Seek First The Kingdom of God and His Righteousness

  Some scriptures I have been thinking on   Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the  life  which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.   Galatians 5:   24  And those   who are   Christ’s   have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.   1 John 3:4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he can

  Did you know that these blessings are yours to walk in? Deut. 28:313 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country. “Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. “Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. “The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. “The LORD will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you. “The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are c

  Words have power.  YOUR words have power.     One of the better-known scriptures concerning the power of words is Proverbs 18:21   Death and life  are  in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. Probably from your own life you have experienced this.  How someone spoke something over you when you were young that, positively or negatively, influenced the rest of your life.  The question is now what words are you speaking over your life and the life of those around you?  Are you speaking life to things that need to become alive and are you speaking death to those things that need to die?  

  Faith and Mustard Seed   Sadly, one of the issues with some “Modern translations” of the Bible is that they get some things wrong and because people sometimes don’t use logic there can be confusion.  For instance, Matthew 17:20. In the NIV this verse says  He replied,   “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed,   you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move.   Nothing will be impossible for you.”   Now let us look at this logically.  The verse says because you have so little faith but then says if you have faith as small as a mustard seed nothing will be impossible.  This makes no sense especially seeing how mustard seed is one of the smallest seeds.  Also, you will never find Jesus complimenting someone’s little faith, actually every mention of Jesus speaking of little faith it is a gentle rebuke.   Now let us look at a more reliable translation.  So Jesus said to them,   “Because of your   unbelie

Love in Deed Have you ever had someone say that they loved you but you didn’t believe them or feel like it was the truth?  Have know that you were loved by someone who never said I love you but you knew that they did? What is the difference?  Think about this. How do you know that God loves you or anyone? Was it simply because He said I love you, I love everyone OR did He demonstrate His love through action?  As a Christian should we not love as God does?  Should we not use the same method that He does?   Look at what God’s Word says about how He expresses loves.   John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.   Romans 5:8  But   God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. In both of these verses we see that the Love of God is not just a simple phrase. Words are cheap and insincere  without corresponding actions.  Love is not emotion

Messed Up Thinking Have you ever had someone do you wrong?  I mean someone close to you, someone you trusted, you loved and they betrayed you?  It hurts right?  Of course it hurts.  It is in these times we need to be on extra guard against messed up thinking.   What do I mean by messed up thinking?  The kind of thinking that takes joy in the person who hurt you being hurt.  Where if something good happens for them you get upset because what you really want is for them to “GET WHAT THEY DESERVE.”  The kind of thinking that leads you to being depressed if they are in anyway happy.   Romans 12 has some very good instruction and how we are to think and act concerning those who have wronged us. Romans 12: 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.  Romans 12: 17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. 18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. 19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but  rather  give pl

Vines, Branches and Where you going to live.  John 15:5   “I am the vine, you  are  the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much   fruit; for without Me you can do   nothing.   This verse is so AWESOME.  First let us look at a good definition for Abides-to remain, to tarry, not depart, to continue to be present, to be held, kept continually, to last, endure not to perish, to live. Next let us breakdown the verse.   Jesus is the vine, and as born-again believers we are the branches.  The vine isn’t dependent on the branches at all but the branches are totally dependent upon the vine.  He who abides, stop here and let the importance of this hit you.  We GET to abide in Jesus.  When we were sinners, we being what God hated, we were loved so much that Jesus came to pay for our sins and allow us to be forgiven. Now just having our sins forgiven so that we don’t go to hell is more than we deserve and is great on its own BUT WAIT that’s not all.  We are made the righteousness o

  The Curse of Fatalistic Thinking “Hope for the Best but Prepare for the Worst” “If it wasn’t for bad luck I would have no luck at all” “Expect the Worst and if anything good happens you will be pleasantly surprised” Have you ever heard someone say any of these phrases? I have. All my life. These were things said by my family for several generations and basically every time these were spoken we were cursing ourselves. They weren’t said knowing that they were curses but actually to try and avoid disappointment and pain. Sadly what this thinking caused was nothing but disappointment and pain for they are contrary to the Word of God. Proverbs 23:7a For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. If you think/see yourself as failing, that something bad is always going to happen or that disappointment is just around the corner guess what you are right. With that heart even if something great happens you won’t fully recognize it because in your heart you only see disappointment. Now if you renew

 

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  Because of file size limits I am having to break this down into several different parts. 

  Because of file size limits I am having to break this down into several different parts. 

  Because of file size limits I am having to break this down into several different parts. 

  Because of file size limits I am having to break this down into several different parts. 

  Because of file size limits I am having to break this down into several different parts. 

  Because of file size limits I am having to break this down into several different parts. 

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  Activation the action or process of making something active or operative: Kurt, I believe prophetically, has been using this word activation a lot recently.  If one person obeyed the Lord and 1 disciple in a year there would be 2 and if the 2 in a year each made one disciple there would be 4. If the 4 in a year each made 1 disciple there would be 8 and if the 8 all made 1 there would be 16 and then the 16 becomes 32 the 32 becomes 64, 64 become 128, 128 becomes 256,, 256 becomes 532 and the 532 becomes 1064. In 10 years from 1 person being obedient to 1064.  Matt 28:19-20 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. The Lord is still looking for those who will say send me. Isaiah 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?” Then I s

  Don’t miss out on the joy in the Journey   God wants us to walk in joy every step of the way.  Sadly, for many of us, we allow our joy to be stolen from us through improper vision/focus.  For some it is seeing what is out there and because we don’t have all of it right now, we are miserable.  We miss out on the joy and victories of what is happening right now because we don’t have, fully, what has been promised.  Like the child who can’t wait to grow up who misses out on the joy of childhood because the want to have and do what adults have and do. Then there are those who never progress into what has been promised because they don’t want to leave the familiar.  They don’t go for the joy that was set before them. They have gotten so used to being a child that they never want to grow into the joy of adulthood.   We need to have a clear vision/focus and to walk in the joy of the right now as we are progressing into possessing what God has given to us already that we have yet to possess.

  Already Done Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, I would like to point out 2 words from this verse.  Has Blessed.  Past tense. Already done.  You don’t have to wait for God to bless you because He already has. The blessing is waiting for you to come get.  Look at this  Deuteronomy 2:24 “ ‘Rise, take your journey, and cross over the River Arnon. Look, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it, and engage him in battle. I have given. Before the battle the Lord told Israel that He had already given them Sihon and his land. It was their’s before the first battle.   This doesn’t mean that we’re to do nothing because there is action required on our part.  We need to go possess and engage.  Victory is your’s go possess and engage. Revival never stopped since it started when Christ came go possess and engage it. Healing,

  Oh Be careful little mouth what you say. Why is it that we say that someone will never get it, or will never learn or will never change and then still be mad when the person doesn’t get it, doesn’t learn or doesn’t change? After we have said of ourselves over and over that we are dumb, stupid or ignorant should we be surprised that we continue to do dumb, stupid or ignorant stuff? Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. Words have power. Your words have power, especially over yourself. So be careful how you use

  I have never saw seed left on the shelf produce a crop. I have never seen a crop harvest itself and bring itself into the store house. So why do Christians think that they are going to have a harvest when they don’t plant seed? Why do Christians keep hanging around the church waiting for the lost souls to just come in? Biblically speaking we are to be sowing the seed of the Gospel out into the world and we are to be GOING OUT into the world to be witnesses for Jesus and to make disciples. It would be more effective, and Biblical, if we stopped inviting people to church and instead invited them to Salvation by grace through faith in Jesus. You do that and the lost get found and they will have a desire to be where the rest of the body of Christ is. Took me years to understand what I had been taught in church for most of my life about church growth was wrong. Jesus grows the church through us leading people to salvation. Not through the worship band, cute preaching,or give aways. Just t

  Remember this: YOU CAN ONLY LIVE IN THE RIGHT NOW! You only exist in the right now and both your past and future will be determined by what you do in the right now. For today was yesterday’s future and tomorrow’s past. To change the story of your past AND future depends upon your right now.

  Isaiah 1:19 If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;

  Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who wins souls is wise.

  I have heard people use Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, To back their belief in generational curses. What puzzles me the most is how verse 6 is missed or ignored. Exodus 20:6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. Why is it that for people to believe the cursing part but not the blessing part? I am not saying that verse 6 cancels verse 5 but that people will focus and build a doctrine around verse 5 but virtually ignore verse 6. Also, through Jesus we have been delivered from the curse of the law. So yes verse 5 is serious but through Christ we can be changed and delivered and also be positioned to live in the promise of verse 6. Let us fully know and live our true identity in Christ. We have been adopted by God the Father into the family. We are in the will

T emporary vs Eternal 2 Corinthians 4:18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. I have to confess that I have spent too much of my time looking at the temporary and not near enough time on the eternal. Sadly it is a easy thing to trick ourselves into thinking that we are focused upon eternal things when actually we’re not. I have been teaching on the gifts of the Spirit from 1 Cor. 12 since the start of June. They are each wonderful things and yet so often they are only temporary things. Let me explain. Take the gifts of healings for an example. If someone is healed through this gift and they are not saved and the person who the gift was used through doesn’t use the opportunity afforded them via the healing to share the gospel what was the eternal impact? If someone is healed and still goes to hell the healing was a temporary thing. Acts 1:8 tell

  Unity and Division Biblically speaking, unity isn’t always good and division isn’t always bad. God’s command: Genesis 9:1 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. Man’s response to this is one of the greatest examples of human unity: Genesis 11:1-4 Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” God’s response: Genesis 11:5-9 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have

  Humbling ourselves In reading the Bible it important to pay attention to punctuation more than the verse markers. Sometimes a sentence is enclosed in two or more verses and we can lose part or the meaning if we don’t notice. 1 Peter 5:6-7 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. Verses 6-7 here are actually 1 sentence and if we read it as such we get a fuller meaning than if we break it apart. By following the punctuation throughout we see that We are to humble ourselves by casting all our cares upon Him and as we do this He exalts us in due time for He cares for us. If we were to break this sentence by verse instead of seeing it as the one sentence there is a subtle change. Nothing that drastically changes the meaning but it can cause the reader to miss that humbling one’s-self involves the casting of ALL one’s cares upon the Lord. That means the “little” ones too. Sadly I have

  Keeping the main thing the main thing. In my few years on this earth I have found that the church and myself, especially Pentecostal/Charismatic ones and myself, tend to get to focused on secondary things. This leads us to forget the great commission and what the power of the Holy Spirit is really for. Ask yourself this, if you lay hands on a thousand people and they are all healed, you feed and clothe another thousand, you are able to drawl a crowd of a thousand people any time you want to speak, and you perform a thousand miracles BUT not one of those thousands ever became born again what’s the point? One last question, if all you did was proclaim the gospel but never drew a crowd, never saw anyone healed, and never performed a miracle BUT one person was born again and became a disciple of Jesus would it have been worth it? The Spirit’s power is for us to make disciples. Every supernatural move of God in our lives is to enable us to be His witnesses to the world. Romans 10:14 How t

  Where are our eyes? Having taught my children and now helping to teach my grandchildren how to ride bikes the number one obstacle that I noticed is where their eyes are. I tell them to pick a point way out ahead of them and to focus on that as they peddle. This will help them with balance and keep them from turning to sharply and falling. I find myself telling them repeatedly to stop looking down and to look out ahead because when they look down that’s when they are falling. Today this reminded me of Hebrews 12:2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. We need to keep our eyes on Jesus. When we look down at what is going on around us that is when we fall. It isn’t that we ignore what is going on around us or immediately in front of us. Just as when riding a bike when we look out way ahead of us we still see what is also right in fr

  The part they didn’t tell you. If you have attended church for any length of time you probably heard the first part of Romans 8:17a. and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, Sadly for most you didn’t hear the whole verse which shows that the first part is conditional based upon the second part. Romans 8:17b if indeed we SUFFER with Him, that we may also be glorified together. I put the word suffer in capitals so it wouldn’t be missed because that’s the primary reason you didn’t hear it. We don’t like to hear about suffering or about how the Christian life involves suffering. No we want to hear the 5 steps to prosperity, the 3 keys to freedom and how great life is after we give our life to Christ. Guess what that’s true as well. The Lord wants you to prosper, to live in freedom from sin and it is a truly great life in Christ but also involves suffering. Now don’t get it twisted. The suffering is with Christ so this isn’t talking about any suffering that co

  Joy Nehemiah 8:10 Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” Notice here that it is the joy of the LORD not the joy of what is happening. If you don’t have joy right now there is nothing nor no one else that can give it to you except the Lord. Too often we chase after things or people believing that if we just had them we would have joy. Theses things may give you happiness but happiness is short lived and is based upon what is happening. Joy on the other hand is not based upon what is happening but upon the Lord. So joy is always present in the Lord. There’s so much more to know about joy than what I have time to write here. Let me encourage you to go to the Bible and read more about it. It will change your life for the better if you do.

  What if the church really read and understood these two verses? What if the those called to be these gifts lived these two verses? I wonder when this changed in the church from equipping the saints to entertaining the saints? Why did it take me so long to really understand this and understand that our traditions of church has replaced what the church is to be. The body of Christ in action not just lip service. Ephesians 4:11-12 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ Equipping is more than just giving information, it is putting those equipped into action.