus Christand has given him the highest rank above all others.

 ²³ And now we, his church, are his body on the earth and that which fills him who is being filled by it!  TPT

EPH 3:10-12 The purpose of this was to unveil before every throne and rank of angelic orders in the heavenly realm God’s full and diverse wisdom revealed through the church.

¹¹ This perfectly wise plan was destined from eternal ages and fulfilled completely in our Lord Jesus Christ, so that now

¹² we have boldness through him, and free access as kingsbefore the Father because of our complete confidence in Christ’s faithfulness. TPT

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Eph 3:10 Every invisible authority and government in the arena of the heavenlies now witnesses the display of the wisdom of God. The church acts like a prism that disperses the varied magnitude of God in human form.

11 In Jesus Christ our master, the timeless prophetic thought of God is poetically realized.

12 His Faith in us gives our lives integrity. We echo and articulate the original conversation publicly. He is our platform to a global audience. Mirror

Eph 5:27 This intimate language presents the church (his restored image and likeness) to himself, to his delightful approval without any distraction or reminder of the blemished past; no wrinkle or scar of sins abuse remains; she stands before him in immaculate innocence.  Mirror

Matt 16:19 “And that’s not all. You will have complete and free access to God’s kingdom, keys to open any and every door: no more barriers between heaven and earth, earth and heaven. A yes on earth is yes in heaven. A no on earth is no in heaven.”   MSG

MATT 6:5-8 “Whenever you pray, be sincere and not like the pretenders who love the attention they receive while praying before others in the meetings and on street corners. Believe me, they’ve already received in full their reward.

 ⁶ But whenever you pray, go into your innermost chamber and be alone with Father God,praying to him in secret. And your Father, who sees all you do, will reward you openly.

⁷ When you pray, there is no need to repeat empty phrases, praying like those who don’t know God, for they expect God to hear them because of their many words.

⁸ There is no need to imitate them, since your Father already knows what you need before you ask him.  TPT

Jer 33:3 Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand).  AMP

Isa 65:24 Before they even call out to me, I will answer them; before they’ve finished telling me what they need, I’ll have already heard. TPT

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

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HEB 4:16 So now we come freely and boldly to where love is enthroned, to receive mercy’s kiss and discover the grace we urgently need to strengthenus in our time of weakness. TPT

LU 11:13 If imperfect parents know how to lovingly take care of their children and give them what they need, how much more will the perfect heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit’s fullness when his children ask him.” TPT

1 JN 5:14-15 Since we have this confidence, we can also have great boldness before him, for if we present any request agreeable to his will, he will hear us.

¹⁵ And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we also know that we have obtained the requests we ask of him.TPT

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1Jn 5:14 Thus We engage in an unreserved conversation, face-to-face with the father; we know that it is his delight to be your audience and whatever we may ask him.

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

REDEEM THE TIMES 1-17-2021 BY MARY DORIAN

Eph 5:15 Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people),

16 Making the very most of the time [buying up each opportunity], because the days are evil.  AMP

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Eph 5:15  See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,

16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.  NKJV

Col 4:5 Behave yourselves wisely [living prudently and with discretion] in your relations with those of the outside world (the non-Christians), making the very most of the time and seizing (buying up) the opportunity.  AMP

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Col 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. NKJV

James 4:14 Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? You are [really] but a wisp of vapor (a puff of smoke, a mist) that is visible for a little while and then disappears [into thin air]. AMP

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James 4:14 But you don’t have a clue what tomorrow may bring. For your fleeting life is but a warm breath of air that is visible in the cold only for a moment and then vanishes!  TPT

James 4:17 So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin.  AMP

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James 4:17 So if you know of an opportunity to do the right thing today, yet you refrain from doing it, you’re guilty of sin.  TPT

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

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Gal 3:13 Yet, Christ paid the full price to set us free from the curse of the law. He absorbed it completely as he became a curse in our place. For it is written:  TPT

Gal 4:5 To purchase the freedom of (to ransom, to redeem, to atone for) those who were subject to the Law, that we might be adopted and have sonship conferred upon us [and be recognized as God’s sons].

6 And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father!  AMP

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Gal 4:5-6 Yet all of this was so that he would redeem and set free all those held hostage to the written law so that we would receive our freedom and a full legal adoption as his children.

⁶ And so that we would know for sure that we are his true children, God released the Spirit of Sonship into our hearts—moving us to cry out intimately, “My Father!^[a] You’re our true Father!”  TPT

Ps 72:7 In His [Christ’s] days shall the [uncompromisingly] righteous flourish and peace abound till there is a moon no longer.  AMP

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Ps 72:7 In the days of his reign the righteous will spring forth with the abundance of peace and prosperity forevermore. TPT

John 19:30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, It is finished! And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.  AMP

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John 19:30 When he had sipped the sour wine, he said, “It is finished, my bride!”^[a] Then he bowed his head and surrendered his spirit to God. TPT

Ps 22:31 They shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people yet to be born — that He has done it [that it is finished]!  AMP

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Ps 22:31 His generation yet to be born will glorify him. And they will all declare, “It is finished!” TPT

Matthew 16:3 And, ‘Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.’ You’re so adept at forecasting the weather by looking at the sky, but you’re absolutely clueless in reading the obvious signs of the times. TPT

1 Chron 12:32 And of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs; and all their kinsmen were under their command;  AMP

Job 33:29  “This is the way God works. Over and over again

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