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OUR ABUNDANT HEALING IN CHRIST

We are worth our hopes and dreams. There are God given desires in the Christians heart. God believes in your dreams and wants to give you the desires of your heart. More importantly, they are what God desires for you, individually. God wants us to develop: personally, acquire wisdom, and attain the spiritual desires in His heart for you. Therefore, we need ask, seek, and knock to know God’s desires and destiny for us.


God’s people perish for a lack of knowledge and have lost, or do not understand, His vision for their lives. Your life is God’s gift to you. Let what you do with your life be your gift to God!


Time is just a shadow in this life. What we do with our life can make a difference in time. Whatever we do is important and how we do it will create our happenstance.


Dreams and desires become reality when we believe God’s truth about ourselves. Faith is a gift given to us through consistently and passionately focusing on His Truth. This is what must happen to feel blessed and experience abundance. We need to count the cost and surrender to God to realize the payoff. God is in our corner working for us.


Abundance is having more than we could ever use of any item that we place a high value upon. Abundance comes from doing what we love and making sure everyone receives the true value of what we offer. Do what you love that others would be willing to invest in and reach a multitude of people intelligently to build an abundance by giving the treasure away.


The terms we associate with abundance as well as the beliefs we heard growing up give us an image. The reasons people don’t already have abundance is that they need to overcome their mis-belief or unbelief. The task before us is the transformation of our thinking, and it takes regeneration, a renewed heart and spirit from God so that we can know and understand spiritual truth. Only then will we be ready to understand ‘mastery’.


Mastery - the willingness to lay down everything that so easily besets us, to be obedient to the will of God, to know He calls us and draws us ever closer to a true knowledge of Him, as to conform us to an image and likeness of His Son, enabled by the power of God’s Spirit, through His grace and mercy, received from the throne of grace, the gift of God, which works by faith through love.


To receive abundance, we’ll learn how others did, and do what they do. Learn to manage abundance and share your abundance with others. Then, the more freely we give, the more we ultimately receive. Above all we’ll be a cheerful giver and praise and thank God for the opportunity to give it away without expecting anything in return. And, then we’ll prosper believing God’s blessing will come from anywhere at anytime.


In order to live an Abundant Life in Christ there are many things needed to be done in order to walk in obedience to the Holy Spirit. There are things we need to do and things God will do for us. Faith towards God is living out what we truly believe having learned to ‘trust in God’ in any situation. Only through the trials of faith while walking in His Spirit will we be given understanding.


Today is the day to live passionately with faith towards God. First of all, we must believe that God is, and, that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. In doing so we will find our rest in Him. God wants us to live according to His will and learn to rest and be content in all situations. Contentment is being thankful for all things, knowing God is the Author and Finisher of our sacred trust.


God knows that when we start to receive the benefits of the Abundant Life in Christ we will truly seek Him. God desires that we seek Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and spirit, out of gratitude for all He’s done. Do you want to please God? Seek Him. What action can you take to fulfill God’s will for your life? We will know through our walk with God that in Christ we can do all things.


Life will always be exciting waiting to find out what plans God has for our life. Any improvement from God should make life - more enjoyable, easier, better, fuller, and shared. Our relationship with God is His utmost concern. True growth and change should always provide for personal improvements to eliminate wasted time and effort so we can take our vacations and have downtimes. Our rest is necessary for mental and spiritual health too.


Learn to view life from your loving Father’s perspective. Review God’s will against your desires, the devil is at war with the Spirit in us. God’s will is for His children to grow into the fullness of God’s image in Christ. We need to find out and accept who we are and believe God for any improvements.


Divine dissatisfaction comes from God the Holy Spirit and should lead to the path that leads to growth. It means always asking, seeking, and knocking to find our ‘‘Why, or, why not?”, when faced with trial and tribulation. Through painful times of insecurity we need to grasp the truth, read the Word of God, not rely on the wisdom of the world, use guess-work, or, hear-say. This is the time we learn to rest and rely on the whole counsel of God, His counselors and a multitude of promises, which is the means end the ignorance and to reach the end of our discomfort. Faith is the rule! Probability and doubt is eliminated through the Word of God. We need to commit to mastering the fundamentals in order to persevere through hard times.


The abundant life begins when we surrender ourselves to God to fulfill our destiny in us - one step at a time. In order to succeed we must have Godly reasons and use His principles. Integrity, a new creation character trait, will drive us to achieve our God-given desires. The Spirit will motivate us to prayer. Each step to reach a desire needs motivation by counting the blessing and thanking God for his providential care along the way.


We make a choice to follow our renewed heart’s desire and take steps that lead to immediate action; while we pray for guidance, mercy and grace (insert heb.4:16). To put our faith into practice we need to cast all our cares upon the Lord. The Holy Spirit cares for us and we need to be obedient to His call and ask, seek, and knock to know God’s will. What causes feelings of failure - find where you lack faith and you’ll see where you lack knowledge. The false beliefs we have cause deceptive irrational thinking which needs to be replaced with the truth. After we find the truth in Scripture we should learn to meditate upon them while we repeat them.


One benefit of living in the truth is to know ‘the joy of the Lord is our strength!’ Jesus is our author and finisher of our faith, he is our personal savior. We can know him as a friend but only after we share in his life, burial, resurrection, and ascension. This happens only after he reveals himself to us through the holy spirit. We all feel hollow until he begins to fill our needs, the need he already implanted in us. This desire for a relationship with him inspires us to search for him. We choose to respond with love walk towards the light as the Holy Spirit draws us ever closer.


To continually walk in Christ’s light we need only make a conscious decision once to devote our daily life to Christ through thought, word, and deed. Then God the Holy Spirit will take over to continue laying a proper foundation in Christ. We are disciples of the Holy Spirit and He will direct our paths to learn more of Christ. He is humble and willing to lead us into all truth. The Holy Spirit will lead us to be imitators of Christ and to be doers of the word. The Holy Spirit will prevail upon us to let the word of God indwell us. Through His direction we will bring glory to God’s name through our lives. This is the fruit of the Spirit. He is the reason for the fruit to begin to blossom in our life. It is God’s will for us soak up the Son-shine and our heavenly Father’s approval.



CHRIST IN ME, THE HOPE OF GLORY

‘To Experience Life With Passion - Is To Glorify The Lord!’
The Joy Of The Lord Is My Strength! - Nehemiah 6:8

To practice Christianity takes an endless commitment to change and growth. The journey is a continuum; an apparent headlong venture into the thoughts and intents of the heart. Guided by reason, logic, and intuitive recollections from nameless scriptural studies to clearly facilitate the pathways to living consciously and with integrity - A Good Christian Man.


There is an art to living passionately. To know the master of my soul, the helmsman of a sacred trust, and His purpose for our life imposes a responsibility upon our shoulders. We are to live out our vision to the fullness of God’s mercy, grace, and truth. Our previous existence without Him is mediocrity; knowing His will is going to take our new existence to magnificence. In the eyes of the one true God and Father of us all I am His child.


The conversion of our soul brought an awareness of our being that caused the spirit within to be stirred from a slumber near to death. Suddenly, almost instantaneously, there are choices to be made in the light of revelation shown upon the once darkened corridors of a dead consciousness. Awake from the passivity to take control of the journey. Prepare to depart and give your life for these purposes. 1) to bring glory to God; 2) to live a life that will bring glory to His name; 3) by living for God’s purposes in my life; 4) to live within the known will of God with integrity; to be conscious of the world and my impact upon it; 5) to take responsibility; 6) to accept myself and let people know my inner self; 7) and, to live with myself and experience God’s grace toward myself.


The Spirit of Christ within is undaunted by the selfish nature. His purpose is to bring the nature of man into submission to the Lord of Glory through the revelation of His love and He will do it. Since we are to worship God in spirit and truth we need to know God, for we cannot worship He whom we do not comprehend nor understand. The revelation of God to the inner man is the beginning of spiritual truth and understanding. In this that God reveals Himself to man is the revelation of the nature or character of God. Our consciousness of God is His work, for there is little reason to believe mankind would seek the creator of His own volition.


The edifice to man’s intellectualism is seen the degenerative effects of his own self-destructive nature being of a carnal nature, referred to as the flesh. Whether the progenitors live good moral lives or are culpable and provide a dysfunctional atmosphere to rear children in; the offspring are not willing to serve anyone besides their own flesh until they are regenerated by God.


The corrupt nature or flesh is problematic to the counseling professions, secular and Christian. From a Christian counselor’s point of view, the secular professions that deal with behavior modification, cannot and do not address the root cause of a client’s problem. The problem is the nature of the client. Until their spiritual death is undone by addressing their human nature there can be no transformation. The counselor cannot take someone where they have never been. The only knowledge that the secular world may convey is empirical, where experiential knowledge is required, and the Holy Spirit empowers the encounter by active intervention to change the nature of the client and create a suitable habitat within for the Holy Spirit’s everlasting presence. For in the inwrought working of the Holy Spirit at conversion, the spirit of man is regenerated unto a holy estate, which is fulfillment of the prophetic promise. In one intimate moment the unholy becomes holy, a vessel approved of by God, worthy of His everlasting residence. We are the chosen ones, the sons and daughters of God, to be led unto heavenly battlefields for the souls of the lost and downtrodden. We are to be the emancipators, to declare liberty to those who were once captive to the fear of death and hell.



CHRIST REGENERATES OUR FALLEN NATURE

God knows you for your personal commitment to continual growth in the knowledge and wisdom of Him. By making a choice you have already begun the journey to a deeper understanding of the truth, which will lead you into a more personal and intimate relationship with God, our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.


The universe’s design reveals the nature of God and our divinely created image and likeness. The simple steps to walk in the Spirit and the inspire the lives of those who encompass your life are yours for the taking. In this work the keys of the mystery hidden through the ages is revealed, which is ‘Christ in you the hope of glory’.


If your faith in God is to give you life it must be based on the truth. To live with passion we must experience His life working through us on a daily basis. For our life to be eternally affected by the Word of God we must come to the banqueting table and dine - Rev.3-20-23. Truly the spirit of God in you is willing. By a self-conscious decision you have acted in faith toward God. It is God gift to us to reveal His life being lived through us as sons and daughters of the Most High God, Elohim.


All of creation is waiting for the manifestation of the Sons and daughters of God who were born, not by the will of man, but by the power and wisdom of God. For you have been called out to be a chosen generation to manifest the riches and goodness of His grace through the life of Christ within you.


The truth is plain to see for those who are born of the Spirit. For we have received the Spirit of love, power, and a sound mind so that we are not tossed about by every wind of doctrine. Now we are the children of God who are led by His Spirit. We have been quickened, born again of His Spirit to proclaim the Good News - Isaiah 61.


We have been changed; we have received a renewed heart and spirit. In Christ Jesus we can do all things. By submitting to God’s will we have received eternal life; we were chosen to serve God by His calling is His enabling; the fruit of His Spirit works in our life; and, we have been called out of darkness and into the marvelous life in Christ.



DISCIPLESHIP TO CHRIST ALONE!

Discipleship to Christ empowers to live passionately, to appropriate the blessings of God’s unmerited presence, and His Spirit to work in our lives though...

1.  understanding the concept of being members of the body of Christ
2.  sharing in Jesus sufferings and in His glory
3.  learning more about God’s wisdom and grace
4. laying a foundation for spiritual growth and appreciating individual differences
5. consoling, comforting, encouraging and overcoming
6. enabling us to overcome obstacles such as trials and tribulations
7.     seeking out and knowing God’s will
8. witnessing and encouraging other’s through everyday activities
9. validating others as essential members of the body of Christ
10.  working with others and finding satisfaction in life
11.  empowers the people of this world to change
12.  teachings people to rely on the Holy Spirit working in us
13.  providing us as individuals with His Spirit in us to overcome habitual sin


EMOTIONAL HEALINGS IN CHRIST

 Christians are part of God’s new creation, the Church. We have been regenerated, changed by God through our relationship with our Lord, Jesus Christ. We needed permanent change in our lives. By the will of God, He changed us into the likeness of His Son. Our prior opposition to God underscored the fact that we needed transformation.

 ‘Sanctification’ is the process of ongoing change God uses to bring us to maturity and image of His Son, having the characteristics of Jesus. This transformation involves surrendering our life to the will of God. Understanding this fact is crucial. The Good News is that He is always waiting for us to respond to the Holy Spirit’s call - every day, any time, and any where to continue the regeneration.


People cannot change without letting God into their lives, nor will they without God's intervention. Jesus is standing outside of someone's life just waiting to be let in. In Revelation 3:20, Jesus models His redemptive efforts by stating, ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with Me.’ Jesus is always waiting for us to open the door; He does not force the door open to enter another's life without permission. Jesus gains entrance only by our response to His invitation and our permission. Without consenting to God, the personal changes we desire will not take place.


The basic belief that humans cannot change themselves is central to Christianity. The process of change begins in the individual and comes through his or her relationship with God. One of the results of salvation is establishing communion or fellowship with God. God recognizes our need for free choice and initiative by creating each one of us uniquely. The relationship we have gained through salvation involves a collaborative process for change called ‘sanctification’.


God’s sovereignty limits our freedom and is not a violation of the freedom and control of the individual to run or ruin his or her own life. However, God’s sovereign will for our life limits our freedom in the same manner that a parent limits a child’s freedom: to protect them from harm. Discipline is a form of love to prevent further injury or loss.


Jesus can use us to get inside another person by using the same tools He used to get through to us. By reflecting His life, others can see us as being a safe enough person to be allowed into their life. God’s children are constantly being transformed to emulate these same qualities Jesus conveyed to wounded hearts. Believers receive the healing touch from God, and reflect the qualities and character Jesus revealed in His ministry. Jesus revealed a loving, non-judging attitude, and respect for the person regardless of the problem. There is need for empathetic understanding in counselors, which allows and encourages a person’s self-determination. There is a real need for confidentiality; and, above all, real, non-defensive openness.


People have a hard time believing that they are worthy of another's love. Our concern is that building a relationship may be difficult. It takes a frightful amount of time to build a trusting relationship. People need to learn how to challenge spiritually and culturally determined bases of self-esteem in order to change. We must lead them to the truth to drink from the well-springs of salvation. Only with God’s Word can they challenge the deception and delusion that prevails this world. We can outline how past mores and norms challenge the truth in our effort to help others find their freedom ‘in Christ’.


Christianity is a lifestyle. It is a cultural change and begins with a person receiving a new heart and spirit and they become part of a brand new creation ‘in Christ’.


The first step in resolving our problem is acknowledging the need for God's intervention in our life in order to change. ‘We have found the enemy and it is us!’ - Pogo. The very nature of the false identity of the natural man produces negative pictures that influence our lives. The pattern of influence is cyclical, beginning with negative internal dialogue, reinforced by negative self-picturing, resulting in negative feeling, and finally producing negative behavior. The sensory cycle may vary a lot with different personalities.


However, self-esteem develops in relation to others: what others say to us, how others look at us, what others feel toward us, and how others act toward us. These messages shape our own responses, views, feelings, and behavior toward ourselves. The program may be positive or negative but God's true intent is that He does not want humanity to rely on their own devices to meet their needs. God wants to supply all of our needs through His riches ‘in Christ’.


Originally our self-esteem comes from what significant people in our lives say about us, and what we repeat to ourselves. We may not even be aware of these messages. People will view themselves, feel about themselves, and act toward themselves the way important people in their lives have done. The positive or negative patterns get started by what people say to themselves about their performance or how others treat them. Accepting ourselves or rejecting our personhood is the basis for loving relationships with others. We primarily rely on the overt and/or covert messages our family and significant others pass on to us for self-esteem and self-love. However, the truth is that God totally accepts us and bases our worth on His nature and character, not on our performance. God established our worth on Christ’s performance for us two-thousand years ago at Calvary. Our culture bases our worth on outward appearance and performance while God looks at the thoughts and intents of the heart. Do not get caught in the performance trap. Allow God's love revealed through Jesus in you to bring forth his grace and truth in life.



OUR EMOTIONAL LIFE IS BEING TRANSFORMED

We are a new creation in Christ We have been changed in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, for the Spirit of God we received is one of love, power and a sound mind. We have been given a sound mind to overcome the obstacles to faith and healing.


Consequences are a result of actions that spring from beliefs we hold to be true. They limit our potential if the principle is not based on the truth. When we discover misbeliefs, we need to resolve the issue with God and ourselves; we need to make restitution where possible and reconcile if possible and damaged relationships.


Discovering our deepest beliefs to be congruent with the Word of God will enable us to manifest the life of Christ in our relationships. Finding out what misbeliefs we hold to be true can liberate us from the debilitating prison of unforgiveness or sin. Whether the sin is of omission or commission does not matter. The fact that we are repentant and sorry for offending God or His creations will liberate us so that we can pursue our destiny unencumbered.


Our conscience can be renewed if we bend our wills in the light of God’s will and repent of the pain we’ve inflicted consciously or unconsciously upon others. We’ve all experienced some sort of pain in life and when we comprehend that our behavior limits or liberates us in receiving God’s blessings the choice to turn toward God is simple.
Conversion comes from God when He accepts our works worthy of repentance for having broken the moral law of God. Upon accepting the conviction we know we need to be changed. Then we are prompted to call upon God who is rich in mercy and approach the thrown of Grace. The quickening of our Spirit is God’s choice and it is His desire that no one should perish. The Holy Spirit convicted us through God’s moral law to lead us to Christ. When we receive Jesus as our Lord, Savior and Life, we receive all the benefits of His sacrifice which totally satisfied God’s righteous wrath. Therefore we have access to the throne of grace and can come boldly before God with our petitions since we are in an eternal relationship sanctified by the blood of Jesus Christ. He is the Lord of the new covenant and a priest before God on our behalf ever making intercession for the saints. We have been set apart by God for His purpose which is to fulfill His will, which is to lead many sons and daughters to redemption.


In order to change we must recognize the moral law of God as good and holy. When we obey the law we are free from the accusations of an awakened conscience. It is your conscience that brought the light to bear upon your understanding that by nature there was, or is an intrinsic force acting upon your thought process to seek out self - satisfaction regardless of the consequence. The moral law was given to wake up the deadened consciences of us all since none of us escaped the curse of Adam and lost a true knowledge of God and His holy and incorruptible nature. The moral law in and of itself is the expression of holiness; the Lord Jesus Christ is the express image of God in the flesh. God’s will for our life is to live a holy life. In order to fulfill God’s ordained will, the Holy One of God comes into us to live His life through us in the power of the abiding Holy Spirit.


Since we have received the Holy Spirit to empower us in our choice to live a Holy life, we can fulfill the moral law of God as we humble our self-life and allow the Holy Spirit to lead us. With a clear understanding of God’s moral law we can choose to obey the voice of the Holy Spirit, thus fulfilling the moral law perfectly. Or, we may choose to ignore the righteous edicts of the small still voice on our conscience and the Holy Spirit to reap a harvest of conflict, possibly unto destruction.


The only true liberty a Christian has comes in their ability to fulfill the moral law since we are no longer captive to the power of sin since the carnal nature has been crucified with Christ. We may be deceived by the enemy when we don’t walk in the light of God’s Word; the Word of Truth will expose the deception.


In order to walk in the Spirit we must learn and know the moral law so that we may discover the ways we were deceived. When God eliminated the root cause for our errors we became eligible to receive the promises and blessing of Abraham. When we resolve the conflict between our flesh and the Spirit of truth by reckoning it dead on the cross we will be set free to reign through life as a king and priest unto God.


In order for us to walk with the Spirit we must know the moral law so that we desire to recognize the voice of the Spirit of truth. There is a spirit of error so we need to recognize the truth to resist the fiery darts. This happens over time while we walk with God, the Holy Spirit. He is the One who is working inwrought holiness to us through His presence working in us.


When we understand the correlation between the suffering of Christ on the Cross to the pain we have inflicted upon the people we have sinned against, we may perceive the understanding we need to be transformed into the image of Christ. Until we come to understand that we are the reason Jesus had to die there can be no rational reason to accept His Lordship. When we understand the holiness of God and that we cannot of our own free choice live a holy life then we are ready to hear the voice of God crying out to repent and call upon the name of the Lord.


The principle reason for seeking change in our lives only comes after knowledge of the pain or pleasure, we will avoid or receive, if we do not take action. In order to desire a change we must identify what pleasure we will receive or the pain we will avoid. To effect a change all we need to do is count the cost of our action or lack thereof. When we place a high enough value upon the pleasure we seek or the pain we wish to avoid, the motivating force to complete the journey will be there.
What is the motive of the heart concerning change? Is it to please God or avoid the pain we rightly deserve? Do we worship God for what He does for us? Or, do we worship Him for whom He is?


As a Christian born of God’s Spirit we have a renewed heart and spirit that desires to praise and worship God for whom He is. If indeed we have the Spirit, we have received One of love, power, and a sound mind. Therefore we only need to acquire a purer knowledge of who God is in order to worship Him in spirit and truth. To know the width, breadth, height and depth of God’s commandments is to gain an intimate knowledge of our Creator and Father.


In order for us to come to comprehend the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the excellency of His sacrifice, we must receive a revelation from God. The Gospel is the good news. For in the Good News is the revelation of the god/man Emanuel (God with us) who all the prophets testify of. He is the Christ, the anointed one who came to reveal grace and truth. His life is the revelation of God’s grace or presence working in our lives.


Jesus’ life is also the revelation of the truth as seen on the Cross that bears witness to the wrath and justice of God. We see the wrath of God for mankind’s sin being poured out in full; we know God does punish sin. Jesus accepted our sin and became sin that He may also become the justifier of everyone who comes to Him. When Jesus accomplished the Father’s will He cried out, “It is finished!” On the third day we see the justice of God in the resurrection of His Son as He rose from the grave having defeated death and hell to reign as Lord of Lords and King of Kings.


The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. When we look to the past, counting the numerous times we assaulted and battered God’s children, we can stop the repetition if we humble ourselves before God and pray. When you want to stop offending God you will accept responsibility for all behavior. We will no longer blame someone else. We are guilty and know that God who is rich in mercy will forgive us when we turn to Him and repent.



HEALING FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS


Identity; competence; and worth! What role do these factors play in our faith toward God? God gave us Jesus as the role model worthy of our allegiance. We received a spirit of love, power, and a sound mind to fulfill His will. Where do we go from here?


What internal and external forces shape our perceptions? External forces - the environment; Verbal - experiences, significant others, parents, organizations, the culture; and, Internals - our contribution or detriment to being a living epistle.


Our role in God’s plan is shaped by our values, convictions, and contribution to live with passion. Our individual worth to God is revealed through His promises to us; we are an important part of God’s plan; we have been created for His pleasure. The source of our joy and happiness is to know God and find our place in service to Him.


God takes away our guilt and shame or inferiority - we are acceptable, faith in God is a clear path based on the facts of His salvation in Christ, which leads to truth and the revelation of God’s love for us.
Vulnerability is a trait of those who are resting in the finished work of the Cross, knowing that God has accepted the Lord Jesus Christ’s sacrifice for the atonement of sin. Understanding the Excellency of Christ’s sacrifice will significantly increase your trust in God’s plan for mankind and your life. Jesus is or is not the Lord of your life. There is no middle ground.


We all need to live before God knowing that we are acceptable so that we may fulfill our destiny in an adaptable fashion. We need to be acceptable in our own eyes so that when we come before God, we know that we are acceptable. The consequences of living a virtuous life - the power to change and grow. The battle cry of the Reformation is a call to action. We look at what is possible if we live by faith towards God. The self-life of individuals is a reflection of whom they believe they are and is in a direct relationship to their value system. ‘We live as the person we believe the ‘self’ to be.’


The source of our faith is our experience with God. Spiritual awareness is living out our personal expectations we impose upon our selves through the conscious mind. Our faith is based on a personal belief system and is the expression of the light we walk in. Personal assertiveness is validated through the truth we experience. Only the truth we experience can give us a sense of peace and self-acceptance. By taking personal responsibility for living purposefully we receive a sense of integrity. The nature and roots of our faith is in the facts, as we experience and learn to trust in God, His Word, and the leading of the Holy Spirit.