2014/04/28

What You Believe Matters


"A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things."  Matthew 12:35


What I believe matters. When I believe right, I will live right. 


Father, because what I believe is so important, help me to renew my mind with right beliefs based on eternal truths from Your holy Word. I believe that my heart and mind are important to You. Open my eyes to see Your grace and Your love for me. Fill my mind with the good thoughts You have toward me today. I trust the Holy Spirit to lead me to right living and victory as I anchor my thoughts and beliefs on Your grace and Your Word. Amen.

Getting Control


"... and as you have believed, so let it be done for you."  Matthew  8:13


Right believing produces right living. When I begin to believe right, my thoughts, actions, and behavior will start to become right and bear good fruit in my life. 

Father, thank You for the truth of Your Word that shows me and liberates me into every blessing Your Son, Jesus, has already purchased for me. As I choose to meditate on Your love and grace toward me, let Your Word bring healing to my soul and hope to my heart. Let me see by Your Spirit how much You love me, how You are always for me and how You desire to protect, deliver, and bless me. I believe and declare that my days ahead will be days filled with good because You love me. Amen.

Prison Break


Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their chains in pieces.  Psalm 107:13-14

God does not want me to live imprisoned by hears, guilt, and addictions, but with joy, peace, and confidence in what He has done for me. 

Father, I thank You that you are breaking the chains of all wrong believing that have kept me bound and freeing me more and more to live an abundant life. I declare that as I learn more of Your grace and good plans for my life, You are transforming me from the inside out. I believe that as You begin to replace my wrong beliefs with right beliefs from Your Word, my life cannot but change for the better! Amen.

Under the Care of the Good Shepherd



The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pasture; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.  Psalm 23:1-4

I can live life confident and at peace because Jesus, my strong and able Shepherd, is watching over me.

Lord Jesus, thank You for being my good Shepherd and watching over me. Thank You for defending and protecting me when I'm helpless, and providing for me when I'm in lack. Thank You for leading me with Your Word and wisdom whenever I'm in doubt and don't know what to do. With You as my Shepherd, I don't have to live life worried about my needs or my future. I believe You will cause me to walk in green pastures of provision and rest and to always see Your goodness. Amen.

2014/04/27

The Secret To Great Faith 8



Faith is not trying to make something that is not already there happen. Faith is bringing out of the spirit realm what is already there, what is already true of you. Not to confess something that you are not. Whether you confess that you are the righteousness of God in Christ or not, you are still the righteousness of God in Christ. But when you confess it, you become conscious of it. You sense it, and it becomes powerful and real in your life.

You do not confess that you are righteous in order to become righteous. You confess that you are righteous because you are already righteous! Similarly, you confess that you are rich not to become rich. You confess that you are rich because you are already rich through Jesus. At the cross, He became poor so that you through His poverty might become rich! You confess this to be conscious that through Jesus, you are already rich. That's not having faith in faith. It is faith in His goodness, in His grace.

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Everything that you receive from God, you receive by faith in His grace. We walk by faith. We fight the good fight of faith. We are saved by faith, healed by faith and made righteous by faith! The Christian life is a life of faith in His grace. The more of His grace you receive, the more faith springs forth. Our problem in the past was that we put our faith in our own faith, and it didn't work. We should put our faith in God's grace and love, for the Bible says that faith works by love. This is not in reference to our own love, but to His love for us. 

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Do you know that there is a verse in Galatians that says that "the law is not of faith"? In Romans, it also says, "For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect". So clearly, there is no way that we can give people the law and yet expect them to have faith. The law will disqualify them from receiving any blessing from the Lord. It is only faith in His grace that will qualify God's people and cause them to have great faith to receive what they need from the Lord.

When you come under grace and are delivered from the works of the law, faith will no longer be a struggle or barrier because you will walk with unconscious faith. You will not be wondering, "Do I have enough faith?" all the time, but you will see Jesus in His grace, and faith will just spring forth from the inside. It is that simple.


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There were only two people in the Bible whom Jesus said had "great faith"? The first was the Roman centurion, and the other was the Syro-Phoenician woman. What is the common denominator between these two people to have the secret of great faith?

Both of them were Gentiles. They were not Jews. One was a Roman and the other a Canaanite. Both of them were not under the law of Moses and therefore they did not disqualify themselves. They were no under condemnation and so they could have great faith to received from Jesus. The law is indeed the opposite of faith!


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You do not have to try to conjure up faith for healing or finances. Faith for any breakthrough or miracle in your life springs forth when you see His grace. He died so that you might life! You did not deserve it, but he still did it for you. See Jesus on the cross for you. That is the demonstration of His grace. And when you see His grace, your faith becomes unconscious and miracles will break forth!

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You do not have to wish that you had more faith for whatever miracle you are asking God for right now. See Jesus on the cross for you, and the faith you need to face any situation or challenge will come into your life. Just look to Jesus! He is the author and finisher of faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of Christ. The more of Jesus you hear, the more faith rises in your heart. Get hold of teachings that preach all about Jesus and His finished work. There is no power in human philosophy or the traditions of man, but there is power in the gospel of Jesus Christ!

No man can deserve God's blessings by his self-efforts. It is not about our sacrifices. It is about His sacrifice! All God sees is the work of His Son, and by virtue of Jesus, all His blessings and His miracle-working power are already yours when you believe in His Son. Listen carefully to what Paul said to the Galatians who were depending on their self-efforts:

Galatians 3:5
... He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Look at all the people who received miracles from Jesus during His ministry on earth. Not a single one of them deserved it. They did nothing to earn their miracles. They simply received their miracles because of His grace. On the other hand, we don't find any record of those who were trying to deserve blessings from God  - the Pharisees - receiving anything from Jesus!

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When believers know that they have been made righteous by the blood of Jesus. They begin to understand that they have the blood-bought right to be healed, to experience financial breakthroughs and to enjoy restoration in their marriages and every areas in their life.

Faith no longer becomes a barrier to receiving God's promises. People stop thinking that they are unable to receive breakthroughs because they do not have enough faith. No way! When believers catch the revelation that there is nothing wrong with God, nothing wrong with His Word and by His grace, nothing wrong with them, something happens to their faith. The begin to see more of Jesus. They begin to become more and more conscious of Jesus having been crucified on their behalf. And the more they see what Jesus has done for them, the more they see what Jesus has qualified them for , the more faith springs up within them and miracles break forth.

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Have you ever felt like you needed more faith? have ever looked at yourself and told yourself that if you just had more faith, you would see your financial breakthrough or healing?

Good news for you today: Faith is no a struggle. The hearing of faith and the words of the law are total opposites. And since the law is about our self-efforts, there is no self-effort in faith.

There are people who have turned faith into a work. Have you heard people saying,"Oh, this thing happened to you because you don't have enough faith" or "Oh, you have to have great faith to see that breakthrough"? How do you feel when you hear things like that? Felt condemned for not having more faith?

Faith is the opposite of the law, and that the more people become self-conscious, and the more they look at their self-efforts to receive from the Lord, the more faith is depleted from them.




2014/04/22

Your Reality


Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.  1 John 4:17


When you look at yourself (your weaknesses) and your negative circumstances, it's easy to become seized with anxiety, fear and despair.

That's why God wants us to look away from ourselves and look at Jesus. In God's eyes, because He has placed us in Christ, Jesus' reality is our reality today - "as He is, so are we in this world"!

So don't focus on your vulnerability or the lack in your life and get discouraged. Ask yourself: is Jesus abandoned, forgotten, sick and poor today? No, He is at the right hand of the Father, full of life, peace, joy and favor. All of heaven's resources are at His disposal. He is greatly blessed, highly favored and deeply loved by the Father today, and so are you!

To be Jesus-occupied like this is to see as God sees. And when you see as God sees, you will also see the grace and supply of the Lord swallow up every lack in your life!

2014/04/15

The Head And Not the Tail


...And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail...  Deuteronomy 8:13


You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health and to enjoy a life of victory.

It is not the Lord's desire that you live a life of defeat, poverty and failure.

He has called you to be the head and not the tail.

If you are a businessman, God wants you to have a prosperous business. If you are a homemaker, you are anointed to bring up wonderful children in the Lord. If you are a student, God wants you to excel in all your examinations. And if you are trusting the Lord for a new career, He doesn't just want you to have a job, He wants you to have a position of influence, so that you can be a blessing and an asset to your organization!



Your Heavenly Father Cares About You




Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
1 Peter 5:7 NLT

Do Not Worry. Three simple words, mentioned three times by our Lord Jesus as He taught on not worrying about the necessities of life. Jesus really doesn't want us to worry about our needs!

It's because the Lord Himself assures you that "your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things," and He wants to provide them!

So if you are facing a pressing need today, or seeing lack in a certain area, take heart. Don't be discouraged. Your heavenly Father knows all about it and He is more than willing to meet that need because He loves you.

You have a good Father who cares deeply about you and wants to provide for your every need. So don't worry. Cast every care to Him now and be at rest, knowing that He will abundantly provide!


2014/04/14

Do not Worry




Therefore do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or " What shall we wear?" For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
Matthew 6:31-32

Our God is a practical God, who is interested in providing for your practical daily needs.
Take a look at Jesus throughout the four Gospel accounts.
To Those who were hungry, He provided food by multiplying the loaves and fish.
To the fishermen who toiled all night and caught nothing, He gave them more than a boatload of fish.
Jesus didn't stop there - whoever encountered Him received from Him what they lacked.
He healed the brokenhearted and gave sight to the blind.
The sick who came to Him were all healed.
Even the dead received His resurrection life!

Jesus is the same, yesterday, today and forever!
He is still providing.
So whatever you need today, whether it is wisdom, favor, healing or divine strength, go to Him.
He is a practical God.