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Monday, 23 October 2017

who is in control

Either our spirit controls our body or the body will control our spirit.

My favorite book is John and I have to include Hebrews. There are many books and some a better than others comforting you in the middle of the night. I printed out several calling them Night Thoughts.

When you are suddenly confronted with a severe threat to the body and your faith does not pick up enough courage in the doctor's office, these are the verses I will need. They must be reading in my pocket or my spirit within. Faith comes from reading these verses until they are part of my spirit, nothing doubting, nothing wavering. This is the only way to gain faith I am aware of in the Bible.

Another way, everyone should have their own, to gain more faith is to convince yourself you are dead in Christ already. We cannot gain faith from within that will remain. It must come from another source outside ourselves. Everything works in twos it seems to me. This what I did when I was a soldier defending my Group, considering myself dead already. This freed me from fears which confront everyone when they are at extreme risk.

When you are a soldier you are a team for the Group and you cannot question the team coaches or you will be totally ineffective. There is nothing heroic about it, you are just doing what is expected. It is also like playing a baseball game. I decide whether I am a player or an umpire. I can't do both, so this is the way I do not question Christ if something does not work out as I anticipated.

I do not decide anything did not work out as Christ expected, otherwise I would have ended my faith. The bedrock of faith is persistence, If I put a time limit on anything I am turning off my faith. Where persistence remains, faith does not weaken.

Sunday, 22 October 2017

The faith chapter

Hebrews 5:14. Faith will be needed when our spirit is freed of the body, even if unexpectedly. Only faith pleases God. Some seem to think that faith means you agree with the pastor, or that you go along with the Bible. You will find how much faith you have when you are in the foxhole of fear and time appears to be disappearing. Thinking just does not happen to us, thinking is a conscious effort of reasoning originating within and not from without. This is the way it appears to me now.

Tuesday, 6 October 2015

all things seen came from the unseen

Heb 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Even the atheist needs faith because he is forced to make a decision now without all the answers.

Monday, 13 April 2015

evidence God is existence

Deuteronomy 30:19…18 "I declare to you today that you shall surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess it. 19 "I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, 20 by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."
Any culture which chooses abortion will be absorbed and overwhelmed by any culture that does not. It is all in the math.

Thursday, 9 April 2015

ancient writers first to define

Exodus 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shall you say unto the children of Israel, I AM has sent me unto you.
15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shall you say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me unto you: this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

all knowledge based on faith

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen....Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Seeing is not believing, believing is seeing.

Persistence Bedrock of Faith for Healing

Holy Father I speak on the authority, the instruction and with the permission of Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. I thank You and praise You for Jesus on the Cross providing me and on all those who accept it with eternal life and for healing me with His stripes that He bore for me.

I thank you for my belief in your healing all the hurting people I read about and I accept and receive your healing provided on the Cross, not for mine or their sakes only, but that you will be magnified and glorified in their healing. I believe Your promises and Your word will not return to You void. I thank You that in the night You will comfort all of us who believe with the assurance our future will be more wonderful than the future we could not conceive of in the womb.

I believe in Your promises no matter how long I believe, no matter how long I wait, no matter what. I hold onto to the hem of Jesus' garment and persist as long as it takes, no matter how long. I do not go by any fears or my feelings, but by Your promises that are the same today as they were yesterday and forever. Praise Your Holy Name.

If any prayer is unanswered there is be considered a possible believer's lack of persistence, and a weak faith is stopped. Since all good things come down from the Father of Lights and it is always His will that we be healed, we look for lack not in God, but in ourselves.

Two things God did for me. . .

This is my witness, that the first was spiritual, this is eternal life. The second was healing my body. Both were accomplished on the Cross. This is what God did for me for my benefit so that I would exist and continue to exist with Him. He didn't sacrifice His Son for Himself but for me and everyone in the world individually. And we must individually receive it. Although some may talk as if it has, I do not know of any verse in the Bible to make me think it has anything whatever to do with any kind of corporate group salvation as has been advocated in some quarters.

He told me to deal with the beam in my eye and not anyone elses. The Cross was all about me. It was all about me, as well as others which is their business between them and the Holy Spirit. It, is a pronoun, and refers to the antecedent noun, the spiritiual gift of eternal life by the cross and secondly by His stripes my body was healed. This was done some time ago. But this has to be received by me. I receive it through faith and by believing that through God's power Jesus did this. I have to believe it.

The healing power was provided a long time ago on the cross and I have to receive it through faith and by my belief now. I do not receive it through Jesus' belief, but through my belief. It does not matter if I agree with it, go along with it, or acknowledge it, I have to believe deep down in my spirit through faith. How do I do that? How do I get faith? I read the Bible and reread the Bible and through hearing His promises faith grows within me. I know this is how it is done because the Holy Spirit tells me this in the Bible.

Not everyone's faith is the same strength. Some have stronger faith than others. Jesus told the disciples that some healing requires more faith than others. He told them that to cast some devils out requires much prayer and fasting, which is what He had. We can accomplish even greater things than Jesus did if we believe, even to moving mountains. All these things Jesus said and the Holy Spirit told them to me in writing, in the Bible.

I witness to these things but I do not persuade or convince anyone because convicting the spirit within a person is the job of the Holy Spirit, not mine. I am only told to witness. As a slave of Christ I endeavor to do what I am told. Others deal with their own spirit and whatever spirits that are within them.

And why does God tell me to witness? For the same reason I am to forgive. For my own benefit, that is the first and number one reason why.