- How God speaks is combination of inner voice , knowing, perception and Scriptures
- We are blessed with all spiritual blessings but the manifestation will take time. Illustration : you kids inherit your wealth but when they are still baby they can not use it.
- Meditation of the words will bring forth fruits at its season
- Kronos and kairos. We all share the same kronos (sequantial time), but different kairos (seasonal time)
- God will expose to you new uncomfortable areas in your flesh but you will receive greater fresh supply, God is growing you and maturing you. Feel loved and feel watched if you face the same situation. It means God wants you to grow in the area. He will not expose you to natural strength where you have the capacity to handle the problem. Throw your self into God’s mercy and grace
- Rome 3:23 says that all have sinned and fall sort of the glory of God. We all forfeited of the glory of God. Jesus restores the glory to us. He says in John 17 :22” I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— “
- God told Jacob to go back to Bethel but he went back to Shekem instead. There his daughter was raped. Lesson : prayed before you send your family move location. Take decision based on God’s kingdom being first in your life, not money. Make sure God is in your decision.
- Time and energy given to God and His house, He will multiply it back both quantity and quality, it will never lost.
- Sin is not always linked with religious connotation. Miss God’s mark is sin. You are coming sort of God’s glory when your mind is stressed and can not think straight. God wants you to be full of wisdom and peace. If you sick all the time, you miss the mark. Jesus redeems us from the fallen state, Jesus came to give us back the glory. We lack glory of God in certain areas of our life.
- No point to fight or curse darkness, darkness reveal lights. To overcome darkness, all you do is to shine
- The glory Jesus have given us is in perfect tense, likewise the Cross. It means it is done, once for all, and never to be repeated but the result of that one time act is efficacious today and forever.
- God loves you as God loves Jesus.
- How you respond to people who talk behind you, remember If God does not make their words weight, you don’t need to care of it. Give weight to what really matter.
- In understanding the titles and offices of Jesus, you understand your position. In finding Him, you find yourself.
- The greatest knowledge of all is to know God and Jesus Christ whom God has sent.
- We limit Him by what people say about Him, false doctrines and human natural experiences
- Assess yourself according to goodness of God and what Jesus has done on the Cross. The moment you assess yourself of being good enough and what you have done, you put yourself under the Law and faith can not operate. If you are under the Law, you are subject to natural strength
- Faith purify our heart that will affect our conduct. The moment you try to be good, with your effort, you are under the Law. Faith transcends time and space
- There are multiplayer interpretations in the Bible
- Prosperity in Hebrews “tsalach.” Prosperous is a journey; God does not want it to be something. God wants your journey in parenting, career, and walk with God to be a prosperous journey.
- Bible knowledge is in vain if it does not transform you or warm your heart. Bible knowledge comes to nothing if you don’t have heart of love. It is not about accumulating knowledge, but its about the heart of Jesus. A person who has affection for Jesus vs. a person who has doctrine will talk differently.
- Isaiah 62:5 “And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, So shall your God rejoice over you.” God always has bridal affection toward you.
- Rapture is the hope that purify the hearts of believers, looks for the appearing of the great God and Savior, Jesus. Christian does not look up for death, it is worldly future, but hope for bodily redemption.
- The first mention of love in the Bible is in the story of Isaac and Abraham, the Father’s love. The second mention is in the story of Rebecca and Isaac, the Groom’s love for His bride.
- The strength of sin is the Law. The spring of holiness is grace.
- Those who are in Christ are 100% man who are partakers of His divine nature.
- Radiant is nothing to do with your physical appearance. If you spend time in Word or in prayer, you are exposed with His beauty that makes you radiant
- Jesus is our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. If you are lacked, Jesus is your redemption of lacking.
- If you don’t trust God completely, you will not get complete victory.
- Weakness is where God’s grace flows. It does not mean you only look at your weaknesses; don’t absorb them, but look at the Lord to depend on Him. Together, there is power and explosion. Your conscious weakness always God’s power to flow.
- Isaiah 64:4 For since the beginning of the world, Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear,
Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.
Old covenant : waiting for Him
1 Co 2:9 Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him
New covenant : all things has been given - God’s favor is on the little, the small and the insignificant. Don’t despise the small piece of bread, even the crumb falling from the Master’s table can drive the demon out.
- What is desirable from a man? kindness or hesed. Who can find virtue woman? Virtue means strength. Virtuous strength = beauty and inspiratif
- Money is a good servant. It is ok to have strength, money, education. The problem is if you make all this things license and they make you proud, the means by which you obtain, and become your confident and you boast. God can not use things you boast and confident for. God use the weak and despised things
- Faith does not seek, but rests. How to have our faith grown? Only by thinking of all Jesus is and all He sis for us : His life, His death, His work, He Himself as revealed to us in the Word, to be subject of our constant thoughts. Not striving to have faith.
- To be a Christian is to grow up into Christ in all things. It does not mean we lost our personal identity. We still retain our personality when we allow ourselves to be penetrated by Christ. The exchanged life where Christ dwells in us even as we dwell in Him is the key to participating in the ongoing ministry of Jesus.
- Here what Christ says “All this time you have been sincerely trying to do for Me what I deeply desire to do through you?”
- Aspects of ministry where we might experience koinonia and mutual indwelling in one another : emphatic listening, intercessory prayer, team ministry and marriage intimacy.
- The result of indwelling together in God and one another is a collaboration and synergy that enables individual members to transcend their own limitations.
- Pentecost was more about the apostles joining the Spirit than the Spirit joining them.
The Picture of Cannaan
- The world only offers small grapes, huge grapes are from the Lord. Grapes from His vineyard are lushes and abundant. The pleasure and joy of His land and Kingdom surpasses all the grapes of Egypt (world). Joy of world bring you to bondage but joy of King increases.
- Every step of the sole of your feet trample will be yours means wherever you step will be experientially and actually yours, step by step. The whole land is yours, but step by step it becomes yours. It means possess your possession such as healing.
- Canaan is the land that FLOWS (not has) with milk and honey. You will eat from trees you did not plant, you will drink from wells you did not dig and you will stay in the house you did not build.
- The food of Canaan is easy picking, not hard breaking work, easy inside. The way of transgression is hard. Jesus said my yoke is easy and burden is light
- See all difficulties as food to feed on, don’t consumed by your situations. Faith acknowledge the problems exists but faith compare the problem with God, it is not ignoring problems.
- Although Isarel left Him, God never left them, travel with them in the tabernacle, the pillar of cloud and fire travelled with them
- Naturally we incline to the visible, palpable, five senses can take it (touch and feel). Our flesh craft for something that we can touch but God is invisible.
- 2 Cor 4:17 – light affliction, is only for a moment, working for us a far more exceeding and eternal (permanent) weigh of glory. Curse – light, glory – kavod – heavy. Your presence has influence because you carry weight
- All troubles work for you if you set your eyes to the invisible. The things are not seen is eternal. God is eternal, blessings are eternal and invisible. What you see are the effect of the blessings, the realm of invisible is your real home.
- The promised land today for believers is the land of rest. A place where you rest, the land flows with milk and honey
- Prayer: Even though I don’t see the visible yet, healing has not manifest, provision has not come, the deliverance has not yet happen, I thank you I am at rest, You are fighting this battle
- The opposite of God’s wrath is God’s rest. God hates unbelief. You can see and touch the difficulty, but God want you to be at rest.
- How to enter rest, by believing the invisible
- Temporary vs eternal, Visible vs invisible.
- Mix what you hear with Faith because the work has been finished before the foundation of the world
- Lechem = bread, feed vs lacham = fight
- Feeding is fighting the enemy, we fight by eating. When God feeds you, God is fighting for you. Feeding is winning
- Fight the good (beautiful) fight of faith – your only fight to remain in faith. Beautiful fight because you are on victory ground. The battle is the Lord’s. Fight by not fighting
- We have no might and power, but our eyes are upon You. We don’t have resources , but my eyes are on You
- 2 Chro 20:17, strategy to battle : 1. position yourself 2. stand still 3. see Jesus
- Exodus 14:13-14 the Lord will fight (lacham) for your, hold your peace, and you shall see the troubles no more
- The resurrection of Jesus prepared breakfast – He is still enter everyday life.
- Jesus’ ways was to feed before placing demands in the story of Peter, to feed before the storm
- Feeding is possessing, is fighting. Hold your peace, dont fight. Your place, fight not to fight and labor to enter the rest, labor to be more restful. Don’t feed on world news,
- Jericho fell after 6 days of silence.