Paul defines our struggle of faith in Galatians 2:20-21. "I have been crucified
with Christ. Never the less I live; yet it is not I; but Christ who now lives 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. Therefore, I do not frustrate the grace of God;
for if our Righteousness comes by obeying laws, then Christ's death was meaningless." We must learn how to let Christ
live again in us.When we cast our care on Christ; we actually allow Christ
to use His Faith which was in operation in Jesus when He walked the earth. Our fight is us being empowered and surrendering
to God's spirit of faith verses we conjuring up some mental strategy in our own thinking and we must totally surrender
in really coming to experience God's Holy Ghost power. The natural mind that we were born with is cursed and has a hard
time really believing that; some one could love them so much as to deliver and heal me of a plague and all they have to be
is like sheep; following a Shepherd who guards and keeps the flock.
No one can truly love them self unless they
are experiencing the love God has for them. There is only one main thing we need to do to have a mind change and stay free
from the curse we were born with; which keeps our spirit, soul and body unhealthy. We need to be meditating on the word of
God day and night so our soul prospers. As God's word is richly being stored in our hearts; it cleanses and frees us
from a sin conscious mentality that tells us that we are not worthy or we are ashamed of ourselves in some area of our life.
A meditater empties their mind of fear thoughts with survivor mode type thinking and concentrates on hearing the voice of
the Holy Ghost, which aids and secures mental and spiritual development with freedom of expression.
In turn; we become inclined to relax in His security. This is a constant every second of the day attitude
in all environments of us being able to hear Him say, "Turn this way and don't turn that way." When a Christian
lives by following obligated laws and doctrines it wears them out to tears and frustration.
God does not put demands on us. It is the spirit of fear which puts demands on us like some one being told with
a judgmental legalist point of view," have you been reading your bible, going to church, paying your tithes etc."
as if it is some kind of ritual you have to perform to stay spiritual. The bible is God's last will and testament and
was written by man under the influence of the Holy Ghost and only by us knowing how to identify the Holy Ghost's voice;
can we rightly interpret it with spiritual discernment to our understanding; that will keeps us free to function under His
protection and rule.
The reason why we have so many denominations is because;
those who are in leadership have different doctrines that have not been inspired by Holy Ghost leadings. Our effectiveness
in fighting our good fight of faith is having our spiritual mind and ears built on every word spoken by the Holy Ghost daily
and He has to be the ultimate sounding board for all the activities in our lives.
Mankind has an innate mechanize
built inside of itself that says: "I do not want to submit to any authority." When Adam and Eve listened and participated
in Satan's lie; they came into bondage to his thinking, and it was passed down as a curse at birth as I have stated.
Man can not become whole until he has totally surrendered to God's authority. The presence of God is what heals the soul
and keeps it sound. All of life's decision making must be filtered through the mind of Christ and a dying to selfish
ambitions.
The Holy Ghost is our teacher. Now we have teachers and preachers in the church however; we need to
be Holy Ghost sensitive to confirm or deny with in our self whether we are hearing truth or false doctrine coming out of their
mouths. We are to lift up the Lord Jesus Christ at all times in our teaching and every day conversations and then; all men
will be drawn to Him and we will be drawn to love each other.
It is
troubling when I see different doctrines being taught in churches today; that are drawing people to different persuasions
that has nothing to do with their righteous position in Christ.
When denominational
indoctrination takes place in any assembly, these beliefs being taught; represent doctrines or a system of social beliefs
that are a closely organized system of values, and ideas forming the basis of a social, economic, or political philosophy
of programs. This is done especially with the goal of discouraging independent spiritual Holy Ghost thought or the acceptance
of other opinions. This is nothing more than controlled slavery and arrogant manipulation. This type of spiritual control
is running ramped with in the born again assemblies.
WE NEED TO BE HOLY
SPIRIT RESTORED AND NOT DENOMINATIONAL INDOCTRINATED.
When denominational
formulas dominate our thinking; we fight a mental warfare of thoughts that come into conflict with the true meaning of God's
word. Scripture tells us that our fight is not against physical people's personalities or agendas; but against wickedness
of demonic entities in the lofty areas of the air; that want to control our thinking and keep us with a guilty beggar mentality
between God and ourselves. Our fight is in the spiritual world of two kingdoms, the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the
devil. Our spiritual discernment must be FINELY TUNED to understand these two forces at work in our thought life.
Now Paul tells us the resolve and attitude we must have to be able to fight the good
fight of faith when he says this in Roman 12 1-3. " I appeal to you brethren, and beg of you in view of all the mercies
of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies in presenting all your mental faculties as a living sacrifice, (devoted
and consecrated) and is well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable and intelligent service and spiritual worship. And
don't be conformed to this worlds thinking, but be transformed by having your mind renewed, by being able to prove what
is good, and acceptable, and the prefect will of God."
When a child
of God; does not have a passionate reality of the price that God paid by sending the greatest love gift in Jesus to die a
gruesome death on the cross for our freedom; they don't have a clue to what the mercies of God represent in their life.
Meditating on the word of God allows the Holy Ghost the opportunity through a prophetic
utterance to our conscience and subconscious mind and plant the word of God deep with in our consciecness where the issues
of life are formed and acted on. In turn; there comes a richness of relationship with Him that begins to dominate our lives.
These prophetic words supply a cleansing effect on our countenance in us accepting our self as God accepts us; which is with
out prejudice or judgment. A person living in Christ's righteousness sees them self as blameless, free from evil and
set apart from the world as God's own children whom He loves. Through my personal experiences over forty five years of
seeking God; I doubt that; ninety five percent of the body of Christ really believes this.
Us seeing our self as God sees us; is what empowers us to get rid of any un-righteous thought patterns that may be
clouding our thinking, which causes us to ignorantly make unholy alliances with evil. A relationship with the Holy Ghost;
causes us to become humble and begin to receive the word of God and act on it because; it contains the power to not only save
our soul but we begin to prosper in all areas as we surrender to God's will. We are talking about a level of consciousness
that goes beyond our own reasoning that operates in a spiritual realm that has nothing to do with preaching on our behavior
and told we have to stop this and start doing that.
If we are truly going
to have our steps ordered by the Lord; we need to identify His voice verses all the other voices that are vying for our attention.
When a born again believer does not participate in this process; it will keep them living like an infant on the milk of God's
word and they will continue to be unskilled and inexperienced in understanding their righteous position in Christ Jesus. In
turn, they never conform to God's divine plan for their lives because of their infancy. This causes them to never be able
to discern the deep things of God's ways.
We need to have the attitude
and drive to become full grown men and women that are involved in not only understanding the fight but also how to fight.
We also have to be participating in the fight with all our passion which is the only way we can comprehend the spiritual world
that affects our life. In turn, this is what causes us to be able to distinguish between what is morally good or evil. The
Holy Ghost works from the inside out. He makes judgments by the intents and thoughts of our heart and not by the outward
appearance of our behavior.
Let's go into a more depth and talk about
Romans 14:17 which states. "The kingdom of God is not meat and drink. But it is righteousness, joy and peace in the Holy
Ghost" Now living in opposition to God's kingdom is living with a mentality of meat and drink. I am not talking
about being a glutton or a drunkard in judging our behavior. Our faith fight has nothing to do with unhealthy behavior. This
is the devil's influence doing all he can to stop the child of God from reaching his potential in his wilderness walk
in the earth.
The two Greek words for meat and drink are posis: = meat
and brosis: = drink. This word posis (meat) gives the connotation of sheep eating grass in a pasture. And the word brosis
(drink) is the word dreg meaning; small solid particles found in liquids such as coffee or wine that sink to the bottom of
a container and are revealed when the container is nearly empty.
These
particles are the least valuable and unpleasant part of something, especially a group of people like the dregs of society.
Remember we are talking about being demonically mesmerized by thoughts that have us eating in the devil's pastures rather
then being led by the Holy Ghost into God's green pastures and we end up drinking or absorbing dreg principles that cause
God's children to be put into a category of a society of not being able to receive their inheritance given to them by
God when they became born again. What greater catastrophe can befall a born again child of God when; they don't know that;
they are God's sheep and have the capacity to hear his voice and follow Him in His green pastures.
Psalms 23 tells us; God is our Shepherd and he wants us to lie down in green pastures and by
still waters and in turn this will restore our soul. He does this by leading us in the path of his Righteous ways. What we
have just defined here is the arena of God's kingdom and He wants us to participate in it with every thing we have. If
there is going to be any true health in God's kid; they have to be sitting at the Lord's Table and breaking bread
with Him.
When our thinking is not in line with true scripture; we end
up being like sheep being lead to be slaughtered and we are not walking in green pastures in any sense of the word. Let's
remember that scripture describes Jesus as the bread of life to us in the family and those who decide to join the family.
What can be more devastating then to be in the family of God with His inheritance and living with the mentality of being a
pauper representing the dregs of society?
God the Father is in hot pursuit
of His children who have become scattered upon the earth in different camp assemblies and have got caught up in living in
a survivor mode mentality. The born again church is preaching Jesus saves however, they must be trained and know how to walk
in God's pastures of power and might after becoming a member of the family. The anti-christ spirit is already at work
in the earth and because people are so fearful and trying to survive to get their physical needs met; their whole focus is
on meat and drink rather then true fellowship with the Lord.
Our government
was never to be our security through programs of enabling people to stay dependent by any other power then a leading of the
Holy Ghost by His provision. God's children prosperity does not depend on the economy of the country. They are kingdom
people who live in God's pastures. It has become very evident to me in these last ten years that; the spirit of anti-christ
is growing stronger and it has caused me to press in to receive God's mercy and love and totally rest in his care.
There are many factions at work to deceive by hook or crook going on behind the scenes
and God's intention are to awake His mighty men and women from their hypnotic demonic sleep. Our top priority in life
is to be about our heavenly Father's business as His ambassadors in the earth. Only by our obedience to the Holy Ghost's
voice can we make a difference in our arena of life.
The effectual, reverent
prayer of a Righteous man is paid attention to by God the Father; when we know how to pray by declaring God's decrees
and not our own.
Cont. part 3