“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones” (Proverbs 17:22)
Laughter does not help you on the job site tomorrow morning. Do you know why people are looking forward for weekend? Because during the week they don’t have joy.
God is happy every day. In His presenceis fulness of joy (Psalm 16:11). How to find real joy and maintain it? God wants you to have a continual feast. It’s available.
“…He began to say unto His disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy” (Luke 12:1). It is a put on. It is not right. It looks religious, but it is not what God is looking for. You can be ever so close to what God wants you to be, and still not be what God wants you to be; when we try to put on something that we are not - this is hypocrisy. Sometimes when you are fighting a disease and believe for healing, and talk to a person who is critical about it and you don’t tell him about what is going on - I am not talking about this case. I am talking about normal run of character. Jesus said to us to be aware of the hypocrisy, which is leaven of the Pharisee, it will leaven you if you don’t watch.
If you are in the flesh you have to get to work emotions up. Because all week long you are dragging by them. If it is all emotions you will be down next day.
If you are not excommunicated from the group that you used to belong to, then what are you be a part of? Who are you trying to please and bring glory to? “These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.” (John 9:22)
Here is almighty God made a great miracle for their son, but they are afraid. The Lord put some pressure on them.When I had a baptism of the Holy Ghost, I lost fellowship with most of my family. We need to go outside the temple following Jesus.
Hebrews 13:12-13: 12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. 13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
We don’t want to lose fellowship. Fear keeps people inside. To go outside the camp means to go outside the walls of the church. 1 Peter 4:12-14: 12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial [excommunication - K.C.] which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
You know why some of you don’t have joy? You still try to get inside those walls.
11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. 12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: 14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality: 15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack. (2 Corinthians 8:11).Giving is what the Lord wants us to be involved in. He said, “I want to start giving your way out of problems.” Giving has law behind it. Everything God does has a law behind it. The law is dead without the spirit until the spirit activates it. The only way you can fulfill the law of giving is with the Holy Spirit. He will give you life to do it.
There are different seeds - you give condemnation, in comes back to you, you give judgment, it comes back to you, you give forgiveness, it comes back to you. There are multitudes of people in nursing home today do not receive mercy because they never gave mercy. Good side of it - you start giving mercy today in order to reap it later.
Giving is a part of God’s kingdom. God is a giver. He wants you to succeed.
What if you give and they are dishonest? Mathew 7: 6 “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”
It’s useless to try to save somebody’s soul if your own soul is a problem.
Many people are finding out, that the god they serve is not alive at all, he is not real. Many people become angered, because the thing they thought real is not real. We serve a living God.
“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.” (1 Corinthians 9:24)
Everybody starts to run, but only one will win this race. You are going to win. Anything in your life that is not real will hinder you from winning. Hypocrisy is not going to win, anything that is fictitious, not real. If you try to be happy and have love, and you are not really happy or don’t really love, you won’t win. What love and joy you have, you invest it, and it comes back more.
John 14:1-6“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. 5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
When you see Jesus there is nothing to appeal to your flesh, to your eyes or to your ears. (more…)
Vision of the hearts of many professing Christians closing. No longer were they able to make changes in their lives or hearts. God had closed the door!
This had to be one of the most difficult things, prophetically, I had ever experienced up until this point. What I saw and even experienced is hard to put into words that truly explain the seriousness of this event. The Lord said that the doors to people’s hearts will start closing all across the nations very soon. Most of the people this happens to will not even know it has taken place until severe trouble is upon the nations. The Lord said I will close the door of the hearts of these people because when I called out to them and pleaded with them, they would not listen. I will no longer play the games of what they call Christianity and Grace. They believe they can sin and then repent anytime they feel ready to repent. In the very time they need me the most, they will not find me nor will I hear them. I will not even listen to a prophet of God who calls out for them. The door is closed.
We need to prepare yourself and your children to eat less, because it may not be enough food very soon. Waste cannot be allowed. Learn how to control your appetite, how to multiply food. Get rid of gossiping and slandering tongue. Some people wonder why somebody always comes against them. It is because you constantly come against others.
Мы должны подготовить себя и своих детей, научите их есть меньше, потому что, возможно, очень скоро будет недостаточно пищи. Не позволяйте им выбрасывать пищу. Научитесь управлять своим аппетитом, научитесь умножать пищу. Избавьтесь от сплетничания и клеветнического языка. Некоторые люди задаются вопросом, почему кто-то всегда выступает против них. Это происходит потому, что вы сами постоянно выступаете против других, распускаете сплетни и вредите им своим языком.
Persecution comes; it is automatic with receiving the truth. We must be able to face all persecution in order to be able to overcome. “Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.” (John 15:20)
Truth will be the most resisted thing in the future.
Start preparing for not being offended. You have to make a decision not to be offended.
People who are focused on eschatology1 prepare only to what they believe and what they been taught about the end of the world. If they are not corrected now they won’t have the faith to overcome in the future. They talk about rapture of the church, 10 toes in the book of Daniel, pre-tribulation, on and on. They study only end time events and prophetic. This causes them to be unstable.
I believe many people will walk away from the Lord and perish in the days to come because of wrong teaching in this area. They can tell you all about the end of the world, but they are not ready to face it. I meet in prison a lot of people like that. They can tell you a lot about Revelation and Daniel, but they can’t tell you anything about good understanding and management, how to make it in the world we live in today. They have prophetic things figured out. I don’t ask for prophetic information, it just comes. The Lord told me one time, “Don’t just spend all your time in Revelation and Daniel, there is the whole Bible you need to know.” Eschatology is important, but you can’t get it out of balance.
Люди, которые сосредоточены на эсхатологии2 готовятся только к тому, чему они верят и чему их научили о конце мира. Если эти люди не исправятся теперь, у них не будет веры, чтобы победить в будущем. Эти люди только изучают события времени конца и пророчества: восхищение церкви, 10 пальцев на ногах в книге Даниила, время скорби и т.д. Это делает их нестабильными. Полагаю, что многие уйдут от Бога и погибнут в последние дни из-за неправильного учения в этой области. Они могут сказать вам всё о конце мира, но они не готовы выстоять в это время. Я встречаю в тюрьме много таких заключенных. Они могут рассказать вам очень много об Откровении и Даниила, но они ничего не могут сказать о том, как распоряжаться своей жизнью, как вести себя в мире, в котором мы живем сегодня. Они поглощены пророческими вещами. Я не прошу у Бога пророческую информацию, она просто приходит. Бог однажды сказал мне : “Не проводи все время в книгах Откровения и Даниила: есть целая Библия, которую ты должен знать.” Эсхатология важна, но нельзя непропорционально раздувать ее.
God does not have to have a lot of people to accomplish His purpose, as in case with Gideon. Faith is based on wisdom. You cannot base faith on stupidity. Nature itself teaches us to be ready at all times. The earth is shaking, things are getting worse. People see it happening, but they say, “It is not happening.”
God did not remove Noah out of the hard times, He showed Him how to live through it. God delivered three Hebrew boys in the fire. (more…)
John the Baptist said, “He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:29-30).
In order to make room for God you have to decrease, you have to get rid of something, which hinders you. People say, “I want my faith to increase”. What are you willing to decrease?
Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Many people became accustomed to problems in their lives and don’t do anything about them. But it is still a problem you go to bed with and get up with. If you don’t deal with it now, it will get bigger. People used to work around some things. Why do you work around it? You learn to live with failures. But God gives us power and dominion over situations and get them out of the way. We are waiting for God to do something about them, but God is waiting for us to do something about them. Either you will overcome it, or it will overcome you.
My favorite formula is about peace of mind: KJV Isaiah 26:3: ”Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”
Tools help to accomplish work. In this study we must learn to use each tool that God has equipped us with, either to build, re-build, or in some cases to tare down. Each tool has to be used correctly, the way it was designed or what we are building will end in disaster.
1 Corinthians 3:10: According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
We all know the prayer, “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.” (KJV Luke 11:2). First thing you need to do when you come to God is to hallow His holy name. Do you hallow His name above all the other names?
There are lots of things in the Kingdom of God that are available to us that are really beyond all comprehension and we don’t grasp them for a lack of knowledge. Things that you can comprehend you can trust in, or get a hold of. You have to get rooted and grounded in love. You are going to get your strength from your love.
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. 20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, 21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen (Ephesians 3:17-21).
The Spirit things, so divine, the best, the greatest things in life (protection, deliverance, healing, wisdom, ability, authority) seem to most people like a desert. We spend our space on appetisers, and the main course, so when it comes to desert, to things of the Spirit, we don’t have room for it any more. But things divine can come into you is only through the vine. Jesus said, “I am the vine.”
“10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.” (Psalm 51)
The word “create” also means “to cut down”. It means something needs to come down. We want a clean heart without ax, just keep things the way they are. This is not your, but God’s habitation.
It is important for us to examine our hearts sometimes. “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).
Does honesty, reliability, courage, love have to do with clean heart?
#1. Guarding the flame in your life. How is your fire burning? You need to add things to it to keep is up. If you stop adding the fire will go out. He told them to take olives, beat them in order to get oil out of them. If you are going to get anything out of the Word of God, you need to get into it, to pound it, to get involved. Don’t just get olives, don’t just read the Word, get the oil out of it. Add to your life things that will burn. All of us can quote certain Scriptures. You need to get oil out of it. You have to have your lamp full if you want to get through the dark times.
#2. Get rid of evil heart of unbelief. Traditions of men can be an evil heart of unbelief.
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones” (Proverbs 17:22)
