¿Qué es Al acecho detrás de la oscuridad?

Porque, aunque andamos en la carne, no militamos según la carne. Porque las armas de nuestra milicia no son carnales, sino poderosas en Dios para la destrucción de fortalezas, derribando argumentos (pensamientos) y toda altivez que se levanta contra el conocimiento de Dios, y llevando cautivo todo pensamiento a la obediencia a Cristo,
2 Corintios. 10: 3-5.

Introducción

No estamos comprometidos sólo a un partido de fútbol, ​​un videojuego, un partido de baloncesto o un parque de juegos. Estamos comprometidos en una guerra. ¡Estamos en guerra y el campo de batalla es tu mente! Satanás quiere controlar todos tus pensamientos. Nuestra responsabilidad es combatir esos pensamientos de maldad y pensar en Cristo. Lleva tus pensamientos a la obediencia a Cristo. Nuestras armas son poderosas a través de Dios. Es la biblia, la oración y a través de nuestra entrega al poder del Espíritu Santo. Como piensas.? ¿Qué pasa por tu mente? ¿Qué o quién está controlando tus patrones de pensamientos? Una persona cristiana debe mantener su mente en las cosas de Dios.

Nuestra mente

Los pensamientos son tan poderosos que pueden hacernos daño o pueden ayudarnos. En Proverbios 23:7, ‘Porque cuál es su pensamiento en su corazón, tal es él. ¿Cómo piensas cuando estás solo? ¿Quién controla tu mente? Muchos están solos con sus propios pensamientos. ¿De qué hablas contigo mismo?

El que gobierna su mente, teniendo dominio propio (controla tu mente) es más poderoso que conquistar una ciudad. Prov. 16:32.

Tú guardarás en perfecta paz a aquel cuyo pensamiento en Ti persevera, porque en Ti ha confiado. Isaías. 26:3

Como una ciudad cuyos muros son derribados es una persona que carece de dominio propio. Prov. 25:28.

Porque no nos ha dado Dios espíritu de cobardía, sino de poder, de amor y de dominio propio. 2 Timoteo 1:7

Nuestra mente carnal está en enemistad con Dios.
Tu mente debe ser disciplinada. Hay que enseñarle a pensar en lo que es la voluntad de Dios. Tu mente no quiere hacer nada de lo que Dios quiere hacer con nosotros, para nosotros o por nosotros. Estamos alienados y separados de Dios. Tu mente tomó esa decisión. No se someterá a la voluntad de Dios.
Porque la mente carnal es enemistad Dios… Rom. 8:7

Esto es así porque la naturaleza corrupta tiene una actitud hostil hacia Dios. Se niega a ponerse bajo la autoridad de las normas de Dios porque no puede. Rom. 8:7

Y vosotros, que en otro tiempo erais enemigos y enemigos en vuestro ánimo por las malas obras, ahora os ha reconciliado. Colosenses 1:21

Tenemos una mente cegada
El diablo tiene poder sobrenatural para cegar tu mente si se lo permites. He visto el poder del enemigo no solo con los incrédulos sino también con los creyentes que dejan que su mente se apodere de las tinieblas. He visto a hombres y mujeres cristianos dar lugar al diablo en sus mentes y terminar en situaciones terribles. Estos hombres y mujeres provenían de hogares cristianos, pero dieron lugar al diablo y experimentaron situaciones terribles. Son llevados cautivos por Satanás. El Espíritu Santo que puede abrir tus ojos a la verdad cuando lo dejas. Él es un caballero y no te obligará.

“a los cuales el dios de este siglo cegó el entendimiento de los incrédulos, para que no les resplandezca la luz del evangelio de la gloria de Cristo, el cual es la imagen de Dios”. 2 Cor. 4:4

Mente dudosa
Muchas personas, incluso cristianos, dudan constantemente de la bondad y el cuidado de Dios hacia ellos. Siempre están preocupados por el mañana.
Y no busquéis lo que habéis de comer, o lo que habéis de beber, ni seáis de mente vacilante. Lucas 12:29

Persona de doble ánimo
¿Cuántos cristianos llaman mentiroso a Dios su Padre diciendo que están de acuerdo con lo que dice las escrituras en un minuto y al siguiente dejando que las circunstancias gobiernen sus mentes y situaciones? Cuando dudas, pecas. Cuando vacilas, pecas. Muchos están divididos en este momento entre su deseo de amar y servir a Dios, pero sienten la atracción de sus deseos pecaminosos. No puedes tenerlo de las dos maneras. Debes elegir a quién seguirás. Hay un camino ancho que lleva a la perdición y un camino angosto que lleva a la vida eterna. En esa puerta estrecha está la Cruz de Jesús. Y todo se decidirá primero en lo que harás acerca de Cristo en tu mente.? ¿Es Cristo un mentiroso? ¿Es Cristo un loco? ¿O es Él el Hijo del Dios viviente? Tu debes escoger.

“Todo lo que no es de fe es pecado.” Rom. 14:23

Pero que pida con fe, sin vacilar nunca; porque el que vacila es como una ola del mar, empujada y sacudida por el viento. Porque no piense ese hombre que recibirá algo del Señor. Un hombre de doble ánimo es inestable en todos sus caminos. Santiago 1:6-8

¿Cómo corregimos nuestras mentes?
Para corregir nuestras mentes de acuerdo con la palabra de Dios implica disciplina. Cuando venimos al Señor Jesucristo, nuestro espíritu nace nuevo. Somos nuevas creaciones y tenemos un nuevo espíritu que vive en un cuerpo y una mente que no han sido renovados. En nuestro andar con el Señor Jesucristo debemos tomar el control de nuestras mentes. Como pensamos así hablaremos. Y como hablamos así viviremos. Lo que sale de nuestra boca es lo que hemos estado pensando. Nuestras palabras nos localizan y hablaremos las palabras del mundo o serán de acuerdo con nuestra lealtad a Dios.

• Renovar
  Así que, hermanos, os ruego por las misericordias de Dios, que presentéis vuestros cuerpos en sacrificio vivo, santo, agradable a Dios, que es vuestro culto racional. Y no os conforméis a este siglo, sino transformaos por medio de la renovación de vuestro entendimiento, para que comprobéis cuál sea la buena voluntad de Dios, agradable y perfecta. Rom. 12:1-2
• Conoce lo que tienes en Él
  Como todas las cosas que pertenecen a la vida y a la piedad nos han sido dadas por su divino poder, mediante el conocimiento de aquel que nos llamó por su gloria y excelencia, ⁴ por medio de las cuales nos ha dado preciosas y grandísimas promesas, para que por ellas llegaseis a ser participantes de la naturaleza divina, habiendo huido de la corrupción que hay en el mundo a causa de la concupiscencia; ⁵ vosotros también, poniendo toda diligencia por esto mismo, añadid a vuestra fe virtud; a la virtud, conocimiento; ⁶ al conocimiento, dominio propio; al dominio propio, paciencia; a la paciencia, piedad; ⁷ a la piedad, afecto fraternal; y al afecto fraternal, amor. ⁸ Porque si estas cosas están en vosotros, y abundan, no os dejarán estar ociosos ni sin fruto en cuanto al conocimiento de nuestro Señor Jesucristo. ⁹ Pero el que no tiene estas cosas tiene la vista muy corta; es ciego, habiendo olvidado la purificación de sus antiguos pecados. ¹⁰ Por lo cual, hermanos, tanto más procurad hacer firme vuestra vocación y elección; porque haciendo estas cosas, no caeréis jamás. ¹¹ Porque de esta manera os será otorgada amplia y generosa entrada en el reino eterno de nuestro Señor y Salvador Jesucristo. 2 Pedro 1:2-11
• Piense a propósito

Por lo demás, hermanos, todo lo que es verdadero, todo lo honesto, todo lo justo, todo lo puro, todo lo amable, todo lo que es de buen nombre, si hay alguna virtud y si algo que merece alabanza, pensad en estas cosas. Las cosas que habéis aprendido y recibido y oído y visto en mí, haced; y el Dios de paz estará con vosotros.
Filipenses 4:8-9

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Sit, Walk, Stand.

The Epistle to the Ephesians.

 Introduction.

We are going to be looking in the Epistle to the Ephesians written by the apostle Paul. Chapters 1 through 3 have to do with our position in Christ. This is based on doctrinal considerations.

The second part will be a practical experience in this world. Chapters 4-6.9 has to do with our life in this world. And chapters 6:10 -24 has to do with our attitude to the enemy.

The keywords in Ephesians are the following.

Our position in Christ.– Sit.  And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus. Eph. 2:6.

Our life in this world – Walk. As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Eph. 4:1.

Our attitude towards the enemy – Stand. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.  Eph. 6.11.

The life of the believer always presents these three aspects- to God, to man, and to the Satanic powers. To be walking in accordance to God’s workings in our lives be must be fulling and properly understanding; our position, our life, and our warfare.

Sit-Positional Sanctification.

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,  the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His 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 age but also in that which is to come. Eph. 1:17-21.

And raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace, you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. Eph. 2:6-9.

The word SIT reveals his secrets of having a heavenly life. Christianity is not begin with walking it begins with sitting. It states in Hebrews 1.3 that Jesus Christ who made purification of our sins SAT down at the right hand of the Father. Equally understanding that our individual Christian life hidden in Christ is by faith and we also are seated together with Him in the heavens. Christianity does not begin with a big DO but with a big DONE. The Christian life from start to finish is based upon the principle of utter dependence on the Lord Jesus Christ and His work at Calvary.

In other words, our life, our load, our future, our everything depends on the Lord not ourselves. Our Christian life totally depends on the finished work of Christ. Our Christian life starts when we understand what Father God provided for us in Christ Jesus. This means that we are to REST in and on the promises of God given to us in the scriptures.

The Range of the Finished Work of Christ

We are not just sinners saved by grace. We are his people filled with the Holy Ghost. We are filled with Him. We are dead to the power of sin and its dominion.

Therefore, we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. Rom. 6:4-9

Walk-Progressive Sanctification.

We understand that the Lord Jesus has done everything for us but it does not end here. In our natural life like our spiritual life walking follows sitting. Our walking is our response to us now receiving. It is our practical outworking of our heavenly position here on earth. This is called progressive sanctification. Are we just acting like Christians or are we acting like the children of God filled with love. In each and every situation we face we must ask ourselves what does God want from us? What can we learn as His children?

As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Eph. 4:1-2

So, I tell you and encourage you in the Lord’s name not to live any longer like other people in the world. Their minds are set on worthless things. Eph. 4:17

But you did not learn about Christ in this manner, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus:  that you put off the former way of life in the old nature, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; Rom. 4:21-23

And walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. Eph. 5:2

For you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light— for the fruit of the light^[c] consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth—trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Eph. 5: 8-10

 Christian Relationships-Brotherly Love

Old Testament said an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth.

You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don’t they?  And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don’t they? So then, be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Matt. 5:43-48.

Nothing does more damage when we as Christians try to demand our rights from others. The principle of the cross is the principle of our conduct. The secret is understanding that He, Christ Jesus, has given us all things that pertain to life and Godliness. 2 Pet. 1:2-11

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Eph. 4:32

We all face challenges. We all face difficult people and situations. The Lord promised us that in this world we will have obstacles but rest in Him because He has overcome these things. How do we overcome?

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, Eph. 3:20.

To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me. Col. 1:29

Redeeming the Time!

Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.  Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. Eph. 5:15-17.

We must understand that this scripture is talking about our practical outworking of our lives here on earth. Yes, there is time and the harvest is rich and we really need to move on the behalf of the Lord preaching the gospel. We need to be ready to preach the gospel in every situation. As the Lord opens the doors in different places on the job, in different family gatherings, at school where we are studying, in the ministries of the Lord has given us. We take full advantage of the time that we have with the prisoners at the prison we are ministering. we speak with the offices that are there, prisoners, and any other staff that we can about the Lord Jesus Christ. We readily have abundant supply of tracks and Christian books as gifts to different people. The presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives is it give us power To reach people. We need to be wise and how we try to reach out. It must not be an arrogance but in love truly understanding that this is the Lord ‘s will that none should perish. It is always a question of time because many of us waste so much time on unnecessary things.

 Stand- give no place to the devil.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore, put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. Eph. 6: 1018

We are at war.

We are not engaged in just a football game, a video game, basketball game or a playground. We are engaged in a war. We are at war and the battlefield is your mind! Satan wants to control your every thought. Our responsibility is to fight those thoughts of evil and think on Christ. Bring your thoughts into obedience to Christ. Our weapons are mighty through God. It is the bible, prayer and through our surrendering to the power Holy Ghost. How do you think? What goes through your mind? What or who is controlling your thoughts patterns? A Christian person must keep their mind on the things of God. We must stand in the name of Jesus and push back against the kingdom of darkness. We are overcomers and we need to rest in the victory wrought by Christ Jesus. Christ has already conquered Satan but we must stand against his attacks on us and those who God has put before us.

We have the Name of Jesus. We have the Word of God. We have the anointing of the Holy Spirit. What has Father God called you to do? God will never call you to do something and has not given you the grace to do it.

The Christian life consists of sitting with Christ, walking by Him and standing in Him.

What is Lurking Behind the Darkness?
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments (thoughts) and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
2 Cor. 10: 3-5.

Introduction

We are not engaged in just a football game, a video game, basketball game or a playground. We are engaged in a war. We are at war and the battlefield is your mind! Satan wants to control your every thought. Our responsibility is to fight those thoughts of evil and think on Christ. Bring your thoughts into obedience to Christ. Our weapons are mighty through God. It is the bible, prayer and through our surrendering to the power Holy Ghost. How do you think? What goes through your mind? What or who is controlling your thoughts patterns? A Christian person must keep their mind on the things of God.

Our Mind

Thoughts are powerful either to harm us or to help us. In Proverbs 23:7, ‘For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. How do you think when you are alone? Who is controlling your mind? Many are alone with their own thoughts. What do you talk to yourself about?

He that rules his mind, having self-control (control you mind) is more powerful than to conquer a city. Prov. 16:32.

You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Isa. 26 :3

Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.
Prov. 25:28.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7

Our Carnal Mind is at Enmity against God.
Your mind must be disciplined. It must be taught to think on that which is God’s will. Your mind does not want to do anything that God wants to do with us, for us, or through us. We are alienated and separated from God. Your mind made that decision. It will not submit to the will of God.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God… Rom. 8:7
This is so because the corrupt nature has a hostile attitude toward God. It refuses to place itself under the authority of God’s standards because it can’t. Rom. 8:7
And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled. Col. 1:21

We have a Blinded Mind
The devil has supernatural power to blind your mind if you let him. I have seen the power of the enemy not just with unbelievers but with believers who let their mind be taken over with darkness. I have seen Christian men and women give place to the devil in their minds and wind up in terrible situations. These men and women came from Christian homes but they gave place to the devil and experienced terrible situations in their lives. They are led captive by Satan. The Holy Ghost that can open your eyes to the truth as you let Him. He is a gentleman and will not force you.

“ whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.”
2 Cor. 4:4

Doubtful Mind
Many people, even Christian are constantly doubting the goodness and care of God towards them. They are always worried about tomorrow.
And seek ye not what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubting mind. Luke 12:29

Double Minded Person
How many Christian call God their Father a liar by saying yes one minute and the next by letting circumstances govern their minds and lives. When you doubt you sin. When you vacillate, you sin. Many are torn right now between their desire to love and serve God but feel the pull of their sinful desires. You can’t have it both ways. You must choose who you will follow. There is a broad road that leads to destruction and the narrow road that leads to eternal life. At that narrow gate is the Cross of Jesus. And it all will be decided in what you will do about Christ in your mind first. Is a liar? Is he crazy? Or is He the Son of the living God? You must choose.
“Whatever is not of Faith is Sin.” Rom. 14:23
But let him ask in faith, never wavering; for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. A doubleminded man is unstable in all his ways. James 1:6-8

How do we fix our Minds.
The fixing on our minds involves discipline. When we come to the Lord Jesus Christ our spirit is born a new. We are new creations and have a new spirit people that lives in an ungenerated body and ungenerated mind. In our walk with the Lord Jesus Christ we must take command of our minds. As we think so we will speak. And as we speak so will we live. What comes out of our mouth is what we have been thinking. Our words are locators of either the world and I loyalty to it or God in our loyalty to Him.
• Renew
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Rom. 12:1-2
• Know what you have in Him
His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue. Thereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And besides this, using all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you and abound, they make you that ye shall be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Therefore brethren, give diligence all the more to make your calling and election sure, for if ye do these things ye shall never fall. 2 Peter 1:2-11
• Think on Purpose

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me, do; and the God of peace shall be with you.
Phil 4:8-9

Jericho, Alters, World
Like a city whose walls are broken through
is a person who lacks self-control. Prov. 25:28

What is your Jericho?
Matt. 20:29
“And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.”

Broken Down Alters
I Kings 18:30
“He repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down.”

Love not the World
I Jn. 2: 15-17
“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.”

Introduction
I think the biggest problem we have as Christians is that our loyalty is divided. I know that I have made many mistakes in my life and if given the opportunity I would do things different. But one thing I know I can’t live in the past. I must look at my present situation and ask what is keeping the blessings of God from me. I need to look deep into my heart and see what I need to do to put things right with God. I must be quick to forgive, quick to love, quick to forget.

What is your Jericho?
Jericho is a very significant place in the Bible. Most of the prophets and kings confronted their enemies at Jericho. Israel could not enter into the promise land until Jericho was destroyed. Did you know that Jericho can be a very different place for different people? Jericho can be a place where you have a weakness in some area of your life. Your Jericho might be sexual temptation. Your Jericho might be not walking in love. Your Jericho might be talking about others behind their backs. Your Jericho might be overspending and buying things you don’t need. Your Jericho might be not giving to others. Your Jericho might be overcoming alcohol, drugs, smoking, etc. Whatever Jericho might be in your life it is a place whereby YOU MUST through progressive Sanctification overcome it with the strength of God. Until you overcome your Jericho’s with the power of God you won’t enter into your promised land!
Jericho’s can be a very lonely place in which no one understands your situation. And it is not important that others understand as long as you understand that which hinders the power of God in your life. We must become VERY SERIOUS to get rid of those things that hinder the power of God in our lives. But when we surrender those secret things to God then we will see God’s power come alive in us. The above scripture states that when they left (Jesus and His disciples) Jericho then the multitudes followed. We must leave our Jericho’s behind us then people we see God’s power in our lives. Then they will follow because they see God working in us and through us.
What is your Jericho? What is hindering God working to His fullest in your life? Put those struggles and temptations behind and you will enter into that promise land of peace, joy, and abundant living.

Broken Down Alters.
Before Elijah decided to rebuild the alter that was broken down, he had to clear out the brush around it. We also need to clear the brush in our lives before God can begin is home improvement. That brush might be for some of us pride, resentment, anger, unforgiveness, jealousy, envy, pornography, lying, or stealing. Whatever is the brush in your life you need to ask God for forgiveness, so the rebuilding can begin. God will give you strength to get rid of it. God pledges to help you if you are truly tired of those things in your life that separate you from Him.
How do we rebuild the alter of our heart? We need to take a clean-cut stand for Jesus. Until you do, you will stay as cold and unresponsive as a stone. No matter what has broken down the altar, build it up. Remember God loves you. He is on your side. He wants the best for you. He wants you to succeed but it has to be His way or no way. You decide!

Love not the World and its Influences!
We must keep our bodies under. We must be disciplined in our thoughts, our speech, and our life. The first usage has to do with the material universe, the world under the dominion of Satan. The second usage has to do with unsaved people. They do not love God. They are enemies of the cross. The third usage has to do world system governed by Satan. Satan is the originator of evil and resistance to all that is holy at every level. Including secular ungodly education, politics, music both secular and alleged sacred that is filled with doubt, etc. We must ask ourselves, “How is this thing affecting my relationship with Father God?”
• Lust of the Flesh- sexual appetite, physical gratification.
• Lust of the Eyes- our sinful nature, mental gratification or pleasures.
• Pride of Life- empty, boasting, how vain life is.

Religion can’t help you!
John 3:3 (AMP)
“Jesus answered him, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that unless a person is born again (anew, from above), he cannot ever see (know, be acquainted with, and experience) the kingdom of God.”

Religious Person
Jesus is having a conversation with a very religious person. However, this person had come to the realization that his religion was not working for him. He prayed, went to his religious services, gave money, and helped people but he still felt empty! He realized that religion does not work.
Jesus did not come to establish a religion. Jesus came to establish a relationship between us and God the Father through His sacrifice on the cross of Calvary. We need to come to the point in our lives that we truly understand that we are lost and empty without Christ’s intervention. What is that intervention? It is called being born again. What does this mean? It means that we understand without Christ we are lost and empty. We understand that without God there is no hope! It means we give control of our lives over to God and ask him to forgive us of our sins. We ask God to come into our heart and make us BRAND NEW!

Saved at the Cross
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
2 Cor. 5:17-21

Believe in Your Heart and Confess with your mouth! Rom. 10:9-10.
This is the formula for healing, salvation, deliverance, everything you need in Christ Jesus. He has already done it. He will not do anything new. Jesus is the Way, Truth, and Life!
• It does not happen by being a member of a church.
• It does not happen because you give to a charity.
• It does not happen because you help an old person cross the street.
• All of these things are good, but it does not meet the conditions of God to become His child.

Salvation is a Gift!
For by grace you are saved through faith; it is not of yourselves; it is a gift of God.
Eph. 2:8
Jesus is knocking on Your Heart!
When you are born again God comes to live in you. You are forgiven of your sins. God gives you the power to have an abundant life. An abundant life is having peace in the midst of the storm. Why? Because Jesus is our peace! God is a gentleman. He will not force you, but He will knock on the door of your heart asking you to open up and let Him in.

We are complete in Jesus!
In Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority. Col. 2:10
As He is, so also are we in this world. I Jn. 4:17

Walk in the Power of Jesus.
You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. Acts 10:38

What are you listening to?
Rom. 10:17; (KJV)
“So, faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”