John 4:24 (Amplified) says, "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being) and those that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and Truth (reality)." Matthew 3:16-17 (Amplified) says, "And when Jesus was baptized, He went up at once out of the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he (John) saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on Him. And behold, a voice from heaven said, This is My Son, My Beloved, in Whom I delight."
In John 14:26 (Amplified) Jesus tells His disciples, "But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Stand-by) the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My Name (in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf). He will teach you all things; And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you."
Jesus says in John 14:12 (Amplified), "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do, and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father."
I write out the scriptures so that everyone can read them here and know what the Word of the Lord says for themselves. Religion says that "No one can do the greater works that Jesus spoke of." The greater work that Jesus spoke about is getting a man born again. Jesus couldn't get a man born again during His earthly ministry because while He was on earth and hadn't yet gone to the cross as our Sacrifice, the new birth couldn't come about. We are equipped by the Name of Jesus and the Holy Spirit to do the works that He had done because we now have the Father living in us just like He did in Jesus.
Jesus Himself told His followers that, "It is not Me but the Father in Me that does the works." This same, Awesome Holy Spirit has come to live in us like He did in Jesus. The power of the Holy Spirit hasn't diminished in the slightest, but because we haven't learned otherwise, we limit His ministry. There have been numerous divisions and fissures in the Church over "new teachings" and "revelation knowledge" being received as truth.
One of the most significant things from Jesus's ministry has almost been completely overlooked and is found in John 3:34 (Amplified) which says, "For since He Whom God has sent speaks the Words of God (proclaims God's Own message) God does not give Him His Spirit sparingly or by measure, but boundless of the gift God makes of His Spirit." He also says in John 6:63 (Amplified), It is the Spirit Who gives life (He is the life giver); the flesh conveys no benefits whatever (there is no profit in it). The Words (truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
We've never been taught to speak only in accordance with God's Word and those who do so have been ridiculed for doing so. Jesus said, I only speak what the Father tells Me to speak." We've heard the phrases, "Name it and claim it" and "Blab it and grab it" before. There are certainly some who misuse this gift of power and have brought reproach and doubt upon this truth. It remains, however, a powerful truth.
Wisdom from the Holy Spirit will teach us how to speak God's Word in power and in truth. Most babies learn to walk before learning to talk. Words are the most powerful things that men have ever had available for producing, controlling, building, destroying, blessing or cursing and the Church has power in what we say through the Holy Spirit Who lives in us.
After all, isn't Jesus called the "Word of God made flesh?" Is He now any less than the Word of God than He was as Genesis 1 says, "In the beginning was the Word?" When we speak the Word, we speak the life of Jesus over anyone or anything we're speaking to.
The Holy Spirit empowers the words that we speak and He only will confirm that which is of God. If you're not speaking scripture, then you should speak in line with the scripture. How can the Holy Spirit empower words that contradict God's Word? How can He uphold things that are against the covenant of God?
Jesus said that, "When you see Me, you have seen the Father." God's will should be so open and known to the Church and easy for the Church to know. If Jesus didn't do something, then God doesn't do it. If Jesus healed people, then God heals. Where did we arrive with so many misconceptions and wrong views of our Father? We should only need to watch what Jesus did and Who He is and then we would know the Father.
The Holy Spirit is here to reveal God and life to a dying and lost world. He's been poured out and into the Church so that we should be the light and salt to the earth. The limits we've placed on the Holy Spirit have been a burden on His ministry. Some might say, "God will just do whatever He wants to do anyway, so..." It is true that it's going to come out the way God says it would, but we were to be included in this ministry.
I never want the Holy Spirit to bypass me in God's last days movements. I want to be in a position for the Holy Spirit to be unlimited in my life. One of the things I must do in order to become a candidate for this to occur, is to watch my words. I'm often reminded of Psalm 2 when thinking of this generation. We're "supposed to be politically correct." The governments and worldly people are to watch over their words and some Christians agree.
The Lord tells us how He views what we do with our words in Psalm 12:2-8 (Amplified) which says, "To his neighbor each one speak words without use or worth or truth; with flattering lips and double heart (deceitfully) they speak. May the Lord cut off all flattering lips and the tongues that speak proud boasting. Those who say, with our tongues we prevail; our lips are our own (to command at our will) who is Lord and master over us?"
Many believe that those in the Church who believe these truths are "fanatics and hyper faith people" and that it really doesn't matter what we say. The Word says that, "The Holy Spirit watches over the Word of God to perform it." He doesn't watch over "my words," but His Words. My tongue is "not mine to command," according to the above scripture.
How can the Holy Spirit make you sick when "He sent His Word to heal and deliver us," like Psalm 107:20 says? Many of our brothers have received a "spirit of infirmity" to teach them, instead of the Holy Spirit. Many well meaning, but misinformed ministers have taught throughout the years that God sent a sickness to teach us something. The Holy Spirit would say, "It's My job to teach you."
The Holy Spirit cannot and will not empower our words of death, weakness and sickness. There is, however, one who will take these words and use them to his advantage in your life. The Holy Spirit will only empower God's Word and not your word. He is prepared to "Reap that which we sow" because words are seeds. Matthew 4:14 (Amplified) says, "The sower sows the word." Words are seeds. All words are seeds. We have seeds of poison ivy and seeds of roses and beauty. Both seeds will grow with equal vigor when planted or sown. The soil doesn't discriminate which seed it wants to grow. It will grow whichever seed that "falls into the soil."
We have allowed seeds of unbelief and doubt to be sown into our soil (or heart) and it has choked out the seed of truth. Romans 3:12-18 (Amplified) says, "All have turned aside; together they have gone wrong and have become unprofitable and worthless; no one does right, not even one. Their throat is a yawning grave, they use their tongues to deceive (to mislead and to deal treacherously) the venom of asps is beneath their lips, their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, their feet are swift to shed blood." Verses 16-18 go on, "Destruction (as it dashed them to pieces) and misery marks their way. And they have no experience of the way of peace (they nothing about peace, for a peaceful way they do not ever recognize) There is no (reverential) fear of God before their eyes."
These scriptures are true for both the world and the Church., if we will continually speak them forth. Only God's Word will prevail and bring forth life, healing, power, peace, salvation, righteousness and the glory of God, because the Holy Spirit, in His ministry, will only watch over God's Word to perform it. The rest of the seeds (words) will produce the same crops the world has harvested for thousands of years. If you plant poison ivy, then you will get poison ivy. Poison ivy (words) will never produce sweet corn, potatoes or anything other than poison ivy.
No matter how much He wishes to help us, the Holy Spirit cannot change the seeds once they are sown. Galatians 6:7-8 (Amplified) says, "Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside) (He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God) For whatever a man sows, that and only that is what he will reap."
It's Verse 8 that reveals the full measure of our words (seeds). Thus, it says, "Speak the seed of the world and reap the harvest of the world. Sow to the Kingdom (God's Word) and reap to the spirit."
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