Our Children
Many parents see only the wrong in their children. In prayer, we can ask God to forgive our children. Then we move beyond the sins and into the realm of the supernatural when we begin to confess Christ’s forgiveness for them, Christ’s care for them, the Father’s provision for their salvation, and His plans for their lives. Our egos as parents may be hurt to see our children acting up in school or dropping out of church activities, but we have to subject our egos to the Holy Spirit to pray effectively for them.
The flow of God’s Spirit is a positive flow, full of the goodness of God, His love, grace, mercy, and forgiveness. When we pray according to His Spirit or confess His goodness during a conversation, we release His power into our lives, the lives of others, and the very circumstances in which we find ourselves.
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Your words come from your heart.
Whatever is in a person’s heart or thought, life will come from their words. No wonder God says He will call every person to account for every “idle word” spoken.
When the Spirit of Christ is in us, God gives us His thought life through His Word. Reading God’s Word is not a contest for time or length. It is taking in the very life of God through His Word. God gives us the “mind of Christ” in and through the Word of God.
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Jesus Gave you the Authority to Speak His Words
Do you have a need, or does someone you know have a problem? Then pray about what to say, and then say it with the authority of Jesus. Let the Holy Spirit bring healing into your life by speaking the words of Jesus. Jesus gave you the authority to speak His words. You are His mouth, His eyes, His hands, His ears. You are the Body of Christ here on earth. So, regardless of who is in need, if the Lord gives you a healing word to speak, then speak it in Christ’s stead.
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Prosperity is the Natural, Sequentially-Ordered Result of Righteousness in Life.
God’s conversion process occurs at the cross of Jesus Christ, God’s Word Incarnate. The cross gives us our victories. Jesus’ death was the greatest triumph for humanity. Initially, we were created as Adam’s children in our flesh. But at the cross, we were recreated by supernatural conversion into God’s family as His children.
As new creations, we have recourse to all the resources of Heaven made available to us for the totality of our living. We are encouraged by God to go both day and night to use the help of Heaven for whatever our needs may be. The total resources of Heaven are invested in Calvary, so if we need resources from Heaven at any time, we get them through the cross. Read more…
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God loves a cheerful Giver
God honors those who honor Him.5 The greatest way to honor Him is to have faith in Him. Give to God as an act of faith. It is God-honoring. Tithing, like baptism, witnessing, or other acts that honor God, is external evidence of an internal work. Internally, we have given ourselves over to God. Externally, we die to ourselves and give to Him materially, with our dedication, and with our time and energy, telling others of His Good News. God loves a cheerful giver.
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Relationship
It is always your relationship between you and God that will determine your relationship between you, your family, and others.
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Redeemed
Christ hath redeemed us from the Curse of the Law, being made a curse for us. …That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ.
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Accept Responsibility
We must be willing to accept responsibility for failure before we are able to accept responsibility for success. By taking responsibility for loss, we open ourselves to be tested again, purifying us from the previous failure. We accept responsibility for failure which enables us to accept responsibility for success. Often men don’t want to be put to the test again. But it is only by doing it again that they can become purified from a previous failure.
Many fine church people refuse to leave their pews to start a bus ministry or go street witnessing, minister in a nursing home, or teach a Sunday school class because they don’t want the responsibility for having their activities fail. It’s the same with those who won’t pursue an education, a job, the role of parenthood, and just about any true accomplishment in life.
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Confessing Christ is Essential to Commitment to Christ
The Bible says that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. We are what we believe and we are committed to what we confess. When we confess what we believe, we are committed to our beliefs. If we don’t confess it, we don’t have to admit believing it. If we don’t admit to believing it, we can change our beliefs.
Jesus was misunderstood and mocked because of His identification with God. He was condemned for claiming to be Who He really was. Often, we can be misunderstood, criticized, and condemned for confessing that we are children of the Living God, that we are joint heirs with Jesus Christ, and that we are a brother or sister to Jesus and part of the family of God. Such accusations stem from Satan, the “accuser of our brethren, “to keep us from confessing who we really are in Christ.
Satan wants to confuse that relationship and leave us unprotected, insecure, and low in our self-image. By doing so, he perverts the Gospel. He can keep the Good News from spreading if he can cause us to bottle up our confession and the witness of our lives. Confession is essential to identification. Confession is essential to commitment. Confession is essential to relationship.
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