Because We Believe

Numbers 23:19

“God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man that He should repent; hath He said, and shall He not do it? Or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?”

Men lie but God cannot lie every word that God speaks is true.  I’ll say that again, every word that God speaks is true.  We have 66 books of words spoken by God and each word of each book is filled with the truth.  They’re filled with great and wonderful promises that are true for you and I.

The scripture says “hath He said, and shall He not do it?  Or hath He spoken and shall He not make it good?” If God said a thing and not do it that would make Him a liar and we know it is impossible for God to lie. Men lie but God cannot lie. Therefore, every word that He speaks, every promise that He’s made is true.

Now if you are a believer, you believe what God says and God says in Galatians 3:9 that they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.  Faith causes you to be in expectation of seeing what you’ve heard God say manifest in your life.   We are in expectation of seeing the blessings of Abraham manifest in our lives.  And if we are in expectation we are in preparation.   Abraham was very rich are you preparing for the riches? Abraham ran a large household of servants? Are you preparing for the increase in your business or ministry? Are you preparing for that promotion? Are you preparing for that husband or wife? Remember God is not a man that He should lie; neither the son of man that He should repent.  If He said it He will do it and if He spoke it He will make it good?

Therefore, “Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations; spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes. For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left…” (Isa 54:2-3).  In other words, get ready because if God said it, it shall come to pass!

 

Always Sweet

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Forgiveness, grace, Let go of the pass, love, move forward, Sweet, Sweetness

Matthew 9:17

“Neither do men put, new wine into old bottles else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish; but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

God never wants us to have mixture of old and new or law and grace in our lives.  That’s why He did away with the old to give us His new covenant of grace.  When we revert back to the old covenant in any measure we are mixing the old with the new which cause the new to lose its sweetness.

To preserve the sweetness of the juice people would strain or boil the juice, bottle it and place it in a cool area.  Fresh wineskins were required because they would be free from all residual fermenting matter such as mature yeast cells.  If placed in old wineskins, new wine would more easily begin to ferment because of the yeast cells which remained in the old wineskins thus causing the loss of the new wine and the wineskins.  Therefore, the old was done away with so that the new alone would remain.  The new covenant of grace retains its sweetness when it is grace and grace alone, no mixture.

In order to receive all the new from the grace of God, you must first receive His grace for the old.  You must first receive grace for your old life in order to receive a new life in Christ.  This means receiving grace for all you pass mistakes, failures and hurts. Yes, hurts.  Hurts can hide deep inside you and can fester for years when you don’t receive God’s grace of forgiveness.  God forgives us and He gives us His grace to forgive one another and ourselves.  As a believer if you are not receiving God’s grace to forgive you’re mixing the old with the new and the new has lost its sweetness to you. How? When you allow unforgiveness to live in you, you lose your peace and joy.  You no longer taste the sweetness of grace because of the old.  Maybe you’re gone through divorce and you’ve never let go of the hurt.  God’s grace is there to heal you of all the pass mistakes, failures and hurts.  Or maybe you’ve been offended by people who said they were your friends and you’re finding it hard to make new friends.  Luke 5:39 says “No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new; for he saith, the old is better.” God himself forgives us our sins and remembers them no more so that all that remain is our new life in Christ and He gives us the grace to do the same because He wants that new relationship to always be sweet.  It will be when there is no remembrance of the old.  Love knows nothing against. Love lets go of the old to retain the sweetness of grace.

A Few Facts About Power

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authority, dominate, Force, Live; Reign, power, Rule, subdue

1 Corinthians 1:24

“But unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”

Did you know that everything in life requires power?  Whether it’s power in the sense of authority or power in the sense of force everything in life requires power to operate.

Did you know that for God to create the world He had to use power? And did you know that there is no other power above the power of God?  But do you realize that the same power that God used to create the world is living in you?

The power of God is a person and that person is Jesus Christ and He has a voice.  Hebrews 1:3 says “Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when he had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.”  Therefore, the power of God speaks.  All things are upheld by the word of His power or all things are upheld by Christ the power of God because He is the Word of God.

Why did God give us His power? He gave us His power so that we can reign in life.  “For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.” Through Christ God has given us power in authority and in force to subdue and dominate on earth.  Christ being the power of God is above every other power and He never stops working.  1 John 4:4 “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.”  Greater is the power of God working for you than the power of the enemy working against you.

Now for my final question, what are you doing with all this power? There are no limits.

To Know And Be Known

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God's desire to be known, Revealed, revelation, To be known, To know Him, To see Him

I Corinthians 13:12

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face; now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

More than you want to know God, God wants to be known of you.  He wants to reveal Himself to you more than you seek to see Him.

Since the beginning of man’s existence God has reveal Himself to man.  In the Garden of Eden God didn’t hide Himself from Adam, He came down in the cool of the day and communed with Adam.  Even after Adam sinned and was cast out of the Garden of Eden, it was God who sought him out and revealed Himself to them as the God one who covers and provides.

All of the sacrifices’ of the Old Testament were examples and types of God’s desire to be known of man. Why? Because they all point to Christ and Christ is God revealed.

Paul said in Philippians 3:10 “that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His suffering, being made conformable unto His death.” I believe Paul’s saw how much God wanted to be known of him which made him want to know God all the more.  Paul was willing to count everything else in life as dung because something greater was beckoning him God’s desire to be known.

Often God would tell Israel that He would do a thing in them so that they would know Him. Likewise, God does things in our lives so that we may know Him.  But remember He wants to be known more than we want to know.  Therefore, more than you want Him to provide He wants to provide.  More than you want Him to heal, He wants to heal.  More than you want Him to prosper you, He wants to prosper you.  God’s desire to reveal Himself is greater than our desire to see Him.  All it takes is a heart that’s willing to seek Him.  Paul wasn’t just talking about the hereafter when he said “now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face…” he was talking about now, when we seek Him, He will reveal Himself to us and we would know Him even as He knows us.

Are you seeking to know God more?  If so, know that God wants to reveal Himself to you more than you could ever want to know.