Introduced To Love

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Romans 5:8

“But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

The word commendeth means to place together or introduce on person to another.  When we were at our absolute worst God introduced us to His love.

The love of God is power.  Its power to change your condition whatever it may be.  Love is the power to change ashes to beauty, pain to joy, loneliness to comfort, sickness to health, poverty to riches and confusion to peace. Whatever your condition Love is the remedy.

Notice what God did when we were at our worst He introduced us to His love and what was once unrighteous was made righteous by love. Even in the beginning when God wanted to see change He used Love.  The world was created by Love.

Do you know that you can do the same thing?  You can change any adverse situation in your life by using love.  Not your love but God’s love and God’s love is Jesus Christ.  When you introduce your problems to Jesus they have to flee.

Now you might be saying “I’ve got some people I’d like to change.”  Well, the love remedy works on all kinds of people.  If you are a believer you can testify to that.  One day you were  ”…fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others” (Ephesians 2:3). Then one day you were introduced to love and were made alive together with Christ.  Your condition changed you moved from death to life, from darkness to light.  No matter how bad they may seem just introduce them to love, introduce them to Jesus because He is the power of God to salvation.  “…Freely you have received, freely give” (Matt. 10:8).

Jesus Christ is the remedy.  It’s His beauty for your ashes, His joy for your pain, His comfort for your loneliness, His body for your sickness, His riches for your poverty, His peace for your confusion, His life for your life.  Use Him and watch your condition change.

The Mighty Power Of God!

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Ephesians 1:19-21

“And what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power.  Which He wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.”

The greatest demonstration of the power of God was when God raised Jesus from the dead and although all hell was against Him Jesus rose victorious!

Now the same measure of power that God used when raising Jesus from the dead (which was the greatest demonstration of His power) is working in you.  No wonder the gates of hell can’t prevail against us (Matt. 16:18).  The power that lifted Jesus up from the dead is the same power that lifts us up from among the dead. The power of resurrection is present in us to lift us up and cause us to live!

Therefore, no matter what you’re going through right now, boldly declare “I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord (Psa. 118:17)” because the power of resurrection is lifting you up.  Remember all hell was against God but all hell couldn’t keep Jesus down and nothing that hell brings your way can keep you down.  There is too much power at work in you for you to die. Romans 8:36-27 says, “…For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.  Nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.” No matter what we live and we live victoriously!

Power To Live!

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2 Corinthians 4:10

“Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”

When we receive Christ we receive His death for our life and we receive His Spirit into our reborn spirits.  And His life is there in us in for us to use to live.  We don’t just receive His life for our salvation and then put Him on the shelf in our hearts, behind glass doors and keep Him clean and dusted off as we would a trophy.  No, His life is for us to live!  The life of Christ is power!   1 Corinthians 1:24 says “…Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.”  Power is the ability to act, it’s God’s supernatural, miracle working ability. It’s the same power that God used when He raised Jesus from the dead (Eph.1:19-20).   His life is power to live!

Likewise the same way His life is power to live, His death is power to destroy.  In His death He destroyed principalities and powers and made a show of them openly triumphing over them in it (Col. 2:14-15).  In His death He destroyed the body of sin that we should no longer be servants to sin (Rom. 6:6).  In His death He redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us (Gal. 3:13).  And in His death He took all of our sicknesses and diseases and by His stripes we were healed (1 Pet. 2:24).  We received His death before we received His life.

Therefore, it is the revelation of the cross in us, what was accomplished for us through the dying of our Lord Jesus that releases the life of our Lord Jesus in us.  Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”  Now, that my friends is Power!

Wait On The Lord

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Psalm 27:14

“Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.”

Life is filled with waiting.  We wait nine months to be born, we wait in line at the grocery store, we wait for our food to cook, we wait two weeks to get paid, we wait, we wait, we wait.  But while we are waiting on these things we don’t give up.  We don’t say never mind I’m not pregnant, or throw the food away before it’s done.  No! we wait because we know that at the end of nine months a baby will be born and at the right time the food will be done.  How much more than should we wait on the Lord? Waiting is not for God, He exist outside of time and all things are present with Him.  Waiting is for man because God created time for man.   Whatever God says is done in the present with Him but we wait for it to be manifested in the natural realm.  Waiting doesn’t mean that it’s not done, it just means that it’s moving from the spiritual realm to the natural realm.

So while you are waiting for those things that God has promised you to manifest, rest in knowing that “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?” (Numbers 23:20). Don’t give up just because you have to wait, remember waiting is a part of this natural life.  Instead, bravely, declare His word over your life and He will strengthen your heart while you wait.

Only Believe!

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John 11:25-26

“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.  Believeth thou this?”

Lazarus had been dead four days and to Martha and Mary and everyone standing around them it was completely over.  After all Lazarus had been embalmed and buried and the stone was place upon the cave where they laid him.  Martha says to Jesus “Lord if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.”  In other words, Martha believed that if Jesus was there He would have healed her brother.  She also believed that anything that Jesus asked of God, God would give it to Him.  That’s anything but the life of her brother.  To live again after four days in the grave was too much of a stretch for Martha to believe.   Still, Jesus says to her “thy brother shall rise again.”  Martha thought Jesus was referring to the resurrection at the last day.  Jesus said to her “I AM the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.”

There was only one thing that Martha had to do and that was believe.  Believe what?  Believe in Jesus.    When Moses asked, who shall I say sent me, God said to Moses, “I AM THAT I AM” God wanted the children of Israel to believe in the I AM.  Jesus wanted Martha to believe in the I AM for He said “I AM the resurrection and the life.”  Jesus Christ is the I AM. 

At the grave of Lazarus Jesus sees the stone upon the mouth of the grave and tells them to take away the stone.”  Martha says “Lord, by this time he stinketh; for he hath been dead four days.”  Jesus says to her “said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?  What was Jesus saying to Martha?  He was saying “The just shall live by faith” and that faith is Jesus Christ (Romans 1:17).  The stone upon the mouth of the grave represented the law which could never give us life.  But Jesus said “…I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).  Jesus the life-giver caused Lazarus to rise up from the grave and live. 

Now if believing in Jesus Christ can cause a dead man who had been dead four days to live again, what will happen in your life if you only believe in Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God?

His Name

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Acts 2:22

“And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Whosoever means anyone, everyone, anywhere  and salvation is that all inclusive word for the acts and processes of redemption.  The word that connects these two words is Jesus.Therefore, when we connect these three words here is what we get (since I am included in that whosoever I will use the first person singular) I + Jesus = healed; I+Jesus=delivered; I+Jesus= prospered; I+Jesus=forgiven; I+Jesus=sanctified; I+Jesus=justified and on and on and on the possibilities are endless.  When I call upon Jesus I am healed; when I call upon Jesus I am delivered; when I call upon Jesus I prosper, when I call upon the name of Jesus I am saved.

Acts 4:12 says, “Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”  The name of Jesus is the power that you need to live.  He is His name.  Call upon Him today and be saved.

Words Of Life

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John 6:68
“Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.”
Just one word from Jesus is all you need to move from death to life.
To the leper who said “Lord if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean” it was “I will be thou clean” (Matt 8:1-4).   To the centurion who’s servant was sick it was “Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee” (Matt 8:5-13). To the raging sea it was “Peace be still” (Mark 4:35-41). To the man bound by legion of demons it was “Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit” (Mark 5:1-8).  Just one word from Jesus changed their lives forever and just one word from Jesus can change your life forever.
Jesus told satan “It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Matt 4:4). Jesus Christ is the spoken word of God and we live by Him.  John 1:1 ” In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”  Therefore when we speak the word of God we’re speaking life because Jesus is the Word.
When satan comes to speak words of death to you,  give him the Word of God.  If he tells you you’re sick tell him 1 Peter 2:24 says  “Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.” If he tells you that you’re going to die, tell him Psalms 118:17 says, “I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord.  Whenever satan comes to you with words of death speak the Word of God. Not your own words but the Word of God when you do you speak life.
We move from death to life by the words that we speak. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” Provb. 18:21

His Death, His Life

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2 Corinthians 4:10
“Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”

To have the life of Christ manifested in our bodies, we must  have his death.  Christ died so that we could have His life in us, but if we don’t account ourselves to be dead indeed to sin, we will never live unto God (Romans 6:11).

Hebrews 10:10 says, “by the which we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”  This means that we are already dead and we need not die anymore, we just need to realize that we are already dead.  If we keep thinking that we have to die we will never walk in His life.  It’s only after we account ourselves to be dead with Christ that His life will be manifested in us.

Paul says it well in Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”  It’s His death and His life.  Stop trying to die, you are already dead.  Live.

Lift Up A Praise

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Acts 16:25
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God and the prisoners heard them.

In every midnight situation you have a choice, a choice whether to speak life or death.  And the choice you make will determine what power will be lifted up in your life.

Paul and Silas locked up in a Roman prison could have complained. They could have talked about the beating they took, the smell of the jail or how unfair it was for them to be in that situation.  But instead they choose to sing and praise God.  They choose to speak life.  And when they did it not only affected their lives but the lives of those that heard them.  The power of life loosed them all from their chains. Acts 16:26 says “And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison where shaken; and immediately all the doors where opened, and everyone’s bands where loosed.

Now if speaking life can cause this to happened what do you think speaking death will do?  It would have caused the foundations of the prison to remain firm and unmovable.  It would have kept the doors to the prison shut and everyone would have remained in chains.  But as they began to sing and praise God the atmosphere in the prison changed.  The atmosphere was right for a midnight miracle.  It affected the other prisoners they all fell under the banner that Paul and Silas had lifted up.  The banner whose power and authority no prison could keep and no chain could hold.

However, if you don’t say anything your situation will remain the same. If the enemy can’t get you to speak death, he’ll try to keep you from saying anything.  Have you ever noticed that in some crisis situations you feel very heavy and you don’t want to talk to anyone?  Well, that the enemy trying to get you to keep your mouth closed. He knows that when you open your mouth and began to praise God doors will open and chains will fall off.

Even in their midnight crisis, Paul and Silas sang and praised God and in doing so they were saying to God in all things you have the preeminence.

Issues Of Life

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Mark 5:25-34

“And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years.”

When I look at this woman I see a woman who is not only physically sick, but spiritually sick as well.  Her physical sickness was an outcome of issues in her life that caused the blood or the life to leak out of her.  Leviticus 17:14 reads “the life of the flesh is in the blood.” Because this woman couldn’t find help for the issues in her life she began dying a slow painful death. She went to many doctors and spent all she had trying to stop the flow on her own, but the scripture says, “she was nothing bettered but rather grew worse.”

Many people today have allowed issues in their lives to drain the life out of them. Children that don’t act right, martial problems, financial problems; and when they go to the mirror they see a person similar to this woman, dried up covered up and leaking life. And now you’ve come to a place where like this woman you’re sick and tired. Sick and tired of dealing with the same thing over and over again. Maybe you haven’t exhausted all your resources, but you’ve gone to all your friends and family and still you can’t find help.

Jesus said in John 10:10 “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.” When this woman heard about Jesus, one who could not only heal her body and rid her of those issues that were causing her pain but restore to her the life she had lost, she determined in her mind to touch him. She didn’t allow the crowd, the person on her left, the person on her right, her family, friends, or anyone to hinder her from touching Jesus. She focused all her heart on Jesus the one who could set her free.

Today, I challenge you to be free from the issues in your life and allow the Master to touch you in the areas of your need. I want you like this woman to focus all your heart upon Jesus reach out and touch him and be made whole. It’s just that simple.